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In recent months, the State of Pennsylvania has been trying to find a way via a gambling-related bill to have a regulated online poker market, and eventually, an interstate igaming acitivity. The latest proposal is dated last Wednesday with John Payne, member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives, introducing the “House Bill 649”. Though no details of the said bill are released online, a portion of Pennsylvania’s poker community thought that it shares close similarities with the past attempts that are currently under discussion in other states. Listed on this bill is a 14% tax, along with $ 5 million of license fee on online poker license applicants and all other igaming operators willing to expore Pennsylvania’s gaming hub.

Early this week, Cercle-Clichy Montmartre , one of the most-frequented gambling club in Paris, had been the meeting point of all poker enthusiasts punching their tickets to the Winamax Poker Tour (WiPT). They were qualified via 38 free qualifying events run in 43 different cities. Thursday night, only 9 players remained in the hunt for the top prize of the € 1,500 buy-in WiPT High Roller. By topping a massive field of 176 participants, Italy’s Carlo Savinelli clinched victory after a knotty clash against France’s Frederic Coranson. As a runner-up, the latter consoled himself with € 40,000 of prize. The highly talented Italian player now adds € 55,000 to his impressive career earnings. This is actually his first win among the four major poker tournaments he participated in over the past three months. As a reminder, Carlo Savinelli finished second place in the World Poker Tour National Paris in December 2014, reached two ITM places in the EPT Deauville, and final-tabled the WPT National Brussels- High Roller. Now, his overall career earnings nearly amount to $ 1 million.

Marvellous Poker Tour, the largest live poker tournament known for its high payouts, has just been hit by a thunder-like news following the unexpected end of partership between Roger Hairabedian and MyJoaPok. Subsequently, Roger Hairabedian was forced to postpone the Marvellous Poker Tour Grand Final, a poker festivity initially scheduled from May 25 to 31 , 2015, at Grand Casino La Mamounia, in Marrakesh. As a reminder, this event of $ 10,000 buy-in with a guaranteed prize pool of $ 1 million sets 30% of the player-field to go home with cashes while most of tournaments only share 10 to 15% of the total buy-in bills. Interesting as this structure is, this additional figure is sure to lure many poker inthousiasts into participation.

France’s online gambling regulator ARJEL (Autorité de Régulation des Jeux En Ligne) has recently brought back the liquidity sharing initiative on the table of discussion. Many would argue that the fact that France has always kept its poker market ring-fenced is one of the toughest blocks preventing its poker industry from thriving in recent years. Thus, liquidity sharing agreement with other European countries is the only way to give a boost to France’s online poker industry. However, a pretty modest number of legislators discarded this encouraging initiative during a parliament session held in March 2014. As for ARJEL President “Charles Coppolani”, he shows a strong commitment for a shared players-pools with Spain and Italy. The process is apparently moving apace especially thanks to the support of the UMP’s Dino Cinieri on Amendment No. 1658 on January 30th (2015).

The freshly-completed World Poker Tour National Brussels 2015 saw a talented Belgian poker player sealing the win after four days of battle in the poker room of Grand Casino Brussels - Viage. The WPTN Brussels Main Event has brought together 144 players on Day 1A and 247 on Day 1B, bringing it to a total field of 391 participants. In comparison with last year’s 376-player field, that of 2015 sees a slight increase. Of the 145 players making it through Day 2, only 21 managed to claim their tickets for the next phase. 30 players were kicked out during the first 45 minutes of play on Day 2. While a modest number of participants left the Grand Casino Brussels empty-handed, others successfully reached “In The Money” places though eventually sent to the rail.

Held at the Hippodrome Casino in London, the British Poker Awards celebrated its annual event on Monday night by rewarding the best personalities, poker rooms and tournaments in the UK for the year 2014. While the Global Poker Index (GPI) ensures the same awards ceremony in the United States and in Europe, that in the UK is organised by Bluff Europe. This 5th annual British Poker Awards actually sees Victoria Coren Mitchell stealing the show with three highly-deserved awards for her two freshly-won European Poker Tour titles (San Remo). Vicky Coren stepped out of Hippodrome Casino with the “Poker Personality Of the Year”, “Social Media” and “Performance Of the Year” awards.

