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Ibiza is a prestigious destination for an unforgettable stay on the seaside of the Mediterranean. But the island is also a destination for poker tournaments. Once again this year, the Estrellas Poker Tour visited the Spanish island for its third stage of the Season III. The festivities have already started on Monday with the satellites for the Main Event. The ESPT Ibiza continued after the second day with the satellites of the Main Event and the High Roller of € 2,000 buy-in scheduled for two days. The Casino of Ibiza will be the host of this new edition of the Estrellas Poker Tour which Main Event, the main attraction besides the High Roller, is scheduled for Wednesday, May 16. Last September, the Main Event of the ESPT Ibiza Season II brought together 426 players which ended with the victory of Grzegorz Gosk after four days of competition. For this victory, the Poles took home € 92,100 while the runner-up Alvaro Santamaria pocketed € 58,600. Carlos Simon Martinez meanwhile pocketed € 32,500 for his last spot on the podium. This season, the organizers of the ESPT plan 500 seats for the entry days. Besides the Main Event and the High Roller, the Casino of Ibiza will also have in its program events as the NLH Turbo Freezeout of € 220 buy-in, the Bounty NLH Freezeout of € 220 (€ 50 Bounty) or the € 165 Deepstack NLH Freezeout Turbo.... Read More

Place that marked the development of the Asian poker industry, the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino will have the privilege of hosting a stage of the Macau Poker Cup 2012 during the Red Dragon tournament, a series to be held from June 9 to 18. As a reminder, the Grand Waldo hosted in 2008 the Asia Pacific Poker Tour, the largest poker tournament in Asia. From 2009, the organizers signed a contract with the Casino Grand Lisboa. Since then, all tournaments were held within this casino. But the contract expired since March of this year. And the organizers decided to choose the Grand Waldo to host the tournament especially since it has all the necessary infrastructure to host large poker event. Indeed, the resort has undergone extensive renovation. The competition will take place at the heart of the Conference and Exhibition Centre. Players who will take part in the event will also enjoy all the leisure activities offered by the Grand Waldo Hotel. Note that the Red Dragon 2012 will consist of several tournaments expected to satisfy all fans of poker among which is the Main event of $ 11,000 buy-in with a guaranteed prize pool of $ HKD 3 million. Tournament organizers also confirmed that the Macau Poker Cup Championship of Asia and Asia Championship will be held respectively as planned in September and November. But before these two major events, another Red Dragon will be held from July 28 to August 6.... Read More

The first edition of the King of Poker has been marked by the participation of 371 players who engaged in a great battle for the title of "King." But to the surprise of all, the splendid Casino Royale Budva inducted a "Queen" and not a "king". Indeed, Francesca Fratazzi was the best in Montenegro for the first edition of the King of Poker after a head's up against Saman "Ottodix" Ziarati. On the Day 3, 21 players were still in contention for the title but after a series of elimination, the final table finally brought together the nine survivors of the four days. Fabio Coppola, Marcella Ponzo, Giancarlo Fisichella, Gianfranco Frangella, Saman Ziarati, Mirko Micovic, Ljubisa Bojic, Francesca Fratazzi and Ilija Marovic are the nine finalists, while players like Joseph Vicidomini, Giorgia Tabet, Umberto Cianfanelli, Louis Ginobbi, Massimiliano Falanga, Massimo Casabona or Marcella Ponzo have been elminated before this final round. The bubble boy of the final table was Claudio Castrogiovanni. During this last phase, Marcella Ponzo was the first player to leave the table followed by Ilija Marovic in the 8th place and Fabio Coppola (7th). Giancarlo Fisichella realized an exceptional week by moving up to the final table of the King of Poker Budva but he was eliminated in the sixth place just before the elimination of Mirko Ljubisa and Bojic Micovic. Gianfranco Frangella reached the last step of the podium after his battle against Ziarati Saman. This last elimination left Saman Ziarati in head's up against Francesca Fratazzi.... Read More

