“Card Player Media is pleased to announce that it has entered into licensing agreements that will bring Card Player magazine to the rapidly growing poker markets of Spain, Russia and Hungary. The magazines will launch in the Fall of 2007 and will join the growing group of Card Player Media Partners which include Card Player Europe, Card Player Brazil, Card Player Italia, Card Player France, Card Player Finland, Card Player Germany, Poker Magazine and Card Player Norway.”
CardPlayer (08/06/07)
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Media: CardPlayer Media expands into Spain, Russia, and Hungary
August 6, 2007 · Leave a Comment
WSOP: Final table has international flavor
July 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Many hours later, there will be one last man standing, and his victory will be the catalyst for a year’s worth of corporate sponsorship, publicity tours, countless interviews, lucrative endorsements and serious TV time in the world’s major poker tournaments. It is the dream of every poker player, from the battle-hardened pros to the amateur recreational players who try to qualify for the $10,000 buy-in event by winning cheap online tournaments.
With its world-wide popularity boom over the last few years, poker is no longer just a great American pastime, but a global phenomenon. More than half the final table are from overseas. Along with the four Americans, there is a Vietnamese-born Canadian, an Englishmen, a Dane living in the UK, a Russian and a South African.
Categories: Canada · Russia · South Africa · UK · Vietnam · WSOP
Legal: First Limits on Gambling Kicking In (Russia)
June 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment
“Poker was officially recognized as a sport three months ago by the Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sports, said Dmitry Lesnoi, head of the Russian Poker Federation. This status will allow poker to be played — for fun, not for money — in sports halls around the country even after 2009.
Lesnoi insists these post-ban poker games will not involve gambling, stressing the intellectual nature of the game.
“It is a game of skill, not chance,” he said. “Like chess.”
Lesnoi saying the new law is a chance for poker to change its image.
“Twenty years ago, billiards had a reputation as a sport for con men,” he said…”
The Moscow Times (06/29/07)
