Partypoker has announced a new upgrade to their software, that includes the poker software in the native language of the users from Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Partypoker announced with the same occasion that it will host a 50 000 USD Freeroll, exclusively for nordic players on 22 November 2007 - starting with 14:30 ET ( that is 19 00 CET - why the hell didn’t they put the CET hour if this is just for nordic players ? -LOL). Registration starts on 1 November 2007.
This is another cool decision from PartyGaming that wants to better penetrate the European market - see also a cool article from Independant on the company recent financial announcements.
In another somehow related news from Gaming Intelligence we findout that the Swedish Moderate Party ( the party in power ) has announced on Saturday that it will sell Svenska Spel and ATG, the swedish gambling monopolies.
Tomas Tobé MP declared that “By December 2008, an in-depth report on the gambling market will be released following an investigation by Jan Nyrén, legal counsel of the police authority, but the party congress did not want to wait for this and voted for change to take place more rapidly†.
Mr Tobé also said that with the European Commission monitoring Sweden’s activities with regard to the provisions of the EC Treaty, it would be preferable that the government took steps to address the issue of its own accord, as opposed to being compelled to do so by a ruling from the European Court of Justice.
Svenska Spel generated a profit of 523 million euros in 2006 and could be valued at roughly 7.05 billion euros.
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