{"id":1176,"date":"2012-02-11T11:15:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T11:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleverduckmedia.com\/media\/wordpress\/bluff-media-purchased-by-churchill-downs\/"},"modified":"2012-02-11T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T11:15:16","slug":"bluff-media-purchased-by-churchill-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/bluff-media-purchased-by-churchill-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluff Media purchased by Churchill Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.igamingpost.com\/News\/archives\/1176\/churchill_downs\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5115\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5115\" title=\"Churchill_downs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.igamingpost.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Churchill_downs-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another Deal Done<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US Horseracing giant Churchill Downs in Louisville, has jumped into the online &amp; land gambling race, as the prospect of legalised online gambling in the USA grows stronger.<\/p>\n<p>Churchill Downs has struck a deal to purchase Atlanta-based poker information media firm Bluff Media in a move that could help to position it more strongly in the event of legalisation.<\/p>\n<p>The terms of the purchase and amount purchased for have not been disclosed yet.<\/p>\n<p>Bluff is described in the Churchill Downs press material as a multimedia poker content, brand &amp; publishing company. It owns the poker periodical Bluff Magazine &amp; the magazine&#8217;s website; an online database that tracks &amp; ranks the performance of poker players &amp; tournaments called ThePokerDB; other blogs &amp; forums; &amp; various websites including Bluff.com &amp; BluffPoker.com.<\/p>\n<p>Churchill said it could build on Bluff Media&#8217;s offerings in the event there is a liberalization of state or federal laws with respect to Internet poker in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The racing company launched an online wagering site several years ago to take advantage of carve-outs in US law that allow internet betting on horseracing, &amp; chief exec Bob Evans is on record as declaring that Churchill Downs would be interested in the online gambling business, should it be legalised.<\/p>\n<p>Churchill Downs as emphasised that Bluff Media has not been involved in actual real money gambling, but uses its resources to direct players to games on other poker sites &amp; at casinos, &amp; disseminate information on poker.<\/p>\n<p>NEWS SPONSOR<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ShuffleMaster.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/Shufflemaster_com_Web-Banner.jpg\" alt=\"Please click here\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eddy Kleid &amp; Eric Morris, who are the co-presidents of Bluff Media, &amp; vice president of online operations, Jeff Markley, will continue in their current roles after the takeover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horseracing giant Churchill Downs in Louisville, has jumped into the online &#038; land gambling race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-igaming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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