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After heated debate, held in the House Financial Services Committee last July, about the bill HR 2267, the vice chairman of the Commerce Casino, which was firmly opposed against the bill by Barney Frank, expressed arguments that have rattled many professional poker players. Indeed, Malkasian widely criticized this bill and asked committee members to vote against unless it undergone many changes. Malkasian said that figures showing the revenue to be collected with the legalization of the bill were based on and use false studies and the regulations proposed by HR 2276 are inadequate to govern in the best ways the related tasks. Faced with such remarks, the community of online poker published an open letter to the attention of Tom Malkasian on a newly created website.

The Italian Poker Tour that was traveling last week in San Remo, just ended. In short, it's a € 2,200 buy-in tournament for a period of over five days which raised a total prize pool of € 768,240 and has seen participation of 396 players willing to steal the title and price of € 200,000 or $ 286,903 to the winner. During this game, the Italian poker player Sergio "geniodelletartarughe" Castelluccio surpassed everyone. At the end of Day 1A, 146 players were sure to take part in the Day 1B and was subsequently reduced to the number of 31 at the end of Day 2. The last day of the tournament helped to nominate finalists in the last 8 players, and spectators were witnessing a large control of Transalpine players who won all seats, including that of the chip leader, which returned to the businessman Salvatore Chillemi with 1,782,000 chips.

The Main Event of the Merit Cyprus Classic tournament began last Friday and brought together a field of 181 participants. This contest of $ 5,400 buy-in mobilized many stars of poker and some of them have registered very good results by accessing in paid listing in the image of Eric Mizrachi, Kelly Kim, Maniga Loeser, Chris Karagulleyan and David Benyamine. But others have not been so lucky as Sorel Mizzi and Carter Phillips. The final of the Main Event table was formed by Mathieu Clavet with 940,000 chips, Ahmet Ucali (420,000), the Dutch pro Van Marcus (1,436,000), Hakan Dalokay (266,000), Andreas Krause (849,000) and the chip leader Zsolt Vasvenszki holder of the largest stack beginning the final with 1,885,000 chips.

He was and he remained so ! It is Andy Frankenberger who became the new champion of World Poker Tour Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino, in Los Angeles. For his first participation in the WPT final table, the New Yorker show a very good game because he was already the chip leader of the last day of the tournament. Not less than ten hours of play, the equivalent of 184 hands were necessary to separate the six finalists and see emerge victorious the winner in the person of Andy Frankenberger who beat the runner-up Kyle Wilson at the final duel. As reward, the winner of the WPT Los Angeles won a jackpot of $ 750,000, a bracelet and a bronze trophy of Wild Bill Hickok, a player of West America killed during a poker game in Deadwood in 1876.

The last Summer Sat of € 1,075 buy-in will be an event not to miss this Saturday 28th to Sunday, August 29th at Pasino Aix en Provence. As a reminder, the Summer Sat serves as qualifying tournament for the upcoming Main Event of the Partouche Poker Tour 2010, with a guaranteed prize pool of € 3,000,000, the most important at the European level. It is also one of the few packages available for the main event of the 3rd edition of the PPT with € 8,500 buy-in to be housed at the Palm Beach Casino in Cannes from September 2nd to 7th, 2010. Earlier in the evening of Friday, August 27th, two satellites of € 125 buy-in was held at 9 p.m and 11:50 p.m., with a starting stack of 5,000 chips with levels lasting 15 minutes, and this first nominated participants to the Summer Sat.

Germany was chosen as host of the second stage of the tournament 3 Länder Poker Tour (LPT) which runs from August 27th to 30th, 2010. Fans of this European circuit will therefore give rendezvous in the seaside resort of Warnemünde Beach which borders the Baltic Sea. This festival of poker will offer to enthusiasts of the game a € 2,000 + € 200 buy-in Main Event and registration is still open for those who have not participated in online tournament. The final is scheduled to take place from August 30th at 5 p.m. Participants will compete in a Texas Hold'em No Limit Freeze-Out tournament with 20,000 starting chips for a playing time of 60 minutes. Those who still want to try their luck to win their seats for the main event can enter the tournament qualifier Super Satellite € 200 + € 20 buy-in that will take place at the Gran Casino Warnemünde on August 26th, 2010.

No more weeks of summer vacation, up to international poker circuit starting from this September. An avalanche of poker tournament are in perspective. France will be the host of five events in the coming months of the year 2010. This is the Triple Chance Deepstack to be programmed at the Cercle Gaillon on August 25th to September 8th, while the € 1,000 Main Event Deepstack ACF will be held from September 3rd to 5th. From September 1st to 6th will be held in Cannes the PPT 2010 with the € 8,500 Main Event, and the usual rendezvous of the Cercle Wagram will be held on September 25th with a € 1,000 Main Event. Divonne-les-Bains in France will host the Poker Series Main Event features a € 1,200 from September 25th to 26th. In the country of Shakespeare, the WPT London will be held from August 27th to September 5th with a £ 5,300 Main Event. Always in London, the English Poker Open of £ 3,750 Main Event will open its doors from September 11th to 14th, while the WSOP Europe Main Event of £ 10,000 will be held from September 14th to 23rd.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) is among the most prestigious poker events in the world which success can not be denied each time. It is now in its fourth season and the program of this series announces wonderful innovations. Indeed, two new stages are added to the usual events proposed by the organizers of the WPT. Thus, the WPT will make a stop in Africa from November 27th to 30th, 2010. The casino Es Saadi Marrakesh was chosen as honorary host of this tournament which will be inaugurated by a Deepstack championship from November 20th. Several players of international reputation and local poker players are expected to attend this exceptional event of the WPT on African soil. The buy-in will amount € 5,000.

And one day more played for the grand finale of JOA Poker Tour 2010 held at the Casino La Siesta in Antibes, France. 24 hours that saw the elimination of 26 of the 101 players who paid the € 2,500 buy-in or have earned their qualification via satellite for the Main Event with a prize pool of € 223,008. Among the players present at the kick-off and played with 30,000 chips the 7 levels of a duration of 60 minutes each, Clement Thumy, Eric Haik, Marc Inizan, David Pecheur and Roger Hairabedian won't have the joy to continue the adventure. The 75 survivors, which means the initial field of qualified, still in competition for the coronation, with average stack of 40,000 chips are, among others, Paul Testud, François Tardieu, Xavier Detournel, François Montmirel, Eric Roy, Jean Paul Pasqualini, Tristan Clémençon, Sylvain Lanternier or even the new generation of French poker Marc Inizan, finalist of the EPT Berlin.

