CYPRUS will be the first country to showcase new poker technology at the forthcoming nation’s cup to be held in Paphos in April. For the first time at a major championship, no cards or dealers will be used. The European Nation’s Cup will be held at the Annabelle hotel in Paphos from April 12-15. Fourteen teams of six players will take part in the 2013 Nations Cup. These include the top six teams, Estonia, Lithuania, Serbia, Poland, Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina from a recent qualifying event held in Vienna. Host nation Cyprus, Spain, UK, Denmark, France, Ireland, the Netherlands and Russia...


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At a time when so many people around the world are suffering financial difficulties from the effects of recession, how can you gain support for unpopular policies? The economic downturn has coincided with a time in which the media are being revolutionised by changing technologies and dictatorships are being swept aside by popular uprisings. This time it feels as though power structures are being turned upside down. Under the title “Communication, Engagement, and Effective Economic Reform: The IMF Experience,” Dr Nemat Shafik, Deputy Managing Director of the IMF (International Monetary Fund)...


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Taken directly from http://www.imf.org/ By Nemat Shafik Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund London, March 7, 2013 As prepared for delivery I am honored to be with you today to deliver the 2013 Maggie Nally Memorial Lecture, and would like to thank the Chartered Institute for Public Relations for inviting me. Maggie Nally was ahead of her time in many ways, and became the first woman President of the Institute of Public Relations in 1976. As a woman I am grateful to the barriers she overcame to clear the path for women like me who came afterwards. She also embodied the values...


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Taken from the CIPR International Newsletter Bookings for our annual Maggie Nally Memorial Lecture and Buffet Supper at 18.15 hrs on Thursday 7 March 2013 are now open. Places are limited so do book in good time. We are extraordinarily lucky that this year’s lecture, ‘Building public support for economic reform’, will be given by the internationally respected Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Nemat Shafik. The focus of her lecture will be IMF’s role as a trusted advisor and its effect on different groups in society, especially during crises. She will consider...


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Nemat Shafik, the Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund will focus her lecture on ‘Building public support for economic reform’ and will explain the rationale for change and how different groups in society are affected, especially during crises. She will discuss the IMF’s role as a trusted advisor and honest broker. She will also look at what the Fund has learned from the Asia crisis in the late 1990s about the importance of openness and engagement, and how these lessons are being applied in Europe and the Middle East. Her lecture will be followed by a Q &...


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In another move that involves sports marketing in Brazil, BSB, José Carlos Brunoro agency, Doria and Marcelo Eduardo Rezende, are establishing a joint venture with the English consultant Patrick Nally. The deal closed in London during the Olympics, with it's main objectives being the professional's performance. Patrick Nally is one of the leading names in the history of sports marketing world, the strategic side of the business and projects in education, including seminars and courses that will be available to the market soon. Read more by clicking the link below (links to translated version) http://tinyurl.com/bleb7y8


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The International Federation of Poker (IFP) has welcomed expert testimony in a US court case that playing for the sport for money should not be considered gambling. The evidence was given by Randal Heeb, whose own poker skills are complimented by formidable academic and business qualifications which have seen him teach at Yale University and France’s ISEAD business school  as well as gaining a Doctorate in economics at Chicago University. Dr Heeb told the court that because “skill predominates over chance in poker” playing for money is not gambling. Heeb, an expert in game theory...


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Brazil has a unique opportunity to become one of the world’s leading sports economies by 2017 according to Patrick Nally, the British entrepreneur regarded as the father of modern sports marketing. Speaking at a high-powered conference in Sao Paulo, Nally told an audience of media and marketing professionals and academics that staging the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games presented the nation with a chance to develop not only its physical sports infrastructure but the commercial culture required to change the domestic sports landscape forever. “These are fantastic times for Brazil...


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Over the years Budweiser has proved to be one of sport’s most creative and loyal sponsors. The AB Inbev-owned brand has been part of the scenery at the Olympic Games, across pro-sports in the United States, motor racing and, of course, football. Budweiser has been a global sponsor of the FIFA World Cup since Mexico ’86 and has recently extended the relationship to take in the 2018 and 2022 editions. It is also the ‘lead partner’ of the FA Cup, the world’s longest-established national knockout competition, which is now referred to as The FA Cup with Budweiser. The FA Cup is a fascinating...


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International Federation of Poker President Anthony Holden has called on UK schools to follow the example of New York’s Henry Street School for International Studies and introduce poker as an official extracurricular activity to teach essential life skills. The Henry Street School, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, launched its Poker club in 2007 under the direction of guidance counsellor Maurice Engler and it remains the only high school poker club in the city. Engler believes poker is an effective way to reach children and introduce them to maths and psychology.  In 2008 the school, in a run-down...


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