January 08 2010, by Alexandre Dreyfus

Chilipoker & Setanta Sports – Ireland

Dear Friend,

First of all, i would like to wish you an happy new year 2010 and a lot of Spicy resolutions. I’m very proud to announce you today that Chiligaming as signed an exclusive agreement with the premium Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports.

This joint-venture will operate SetantaBet.com and Chilipoker in Ireland. It will give us access to a pool of more than 600,000 homes in a mature market. They owns rights like Premier League, Champions League, Europa League, Top14, Formula 1, etc … We are going to bring to their community a new gaming experience (sports betting and live-betting, poker shows, etc …). Chilipoker will also working closely with Setanta to set-up poker events and poker shows. The cherry on the cake is that our partner runs as well Sports Channel in Canada andAustralia.

Press release : http://www.setantabet.com/ – 11th of January 2010

This year 2010 will be very exciting for sure.  It’s supposed to be the year of the new regulation in France, which will give Chilipoker the opportunity to reveal its real potential. In order to fulfil our ambition, we have signed an exclusive agreement at the beginning of 2009 with the successfull french group Iliad (Free), recently rewarded to operate the 4th mobile operator. We will join our forces to promote our gamingbrands, and notably Chilipoker.com to their 4.3 millions householdcustomers.

We will invest more on our sports betting and casino offer to benefit of the World Cup in South Africa as the Olympic Games in Vancouver. We will attend our second World Poker Tour in Morrocco (venue to be confirmed) in september 2010, after the huge success of last october with 416 players from 31 nationalities. We will promote our partnership with GoVoyages on the new Paris-LasVegas direct flight from the 23rd of May. The Season II of the Chilipoker Cash Challenge is in the pipe as others live tournaments, new poker software, new territories, etc …

Well, in 2009 we made +40% of revenues in comparison with 2008 to reach a new level of $11.7m after 3 years, in dozens of countries. For 2010, we dont have any forecast. Severals new regulations and policies may impact us, some in good way and some in bad way. There is onlyone certitude, that Chilipoker is building, step by step a online gaming and entertainment company. We are going to build a international branded network of local partners to set ourself in this very competitive landscape.

We will try to bring you more and more innovation.

Happy new year and spice up your game 😉

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Alexandre Dreyfus is the founder and CEO of Media Sports & Entertainment, a company dedicated to manage different projects, including the Global Poker Index, a ranking system for live poker players, The Hendon Mob, Worlds Largest Live Poker Database, the Global Poker League, European & American Poker Awards and recently launched the Gaming Player Index, connecting the world of poker with esports. Alex Dreyfus is the founder and CEO of Chiligaming, amongst other projects, whose technology was sold to Bally Technologies. Social links: Alex Dreyfus on Twitter | Alex Dreyfus on Linkedin | Alex Dreyfus Blog | Facebook Alex Dreyfus