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According to the estimations of the French senator François Trucy, who is not other than the reporter of the bill on the opening to the competition of online gambling like the poker, the casino and the sports betting on Internet, the “calendar was extremely tight” to let promulgate the new law before the date of June the 1st, 2010, the day before the World Cup of football. Trucy, author of two parliamentary reports on gambling, presented this Tuesday at the press this text with the president of the committee of finance, Jean Arthuis. The senator of the Var added that “each type of game - poker, sports betting and horse bets – must do the subject of a separated approval; it could have a hundred applications at the Arjel, the future authority of regulation of the sector of online gambling”. The centrist senator Jean Arthuis had more or less the same vision of the things as his counterpart of UMP.

The Day 2 of the Main Event of the greatest tournament of poker of the Southern hemisphere was held on Wednesday January the 27th. A Day 2 with a lot of surprises since David Frieling dethroning Pierre Aoukar of his position of chip leader. The Day 3 was also a theatre of astonishment of any kind and unexpected reversal. 294 players were presented in the Room Poker of Crown Casino of Melbourne for the beginning of this Main Event. Many experienced players had to leave the race prematurely to quote only Erick Lindgren, Tony G, Joe Hachem, daN Harrington, James Akenhead, Mark Your or Leo Margets. At the end of the Day 2, 83 players survived, they can dream to the $1.8 million reserved to the winner of the competition.

Victoria Coren is used to speak in a very frank way, without making turnings. Yesterday, she criticized with virulence the poor level of the 2010 European Poker Tour of Deauville. A low level that she allots on one hand to a bad appreciation of the calendar from the organizers. This woman having several functions, at the same time writer, television presenter and incidentally player of poker at her lost hours did not make a gift to the organizers. Just after the closure of the EPT of Deauville, she attacked with vehemence in the “Guardian” on the way in which the French poker player and the way in which they approach this game. According to her, the organizers did not know how to choose a more favorable date because the date of the tournament of Deauville coincides with the Aussie Millions and Deauville is not a very popular place in front of large American players who prefer to make an escapade in the English capital or in Barcelona.

The Southern Poker Championship of Biloxi is now in its final phase and Hoyt Corkins had the honor to sit at the final table with five other participants. This veteran player who has a lot of talents will beat for a second title and a second bracelet Word Poker Tour. Indeed, it remained only six players among the 208 registered participants for the Southern Poker Championship of the Casino Beau Rivage of Biloxi, Mississippi after three days of battle. The cow boy of Texas Hoyt Corkins, already champion in title of the Word Poker Tour (WPT) and owner of a bracelet WPT appears in the list of these finalists and will fight in the evening for his second victory. This large protected of the famous Doyle Brunson will face players of high talent like Tyler Smith, Jared Jafee, Jonathan Kantor, James Reed and Jerry Vanstrydonck.

We have just announced that the fourth edition of the Saturday Night Spectacular will be held in Bank of America Tower on February the 6th, 2010 in Miami. This year, Jim Carey and Jenny McCarthy will be the co-animators of the party. They succeed to two other stars Travolta and Kevin Costner who co-animated the third edition. Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy are the ambassadors of Generation Rescue, a charitable association which collect funds for autistic children. The guests will have in the menu like each year a mini-tournament of poker Texas hold' Em No limit. Stars of show business, famous athletes and great names of poker will have to honor with their presence during this great charitable mass.

According to a study published by the French institute CSA concerning the various practices in the gambling, the year which has just finished is the year of all the records. This study was carried out in six countries of the European Union. In France, their citizens had played on average €59,1 million each day on games suggested by La Française des Jeux, the Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) as well as in the casinos. But the next opening of the sports betting, horse bets and online poker will certainly make increase these numbers. But the phenomenon does not touch only the Hexagon; it gains also the other European countries. On the podium of the countries where there are the most players, we find Poland, Spain and Italy. 80% of the nationals of these three countries played at least once during last three months.

The Casino Beau Rivage located in Biloxi, in the State of the Mississippi receives at this moment the first event of the World Poker Tour of 2010. The hostilities of the Main Event of $ 10,000 of buy-in began this Sunday. The World Poker Tour became one accustomed of Biloxi because it is the third time which it made stopover there. Called in the past Gulf Coast Championship Poker, the tournament was renamed Southern Poker Championship since 2009. They were 208 players who have been registered during the principal event, we can remark a decrease of 25% compared to the previous year. This reduction of the participants can be allotted to the calendar of large scale competitions if we quote only the European Poker Tour of Deauville or the Aussie Millions.

