In this week’s poker news round-up the World Series of Poker agree a ten-year deal with Tencent Holdings to grow the game in Asia; PokerStars buy the $2m lying in PKR accounts and decide to give it back to PKR players, and much more.

The biggest news story has to be the World Series of Poker’s (WSOP) signing a 10-year partnership deal with the Chinese investment holdings company Tencent.

To pinch the grey matter of Alex Dreyfus, Tencent is the owners of League of Legends and Supercell, they are the largest shareholder of Activision, owner of WeChat, and of course, the 100 million registered accounts that play on Tencent Poker.

So what does this mean?