PartyGaming

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PartyGaming
legal form Corporation
ISIN GI000A0ERMF2
founding 1997
Seat GibraltarGibraltar Gibraltar
Branch Online games
Website www.partygaming.com

PartyGaming plc is an online gaming company. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange in the FTSE 250 Index . The company's main business was online poker via the PartyPoker.com and .net platforms .

The company's headquarters are in Gibraltar . PartyGaming was founded in 1997 with the launch of Ruth Parasol's Starluck Casino . Since February 2006, PartyGaming has also operated an online casino as well as the games bingo (since 2003) and backgammon online. US customers have not been served since the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in October 2006.

partypoker

Partypoker logo

partypoker is an online poker room operated by PartyGaming. In contrast to partypoker.com , partypoker.net is not allowed to play for real money, only for play money. Prize money is only given out for winnings from major tournaments. .net players can play poker with .com play money players .

Partypoker.com is the name of PartyGaming's real money online poker service . The poker room was founded in 2001 and subsequently grew into one of the largest online casinos in the world. There are tens of thousands of poker players online at times. The internationally known poker player Mike Sexton is the spokesman for the provider.

Team partypoker

As well as some professional poker players, former professional athletes also act as brand ambassadors. Boris Becker was a testimonial for a long time and today u. a. the former boxer Carl Froch brand ambassador for the company. The partypoker team currently comprises the following 38 players:

As of August 28, 2020

Cash games

Partypoker.com offers the poker variants No and Fixed Limit Texas Hold'em , Omaha high and Omaha Eight or Better as well as Seven Card Stud high and Seven Card Stud Eight or Better .

The limits start at No and Pot Limit at $ 0.02 / $ 0.04 and go up to $ 5/10 . With fixed limits , the lowest and highest bets are $ 0.05 / $ 0.10 and $ 30 / 60- $, respectively.

Tournaments

Partypoker.com has a wide range of tournaments . The palette ranges from small sit and gos with ten players to multi-table tournaments with a few thousand participants.

From November 25th to December 5th, 2018 partypoker ran the online poker tournament with the largest prize pool to date. The $ 5,300 tournament guaranteed a total of $ 20 million in prize money. It attracted 4,367 players who generated a prize pool of just under $ 22 million.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, partypoker played the Poker Masters Online with buy-ins of at least 10,300 US dollars. The platform also hosted tournaments from the World Poker Tour and the Super High Roller Bowl Series , which also included the Super High Roller Bowl Online , the most expensive online poker tournament in the world to date with a buy-in of US $ 102,000.

partypoker Live

Partypoker Live logo

Live poker tournaments have been held worldwide under the partypoker brand since 2017, with guaranteed prize pools of up to ten million US dollars .

PartyCasino

PartyCasino.com is PartyGaming's online casino site . Initially intended as a supplement to the online poker room at Partypoker.com, the PartyCasino has grown into one of the largest online casinos on the Internet since it was founded in 2006 . Approx. 130 games are offered in both the flash casino and the download casino. In addition to the classics Roulette and Black Jack, there are also a variety of slot games. In addition, the PartyCasino also offers a live casino with live dealers.

Others

  • PartyPoker.com brings PartyGaming a little less than $ 700,000 in daily income .
  • PartyPoker.com sponsors the English football club Leyton Orient .
  • A total of 7 billion hands have already been played in games for real money alone; in games for play money this number is around 50 billion.
  • PartyPoker.com emerged from PartyPoker.net.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Becker returns to the poker table , spox.com December 6, 2016, accessed December 14, 2019.
  2. Team partypoker at partypoker.com, accessed August 28, 2020.
  3. Online Poker: Start of Millions Online and Mega Sunday Action on partypoker at pokerfirma.com on November 25, 2018, accessed on November 25, 2018.
  4. partypoker Millions Online - 29 players in the finals, the winner is $ 2.7 million! on hochgepokert.com on December 5, 2018, accessed on December 6, 2018.
  5. Poker Masters Online to Run April 12-26 With $ 15M Guaranteed on pokernews.com on March 23, 2020, accessed June 4, 2020.
  6. Super High Roller Bowl Online - the schedule is ready! on hochgepokert.com on May 13, 2020, accessed on June 4, 2020.
  7. partypoker Live in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 3, 2017.
  8. PartyCasino Review - You couldn't get more partying. Retrieved February 17, 2014 .
  9. PartyGaming on the rise ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )