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Calgary-based HeadsUp Entertainment has bought the Canadian Poker Tour and Canadian Poker Player Magazine from Langley, BC-based Fifth Street Publishers. The purchase supplements HeadsUp Entertainment's own Canadian Championship Poker brand as it strives to become a national force in poker content on multiple platforms.

Today, the Canadian Poker Tour announced a strategic marketing alliance with the World Poker Showdown, a leader in vacation destination poker getaways, to enhance and promote each others series of events. HeadsUp has also signed a deal with Calgary's mobovivo.com MoboVivo to let iPhone users catch up on the game with full online streaming or mobile downloads of its TV programming.

Who would have guessed that Bryn Mawr is fast becoming a poker hotbed?

For the second straight year, the upscale Main Line suburb has produced a big-money winner in the World Series of Poker.

Businessman Eric Brooks, a cofounder and former director of the investing powerhouse Susquehanna International Group, collected $415,856 and a champion's gold bracelet from a Las Vegas seven-card stud table Monday.

Last year, Beth Shak of Bryn Mawr finished second in the no-limit hold 'em category of the poker series, taking back to the Main Line $328,683 in prize money.

However, Brooks' purse won't be coming home with him.