{"id":5317,"date":"2012-02-27T14:27:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T14:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.igamingpost.com\/News\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2012-02-27T14:27:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T14:27:41","slug":"game-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/game-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Game on?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.igamingpost.com\/News\/archives\/5317\/game-on-bwin\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5319\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-5319\" title=\"game on bwin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.igamingpost.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/game-on-bwin-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>RUMOURS are circulating about Bwin.Party striking a deal with Shuffle Master to sell Ongame for a reported \u20ac13 million. The news was initially reported in the Sunday Times. It\u2019s also been reported that if Shuffle Master do get their hands on the deal, it could place them two steps ahead if and when the online poker industry is legalised.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2005, Bwin had purchased Ongame Network for \u00a3474 million. This was before Black Friday and before the US government passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. Just before Bwin merged with PartyGaming to form Bwin.Party, a spokesperson for Bwin had stated that Bwin considers Ongame Network as a \u201csurplus asset,\u201d which the merger no longer requires.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/contact\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/advertisehere_text_small.gif\" alt=\"Please click here\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to various news reports, Shuffle Master is not the only gambling company making such moves in the hopes that the US federal government might legalize and regulate its online poker industry. Even International Gaming Technology (IGT) acquired Entraction Network in May last year for $115 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0However, gaming analysts do not feel that US online poker will be regulated soon. Howard Stutz, a reporter for Las Vegas Review \u2013 Journal, had tweeted, \u201cOne Wall Street analyst opinion: Internet poker legalization not being attached to the payroll tax bill means the issue is dead for 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a deal imminent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igaming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Game on? - iGaming Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/game-on\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Game on? 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