A wonderful tournament that will certainly delight fans of poker start on the Asian continent from September 1st, 2010. This is the Macau Poker Cup, an event held at Casino Lisboa for five days. To recall, the previous edition of this tournament was held in July and the appointment was a success. The Macau Poker Cup, with excellent guaranteed prize pool, will consist of six events. On September 1st, players will compete in the tournament Knockout of HKD $ 2,000 buy-in. On September 2nd, the No Limit Hold'em Two-Day Event tournament of HKD $ 3,000 buy-in for a guaranteed prize pool of HKD $ 350,000 will be held. On September 3rd, players can participate in the poker tournament Deepstack HKD 1,500 buy-in, a formula that interests many players.

Granting licenses to some operators on the market of online poker of Holland, this is the suggestion of the Jansen Commission to legislators which analyzed this domain for nearly a year in its report dated on Monday, August 23th, 2010. A report expected out in March of this year but with the legal dispute between Holland Casino on one side and some private operators, the commission had to wait the decision of the European Court of Justice in favor of a monopoly in Netherlands. It is well known that poker is very demanded by the population, and one online poker provider could not meet the need of all Dutchman. In addition, a recent ordinance by the Court of The Hague gave another very clear decision, poker was not considered as a game of luck and organizer of a physical tournament is in accordance with gambling current laws in the Netherlands.

After four days of competition at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, the World Poker Tour Legends (WPT) finally revealed the six competitors who will sit at the final table. Some of the finalists have already made great achievements in the WPT circuit to mention players like Kyle Wilson, who was a finalist in 2008, and finished in 6th place as Tom Lee, who also finished in 6th place at the finale of the Season 2. Although most of these finalists are still unknown to the general public, it must be said that they are all talented players, including three former WPT finalist, an online poker pro and two players who accumulated excellent gains in playing cash games. The only player missing from the final table is Jonathan Little. Indeed, after a very promising Day 3, Little was eliminated in the 12th place at the Day 4.

The Canadian poker star, Daniel Negreanu has recently given his opinion on the poker world, including the latest World Series of Poker, his level of play, the future bracelet of Hellmuth, the convictions of other top players, the ranking of former players and his personal vision about Annie Duke. Kid Poker said in an optimal fit by performing 4 cash and a WSOP final table in 2010 with a program including nutrition, yoga and other physical exercises. By seeing Hellmuth winning anymore bracelets, Daniel Negreanu thinks that it is because of the emergence of good players in his specialty which is No Limit Hold'em. And the Canadian player to make a little remark against Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan who need to motivate themselves with Prop Bets.

The tournament United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) held at Edinburgh, at Corn Exchange was attended by 401 players last weekend with poker stars like Neil Channing, Julian Thew and Liv Boeree. It must be said that the poker community does not expect the outcome of the event because the title was won by the young Canadian of 25 years who resides in Dublin, Ireland, Nicholas Abou Risk. Risk began the final day as chip leader and has maintained his lead despite repeated attacks during the day of big name of poker such as Richard Chadwick who finished in the 5th place and pocketed a gain of £ 10,300 or the reigning of the UKIPT Manchester Joeri Zandvliet ranked fourth with a gain of £ 13,100 at the final table. Zandvliet just missed an opportunity to equalize Marius Liutuvninkas in the ranking of the top leader board.

At the end of the Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker, 63 players of the 462 participants who paid the buy-in of $ 5,000 for a total prize pool of over two million dollars are still in the race for the title with a nice reward of $ 750,000 to the winner. 45 players are sure to be paid, and now the current top 10 chip count on Day 3 was dominated by Phil "USCphildo" Collins with 898,000 chips, followed by Andrew Frankenberger (589,000 tokens), Alvarado JC (430,000 chips) , McCammond Kyle (410,000 chips), Tom Brabander (374,000 chips), Young Jordanie (359,000 chips), Elliot Smith (337,000 chips), Jason Dorfman (336,500 chips), Adam Schiffer (322,500 tokens) and Jonathan Little (305,200 tokens). They must therefore be beware of other players as Erica Schoenberg, Joe Hachem, Allen Kessler, Joe Sebok, Tim Phan and the qualified for the November Nine Soi Nguyen.

French poker players let once again talking about them. Indeed, after the very acceptable ranking of Arnaud Mattern at the European Poker tour Tallinn (EPT), another avid of poker from the Hexagon, Julien Pouchain, grabbed the title of the tournament Spanish Poker Tour (SPT) that was held at the Gran Casino of Castellón, a mountainous province of Spain. This is the season 3 of SPT and the event was a great success because organizers registered a record field of 202 participants who paid the buy-in of € 1,100. Undoubtedly, this appointment brought further evidence of the great boom of Spanish poker. Julien Pouchain followed then the footsteps of his compatriot David Colin, also author of a magnificent victory at the casino Costa del Alzahar one year ago. This victory allowed him to pocket the reward of € 63,000 and also to defend the honor of France, thanks to his victory.

The Merit Cyprus Classic Tournament which takes place at the casino Merut Crystal Cove Kyrenia, a town on the island of Cyprus has prepared for poker lovers multiple events, which include the High Roller tournament of $ 25,000 buy-in. This event attended by 36 competitors who delivered a passionate opposition during three days. On the third day of competition, the field was reduced to 9 players which include both pro and amateur. To recall, the tournament will reward the top 5 players. Carter Phillips was the first to be eliminated. He was later followed by Ziv Caps and one of competitors of the next November nine, John Dolan. The bubble boy of the party was Sam Trickett. He was defeated after three hours of play. Jon Turner was eliminated shortly afterwards, and cashed a nice bonus of $ 41,467.

Since August 18th, 2010, a total of 181 poker players have received confirmation of their application to compete in the Poker Hall of Fame 2010 edition. In early September, the list composed of names of 10 players most-voted by the public will be in the hands of committee members who will have the onerous task of studying each case of elected candidates. The 16 board members assisted by a media poker group will have the last privilege to choose the player to enthrone at the Poker Hall of Fame 2010 and designate another player to be selected automatically for the next year's vote. A change has occurred this year, the two players garnering the most votes need at least 50% of the vote to integrate the Poker Hall of Fame. During the previous year, only Mike Sexton, the last winner, garnered 75% of votes required to be sacred.

A priori, the objective has been reached for this 9th edition of the World Poker Tour Legends (WPT). By setting at the start to gather about 500 participants for the main event, the organizers are not very far from their goal by recording a field of 462 competitors. This represents an increase of 66% compared to last year's edition marked by the presence of 279 players. The reduction of the buy-in certainly explains the huge success but also without forgetting that this is a very popular tournament. The prize pool has however knew a slight decrease of 18%. In total, 45 players will receive trophies and the future champion will be awarded with a whopping $ 750,000. About 300 competitors, including 16 former champions of the WPT, started the second Day 1B, among them Kathy Liebert, now in her 100th participating in the WPT. This is a real performance, unfortunately, she was eliminated at the end of the day.