The whole Nottingham (UK) has been abuzz since Sunday afternoon with the UK Poker Championships 2015 Main Event held at Dusk Till Dawn (DTD). For an entry-fee of £ 1,000, this poker event recorded 66 entrants on Day 1A. And the field is expected to increase given the fact that the UKPC Main Event features a gigantic guaranteed prize pool of £ 1,000,000; besides, the event includes several starting flights – on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. When Day 1A concluded after 12 levels of play, only 13 players would return to DTD this Saturday, with Andreas Olympus bagging the chip lead. He will enter Day 2 battle with 474,000 in chips. A number of players will also enter Day 2 with more confidence; they garnered over 300,000 chips at the end of Day 1A: Ian Simpson (357,500), Davide Magnan (335,000) and Martin Hogarty (334,000).

In early February, Caesars Entertainment released the detailed schedule of the 46th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). Indeed, the festivity will kick off on May 27 at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, in Las Vegas. This 2015 WSOP actually features 68 gold bracelet events, one of which will exclusively be played online. This is the great novelty of this season. Of course, not only will players get to Rio All Suite to participate in this poker festivity; they will also be offered a special opportunity to battle it out on WSOP’s online poker room (2-day event) –from July 2 to 3 – for another gold bracelet. It is about the No-Limit Hold'em Online Event, which is ranked # 64 in this 2015 WSOP schedule. The buy-in is set to $ 1,000. Interestingly, the face-to-face clash between the two remaining finalists will be played live at the brick-and-mortar “Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino”.

The first Platinum Event of the Poker SA 2015 has just concluded with Patrick Whelan crushing a tough 80-player field to seal the win. The event was held last weekend in the freshly reshaped poker room of “The Maryland Hotel” in Adelaide (Australia). Accessible for a buy-in of $ 1,100, the first edition of the Platinum Event 2015 hit the largest attendace rates in the history of Poker SA. Actually, 72 players joined the event, plus 8 re-entries. This 80-player field generates an enticing prize pool of $ 80,000. The 80-player field attracts a number of notable poker players, including Jonathan Karamalikis and Xuan Liu, neither would make it through the final table.

Barcelona has been vibrating under the rhythm of the national poker championship “Campeonato de España de Poker 2015” (CEP) since February 18. This is actually the first stop of the CEP Season X; its two starting days seduce 457 participants, all paying the € 660 of entry-fee. Of the 457-player field, 143 made it through Day 2. And the field gradually trimmed to 17 when Day 2 ended. After 10 levels of play, Pedro "ThinPoker" Lamarca would bag the chip lead with 2,636,000 in chips. This highly skilled Spanish poker player is well placed to grab his very first poker tournament title after falling to second place in the “Española de San Póker Sebastiánv” (Asier Crespo won the event).

The schedule is now “in” for the fifth Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown. As reported by Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, the great event will return April 6 to 22, 2015. This poker festivity is jointly run with the World Poker Tour (Season XIII) Hard Rock Championship. The ballrooms of Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will actually be reshaped into a poker room for the 17-day battle. On the agenda are 20 enticing events, including the World Poker Tour Hard Rock Championship Main Event. Guaranteeing a gigantic prize pool of $ 5 million, the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Championship remains the highly anticipated event in this festivity. The Main Event will take place from April 16 to 22. It features three starting flights for an entry-fee of $ 3,500.

So far, California is struggling to find a common ground for a legalised online poker market like Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey now have. A new online poker bill, the third of its kind, has just emerged this week; the first being submitted by Assemblyman Mike Gatto in December (AB 9), the second was introducted by Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer in January (AB 167). Named “SB 278 and AB 431”, this third draft law was introduced on Thursday by State Senator Isadore Hall and Assemblyman Adam Gray. As a reminder, both men are influential members in their respective institution, and are charmen in their legislative house’s Governmental Organization Committee. That being said, their joint bills are more likely to be passed.

