Good Program At World Poker Congress
Published: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
GOOD PROGRAM AT WORLD POKER CONGRESS
Land and online poker operators will find this one interesting
If you're planning to attend the World Poker Congress in Stockholm on June
26 and 27 and you haven't organised your bookings yet, you're running out of time
to attend what looks like a great exchange of ideas.
Latest to join the speaker list are Jeffrey Pollack, Commissioner, World
Series of Poker and Steven Lipscomb, CEO of World Poker Tour together with
Vikrant Bhargava, Group Marketing Director for PartyGaming. The organisers
are expecting around 120 high-level executive delegates who will network with
and learn from the best in their respective markets.
The poker industry will be examined in an entirely different way at WPC. With
experts from the Internet poker world and real-life poker rooms, the presentations
and discussions will, for the first time, look into issues that affect them jointly.
Casino poker room managers will describe the huge growth of their business due
to players who learned the game online. And the Internet poker rooms are aware
that their non-intimidating style allows players to learn the game away from the
pressures of the live game, but with an eye to competing at the highest levels.
The program at WPC contains two tracks: "Live" and "Online."
Each track will focus on issues of importance to their specific segment. At critical
times during the conference, the two sides will convene at plenary sessions, with
addresses by poker notables, including World Series of Poker Commissioner Jeffrey
Pollack and World Poker Tour President Steve Lipscomb.
The "Live" track sessions at the WPC include: Building a Base: Marketing
your Poker Room; Poker Management Systems: What's New?; The European Landscape:
Legislation and Economics; Staging the Big Event: The TV Tournament; and others.
For the "Online" side, expect sessions such as: European Legal Landscape:
Can Europe Fuel the Next Online Poker Boom?; Building a Player Base: Acquisition
and Retention Strategies; Mergers & Acquisitions: Should You Be a Seller or
a Buyer?; Building Brand: Promotional and Branding Opportunities of I-Poker Providers;
and others.
Speakers include experts such as Mark Blandford of Sportingbet Plc; Susan Breen
of Mishcon de Reya Solicitors; Paul Burchard of Ameranth; Steve Cook of Tribeca
Tables Europe Ltd; Bruno Fitouss of the Aviation Club; Derek Kelly of the Gutshot
Poker Club; Tiina Korpela of Casino Cosmopol Stockholm; Eric Matsgard of Boss
Media; Jim Sibcy of Pokerzone; Martti Sillanmaki of Grand Casino Helsinki; Othmar
Valzacchi of Sports TV Production International; and many others, including professional
poker players who will give attendees opinions from the other side of the table.
Just some of the companies represented at the World Poker Congress include: Armstrong
Partnership, Austrian Lotteries, Aviation Club, Belgium Gaming Commission, Betfair,
BETonSPORTS, Boss Media, Cantor Gaming, Casino Cosmopol, Casino de Barcelona,
Chartwell Games, Concord Card Casino, eCommercePark, EM.TV Sport Management, FOX
Sports, HIT Casino Park, International Poker Federation, Intertops, iovation,
Ladbrokes Nordic, Ongame Brands, PartyGaming, PokerAffiliate.com, Pokerzone, Sportingbet,
Total Gaming Systems, Tribeca Tables, WPT Enterprises, Inc., 24hPoker and many
others.
