Florida : A study launched in order to frame the liberalization of online poker

American attempts wanting to frame online poker and gambles don’t stop to harden year by year. After the different money transfer freeze bound for several players done by American authorities, of which more than $30 millions were concerned, legislations of every State contribute to limit it more and more. In Florida, the governor of this State, Charlie grist has just signed the government bill aiming to lead a study about inland impact of the legislation of poker. As first consequence, passing an eventual text intended for protecting residents of Florida State against games on poker websites installed outside the American territory would be considered.

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Casino : The entire Asia wants to follow Macao’s example

After decades of interdiction in several Asiatic countries, casinos are in the way to become legal again in Asia. Seeing the game turnovers generated in Macao, American, Asiatic, Canadian multinationals are more and more interested to this continent’s potential. After having realised game product reaching $10 billions in 2007, better than Las Vegas, Macao broke again the records last year. According to Andy Nazarechuck, doyen of the Singaporean campus at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, Casinos’ yield in Macao achieved $9.7 billions during these seven first months of 2008, which means an income on rise of 44% compared to the previous year. “What especially (…) revolutionized game industry in this world region, is certainly Macao” he explains.

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Hungary : €5 billions for building the biggest casino in Europe

After Spain and its project Gran Scala wanting to become the new capital of casino in Europe, a project of building the biggest casino and hotel complex of the continent has just been unveiled in Hungary. The American group Seminole Hard Rock Entertainment, one of the American greatest casinos’ operators and which is the owner of Hard Rock Café has just announced an immense project. “It is a giant project with €5 billions of investment in ten years”, Jim Allen, president of Seminole Hard Rock Entertainment declared during a press conference in Budapest.

Monday, 29 June 2009

Temporary outcome of WSOP : Jeffrey Lissandro leads with 3 bracelets

After the completion of the Event#44 of the Wolrd Series of Poker ‘WSOP) which took place on Wednesday the 24th of June, Jeffrey Lissandro who was the winner facing his 835 opponents, won his 3rd bracelet at this 40th edition of Las Vegas tournament. After a hard battle against players like Michael Craig (2nd), Ryan Fisler (3rd) or Allen Bari (8th), he won so his third title of the season and increased his gains of $188,370. With this extra victory at Stud, Lissandro shows so his talent in this variant of poker. Currently, in the temporary classification of this competition, he is the player having the best position for the title of the best player of the year for this World Series of Poker 2009.

Monday, 29 June 2009

Belgian law about online poker : Game fairness as basis

After Italy and England which were among the first European countries legalizing online poker and Internet casino, and France which prepares its government bill, Belgium thinks of launching into this way. After the first approval by the Belgian Parliament of the fore government bills about online poker on last March the 27th, the final passing of this law is expected. “I praise a mastered controlled opening. We have to operate for a control on hour waste, player’s age but also on terms and conditions of game. It is necessary to provide a sincere game to player for him to play with an equal chance against another human being but not against a programmed machine”, Etienne Marique, president of the Belgian Parliament’s Commission of gambles, asserts. Actually, Belgian State will make sure that game fairness, financial transparency and operators’ solvency would be respected completely.

Monday, 29 June 2009

Online games : NBA 2K to be distributed in Chinese Market

With the rise of online games turnover in China, more than $2.75 billions during 2008 or an increase of 61% compared to 2007, professionals of this activity fling themselves to this market. 2K Sports, the enterprise which obtains the license for the development of an online game introducing all NBA’s teams is now interested to Chinese players. With the firm Tencent Holdings Limited, the development of this famous NBA basket ball game on PC by into online game, Chinese version is foreseen. “The incredible popularity of basket ball in Asia associated with the passion for online games in this region makes this project very exciting”, Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K asserts. Indeed, the American championship of basket ball becomes a show attracting more and more Chinese TV viewers. During the 2008season, more than one billion persons watched NBA championship in this country.

