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An employee of casino succumbed to the call of easy money. It is not obvious to work in a place where money appears inexhaustible, compared to all this money, the wages of a simple employee remain indeed ridiculous. A technician in charge of the maintenance of machines in casino of Baule, 32 years old was indeed catch red-handed last May handling machines into his profit. He adulterated 19 slot out of the 200 slots which possess this casino. The young resident of Sarthe granted 4,200 euros, the equivalent of 2,100 tokens. Let us recall that the casino of Baule is placed at the 40th place of the 197 casinos in France.

The declaration by the owner of casinos Groups Partouche of a new agreement concerning its banking obligations is a true oxygen puff for the group. With this new agreement, the group will be able to continue its activity by preserving its independence. According to its announcement made on Friday October the 23th, 2009, the group is obliged to give up a significant part of its assets after a renegotiation of its credits. Among the concessions, the second group of casino in France should separate from 100 million euros of credits, certainly by putting on sale some as of its casinos and then to transfer the major part of surplus cashflow. This agreement lets the group to continue its traditional activities in particular casinos but also the organization of tournaments of poker but it will not be able to consider a new activity.

For a few days, it circulates on Internet and in traditional media that the French chains of television, Canal+, which had the rights of retransmission of the World Poker Tour (WPT) intended to stop its diffusion even if the emission had a large audience at the time of the last season of World Poker Tour. For recall, it is this emission presented by Patrick Bruel who contributed to the popularization of poker in France. It is partly thanks to Patrick Bruel that the poker knows this enormous passion today. And hundreds of thousands of players put themselves at poker thanks to looking at this emission. Even if the popularity of the World Poker Tour in France and that of Patrick Bruel is not any more to contradict, rumors say that the chains holder of the rights of the emission would have evoked a too high cost to decide the ending of the diffusion of the next seasons of the World Poker Tour.

Developers of application for the famous product of Apple, the iPhone, do not cease to launch data-processing applications and programs for all uses and all preferences. Almost all fields and disciplines have their own applications for the iPhone. In poker category, there are many applications; some are very useful while others concern gadget without any utility. Among the applications iPhone/iPod touch dedicated to poker and whose utility is not any more to show is the “iPhone Poker Manager”: which is a superb software for iPhone which makes it possible to manage tournaments of poker. In this range of innovation of “iPhone Poker Manager”, a new application for the terminal of Apple comes to make its appearance, its name is: Tourneys. This new software was especially conceived for enthusiast of poker.

The final table of the World Poker Tour Festa Al Lago has just found its 2009winner. The six people who disputed the title who were Freddy Deeb, Tommy Vedes, Jason Lavallee, Craig Crivello, Jason Burt and Shawn Cunix designated after eight hours of meeting the winner. Thus, glory and fortune returned to Tommy Vedes, already holder of two WPT bracelets. He allots at the same occasion the check of $1.2 million for the winner. However, Freddy Deeb, the chipleader of the meeting was largely the favorite since the beginning of the part with 3.8 million tokens. Deeb was pursued closely by Shawn Cunix who had 3.67 million tokens in his possession. In the third place Tommy Vedes who holds an approximately stack of 3 millions tokens.

Anyone cannot deny that the year 2009 is a real year of ostentation for French poker players and French poker. After Christophe Savary and Thomas Bichon who have just carried very high the color of France by gaining each one a stage of the prestigious World Poker Tour (WPT), here that another Frenchman win a big title. Indeed, it was the French Christophe Benzimra who was triumphant of the Polish stage of the European Poker Tour (EPT). This 47 years old contractor living in Romania took down in Warsaw his first victory in an important tournament. It sets out again at his place richer of approximately 350,000 euros. He started the final table with a stake among the smallest of all. But he succeeded a formidable gamble even if he were not had a presentiment for the victory. Even if he had betted all of his stakes with “two Jacks”, he found 2 payers who show “two Aces” and “two Queen” and terrace his two adversaries by touching a four of a kind on the flop.

Foxwoods World Poker Final 2009 has just started in famous Foxwoods Resorts Casino in Connecticut. Foxwoods World Poker Final is a series of tournaments which proceed each year in the casino of the same name. The event will end only towards half of November with the stage of the World Poker Tour in the casino. For this year, edition 2009 of Foxwoods World Poker Final which will be held from October the 19th to November the 10th will not include less than twenty tournaments of poker. Tournaments of NL Hold' EM, Limit Hold' EM, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud 8 or Better, PL Omaha, PL Omaha 8 or Better, HORSE will be proposed at this appointment and two important events will also be proposed there : a tournament especially for women the “Ladies with $400” and another reserved to the third age “The Senior with $500”.