Several criteria can be established to designate the best poker players in the world. But the importance of pocketed gains in live tournaments has been taken as a reference to distinguish the best players in the world. In this category, is classified in the tenth place the woman player from Texas of 38 years old Clonie Gowen who pocketed more than $ 1.6 million, thanks to her win at the $ 5,000 Bellagio Cup IV 2007 that allowed her to collect $ 427,775. The Vietnamese Mimi Tran is in the ninth position with a gain of $ 1,639,117 including a third place which means a gain of $ 472,228 during a stage of the WPT in Mashantucket in 2006.

The second edition of Merit Cyprus Classic which kickoff was given last August 17th is in full swing at Casino Merut Crystal Cove Kyrenia, in northern Cyprus. A lot of events are planned for this big poker event, including the guaranteed prize pool of $ 3,000,000 or the Main Event of the Cyprus Championship of $ 5,000 + $ 400 buy-in with one rebuy or a possible adds-on. The Main Event is one of the highlights of this series of tournaments. The tournament has two Day 1 which will take place on Friday, August 20th and whose final table will be held on the night of August 25th to 26th 2010.

The poker industry of Asia is booming, which explains the success recorded by the tournament Asian Poker Tour since its inception. Indeed, the tournament continues to register great success in recent years. It is the turn of the Philippines to receive this exceptional event. Thus, from August 25th to 27th 2010, the Manila World Resort will be the guest of the Asian Poker Tour. At first glance, such an adventure could not attract fans of poker especially Westerners. However, it appears that the Republic of the Philippines is an excellent destination for a pleasant holiday. In addition, the Resort World of Manila is an exclusive resort that offers various entertainment and leisure activities like to relax in its pool. Thus, in addition to visiting a country rich in tourist sites, players can also indulge their passion of poker in this tournament.

Attracting the world is the challenge of any poker tournament organizer, and this is reflected by enticing offers like various contests, freerolls but especially the promise to evolve alongside celebrities or famous players. The Croatian Poker Series (CPS) is an illustration of this recipe. Indeed, this blend of poker and exotic destination has opted to invite celebrities and at the same time enthusiasts of poker. Negotiations began months ago with public figures like Mylene Cogan, Antonia Alomar, Fabrice Soulier or the editor of MIP, Claire Renaut. Similarly, names of players as ElkY, Antoine Saout, Bruno Launais have been announced to be part of this appointment. As bonus, a package including accommodation, buy-in of € 1,100 for the Main Event and fees once in the country were promised by the leaders of the organization.

After participating in the qualifying tournaments that were held in Joa Casinos across France since April, qualified players did last week the final tournament of the Joa Poker Tour. Since last Thursday, fans were able to attend the € 75 + € 10 buy-in satellite tournament to win tickets to the € 320 + € 20 buy-in Super Satellite. Thus, until August 27th, 2010, Casino Antibes La Siesta will be invested by many poker fans. Last Friday, August 20th, players participated in multitable tournaments of € 55 € + € 15 buy-in. Satellite tournaments and super satellites were also held every day to allow players not qualified to win a seat for the Main Event scheduled to take place from Monday, August 23rd, 2010. The main event offers a buy-in of € 2300 + € 200. The field will consist of 500 participants generating a prize pool of € 1,000,000.

Most casinos are facing since two years considerable difficulties due to economic recession. Recently, many physical casinos across France closed doors declaring bankruptcy. However, hope still exists for some terrestrial gaming room and clubs with poker games. Indeed, poker continues to attract new fans who are getting younger. Online poker rooms record the arrival of several new young members. And despite the fact that casinos have lost their status as gaming place, because most had to create other events more entertaining to offset accumulated losses in the results of their amusement, it must be said that poker players often tend to prefer parties in physical casinos than online.

It does not go a day without you hear good news for poker enthusiasts. Poker tournaments are held around the world either by well known casinos or by famous association. Poker is the center of events, like what will happen in Morocco from next October 8th to 10th with a buy-in of $ 100,000 please. Without saying it, everyone will agree that this will be a luxury tournament of quality where the big names of this game will compete in three days. Es Saadi Casino, a regular of this kind of game, will have the honor of hosting the tournament called the “Prestige Tournament”. This information, once more has been revealed by Roger Hairabedian, a living legend of French poker. And according to the person himself, there's only a few more details to be refined to finalize the holding of this tournament.

Fans and other poker enthusiasts of the city and surrounding Lozère, in France will rejoice because after a long pause of two months because of vacation, the Poker Club Lozère (PCL) announced a meeting scheduled to take place next Saturday, August 28th in a stall in the lobby of the supermarket Hyper U. The purpose of this meeting is to exchange, provide information on everything that relates to poker and welcome new registrants who will only have to pay a fee of € 35 to access to all benefits offered by the club. “Moving forward” is the motto of this club and this after a good season which saw the success of Farid Saadali in live championship.

The Main Event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends 2010 will start this Friday, August 20th. Note that this tournament is currently underway at Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California. For the first time since 2005, participants in the Main Event should pay a buy-in which amount does not exceed $ 10,000. Indeed, the entry fee for the main event of the WPT Legends has been set at $ 5,000 with $ 4,800 + $ 200. There will be two day tournament and a No-Limit Hold'em on next August 25th to crown the future winner. Despite this lowered buy-in, the champion will leave anyway with a nice prize of over a million dollars and five finalists will receive more than $100.000. Poker enthusiasts who joined the Bicycle Casino have to pass the 22 preliminary events offered by the organizers, among other HORSE tournaments, Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better, Limit Omaha 8 or better, half stud half Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo, Shootout, Deepstack, accessible to a buy-in of $ 225 to $ 545.

Casinos in France are in a difficult situation for some time because of the crisis. A causal relationship which is not surprising given the downturn affecting all sectors of the economy, including gambling. According to recent statistics, the 197 casinos in the Hexagon have experienced a drop in their turnover of around 4% since the beginning of the year in November 2009 to date. Roughly speaking, the fall is estimated at 20% during the last three years, a figure that speaks for itself. Casinos have been bankrupt, the court got involved, there are even those who are insolvent tlike that of Beaulieu, Alpes-Maritimes. Paradoxical as it may seem, poker seems to enjoy a second life in casinos, more precisely in Salies-du-Salat and Toulouse, in Haute-Garonne department.

Poker enthusiasts are spoiled this year given the holding of many new tournaments. Today, a new brand of poker event will be held within three casinos in Calgary, Alberta in Canada, including The Grey Eagle Casino, Cash Casino and Casino Deerfoott Inn. It is the Canadian Open Poker Championships, a competition scheduled to take place from August 19th to 29th, 2010. During the first four editions, the tournament was held in only one casino but given the popularity of the event, organizers have decided to launch the event in these three casinos. This year, the chairman and tournament director of the Canadian Poker Tour, Kelly Kellner, expects a strong influence of at least 2,000 participants, especially as poker has become a global phenomenon thanks to the success of online poker and the proliferation of television shows devoted to this game.

