The Dutch will get their first private pokerroom on july 31st. In a town Glane close to the border with Germany a private pokerroom will be opened up at the 31st of july.

With very littly information publicly known (source: Dutch PokerNews) all there is to tell is that at the start there will be 6 No Limit Texas Holdem tables, this can later be expanded to 11 tables. The pokerroom will be open for players from 12:00 till 02:00 every day. The rake will be 5% with a cap at €15.

The opening of this private pokerroom will raise lots of discussion in The Netherlands where the State Casinos under Holland Casino have a monopoly. This pokerroom probably feels supported by the ruling of a judge in The Heague earlier this month where was stated that poker is a game of skill and not of chance. The judge based his decision on a research from the professors Ben van der Genugten en Peter Borm that indicated that poker could be compared to chess and bridge and was a game of skill.

Even though this ruling is very strongly in favor of online poker the Public Prosecutor (and the minister of justice) allready responded they will appeal this ruling.

Pictures of the establishment at PokerCity.nl

The first portion of the 2010 World Series of Poker has finally come to a close. All is quite once again at the Rio All  Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, for now at least.  Sure there are some stragglers, and the whir of the slots is still audible, there are cash poker games galore, and much to-do at the craps tables, however, the majority of the World Series of Poker hooplah has died down.

More importantly, the November nine has fought it’s way to the top of the pack. Nine men will face each other again in November, for the World Series of Poker Main Event Title.

The leader of the pack at the end of the day was Jonathan Duhamel. Duhamel will begin play in November as the chip leader with 65.975 million in WSOP tournament chips. Other members of the 2010 November nine include John Dolan who will sit down in November with 46.25 million in poker chios,  Joseph Cheong  who has 23.525 million poker chips, , John Racener with just over 19 million remaining poker chips, Matthew Jarvis will be meeting up with the others at the Rio casino with 16.7 million)in chips.

One of the smaller stacks belongs to Filippo Candio  with 16.4 millionin chips to take to the final table with him. 

Michael Mizrachi will sit down with just 14.45 million and  Soi Nguyen Holds just under 10m with 9.65 million in tournament chips.

In last place Jason Senti owns the shortstack with 7.625 million in remaining chips.

Each of the final nine players is guaranteed $811,823 in prize money. The Main Event winner will earn $8,944,138.

“I’m about to die right now,” a smiling Duhamel said after play ended at 5:40 a.m.– nearly 18 hours after play began on Saturday. “I’m very, very tired.”

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The November Nine surround WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel and reach for their ultimate prize: the Main Event bracelet. (photo by Vin Narayanan)

“I’m just going to go off with my family and friends and relax a little bit and be focused and ready to come back in November,” the online poker pro from Canada added.

Mizrachi, who is attempting to add a Main Event bracelet to his win in this year’s $50,000 Poker Players Championship, said success for him started on Day 1A of the tournament.

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