(Reuters) - Online gambling company GVC Holdings Plc (>> GVC Holdings PLC) said its bid to buy bigger rival Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment Plc (>> Bwin.party Digital Entertainment Plc) would jointly be financed by Canada's Amaya Inc (>> Amaya Inc).

There was no certainty on Tuesday that Bwin would accept the GVC bid, as a day earlier 888 Holdings Plc (>> 888 Holdings Public Limited Company) offered to buy Bwin, without disclosing the value of the bid.

Sources told Reuters on Monday that GVC's joint bid with Amaya, which owns online gambling sites PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, would be valued at 1.5 billion euros (1 billion pounds) and would consist of cash and GVC shares

(Reporting by Esha Vaish in Bengaluru; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier)