UK Poker Growing Stronger with WSOPE

The World Series Of Poker is coming to the UK and you could be there to. Betfair poker is still running qualifiers to the event.

(PRWEB) August 14, 2007 -- The World Series Of Poker is coming to the UK and you could be there to. Betfair poker is still running qualifiers to the event.

The inaugural World Series Of Poker Europe consists of three events. The largest of these is the Main Event, a £10,000 buy-in, 750-player, six-day tournament spread over three casinos, with a prize pool of roughly £7.5 million. The winner could take home more than £1.5 million in cash.

The inaugural World Series Europe will have a world-class field.

The three WSOPE events effectively make up Events 56, 57 and 58 of WSOP 2007 with three official gold bracelets on offer for the winner of each event.

The WSOPE 2007 events:

• Event 56: Three day £2,500 ($5,000) HORSE tournament.

 

• Event 57: Three day £5,000 ($10,000) Pot-Limit Omaha tournament.

 

• Event 58: WSOP Europe Main Event, a six-day, £10,000 ($20,000) No-Limit Texas Holdem Championship.

Although the main event registration has only been open for a little over two weeks some of the biggest names in poker have already signed up, Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Roland de Wolfe, John Juanda, Allen Cunningham, Todd Brunson, Eli Elezra, Howard Lederer, Humberto Brenes and Jennifer Harman to name but a few.

 

"There are over 60 WSOP bracelets between the pre-registrants so far," said World Series of Poker Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack. "The inaugural World Series Europe will have a world-class field."

Phil Hellmuth recently won his record breaking eleventh WSOP bracelet. In a statement to the press he said: "I'm going to London to make history again by winning the first WSOP bracelet ever awarded outside of Las Vegas."

These quotes are from Betfair who are the official sponsor of the first WSOPE 2007.

Online poker qualification is still running at Betfair Poker with qualifiers and satellites starting at just $3.15.

What's more UK Poker fans won't have to wait long for the next big poker event to arrive in London the EPT London event starts soon after the WSOPE ends.

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UK Poker Growing Stronger with WSOPE

Everest Poker Announces Sponsorship of Italian Poker Championship

The online poker room is sponsoring the Italian Poker Championship live events in San Remo from 13 June to 16 June, 2007.

Montreal, QC (PRWEB) June 13, 2007 -- Everest Poker http://www.everestpoker.com today began its sponsorship of the Italian Poker Championship, held at the Casino di San Remo. The first event, held on Wednesday, 13 June features a €300+30 Euro buy-in and an exclusive poker tutorial with Cristiano Blanco, an Italian player sponsored by Everest Poker.

"In addition to our sponsorship of live events, Everest Poker also hosted a series of online tournaments that gave our players the chance to play in this great poker event," said Jonathan May, Everest Poker property manager. "We look forward to seeing not only how our players perform, but the event as a whole."

The Italian Poker Championship is a great event for Everest Poker to be associated with

Thursday sees a €500+50 poker tournament and another tutorial with Blanco. Friday features a unique event: a €500+50 shootout. Finally, the Main Event takes place on Saturday, 16 June: a €1400+100 or €1350+150 holdem poker tournament. There is also a women's tournament being held the same day with a €100 buy-in.

"The Italian Poker Championship is a great event for Everest Poker to be associated with," added May. "We're very excited about this opportunity and look forward to sponsoring more events like this in the near future."

For more information about Everest Poker, visit http://www.everestpoker.com Everest poker offers fully-localized software for over fifteen languages, including Japanese. Players interested in joining the poker room can download the free Everest Poker software from http://www.everestpoker.com/dload . Poker tournament schedules are available through RSS and XML feeds at http://www.everestpoker.com/tournament/current-schedule.html .

About Everest Poker:
Everestpoker.com is the first site dedicated to the international poker playing community. Recognizing the many non-English speaking poker enthusiasts around the world, Everest Poker has built the only poker software fully localized in 11 different languages. In addition, Everestpoker.com offers poker players customer support in 15 languages, and is involved with local poker initiatives through partnerships and participation in national, European and worldwide tournaments. Everest Poker is owned by Ultra Internet Media. For more information, please visit: www.everestpoker.com

Everest Poker Announces Sponsorship of Italian Poker Championship

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Pokerstars World Championship Of Online Poker

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American Poker Players

Following the unexpected passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act 2006 (UIGEA) last October, and the subsequent arrests of two founders of Neteller, the online payments processor, in January 2007, the online gaming world has been in a bit of a tailspin.

So what actually happened? What does it all mean? Firstly, and most importantly, this new law does not make playing poker online illegal. Some states, most notably Washington state, have individual laws regulating online gambling, and we are not discussing those state laws here. In relation to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, it is simply a measure to restrict the transfer of money by banks to online gaming sites. Got that? It restricts banks from transferring funds to online gaming businesses. It does not in any way make playing poker illegal or make poker players criminals.

In reality though it's not that simple. After the UIGEA was passed, some poker rooms left the US market, such as Party Poker, and some stayed, such as Poker Stars. Some payment processors also left the US market, such as FirePay, and some stayed, such as Neteller. So things weren't that much different for American poker players. Unfortunately, when the feds arrested two Neteller founders last January, everything changed. Neteller left - ran out of - the American market. Closely followed by the all the other big name processors, such as Citadel and Click2Pay. Even though those arrests were not under the new law, the UIGEA, but were in fact under the much older Wire Act of 1961. And those arrests were not related to online poker, they were sports betting related.

Strange, but true. So, it is still not illegal for American poker players to play poker over the internet. But just try funding your poker account. This is a bizarre situation when viewed from a non-American point of view. There can be no game more quintessentially American than Poker. It is the American game. Americans made it what it is; Americans made it as popular as it is; Americans love it.

So what’s going to happen now? The short answer is - no one knows. However, what is known is that as many as thirty million Americans have played poker online; up to thirteen million Americans play poker online regularly. There may not be many deposit options available at the moment, but it is fairly certain that new methods will become available soon. There are just too many Americans that want to play online poker and many of them will find a way. And with the amount of money at stake, there will be plenty of businesses that will help them to find it.

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