Party Gaming To Sponsor WPT TV

Saturday December 09, 2006

Earth Poker Tour Enterprises and London - listed online gambling assembly PartyGaming Plc keep teamed up influence a multi-time agreement that will arrange international television sponsorship of the World Poker Tour and Professional Poker Tour. The agreement covers shows produced beneath WPT Seasons IV, V, and VI and PPT Seasons I, II, and III.

WPT spokesmen oral that the agreement helps ice and expand the international WPT alias completed Party Gaming's extensive marketing resources; provides appreciated promotional opportunities for WPT's online gaming site and Worldpokertour.com and represents a brand-new revenue ray for WPTE.

Influence return, Party Gaming all-purpose Party Poker will acquire exclusive influence - display branded integration and association cloak the aboriginal WPT name agency televised poker. The cash terms of the agreement depend upon the digit of international territories amenable hide, the amount of branded integration within each episode and the numeral of episodes aired.

Party Gaming has and imaginary certain commitments towards online satellites to tournaments and promoting the WPT Academy.

"We are pleased to appear as creating an alliance bury a leading marketer like because Party Gaming," vocal Steve Lipscomb, WPT founder and Chief Executive Bellwether. "This deal represents a bombshell - gold for both parties. It aligns WPT and Party Gaming's goals of expanding the international distribution of our programming and helps facilitate the growth of poker worldwide."