The final of the seventeenth season of the tournament will be held from November 27 to December 1 at the Girona casino.
Spain.- The Spanish Championship of Poker (CEP) by PokerStars is gearing up to celebrate the last stage of its seventeenth season. The venue for the final of the Spanish tournament will be held at the Casino Peralada, in Girona, from November 27 to December 1.
The schedule will feature a total of 4 events and various live satellites that will take place at Casino Barcelona and Casino Peralada. The main event of the championship has accumulated a total of 4,122 entries in its previous stages.
Omar Hernández, winner of the CEP Madrid, leads the overall ranking of the Main Event with a total of 2,355 points. 187 points behind is Guillermo Nuez, champion of the Mini CEP Barcelona (2023), while the third position is held by David Ballestero (2,090 points), champion of the Main Event of the CEP Barcelona held in March.
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The Main Event (EUR500) will start on Wednesday, November 27 and will have 4 Day 1s. Day 1A will be played at Casino Barcelona, while the last will be Turbo. The Mini CEP (EUR250) has accumulated more than 1,100 entries. The other tournaments that complete the schedule will be the Turbo Bounty and the Turbo Closer.
In August, the Spanish Championship of Poker (CEP) returned to Barcelona after its inaugural stage in February.
On the other hand, Casino Peralada hosted the Catalunya Poker Tour (CPT) for its second stop. The competition took place from September 27 to 29 and featured two tournaments, the Main Event and the Mini CPT.
Four years after its last edition, the tournament began at Casino Barcelona from July 1 to 7, where 1,767 entries were registered. The schedule consisted of 15 events and live satellites.
The public gaming sector reached €5,000m, compared to €1,200m from online gaming and €1,170m from live gaming. The General Directorate for Gambling Regulation (DGOJ) published its new Annual Gaming Report 2023, which collects the most relevant data from the Spanish market. This report has been prepared by the DGOJ in collaboration with the different autonomous communities.
The Association of Lottery Ticket Sellers requested that the draft bill seeking to raise the percentage to 20 percent be addressed. "We have been waiting for this for 20 years," said the head of the union, Fernando González.
Panama.- Sellers of chances and lottery tickets of the National Lottery of Charity (LNB) have made a claim for the advancement of the project to increase their sales profits, raising the margin to 20 percent.
Fernando González, from the Association of Lottery Ticket Sellers, stated that they are requesting the new administration of the entity to increase the percentages of sales. In this regard, he reiterated that there is a draft law in the National Assembly, which seeks to increase the profits to 20 percent. He mentioned that a subcommittee was created to look at all aspects of the issue and with the new administration, a step forward has been taken for this to happen.
However, González expressed his concern because the Assembly may soon stop sessioning and perhaps the issue will be postponed to next year. "We lottery ticket sellers have been waiting for this for over 20 years," complained the head of the union about the urgency in adopting a new scale of profits on sales.
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According to González, currently, the profit percentage is at 10 percent of sales, so raising it to 20 percent would mean a change in the lives of the workers. Saquina Jaramillo, director of the institution, said that the corresponding evaluations will be made to comply with this request from the Executive Chief.
Finally, the head of the association of lottery ticket sellers explained the need to delve into the fight against illegal gambling, which is harmful to the LNB but also to the workers. According to a recent report from the LNB, illegal gambling would cause the entity to miss out on collecting about USD 200m annually.
While the debate to modify the amounts received by the lottery sellers is taking place in the legislative sphere, the municipality of La Chorrera announced that it will carry out operations to combat the proliferation of illegal gambling.
The lottery sellers of that locality expressed how affected they are by the illegal sale of lottery and requested that a stop be put to the offenders, detecting them with operations led by the Municipality of La Chorrera, in conjunction with the National Police (PN), Ministry of Commerce and Industries (MICI), and the Public Ministry (MP).
The affected highlighted that there is a proliferation of premises dedicated to clandestine sales and emphasized that it is unfair competition that significantly affects their income, that of the LNB, and the State.