In spite of the difficulty for World Poker Tour Festa Lago to attract players, the event was even a great appointment of poker during which big players did not fail to offer a superb spectacle. In spite of the fact that they were only 275 to take part in this WPT, that menas a fall of approximately 20% compared with last year, the suspense worthy of a great meeting like the WSOP was lived there. With the new method of inscription that this tournament offered, a method of late inscription which authorizes players to enter during the Day 2, only thirty players came to make tardily their inscription like Kenny Tran, Andy Bloch, Todd Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Chris Ferguson. And in spite of this delay, they profited the 60,000 tokens offered but they had even much difficulty to face other competitors.

If the eyes of enthusiasts of poker are riveted in Poland for the stage of the European Poker Tour which is currently held there, know that Las Vegas accommodates an event quite as important as the EPT, it acts of the WPT Festa Al Lago. Once again, it is Bellagio which receives the Main Event of the World Poker Tour Festa Al Lago. For this stage, we can say that players did not hustle themselves; indeed they were only 264 to take the departure of the tournament. Once more, this weak participation can be allotted to the calendar of tournaments of poker which follow one another; effectively the number of tournaments does not cease increasing each year. Each large city of the planet has its own tournament whereas some ten years ago, this privilege was only reserved for large capitals.

Face to the economic recession, owners of casino of the Cannes-native basin did not miss imagination to attract players and customers who started to desert gradually these places of entertainments. In this end of the 2009season, casino owners of this locality agree all to say that the season was morose. Proof of the ambient resentment, a fall of about 10% of the tax of the gross product of game was recorded. This year it is 9 million Euros whereas the year last this one was 9.2 millions Euros.

After a first season more than successful in the USA, the TV program "The Best Damn Poker" lands in Europe for the biggest pleasure of amateurs of poker of the Old Continent.

After the few days of poker under the sun of the city of Marrakesh for the last one World Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour already puts its suitcases in the country of the krowka for some freshness. The number of players who took the departure lets thinks that poker players are rather nervous and regret the sun because they were only 88 during the Day1A. But we could also assign it to the increasing number of poker tournaments which are organized all over the world. For this fourth Polish Open, several players used by European Poker Tour were seen in the paths of the Hyatt Regency Casino. Among the 88 players who had paid their $6,000 buy-in, Arnaud Mattern, Manuel Bevand, Gilbert Diaz, Almira Skripchenko, Peter Eastgate, Angel Guillen, Luca Pagano, Alexander Kravchenko and JC Alvarado were found there.

An exceptional affair was dropped by the county court of Montpelier on last Tuesday. It is one of rare times that the justice had to stand out against a casino gain. Marie-Hélène and Francis, two ardent fans of casinos and gambling machines quarrel a very big jackpot. Reminder of the facts: the story began March the 6th of this year in the Casino of Palavas-les-Flots, in the Hérault district. This day there, Marie-Hélène inserts a 50-euro note into the crack of the machine n°168 but it was Mr Francis who was at the commands of the slot and who had pressed on the button. After some seconds of cold sweat and suspense the chance smiles to them. The €2,174,667.15 mega jackpot has just fallen.

The new French law about online games, which had just been adopted by the National Assembly, is going to have considerable incidences on the way of playing of French people. Its impacts are going to reverberate on all of online games sector and on poker in particular. Various articles of this law indeed require major changes. One of the first conditions of this text is the obligation of operators of online game in France to detain a regular license. The AJREL or Authority of Regulation of Online games is the new authority having the task to distribute these licenses.

After the last season of the Asia Poker Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), which let us remind in the passage is one of the biggest poker tournaments of Asia and the Pacific, the New Zealand stage of this tournament of this year was once again very enriching for French players. Three French people indeed made a beautiful performance by arriving in paid places during this meeting which was held in Auckland. Indeed, after Seoul, the new stage of the APPT took place in Sky City of Auckland. 263 players from all of the corners of the globe made the movement for this New Zealand stage. The 3,250 New Zealand dollars buy-in generated a consequent 789,000-New Zealand dollars prize pool. Jérôme Guitteau was the only French poker player who reaches the final table at the conclusion of three days of intense competition. His two other fellow countrymen, Arnaud Bulle and Louis Gabriel Mathieu, were on the other hand ranked at the thirtieth place.

