Wednesday, January 20, 2010

BELGIUM MAKES ITS POKER PLANS

Belgium has announced its new poker plans for 2010, and among the novelties communicated are the nationalization of online poker.

To do so, their government pretends to legalize only the access to online poker sites with Belgium licence. However, this licence will only be given to online poker rooms that operate from this country, making in that way illegal for Belgium people to enjoy online poker games at foreign sites.

This law goes against the European Commission recommendations, and that is way the experts on this field think that it may not be approved.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

HUNGARIAN WANT TO PLAY ONLINE POKER

During the last days, tube stations in Hungary were full of poker players who were willing to enjoy their favourite cards game at this particular location.

With this original initiative, professional and amateur poker players showed their discomfort with the governmental proposal which intents to allow poker games only at land based casinos, which by the way are only five at the country in question.


This protest makes clear once again that poker fans do not want to have restrained their options to play their favourite cards game, and of course they want to keep having access to the online poker rooms, which have become the preferred place for professional players to train, as well as the ideal platform to become familiar with poker chosen by the majority of beginner poker players.


Therefore it seems obvious that all the governmental initiatives which have as an objective forbidding the access to online poker games are always very rejected by players regardless the country of origin.




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