Party Time

I've been watching the weather report all week. El Nino is toying with my plans for driving down to El Nino tomorrow. It's dumped a ton of rain on LA and Vegas, and a ton of snow in the mountain passes between the two. We'll see what things look like tomorrow afternoon. After all, it's out of my control. Nothing I can do about it.

Seems one of my bosses -- Tony G -- has given up on his own branded poker site. He sold his site to Party Poker and took a sponsorship with Party. That's two fairly recognizable names that Party has signed this month (the other being Kara Scott). It seems unlikely that the UIGEA is going to be overturned any time soon, so what's all of this maneuvering really about?

Party, remember, owns the WPT brand at this point. That brand has sudden and serious competition from the NAPT, a PokerStars outfit.

Interesting times. Your guess is as good as mine what it all might mean.