PartyGaming - the online gaming outfit - is forking out $14.5m to snap up a Scandinavian poker outfit.

MultiPoker.com uses PartyGaming's online poker playing platform, and has some 255,000 registered players in Scandinavia.

The deal means that PartyGaming gets the whole shebang - business, assets, player database, brand and MultiPoker.com site.

PartyGaming is also buying a slice of IntertopsPoker.com but calling time on a relationship with Coral Eurobet. ®

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