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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.

On Tuesday, June 10, just two weeks after election of the new World Poker Association (WPA) Board of Directors with Wendeen Eolis as the new board chairman, Eolis announced her resignation to take up the offer of a role in the forthcoming U.S. presidential campaign. Immediately following her announcement, Jesse Jones, Chairman Emeritus, who is also the WPA Founder and former board chairman, was unanimously reinstated. The eight newly elected board members,advocates of Eolis, have also relinquished their positions.

Eolis facilitated the development of the WPA Code of Ethics, revision of the organization's internal affairs, produced the first WPA Annual Meeting & Educational Conference, and helped redesigned the wpapoker.org website during her one-year term.