The list of French poker players who shone in a large-scale poker tournament these last two months is very long. After Thomas Bichon's victory during the Cyprian stage of the World Poker Tour (WPT), another Frenchman appropriates the African stage of the same tournament. Last Sunday, October the 18th, the French Christophe Savary indeed won the bracelet of the World Poker Tour of Marrakech. The final table of the Main Event saw the qualification of three French people, proof once again that the three-colored poker goes well. The two other representatives of the French poker at this famous final table were Julien Arenodo and Ludovic Lacay. Apparently, the World Poker Tour does not want to smile to Ludovic Lacay, two years ago of it, this one failed near the glory by ending second of the season 5 of the World Poker Tour which took place in Barcelona. This year, it still seems that the adversity was incensed against Ludovic who ended the competition in the 3rd place.

After the adoption by the members of the French parliament last Tuesday, October the 13th of the bill on the opening in the competition of the sector of online games in France, this new text is already disputed by operators of online games. To the announcement of what had to be good news for the sector, some operators of online casino, sports betting and online poker did not hide their disappointments. They regret that the amendments voted by the French elected representatives "deteriorate the conditions of opening of the market". In a communiqué, the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) went so far as to say that: "Several amendments strengthen the limitations against the new potential of European entrants and strengthen even more the position of incumbent operators, Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) and la Française des Jeux (FDJ)".

Mike Sexton will thus be the 38th person to be inaugurated to the Saint of the Saints of poker Pantheon that is Poker Hall of Fame. Seen his prize list and the stunning results that he had throughout his career, this recent distinction is indisputable. In 30 years of poker, he accumulated more than 3.7 million dollars of earnings and acquired media fame, effectively; he assures the broadcast comments of the World Poker Tour on television. The official celebration will take place November the 7th during the festivities of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) of Las Vegas. 62-year-old Mike Sexton fills the conditions required to join the legends as Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Amarillo Slim, Stu Ungar, Bobby Baldwin, and Johnny Moss in the pantheon of poker.

The French November Nine Antoine Saout is on the front page of the free fortnightly Magazine, City Poker, for its last number. City Poker is the first French free magazine devoted to poker and all things around it. With more than 100,000 copies printing, the magazine is distributed in 8 big French cities as Lille, Paris, Strasbourg, Nantes, Bordeaux, Lyon, Toulouse and Marseilles with as place of diffusion big district of businesses and main axes of traffic and transport. This new number honours the French star of the moment Antoine Saout: the one who started from nothing and who reached the top in less than 18 months thanks to poker. Antoine Saout, this young 25 years-old, native to Saint-Martin-des-Champs, in Finistère, who 18 months ago discovered poker while playing on free poker online parts. After that, he was qualified on Internet to go to Las Vegas before being a finalist of the World Series of Poker 2009 (WSOP).

After a first season more than successful, the organizers of the European Masters of Poker (EMOP) prepare already the second version. Entraction, the organizing company indeed has just revealed to the public the calendar of its second season. According to this program, the European Masters of Poker will begin again on November. New cities will be in the programme of this new appointment of poker competition. On November the 25th, the superb Slovenien capital Ljubljana will welcome this event, followed then by stopovers to Warsaw, Lisbon, Campione Sunny Beach, Barcelona and at the Casino di Venezia on the Malta’s Island. And the season will be completed by a luxury cruise of poker in Mexico. As you noticed, this second season will not pass any more by the town of Prague and Tallin.

The first part of the emission of poker Million Dollar Challenge was held this Sunday on the American TV station Fox. For this first edition, the victory was awarded to a young 28 years old priest. The reverend Andrew Trapp, great amateur of poker officiates in the parish of Saint Michael, Garden City in South Carolina. Andrew Trapp who was qualified among 10,000 players of online poker eliminated the champion of the World Series of Poker 2008, Daniel Negreanu during the emission. Throughout the emission, he received the councils of the Canadian Daniel Neagreanu. For the first heads-up, he had dealt with the former basketball player John Salley. And the instructions of “Kid Poker” were once again profitable.

