Germany Attempts Poker Championship Revival

According to German news site, www.thelocal.de, several casinos in Northern Germany are this year supporting the return of the Deutsche Pokermeisterschaft (DPM), the German Poker Championship.

This year many German casinos will be running qualifiers for the €2,200 DPM main event. Locations such as Schenefeld, Hannover, Berlin, Hamburg, and Warnemünde are getting in on the act and holding €550 buy-in satellites. After all the satellites are finished, the players who rank highest on the leader board will get tickets into the main event.

The site, which provides German news in English, gave many reasons for the Championship’s failure to succeed. An awkward, yet attractive, location in Warnemünde made it difficult for those traveling from any major city, and over the years, participation in the event seriously declined. However, even when the event was moved to Berlin last year it received the worst turnout in more than 15 years.

TheLocal.de states that organisers did not keep up with the standards of international tournament structure and so by last year, there was no more interest. It doesn’t help that the legal situation in Germany means there can be no online qualifiers to bump up the numbers.

There is light at the end of the tunnel however with organisers willing to give the “German Poker Tour” another chance. But with all the focus in the north, it looks more likely that it will turn out to be a successful, local-driven, regional event, rather than an all-encompassing German poker championship revival.

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