A few days prior to the kick-off date of the Winamax Poker Tour Grand Final (WiPT), all seats for Day 1 flights, namely A and C are already booked. As for Day 1B and Day 1D, all tickets are nearly sold out. That being said, those who have not booked their seats yet are invited to register now. Note that the entry-fee for this final is tagged € 550, and this, for those who failed to qualify in satellite events. Of course, players who have earned their passes via online and live qualifying poker tournaments, along with the 150 players who have successfully won their tickets via free WiPT regional events, will simply wait the time when they can show off their skills on the tables of the Paris-based gambling club, Cercle-Clichy Montmartre.

The Boston native of 33, Anthony Zinno, emerged victorious of the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic 2015 Main Event, a poker festivity held from February 7 to 16 in the poker room of Niagara Falls Casino, Ontario (Canada). Zinno actually wrapped the event up by adding a second WPT title to his career achievement. As a reminder, Zinno set the whole Atlantic City alight in September 2013 by winning the WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event. Thanks to these two WPT trophies, the Boston-based talented poker player now secures “No.1” on the provisional WPT Player Of the Year rankings. Of course, Anthony is not the only one who wins two WPT titles; his feat is ranked 21st on th diary of WPT circuit.

The Director-General of casino operations at Groupe Barrière, Eric Cavillon, has officially confirmed that Deauville is no longer included in the upcoming European Poker Tour (EPT) schedule. While Deauville has been erased from the agenda, Cannes will always play host to the World Poker Tour National from May 28 to 31 at Croisette Casino Barriere. This will be the last poker tournament of international scale in France this year as the World Series of Poker Europe left Enghien-les-Bains to Berlin. Due to the declining attendance and binding rules on taxation, the organizers decided to turn their backs on the French market and head to other countries in Southern and Eastern Europe. And it really makes sense that Malta has been introduced into the 2015 EPT Schedule. Malta will run its very first EPT event in a month.

After three days of hard-fought poker battle at Hollywood Casino Toledo, in Ohio, the $ 1,115 buy-in Hollywood Poker Open Toledo Regional Main Event has just been concluded with the coronation of Charles Maxcy. A total field of 288 players were in the hunt for the top prize. The field gradually decreased as the poker tournament progressed: 53 were heading to Day 2 while 9 would make it through the final table. Of the 288-player field, 27 have made the money. Any way, it would take about four hours of clash before the bubble burst. Unexpectedly, a number of notable poker players hit the rail with no cash in hands. Include the likes of Nick Pupillo and Michael Hahn. Ditto for Tom Midena who fell to 10th place and wrapped the event up as the final table’s bubble boy.

Hollywood Casino Toledo (Ohio) has been abuzz since last weekend with the 2015 Hollywood Poker Open Toledo Regional Main Event. More than 180 players have made the trip to Toledo and participated in the poker tournament of $ 1,115 buy-in. 104 players battled it out on Day 1A, only 16 of whom would survive after 14 levels of play. James Wright bagged up Day 1A’s lead with 255,500 chips, followed by Charles Maxcy and Wayne Smith, with a respective stack of 202,500 and 196,000 chips . Those making it through the next battle include the 2014 HPO Lawrenceburg runner-up “Michael Hahn” (with 178,000 chips), talented Kim Schinco, Bobby Brown, Chuck Schwanger, John Nelson, Ron Bell, Kenny Zuspan and Raymond Ezzie.

Anthony Zinno captured his second WPT title by winning the World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic 2015 Main Event of $ 5,000 buy-in at Niagara Falls Casino. Anthony Zinno started the final day as a chipleader; he secured the lead until the ultimate hand. This is actually his second big victory in the WPT poker circuit, the first being at Borgata in 2013. The American poker pro cashed CAD 399,579 (approximately USD 252,420) of prize as he crushed a number of high-profile opponents including Mark Bailey, Corey Hochman, David Cloutier, Jeremy Halaska, Erik Cajelais, Emanuele Carpignano, Henry Tran and Lu Zhang. In addition to the top prize, Anthony Zinno was also awarded 1,440 Card Player POY points; he is now ranked 9th place in the Player Of the Year standings.

The Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) Season 7 kicked off its very first stop five days ago at Crown Perth in Western Australia. This poker event concluded last weekend with Michael Kane topping a total field of 192 players to win the top prize. The ultimate day of the ANZPT Perth saw 9 players in the hunt for the title: Gregory Wheeler, Michael Doyle, Raiden Kan, Michael Kane, Navin Bechar, Robert McLean, Michael Guzzardi, Bryan Huang and Stephen McHugh. Michael Kane had to travel thousands of miles to seal the win in this live poker tournament. The Scotsman stunningly managed to crush the whole field while entering the final table 5th in chip count.

The field was trimmed to 19 when Day 2 of the 2015 WPT Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event ended. After the Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event, the top prize of which was captured by Brian Altman, the World Poker Tour continues the festivity with an action-packed stop in Canada since last weekend. Held at Fallsview Casino Resort, the $ 5,000 buy-in WPT Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event actually attracts 419 poker enthusiasts, 119 of the pack would make it through Day 2. Andrew Pantling bagged up the chip lead heading to Day 2 with 384,200 chips, followed by Shannon Shorr, George Gaffiero, Faisal Khan and Sylvain Siebert, the four other players armed with over 250,000 in chips. Surprisingly, all these men failed to qualify to Day 3 battle.

France’s poker world has just been struck by an apocalyptic thunder. The European Poker Tour (EPT) will no longer include the whole France in its schedule. While it was just a rumour a few months ago, the information has officially been confirmed by the Barrière Group. Since 2005, Deauville has played host to an EPT event. Evidence is that the partnership between Barrière’s and the EPT was fading over the years starting with the last-minute cancellation of the EPT Deauville Season 3. The EPT even decided not to make a stop in Deauville the following season. In 2009, the two gambling giants joined hands again to relaunch the event which has almost become routine for poker enthusiasts in France since then.

Liquidity sharing among EU member states’ online poker market has always been brought on the table of discussion in recent years. However, the real action is still far from being undertaken. Actually, online gambling and games of chance in Europe remain a complex topic do deal with, and the European Commission is likely not poised to make a step forwards in establishing a common gaming market across the European Union. While the EU poker community hoped for a sustainable solution to this matter with the ICE Totally Gaming convention held in London from Thursday February 3 to 5, the said liquidity sharing agreement is still immerged in uncertainty. “Harrie Temmink”, the Deputy Director of the Online and Postal Services Unit, part of the Internal Market and Services Directorate-General, emphasized fruitful collaboration between regulators and the exchange of information in this ICE Totally Gaming conference.

Swedish e-poker giant Poker.se has been awarding the best poker players in Sweden for six years now. The award categories include the (live poker) Player Of the Year, Online Player Of the Year, Best Poker Ambassador and the Rookie Of the Year. Thanks to his stunning victory at the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event, Martin Jacobson garnered 80% of votes, a fairly winning percentage crowing himself “Player of the Year” in Sweden. As a reminder, the talented Swedish poker player cashed $ 10 million for his 45th annual WSOP (Las Vegas) win, an event held last July. Martin Jacobson’s career achievement now includes 5 titles (2010 ANZPT II, 2013 WPT National Dublin, 2013 EPT London, 2014 EPT Vienna and the 2014 WSOP), more than 25 final-table finishes and many other ITM places. All of these feats allow him to amass total career earnings of $ 14.9 million.

The Florida stop of the World Poker Tour (WPT) has just concluded with the victory of Brian Altman at the Lucky Hearts Poker Open. Interestingly, a total of 1,027 entries were made, generating an enticing prize pool of $ 3 million. The LHPO Main Event was also marked by the presence of a wide panel of notable players, including former WPT winners Noah Schwartz, Jared Jaffee,Nenad Medic, Anthony Zinno, Amir Babakhani, Andy Frankenberger, and Shawn Cunix. After a few days of tough battle, six players would reach the final table of this poker tournament. Atop the chip count, Mark Dube entered the final table with 11,620,000 in chips; he was followed by Brian Altman with 10,330,000. Mark Dube met Brian Altman in the heads-up with a neat 2 to 1 chip advantage. Then Brian Altman would grab back the lead and ultimately win the event. For his victory, Brian Altman cashed $ 723,008 while runner-up Mark Dube consoled himself with $ 434,462 of prize.