The legislative stage concerning the opening of the market of French online games to competition has been just crossed. Indeed, by 302 votes against 206, the Representatives adopted the bill presented by the Minister of the Budget, Eric Woerth. Eric Woerth’s bill aims at putting order in the sector of French online games and it, in order to protect legal players but also legal operators. That means in a way, the end of reign for La Française des Jeux and PMU, the two only entities which could up to now offer services of online games like sports betting, online bingo, online poker and all that is gambling on Internet on the whole French territory.

For its first birthday, the American magazine of sport ESPN released in kiosks a special edition which has as title « The body issue ». This special number exposes several champions in various sports disciplines starting with tennis while passing by sumo, poker or athletics. Not less than 80 sportsmen and sportswomen lent their bodies to the magazine of sports, which made possible to readers to catch a glimpse of popular morphologies as various as possible. According to Gary Belsky, editor in chief of ESPN Magazine, the N°1 of media of sport had published this edition because “we always respected engagements which we made to fans of our magazine in order to show this different aspect from sport and athletes whom they like”

According to an evaluation of a study published last Monday, the French market of sports betting and horse betting could reach a turnover of 1.6 billlion euros in 2010, one year after the opening of online games to competition. This figure could increase again in 2012 to reach €2 billions whereas in 2008, the French market of online sports betting generated only €26 millions of turnover to La Française des Jeux, the firm which is the monopoly holder on a whole income of €630 millions played by French gamblers on sites of online games. These some figures result from a study of Francis Merlin, presented this Monday in Monaco during the “Sportel” exhibition, a show dedicated to sports, to television and to new media.

While he got ready to take part in the World Open V who was held in London in prestigious Palm Beach Casino last week, Luke Schawrtz saw the door slammed under his nose. But after a rude and long negotiation, the persons in charge of the casino changed ideas. Luke " _FullFlush1 _ " Schwartz was finally able to participate in the tournament, but accompanied with a myriad of guards asked to follow him closely because of his legendary instable behavior. Schwartz is not at his first altercation with persons in charge of a British casino. A few months ago, during the London European Poker Tour, he had been thrown out of the Grovernor Casino about a sandwich. After his elimination during the day 2 of the Main Event of the London European Poker Tour, he ordered a sandwich in the bar of the casino, but Schwartz refused to pay saying that he is a VIP thus the sandwich should be free for him. The dispute became inflamed and when the verdict fell, "Bad Boy" won’t be allowed to participate anymore in the next EPT of this year.

Today, the patriarch of poker “Doyle Brunson” counts not less than 45,000 followers on the social network Twitter. Followers are no more and no less that the readership of a person or an organization registered on Twitter. These followers are a real measure of audience on this network. With this public, Texas Dolly appears at the first rank of the classification of poker personalities on this microbloging site. In two weeks, the multiple champion of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) saw his numbers of followers exploding. Indeed, during September, the persons who follow Doyle Brunson on Twitter were increasing from 16,000 to 45,000.

The vote of the new bill on the opening of the online games sector in France will be for the Paris Mutuel Urbain (PMU) synonymous of the beginning of the end of its monopoly on the sports betting in particular the horse bets from the year 2010 on. In expectation for the liberalization of online games, the PMU will set up other strategies and aims at other ambitions. According to its president, the company initially will vary its tenders of sports betting. And the group is already on the way to finish this project in order to be ready for any possibility the coming day, because the bill will maintain the monopoly of mutual on the real network. The PMU seeks too to be in the trio leader of the market.

On the radio station Europe 1, Patrick Partouche, business leader of the group of casinos having the same name disputes the qualifier of “pleasant dealer” which is attributed to him for some time. According to this big boss of croupiers, this nickname should go to the French State because it is the entity which distributes licences to casinos so that they can open. If the State does not want casinos and gambles on all the French territory, the State can say it loudly and strongly. During the emission, Patrick Partouche completely rejects any risk of addiction concerning liberalization of the sector of online games, whose fate is currently between the hands of the representatives. Moreover, he underlined measurements taken by the French casinos to anticipate these risks of dependence. According to him, online casinos make systematic inspections of identity and the installation of Addictel, a system council provided by telephone, available 24 h/24 is added to that.