Monday, 29 June 2009

Loterie Romande : All wonderfully in spite of the crisis

In spite of crisis threatening all casinos and enterprises of games, the firm Loterie Romande (LORO), in Roman Switzerland still continue to register a very good turnover, according its general manager Jean-Luc Moner-Banet. Roman still continues playing. An analysis shows that during the financial year 2008, a rise of 3.5% or 366 millions of francs of its yield was recorded and 5.1% of its gross benefit or 185 millions of francs. 50% of the clients of LORO in Switzerland are all adults who play one or several times per month. Every client has his proper preference among all games proposed. According to the analysis, the Loto Express which returns to its ancient form after a failed modernization experiences get the higher growth with 72.8% last year. The Euro Millions takes the 2nd position with an increase of 11.8%. The scratch gambles Tactilo progressed of 7.8% compared to the scratched ticket and the Swiss Lotto find a difficulty to attract its clients.

Friday, 26 June 2009

Barrière les Princes: Investment in the increasing of its slot machines park

Seeing the diminution of the rate frequenting of players and facing the financial crisis which makes all gamble enterprises in difficult situations, the Barrière’s group tries hard to give better quality of service in its casinos in order to attract more clients. It has just launched into an investment for increasing its slot machine park with thirty five extra machines in one of its establishment, Barrière les Princes. The objective of the investment is to incite clients to play in casino for a longest time because after all, this casino suits with the clients’ expectation in search of a nice surrounding, ideal for playing. Unlike the usual slot machines, this new kind which goes from 1 to 5 centime, are machines with lower investment accessible to all budgets, which allows players to play and to try to get the jackpot.

Friday, 26 June 2009

Event#36 of WSOP : Jordan Smith wins his first WSOP bracelet

In spite of financial crisis which presses hard on casinos and engenders the decrease of their turnover, the greatest tournament of this summer, the $2,000 No limit holdem tournament of the WSOP had gather 1,695 participants. It was a big event because apart from Jordan’s victory which didn’t have any limit, the two feminine representatives reaching the final table who are not unknown made this WSOP tournament an unforgettable moment in the poker history. We are talking about the champion of chess Almira Skripchenko and Laurence Grondin.

Friday, 26 June 2009

« Kill Elky » : A new book about poker translated and signed by Grospellier

The one of the greatest French poker players, an ancient gamer living in South Korea and specialist on the video game Star Craf, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier has just resumed the book written by the American Lee Nelson. This book written by this successful tournament player, entitled “Kill Everyone” talk about his vision of poker universe in change since the beginning of the year 2000 with the coming of a new generation of online poker players of which number is on the way to explode. Elky bring his way to play apart from the one already discussed in the novel work supposed by Nelson Lee as a method allowing the reader to fast master poker, to become a professional during less than 3 years and the best is that henceforth amateurs can have access to the trophy during WSOP tournaments if before this was reserved only for genius.

Friday, 26 June 2009

Online games: Attractiveness of French licence very debated

The sector of gambles which was always a public monopoly, but which is forced to be opened because of internet and online casinos implanted in foreign countries, will know confusion with the come into force of its framing text in France. Since a long time, operators in the sector indeed found parades to get round the legislation in vigour. In the United States, upswing of gambles and poker in the middle of the 19th century, followed then by its interdiction in several Southern States, then in the West of the country, leaded to the transformation of ships taking the Mississippi into gaming room. It was a strategy to get round this law applied on these States’ ground. Similar practice won’t fail to begin if the French law about online games is not attractive.

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

SBM: Online casino and investment abroad for palliating crisis

The company holder of the game monopoly in Monaco, The Société des Bains de Mer (SBM), first owner of casinos of the principality, has just presented its results during the financial year 2008-2009. Marked by a fall of 19% of its turnover, this financial year was affected by the financial crisis and the come into force of the interdiction of smoking in public places on its territory on November 2008. If its 5 casinos recorded a turnover of €259 millions during the previous financial year, they had only realized €210.7 millions during the past financial year. Nevertheless, during three successive years, a higher increase in Monaco’s casinos was recorded.

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Mozambique : A more supple law about casino

Like its neighbour, South Africa, where casino’s industry attracts rich people and thousands of tourists every year, Mozambique wants also to launch into this way. Vast beaches bordered by the eponym canal, joining then the Indian Ocean wait indeed for the new promoters in this country. In this, in order to launch again its tourism sector, the Mozambican Parliament has just ratified law making game industry and casinos environment suppler. If opening a casino in this country needed before at least an investment of $15 millions, henceforth, it is reduced into $8 millions. Since 1994, date of the liberalization of the sector, game firms had to be installed in a hotel endowing more than 250 rooms, which is also abolished in this new law.

