The card game has been part of card games competitions for over 2 hundred years already. Undoubtedly, poker has charmed the bulk of the earth, ranging from poker rooms on riverboats and in bars on the Wild.
West within the past and up to modern card rooms with an enormous amount of tables and splendid casinos everywhere on the planet
Be it the USA, Europe, or perhaps Latin and South America, poker has become a brilliant popular game of the 21st century. But even now there's a "new horizon".
Which can be actively conquered within the forthcoming years, to maneuver poker to the new stage of its popularity among dozens of countless new players.
According to Justin Kuraitis, this "new horizon" could be continental Asia. One billion people live in China, another billion is that the population of India, and yet one more billion is adjoined in the remaining part of the continent.
Considering such an amount of potential poker players, this market may be a "gold vein" for organizers of the sport. Only recently this horizon began to be developed (with or without the help of local governments).
The new horizon can become the last one for poker, meaning that it'll completely conquer the entire world.
Organizers of poker assure that by the top of 2007 many Asians understand perfectly well what's "blind", "turn" and "river".
For an extended time, online companies are fascinated by the chance of entering Asian markets (particularly, Chinese market), but governments of Asian countries prevent on-line or traditional gambling industries from full-scale development.
The govt. of the USA, as an example, doesn't actively support the thought of the gambling industry (though there are six casinos in this country).
China, which can host international Olympic games-2008, the govt gradually weakens the control over the net.
This can be superb news for the representatives of the gambling industry, who have already prepared to launch a large-scale acquaintance of Asia with poker.
Steve Wynn, the owner of hotels and casinos everywhere on the planet, is prepared to bring his brilliant and glamorous style to the Asian market. "Wynn Macau", the complex of casinos and hotels, was opened on September 5 in Macao.
It familiarizes the Asian continent with the luxury of Las Vegas. It includes hotels of 600 rooms and casinos, which undoubtedly offer gambling and poker games, rather like the opposite.
Steve Wynn's institutions do everywhere the globe. The 20-storeyed hotel is an actual copy of the hotel-casino "Wynn Las Vegas". the corporate plans to rearrange further spreading of table games throughout the continent.
TV has also brought poker tournaments onto the Asian market. the foremost popular world poker tournament (World Poker Tour or WPT) has recently granted a license to TV stations in Macao and Singapore for them to point out the primary season of WPT games to the Asian audience.
But the continent is preparing to prepare for its outstanding poker tournaments.
The organization entitled "PanAsia Poker Tour" has recently declared that the debut of this new championship will happen in November, and it's for the primary time in history that the official championship will happen in Manila, Philippines.
The event called "PAPT Philippine Open" will occur on November 3-5 in "Airport Casino Filipino". Its final tournament will incorporate free Texas Holdem poker with a prize fund of $2500.
It's expected that the tournament, which got the official permission of the Philippines State Corporation for Control over entertaining and gambling industry (Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation or PAGCOR), will attract celebrities and professional poker players who would try to win the title of the tournament champion.
According to Justin Kuraitis, there are plans to film this tournament to be shown in the future on Asian TV. this implies that the spectators of the Asian continent want to look at games, which are played on their land.
However, the poker tournament entitled "PanAsia" doesn't stop at arranging one event. Leaders of this organization have adopted plans to rearrange 2007 a tour across the continent with ten stops.
The latter are planned in Macao, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and also the Philippines. If the tour appears to achieve success, it'll be able to attract lots of new poker players to the poker community.
India is additionally part of Asia; the planet outlook of Indians in many aspects reflects the peculiarities of Asian or perhaps Eastern philosophy. Gambling games and casinos within the Indian society are usually condemned (though many Indians want to vary this), while poker sites.
Which don't seem to be prohibited here, encounter difficulties in spreading deeper into the continent. interestingly, some activities of online poker companies occur, particularly in India.
For instance, the corporate "PartyPoker" features a branch office there with 900 employees, the corporate pays taxes here, in addition to Gibraltar, where its headquarters are located.
Nevertheless, India is going to be ready to display its real interest in poker during the primary tournament within the history of this country, which can happen in 2007.
Asian poker championship in India - Asian Poker Classic - with the guaranteed prize of 1 million dollars will happen on March 1-3, 2007, in an exceedingly major resort Goa (Grand Resort Goa) within the hotel "Intercontinental".
It's expected that quite 2 hundred players will participate in the tournament.
The fee being $7500, this competition is to draw in a number of the most effective poker players from everywhere on the planet and plenty of celebrities.
Its organizers hope that the poker site (and the tournament sponsor) "Maharajah Club" that has earned a reputation an extended ago will help to draw in many players to the present competition.
Perhaps, the organizers themselves will give the most effective account of the tournament. this can be what the tournament director and also the respected director of the championship "European poker tournament" (European Poker Tour) Thomas Kremser said about the event.
"Nothing similar has ever happened in India before. Undoubtedly, the tournament is going to be impressive.
The striking fantastic thing about the Goa resort, splendid hotels, and unique character of this tournament will become its unsurpassed scenery. it'll be the poker tournament of the year!"
Asian poker players have already inscribed their names into the history of the sport. From Johnny Chan to Men "The Master" Nguyen and might Kim Hua, Asian players made their contribution to the sport, and today their impact is felt in any tournament said "Justin Kuraitis".
Upon arriving onto the Asian continent, poker will conquer the new and also the last geographic horizon and provides birth to a brand new generation of champions from Asia.
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