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Poker tournaments WSOP and WSOPE

World Series of Poker (WSOP)  is at the moment one of the more popular poker tournaments, not only for the incredible amount of players participating, but also for the great media coverage that receives, as they are seen for thousands of people in their homes.

The history of WSOP goes back many years ago. Its creator was a poker fan named Benny Binion, who during the late 50s and 60s enjoyed organizing small poker and gambling competitions. Its passion for the game brought him to buy its own casino in 1970. He named it Binions Horseshoe Casino, which soon became a common visited place by the poker personalities of the time. With the increasing popularity of his casino, Benny soon started thinking about the idea of creating a poker tournament, and so he did. The name chosen for the competition was World Series Of Poker, which become more and more popular with the years. In the early 1980s a series of preliminary satellite competitions were introduced to select who will be playing the final tournament. This fact increased even more the popularity of the WSOP.

After the dead of the tournaments creator in 1989, his family took over the casino and the tournament. However, in 2004, the casino would be closed due to the fact that the taxes had not been paid.

But that did not mean the end of World Series of Poker. The same year, Harrahs Entertainment bought the casino and the WSOP brand rights. A new phase had just started. The first two next tournaments were also played at Binions casino; however, after 2006 they will start to take place across different casinos in EU.

Aware of the huge WSOP brand recognition together with the growing number of poker players and fans, Harrah decided to internationalize the competition, which so far had never took place outside USA.

That will be the beginning of World Series of poker Europe (WSOPE), whose first event took place in London in 2007. There were three different events in this tournaments played at three different casinos. To be the first time was quite successful, as the possibility of winning one of the desired WSOP bracelets attracted many well known players.

The second event, also celebrated in London was formed by four different events, but this time they all took place at only one casino. The triumph of this second edition proved the success of the event, which was once more reconfirmed by the huge amount of participants in the last edition, which is taking place right now in London.

Thanks to this tournament, poker has become more popular than ever, especially for all the attention received in the media. It also worth to mention that there is an online version of this competition, World Online Poker Championship, which is becoming very demanded in the best online poker rooms, and that once again serve to prove the success of poker.

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Casino Games: Poker Recognition. Part Two

A complex nature of poker generated in poker community a discussion on what dominates in this casino game: skills or success. Most of the people believe that poker is a casino game the outcome of which depends on skills of a casino player and only a small probability is given to a chance. This thesis is confirmed by facts. For instance, legendary poker players have won WSOP poker championship for many times independently on a number of participants. Thus, Johnny Moss has triply become a poker champion (in 1970, 1971 and 1974), a three-time poker champion is the greatest player of the 20th century Stew Ungar, he won WSOP in 1980, 1981 and 1997. Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chen have twice tried on Gold WSOP winner bracelets. In poker as in any other kind of sports there is an elite of poker players who win great tournaments every year or take prize places. Just sport compound of poker let make poker player rating, every year the first places are occupied there by the poker the casino and poker rooms community.

As to the opinion of the states on the nature of poker, here everything's more complicated and sophisticated. As a rule, in many countries the authorities don't make any difference between gambling games and poker. However such a fuddy-duddy approach has recently tried to break the poker community. Poker and casino games fans unite themselves in associations, public entities trying to prove to the officials that poker can not be put together with roulette or slot machines.

Sometimes the authorities themselves understand that. For instance, in the United States poker can be played not only in casinos but in special card rooms the activity of which is allowed only on the territory of the states where gambling business is prohibited. Thus, on the territory of California successfully work 91 card rooms, in Florida 16, in Washington 112, the state of Montana counts even 493 card rooms. The income of American card rooms (not including casinos) in 2006 made more than 1 milliard dollars. The activity of these organizations are severely controlled by the government. For instance, the legislation of Florida fully regulates the rate of the stakes in poker. This year in June got effect the law according to which the stakes in limited poker games are allowed to be increased from 2 to 5 dollars, in unlimited Texas Hold'em maximum allowed rate of buy-in makes 100 dollars.

However these states are predominantly exceptions. Unfortunately poker for most of American officials is a gamble. For most of them but not for everybody. In June 2007 a congressman Robert Wexler introduced to the House of representatives of the USA a draft law named "Skill Game Protection Act". According to this draft law such games as poker, bridge, chess should not fall within the scope of the law because on the author's mind they are games where skills dominate over a chance. A very serious political force acting on the side of poker is a senator Alfonse D'Amato who together with the organization "Poker Players Alliance" fights for a fair and objective attitude of the authorities to the favourite game.

But if in the USA the process of poker recognition as a skill game has just begun in some other countries poker scored off the conservatism of the officials.

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