At the half of 2009, the “Tiger Woods of the poker” had a little less than $100,000 to fill to win the first place of the classification of profits in tournament and to pass Jamie Gold who had in his possession $12,190,400 of balance in tournament. A seventh place during the last Main Event of the World Series of Poker would have been enough for Ivey to take the throne of Jamie Gold. But it was not the reality, because he was eliminated prematurely. But it is finally the Canadian Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu who becomes the richest man in tournament after his exploit during the finale of the Main Event of the World Series Poker Europe, after a bad start in the finale table, with a position of short stack; he eliminates 6 players, and reach the final table.

If the French poker player Elky failed near the finale table of the European Poker Tour of Deauville (EPT), much of large players of reputation were still in the course for the title like the winner of the 2008 World Series of Poker or the young Canadian Mike McDonald who has at his credit a victory in the European Poker Tour of Dortmund in 2008. The European Poker Tour of Deauville has just finished Monday evening with the victory of Jake Cody in the principal event. This young English, who have 21 years old, studying psychology, is in his first participation in the European Poker Tour. He is rather accustomed of online poker but until now, he hadn’t won a major title in live tournament. For this beautiful success, he wins the sum of €847,000. The Roman player Teodor Carabea arrives at the second place and goes back home with the sum of €516,000.

We remember that in 2009 the State of Florida had made a wish to liberalize completely poker live with any kind of buy-ifn, a State where the poker is already partially authorized. Indeed, after California, it is the turn of the State of Florida to consider a possible legalization of rooms of online poker. For the first time, during the next legislative session in Florida, the legislators will examine the means of perceiving incomes from poker and online sports betting to determine if all the activity should be prohibited. The American Congress will examine soon on the question of the poker on Internet. As online gambling is illegal in the United States and can be sanctioned locally, the questions surrounding gambling thus become very large. It is difficult to regulate, because websites are exploited by foreign companies located out of the American territory.

After a few days of dream in the Bahamas during the Poker Caribbean Adventure (PCA 2010), poker players took the direction of Australia to profit the southern summer and at the same time taking part in the most important tournament of live poker of the southern hemisphere. During two weeks, Melbourne vibrated at the rhythm of poker by accommodating the new edition of the Aussie Millions in Crown Casino, the establishment which had just built for the occasion a new surface, which had increased the capacity of its Crown Poker Room with 12 new tables of game. The peak of what we could compare to the World Series Australian Poker was the Main Event of $10,500 of buy-in which was held this Sunday.

Roger Hairabédian had finished the year 2009 in beauty, with in his prize list the title of the best French player awarded by the French Federation of Players of Poker and the magazine Live Poker, thus succeeding Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier. Roger Hairabedian, account to finish again on the podium at the end of 2010 and think consequently to become at the same occasion the only player of poker in the history to carry out twice this title. In this context, he has just begun the competition in Africa well far from the European coldness. For his first tournament of the year, BigRoger went to Senegal where he gained the High Roller of Dakar with 3,000 euros of buy-in. He shone among the 33 players present at the event and thus takes down the sum of 45,000 euros.

For several years, the Bouygues group has always sought to diversify, the group more or less made a success of its bet thanks to the acquisition of many companies. The group wants now to venture in the sector the most profitable of the moment, that of only gambling. For this work, the group will use one of best acquisitions than it carried out these 25 last years. It is about TF1 which is the first general TV station practitioner in France, which knew to develop on the territory of televisions sets of themes. TF1 also covers all the sector of audio-visual production, of the production until the distribution. The chain thus has many experiments communication technology. It is for these reasons that the Bouygues Group entrusted the reins of its development in the online gambling, poker and sporting bet with TF1. Recently it signed an agreement of partnership with La Française des Jeux (FDJ).

The European Poker Tour Deauville 2010 has just begun this Wednesday. It became one of the most important poker events in France or even in Europe since the return of the European Poker Turn on the Hexagon, just a year ago. The EPT Deauville 2009 would have been good forecasts for the French poker even if the winner of the tournament were not a tricolor player. It is wise to recall that last year, the title went to a young unknown German having the name of Moritz `catenaccio' Kranich. The good performance of the French players during all the year 2009 was initiated by the young French player Tristan Clémençon, who had created the surprise at the time of the last EPT of Deauville when he took, at only 19 years, the third place of the finale.