The Québécois Party (PQ) reproach the Québécois state company Lotto-Québec to incite to tax avoidance by leaving with some of its croupiers working in its casinos freedom to declare themselves tips which they get. Lotto-Quebec which is the main operator having the privilege to operate legally games of chance and gambling games in the Belle Province, that goes from simple bingo to games of chance in casinos, sports betting as well as online games based on multimedia technologies and the Internet. The representative of the party PQ, François Rebello brought to the French National Assembly the copy of an internal correspondence of Lotto-Quebec. This letter mentions that since September the 28th, croupiers of poker of the Casino de Montreal will have to declare “individually” their tips.

The Main Event of the European Poker Tour of London has just ended in the evening of Wednesday October the 7th, 2009. The London EPT became the greatest tournament of poker of Great Britain because the Main Event of this last edition gathered a field of 730 players, even the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) which were held there one week before was not able to do better with their 608 participants. It was the American Aaron Gustavson who won the title facing his compatriot Peter Eastgate. An impressive victory knowing that his opponent is not other than the winner of the Main Event of World Series of Poker 2008. Aaron Gustavson started the final table as chipleader with in his possession a stack of 7,140,000 chips and continued to dominate until the final victory.

the Parks” is still in the memories of game enthusiasts as well as the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) and European Poker Tour of London, another big event of poker is coming. For its ninth edition, the World Head’s-Up Poker Championship also will succumb to the British capital charms and will pose its bags also there during a few days. Grosvenor Victoria Casino will be the host of this competition from October the 24th till the 31st. As it is about a Head’s up competition, the loser will be eliminated directly.

In this crisis time, the sector of online games is among those which go best while the media undergo the same fate as the traditional companies. In order to benefit this windfall from this activity growth of online games, the media hustle in this business. According to specialists, the flourishing market of online games will border the €3.5 billions in 5 years. Several French business leaders such as Bernard Arnault, Vincent Bolloré, Arnaud Lagardere or Martin Bouygues felt good fortune and invested this new profitable sector. With the example of Bernard Arnault, owner of the famous daily economic newspaper “Les Echos” which currently holds 10% of the actions of a site of games or that of Stephan Courbit who possesses several sites of online games.

Who could have believed that Daniel Negreanu will become one day one of the greatest name of the world of poker? The man who, at his first travel to Las Vegas, was truly a fish and lost there thousands of dollars. But now, specialists in poker agree to say that he is one of the best player of the modern poker. But even if “Kid Poker” is the unhappy finalist of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) of London, the fifth bracelet passed under his nose after palpitating Head's Up against the winner. But the Canadian will always be able to boast of having won other trophies to his prize list. Even if he was not crowned champion, a second place in the WSOP is a true performance, added to his many victories and paid places in all the world circuit. (WSOP, WPT, EPT).

The French National Assembly will study the long-awaited bill concerning the opening of the market of the online game to competition and the regulation of this sector. Promising market which arouses interests of several big groups, some operators of online game are impatient to come to settle down on the French ground. If the State wishes above all a whole "controlled" opening of online games, the task will be however hard because Internet is a media which cannot be controlled easily. Bercy has so just reminded that as long as the law concerning the online games which governs also the activities of online casinos and sites of poker on Internet hasn’t been passed, all forms of publicity for sites of online game will remain outlaw.

After more than twenty hours of cold sweat and adrenalin, it was finally the young person Pierre Beurel who won the Championship of Poker of Brittany: championship which took place in Dinard, where 291 players played at the beginning. He is only twenty years old, but he already has the quality of a big poker player. To achieve this very good result, the young Breton really applied himself to it by using many sorts of strategies to overcome his opponents. The final table illustrated well Pierre Beurel’s tactics. He was among those who had a short stack; the chipleader had 50,000 chips, while he possessed only 12,000. He knew how to invert the situation and to raise the slope little by little. He neutralized first of all five of his opponents to get rid finally of an Inhabitant of Rennes.

The bill concerning the opening of the market of online games continues to arouse a lot of greed and does not still make unanimity. After rebellion of some owners and leaders of casinos, it is in the turn of the workers association CGT to oppose to it strongly while the bill concerning the opening of the market of online games will be discussed in the National Assembly in less than a week. CGT considers that this project can have annoying incidences on the equine sector and the health of French people. Considering this new excessive law not caring about the equity, it calls up purely and simply to its refusal.

The final table of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) was once again an unresolved rich event. 17 hours of game were indeed needed before the name of the winner was known. In spite of the presence of several renowned players at this table, Barry Shulman, the “Card Player” magazine owner finally won a victory in front of the Canadian player Daniel Negreanu. Even if Jason Mercier, the chipleader since the beginning of the finale, holder of a first title during the EPT of San Remo, appeared among the best pretenders to win the title because of his advance in chips, Shulman who already has a WSOP bracelet in 2001 did not miss to make a remarkable ascent having let him to win the final title.

