Card Player Media teams up with Oy NTS Communications Ltd.

LAS VEGAS -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Card Player Media LLC (Card Player Magazine & CardPlayer.com) today announces it has entered into a partnership with the Finnish media group Oy NTS Communications Ltd. Together, the companies will begin publishing digital and printed versions of the industry leading Card Player Magazine throughout the world.

Under the terms of the agreement, Card Player Media will provide Oy NTS Communications Ltd its content, which will be translated and localized for each market. The goal of the partnership is to provide poker communities in each country with their own comprehensive poker media sources.

Card Player Media Chairman and World Series Of Poker Europe champion Barry Shulman said: “We wanted to give the Card Player brand an extra global boost, and we look forward to pursuing our goals with Oy NTS Communications Ltd.”

"We are very proud to team up with the Shulmans and Card Player, and their worldwide reputation to be 'primus inter pares' in the industry," says Timo M. Korppi, senior advisor and spokesman for NTS. “The impeccable quality of the content, together with the most modern ways of distribution, is the only key for future success.”

Card Player Media is the world's oldest and respected poker magazine and online poker guide. Since 1988, Card Player Magazine has provided the poker player community with news, results and strategy. Today, CardPlayer.com is the most comprehensive poker information portal on the Internet.

Founded in 1994, Oy NTS Communications Ltd has been a magazine publisher in various European countries since 1997. The Finland-based company specializes in entertainment media digitized for mobile environments.