Everyone remembers perhaps the sadly shooting which had happen in the hotel casino Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, in New Jersey on Wednesday afternoon of May the 27th, 2009 towards 4 p.m. The incident, which took place in a joint part of the control room of the casino, had taken the life of Ray Kot, a man who was employed in Taj Mahal since its opening in 1990. Ray Kot is described by his colleagues like a person of an extreme kindness. He left behind him a woman and a son called Drew. Deprived of his paternal, Drew could likely will not to be able to continue his studies, but players of poker as well as the persons in charge of Trump Taj Mahal intervened to ensure brilliant future to him.

The software developer, Microgaming and its network of poker rooms will re-examine his regulation more closely. First of all, the company started with the update of its system of calculation of payment of the rakes in cash game, now it wants to finish with the datamining. This decision touches the whole of the rooms of poker which are affiliated to its software. The datamining is a tool used in online poker rooms which consists in storing the history of hands of the tables observed on the computers of the players. It was conceived like a means of analyzing the strategies of play and the weaknesses of the individual players. But since January the 13th, 2009, Microgaming let appear its desire to finish by limiting the data which can be accessible by datamining.

The impulse in favor of an online gambling regulated continues to grow on the other side of the Atlantic, more precisely in the State of New Jersey. Lately a bill has been just presented at the federal government; this project is announced like the last example of the support of the public in favor of the revision of the law which governs the gambling in general and online gambling especially like game of casino, poker and sports betting in particular. The instigator of this law in gestation is not other than the senator Raymond Lesniak. With his bill, this senator wants to offer to the establishments of gambling in New Jersey the possibility to offer online bets which will be only reserved to the habitants of New Jersey. For the State, this law could be attractive, rights of license which can reach hundreds of thousands of dollars, moreover the taxes of 20% on all the gross incomes generated by the operations.

For more than three years, France has been accused to unduly block the access of its market with regard to the sports betting, the poker and the other online gambling sectors. On its side, Brussels made this fight a true crusade for the liberalization of the French market of gambling. The French State is blamable to unduly protect the monopoly of La Française des Jeux (FDJ) and the PMU on the sports betting. The conflict between Brussels and France is not recent, this last is accused since 2006 by the European Commission to abuse the general principles, like the protection of minors and to make hermetic to foreign operators the access to its national market of sports betting. The EC dictated to France the concurrence in its online gambling, on its side, Brussels wants to make the deaf person ear. A normal reaction when we known that La Française des Jeux and the PMU are sources of considerable tax entry.

For this second year, the Partouche Poker Tour will be declined in a version reserved for students. The Partouche Poker Tour Students #2 will be at the same time played online and in a live tournament. Of course, online part takes place in the rooms of poker of the Partouche group since January the 15th until May the 15th, 2010. The happy winner of this online poker tournament will be able to go back home again with the 10,000 Euros reserved to the winner. But for the live tournament, it will be composed of three steps. The 1st step will be a challenge Intra School, only the students of the same establishment will be able to take part in it. The 2nd stage will be a tournament Inter School, the best players of the step 1 will be represented there. The Live Finale in a casino of the Partouche Group will conclude this edition of the PPT Students 2010.

After having traversed almost all regions on France during a little less than one year, the France Poker Tour season 5 land not in San Remo, on the Italian coast or at the Stade de France but inside the emblematic circle of playing of the Champs Elysées where many players of poker were awaited. That is players issuing from live or Internet qualifications, players pros, or simple amateurs coming to take share in the very expected Finale which began on January the 9th, 2010, a Finale which will crown the successor of Nicolas `Nickofer' Ferrier, the winner of the Season IV. The four starting days joined together a field of 634 players, which is a record in the history of the France Poker Tour. Some amateurs present at this final qualified themselves via free tournaments on Internet. Theses players will have the chance to measure themselves with well known players like Antoine Saout, Fabrice Soulier, Ludovic Lacay, Michel Abécassis, Jerome Zerbib, François Montmirel or Roger Hairabedian.

With the very new tournament of poker for the Saint Valentine launched by Poker 770, people in love will be able to make pleasure each other during this event. Indeed, if they win the profits suggested during this tournament, the dreams of gift and travel of their partner could be grant. For this festival for persons in love, on February the 14th, Poker 770, invites players to take part in its tournaments of Texas Hold' Em and Omaha where the players will be classified according to the points which they accumulate. Like formula, the 60 players of each day who won more profits over the eligible tables of poker will be able to receive points for this great tournament whose principal prices are a $3000 package for a travel for two people in Las Vegas and two tickets for the Monthly Million tournament with one million dollars of profit.

