SYDNEY (AFX) - Aristocrat Leisure Ltd, the world's second largest gaming machine maker, said it has acquired just under 10 pct of US group PokerTek Inc for 8.6 mln usd.
The company said it has also signed a 10 year distribution agreement with PokerTek permitting Aristocrat to place PokerTek's interactive, electronic PokerPro table systems in casinos across the globe.
PokerTek listed on the NASDAQ national market in 2005 to develop and market an electronic poker table designed to provide a fully automated poker room environment.
Under the terms of the agreement Aristocrat will have the right to market the tables and other PokerTek products except in US and Canadian jurisdictions where PokerTek places product directly.
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