According to WPT President Adam Pilska, the World Poker Tour (WPT) Season XII was a great success. The upcoming season is, of course, the logical continuation of this truly successful poker tour. This time, the organizers come up with loads of new things to make it more interesting, and especially to better serve poker enthusiasts. Thus, the WPT Season XIII will be marked by, among others, the customized Hublot watches awards (for the winners), the return trips to Bestbet Jacksonville and the Fallsview Casino Resort, along with the four events from Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, the WPT Monster Invitational included. Highly skilled poker players such as Scotty Nguyen, Vanessa Selbst, Antonio Esfandiari, Tony Dunst, David Williams and Phil Laak are expected to join this poker battle.

While the MSPT Running Aces Harness Park has just been concluded, the Mid-States Poker Tour Season VI continues this weekend with the MSPT Wisconsin State Poker Championship. As a reminder, Ervin Bjerga emerged victorious at the second stop of the MSPT Season VI last week by topping a 354-player field for $ 91,941. The next stop (3rd) is scheduled from February 14 to 22 at Ho-Chunk Gaming Wisconsin Dells. This Wisconsin-based gambling facility has always played host to MSPT events since the launch of the tour. And this is the first time that it runs the same poker tournament but named “The Wisconsin State Poker Championship”.

The freshly-completed France Poker Series along with the European Poker Tour Deauville have attracted a massive field of particpants. Currently, the festivity continues with the Everest Poker Live. Many are poker enthusiasts from France and from the neighbouring countries making the trip to this event hosted at “Pasino de Saint-Amand-les-Eaux”. Actually, the € 300 buy-in Deep Stack Event seduced 224 players, generating an enticing prize pool of € 61,152. This two-days event concluded with the victory of Wilfrid Schaeffer; he beat Julien Baldassarre in the heads-up. Schaeffer cashed € 11,252 plus a € 150 in tickets. Runner-up Julien Baldassarre, for his part, walked away with € 8,000 of consolation prize plus € 75 in tickets. Fabri Cardenia completes the podium for € 6,000 + €50 of tickets.

The RunGoodGear.com Poker Series’ stop at Downstream Casino Resort in Joplin, Missouri has just been completed with Saied Moradi winning the top prize. Talented poker player Moradi had experienced some up-and-down movement all along this RunGoodGear.com Poker Series Main Event before he emerged victorious. 328 players part took in this poker tournament, only 9 of whom would reach the final table. Mesgana Tesfalidet was the first to leave the final table for $ 4,440. Dwight Farrell fell to 8th place for $ 5,290 while Saied Moradi made a stunningly high step upwards, though being the short stack at the start of the final of eight. Shortly after, Terry Presley hit the rail (7th) for $ 6,424 in hands; Jeremy Gilmore finished 6th for $ 7,746. As for Ryan Tepen, he earned $ 9,635 for his 5th-place finish.

Nevada is one of three States with active and regulated online gambling market in the United States. While Las Vegas remains the most-frequented destination for gamblers as it plays host to the world-famed annual World Series of Poker (WSOP), the game of poker in Nevada only represents a tiny part of the state’s gambling industry. Statistically, about 10 % of Nevada’s overal gambling market is owed to live and online poker industry. According to the freshly-released report by the Nevada Gaming Control Board, Nevada’s poker revenues experienced a slight drop of 3% to $ 119,904,000 in 2014, compared to last year’s $ 123,891,000. And this is the first time in ten years when poker revenues dropped below $ 120 million. Apart from this, the number of poker rooms also plummeted in 2014 with 79 establishments remain operational, down from the 88 active rooms in 2013. Any way, Nevada’s overal gaming revenues amounted to 11.02 billion in 2014, a slight drop from last year’s $ 11.14 billion.

