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25 years of TDA! 🤩 Last June 29 and 30, the World 25 years of TDA! 🤩

Last June 29 and 30, the World Poker Federation took part in TDA Summit XII, in Las Vegas.

Two days with tournament directors, operators, associations and specialists from around the world, all discussing the same thing: the future of competitive poker.

Rule changes came out of it. Real ones, the kind that reach tournament tables everywhere. ✅

And the WPF didn’t just talk. In partnership with TDA, we launched Poker TD Assistant, an app that answers rules questions in plain language, right from a phone. 📲

This is what building poker as a global sport looks like. Federation by federation, rule by rule, summit by summit.

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A poker pro at the World Cup! ♣️⚽ Sergej Barbarez A poker pro at the World Cup! ♣️⚽

Sergej Barbarez spent 14 years as one of the Bundesliga’s most feared strikers. In 2001, he shared the top-scorer title with Ebbe Sand and became a legend of the Bosnian national team.

When he retired in 2008, he walked away from soccer and spent nearly a decade playing poker professionally, competing in some of the world’s biggest tournaments, including the WSOP.

In 2024, the Bosnian federation came calling. 🇧🇦

He had never managed a team before, but he took the job. To reach the World Cup, he knocked out Italy on penalties. 

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“I’ve been an idiot.” 🤯 One of the greatest poker “I’ve been an idiot.” 🤯

One of the greatest poker players in history, Gus Hansen, sat down for a Q&A and said exactly what nobody expected.

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“It’s just variance.” You’ve probably heard it be “It’s just variance.”

You’ve probably heard it before.
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Variance is the reason poker exists. It’s the gap between the right decision and the immediate result.

Every player, at every level, deals with it. The difference is knowing how to prepare for it before it hits.

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In 2024, poker made history. Officially recognized In 2024, poker made history.
Officially recognized as a mind sport by the IMSA.

But what happened in Barranquilla, Colombia, in May 2026 proves that recognition on paper is not enough.

An official tournament, funded by the government itself, was shut down by armed agents mid-competition.

This is why the fight for poker as a mind sport never stops. 💪

The WPF works every day alongside federations and players to protect what we built together. 🌍

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