According to a study published by Roslyn Comey concerning online gamling, poker, casino, bingo and sports betting, women are more addicted with this new form of gambling than their spouse even if men are much more numerous to play online. Those who think that women are less inclined to fall into the spiral of gambling are completely wrong. In reality, housewives are those who are the more affected by the addiction with online gamling. And it is when the woman starts to take the household budget that we discover the dependence. Women are more exposed to the syndrome of the compulsive gambling. This fragility can be explained by the physiological and psychological differences of the two sexes in front of gambling.

The poker once again attracts the curiosity of the American press following the fixing between two stars of the professional league of basketball (NBA). The most astonishing in the history is that the two players of the NBA had employed their artilleries to settle the disagreement of poker while the two men are team mate in the Washington Wizards. According to the American chainnel NBC Sport, it was about a debt of $30,000 between Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton following a surging part of cash game high stake. A tiny sum when we know the astronomical wages of the players of the NBA, but the two men had preferred to come to the guns.

The company which holds the rights of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has just made available for the public the regulation for the 2010 World Series of Poker. There will not be a great innovation in the regulation for this year; the majority of changes of last year were definitively adopted. The major evolution compared with last season relates to the mobile telephones, they are again allowed in the tables of the World Series of Poker. This news will certainly charm the followers of social networks like “Facebook” or “Twitter”. For this year, the Tournament Director Association decided to take into account the emergence of social networks, the players not implied in a move will be authorized to send SMS and emails, but in only one and single condition: that the recipients of these messages are not on the same table. On the other hand, the players who want to call by phone should move in at least, one table of gap of the table where they play.

Another unexpected stopover has been just grafted in the Fashion Poker Tour. This new step which bears the name of Open of France of Poker will unroll at the end of February in Mandelieu, in the Alpes-Maritimes. The establishment Resort Royal Pullman will lodge the competition from Saturday the 20th till Sunday the 28th of February. In the program, there will be many side Event as well as the Main Event with € 2,000 + € 200 of buy-in. Even if the denomination of this tournament seems very Anglophonic; the One Million Dollars Fashion Poker Tour is a purely French poker live tournament which currently conglomerates 16 independent establishments of gambling. The tournament is composed of sixty steps through the Hexagon. Each step of the Fashion Poker Tour will give access to a ticket to qualify for a final which will be held in Marrakech from June the 4th till June the 7th, 2010 with at key 1 million dollars of prize pool.

The Estonian State had been very quiet after decades of communist dictatorship. This small republic of the Baltic has a complicated relation with poker: on the one hand, the casinos which were established in the Estonian since the end of Communism brought back to the State considerable money which amounts reach several millions dollars each year, which is really appreciable for a country whose GDP/habitant is the 21st in the European Union. We can say that the Estonian Republic makes efforts to attract owners of casino as well as operators of poker and other online gambling investors: an attractive taxation, a friendly legal environment, cheap and qualified workers. But on another side, the emergence of small casinos everywhere made Estonia a country devastated by problems of compulsive gambling.

The players who participate in the last festival of poker of the Bahamas the “Caribbean Poker Adventure” did not have yet time to take a rest. A few days after the end of this last poker tournament of scale, another meeting also has just started in the country of the wallabies. The Australian appointment became one of the most important tournaments of poker in the southern hemisphere. The tournament will take place, between the 14th till the 31st of January, 2010, in Melbourne which will be during these two weeks the capital of the world of poker. As novelty of this year 2010, all of fans of poker in the whole world will be able to follow in real time the unfolding of the competition. The video sequences will be available on the official site of the Aussie Million. Another novelty for this year 2010, the construction of a new surface which will increase moreover the capacity of the Crown Poker Room of Melbourne with 12 new tables of play.

Kris Leppens, a Belgian aged of 24 years, won the second step of the emission Star of Poker on the French channel Canal+ which was held in the golf of Saint-Name Bretèche. He beat players of poker of reputation like Bertrand Elky Grospellier, classified number 3 in the world and number one of French players, but also Bruno Fitoussi. Canal+ transmitted the emission on tuesday evening. It was the first tournament won by this young talented Belgian and the man is more than satisfy because in addition to one place in the court of big players of poker, he also pocketed a jackpot of 100,000 euros as well as the great chance to sit at the final table with a profit of 200,000 euros. The happy winner did not hide his enthusiasm and addressed thanks to all of the organizers and the participants of the tournament.

