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There haven’t been many beneficiaries from Black Friday, but the newly minted bwin.Party were expected to be one of the few. The result of a recent merger between Austrian gambling experts Bwin and longtime online poker giants Party Gaming, the duo became the world’s biggest listed online gambling group when they melded together earlier this year.

With the likes of Full Tilt and Absolute Poker shedding thousands of customers, the best euro poker sites were expected to pick up most of the slack. Instead, PokerStars has snapped up a large chunk of the floating player base, while bwin.Party has only seen marginal gains. This poor performance saw share prices take a massive drop, with worried investors shedding their stake in the company.

Over the last few days, the tide has finally started to turn. Since falling 45%, the bwin.party share price closed at 105.7p yesterday. The rise was largely due to a rumored take-over by Wynn Resorts. The Las Vegas casino conglomerate, owned by Steve Wynn, may pay as much as 170p a share for the online gambling company.

With the possibility of a sale in mind, financial analysts have begun recommending bwin.Party as a sound investment. Meanwhile,…

Paris is, without a doubt, one of the most romantic cities in the world. If you are a fan of history and culture, you will find a lot to keep you busy while visiting. On a different topic, poker players everywhere have dreams of one day winning a WPT title. If you want to visit Paris and you have also dreamed of playing in a WPT tournament, WPT Paris gives you the opportunity to do both at once.

The WPT Grand Prix de Paris is a €7,500 tournament taking place in the Aviation Club de France. The tournament starts on September 5th and the final table is scheduled for September 10th.

The average poker player unfortunately cannot afford to pay €7.5k for a single poker tournament. That is where the Bwin Poker download steps in to solve all your problems. They are offering a $15k package for WPT Paris and have four different ways to win one.

If your bankroll is on the low side thanks to Internet slots, it is possible to win your way to Paris playing freerolls. Bwin has one package for freerollers, and you will need to get through two tourneys to win…

If you’ve been paying any attention to online poker over the last few days, you’ll be aware that Black Friday hit U.S. poker sites last week. The owners of PokerStars, Full Tilt, UB, and Absolute were all indicted by the Department of Justice, following a lengthy investigation by the FBI. All but Absolute have stopped offering real money play to U.S. customers and the shockwaves are now being felt across the industry.

Although many in the U.S.A. are distraught, this has been a great boon to the European poker sites, many of whom suffered after withdrawing from the States in 2006.

The newly merged party.bwin digital has been the focus of much of the attention. Pre-UIGEA, Party were the biggest name in poker and post-UIGEA bwin were the biggest in Europe. In 2009, PartyGaming paid the U.S. government $105 million as part of a non-prosecution agreement, a move that paved the way for their reintroduction when a legal U.S. poker market emerges.

With the biggest names in the industry now eliminated and unlikely to return to the U.S., bwin.party is in the best position to reap the poker bonuses from new gambling legislation. To reflect that, their share…

I’ve already talked about Full Tilt and UB WSOP satellites. There are countless options when it comes to where you could play, however, and most poker sites are aiming their promos at the biggest poker series in the world. If you use a Bwin Poker download, you’ll be happy to know that they are also running plenty of Main Event qualifiers.

Bwin Poker’s World Series of Poker Main Event package is worth $15k. It includes your $10,000 buy-in and $2,000 for expenses (food and flight). You also get to stay at the Venetian Palazzo (which is where the other $3,000 goes).

If you don’t have a lot of experience with money poker sites, you could avoid the sharks and play for a Side Event package instead. The package includes entry to the $1,000 Event 54 side event, and it is worth $3.6k. This package gives $1,100 for miscellaneous expenses and $1.5k for a stay at the Venetian Palazzo.

You will have ample opportunity to get into these events. Qualifiers for the Main Event are actually running daily until early June. If your bankroll is small, don’t worry because they start as low as $2.20! In these daily…