Poker is a very popular game appreciated by stars of showbiz, athletes and other celebrities from various disciplines. But since a few time, poker players have in their turn acquired the status of celebrities and enjoy the same notoriety as the latter. Currently, there are many tournaments that take place with the presence of star players, and that of the Casino of Montreal, « La Classique Lecavalier » is do not do an exception to this trend. The Casino of Montreal associated with the Vincent Lecavalier Foundation organized a Texas Hold'em poker tournament called « La Classique Lecavalier » for next August 25th. On this occasion, the organizers will rely on the presence of Jonathan Duhamel among others, the terrible kid of poker in Canada.

A poker tournament both exciting and eventful takes place at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas now under the patronage of Matt Savage, a giant no longer to present in the poker world. According to the director of the tournament, the Detox Poker Series will be a great and unique poker festival during which will take place a very friendly meeting between fans of the game. And to provide a particular image for this event, Matt Savage and his team put together various events throughout the competition as enjoyable break hour in which participants can gather around a glass. The Detox Poker Series has already led to at least 6 players to be famous who are Joe Tehan champion of the $ 350 no-limit hold'em, Frankie O'Dell winner of the $ 350 Omaha 8OB, Benjamin Yu champion of the $ 350 HORSE, Kent Frampton winner of no-limit hold'em bounty of $ 350.

The $ 2,500 buy-in Main Event of the event Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) Gold Coast brought together a field of 287 participants. The final took place last Sunday, August 15th, facing Liam O'Rourke, a player qualified through an online tournament, Dominic Coombe, Joel Dodds, Ricky Kroesen, Aaron Benton, Michael Spilkin, Brad Wilson and Le Vuong Van. To the surprise of poker enthusiasts who attended the final day, the two favorite players were eliminated early like Dominic Coombe who finished in the 9th place and Michael Spilkin who finished at the 8th place. Nevertheless, both eliminated cashed respectively $ 16,145 and $ 21,525 for their performance. Shortly after, it was the turn of Le Vuong Van to leave the party and he was followed by Brad Wilson, Joel Dodds, Aaron Benton and Liam O'Rourke.

Poker interest everyone including women players and even if descendants of Eve still miss the highest places like the title of World Champion of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker, it must be said that their result is quite satisfactory. Among women who carry the flag of French women's poker, Karine Nogueira is a reference as a player. Becoming famous thanks to the reality TV show "Poker Mission Caraibes ", she also became known for her professionalism as a woman of media. In fact, she did very well the coverage on major events. Living in the field of poker for years and is familiar with, Karine did not hesitate to organize tournaments for women in the poker circle Cercle Haussmann : Sunday Ladies.

It took eight hours of play for the 8 finalists in the final table of the European Poker Tour Tallinn to designate the champion of the main event, who were Kevin Stani, a player in his first victory. This young 27 years old Norwegian is the first to receive the title of champion of the 13 stages of this 7th edition of the EPT with a gain of € 400,000 after his final head's up with the 22 years old Russian Konstantin Bilyauer. Before the coronation, Kevin Stani already achieved very promising results in major poker events like his 127th place finish at the last World Championships of the World Series of Poker 2010 in Las Vegas.

After defeating his 228 opponents in the tournament United Kingdom Grosvenor Poker Tour (GUKPT) held at G Casino Luton, Neil Channing alias 'Bad Beat' clinched the title with a magnificent reward for $ 104,316. It was last Sunday at the £ 1,000 buy-in Main Event of this Luton phase of the GUKPT. Already well positioned earlier for the victory of this final because he was the chip leader, Channing was the favorite of this latest phase among the 10 remaining competitors. However, this final was full of surprises because his opponents including George White, Keith Johnson and Ricky Mackintosh were not easy to beat during this final table. It was Victor Ilyukhin who had to leave the final table first.

The financial and economic crisis spares no one and no activity, gambling and its companies are also affected. A French group has just been put into receivership, it is the Société Française de Casinos (SFC), which operates three casinos that are located respectively in Chatel-Guyon, Gruissan in Puy-de-Dome and Port-la-Nouvelle in Aude with a total staff of 167 employees. The SFC also has a few online gambling websites. The cause of the receivership is simple, the company has accumulated a debt of € 11.1 million since late April and has difficulties with its creditors. Under observation for four months, it was finally this solution of receivership which has been taken by the Commercial Court of Paris. And this group is not alone in suffering of these financial problems. On July 15th, the Casino of Beaulieu-sur-Mer in the Alpes Maritime was declared insolvent by the Commercial Court of Nice.

Online games and poker on internet are the focus of discussions of lawmakers from different countries since a few times because of the amount of money flowing through it. The market is the basis of everything in this case and those of major European countries are closely contested by main operators. That of Germany with a population of 82 million people do not do an exception as this country has also a large number of poker players, online casino and sports betting enthusiasts. But the legislative side of online gambling is still a problem in the country of Goethe. Indeed, the country banned online gambling in its 16 states since January 2008 across the Interstate Gambling Treaty. This measure caused great controversy when it was adopted and endless discussions occurred.

Seven hours and thirty minutes of play elapsed before the eight finalists among the 25 contenders to pocket € 400,000, the award to the winner of the first stage of the season 7 of the European Poker Tour Tallinn were known. At the top spot of the final table is the former title holder of the EPT Prague in 2007, the French Arnaud Mattern, who is attempting to do once again his performance made three years ago. Currently, he holds 3.72 million chips, representing 30% of the chips still in play. Two other players should also be followed closely on the day of August 16th, it is about the Norwegian who were qualified online, ranked second, Kevin Stani, considered as the best value of the current European poker tour with 2.586 million chips and the third in the standings, Konstantin Bilyauer holding 2,498,000 chips and who eliminated in his passage during this tournament two big players who are the Russian Ivan Demidov and the former chip leader Bukara Perica.

Estimated at 1.6 million in 2009 to 2.5 million today, the number of poker players in French clubs are increasing. It is from this realization that the founding president of the Association Paloise de Poker (APP), Franck Denizot, presented the inventory of poker in the city of Pau. More than a wish, this first responsible of the APP advanced his vision of having his own professional team for 2011. With its 3rd place at the last championship of France of clubs, the Association Paloise de Poker's ambition is to send two professional players for next year, to take part in major tournaments like the Partouche Poker Tour and the Spanish Poker Tour.

The World Cup of soccer held recently in South Africa hadn't only positive effects in this country but it has impacts on gambling, casinos and poker included. This is the case of Macau, the former Portuguese colony conceded since a few years to China where gambling is a rooted culture in the habit for generations. According to studies conducted by the Bureau of Inspection and Coordination games in the country, revenues from casinos and poker rooms have increased significantly: 20% in July! Local poker players and enthusiasts of various gaming tables, among others, put together the package and spent the staggering sum of $ 1.56 billion, only in one month. A great leap forward that is certainly no stranger to the post-World Cup effect.

