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- Invitation to Mongolia


One such money-making opportunity has been drawn to our attention. It is a bit off the beaten track – over 1,300 metres above sea level in the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator.


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A 17 table poker room has recently been opened there by the Mongolia Sport Poker United Association, a body which has already joined the International Federation of Poker. One of the organisers, Bold Uundai, said that the


body was in talks with the government to get poker recognized as a sport in the country and that a decision is expected later this Spring.


New clubs – with lots of new players – are often a profi table place to play for obvious reasons.


If this goes in the organisation’s favour the next step will be to arrange an international tournament there.


In the meantime Texas Hold’em is gaining popularity


in the city of a million people. Urangoo said that any European visitors would be made very welcome. “Although the locals speak Mongolian, English is commonly spoken and understood so there should be no language diffi culties,” he said.


The card room is in the centre of the city close to hotels, shops and restaurants.


Full details about the club can be found on its offi cial web site at www.mnpoker.net.


* If any adventurous Poker Europa readers do go there we would be interested to receive a fi eld report.


LUST AUF EIN POKERABENTEUER? EINLADUNG IN DIE MONGOLEI Laut Urangoo Zorigt, einem der Organisatoren,


Aus naheliegenden Gründen ist es in neuen Clubs – mit vielen neuen Spielern – häufi g lohnend zu spielen.


Eine solche mögliche Goldgrube hat nun unsere


Aufmerksamkeit erregt. Allerdings liegt sie etwas abseits: mehr als 1300 Meter über Normalnull in der mongolischen Hauptstadt Ulan Bator. Dort wurde von der Mongolia Sport Poker United Association, einem Verband, der bereits Mitglied im Internationalen Pokerverband ist, kürzlich ein Pokerraum mit 17 Tischen eröffnet.


sei der Verband in Verhandlung mit dem mongolischen Staat, um in der Mongolei die Anerkennung von Poker als Sport zu erreichen. Die Entscheidung wird für das Frühlingsende erwartet. Sollte sie zugunsten der Organisation ausfallen,


wird der nächste Schritt die Ausrichtung eines internationalen Turniers in der Mongolei sein. In der Millionenstadt Ulan Bator erfreut sich


Texas Hold’em zunehmender Beliebtheit. Und wie Zorigt erklärte, könnten sich europäische Besucher dort wie zu


Hause fühlen: „Obwohl die Sprache in der Mongolei Mongolisch


ist, sprechen und verstehen viele auch Englisch, daher sollte es keine Sprachprobleme geben.“ Der Cardroom liegt zentral in der Innenstadt, ganz in der Nähe einiger Hotels, Geschäfte und Restaurants. Weitere Informationen über den Club fi nden Sie auf dessen offi zieller Website www.mnpoker.net. * Sollten abenteuerlustige Poker-Europa-


Leser(innen) dort hinfahren, wären wir an einem Erfahrungsbericht interessiert!


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 FINL♠ND WINS


title after Finland beat Sweden with a record margin of 2040 points to 606 points. The fi nal table saw only two Swedes compared


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Dino Dinler took down his second Pokerfi nnkampen title in December as well as helping to secure the national


© Photo by Ilkka Heikkilä, Pokerisivut.com POKERFINNKAMPEN 2010


to the eight Finns with Finland securing the top three positions. Sweden managed a win in the Terminator event with Peter Pilhström fi nishing in fi rst place. Dino said: “It’s an amazing feeling to repeat


and win a second title for Finland so I’m very happy of course!”


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Good Poker has launched a new app to go alongside their website, good-poker. co.uk, to help players select the best


poker venue in their area.


It is free to join up as well as download. Good Poker aims to make things just as accessible for the smaller, independent clubs as it is for their larger competitors.


“Small clubs often don’t have the fi nances to generate the growth they want, while the big casinos often have glitzy advertising but can’t have the homely feel that some players want” Director Keith Scott said: “We want people to


enjoy their poker, whether they are playing for £5 or £50,000, which is why we are determined to keep costs down by not making much profi t. At the same time we should be able to gather everyone to one place, to fi nd what they are looking for, like a 118 of the poker world with all the information just a few clicks away”


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