Monday, 22 June 2009

Online games: China establishes a text in order to protect its players

As one of the countries recording the strongest increase of the number of its online games’ players, China which collects also increasing complaints from thousands of gamers because of operators’ failure decided to establish a law used as text of regulations of the sector. With a community of more than 55.5 millions of MMO players, these online role games multiplayer, Chinese authorities established so law framing the sector according to the site China Tech News. The regulation is established “as long as in the Chinese players’ interest and the industry” according to the Shanghai Information Service Association (SISA), the entity which prepared the law. Henceforth, obligations to give previous notice have to be respected by online games operators in their relation with its members : notification has to be given to the player three days before a temporary suspension of a game and 30 days in the case of definitive cessation of the activity. All interruption of a player’s account has to be informed in advance with a clear explanation.

Monday, 22 June 2009

Legislation about online games : Review of the taxation in Italy

The Italian law concerning online games and online poker which was established two years ago and through which the future French law inspired has just been modified. With the existence of the taxation on stakes in this legislation, Berlusconi’s administration finally admits that this clause penalizes game operators having licence in its territory and it could damage their competitiveness. Indeed, taxes directly applied on stakes are too sultry for enterprises. “A game operator takes between 2% to 5% of the pot, reaching the ceiling of $3”, Alexandre Dreyfus, director of a gamble website told to talk about the tightness of the margins they deduct in advance. Italian authorities accepted so to place this tax on game gross product, with a 20% rate.

Sunday, 21 June 2009

WSOP Event#30 : J.C Tran wins a second bracelet

After having won the World Poker Tour (WPT) and after his consecration as a player of the season 5 of this tournament, J.C Tran unveils too his talent at the World Series of Poker. The first bracelet he won during the 2008 edition of WSOP has just been filled up. He impressed during the Event#30 in the $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha. Nevertheless, the finale table of this meeting gathered players like John “Luckbox” Juanda, the French player Philippe Léandri, Theo Jorgensen, Jeff Kimber… However, the holder of four WSOP bracelets, John Juanda didn’t resist long during this competition, he was the first to be eliminated during this finale.

Sunday, 21 June 2009

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Sunday, 21 June 2009

Online casino : Theme of Leonardo DiCaprio’s new film

After the two Oscars awarded to him for his legendary films and successful in the entire world, “Titanic” and “The infiltrate”, the American cinema player and producer Leonardo DiCaprio is maybe in the way to another successful full-length film. With great hits of international poker tournaments like World Series of Poker (WSOP), European Poker Tour (EPT) as well as the tremendous increase of big online poker sites’ frequentation by millions of players like Casino 770, Casino Riva… this cinema player has just chosen online casino’s universe as a theme for his new film. The specialized Press in Hollywood unveiled the information but details about the film’s title are not known yet.

Thursday, 18 June 2009

European Poker Tour : Program for the season 6 unveiled

After its success during the Season 5 in which more than 7,980 players from 97 countries participated and a €55 millions prize pool distributed, the European Poker Tour (EPT), becoming one of the greatest poker tournament in the world, prepares its 6th edition. “The new EPT season will take again the numerous events which contributed to the success of the previous seasons”, John Duthie, EPT director explained. The organisers of this poker tournament have just presented to the press its program. With the beginning of the EPT’s first stage on August, from the 17th to the 23rd, this tournament will start so in Moscow, a new destination. “The circuit will pass by 13 countries and will have four tournaments moreover than last season”, the first responsible for the EPT continues. After Russia, Portugal is also a new destination where The EPT will take place.

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Online games : A turnover of $11 billions for this year 2009

If amusements through video and PC games were played between friends at home before, currently, it is more and more used on the web. Online games part in the video games conception and sale is in perpetual increase. According to a report published by the Lazard Capital Markets consulting office, among the $44 billions of turnovers that the video games market may generate this year, the part of online games industry is estimated reaching $11 billions or 25% of games’ market. Nevertheless, four years ago, these online games represented hardly the third part of the current sales, about $3 billions. Beside this market, games on networks on online casino sites like black jack, poker, roulette, slot machines… still represent a part of a market which is not included in these sales.