We knew that poker is a card game that interests many people, including youth, seniors, communities. And even superstars from various domains such as sports, showbiz, of the 7th art... are not impassive face to this excitement by throwing their sights on this mythical game. Recently, we have just learned that in France, naturist in the image of their other compatriots will be part of this game with the organizing a poker tournament in one of their strongholds : Cape d'Agde, a popular resort known in the department of Herault, in southeastern France. To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of that station, the partnership between the casino and the Union of Professionals of Naturist Tourism (UPTN) found a very good idea : organizing an event that will be remember in history.

182 players took part in the kickoff of the Day 1A of the 7th edition of the European Poker Tour of Tallinn at Swissotel of the Estonian capital, with a buy-in set at € 4,250. Only 89 participants have reached the 9 levels and have validated their tickets for Friday and the Day 2, which saw the beautiful performance of the German Tekintamgac Ali, who were the only player who pass the point of 200,000 chips. Two Russians are on the second and third place in the EPT Tallinn Day 1A, Matvey Linov with 193,400 chips and 134,500 for Artem Litvinov. The other players in the first ranking are the Italians Mauro Palazzo (134,300) and Luca Pagano (124,900), the Canadian Kaveh Payman (119,200), the Dutchman Steven van Zadelhoff (111,700), another Russian Mikhail Alexandrov (106,000) and the Finn Jussi Jaatinen (105,200 ). On the other hand, the Day 1B attracted over 150 registrants, among them were Bertrand ElkY Grospellier, Manuel Bevand Antoine Amourette and also Dario Minieri, Katja Thater and the beautiful Fatima Moreira de Melo.

Poker enthusiasts are already restless to wait for the next rendezvous of the Barrière Poker Tour (BTP) which will be played at the casino of Dinard, France on August 27th, 28th and 29th 2010. To recall, the previous step, the fourth, was hosted by the famous seaside resort of Deauville. For those who want to be part of this great poker event of the Barriere group, many satellites are organized from August 22nd to 26th, opportunities to each other to try their luck to win a ticket to participate in the tournament. The Main Event with € 1,650 buy-in will consist of a guaranteed prize pool of € 100,000 and will take place at noon on August 28th and 29th.

Poker is a game that not only attract people, but it is one of the topics that pleased filmmakers. Many adaptations at the cinema are themed on poker and its universe. Hollywood has already produced several tracks, most of which was a resounding success in the world. But Asians do not remain, the Chinese of Hong Kong in particular. They love poker and casino games. A new movie is preparing in Macau. It is called "Poker King" and will be shot in the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and Casino in Macau. The choice of the place is not a coincidence because it was the scene of several films shootings before. The most famous is "God of Gamblers" of Chow Yun Fat, better known as John Woo, a director who delivered outstanding hit movies as "Volte Face" or "Mission Impossible 2." He participated as an actor in " Tiger and Dragon". In short, it promises the best.

Usually representing 5% of players in the poker circuit, women are not forgotten so far in terms of earnings. Here they are ranked in order of money pocketed during their participation in various tournaments in the world. Ranked 41st in the mixed men and women standings having won the most money, the 43 years American, winning a million dollars in money prize and a title of the Poker Million cruise in 2002, Kathy Liebert took the Number 1 ranking with $ 5,717,426. At the No. 2 ranking is Annie Duke, with $ 4,270,549, Champion of the Tournament of Champions in 2004, winning two million dollars. Ranked No. 3 with $ 3,136,532 in earnings, Annette Obrestad as the winners of $ 2,000,000 at the WSOP Europe in London in 2007, aged just 18 at the time.

Nobody denies that poker has always been a theme interesting filmmakers, producers seeking to vary the scenario by focusing on this mythical game of cards. We saw in the past several films adapted and inspired by real cases like The Rounders, Maverick, The Kid of Cincinnati, L'Arnaque and Casino Royale. They are all great successes, which become real references on poker film. For the latest news, a poker film will be released in 2011. Its title is revealing its contents with which the critics, lovers of the 7th art and especially the fans of poker would not remain impassive and will certainly have their words to say: "Guns, Girls and Gambling." Moreover, the public will have a casting of dream. Judge it by yourself : Christian Slater starred in "The Name of the Rose", "Very bad things" to name a few, and Gary Oldman, an icon in Hollywood for decades who put his name in legend thanks to global success as "Dracula," "JFK," "The 5th element" etc.

Luck smiled again to the loudmouth of poker Mike "The Mouth" Matusow with a triumph at the Main Event of the tournament Florida State Poker Championship 2010 held at Isle Casino in Pompano Beach from August 6th to 10th, 2010. 400 players responded present during its five days of confrontation with a buy-in of $1,000 + $100, a starting stack of 20,000 chips and levels of 20 minutes. The succession of his hands a pair of kings, three of a kind of 9, three of a kind in a full and four consecutive pairs of Queen, a good run as said in poker, traced all of the route to the first place to the American player to be the chipleader among the 19 competitors still in the race to take at the end of the tournament the first place and win the tidy sum of $ 107,000.

Like many other Canadian provinces that have legalized online gambling including poker, it's Ontario turn to do it now. Indeed, through the Ontario Lottery and Gaming (OLG), the equivalent of the National Lottery in other countries, the province will offer online gambling from 2012. Its president, Paul Godfrey, is optimistic about the future of the game in this great country and he asserts a turnover of $ 400 million per year. A nice windfall in perspective for the state administration in general. Continuing its momentum, the man argued that the issue of security is safe for the Canadian province in terms of online poker. It is safer than any casino situated in other countries.

No longer a secret. Poker is growing at an exponential rate throughout the world. Starting from the United States, the phenomenon has invaded the Western Europe in the first instance and then subsequently drew sympathy from other countries of the Old Continent including the Czech Republic. In general, residents of this small country are fond of casino games. To top it all, several major international tournaments are organized. Last weekend, the Hilton hotel of Prague was the scene of a tournament considered as one of the biggest of the year. Given the high number of participants, 224 in all, it took 26 poker tables and a huge logistical means. Addicts and also local players from other countries such as France took part in the event, and organizers were very satisfied of the success despite a fairly high rate of enrollment of € 1,500 plus € 150 of tax.

Everyone may remember the stupid bet between the two poker players Mike Matusow and Ted Forest on weight loss. As a reminder, each kilogram lost is estimated at 90,909 dollars and has turned to the advantage of the latter. Indeed, in a period of two and a half months, more precisely from May 5th to July 15th, 2010, Ted Forest tried everything to get rid of 22 pounds required by the clause between the two friends. Recently, Mike "The Mouth" which recognized his mistake had just announced that he is unable to pay his due of $ 2 million and tried to find a compromise with Ted by paying $ 5,000 per month during the first 6 months and liquidate the rest of the staggering jackpot after the first 6 quarters if he would survive the health problems caused by the sacrifices made for the bet.

