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Well, as you’ve probably heard, Day 3 of the European Poker Tour’s inaugural Berlin stop was unfortunately interrupted as masked men staged a daring daylight robbery at the Hyatt Hotel.
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03 8th, 2010
Tom “durrrr” Dwan has now broken the seven-figure mark for 2010 earnings, doing most of it on Saturday night after a huge session left him $1,338,000 to the good.
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03 4th, 2010
The Day1b field for the European Poker Tour event at the Hyatt Hotel in Berlin saw PokerStars attract an enormous field of 557; added to the 386 players from Day 1a this boosts the prize pool to a massive €4,750,000.
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03 3rd, 2010
Day 1a of the PokerStars European Poker Tour event in Berlin, Germany, saw 388 players take to the tables until 196 remained. Day 1b begins in a couple of hours and Kfir Yamin is the man to beat as he bagged the most chips on the first flight with a mighty stack of 213,500.
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03 3rd, 2010
The World Poker Tour $15,000 tournament at the Commerce Casino is winding down to a six-handed final table, with some recognisable names still in the field and moving steadily towards what they hope will be a $1.7m payday.
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Lady Luck is a fickle mistress. Not 24 hours after blogging about his 2010 earnings – in excess of $3,500,000 at the time – CardRunners instructor Cole “CTS” South has lost $1,004,046 in a disastrous session of $300/$600 Pot-Limit Omaha.
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London’s Vic Casino is once again the venue for the second leg of Bluff Europe’s Poker Academy season, this time on Sunday 28th March and in association with the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT).
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With a lengthy and distinguished history, a superb field of top class players and all the hospitality that Dublin has to offer. What’s not to like about the Irish Open? Well nothing. And if you fancy banging heads with the likes of Padraig Parkinson, Christer Johansson, Kara Scott, Phil Laak and a host of other top pros then PaddyPower has just the thing.
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02 25th, 2010
The three-time NBA champion was born in Bruges, Belgium to an American father and a Dutch mother but raised in France.
He began his professional basketball career in Paris and played with the French national team before joining the San Antonio Spurs in 2001.
The 27-year-old point guard won the NBA Finals MVP award in 2007 and married Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria in the same year.
Parker and Longoria have taken part in several high-profile poker charity poker nights over the past few years.
“A great adventure begins,” said Parker. “BetClic is a leading company with big ambitions and I am very happy to contribute to its development in the sport during the coming years.”
Created in 2005 by Nicolas Beraud, has risen to prominence in the European online gaming market over the past five years.
After signing former Team PokerStars Pro Isabelle Mercier in 2009, the company has made a push into the ever-growing European poker market purchasing both the Expekt and Everest Poker brands.
Now, the company is hoping that having a high profile star like Parker in an ambassador role will help it grow even further, particularly in France, where new legislation is expected to open up the French poker market.
“We are delighted to welcome Tony Parker in the team BetClic,”said Beraud. “He is a great ambassador for the brand. Tony represents the strong values of excellence and ethics in sports that we share. This new partnership reflects our commitment to continue our development in the sport by adding great champions to our team.”
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The landscape of the European online poker and casino gaming world continues to get murkier as two recent opinions announced today from the European Court of Justice question the legalities of the Austrian and Swedish gaming laws.
In the first opinion, Advocate General Jan Mazak ruled on a case regarding Ernst Engelmann, a German citizen who operates two online casinos in Austria. Engelmann was found guilty of unlawfully organizing games of chance in Austria and the case was appealed to the regional court of Linz, Austria. This regional court sought the opinion of the ECJ on three points of Austrian gaming laws and whether they violated the European Union treaty that allows for freedom of trade across national boundaries.
AG Mazak, after reviewing the case history, ruled on the three points that the regional court had requested clarification for. AG Mazak stated that the requirement that companies must have their company physically located in Austria involves a restriction on freedom of establishment and is a violation of the EU treaty. Mazak ruled that this direct discrimination prohibits companies with their seat in another Member State from being holders of a license to operate a casino.
Part of the reason for that segment of the Austrian law – that Austria was looking to protect its citizens through having the gaming operations located in the country and bound by its laws – was unfounded in Mazak’s opinion. AG Mazak ruled that companies that are a part of the EU are bound by the laws of the EU treaty. In his decision, AG Mazak stated, “In fact, any undertaking established in a Member State can be supervised and penalties imposed on it, regardless of the place of residence of its managers.” Thus, AG Mazak ruled against the location of operations argument used by the Austrian government.
In the other opinion, Advocate General Yves Bot was asked by the Stockholm Court of Appeals to rule on the case of two editors of national newspapers. Otto Sjöberg and Anders Gerdin were the editors-in-chief and publishers of two Swedish newspapers who accepted advertising from gaming companies located outside of Sweden. In late 2003 and 2004, they published advertisements for lotteries offered on such gaming sites as Expekt, , and Centrebet, all which are established in Malta and the United Kingdom. They were convicted of violating the Swedish gaming laws through promotion of companies not located in Sweden and were fined SEK 1000 (approximately $137).
While AG Bot opinion stated that the punishment for the violation was appropriate as to the Swedish law, he did question the decision in the Swedish courts. At issue is a question of discrimination, according to AG Bot. In his opinion, AG Bot stated, “In the present case, although Swedish legislation prohibits, without distinction, the promotion of gambling organized abroad and the promotion of gambling organized in Sweden without a license, the penalties laid down for infringement of that prohibition are different. Thus, whereas penalties of a fine and imprisonment for up to six months are laid down for persons who advertise gaming organized abroad, those who advertise gaming organized in Sweden without a license do not incur equivalent criminal penalties, but only administrative penalties.”
The two opinions laid out by AGs Mazak and Bot are not binding, however. They are simply the AGs opinions and must go in front of the full European Court of Justice before a decision is rendered on either case. At this time, there has been no date set for a final decision on the two cases.
The European Betting and Gaming Association, which has been battling the movement towards the nationalization of online gaming in Europe, has hailed the opinions of the two Advocates General as potentially groundbreaking in the online gaming industry. Sigrid Ligné, the Secretary General of the EGBA, was especially pleased with the Austrian ruling when she said, “(With AG Mazak’s opinion) In this context, there is no acceptable justification to prevent reputable European competitors from offering online poker and casino games to Austrian players.”
Ligné appealed to free market economic theory when she said about the Swedish opinion, “It is remarkable that leading national newspapers, which are financed through and very much dependent on the sale of advertising, are unfairly deprived of substantial sources of revenue.” Ligné also noted that the two Swedish companies who conduct the country’s online gaming operations, Svenska Spel and ATG, advertise heavily inside Swedish borders and also use other European Union Member States in advertising on television to draw customers.
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