Birba and I have done to our calculations, the best poker rooms abroad, both for the software, graphics and why retain only 5%.
Rules Under the supervision of the State Monopoly
arrives in Italy online poker
Ready for the decree to legalize the game in three hundred thousand wait the new challenge
Forget the smoke-filled casinos. Forget the cheaters. Forget the dramatic raise heart-pounding film, "Christmas gift" by Pupi Avati. And forget the play of glances between the adversaries to read the papers or studying through the eyes of the rival movements and tics. The poker in Italy into the world of the Internet. By September it will start the first tournament with prize money over the web. Thousands of players can compete simultaneously via the computer. For now we will play as adopted in the championships of poker tournaments: it is called Texas Hold'em, Seven Card variant. Virtual tables. Virtual cards. Virtual dealer. Money and real players.
bets will range from 50 cents to € 100, while the tournament entry fee will range between 10 and 300 €. Each race is expected to last two to four or five hours, depending on the number of participants that regulation is unlimited, but in fact has to deal with the capacity of computer programs that manage the game. The risk for the player is still content and default: the registration fee. And who wins? It will take at least 80% of the jackpot, which will go as planned to tens of thousands of euro in the biggest tournaments. 3% of the games will end up instead in the coffers of the exchequer, a share to a maximum of 17% will go to the concessionaires. In Italy today, according to estimates of the industry, there are 200 thousand people playing online poker on foreign sites, but it is forbidden. The state monopolies have been able to get some poker room darkening of foreign, "but it's like to hunt lions with a screen ', explains the core of the financial police seconded to Monopoly.
And for the emergence of the phenomenon, created the virtual tables made in Italy. "The procedures are transparent and secure - says Carlo Gualandri, president of digital games, the first company to have completed the process dealership -. Now we are testing the software with Sogei, the IT Company of the Treasury. We want to start gradually with small tournaments and the registration fee low. " Traders are convinced that at least 300 000 people in online poker will launch "our" as it becomes available. "According to a survey we conducted among the people on our website are participating in tournaments with no money - he says Gualandri - many enthusiasts regularly playing on foreign sites. We hope you decide to do it legally on our site and other Italian companies will be allowed. " Two companies, Digital Game and Microgame fact, they are almost ready to deal the cards. By 2009 the number of dealerships expected to increase to 25-30. The passion for poker certainly is. But there are also unknown. And is represented from that 3% that will go away from 'flat' and end up in state hands. "Abroad, or there is nothing to tax or levy is only on winning. Here it is instead the collection: that is impoverishing the jackpot, "said Gualandri.
According to the Italian Federation of Poker Game, however, the percentage reserved for companies is perhaps too much, even if the online poker "is a beautiful display case and is an opportunity to attract young people to our business." And, so extreme, it turns out the paradox of the net winnings. If a competitor takes part in a tournament or a challenge to one, winning one and losing the second game should go on balance. Instead between tax and fee business is found with 40% less than the initial capital. "On the tournament with many participants not a problem," said the Monopoly. Some might be tempted to continue playing abroad. We'll see. The cake is shaping up for the state in any case rich. According to market research, a regime in Italy's business is worth at least € 500 million per year (in the world is estimated instead nell'esorbitante figure of 24 billion): 15 million more for the treasury at no additional charge. The legislation also allows unblocked poker games of skill for money: in theory, to trump the burraco from the bridge to the crossword puzzle.
The only condition is the roof up to play. In short, the business could grow quickly. "But with a tax system certainly different games of skill would have a different appeal. And eventually the state would gain more, "says Gualandri. In short, as the Olympic medalists in Beijing, even poker fans calling for the tax exemption of premiums. To participate in tournaments, poker has to activate a "game-account" at the dealership, which organizes the tournament. Payment must be made electronically through a traceable system: credit card, bank transfer, postal order. This is one of the conditions imposed by monopolies, to prevent the green tables virtual transit money laundering. Any winnings is charged to the account-game, which can draw poker at any time. In tournaments, participants are divided into virtual tables of 8 or 10 people. As players are eliminated (because they lose the post), the tables are reassembled. All operations are performed automatically by the software. And in the end who comes out the winner from the last table you take the prize money (excluding taxes and royalties). The dream of the companies is to organize tournaments with thousands of competitors. "It will be the second sporting event after the Olympics," joked the state monopoly. There will certainly be a lavish opening ceremony like the one in Beijing. But the countdown is now come to the closing bars.
Paul Foschi
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