Fox Sports Net poker news dedicated the emission “Poker2nite” of last Wednesday evening for the star of poker Amir Vahedi who has just left us. Many players of poker of reputation come on the studio in order to give a last homage to their colleague. Joe Sebok spoke about the Poker Carribean Adventure 2010 in the Bahamas while addressing a small joke to the presenter Scott Huff. He made a short recapitulation of the match when he was playing pocket sixes before adding a completely moving comment concerning the deceased player of poker while a sequence of photograph of Amir Vahedi is raveled on the screen. Huff closed the passage by admitting that Vahedi was the best host that he had never received on his studio and he diffused part of his interview in 2005.

A Chinese called Tan Zheng, who lives in Mary Wollstonecraft, in the north of Sydney, was accused of money bleaching of 500,000 dollars. According to the police, after the shrinking of the money in Sydney, he went to Melbourne and use it with another 500,000 $ during one night in Crown Casino, this operation aimed at masking the origin of the funds. In documents given to the court, the police attest that in December, Tan deposited a check stolen on a bank account which he had set up in June in the name of TZ International Trading Pty Ltd. The bank check of a value of 507,575 dollars was in the order of the succession of a woman who had just died, but it was stolen and had been then modified.

In a few months before the opening of the competition on the French market of the online gambling, the great groups get ready to have an advance on their adversaries, because the competition will be very hard. Treaties of alliance are signed everywhere, in France and even in all Europe. Let’s start with La Française des Jeux and the Barrière Group. Rather than to choose the hostility, the two companies started discussions on a possible collaboration at the dawn of the opening of casino, poker and other online gambling. This co-operation is now official.

Unknown by the public, he is a personality of a good reputation in the very closed world of poker high level which we call commonly “high stakes”!!!! Andy Beal is the incarnation of the American dream. Andrew Beal was born in 1952; he turns up in Dallas in 1979 after the end of his study at the university. Then he launches out in the businesses and had as first operation the purchase of a house for 6,500 dollars which he puts in rent for 119 dollars a month. He continues to do investment. At the age of 35 years, he creates his own bank thanks to the benefit of his investments. Eight years later, his bank became one of the most advantageous banks of Texas which does him one of the richest men of the United States. Thanks to his fortune he can put the feet in the prestigious poker room of Bellagio and to dispute parts of poker with enormous amounts.

Without doubt, the Scandinavian poker players had marked the parts of High Stakes during the year 2009. In the top of the table, we find the Finnish poker player Patrik Antonius with his exorbitant online profits. Last year, he has collected more than 9 millions dollars on Internet where he played 3,127 sessions and 185,440 hands. Even if he lost 937,000 dollars face to his adversary Tom Dwan during the Durrr Challenge, Patrik Antonius has an incredible constancy and regularity worthy of a Swiss clock throughout the year 2009, year that he started at top speed. Only the half of the year spent, Patrik Antonius was already the big winner on online parts High Stakes.

Last April, the former chairman of the site of online gambling BetOnSports David Carruthers pled guilty on the charges on him and his website of online sports betting. The jury had asked for a punishment of 33 months of prison and the maximum punishment was pronounced Friday. The judge Carol E. Jackson condemned David Carruthers this Friday after his inculpation by the jury for four years. During the judgment, Carruthers showed his regrets for his acts. “I understand now that the company is not in agreement with the laws in force in the United States. I realize that I made the worst error of my life. I am sorry for the actions of BetOnSports. “

Harrah’s has just announced recently that he prepares to receive this weekend the fifth annual tournament of the MBA Poker Championships. The event will be held between the 15th and the 17th of January at the casino of Caesar's Palace. During the last edition, 600 of the most brilliant students in MBA of the best establishments of the United Stades, Duke, Harvard, Kellogg, Stanford GSB, UCLA, University of Chicago School Booth, and Penn the Wharton Business School came to Las Vegas. This year this competition of poker has three objectives: business, pleasure and charity. According to the vice-president of the recruitment of Harrah's, Brad Warga, these events are an opportunity for those who want to make career in the industry of gambling. He added “It is an important network for candidates for the MBA and our team of recruitment. MBA poker players developed very coveted characters for firms like the faculty to think very quickly”.