The choice is now sealed for descendants of Eve, who from now will become part of the Women Poker Hall of Fame in 2010 after the public vote. Thus, Kathy Liebert, Jennifer Harman and the late Billie Brown posthumously were the three chosen to join the ranks of current members, namely, Marsha Waggoner, Linda Johnson, Susie Isaacs, Barbara Enright, June Field, Jan Fisher and Cindy Violette. The three new elected will be inducted in September 3rd, 2010 at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas. They gathered the correct profile required by particular selection criteria based on active participation in the development of poker.

The poker event which marked the city of Deauville, a seaside resort of worldwide reputation and also one of famous city of the 7th art, last week was undoubtedly the Barriere Poker Tour Deauville. Several personalities of poker attended to the tournament as the famous footballer Bernard Mendy, who lead the club Stade Malherbe, Paris Saint Germain at their heyday and recently he was going to play in England, at Hull City to be exact. He did not only plays football but also the most famous card game, poker in which the man is a real enthusiast. A game which became his second passion and that he learned during his transit at the football club of the French Capital, Paris Saint Germain. And the man does not hide, every time he plays poker, he feels the same sensations as when he is on a football field. Like what love of the game gives dream.

Samuel McMaster Jr. was found guilty in 26 charges of fraud worth $ 440,000 against three dozen people in New Mexico, in the United States. But the lawyer of this insurance agent and poker player, aged 59, managed to offer an alternative in the medium term before the court in this American state execute the penalty of 84 years of imprisonment. The accused is compelled to play but especially to win in poker to pay what he owes to his victims. According on the content of the agreement, McMaster, the alleged professional poker player will have six months to restore what he took unfair to people of more than 60 years by paying $ 7,500 per month up until February of the the year 2011.

It became commonplace among online poker rooms at this time. Indeed, to improve their image, online poker rooms deploy an impressive means to bring into their side professional poker players or big names in sports and other showbiz stars. In France, it's the same thing that occurs because poker rooms sell their image through people like Bruno Solo, one of the most famous actor of the time. Such a policy shouldn't be underestimated because it has substantial financial implications, a good public image etc. The list containing the names of these individuals is long : the most famous of all is probably Patrick Bruel, a man of many facets that needs no introduction in the world of stars and especially in the poker world and his fame goes beyond the borders, Vikash Dohorasoo, a former professional footballer who currently hit in Texas Hold'em in these virtual rooms.

And let's go once again for the European Poker Tour (EPT) in its Season 7. The city of Tallinn, in Estonia host the first step of this new edition since August 11th to 16th 2010, in the luxurious palace Swissotel. The buy in for this first event has been set at € 4,000 + € 250, and registration for satellites was closed on Saturday August, 7th. As usual, the EPT will have for the Season 7 in all thirteen steps to complete before the end of this series in April 2011. Here are a timetable of the European Poker Tour Season 7 : the EPT Tallinn in Estonia will open the season from August 11th to 16th. Then comes the EPT Vilamoura in Portugal from August 28th to September 2nd. The third step of the EPT London in the United Kingdom will be held from September 29th to October 4th.

Activities will become harder and more difficult for illegal online poker sites operating in France by the measures taken by the regulatory authority of online games or ARJEL. Indeed, following the decision of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, telephone operators and internet service providers (ISP) had to block access to illegal poker and sports betting sites. This automatically implies a reduction of revenue for these operators. These measures were taken to sites that are not in good standing with respect to the administration and have continued to issue against the law in effect for two months. From that side, we can say that the ARJEL did his job by finding sites that offer recalcitrant games for French Internet users. Not content to put them always on guard, the ARJEL brought the matter to court by requiring ISPs to block access.

154 poker players took the starting point of the main event of the Barriere Poker Tour Deauville with € 1,650 buy-in. After two days of competition, four players pull themselves on the top and qualified for the final table who are Philippe Chaboseau, Adrien Allain, Ange Besnainou and Julien Yomtob, who had previously agreed a deal on the structure of payment, which was set at € 40,000 for each. The countdown begun thereafter for the four participants in the tournament, which during the final duel saw the heads'up between Ange Besnainou and Adrien Allain. A thrilling final which ended in the victory of Ange Besnainou after hours and hours of play.

As everyone knows, the opening to competition of online poker is effective for over already one month in France. It's a great step forward for gaming but not everything is rosy. There is discontent among French players, who feel aggrieved by a phenomenon that has nothing linking with liberalization : the entry of approved sites .fr by players coming from .com. The consequences were felt immediately : an influx of enthusiasts of the game most of whom are regular players, and professionals living outside France who are more experienced and beat at almost of the time local players whose level is significantly lower. Even if there is an increasing flows of money on poker tables, it is in almost of the time at the expense of French players. So, they feel injured by this practice : their accounts were emptied at a glance, the disappointment is growing to the point they no longer want to play and on the other hand, the French experienced players don't have access to .com sites. A measure that is the consequence of the law applied at the moment.

After the completion of the World Series of Poker 2010, one of the largest live tournaments on the poker world, different sites offer rankings of players by their win. As for the descendants of Eve, four American players are positioning themselves between the 20th to the 17th position among the world top 20 in terms of gains in live tournaments. At the 20th position is the American from Brooklyn, Melissa Hayden with $ 917,334 gain thanks to her place as runner-up at the tournament $ 5,000 Limit Hold'em during the WSOP 2000, meeting during which she won 142,000 $. In the 19th rank, the Californian from Midway City, Thu Nguyen, who plays only in Los Angeles has a total gain of $ 930,002 marked especially by her third position at the World Poker Tour "Legends of Poker” in 2007. Ranked 18th best player, the other Californian Kristy Gazes has accumulated $ 981,034 in tournaments with a considerable gain of $ 250,000 with a first place at a tournament at the Wynn.

After the euphoria caused by the famous legalization of French online game market made two months ago, the time is to make a quick assessment on this game practice becoming inseparable for many players. Apart from the major French historical groups as the PMU and FDJ, other new players came into the arena to share this lucrative and coveted market of online poker and sports betting. A dozen in all, most of which are helped financially and materially by large groups. By analyzing closely the batch, there is a wide disparity on the operators involved : communication groups such as Canal + Eurosport through TF1, group manager of casinos in France as Barriere, Partouche or the powerful Europeans bettors which are no longer to present like Bwin, BetClick ...

Proponents of online poker should be very carefull because scams performed by cybercriminals are becoming more frequent currently. They use many strategies to bribe their victims. Among the tricks of these scammers are e-mails hacking announcing majestic news or problems arising in the accounts of players to lead them to visit a different gaming site. In this way, hackers obtain the necessary information to steal accounts. But such a scam should not affect the players because it is obvious that the gaming sites will not solve such crucial details by sending e-mails. Thus, players must pay the utmost vigilance in seeing what kind of message. But if in doubt, inquire about the reputation of the game site is the first thing to do.

