In the Netherlands the government has a monopoly on gambling both off-line and online, but an end to this gambling monopoly may come soon, as the Internet Gambling Advisory has given an advice to the Minister of Finance that online poker should be legalized on the Internet.
Lea Bouwmeester of the Labour Party says that legalisation of online poker is not enough and says they will come with a complete online...
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September 2 will see the largest poker fair in the world, Poker in the Park. To start the festivities, they have one of the most beautiful and best female poker players in the world an is invited to cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony.
The winner of the 2010 EPT starts the festivities at the Leicester Square in London where more than 20,000 poker pros, amateurs, newbies, online poker players and tournament...
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The seventh season of the European Poker Tour was launched this week in Tallinn, Estonia and is already breaking records. Day 1a of the EPT saw 182 poker players and 1b with 238 players, a total of 420 players paid the buy-in of € 4,000 + € 250 which breaks all poker tournament records in Estonia. The total prize money was € 1,596,000 and € 400,000 for the winner of the poker tournament.
The German Ali...
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Today is the start of the biggest poker tournament in Asia in the Casino Grand Lisboa. The Macao Millions has a guaranteed prize pool of 80,800 pounds with a buy-in of 160 pounds.
The tournament runs until August 8 and hundreds of online poker players will flock to the tournament. The tournament has an unusual buy-in structure because players can enter on each of the 5 first days, but they can re-buy the next...
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One of the major poker site providers, Everest Poker has announced they have concluded a sponsorship agreement with the French football club Olympique Lyonnais. Under the agreement, Everest Poker logo will appear on the t-shirts of the French Ligue 1 Team in all away matches. From August 7, the logos of the online poker site will be seen on the shirts.
The collaboration comes just weeks after Everest Poker received...
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The 24-year old Danish poker player who won 7.2 million euros during the main event at the WSOP last year, has announced that he will leave professional poker, and he will probably not come back unless he needs money or has nothing to do.
He said in a Facebook message: “I was bored of the game, lacking motivation, did not need the money any more so saw no point in continuing. In case I return, it will...
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A Scottish court heard the father of an extravagant financier was shot in the head outside a casino in Edinburgh after his son was unable to repay his gamble debt of 1 million pounds. Tony DeMarco, 64, was shot by an assassin because his son Anthony, could not repay the huge amount he borrowed to pay back his gambling debts with the loan sharks. The bulk of these loans came from his addiction to online poker....
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Poker pro Phil Laak has broken the world record for the longest consecutive session of the poker online game, the poker player has played 115 hours sitting at the table and managed to defeat the official Guinness record. The 37-year-old Laak said after breaking the record that he intended to continue playing until he had played at least 90 hours. “There were a few moments, I realized that if I could not...
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