Conscious of the popularity of poker, the coffeehouse “Singe en hiver” in Calais, France plans to introduce it soon into the establishment. After the dictations-party that this coffeehouse had launched a few times ago, the poker will be the other activities which will be propose for its customers, a game which will be played there in a free way. Relying on results of investigations which testify the passion to the poker, this coffeehouse being settled down on the Rue de la Mer, is thus on the point of organizing tournaments of poker. According to the estimates, 70% of online players play poker by pleasure. Admittedly the formula is not new because bars do it already particularly in the south of France, but the president of the establishment want to use it to animate the night gathering of the coffeehouse.

At 36 years, he belongs to the new generation of players of poker who were born with the new technologies such as video games or Internet and raised the online poker in the rank of high level sport. Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu is one of the young stars of poker who marked his generation. Up to now the sympathetic Canadian champion has never published a book in French to the great displeasure of the Anglophobes. But they will be served soon from January the 29th they will be satisfied by the book of the Canadian star called “Power Poker”. Even if the title of the book is in English, all of the content is in French. “Power Poker” is the translation of Power Hold' Em Strategy which was published two years ago in the United States where the book had known success near the American assistantship.

With around-the-clock cash tables and high stakes tournaments, there’s always a hand to play, at Winner Poker. Any time you like you can join in on a game, whether you prefer Texas Holdem, 5 and 7 Card Stud, Omaha, or any other variant of the game. Bets range from zero risk 'fun money' tables for beginners, to high stakes tables for seasoned vets.

The year 2008 would have been one year particularly hard for the majority of casinos established on the French territory and 2009 did not bring anything to the situation already alarming of these casinos. The reason of this recession: the economic crisis which touches almost of all activities. Be added to that, the Evin law which prohibits smoking in public areas like casinos and the routine inspections of identities at the entry of casinos which cause the decrease of the number of customer. 60% of the French casinos have problems and finishes the working year 2009 with a negative outcome. Even the great groups of casino like Barrière, Partouche, Joagroupe or Tranchant, have a lot of difficulty to surmount it. For the year 2009, the gross product of gambling fell to 8.2%.

If the Day 1A of the Carribean Poker Adventure which is currently held in an idyllic frame located in the Bahamas had attracted only 668 players, it was very different at the time of the Day 1B. Indeed the second first day of this poker tournament had attracted 1,529 players, exceeding from a distance the field of 1,347 players of last year. Half of the participants felt after these two days of intense competition. The presence of many icons of international poker had raised the level of the tournament and gave to this 2010 Caribbean Poker Adventure a false air of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Stars like Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Annette Obrestad, Joe Cada, Peter Eastgate, Dario Minieri, Barry Greenstein, Carlos Mortensen, Glen Chorny, Liz Place, Vanessa Rousso, Gavin Smith, and Freddy Deeb have made the travel for the event.

Since a few years, poker had never made as much speak about it as now, it is everywhere and on all the lips. And every day, they are thousands of players who tempt their chance in circles of poker, between friends or on Internet, nourishing the secret dream to improve their plays and who knows, they can perhaps become a player of reputation. The poker is the new fashion; it became a phenomenon of society. As witness of this success, circuits of amateur poker flourish everywhere. In this register, a new circuit of poker will be born on other side of the Atlantic. It is about the North American Poker Tour, which is a tournament creates by the sponsor of the European Poker Tour.

Switzerland could adopt another politic for online gambling; it could simply choose its liberalization. The Swiss legislation on gambling was until know a little bit ambiguous. The Swiss administration will give licenses to owners of casino who are taxed of a 40% value to 80% sometimes. And online casinos should not derogate the same rules. A Swiss who opens a casino without making a preliminary request risks a severe punishment which can go up to one year of imprisonment and a fine which can reach one million Switzerland francs. Fine is not applicable to companies of online gambling because they are not physically installed in Switzerland. The ambiguity of the Swiss law is obvious when a Swiss player can play online and the fact of staking money online is not condemnable. It facilitates the capital evasion.

