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World Poker Congress Receives Endorsement from FIDPA

New directions in the ever changing poker market will be one of the main focuses of the Third Annual World Poker Congress (WPC) which takes place on October 29^th and October 30^th in Budapest, Hungary.  Keynote speakers include WPT Founder and CEO, Steve Lipscomb and bwin Interactive Entertainment’s Head of Poker, Hendrick Knopp.  Hot topics to be discussed are the impacts of branding on market capitalization, and financial strategies for online and land-based poker rooms.

A recent announcement about the upcoming 2008 WPC was the endorsement by the Federation Internationale de Poker Association (FIDPA).  The mission of the FIDPA is to create a sense of international unity within the poker community by providing rules and standards as well as a connection between casinos, events and poker rooms.  FIDPA’s Founder and Co-Founder Marcel Luske and Michelle Lau will be speaking at the conference regarding the advantageous importance of  an implementation of one set of rules to assure “consistency and fairplay” between players and the gambling industry. The FIDPA will be launching their website www.fidpa.com at the end of this year and the ‘International Poker Rules’ website www.theiprules.com is expected to launch at the end of this month.

According to Michelle Lau, “The WPC is a perfect example of FIDPA’s mission to promote poker on a global level by uniting the Queens, Kings and Jacks of the Poker World. FIDPA is making great progress; with the recent endorsement of Bellagio, the poker industry has welcomed FIDPA and the IP rules with open arms and open minds.”

Marcel Luske said, “In order to take the steps and make the changes necessary for the growing poker industry, events like the WPC are essential. The WPC brings together the casinos, card rooms, leading industry professionals and the players, onto one playing field, seated side-by-side. The lines of communication across the seas and the tables must be open in order to grow, improve and learn from each other. The WPC is an event that can help with this challenge.”

Luske and Lau will also be partaking a side session titled ‘Hearing from the Players Themselves’. Professional as well as amateur poker players will be expressing their opinions and exchanging ideas in this session about online poker rooms.

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