Pokernews.com
| Private | |
| Industry | Poker |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Founder | Antanas Guoga |
| Headquarters | Isle of Man |
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Key people
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Jon Squires (CEO) Jon Sykes (Director) David Bufton (CFO) Justinas Bėčius (CTO) Matthew Parvis (Editor-in-Chief/CCO) |
| Owner | iBusmedia |
| Website | www.pokernews.com |
PokerNews is a website dedicated to providing poker enthusiasts with a place they can find industry news, live tournament coverage, strategy, player interviews and videos, podcasts, and information on bonuses and freeroll tournaments available at online poker rooms.
Antanas "Tony G" Guoga, a Lithuanian-Australian businessman, founded the site in 2002. Gouga bought the domain name PokerNews.com for $6,000, hired a couple of programmers to set up the site, and began publishing articles.
In November 2005, PokerNews launched its UK edition. In January 2006, the Swedish language site was launched. In May 2006, another Scandinavian site launched as PokerNews Norway. One month later, a Greek edition was added to the PokerNews global network. The language expansion continued with the launch of a Danish language site in August 2006. In January 2007, the site released a new edition written exclusively in Hebrew as PokerNews Israel. Also that month, a Romanian language site called PokerNews Romania launched. In April 2007, Czech Republic was launched as PokerNews Czech. The Bulgarian version was launched in May 2007, followed by a Slovenian version. In October 2007, the site's global reach expanded again with the addition of PokerNews Ukraine.PokerNews also offers native language sites in Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Russia, Poland, Australia, China, Portugal, Japan, Norway, and more.
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