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The Poker Grapevine – The Biggest Poker Event Ever
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2011-10-04 15:05
If you thought you had seen the biggest live poker event ever, soon, you may have to reconsider. According to an advert leaked to one of the most popular
poker forums, the International Stadiums Poker Tour is about to be launched, and if the advert is correct, the Tour will consist of a series of truly large scale events, hosted by various stadiums all over the world. The first event of the Series will be held between May 10 and 12 in the Wembley Stadium and it promises to be a truly large-scale thing, one of a magnitude never seen before.
Here comes the interesting bit though: the ISPT has backing from the Bernard Tapie Group, the same entity that has signed an acquisition agreement with
Full Tilt Poker a while ago. If everything comes together, Full Tilt Poker may yet end up in some sort of a cooperation stance with the world’s biggest live poker tour.
Whether or not something of this magnitude is viable remains to be seen, what we have learned over the last week though is that Groupe Bernard Tapie is definitely interested in getting into poker one way or another.
In other news: more of the people indicted on Black Friday on various online poker related charges are standing up to fight back. Chad Elie and John Campos are the two who have decided that they had been slighted by the Black Friday indictments. Elie was a payment processor for
PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker as well as for the Cereus sites. Campos worked as the vice president of a bank in Utah, which processed payments for the above named operations.
The two claim that they did not work for gambling sites that were illegal under the UIGEA. Elie’s defense seems based on the fact that poker is not a game of chance but rather one of skill and as such it is exempt from under the UIGEA’s provisions.
