Netherlands joins 11 other IFP member nations by a recent court ruling in Amsterdam where poker was classified as a game of skill. The Netherlands was one of IFP’s founding nations and we are delighted with this ruling. A total of 12 IFP National Federations now consider poker to be a skill game, and not […]
Members of the professional poker world understand poker to be a game of intense strategy and precise focus. It involves a set of mental skills that take years of practice to develop. Ivy League universities like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are beginning to tap into this table sport as a way to teach students how […]
The Austrian Pokersport Association (APSA), IFP’s Austrian member nation, has launched a new membership model. They have now actually “opened their doors” to all individual players. Till last year only poker clubs and their members could join the Austrian federation. This year they founded the “Digital Poker Club” which serves as the governing body for […]
IFP President Patrick Nally talks to Marco Brambilla, Italian senior reporter of That’s Poker News – TPNEWS.IT, about match poker and IFP’s plans. F.I.G.P (our Italian member nation) is working very closely with the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) towards the acceptance of poker as a mind sport in Italy. Read the entire interview here – http://tpnews.it/federazioni/international-federation-poker/patrick-nally-presenta-il-match-poker-0-fortuna-100-skill/10885
IFP’s Italian member nation, Federazione Italiana Gioco Poker (F.I.G.P), has recently collaborated with Em@ney, an electronic money institution based in Malta. Em@ney avails itself of a management team with ten-year proven experience in the world of electronic money, emissions of online bank accounts and issuance of rechargeable credit cards. The Institute started working a few […]