Australia’s notoriously strict Office of Film and Literature Classification Board has denied yet another new game title.

Gameloft’s racy Sexy Poker game is slated for release on the Wii platform later this year, but poker fans may never legally see a copy of the game down under. The concept of the game is nothing new; a stripping-incentive format has been used in fun-only arcade and poker games for years. So what’s the hold up?

The OFLC’s highest rating is MA15+, and the Board cites a longstanding anti-nudity rule from the official Guidelines for the Classification of Films and Computer Games as the basis for the ban. This rule prohibits the use of reward-based nudity in approved games—a concept that’s central to Sexy Poker.

As anyone that has played strip poker knows, clothes are the only betting currency. The same is true in Sexy Poker where players are pitted against six increasingly less clothed female opponents over several rounds of draw poker.

Because “nudity as an incentive” is Sexy Poker’s main selling point, it seems unlikely that Gameloft will be able to alter the game enough to meet the OFLC’s MA15+ standards. Fortunately for gamers eager to try the skin-to-win title, the game has already received the thumbs up for distribution in parts of Europe, and North America’s classification board is expected to follow suit.

Full Tilt Poker has already had a big month with the addition to its brand of an Oscar-nominated friend in the form of film star and poker aficionado Don Cheadle. Don Cheadle has been a very successful celebrity player, but more importantly he’s a co-founder of the poker-related charity Ante Up for Africa.

Cheadle and fellow co-founders Norman Epstein and Annie Duke will be promoting the charity heavily during this year’s World Series of Poker where Ante Up for Africa has its own tournament event and television coverage and where charity supporters will be pushing competitors to donate 50% of their WSOP winnings.

Full Tilt is welcoming their new Friend by hosting a private $5+$5 tournament with proceeds to benefit Ante Up for Africa. This tournament is expected to take place prior to the WSOP and offers players a more reasonable opportunity to support the charity than the $5000 buy-in event.

Also new on Full Tilt’s roster of special events is the addition of two qualifying tournaments for the popular poker-centered shows Late Night Poker and Poker Million. Players interested in competing for a Poker Million appearance will have six opportunities to win via direct qualifiers held throughout the months of August and September. Qualifying tournament winners will earn a $20,000 buy-in to the main event plus a $2000 travel budget.

If Late Night Poker is more along your lines, then Full Tilt is offering four qualifying tournaments through June and July. Winners of these tournaments will take home a $10,000 buy-in plus $2000 extra in petty cash.

Competitors in both tournaments will have a shot at prize money in excess of $1 million and regardless of their placings will receive some airtime courtesy of Britain’s Channel 4 (Late Night Poker) and Sky Sports (Poker Million).