TheInternational Federation of Match Poker (IFMP) is anon-profit organization whose stated purpose is to "serve as the global governing body for MatchPoker".[1][2][3][4] IFMP is incorporated as alegal entity pursuant to articles 60 to 79 of the Swiss Civil Code and is headquartered inLausanne, Switzerland.[1]
IFMP was founded in Lausanne on April 29, 2009.[5] IFMP is structured as an International Sports Federation and is recognized by theCourt of Arbitration for Sport.[3]
The goals of IFMP are to promote the development ofMatch Poker worldwide and to secure its recognition as aMind Sport based on strategic skill, played without any discrimination of race, sex and creed. IFMP also seeks to assist its national Member Federations in securing legislation that gives players the right to play poker safely and legally, both online and in bricks & mortar establishments.
As part of the first UKMind Sports Festival, IFMP hosted its inaugural tournaments in November, 2011, inLondon’sCounty Hall:[7] the IFP Duplicate Poker Nations Cup (now Match Poker Nations Cup), a team event contested by IFMP’s Member Federations, and the IFMP World Poker Championship, also called ‘The Table’, in which individual players compete for the title of World Champion. The only organisation to mount international tournaments usingDuplicate Poker, in its own version known as Match Poker, IFMP staged the opening hands of the 2011 IFMP Nations Cup in the capsules of theLondon Eye.[7]
Membership of IFMP consists of national poker associations and federations from around the world.[8] The IFMP currently has 60 national member federations, including the original seven member nations.[8]
The seven founding member nations of IFMP, which today form the nucleus of its executive board, are:
The supreme authority of IFMP is the Congress, the assembly of all the members of IFMP on a one-country-one-vote system. Congress meets once a year. The Executive Board of IFMP is elected by Congress for a period of three years and is the managing body of IFMP. The Board elects a President from among its members for a term of four years, which can be renewed. IFMP's first president wasAnthony Holden.[9]
IFMP established its own publishing imprint in association with Limehouse Books in November 2011.[10] Its first title, published in August 2012, wasThe Rules of Poker, edited byDavid Flusfeder, chairman of IFP's Rules Committee.[11]
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