Online poker is legal since the end of June 2010 in France. In general, this liberalization accompanied by various measures made without incident except for the delay on issuing licenses to operators, old and new operators. Everyone come into the arena to share this lucrative French market including terrestrial casinos operators. We learned recently that 40 casinos clustered together to operate a new online site and this, after receiving permission from the authorities. This site specializes in the variant Texas Hold'em poker. A big investment is necessary to be known in a very important competitive sector as online poker and it is not surprising to hear that the group invested a big package to get a good seat. September 1st is the date of the starting of the site.

The poker room of the hotel and casino Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood, Florida was the host of a poker event which amazed many great players. Indeed, the Summer Open Series tournament saw a great influx of players in almost every event that made up the tournament. The $ 2,200 buy-in Main Event brought together a field of 165 participants consisting of several professionals in the game with some of the November Nine competitors like Michael Mizrachi, John Dulan, Kevin Schaffel and David Rheem and pros like Robert Mizrachi and Jason Mercier. The prize pool for the main event was $ 330,000. Unfortunately, none of them win the title and only Shaffel were among the competitors on the final day of competition.

The opening to competition of poker and online sports betting is effective recently in France. Overall, everything went well. But it hide another reality, there are also unhappy and among them, the players showed their frustration on some points in this liberalization. On the side of online operators, especially for online sports betting, the picture is rather positive as opposed to online poker rooms where you can see some grumbling among both players and operators. For poker, the hope was ephemeral. For French players especially, we feel through forums debate that it is in the tax levy which is the heaviest. They believe that taxes are too high and have an impact on profit margins which have an impact on received earnings.

Online poker has been the scene of a fierce battle between giants of poker in the High Stakes Poker Challenge Durrr. Tom Dwan did a walkover by crossing the bar of 2,000,000 chips while Phil Ivey had 700,000 chips. They respectively took these benefits on opponents who beat them in other circumstances. After three months of absence, durrrr Challenge announced its come back and dictate the rule : he is the boss, he and non one else. It was with a passion for winning that he demonstrated his power in 36 minutes and 182 hands played simultaneously on four tables, Durrrr took over 459,962 dollars to Patrick Antonius, what could disgust even the most crazy of poker ! With 4 pots of at least $ 139,000 in assets, Tom shown his claws with which he devastate all his opponents. And after this final session, he won 2,059,720 dollars!

A stage of the tournament All Africa Poker Tournament (AAPT) was held at Piggs Peak Casino in Swaziland, a country in southern Africa, last weekend. It was a great opportunity for poker enthusiasts to participate in African lands to such event of poker. At the AAPT Swaziland, the sacred returned to MJ Pieters. His victory was not surprising because he had the advantage by being the chip leader on the final table. Thus, he managed to win face to his opponents and seized the throne after a final head's up against the previous champion Ryan Eber. After having participated in 5 events AAPT, MJ. Pieters was for the first time part of the final table. However, it is not his first title because he has already won the title at the Emperor Palace 500 Invitational.

Poker enthusiasts in Australia are preparing to host a local tournament to be held at Crown Casino in Melbourne from August 15th. Planned to take place over 2 weeks, the Victorian Poker Championships tournament features 14 events. This popular tournament of the Midday Series is back this year with a $ 125 buy-in No Limit Hold'em Deepstack. Intended to provide good moments during the holidays, this special event was designed to experience intense moments of poker in Australian land. This is a $ 550 buy-in No Limit Hold'em with three Day 1 letting unlucky players of the Day 1 to try again two more times their chance and the event will generate a prize pool of $ 50,000. The famous championship State of Origin will also take place Thursday, August 20th. This competition will deal the elites of different regions of this area as Australia, New Zealand, Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. Every player will thus had to defend the honor of their respective regions.

Bulgaria has been the guest of honor of a poker event which brought together several superstars. Indeed, 260 poker fans joined the Crystal Crown Casino in Sunny Beach to participate in the € 1,100 buy-in Main Event of the season 2 of the European Masters of Poker tournament. This broad field has been reduced to nine competitors during the final day, held last weekend. Among these 9 finalists were the two Israelis Joseph Shai and Vahnun Shalgi, the Romanian George Draghici, local players Aleksander Raykov, Vasil Medarov and Yavor Tutev, the Finn Antti Takala and Timo Roivainen and the Swede Erik Skarpie.

The European Poker Tour, one of the biggest tournaments on the poker world will be like every year have a step down in Normandy and it will be from 25th to 31st January 2011. This confirms once again that France is among the steps in this popular competition. Recall that last year, the Main Event of € 5,300 rounded up 768 players for a prize pool of € 3,686,400. A monstrous success to be remembered ! But next season will be marked by a change of its location. The International Centre of Deauville (CID) will now host the EPT instead of the traditional Hotel Majestic Barrière, located next door. More comfortable and more spacious, the CID has everything it needs to let competitors feel well and scroll through the event with confidence.

The Italian Poker Tour Venice crowned its champion in the person of Tamas Lendvai. Note that this magnificent tournament brought together a field of 505 participants of whom 227 were registered for the Day 1A and 278 for the Day 1B creating a staggering prize pool of € 979,000, a record in this circuit. All these fans of poker fight all for the title or at least to be part of the paid listing that the organizers have limited to the number of 72 players. And after a thrilling clash, the 8 finalists finally demarcated. Tekitamgac Ali started as chip leader of the final table with 2,254,000 chips in hand. He was therefore the better player of the game. The other competitors were Toby Lewis (2,117,000), Davide Cerrato (2.03 million), Giovanni La Padula (914,000), Andras Kovacs (815,000), Cristiano Guerra (806 000), Sandro Mazzei (731 000).

In parallel with the poker festival in London, the British Poker Awards ceremony will be held at the Fox Club on September 13th, 2010. This is an event designed to reward British poker players because effectively, they were numerous to have obtained tremendous achievements especially during the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas this summer. In addition, poker community relished the talent of these English players at several poker tournaments this year. For this exceptional event to thank them, the public will have the final word in the choice of players who deserve the awards to distribute, and from now, they can express their choice.

The season of poker tournament of all kinds is open across the four corners of the world. Events are organized almost everywhere showing the talent of young French players. Recently, Frederic Brunet let talked about him in Dublin while Julien Subreville wrote his name in the list of winners in Aix-en-Provence, these two tournaments enter both in the Open Deepstack DSO. In Namur, Belgium, Jean Marc Ahiary distinguished himself by moving up to the underside of the lot consisting of 520 poker players at the start. This third stage of the DSO was at Casino de Namur. The buy in was € 550 which permits harvesting a tidy prize pool of € 239,424.

