Norway’s Culture Ministry Proposes a National Tournament, Legal Home Games

New regulations propose a maximum KR2m ($335k) top prize for the national event and a cap of KR500 ($83) for the home games.

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Norway may soon have a national live poker tournament as the government launches a consultation on a possible regulatory changes.
The consultation launched by the Ministry of Culture also recommends allowing home games and small poker tournaments.
In advance of new gaming laws, Culture Minister Thorhild Widvey has suggested that simply changing the gaming regulations could allow some forms of live poker—a move which doen’t require legislative approval.

Norway may soon have a national live poker tournament as the government launches a consultation on possible regulatory changes.

The consultation launched by the Ministry of Culture also recommends allowing home games and small poker tournaments.

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Jocelyn Wood, Editor Joss is a graduate in English from the University of Birmingham and has a Master’s Degree in Organisational Development from the University of Manchester. His career path has taken him from the British Army, through business & finance to seven years as a successful professional poker player. His experience of the European Union, law, accounting, finance, regulation and online poker provide the basis for his insights in the PRO specialist categories of Industry and Law & Regulation. As CEO he steered his own company through full Financial Services Authority regulation, and was asked by Morgan Stanley to take their UK mortgage business through the same process. Although British, he lives in Arequipa, Peru, set high in the mountains and surrounded by volcanoes. He is married to a Peruvian and has three children.

Article published on June 12, 2014.

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