The Main event of € 1,100 buy-in of the France Poker Series (FPS) Amnéville ended with the victory of Benjamin Dobson this Sunday, May 13. Note that they were 15 among the 317 initially enrolled who had their tickets to return in the poker room to try to win the trophy with a prize of € 70,000. Eight of them were lucky to be part of the final table and Jean Michel Texier was leading. After the departure of Jonathan Klifa and Enrico Rudelitz at the 8 th and 7th places, the chipleader was also eliminated and took home the prize of € 15,300. Marc Huyghebaert and Michel Dubert also joined the bench of removed a few hours later. The German Johannes Meyer Zu Wendischhoff for his part, occupied the last step of the podium while bringing back home € 30,000. The final duel was then played between the French Guillaume Roiron and Benjamin Dobson. The meeting end only at about 2:45 in the morning. The French was eliminated by the young English of 23 years. Admittedly, this native of Nottingham has already a pretty great experience because he plays online poker for over five years. Moreover, it should be noted that he has already participated in several major online tournaments like the WCOOP. His runner-up for his part pocketed the second prize of € 44,320. After this Amnéville step, the FPS tournament makes an appointment to its fans in Gujan-Mestras from June 27 to July 1st, 2012.... Read More

The town of Budva, Montenegro, is a resort having access to the Adriatic Sea but for some time, Budva excels not only in its sights. This week, from May 9 to 12, the Splendid Budva Casino Royale receives the King of Poker, which brought together 371 players during the first two days of entry of the € 550 buy-in Main Event. The Day 1A which brought together 126 participants only 30 players qualified for Day 2. As for Day 1B, it was extremely popular with 245 participants with 70 survivors on Day 2. Marco Chen dominated the day 1A with a chip count of 344,500 while Fabio Coppola took the chip lead from Day 1B with a stack of 287,300. At the end of the first two days, 102 players were qualified for the Day 2 of this poker tournament to be held in the afternoon of Friday on levels of 60 minutes. The final table is scheduled for Saturday afternoon at around 1:00 pm local time. Among the survivors of Day 1, we find Marco Tchen at the head with 344,500 chips followed by Aleksandar Knezevic (310,700), Fabio Papero (296,500), Fabio Coppola (287,300), Umberto Cianfanelli (240,500), Natale Albanese (237,800), Federico Incandela (219,000) leading the chip count. The former F1 champion Giancarlo Fisichella, Claudio Castrogiovanni, Saman Ziarati and Giorgia Tabet are also among the survivors of Day 1. Some players like Simone Ferretti, Andrew Dato, Flavio Ferrari, Andrea Benelli, Filippo Candio, Jackson Genovese, Filippo Bisciglia, Nicola D'Alessio or Simone Folini were less fortunate.... Read More

If Amnéville didn't had the privilege of hosting a stage of the famous World Poker Tour, the city remains a great poker destination. Indeed, at present time, the fourth stage of the second season of the tournament France Poker Series (FPS) takes place in Seven Casino Amneville. Moreover, the battle has already started on the € 1,100 buy-in main event. As usual, the event attracted a large number of poker enthusiasts and they were 109 players who registered for the first qualifying day. After 11 levels of play, more than half of the field disappeared. At the end of Day 1A, it's Nezat Kaya who was awarded the position of chipleader. He accumulated 154,900 chips. Jean Francois Azoril also won his ticket for the Day 2, finishing second in chips with a stack of 136,000. Philippe Laronze is in the third place with 114,900 chips in hand. Among the survivors of Day 1A is also Fabrice Gourget who holds about 80,000 chips. Nicolas Lambert was also among the well known players present at the tournament. But he finished the day with a small stack of 44,300. The tournament field could increase. Indeed, many players are still expected to participate in the Day 1B. Note that apart from the Main event, several side events are also part of the FPS Amnéville program. Among the most anticipated of all are the PLO 6-Max and the High Roller.... Read More

