888 buys Bwin.party for $1.4B

**vardan** · 18 July 2015, 7:31 am

Full story here.

**MMM** · 19 July 2015, 6:14 am

The craziest part is that there almost acquired just few months ago and now they bought a company 2-3 times their size. I wonder if will bump their profitability. Seems that the market thinks it will - the stock went 7% up.

**Triple7** · 19 July 2015, 7:01 am

They are too big to buy now... perhaps that was also one of the reasons to buy Bwin. They really got work to do.

**ocreditor** · 19 July 2015, 7:32 am

Interesting to see what will happened to bwin.party now, this company changed hands too many times during the last couple of years.

**MMM** · 19 July 2015, 8:12 am

Yeah, the logo becomes too long: Bwin.Party.888

**Sherlock** · 19 July 2015, 6:34 pm

That is nice. Now I am really scared that I will be robbed by 888 again.

**Miles_FTA** · 20 July 2015, 4:21 am

Wow Incredible could they get any bigger

**ocreditor** · 20 July 2015, 9:53 am

I thought 888 can't be any bigger, I guess I was wrong !

**RajitPatel** · 21 July 2015, 2:55 am

Certainly an interesting move. Why the comment about thieves though? We never had a problem with 888 in the past.

**Sherlock** · 21 July 2015, 3:13 am

They just decide to close my account where I had no access to, even when I asked my affiliate manager for months to help me with that. My AM simply stopped communication.

I got response from other affiliate manager, with his 2nd tier tracker of course, that I am welcome to open a NEW account, because it is his interest to get reward from my action. After my argument, that I would like to keep my own players that I referred to my old account, nobody responded.

Their generic affiliate email does not respond as well.

**Sherlock** · 21 July 2015, 9:57 am

I have to apologize to Bwin here. I did not get response for 10 days for my question about premium.com. Now I got this: "People moving to premium are counted towards your affiliate commission. It's a VIP service for them. You can see them under your tracker Top Tier in the tracker wise or brand wise report on your affiliate account".

I am rather editing the posts above that were misleading for Bwin. I was under impression I am ignored, because I asked twice.

**MMM** · 21 July 2015, 1:09 pm

Seems that it's not the end of it. Seems that GVS might have another go with a higher bid

**Triple7** · 22 July 2015, 6:31 am

Originally Posted by RajitPatel

Certainly an interesting move. Why the comment about thieves though? We never had a problem with 888 in the past.

Read the topic about the "hacker issue" and write again with dry eyes 888 are no thieves.

The Bwin aff programs *****, so i didn't do anything with them..

**peterhanneman** · 22 July 2015, 8:28 am

1.4B for it though, that's a lot of money! Honestly, I think it's a great buy and I think it'll do better with 888 buying it. Let's hope they improve the service.

**Triple7** · 22 July 2015, 9:53 am

Originally Posted by peterhanneman

1.4B for it though, that's a lot of money! Honestly, I think it's a great buy and I think it'll do better with 888 buying it. Let's hope they improve the service.

I also do think it's a great buy. For the rest, I don't have any hope they will improve their service or being a little more ethical. I think even the opposite. They will have to cut costs.

**peterhanneman** · 22 July 2015, 10:15 am

Originally Posted by Triple7

I also do think it's a great buy. For the rest, I don't have any hope they will improve their service or being a little more ethical. I think even the opposite. They will have to cut costs.

You think? It's quite sad to see that because you'd think with such a big purchase they would improve the site and make it even better.

**baldidiot** · 27 July 2015, 10:23 am

Saw this in the news this morning: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5b9fd89c-3...55cbae175.html

Online-gaming company GVC has teamed up with US private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management to launch a new £1bn bid for Bwin.party, a gaming company that earlier this month accepted a lower takeover bid from rival 888 Holdings.

**Mattbar** · 27 July 2015, 10:43 am

BaldIdiot, Are those the guys that own SkyBet?

**baldidiot** · 27 July 2015, 10:46 am

Originally Posted by Mattbar

BaldIdiot, Are those the guys that own SkyBet?

That's CVC mate: http://www.cvc.com/media-centre.htmx...1&tabyear=2014

**Mattbar** · 27 July 2015, 10:49 am

Don't you mean QVC

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