The Stars Group Inc. agreed to buy Sky Betting & Gaming in a deal valued at $4.7 billion, the biggest acquisition yet by Chief Executive Officer Rafi Ashkenazi as the owner of PokerStars moves to create what will be the biggest publicly listed online gambling company.
Toronto-based Stars Group will pay cash and stock to owners
CVC Capital Partners and
Sky Plc, it said Saturday in a statement. The company expects to achieve $70 million in cost synergies.
The deal, the biggest since Stars bought PokerStars for $4.9 billion in 2014, opens new streams of revenue for the company and increases its exposure to sports betting — the fastest-growing online gaming segment. It’s a bold move under Ashkenazi to bolster his firm’s scale after the company previously failed to take control of Sky-rival William Hill Plc in 2016, which would have given Stars access to the core U.K. market.
Yes, this is about poker. It isn’t about my recent hands. It is a modest bit of plagiarism. You know! like all my poker posts in the past. It is about someone we (poker players) all remember — Miss Ultimate Bet shill.
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I had no thought of writing a blog today. That change a minute ago. I read a blog from the old days of poker. Like many — including mine — it transition from talking about poker to something else. The blog I am mentioning is Brad Willis’ own blog — Rapid Eye Reality. The blog post I’m referring to is Atlas Mugged.
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On “The Day that will live in Infamy.” I know where I was. It isn’t like the day Kennedy was shot where I was walking across the student quad of my training battalion at Shepard AFB and someone came out of the CQ room shouting the news. This info comes down second-hand. Read more…
Things use to seem pretty simple growing and living much of my life. Today, I’m a anachronism. I know why and I choose not to change. Read more…
The FCC is going to do away with past rules on net neutrality. It will allow the ISP to charge for “fast lane” access. Right now there is no discrimination. Every site must be treated the same. The new rules will let the ISP charge for the very services that are now free to all. That means you may end up with low resolution in the videos you view if the provider doesn’t pay them — Netflix, Youtube, Ted and all the rest will have to come after us to fund being able to fully use their service. They have a working business model and that will have to change and change at our cost. Read more…
Fans of poker know that it is a game which requires a lot of skill to compete at the highest level, but also requires some luck. Players try to play as much as possible and thanks to online casinos, they can compete 24/7.
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Times have changed. Nowhere is that more true than poker blogs. I and others are moribund poker bloggers. The other day I saw something that drove home the changes time brings about. I thought it interesting enough to share. Read more…
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