On 11th April 2015 the Polish sports poker team (Tabu sponsored Poland Team) was defeated 122-98 in the second leg of a friendly match by the national poker team of Lithuania.
The event took place in the Hit Kasino at Krucza Street in Warsaw, Poland.
The Polish team consisted of 12 players and the Lithuanian team of 6 players.
The first six Polish players (beginners) – supported by captain Michal Panek – was defeated by the Lithuanians 24 to 86.
The second six Polish players defeated their Lithuanian opponents 74 to 36.
In the opinion of the training staff of the Polish National Federation, final result of 122 to 98 for Lithuania is quite positive in preparation for the World Championship later this year.
Lithuania was captained by their National Federation president Skirmantas Tomkevicius.
Previously on 21st March 2011 in Vilnius, Lithuania – the Polish team defeated the Lithuanians 163-125.
The Poker Sports Association is the only legal representative of the sports poker in Poland.
Its purpose is to promote the idea of competition and to create the best team for all kind of poker matches.
Lietuvos Sportinio Pokerio Federacija is the only governing body for the sport of poker in Lithuania.
The Lithuanian team is created by selecting the best (according to national LSPF rankings) players from the year 2014.
IFP would like to congratulate the Lithuanians on their victory and encourage all our members to organise and play amongst themselves!
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IFP’s German national federation, Deutsche Poker SportBund (DPSB), just completed its 7th DPSB HeadsUp national event and crowned 89suited Poker München as the winner!
The final was held in Ingolstadt (Bavaria) this time with the 16 qualified teams from all over Germany.
In the group stage (http://dpsb.org/playoffs-season-7/) the teams played three matches against every opponent to determine the first two spots in the group which would advance to the quarter finals.
Our new Champion 89suited Poker München won their group even though they lost their very first match. From then on they won the next five consecutive matches.
Especially the captian of this team – Gerhard Schwarz – had an incredible weekend winning 15 out of 17 headsup matches (both losses in the group stage).
89suited Poker München is one of the teams playing the DPSB HeadsUp Live Liga from the very beginning on.
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The International Federation of Poker has signed a ground-breaking agreement with top Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty Kundra and her entrepreneur husband Raj Kundra’s Viaan Industries Ltd to launch the Match Indian Poker League (Match IPL) which will see city-based teams compete in the world’s first professional match poker league.
The agreement is a significant breakthrough for the sport, which has been developed by the International Federation of Poker, under its president Patrick Nally, and has grown significantly worldwide since its launch in 2009. The IFP now has 60 member Federations worldwide and a long list of applicant nations.
The Match Indian Poker League, featuring teams owned by leading figures in Indian business and entertainment, will launch in September. Players will be selected for the teams based on their skill based ranking, where their performances have been assessed while playing against one of the world’s most advanced Poker ‘Bots using the Match Poker app which launches in August.
The first eight teams will represent the cities of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Kolkatta and Mumbai and the Match IPL will be played over a weekend to determine the most skillful Match Poker team along with the six players that will represent the Indian National team on a global stage.
Match Poker is the skill-based variant of the world’s most popular card game in which players compete for points (and not for stakes) in a team format. It combines the skills of an ultra-mind sport with current digital technology. Cards are dealt digitally and the game is played on smartphones and tablets, thereby eliminating the randomness of the cards and amplifying the skill.
The technology facilitates every element of the sport from game-play to administration of competitions and record keeping. Players win points for their team depending on the number of chips they win as they compete against opponents at their table and against their opposite numbers on other teams who have been dealt identical cards.
The International Federation of Poker (IFP) is the international governing body for the sport and was declared WADA compliant earlier this year. It is an observer member of the International Mind Sports Association and an applicant for membership of the Global Association of International Sports Federations.
IFP President Patrick Nally, widely recognised as the architect of modern sports marketing, sees the agreement with Viaan Industries as a transformational step for the sport.
“We are delighted to be working with Viaan Industries and with Shilpa and Raj who have had the vision to recognise the potential of Match Poker and the business instincts to create an exciting and entertaining, sporting framework which will attract massive interest among players, sponsors and commercial backers in one of the world’s fastest growing markets,” he said.
“The IFP has worked tirelessly for many years to develop the sport and the technology to support it and make it fit for purpose as a truly 21st century mind sport. It is a mind sport in an e-sport wrapper. Match Poker is inclusive and can be played by anybody with access to a smartphone and an Internet connection, anywhere and at any time.”
“We will be working closely with Viaan Industries to support the success of the Match Indian Poker League and are confident that it will create a model for the roll-out of other pro leagues elsewhere in the world.”
“The interest in India has been simply phenomenal and we can’t wait for the launch of the app and the build-up to the Match Indian Poker league later this year.”
Raj Kundra said:
“Viaan Industries Ltd is all about creating innovative technology and licensing deals and I am delighted to work with the International Federation of Poker on this tremendously exciting project.
Together we are going to create India’s only internationally recognized sports Match Poker league, which will create new opportunities to play, and unprecedented levels of excitement and engagement. Significantly the Match IPL will also be the platform for identifying and selecting the six players who will represent Team India at the IFP Nations Cup later this year.”
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In the middle of July, around the same time as the World Series of Poker was being held in Las Vegas, the first ever Belorussian poker series commenced.
Organized by one of the first IFP members, Belorussian Sport Poker Federation, under the brand of 6th Open Championship of Sport Poker, it became the biggest poker event in the history of the Republic of Belarus. Almost 1000 entries (including 202 for Main event) for 11 tournaments with participants from Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania etc. along with the largest prize pool of more than $100,000 and first video live stream with poker pro’s commentary in Russian. We can proudly say it was one of the amongst the most successful poker events of the year for a former USSR territory and the Belorussian Sport Poker Federation are about to make this series a regular occurrence.
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IFP President Patrick Nally talks to Marco Brambilla, Italian senior reporter of That’s Poker News – TPNEWS.IT, about match poker, the Nations Cup, rankings and TV coverage.
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.
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