Poker as a sport and region development tool: Maria Lavrentyeva at RGW 2018

Is poker a gambling game or a sport? How to change the public attitude to poker? How to attract foreign poker players to Russia? These and other issues will be revealed at RGW 2018 by Maria Lavrentyeva, a journalist and top brand manager at Poker Club Management.

Speaker’s presentation topic: Poker as a spectacular sport and region development tool.

Relying on her experience, Maria Lavrentyeva will reveal the following issues:

• how to make society take poker as a sport;
• how to attract players from other countries to Russia;
• how to attract tourists to the region using poker series;
• poker as an excellent marketing vehicle for casino advertising.

The speaker has led the Poker section in the largest CIS sports online media, Championat.com, for two years. Over the past 5 years, Maria has been working for Poker Club Management, the only CIS company organizing international world-class poker tournaments. Its events include World Series of Poker, European Poker Tour, World Poker Tour, and Eurasian Poker Tour. Tournaments took place in Cyprus, the Dominican Republic, Georgia, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Spain, and the UK.

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