only a TV channel dedicated to poker. Start between late February and early March 2010 and will broadcast all day. It will be visible on Sky (channel 222) and on digital terrestrial and schedule, as announced by the issuer, there will be major international tournaments like the World Series of Poker, that many products made in Italy, including a TV tournament with 30 of the best Italian players of Texas Hold'em organized just for the launch of the channel. The channel will be directed by Maurizio Caressa (the brother of Fabio, commentator for Sky), who has extensive experience in both sports in the field of poker games, and will use the structure of production of 2Bcom, which has so far produced more than 100 hours of poker for Italian TV. In Europe there is already a channel of its kind, The Poker Channel, an English-language network that broadcasts via cable or satellite in many European countries with excellent results of plays. Italy, almost a year and half by the rules of the State Monopoly, is among the European countries that are recording the highest growth rates on online poker. In January 2010, in fact, the online texas hold'em has registered yet another record, with over 285 million euro played, 17% more than the previous record, which belonged to December 2009, barely a month ago. The record for January is exactly twice as collected in the same month last year. Since it started in September 2008, online poker has so far grossed over € 2.8 billion. If in the coming months would confirm the trend of January, 2010 could end with a collection of well over 3 billion euro.
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