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

WSOP’ Event#25 : Phil Ivey wins his 7th bracelet

On the occasion of the $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo tournament, Phil Ivey who already won a bracelet during this 2009 edition of the World Series of Poker, showed again his talent. He has just impressed players during the final table of the Event#25 of the WSOP and wins at the same time the 7th bracelet of his career. Nevertheless, being among players having the lowest stack during this latest competition of the Day 3, he didn’t give a presentiment that he would win but he managed an exceptional climb. Chad Brown, the short stack of this final was the first eliminated in this poker party after giving his entire stack against Ming Lee.

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Summer vacation: Ski stations invest in casinos

Ski stations wouldn’t want to be a destination only operational during winter. To fulfil the emptiness making them unemployed all the year long, these touristic site already equipped with hotels and accommodation firms able to receive a lot of people, attracting holidaymakers only on December when the snow falls, decided to opt for new strategies. In Québec, the summer season becomes also a period when these stations decided to take advantage of by investing for new infrastructures. After aquatic parks, trekking, mountain cycle etcetera which are not enough for retaining holidaymakers a long time, attracting these people who need to relax to play in casino is one of the last strategies adopted by these sites.

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

League 1 sponsoring : Hoping for sports betting websites

French and European big clubs of the League 1 risk a difficult 2009-2010 season because of the current financial crisis. Numerous great sponsors in partnership with several clubs, like Opel written on the swaddling clothes of PSG, AC Milan and Bayern of Munich or the giant of insurance AIG, which was the main sponsor of Manchester United, left financing great clubs through the sponsoring. Because of the fall of their sale, like the case of the motorcar constructor Opel, their treasury difficulty and their lack of liquidity, these great groups weren’t in a position to treat themselves to this luxury. Some groups like Fly Emirates which has just signed a contract of €3.5 millions with the PSG are among the rare groups still massively investing in these clubs.

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Cagnes sur Mer: Tranchant group opens the doors of a new casino

Is the financial crisis which strongly affected the games sector and casinos in 2008 and during the first months of this year already behind us ? Casino operators’ investments seem recovering, indeed. After Fouras where Emeraude group renovated its gaming rooms, Monte-Carlo’s firms investing more and more in environment, there is now the Tranchant group inaugurating a new project, too. Indeed, its new casino in Cagnes sur Mer, in the Mediterranean seaside of France, the Casino Terrazur has just opened its doors to the public since Wednesday the 10th of June after several months of work. However, its official opening is foreseen on next June the 25th.

Monday, 15 June 2009

WSOP Event#18 : Daniel Alaei hoards a new bracelet

The $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo World Championship of the World Series of Poker 2009 (WSOP) has just known its new master, Daniel Alaei. David Benyamine, winner of the 2008 edition hadn’t kept his title. During the final which take place on last Wednesday the 9th of June, this poker player has just impressed among the 179 players registered at this tournament. But getting this victory and winning a gain of $445,898 for his first position was not easy. It needed 3 days of competition with great players like Annie Duke, Daniel Negreanu and Sam Khouiss before he reached this triumph. However, the final heads-up between Daniel Alei and Scott Clements was brief.

Monday, 15 June 2009

Poker players’ gains : More than $30 millions locked up in USA

The American administration which continues asserting the illegality of playing in casino on internet and playing in online poker on its territory has just locked up several transfers intended for players who still did that. Indeed, transfers of gains from Allied Systems and Account Services banks were blocked since last June the 6th. On the whole, more than 27,000 players playing on 4 sites of online poker couldn’t receive what is due to them, a total amount of $33 millions. According to a communiqué broadcasted by one of the casino portal affected by this blockage, “transactions passing in transit by these two societies of payment services were rejected and credited again on the players’ account”. However, players won’t lose what is due to them but it is these banks which are arrested by the American administration.

Friday, 12 June 2009

Protection of the environment: Casinos reiterate their promise

After the appeal launched by Prince Albert II of Monaco on July 2005 for a collective step for environment preservation, casinos which form one of the biggest industries in the principality confirmed their promises. Gaming rooms used to propose to their clients luxury and pleasure to play through games like bingo, poker, roulette and black jack assert again their citizen’s behaviour. The Société des Bains de Mer or Monte-Carlo SBM which already endowed for two years ago with a global politic for durable development, did so a brief balance sheet of its running after this period. “After two years, results are promising and I am admiring about the work done by the members of the commission for the durable development”, Bernard Lambert, managing director of Monte-Carlo SBM asserts.

