Industry Insight
Key Takeaways
  • Amaya “vigorously disputes” any financial liability in Kentucky case.
  • GVC/bwin and Paddy/Betfair mergers both approved by their boards.

Amaya

Amaya put out a press statement saying that it would vigorously dispute any financial liability in the court case brought against it by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

The state is seeking to recover from PokerStars all the losses suffered by Kentucky players between October 2006 and April 2011. On November 20, Judge Thomas Wingate made a summary judgment in the amount of $290 million against PokerStars.