Zynga Poker in the UK in 2013.....

[TightEnd]

Social media games company Zynga have entered into an exclusive partnership with bwin.party to offer real-money poker games in the U.K.

Zynga, on bwin.party, plans to launch a real-money games service in the first half of 2013

"Bringing together Zynga's expertise in social gaming with the top international real money gaming operator is the best way to create the highest quality gaming experiences for our players in the UK," said Barry Cottle, executive VP, corporate and business development, Zynga.

Apparently Zynga’s real-money U.K. players will have access to bwin.party’s player pool meaning there will instantly be thousands of players on the secure network.

In addition Zynga’s U.K.-based real-money games service will operate under bwin.party’s Gibralter gaming license. bwin.party operates Party Poker and bwin Poker.

The very first game Zynga ever developed was the wildly popular Texas Hold’Em Poker (now just called Zynga Poker). It still has hundreds of thousands of daily users.

Earlier this year Zynga CEO Mark Pincus called real-money gambling a natural fit for a social games company.

[AlunB]

http://investor.zynga.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=716059

http://www.bwinparty.com/Investors/FinancialNews/2012/121025%20Exclusive%20partnership%20agreement%20with%20Zynga.aspx

[MC]

I thought this was an interesting article about it:

http://pokerfuse.com/features/editorial-opinion/get-real-a-look-at-zynga-pokers-numbers-26-10/

[Young_gun]

I thought this was an interesting article about it:

http://pokerfuse.com/features/editorial-opinion/get-real-a-look-at-zynga-pokers-numbers-26-10/

So estimating it will add only 400 to the network, would have thought more then that. Defo will be fun when it comes in though