Industry Insight
Key Takeaways
  • The week has been dominated by annual results, some winners and some losers, but online poker revenues were rarely among the first category.
  • Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) which operates the social, mobile and real money online gaming business as well as owning the WSOP, made $21 million in profit on $587 million of revenues in 2014.
  • William Hill investors disappointed by the company’s failed bid for 888 Holdings, were cheered by the company’s full year results which showed record profits of £372 million—11% higher than 2013.
  • Online poker revenues at Ladbrokes fell from £6.9 million in 2013 to just £3 million in 2014.

The week has been dominated by annual results, some winners and some losers, but online poker revenues were rarely among the first category mentioned.