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Old 08-26-2005, 10:23 AM
midas midas is offline
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Default Card Player - New Investors

In the investing news today:

Card Player Media, a Las Vegas-based media company focused on poker enthusiasts, has raised an undisclosed amount of venture capital funding from a small group of professional card players and card-playing actors. The group includes Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, Todd Brunson, Jennifer Harman, Thomas Keller, Laura Prepon, Danny Masterson and Chris Masterson
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Old 08-26-2005, 10:49 AM
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Default Re: Card Player - New Investors

What is the money for? Are they expanding or having cash flow problems?
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Old 08-26-2005, 03:25 PM
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I remember Jeff Shulman saying in one of those web videos or audio that they had many plans for future expansion to be a broader media source.
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Old 08-26-2005, 09:04 PM
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They're getting enough money together to mount a hostile takeover bid for 2+2 Publishing. The reason it will be hostile, is that the offer will be for $1 less than the EV of offering the company on the open market.
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