The profitability of American terrestrial casinos faced with a real threat in front of the competition and the economic context lived by the world of games. For the first time in thirty years, because of the world financial crisis on one hand but especially in front of the competition of online games, the American industry of gambling games and casinos recorded a significant decline of its turnover. According to the fiscal consulting firm Rockfeller Institute, a decline of $412 millions of the income of the sector, which represents 8.5 % less was recorded between the fiscal years 2008 and 2009. This decline gets at the same time the sector of casinos, lotteries and "racinos", these tables and gambling machines placed on sites of horse races.

L’Observatoire des Dépenses Médias et Multimédias Media or Multimedia’s Observatory of Expenses has just ended that French people expenses increases gradually because of the new technologies, especially because of web. For this year 2009, an increase of an extra 22 % was noticed compared with the same period of the last year. Online games are classified as one of the reasons of this unexpected increase. Indeed, French people are more and more fascinated by tournaments organized in online casinos or on a poker room. However, it is not really this love for the casino games as black jack, bingo or the sports betting generally that is the only origin of these expenses in increase.

French companies and groups of casinos implanted in France are not the only operators which get ready for the opening in competition of the games and online bets in France. These operators of terrestrial casinos seems even to have many difficulties to get out of the hard battle in which they are involved. Indeed, even if the application of this text on license of online game attribution is adjourned to June 2010, a project planned initially to be applied in next January; everybody gets ready for it firmly. With a gross product of the games estimated to reach between 700 millions or one billion euro in 2012, against 200 millions euro turnover in 2006, the French market instigate all covetousness of great national and foreign groups specialized or not in online poker, in sports betting and games of casino.

At the end of the Day 3 of the World Series of poker Europe were listed three French poker players among the 36 competing for the final table. Arnaud Mattern is the leader of the French armada because he took the fifth position of the leadboard with 469,500 tokens. The new winner of the World Poker tour of Cyprus, Thomas Bichon is also in the race taking the 14th position with his 305, 00 tokens. The third French is the player qualified for the November Nine of the WSOP, Antoine Saout who has 202,000 tokens. The young player of Boston Matt "Hoss TBF" Hawrilenko wears the status of chipleader of the tournament with 701,500 tokens, him who has already gained the event 56 of the World Series of Poker 2009. Among the leaders in the tournament, Shulman father and son’s presence and that of Steve Fung are also noted.

Phil Hellmuth rebels against the intention of Harrah's company, the current holder of the rights of the World Series of Poker’s brand. Harrah’s Entertainment could indeed pass towards the activity of online games companies. Indeed Harrah’s plans in a near future to open its own platform of online poker. "The Brat Poker" is afraid of its entails perverse effects on all the systems which revolve round the WSOP. Further to this information, Phil Hellmuth said that to face the strong Harrah's, companies of online game could unite their strengths and in the future, a new championship of poker could take place. According to rumours, it seems that Harrah’s appealed to the services of an actor already in service on the market of online poker: 888 Company for the implementation of a site of game planned to be operational in 2010.

While projectors points at London which welcomes at present the World Series of Poker Europe, European Masters of poker which took place on the island of Malta was unnoticed anymore. This country which welcomes a lot of firms of online poker is at present more and more known for its live tournaments with big scales which begin to appear there like the European Masters of poker which took place at the Casino di Venezia de Vittoriosa. EMOP aims above all to propose an alternative tournament less expensive than the European Poker Tour. For it, organizers fixed a buy-in more accessible. For this Maltese stage which attracted 291 players, buy-in was at €1,650 establishing so €436,500 of prize pool, an offer never seen on the island.

Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment has just announced the continuation over four years of its agreement with IMG Sports & Entertainment. Harrah's is the company holder of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) rights whereas IMG is an undisputed giant of special event management, going from sport to fashion. In the four next years, IMG is going to put in the services of the brand "World Series of Poker" its ramified networks. This new agreement has for ambition to globalize the brand "World Series of Poker" by offering more tournaments and by increasing TV broadcastings. If the brand is already well implanted in the United States, this new union is going to give much visibility to the World Series of Poker on other continents.
 
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