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World Poker Tour sold

By Nick Sortal August 4, 2009 03:23 PM

Pending stockholder approval, a privately held investment group under the name Gamynia Limited has agreed to pay $9,075,000 plus a percentage of future revenues for almost all of WPT Enterprises assets.

That includes its television, sponsorship, distribution and licensing units, according to a report at PokerListings.com.

I don't have much else to say about this. The article does it better than I could have, especially their comment that the WPT in 2003 pretty much made poker what it is today.

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