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Inside
Poker Business Magazine Launching this Month,
by Dan Cypra - 24th January 2009
(Credit:
Poker News Daily)
According to an article that recently
appeared on the UK-based Guardian website, Dennis
Publishing will launch “what it claims to
be the first ever business-to-business poker magazine.”
The new publication is set to debut later this
month and will be found under the title Inside
Poker Business.
The
quarterly magazine will be overseen by Alun Bowden,
who also serves as an editor for Inside Poker,
a position he has held for the last three years.
The new magazine, according to the Guardian, will
be completely free “to industry figures
internationally.” Featured heavily in the
magazine´s first issue will be Jim Ryan,
Party Gaming´s CEO. The company, which is
traded on the London Stock Exchange under the
symbol “PRTY,” just saw its Managing
Director, John O´Malia, announce that he
will step down at the end of next month. In December,
one of Party Gaming´s co-founders, Anurag
Dikshit, admitted to violating the Wire Act of
1961 in the United States. Dikshit will hand over
a total of $300 million to U.S. authorities and
risks two years in prison.
Ryan
recently gave an interview to the Financial Times,
saying that Party Gaming´s competitive advantage
came from the fact that its fleet of sites - PartyPoker,
PartyCasino, PartyGammon, PartyBets, PartyMobile,
and PartyBingo, - represented a one stop shop
for online gaming customers: “One deposit,
one account – it’s a one stop shop.
That is still the main strategic objective for
a number of our competitors and we have it already.”
Dennis
Publishing will look to bring its extensive experience
in the print magazine industry to the world of
poker. The company serves as the publishing arm
of Men´s Fitness and Maxim magazines. Some
of the top poker magazine titles that currently
focus on the consumer include CardPlayer and Atlanta-based
Bluff Magazine. Both have representatives traveling
to the world´s largest live poker tournaments
for coverage. Bluff serves as the media partner
of the World Series of Poker and just instilled
its Player of the Year honors for 2008 on John
“The Razor” Phan. Coming in second
on that leader board was Michael Binger, who had
2008 earnings of $1.1 million. Also appearing
on the list were David “The Dragon”
Pham (third), 2008 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
winner Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier
(fourth), and Men “The Master” Nguyen,
who led the way among the top 10 players with
25 qualifying cashes.
The
December issue of Inside Poker Magazine included
interviews with Irish poker pro Neil Channing
as well as David Ulliott, the namesake of Devilfish
Poker. We´ll have more details on the launch
of Inside Poker Business Magazine as they become
available right here on Poker News Daily.
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