{"id":8907,"date":"2020-08-11T23:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=8907"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:51:43","slug":"i3-interactive-buys-indian-online-poker-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/i3-interactive-buys-indian-online-poker-brand","title":{"rendered":"i3 Interactive buys Indian online poker brand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deal will be the Toronto-based supplier&#8217;s first foray into the Indian market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India.- The Toronto-based gaming supplier i3 Interactive has confirmed it has entered an agreement to buy an unnamed Canadian company that owns an Indian online poker brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the deal i3 Interactive will acquire all issued and outstanding shares in the private British Columbia-based corporation. It intends to create an Indian subsidiary named i3 India Holdings Corp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new subsidiary will hold an indirect 65 per cent controlling interest in the company, whose active <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-online-gaming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indian poker brand<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is said to be part of a local poker network with over a million registrations and 75,000 active users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the operation is complete, i3 Interactive aims to relaunch the Indian brand under the name Blitzpoker. It intends to offer a variety of Texas Hold\u2019em and Omaha games for players of all skill levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The acquisition is now subject to customary closing conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deal will be the Toronto-based supplier&#8217;s first foray into the Indian market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Toronto-based i3 Interactive is set to acquire a Canadian entity owning an Indian online poker brand, marking its strategic entry into the burgeoning Indian iGaming market. The acquisition, pending customary closing conditions, will see the brand relaunched as Blitzpoker, targeting an existing network of over a million registrations and 75,000 active users.","focusai_entities":"i3 Interactive, i3 India Holdings Corp., Blitzpoker","focusai_location":"India, Canada, Toronto, British Columbia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.9), product_ux (0.75), marketing_crm (0.75), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"India Regulatory Outlook","query":"What specific regulatory compliance challenges and evolving governance frameworks does i3 Interactive anticipate navigating for its online poker operations in the Indian market, particularly concerning state-level variations and potential federal oversight?"},{"label":"Blitzpoker Growth Projections","query":"How does i3 Interactive project the Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) and Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) growth trajectory for Blitzpoker, leveraging the existing user base of over a million registrations, and what are the key performance indicators for this acquisition's success?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,16334],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-8907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-igaming-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8922,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions\/8922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}