Since May 10 until May 21, 2012, the poker room of Harrah's Casino in New Orleans welcomes a new stage of the famous poker tour World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC). As a reminder, 12 rounds of the tournaments are held prior to the National Championship to be held during the WSOP 2012 at Rio in Las Vegas on July 6. The WSOPC Harrah's New Orleans include several tournaments with varied buy-in and formats during which the best players will win gold bracelets. The main event at $ 1,600 buy-in is one of the highlights of the tournament. Last year, it attracted 383 players generating a prize pool of $ 550,080. This year the tournament will start on May 18, 2012 and will be spread over four days of competition. The one who will succeed to Jonathan Poche will walk away with the first prize and some points that will let him occupy the best position in the Player of the Year standings. As inaugural tournament, there will be the No-Limit Hold'em Re-entry that will begin on May 12. This tournament is available at a buy-in of $ 355 and will be played in three days. Several No-Limit Hold'em tournaments available at $ 355 buy-in be will also in the program. For fans of Pot Limit Omaha, they will be satisfied as a tournament designed for them will be held on May 13. On May 16, 2012, a no-limit hold'em of $ 1,085 awaits players. And to end this stage of the WSOPC, there will be a No-Limit Hold'em Turbo.... Read More

The champion of France of poker 2012 is now known. Indeed, the individual national championship of clubs 2012 (CNIC) held in the poker room of Seven Casino of Amneville delivered its verdict by crowning Florian Leconte. Note that the tournament attracted 400 players from different poker club throughout France. After three days of competition, it's this amateur player, member of Thurs St-Lo Poker Club who was awarded the prestigious title and the € 8,500 package for the WPT Grand Prix of Paris to be held in the Aviation Club de France. Leconte ousted Sylvain Aubry during the final duel and the third place is occupied by Steven Maiffredy. Like the other finalists of the tournament, the two players received a variety of packages for the tournament ACF Poker Tour of an amount between € 1,150 and € 5,000. Last weekend, the champion of the tournament per team CdC Team Challenge was also elected. This event organized by the Club of Clubs faced ten French poker teams. And it was the team "Fishs d'à côté" who received the title and the prize of € 2,000. The audience of the poker room waited however in a feat of the team Bruno Fitoussi and Freedy Deeb, two professional poker players who have consistently proven their skill at major tournaments. As winner, the "Fishs d'à côté" also received the first prize in addition to an invitation for the evening prestige of the ACF.... Read More

From next May 27 to July 7, the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas will receive the 43rd edition of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). As in each new edition, many novelties were introduced in both organizations that in the game itself. The main novelty of this 43rd edition is the Live Streaming broadcast of more events besides the Main Event and the final table in October. Indeed, following the presidential elections in November, the grand finale "November Nine" will be advanced a month earlier : on October 28 to 30, 2012. In total, the WSOP of this year plan 61 events during which winners could receive gold bracelets. From July 7 to 16, the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino will host the $ 10,000 Main Event (Event # 61) which will be broadcast in live streaming. As for the new rules, the organizers brought alleviation to the regulation prohibiting players on the manifestation of their joy too noisy called "Celebration Rule." Now, they can show their joy but with a certain limit. Another new rule that this unavoidable poker tournament adopted is that it is now possible for players to talk about their hand without showing it. The 43rd edition of the WSOP do not lack of novelty, the Event # 9 NL Hold'em of $ 1,500 buy-in will be an opportunity to test the "re-entry" letting eliminated players of the day to return the next day.... Read More

Finally, passionate of online poker in Spain can be happy because they can play freely and legally poker from June 1st, 2012. Indeed, its authorities has finally given the approval for the official opening of the spanish online poker market. The details of the bill regarding the Iberian online poker remain roughly the same as those promulgated by the French authorities, but Spanish will have the opportunity to play other poker games like Stud and Draw. Currently, more than 60 operators submitted applications for licenses among them, leaders in the online gaming industry. Once the application approved, they can all operate legally in the country. At first glance, the Spanish online poker market will also be sealed as other European countries like France. However, the Spanish regulatory authority leaves a glimmer of hope for an opening at European and even international level. According to the vice president, Carlo Alfonso, the objective is to provide international liquidity to ensure a better future for the sector. In this context, he indicated his desire to participate in the cooperation agreement between the French ARJEL and the Italian AAMS. On taxation and other matters that need attention before the opening of the market, it is at the "Gaming in Spain Conference 2012", currently taking place in Madrid that it will be discussed. Operators who have already operated in Spain before the legalization are in a difficult situation because they seem to have to pay back taxes.... Read More