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The biggest poker fair in Europe hit London on August 15th – 16th.
The fair was located at London’s Leicester Square outside the front of The Casino at the Empire, which will also host the 2008 World Poker Series of Europe in September.
The event boasted poker exhibitions from the top name poker rooms as well as classic Las Vegas style showgirl entertainment.
Within the Poker Dome free poker tournaments were held on the hour every hour with a professional dealer, giving the poker players a better sense of a professional poker game experience.
Several live poker tournaments were put on by a number of local poker league and broadcast on the festivals Jumbotron for all to see.
The poker academy hosted by the UKs leading poker players gave their advice to novice and armature poker players on how to best play and win the game.
All in all over the two days 25,000 poker enthusiasts attended the event and 2,200 hands were played in the poker dome alone, confirming the how popular the poker scene is in London.
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