The proposed merger of bwin and PartyGaming, announced on 29 July 2010, will bring together two of the original pioneers and now giants of the online gaming world. The merger will create the clear market leader with leading positions across all of the key product verticals of poker, sports betting, casino and games which includes bingo.

Webcast
To view a replay of a webcast presentation to analysts and investors given by PartyGaming CEO, Jim Ryan and bwin Co-CEO, Norbert Teufelberger click here.

Below is a summary of documents and links relating to the proposed merger which you may find useful:
http://www.partygaming.com/prty/uploads/dlibrary/documents/290710ProposedMergerofPartyGamingandbwin.pdf
PartyGaming.com sites: www.partypoker.com www.partycasino.com
Bwin.org sites: bwin.com pokerroom.com ongamenetwork.com

bwin and PartyGaming merger to create world’s largest online gaming company

Perfect match of two online entertainment pioneers.

Vienna/London, 29 July 2010 – Today, Thursday, bwin and PartyGaming have announced the planned merger of these two companies. The fusion of these two pio-neers of online entertainment will be a “merger of equals”, and will create easily the world’s largest publicly listed online gaming company. “We have made history today, and will revolutionize the world of online entertainment as a result of this move,” explains Norbert Teufelberger, bwin Co-CEO. “This marriage with PartyGaming will be the next milestone in the successful history of bwin.”

“These two companies are a perfect match. Not only shall we have the first full-house for sports betting, poker, casino and games, together we shall be Number One with respect to product portfolio, technology, development, marketing and customers,” underscores bwin Co-CEO Manfred Bodner.

“The timing of this merger is optimal, as the industry is currently going through a phase of consolidation, and size does indeed matter,” according to Teufelberger. Europe and the USA are well on the way to regulation. “One can achieve more as the market and technology leader, thus assuring our future,” added Teufelberger.

55 million Euros in synergies with the merger
The merger is expected to generate synergies totalling 55 million Euros. However, these will not only be cost synergies: on the contrary, the merger will result in syner-gies of opportunity, marketing and revenue.

Headquarters to be established in Gibraltar
bwin shareholders will receive 51.6 per cent, and PartyGaming shareholders 48.4 per cent of the new company. The company’s headquarters will be established in Gibraltar. bwin’s business locations in Vienna and Stockholm are not under discussion. The new company will be listed on the London Stock Exchange, and will probably be included in the FTSE 100 index.

International bwin brand to be retained
The two successful bwin and PartyGaming brands will be retained. The new company will be headed by the two Co-CEOs Norbert Teufelberger and Jim Ryan. Norbert Teu-felberger was previously Co-CEO with bwin, Jim Ryan CEO with PartyGaming. bwin Co-CEO Manfred Bodner will be moving to the Supervisory Board of the new company, and will be responsible for brand integration and strategic sales topics.

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- 3,685 entries after Day 1C
- Totally 1,116 entered on Day 1A,
- 873 on Day 1B
- Day 1C saw 1,696 entrants

2010:
- Day 1A this year featured a starting grid of 1,125 players
- Day 1B attracted 1,489
- Day 1C 2,314
- Three-day total of 4,928.

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- Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad, a Full Tilt Poker pro, seated at Table 2

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- Matt “mcmatto” Affleck

- Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson

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Seat 1: Mike Wattel – 365,000
Seat 2: Salvatore Bonavena – 4,505,000
Seat 3: Ali Alawadhi – 670,000
Seat 4: Joseph Curcio – 1,205,000
Seat 5: Tomer Berda – 3,410,000
Seat 6: Bryan Porter – 740,000
Seat 7: Alfonso Amendola – 910,000
Seat 8: Hungcheng Hung – 740,000
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2 Vladimir Kochelaevskiy 510,939

3 Bryan Porter 353,260

4 Salvatore Bonavena 254,777

5 Mike Wattel 186,250

6 Hungcheng Hung 137,946

7 Ali Alawadhi 103,527

8 Joseph Curcio 78,705

9 Alfonso Amendola 60,580

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