WPT

World Poker Tour Sold to Chinese OurGame

Bwin.party has reached an agreement to sell the World Poker Tour  to Chinese online game developer OurGame.com for $35mm. Details of the deal were made available via a filing from OurGame. The closing date for the deal is June 25. The deal appears to include all components of WPT, including the live tour, existing episode library, all intellectual property and the subscription-based poker site ClubWPT.com. Alexandre Dreyfus, CEO of Global Poker Index, called the sale “a tremendous opportunity for poker and for the World Poker Tour,” noting that OurGame has the “entrepreneurial spirit and the cash to help WPT achieve…