The World Cup of Poker 2008 has already begun with country qualifying heats under way at PokerStars. In order to represent your country in PokerStars World Cup Poker V players need to firstly qualify for their country’s team. Each team country’s team will be made up of four players with a further fifth player being added to each team that qualifies from their Division for the live final event that while be hosted in the Bahamas. Each country will have two Freeroll Poker Tournament Qualifiers which will provide you the chance to play for your country see the full PokerStars WorldCup of Poker 2008 schedule below. Download the popular poker software here and get rewarded with a $600 PokerStars bonus when using the bonus code STARS600 upon sign up and first deposit at PokerStars.com

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South Africa have taken a step forward in terms of legislating, taxing and permitting online internet gambling. South Africa’s Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel, released a bill this week for public comment that plans to tax Internet gambling.

The bill will include a special tax on “interactive gambling” which was earlier regulated by South Africa’s National Gambling Amendment Bill approved by Parliament earlier in May 2008.

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Ryan Dreyer was crowned the King of Poker at 2008 Sun City Million Dollar tournament winning a large sum of $650,000. Danny K a popular South African artist claimed a 10th place victory in the tournament. Ryan Dreyer is well known in the industry as a commentator for DSTV All Africa Poker Channel in South Africa. He also managed to  finish off in 2nd place in the recent PokerAce Tournament which took place at Gold Reef City.

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