The Norwegian Ministry of Culture has officially declared that its country is preparing to enact an anti-gaming law based on the American model that would outlaw any financial transactions with companies offering online casino games, poker or sports betting.
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The Englishman Julian Thew won the EPT Pokerstars tournament in Baden after overcoming the challenges of more than 282 players. This earned him the tidy sum of €670,800.
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The organisers of the European Poker Challenge have been jailed in Sweden for organising a tournament without government authorisation.
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Pokerstars is again ready to host the first Austrian round of the EPT classic in Baden. The fourth edition of this tournament started on Sunday 7th October.
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The Lucien Barrière Group, the leading French casino operator, has applied to the public authorities to request the authorisation of casinos on the Net and is preparing to launch a website in 2008.
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Joseph Mouawad, a player of Lebanese origins, won the London European Poker Tour Open tournament at the Victoria Casino on Sunday 30th September.
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The online poker room Absolute Poker is in a very difficult position, suspected of internal cheating.
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A 19 year-old Norwegian, Annette Obrestad, a young on-line poker prodigy, has just made a historic debut in the World Series of Poker Europe 2007 in London by winning the sum of £1,000,000 !
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The “BluffBot 2.0” software program, specially designed for Limit Hold’em poker, has recently won a No Limit tournament between computers in Canada.
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Since the start of September 2007, Belgians have been able to watch the Poker Channel: the British specialist poker channel which is entirely devoted to the game, via the Be TV sports package.
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