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RIP SkyPokerTV?

GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
edited December 2014 in Poker Chat

Sky sells betting business to CVC private equity

Sky's sells majority stake in its bookie business to CVC Capital Partners for up to £800m as it focuses on core pay-TV operations

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  • bartonironbartoniron Member Posts: 53
    edited December 2014
    Looks like BT has rattled a few cages at Murdoch Towers.
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  • MaggiesdadMaggiesdad Member Posts: 439
    edited December 2014
    I don't KNOW what this means, (nobody does until after events!) but my GUT INSTINCT says that the spirit of Sky Poker will be a thing of the past and the SPT will have run for the last time (but I hope to be proved wrong). Thoughts anyone?
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  • aussie09aussie09 Member Posts: 8,033
    edited December 2014


    i am going to buy that house so that i can knock it down and park my caravan there instead.





     
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  • bartonironbartoniron Member Posts: 53
    edited December 2014
    Sky will still own 20% but the new majority owners will surely call the shots.

    Watch this space seems order of the day.

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  • bartonironbartoniron Member Posts: 53
    edited December 2014
    aussie-its not necessarily about the house, more about the land its built on. 
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  • aussie09aussie09 Member Posts: 8,033
    edited December 2014
    In Response to Re: RIP SkyPokerTV?:
    aussie-its not necessarily about the house, more about the land its built on. 
    Posted by bartoniron

    yes.


    ".. the sky has fallen upon my head, i'm off to tell the king."



     
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  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited December 2014
    all i know is that private equity owners are very cost and profit conscious. They will also have a clear plan of what they are hoping to achieve.  ie the land or house question.
    could lead to major changes to skypoker maybe negative maybe positive.  Fingers crossed. 

    Meanwhile sympathies to all the skypoker related staff whose careers may now be taking an uncertain turn. 
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  • luvBWFCluvBWFC Member Posts: 763
    edited December 2014
    silly question perhaps but is Sky Poker part of Sky Bet then?
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  • bartonironbartoniron Member Posts: 53
    edited December 2014
    certainly is,skybet is part of what was until recently bskyb which is now just sky, which itself is part of the murdoch empire.
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  • NoseyBonkNoseyBonk Member Posts: 6,185
    edited December 2014
    I guess times of uncertainty for all the employees - not nice at all at any time, but especially at this time of year. Hope all works out fine.
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  • ShaunyTShaunyT Member Posts: 619
    edited December 2014
    could be rip skypoker. Or skypoker as we know it.
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