Friday, 12 June 2009

French government bill about online games: Brussels expresses its critics

The French government’s bill about online games that the State gets ready to propose to the parliament for election could have some modifications. The European Commission has just given indeed its remarks and conjures up some points which are not compatible with the European texts. Facing these critics, The French prime minister, François Fillon and his government has to rectify its position in this bill sighting a controlled opening of the gambles market and the online casino, putting so an end to the Française des Jeux’s monopoly in the sector, but only on internet. According to the European Commission, it is the principles of the free operators’ establishment and the free service performance which are not consistent with the legislation of the countries members of the Union.

Thursday, 11 June 2009

Boten town : The new Laos’ city of game thrives

Created two and a half years ago as a special economical area, the small town of Boten, an area granted to Chinese for 30 years, in the North of Laos becomes now a flourishing city of game. After Macao, it progressively climbs on the top of gambles’ destinations like Las Vegas in this part of Asia. Because of prohibition of all gambles like poker, black jack, slot machines or bingo in China, this small market town situated at one kilometre from Chinese frontier becomes now a big agglomeration which attracts players from its surroundings. To receive persons specially disembarking in this city to play in casino, the main firm in this town Golden Boten City opens so its doors 24 hours a day and 7 days per week.

Thursday, 11 June 2009

“Casino de Fouras” : Emeraude Group renew one of its jewels

Facing the great competition in gambles’ sector, physical casinos’ desertion of their customers, more and more used to online casinos try to give new environment in their rooms. “Casino de Fouras”, a casino of Charente Maritime region in France has just inaugurated its new edifice after several months of renovation works. “Our society develops, styles, requests and competition are there », Marie-Pierre Landowski, Emeraude Group’s president and owner of this gaming room asserts during the new sites presentation to the elected persons, to associations and to live casino’s enthusiasts. “It was been a long time that we weren’t intervened here, it was indispensable!” she continued.

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

WSOP 2009 : Rami Boukai won the Event#10

Instead of being played for two days, some World Series of Poker Events (WSOP) of Las Vegas had to be extended with another extra day because of players’ resistance. For the Event#10, Rami Boukai had enjoyed his victory only after a 29 hours competition during the $2,000 Pot-limit Hold’em/Omaha played on June the 6th. This player native of San Diego impressed facing the 453 other participants. Regular players of online pokers on sites like Poker 770 and live poker were one of these participants. The 18 latest qualified for the final day, were entitled to a gain above $10,293. Cousineau was the first eliminated. And a few hours later, the final trio was known. Ben Grundy was at the 3rd position ($99,574), Najib Bennani, 2nd position with a $151,355 gain and Rami Boukai won the bracelet and the first prize of $244,862.

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Eurosport: Its English branch of online bets enters into activity

Apart from its TV station specialized in newsreel and sporting events, Eurosport has just diversified its presence in the sector. Henceforth, this TV station is an online bet operator, too. On last June the 1st, Eurosport has just launched, indeed, in United Kingdom its site specialized in sporting results’ prognosis. It is a “market in growth which starts to open”, Laurent-Eric Le Lay, Eurosport’s chairman explains, to talk about the reason leading the audiovisual firm to invest in sporting bet market. It is the firm Société des paris sportifs (SPS), Serendipity’s branch, founded by Patrick Le Lay with Pinault and Bouygues groups, which is on the top of the enterprise. “The English market is extremely competitive », he continues for explaining the reason of the choice.

Tuesday, 09 June 2009

Sporting bet: Albi Rugby club joins in a specialized site

Same as football clubs more and more sponsored by sites of sporting bet and online casino portal, rugby which has on its disposal a big number of enthusiasts, interests sites of online bets, too. The sporting club of Albi (SCA) which has just done remarkable climb in Top 14 signed so collaboration with a society in Toulouse “France Pari”, for 5 years. Doing online prognosis of this club matches which counts a lot of fanatics is in this way possible. During the Top 14 half final more than 200 persons had already bet on its competitions’ end. “That allows getting supporters fidelity to the club site” Michael Thuilliez, SCA commercial manager asserts, on talking about this new commercial strategy passed by his club. But for this beginning and with the legislation in France, bets will be done in a gratuitous way.

