Entries categorized as ‘China’
“China Leisure Sports Administrative Centre (CLSAC), the national Sports Federation governing Leisure Sports in China, has announced the launch of the country’s first National Traktor Poker Tournament in an exclusive partnership with WPT Enterprises Inc.
The unprecedented five-year partnership is a landmark agreement in China Leisure Sports history and will focus on growing the sport of Traktor Poker, known as Tuo La Ji, China’s most popular poker game.
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Categories: China · Tournament · WPT
“Playtech Ltd, who signed a licensing agreement to bring online poker to China, is closely watching the Internet clampdown now happening to China’s online lottery, to see if they played their cards right picking their China business partners.
Playtech, whose iPoker network includes PaddyPowerPoker, Expekt, and CDPoker online poker sites, signed a contract with Hong Kong-based Foundation Group Ltd. in March to supply Peer to Peer (P2P) gaming software to the Chinese Communist Youth League (CYL).
The CYL has been given responsibility for implementing a “Green Internet Policy” in China, to enable internet cafes around the mainland provide officially licensed P2P tournament games with cash prizes…”
Poker Pages (05/06/07)
Categories: China