Exciting times..!
Pondělí, Únor 09, 2009 16:35Ok, so now it's official - Poker Icons and Vegas Group have merged.
First let me give you a little background about both companies.
Vegas Group is considered as the best (poker) event organizers in Scandinavia as well as having some of Swedens finest poker players in their relatively new poker agency division. They also have a solid relationship with the Swedish poker and general media.
Poker Icons have a reputation as being the premier agency for professional poker players from all over the world. We are by far the biggest withing our niche in Europe, and we have good connections and relations with the worldwide poker media.
Ok, so here is how it all came about...
I came to talking with Lars Kollind, the CEO of Vegas Group sometime early in October 2008, and we both soon realized that we shared the same philosophy on how to do things and where we wanted to go...
It seemed like our companies had so many obvious synergies that a merge made perfect sense!
As you can imagine it's not very easy to merge 2 companies like we wanted to do, but after some friendly negotiations where we among other things, decided that Lars Kollind should be the CEO, while I take the role as President of the poker agency - here we are!
Both parties consider the merge as the birth of a true "super agency" within the industry, and we are now able to not only continue to deliver premium services to professional poker players, but also serve the partners in a very powerful 1-stop-shop way!
I don't know about you. but I am really excited!
(Oh and to top it off, we just signed a really high profiled poker player to our poker agency - more on that in the upcoming press release).