If Antoine Saout was the pride of France last year defending all the French community in the final of the World Series of Poker, this year, other countries like South Korea will have the opportunity to be represented. Joseph Cheung, a citizen of South Korea will be among the non-American to sit on the final table of the WSOP 2010. Skilled and ferocious, Joseph "sublime" Cheong will begin this final battle with the third largest stack amounting 23,525,000 chips. Prior to his distinguished career at the WSOP Main Event 2010, Joseph Cheong recorded two cashes in the tournament No Limit Hold'em 6-Max $ 1,500 buy-in during which he finished at the 24th place and the NLHE event 6-max $ 5,000 buy-in. And his biggest live tournament cash was collected during the preliminary event Harrah's Rincon WSOP Circuit $ 340 buy-in during which he bagged a rich price $ 17,541.

Kevin Thurman, known by the middle of poker under the name "WizardOfAchs" is a 31 years player. It must be said that this nickname was not chosen randomly because actually, that player is suffering a terrible disease, Lyme disease. It is a bacterial disease multi-organ and multi-systemic which kills its victims progressively and to combat it, Thurman should undergo regular chemotherapy sessions. Despite the suffering that weighs on his life, the young American did not let down but increased exploits in the field of poker, his great passion. Indeed, Kevin Thurman became familiar with poker at the age of 8 years. At the time, his father invited him to play in the parties “ dealer choice”. And since then, he accomplished great feats.

The first stage of the Partouche Poker Million, which was held at the Casino Gran Madrid ended with a Spanish victory. The tournament brought together a field of 89 players who competed in four days to win the title of the event of € 3,300 buy-in generating a prize pool of € 267,000. Many players joined the Spanish capital, Madrid, to play this exceptional tournament to name Alain Roberts, Antonin Teisseire, Launis Bruno, Antony Lellouche, Ludovic Lacay, Tristan Clémençon Jean Montury, Nicolas Langlois, the Canadian Sorel Mizzi, the Spanish Leo Margetts and Raul Paez. Participants were entitled to 20,000 starting chips for a period of one hour's play. After several hours of clashes, the finalists overtopped who were Raul Paez, Oscar Blanco, Marvin Rettenmeier Diego Lacarte, Paul Schneider, Cayetano Garcia, John Eames, Pavel Ion and Daniel Tafur.

The misfortune of one is the happiness of others. That summarizes in short the situation of online games including online poker mainly in the world today. Thus, when the United States prohibit online gambling, it has an impact on the overall activity in this country, there is even a recession. But in other hand, it was the Europeans who did make it pretty well for a reason: legalization made for some time is beginning to bear fruit. Therefore, it is the largest market with 42.6% of sales worldwide. According to studies conducted by the firm H2 Gambling Capital, it is following the policy implementation that is the legalization of online gaming in Europe which is the main cause of this growth. In a few countries like France two months ago, recently Denmark, Greece will also regulate. They are among the countries that contribute to generate huge profits, but the United Kingdom leads with £ 10 billion generated by this industry.

It is an indisputable fact, online gaming and poker in particular, are increasingly popular in various European countries. Faced to this situation, each country adopts a policy favorable to them. And in general, two systems are seen across the continent. On one hand, countries which adopt the opening even partial to competition of games like poker, sports betting, and the other, those who still have reticence against liberalization. First, some countries felt necessary to regulate their markets. Among others are part of this group countries like Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland and France which are nations where this game is rooted in culture and manners for years.

The Canadian player Daniel Negreanu has just praised young poker players. But his remarks were mostly a challenge launched against the godfather of poker Doyle Brunson. Indeed, the Kid Poker aged 35 years old claimed that young poker players are much more talented and could challenge their seniors without any difficulty. According to Negreanu, young players have a great capacity of analysis. Negreanu mentioned the names of several young prodigies as proof like Tom Marchese, a 22-years-old who won the victory at the North American Poker Tour Venetian on last February and Vivek Rajkunar, champion of the World Poker Tour in Atlantic City.

Despite its young age, the Italian Poker Tour, which as its name suggests is a poker tournament which takes place in the country of Berlusconi has just recorded a great success. If the result of the first edition dated of June 1st, 2009, at San Remo wasn't really persuasive, because the tournament registered a small field of 254 participants at the time, this year the attendance was more than satisfactory. Indeed, during this second stage of the season 2 which was held in Venice, a total of 505 participants were present to compete for the title of this Italian poker gathering, which is the double of registrants since its launch.

Phil Galfond aka "jman" or "OMGClayAiken" or "Sweaty Phil” is a young poker player whose talent needs no introduction. Born in 1985, this young New Yorker recently accomplished great feats in the world of poker. He dropped out like all other enthusiasts of the game and began his pro career in online poker tournaments. He started in Sit & Go but was soon tired of the style of play and wandered into cash games where he accumulated a great success. So he cashed several million dollars. Galfond has met the two stars of cash games including Durrrr and Raptor and all three have agreed to meet in a team named Hollas Bollas who became famous in the world of online poker. But Galfond has also experienced great success in live tournaments.

During the month of poker festival in London, an unusual event will be added to the program. This is the Victory Poker Tournament charity to be held at the Fox Poker Club, Shaftesbury Avenue, London on September 22nd, 2010, a different poker event that will delight fans of the game in the British capital. While most of the tournaments were organized to allow players to win major prizes and awards, organizers rely on their generosity this time. Many famous personalities in sport and art like the famous poker player Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak will join in this charitable event to the benefit of Murry foundation working for ecosystem protection in various countries of the world, endangered animals and assistance to children. It is an action requiring the humble participation of generous donors.

Competitors for the November Nine, the grand finale of World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2010, continue their preparations. Among them are Jason Senti, a 25 years old American player who lives in Minnesota. Senti is a professional poker player who already has a rather long experience despite the fact that he hadn't yet win a great prize. Jason Senti aka "PBJaxx" is above all a big fan of online cash game. Before being a pro game, he was an electronics engineer. And like every player carried by the excitement of poker, he abandoned his job to launch his career in the poker world. This summer, Senti accomplished a great feat in the event Heads'Up Championship of $ 10,000 buy-in. In fact, he finished in the 32nd place. Currently, he has a total cash in tournament of an amount of $ 17,987.

The presenter of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Bruce Buffer, won the title of the tournament Grand Slam of Poker, held at the Hustler Casino in Los Angeles. Buffer is a big fan of poker and he has already participated in various tournaments since 2005 but never managed to get a victory. The Main Event tournament brought together 1,484 players who paid a buy-in of $ 225 with a guaranteed prize pool of $ 200,000. The Grand Slam of Poker is one of the few poker events in Los Angeles with a huge guaranteed prize pool, a small buy-in and with several departure days allowing many players to try their luck. Indeed, some unlucky players in the early days thus began to register for another day.
 
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