Below is an update from the Confederacao Brasileira de Texas Hold’em (CBTH), IFP’s Brazilian member nation: The latest year for Brazilian Poker was of great advances, government assistance and support from well-known brands such as SKY TV and DUCATI, hitting new records. The Brazilian Poker Championship – (Brazilian Series of Poker – BSOP), recognized as the […]
The seventh edition of the conference took place on May 14th & 15th, was hosted by the Institute for International Research and had the entire industry’s big players in attendance. Poker was discussed alongside topics such as change in legal framework, the government gaming agenda or social media games. This year marked the first time […]
FEDERATIA SPORTIVA NATIONALA DE POKER/ROMANIAN NATIONAL SPORTIVE POKER FEDERATION was founded on 09/03/2009. The Romanian Sportive National Poker Federation has changed its name and is now fully formed and will function from now on as the ROMANIAN POKER FEDERATION. The court in Bucharest has officially classified the Romanian Poker Federation as a national sports association […]
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 […]