Tuesday, 09 June 2009

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Monday, 08 June 2009

Online High Stakes tournament : Gains going till $2 millions on May

Apart from live casino tournaments of poker which are the privileged places by high stakes competitions, playing online poker between rich persons and professional players are more and more feasible with big stakes. During last May, monthly outcome was lucrative for some players but bitter for others. The monthly gains record was acquired by Tom Dwan aka « durrrr ». Among his 211 sessions of online poker high stakes counting 19,743 deals in which he played, this player had accumulated a jackpot of $2,143,952. The second position, Ziigmund who won a total amount of $568,273 got only the quarter of durrrr’s gain. MR B 2 U SON with a gain of $537,255.65 and OMGClay Aiken ($440,444) are placed in the 3rd and the 4th positions.

Monday, 08 June 2009

Illegal gambles: Managing directors of coffee bar stand trial in Alfortville

Even though the « La Française des Jeux » is the only one operator authorised to take an advantage of gambles like bingo and video poker in France, several restaurants managing directors in Alfortville, in Val-de-Marne were surprised proposing these gambles. And even though the law concerning gambles, foreseen to be applied from the 1st of January 2010 had to break this FDJ monopoly on the web, for physical firms, law doesn’t change. “Apart from La Française des Jeux and with the exception of fun fairs and casinos, law prohibits gambles commerce”, the prosecutor Jean-Paul Content who opened the trial on last June the 5th at a Créteil court of petty sessions chamber, specifies. These coffee bar managing directors were arrested because they dissimulated gambles by standard electronic games, acts dated since 2001.

Monday, 08 June 2009

Michael Jackson : A casino construction project in sight

Even though Michael Jackson is not a person used to play on poker tables, enthusiastic about slot machines or a fervent blackjack player, the man wants to invest a part of his fortune in a casino construction according to his surroundings. On account of the immense debts which press hard on this King of Pop currently, more than €100 millions on the whole, this activity in which he thought about could allow him fulfilling quickly this emptiness pressing hard on his finances. Even though he already foresaw to realize 50 shows to let him win a bit of money, his health condition, always the most interesting of all discussions these last days, is likely to not allow him rightly realizing these shows continually. Moreover, he grows old.

Friday, 05 June 2009

India: More than $250 millions betting on the coming of the monsoon

With the cricket tournament of the “Indian Premier League” (IPL) which ended on last May 24th in South Africa, the main event which attracts enthusiasts about sporting bets in India, the expectation of the monsoon first rains is now the most appreciated event by punters. Foretelling the coming of the monsoon and betting on the first rainfalls in every country’s town become a real national passion. Millions of persons participated indeed to this immense challenge to give an exact date of the rainfall. According to the local medias, websites of online bets and sporting bets societies had collected more than $250 millions or 10 billions rupees of stakes for trying to determinate the exact date of the first rainfalls.

Friday, 05 June 2009

Press Poker Tour: The first gratuitous tournament launched with the local press

If sites of online games organizing satellites qualifying for big tournaments like World Series of Poker (WSOP) or World Poker Tour (WPT) all suggested qualifying tournaments at a lower price but with charge for admission before, having access gratuitously to big competition is now possible. Daily local press like “La Republique du Centre” and Partouche Group have just launched a new concept in Europe : gratuitous tournament. Press Poker Tour, a gratuitous tournament which will be played with three steps has just been created by these operators. After two months of competition, the winner can win a car and a €10,000 package allowing him to reach the Partouche poker Tour finale phase.

Thursday, 04 June 2009

WSOP anniversary tournament : A bracelet and $1.8 millions for Vitaly Lunkin

The $40,000 buy-in tournament marking the World Series of Poker’s anniversary and seeing the participation of 201 players was been achieved by the Russian player, Vitaly Lunkin. His first position at this tournament makes him win his second WSOP golden bracelet and also a marvellous prize of $1.8 millions. During the 2008 edition, Lunkin already won indeed the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em. At the course of this final competition, several hours of game were necessary before public know the champion. The short stack of this party, Ted Forest was the first eliminated. As soon as the 19th deal, Noah Schwartz raise brought him to display his entire stack before being defeated.

