Having inspected the premises, a magistrate has finally granted the Nottingham based poker club belonging to Dusk Till Dawn a license as a poker venue only. Dusk Till Dawn’s officials are absolutely delighted with the magistrate’s decision. There might have been a problem if they had applied for a casino license. But the demand for the type of the poker club Dusk Till Dawn is offering was key point.

The poker fans across the UK cannot but be pleased with the news. At the same time, the opening of the card room has attracted stiff opposition from London Clubs International, Gala and Stanley Leisure. In their opinion, there was not “sufficient interest to justify the opening”. Anyway, they had to listen to the magistrate rule in Dusk Till Dawn’s favor.

The opening of the card room is being planned for a mid-November.

Stockholm native Emanuel Karlen, ‘ManneKK’, was announced to have won the $25, 000 Summer Series Freeroll Grand Finale. The winner will play against Doyle Brunson known as ‘Godfather of Poker’ – the winner of ten World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets in a heads-up match for $25,000 at DoylesRoom.com. As part of the prize, Karlen will also appear on the cover of Online Poker Pro magazine and in feature stories for other major poker publications.

Both players, Emanuel Karlen and Doyle Brunson, are looking forward to a heads-up tournament.  If Karlen wins, the Swede will take the cash and receive the ultimate bragging rights.

Next year the Irish Open poker tournament is promised to be much bigger and better. For that purpose the event will move to the Citywest Hotel. Having 1,314 rooms, bars, restaurants, health and leisure facilities and two golf courses, the hotel can accommodate 1,000 players. Besides, being located only 20 km from Dublin airport, the tournament will attract more and more players.

The poker tournament will start on March 19 and it will run all week. The champion “will be crowned on the 24th Main event after playing a No Limit Hold’em Freezeout game for a 4,200 euro buy-in plus 300 euro entry fee”. The prize pool for the 2008 Main Event is guaranteed to be 3 million euros.

The launch of the European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) has been recently announced by Victor Chandler, leading British bookmaking and gaming group. It is going to be a ten-event online poker tournament. The tournament is planned to take place in November.

The top players from all over the world will take place in the inaugural event where the guaranteed prize pool is said to be $2.5 million.

One of the events on offer is a $50,000 MVP free roll competition aimed at rewarding players for their skill, effort and determination. The winner will get the title of 2007 ECOOP Most Valuable Player. At the end of the ten-day tournament the top 50 players will get entry into the $50,000 free roll competition which is to take place on the 11th of December.

Other games of the tournament are Pot Limit Omaha and Omaha Hi-Lo poker games, a variety of no limit and limit Texas Hold’em poker. All of them have their own prize pool.

You can enter any of the ten ECOOP events online at VC Poker. At the site belonging to VC Poker – VCPoker.com – you can also find all the necessary information.