In this week’s instalment of Calling the Clock David Baazov ramps up his interest in taking Amaya private; Dan Smith promises to match $175,000 in charitable donations and much more.

It’s been a news week dominated by PokerStars, and we will start our round-up with some financial flittering.

Professional grinders might be shouting from their penthouse suites that PokerStars is Joffrey Baratheon, but they don’t seem to be doing anything about it. Amaya Gaming released official Q3 results this week, and real money active users on PokerStars increased by 3%.

PokerStars poker revenue accounted for 73% of the Amaya pie despite their $196.8m haul being down 1.3% year-on-year. But none of that has spoiled the appetite of David Baazov as he attempts to take the company private.