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Playtech snaps up PokerStrategy.com
July 12, 2013
From iGaming Business Online gambling software specialist Playtech has announced the bolt-on acquisition of poker-dedicated website PokerStrategy.com for €38.3m ($49.8m) from etruvian Holdings. The takeover will be funded by Playtech’s existing cash reserves. Profit before tax last year at PokerStrategy.com, one of the largest online poker schools and player community, and some of the acquired subsidiaries, was €19.5m, and the group had gross assets of about €18.5m. PokerStrategy.com co-founders Dominik Kofert and Enrique Guzman will stay on at the acquired business on a consultancy basis. “The directors believe the acquisition is complementary to both Playtech’s PTTS marketing division and its…