After 12 days of hard-boiled poker battle at Casino Barrière Deauville, The Norman stop of the European Poker Tour (EPT) concluded with the victory of Bulgaria’s Ognyan Dimov. Ognyan actually bests a gigantic field of 591 players to cash the € 543,700 first-place prize. He really dominated the final table during which he easily knocked Frenchies Benjamin Buhr, Benjamin Pollak and Joseph Carlino out. Joseph Carlino early headed to the poker tournament exit after only one hand. Fallen to 6th place, the Frenchman walked away with € 115,650. Fifteen hands later, Lithuania’s Andrius Bielskis hit the rail for € 147,760 (5th place).

As usual, an update of the Player of the Year rankings along with the top 300 tournament poker players in the world is released by the Global Poker Index (GPI) every week. This week, the GPI Top 300 has undergone some up-and-down movements. While Germany’s Ole Schemion secures the lead for seventh straight week, Scott Seiver has won 6 spots to 2nd. Eventually, he has relegated Daniel Negreanu to 11th. Making up the Top 10 are Pratyush Buddiga (3rd), Bryn Kenney(4th), Jason Mercier(5th), Davidi Kitai(6th), Ami Barer(7th), Stephen Chidwick(8th), Dan Smith(9th) and Jonathan Duhamel(10th).

The Day 4 of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville 2015 Main Event has just ended with 15 players remain in the race after four 90-minute levels of play. Atop the chip count, Joseph "Jojo" Carlino is heading to the penultimate battle with an impressive stack of 2,757,000 chips. Two other players also enter Day 5 with over 2 million in chips: Carlo Savinelli (2,565,000) and Benjamin Buhr (2,001,000). Armed with 267,000 chips, Daniel Carlsson will battle it out as the short stack of the day. Benjamin Pollak, Kevin MacPhee and Olivier P are part of the world-famed poker players qualified for Day 5 battle.

They were 138 players to battle it out on Day 3 of the European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event. When the day ended, only 87 players would make the money, and only 36 of whom remain in the race heading to Day 4. Italy’s Filippo Lazzaretto was the first player to get off the track. His 87th place finish allowed him to earn € 8,810 though. Jannick Wrang is the bubble boy of this poker event. While Irishman Alex Tikhoniouk was atop the chip counts at the start of Day 3, It is now the Greekman Georgeos Kapalas who leads the pack heading to Day 4 after five 90-minutes levels of play. As a reminder, the 2015 EPT Deauville Main Event has attracted 592 players, all paying the entry-fee of € 5,300.

The Paris-based gambling club “Aviation Club de France” will not be placed into liquidation! However, Chief Executive of the poker tournaments and main contributor in the ACF Gaming Committee, Nicolas Fraïoli, announced on Wednesday that ACF will be put into compulsory liquidation next week. Later that day, the ACF employee representative denied this controversial statement. Oddly, Nicolas Fraïoli himself published another statement of apology on Facebook hours later. He stated that the information he received on Wednesday morning- February 4th, were unfounded. He also noted that ACF still has a chance to re-open after four months of shutdown. Admittedly, the closure of ACF, one of the most frequented poker rooms in Paris, is a real blow for its customers, and especially "Les 213" , those who have always fought hard to get back to work.

335 players returned on Tuesday to Casino Barrière’s poker room to battle it out for the European Poker Tour Deauville title (Day 2). More than half of the field was eliminated after six 75-minute levels of play. The off-the-track panel includes Fabrice Soulier, David Vamplev, Vicky Coren, Lucien Cohen, Steven Moreau, Erwann Pécheux, Ilan Boujenah, Anton Wigg, Jake Cody, Gaëlle Baumann and Damien Lhommeau. Actually, the game resume this Wednesday with 138 players remained in the race. Irishman Tikhoniouk Alex is heading to Day 3 on the chip count’s driver-seat; he has 312,400 chips, the average stack being 129,000 chips. The Top 5of the chip count is comprised of notable poker players in Europe; alongside 2014 Sixty Max and 2013 Celtic Poker Tour champion “Tikhoniouk”, the chip leader board includes Kevin McPhee (308,300), Gujan Poker Series winner “Adrien Guyon” (291,100), Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (281,400) and Benjamin Pollak (275,400).

