Online Poker.

It’s said that the art of poker is knowing when to fold. Those running PartyGaming certainly seem to have learnt that lesson:

PartyGaming brought the City’s poker craze to an abrupt halt yesterday
when it said growth had slowed, just 10 weeks after its four main
owners took out almost £1billion at the company’s London float.
Shares in the owner of PartyPoker.com, the world’s biggest poker site,
crashed a third, falling 51¾ to 105p, below the 116p float price.
Valued at £4.5 billion, PartyGaming is still set to join the FTSE-100.

Great gig if you can time it well.

5 responses

  1. Leaving aside all the obvious stuff about whether you would trust someone who’s Dad paid for their education from the earnings from his San Francisco brothels before they went to work for him in the tele sex business, then xxx vids and dvds before branching out into online porn and thence poker; what about poker-bots? Seems to me the online gaming will soon be full of computers models playing against each other. This means that the dumb money will get whupped so hard it will give up – like you lose EVERY game and the poker-bots will play each other with no clear advantage. Technology will destroy the returns

  2. The online casinos don’t really care who wins – the bots can sit there playing each other all day and the casino can happily continue to take a cut from each hand played (a rake, in Poker terminology).
    The only risk from the bots is that it might cause enough players to quit that the overall amount of hands played falls.

  3. Someone had better set up a website allowing poker players to find other local poker players then, as well as supplying croupiers!

  4. their share issue sounds like a bit of a gamble…

  5. Well I think that all these online casino’s are going to go belly up. How about them apples?

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