Thursday, 04 June 2009

Event#4 of the WSOP : More than 6,000 participants

The most prestigious poker tournament in the world, the World Series of Poker has just overcome another stage of its existence by registering a record participation at one of its Event. With more than 6,000 players which enrolled for the $1,000 buy-in tournament, it is almost a new record of affluence that the event has just signed for this 2009’s edition. In spite of the financial crisis prevailing in the world and the turnover decrease of casinos, the tournament posted up complete long time before its beginning, obliging so organizers to increase the foreseen places of 400 extra seats. Rio poker room and the Seafood restaurant in the hotel were changed for this occasion to receive players unexpected by the 5,600 initial places.

Wednesday, 03 June 2009

WSOP 2009 : Andrew Cohen takes possession of the first bracelet

The first World Series of Poker Event 2009 dedicated to employees of Las Vegas enterprises saw the first bracelet award of this 40th edition of WSOP. A barman of the Palms’ Casino, Andrew Cohen had indeed won the $500 buy-in competition and received so the $83,778 of gain for this tournament. At the beginning, 861 players from different hotels and gaming room of this famous city played in order to tempt chances to try to change their destiny. After the Day 1 in which nine out of ten of the participants have already been eliminated, the other half of those who took part in Day 2 didn’t give any presentiment that they would stay long in the game because of their short stack.

Wednesday, 03 June 2009

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Wednesday, 03 June 2009

Hall of Fame: Surfers are eligible for voting

After having enrolled among its members in 2008 Dewey Tomko and Henry Orenstein, the famous temple of poker legends, Hall of Fame of the World Series of Poker which foresees to enthrone new members this year, decides to adopt a new formula. From this year, legendary players who can become a member of this pantheon are those who are the most appreciated by public. For the first time, surfers are then accepted to carry out vote for designating players they like and that they want to see the name registered in this temple of poker legends. For this year, the vote is open until the 2nd of July 2009. The 10 players names held by the public will be announced by the WSOP organizer, Harrah’s Entertainment during the great final of this November tournament.

Tuesday, 02 June 2009

Poker tournaments for students: Crowd record in two tournaments

If some decrease of poker tournaments for students’ frequenting was observed during previous editions, organizers adopted new formulas this year. The two tournaments especially dedicated to students, the “Partouche Poker Tour Etudiants” and the third edition of Campus Poker Masters registered all a crowd record. For the Partouche Poker Tour, the modification of the satellite of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux structure and the tournaments gratuitousness allowed attracting more than 4.200 students from 150 schools and universities. For this tournament which was played on last May 17th at “Forges les Eaux” casino, it was after a rude competition which came to end at 2:00 a.m. that Arthur Weil, student at Engineer School HEI of Lille won the title of champion. For this victory, he won so the buy-in of €8,500 which will allow him to participate to the Partouche Poker Tour main Event which will be held on the 1st to the 6th of September, at Palm Beach in Cannes. The vice champion, Paul Halpert, from Pharma School of Nantes won a plasma screen.

Tuesday, 02 June 2009

WSOP: The tournament gives its support to Nevada Cancer Institute

With the numerous poker charity tournaments dedicated to support aid organization or Institute of research on incurable diseases, WSOP organizers decided too to associate the image of this tournament with tasks having the same objective. From this year on, starting from Las Vegas edition which will begin before long, WSOP organizers have resolved to collaborate with Nevada Cancer Institute. Indeed, gamers’ gains won’t be given to this charitable trust, but the original idea to let every participant to give or not, a tiny part of their prize to the institute is suggested.

Monday, 01 June 2009

Poker accessories: €11 millions of turnover in 2008 in France

With the increase of the popularity of poker moreover on TV, thanks to great tournaments broadcasting like World Series of Poker (WSOP), World Poker Tour (WPT), Canal + Poker Tour… as well as the success of poker online games, playing real cards interest also more and more French. According to NPD group, an international enterprise for marketing study, a real strengthening of poker was noticed in France these two last years. In 2008, this enterprise which collected data near big distributors covering 70% of the French market asserts that the sale of playing cards, chips and poker suitcases have reached € 11 millions.

Monday, 01 June 2009

How To Tell The Best From The Rest

The popularity of Online poker have skyrocketed in recent years. This is due to the ever increasing number of online poker websites appearing on the internet.

Monday, 01 June 2009