As scheduled, the France Poker Awards 2014 has been held at O2 Bar-Casino Barrière in Deauville with a great number of French poker enthusiasts attending the ceremony. Note that the European Poker Tour Deauville has also been running in conjunction with this awards presentation. While the Player Of the Year (Erwann Pecheux) and Female Player Of the Year (Allera Florence) nominees were known earlier prior to the ceremony as listed on the current Global Poker Index rankings, the names of award-winners in other categories only get unveiled on Tuesday February 3rd, 2015. This lively evening ceremony has seduced many poker fans, all coming in great number to attend the GPI 2014 France Poker Awards presented by former “Maison du Bluff” participant, Vanessa Lawrens.

Casino Barrière in Deauville is playing host to the European Poker Tour Deauville 2015. The Main Event promises to be exciting with a total field of 591 players registered during the two starting days of the festival. In fact, Day 1A brought together 199 live poker tournament players while Day 1B recorded 392, bringing the total field to 591 players. In comparison with last year’s 671, there is a slight decrease in terms of participation. Any way, Nathan Gozlan is the chip leader of the first starting day with 148,500 chips while Guillaume Darcourt leads the whole pack heading to Day 2. Hitting the rail so early are Quentin Lecomte, Tom Jarry, Arnaud Mattern and many other skilled players. Only 108 players would return to Casino Barrière after eight 75-minute levels of play on Day 1A. Robert Schulz, Anton Wigg, Alexander Ivarsson, Franck Kalfon, Adeniya Martin, Benjamin Buhr, Dimitar Danche, David Vamplew and Jan-Eric Schwippert, for their part, make it through the next phase.

The Aussie Millions Poker Championship $ 250,000 buy-in Super High Roller was a clash of titans. Many are those world famed poker players who have made the trip to Melbourne and participated in the final event of the festival. The 2015 LK Boutique $ 250,000 Challenge actually saw 25 players in the hunt for the top prize, only 5 of whom were in the money. And it was Phil Ivey who bested the 25-player field to win the event. This time, Phil Ivey has come victorious over the likes of Scott Seiver, Mike McDonald, Erik Seidel and Doug Polk... to grab the first-place prize of $ 1,713,285 home ($ 2,205,000 AUD).

Manny Stavropoulos has just emerged victorious from the most-liked poker tournament in the Asia-Pacific region. Indeed, Australia’s Stavropoulos dominated the 2015 Aussie Millions Poker Championship Main Event; he topped a gigantic field of 648 players. Last Sunday was the ultimate day with only seven players returning to the Crown Casino’s poker room (in Melbourne) after a week-long poker battle. Anthony Legg, Brian Rast, Richard Lyndaker, Joel Douaglin, Manny Stavropoulos, James Rann and Lennart Uphoff, all played a good fight at the start of the day. But the the tiny field gradually trimmed to 2, with Manny Stavropoulos and Lennart Uphoff remaining in the race. Though Uphoff entered the ultimate battle with a 2-to-1 chip advantage over Stavropoulos, the latter gradually managed to garner an important number of chips to eventually win the title.

The France Poker Series (FPS) Season IV Main Event concluded last weekend with Anthony Apicella winning the title. In fact, 22 players returned to the poker room of Casino Barrière in Deauville to battle it out for the Grande Final. However, only 8 of them would make it through the televised final table. The 22-player field’s battle was a hard fought one before it played down to 8. Indeed, the list of the finalists was set when Sacha Israel hit the rail before the dinner break. Speaking of the heads-up, Anthony Apicella faced Felix Lambertz; eventually it was the first who emerged victorious. While Apicella pocketed the top prize of €197,000, runner-up Lambertz would console himself with € 125,500.
 
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