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Jump to full article: Card Player Magazine, 2003-12-25
Author: Max Shapiro
Intro: Anyway, on to St. Maarten, where the International Poker Federation had thoughtfully made arrangements to whisk players through customs and deliver us to our hotel. . . .
The hotel's adjoining Casino Royale is the largest casino on the island, and it provided a very spacious room with a high ceiling for the poker tournament. It needed all the space it could get, because most of the players were from Europe, and if there is such a thing as a European who doesn't smoke, I have yet to meet him. . . .
I spent more time chasing away encroaching smokers than I did taking tournament notes. This conflict between the smokers and nonsmokers at European events, the IPF acknowledges, is an ongoing problem in which it's impossible to make everyone happy.
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· Lawsuits
· Cigars
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· Netherlands Antilles
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Jump to full article: (Philipsburg, St. Maarten) Daily Herald, 2000-08-28
Intro: Caribbean Duty Free Cigar Distributors (CDFCD) lost to Leela & Sons, which operates the Pelican Gift Shop, on Friday, in an appeal case concerning the parallel import of Cuban cigars, Curacao newspaper Amigoe reported Saturday.
The verdict means that CDFCD no longer has the exclusive right to sell Cuban cigars in the Netherlands Antilles. Leela & Sons is entitled to import them as well. Both companies are registered in St. Maarten.
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