The Dane Gus Hansen, icon of the world poker, revealed a few weeks ago that he was going to take a pause, after a very bad season for him. The principal reason of this pause is the 5.75 million dollars that he lost in 2009 in online cash game. Gus Hansen is a player who excels in tournament; the proof is his 3 titles of the World Poker Tour (WPT). The most unbelievable in the history, if we make a resume of 2009 for Gus Hansen who had won up to 4 million dollars of positive result in March 2009, practically he lost 10 million dollars in 9 months. It is in Omaha Pot Limit and Horse that he lost the most. Phil Galfond and Ziigmund were those who take pleasure to strip it. He became the fish in front of many good players.

It is undeniable that 2009 have been a very good year for the French poker, but the results of poker players of the Hexagon was not the only excellent performance of the last year, that of the English poker were also very acceptable. The United Kingdom is a true nursery of talented poker players if we just take the example of the genius player of poker online like Chris Moorman or James Akenhead. At the head of the best English players, there is James Akenhead, he is the English revelation of the 2009 season. Last year, he were qualified to two final tables in the two most important tournaments of poker of the planet: the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) during which, this young 27 years old Englishman had won 1,373,289$.

According to a study published by Bitkom Research, which is a subsidiary company of Bitkom created on January the 1st, 2008 and which treats current data and studies about international markets of electronics, entertainment and the new numerical media, 2 millions Germans had played on a online website of gambling, casino, online poker or sports betting during 2009. Even if it is prohibits by the German law to play online in the 16 regions of the country. This number decrease if compared with 2008, because during this year 2.2 million players were mentioned. At the head of the hit-parade, the favorite gamble of our neighbors in Germany, we find the traditional lottery even if the national lottery is not proposed any more online since January 2008, it is played by 59% of the Net surfers, 1,180,000 people exactly.

The history began a few weeks ago, when the season 2009 of poker touched its end when the reference Magazine Live Poker allotted to Roger “Terminator” Hairabedian the statute of the better French player of the year, preceding the Corsican Jean-Paul Pasqualini and Eric Haik, even if Eric Haik held the leadership before the last tournament of the season. Moreover, he had complained about the lack of communication concerning the calendar of the end of season. He was not informed of the last tournaments which were added to the program. According to Eric Haik, there were two tournaments which were not announced anywhere and the fact that his two adversaries were informed and decided at the last time to take part in it without preventing him constitutes a ruse. Haik wants to say that all was set up for Hairabedian and Pasqualini to bring back valuable points while returning from these two tournaments.

After having dedicated his last number of the year 2009 to Joe Cada, the youngest world champion of poker of all the history, the French poker magazine of reference, Live Poker returns this January. The first specimen of the year 2010 is consecrated to the classification of players of poker French. This number 30 of Live Poker puts at the honor the 1000 players who marked 2009. At the head of this classification, we find the sure value of the French poker Roger Hairabedian, victorious of the Grand Prix de Paris in 2008. Roger who has been just elected as the best French player of the year 2009, preceding JP “El Corsico” Pasqualini and Eric Haik. Hairabedian succeeds to Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier who was the best player of the year 2008.

January the 3rd, 2010 is an important date for the world of poker in Brittany because it is the launching of the Breton League of Poker. The Breton League of Poker is an association law 1901 recorded in Saint Malo, created by Olivier Mulot and other professionals in the world of the organization of poker tournament. This league is an association having for objective to refer and to attaint all Internet sites of the Breton’s poker clubs and bringing those online services thanks to its Internet site. Each club can interact on the contents of the Internet site of the league using a specific account which will be created by the site webmaster. The inscription on the Breton League of Poker will be completely free during the first year.

The organizer of the Caribbean Adventure of the European Poker Tour (EPT) will keep happy the players who will take part at this event. They will be likely to attend a service given by an American star of the R&B. Kelly Rowland is known like one of the three Destiny's Child, and who also decided to sing alone. In 2002, after the success of “Survivor”, she goes alone to the conquest of the market, while singing in solo and continuing her dreams of little girl. The singer is accustomed to evenings of poker, because she already carried out a fabulous show with the American rapper Nelly during the last World Series of Poker (WSOP) which proceeded in Las Vegas last summer.

To slow down the increase of the number of online casino, poker and sports betting illegal websites, which are an extremely lucrative business according to the Belgian politicians, the Room of the representatives in Belgium approved a bill at the beginning of December. This bill about online gambling was only a simple modification of a text about games of chance published in 1999. The Upper House of the Kingdom of Belgium had adopted its own text at the end of November 2009, text which Belgian deputies had validated without making any modification. But the European commission seems to disagree on this new law.
 
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