The celebrated businessman and professional poker player Jesse Jones who established two years back the expanding subscribing World Poker Association, maintains a pragmatic Code of Ethics to instruct players in standards and manners when playing tournaments in the wake of last week's publication of the Code.

Five chapters are included in the code comprising all matters from individual behavior to honest and professional playing, and also Association members, among who are numerous global best professional and amateur competitors, are committed to accepting an individual oath. 

Overall clauses are dealt with in the code against events like collaboration, professional neglect and politeness, and players, dealers and executive relationships. Increasing professional behavior is the honoring the game is the objective.

A proud expanding membership, close to one thousand four hundred members is subscribed in the Nevada non-profit association.  The association was established to grant oneness via a society planned to affect the future results of poker contests, reflecting personal participants' outlooks and asserting itself in a united stand.  

The board of directors includes, apart from Jones, Wendeen Eolis, the famous business, legal and government matters consultant, Joe Hachem – the 2005 champion of the World Series of Poker, Lou Krieger – the editor and author, Marcel Luske – the best player in Europe, and Paul Wasicka – vice champion in the chief round in the World Series of Poker held in 2006, and the winner of the National Heads-Up Championship of the NBC held in 2007.

Posted on: August 3, 2007

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