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 On March 16, 2007 a significant event took place.
The board of Rossport made a decision to recognize poker as a sport.
In the modern world poker is the most popular card game uniting millions of fans.
Poker tournaments attract huge attention, garnering huge television audiences and rivaling in popularity the most prominent sporting events, such as the Stanley Cup Hockey Final.
The popularity of poker is growing at an unprecedented rate.
Long forgotten is the stereotypical view of poker as a game of cowboys with an impenetrable face and a finger on the trigger. Modern poker is a sporting game that requires skill, calculation, calculation, training and patience.
President of the Russian Federation of Sports Poker Dmitry Lesnoy heartily congratulates all poker fans on this epochal event and proposes to declare March 16 as "Poker Player Day".
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The founding conference of the Russian Federation of Poker, representing 50 subjects of the Russian Federation, was held on November 18, 2006 in Moscow, in the club "Europe".
The tasks of the Federation are promotion and popularization of poker, organization of poker tournaments on the sport principle, approval of high ethical norms and standards, assistance to poker clubs in holding tournaments, maintenance of All-Russian rating of participants, training of poker clubs' personnel, organization of poker schools, support of young talents, search for sponsors and many other things.
The immediate goal of the Federation is to develop the necessary regulatory documents and to include poker in the Unified Classifier of Sports of Russia.
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