Home	Tutorial	Online Casino Reviews	Best Online Casinos	Casino Software	Casino News

Online Casino Gambling --- Casino News

The EPT Route Disrupted

The European Poker Tour is a highly anticipated annual competition that tours around Europe and lands in different cities every year bringing with it a high level of gaming competition and a bit of fun as the tour generates a lot of publicity and excitement as it tours through new cities. This year’s EPT planned a stop in Moscow this month but the Russian government has thrown a kink in that plan as the government looks to largely eliminate land and online casino gambling in the country. A new decree from the Russian Youth, Sport, and Tourism Minister now declares that poker, either at the land or the online casinos, is no longer considered a sport and is now subject to the same gambling legislation that has forced the brick and mortar gambling venues out of Russian cities.

There has been no word yet from the EPT on what will happen if the Ministry’s decree still stands when the poker tour planned to proceed through Moscow. Likely that leg of the trip will have to be canceled as there is likely not enough time to prepare a new venue outside of the city for this stop on the tour. The whole of the online casino poker gambling industry was actually pretty eagerly eyeing the potential of the Russian market when poker was given dispensation from the gambling ban in Russia.

There is discussion right now that the new ban on poker may stay or not depending on which department has the right to classify a sport as a sport. There is no telling really where this is headed but you can be sure that the online casinos and internet poker sites are anxiously watching how these events turn out.