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Switzerland and Germany have already hosted the 3 Länder Poker Tour (3LT), the most popular circuit of German speaking countries. Austria will thus become the third nation to receive the next Grand Final of this prestigious tournament. A final appointment to not be missed a few weeks before the end of the year 2010, which will have an estimated prize pool of € 500,000, guaranteed. After more than deserved success in the Swiss town of Baden and the German city of Warnemünde Beach, the inaugural season of the 3LT will sail shortly on the Austrian capital Vienna for its Grand Final. This final stop will have as casino host the Montesino Pokertainment Center which will house this event for 4 consecutive days from December 8 to 11, 2010.

And one more for the host country in terms of victory. After the recent coronation of the Irishman John Gray at the Irish Poker Open, another local player won the Main Event 2010 of this tournament. His name is Nicholas Newport and he is the successor of the last winner Michael O'Sullivan winner in 2009, another compatriot, too. The € 1,650 buy-in Main Event at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin was composed by a field of 347 participants. A competition that has turned to the advantage of the winner of the last Main Event of the Irish Series of Poker 2010 of €10,000 entry fee against Charlie Harvey, another Irish player, in the final duel.

The event the most anticipated by poker enthusiasts in France will begin in a few days at Seven Casino Amneville. Indeed, from November 2 to 6, 2010, they can participate in the next stage of he World Poker Tour (WPT) which once again land in France. Many talented players already confirmed their presence at Seven Casino. For the Main Event of € 3,500 buy-in, a field of about 500 participants is expected. With such crowds, organizers estimate a record prize pool also quite important because the price to be offered to the winner will be at least € 300,000, not to mention the package to the Main Event of the WPT Bellagio in Las Vegas worth $ 25,500. The runner up of the tournament will also have a great reward and an entrance fee of € 10,000 for the WPT Paris.

The G Casino in Luton hosted last weekend the tournament Amateur Poker Association & Tour English Amateur Championships (APAT). 176 poker enthusiasts and fans invaded the casino in order to acquire a share of the prize pool of £ 13,200. After the first day of competition, itlasted only 24 survivors, three of them are previous champions of the APAT National. The second day of competition took place very quickly and Gary Haselgrove, Joe Legge, Ian Burnett, Brett Pinder, Paul Petch, Colin McCarthy, Phillip Mildon, James Edwards, Michael Martin and Tod Wood were the remaining players who reached the final table.

They were 16 competitors qualified for the final day of the famous World Series Of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) which takes place at Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana. After 12 hours of battle, the final table was finally known. Kurt Jewell defended his place of honor as chip leader with 6.8 million chips in hand. His large advantage was in his favor because he gained three times more chips than the other two players in the lead with Edwin Choi (2.6 million) and Corey Souther (2.3 million) which enabled him to be immune to early eliminations. After the elimination of Casey Hayes at the 9th place and Daniel Cohen at the 8 th place, the champion of the WSOP Circuit Rincon 2010 Bryan Devonshire was also victim of a bad turn and finished in the 7th place.

The France Poker Tour (FPT) aim to contribute to the development of poker on the French territory. With its own philosophy "Poker everywhere and poker for all", the FPT decided this year 2010 to launch an unprecedented promotion by spreading the values of poker all around the country. Since Sunday, October 24, 2010, a delegation of 6 players began the season by playing poker games, the Texas Hold'em variant early in the middle of the Place de la Concorde in Paris and will not end once the colony back in the French capital on the grass of the Parc des Princes on Thursday, November 4, 2010 for a final party in the first part of a road trip and the beginning of the 6th edition of France Poker Tour, which will take place all around France.

Considered as the most important tournament of the European continent, the Partouche Poker Tour of this year 2010 is as interesting as other previous tournaments. This 2010 vintage shined by a new record of participation in the main event with some 746 registered players, including seven winners of a WSOP bracelet and the biggest names in poker including Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Gus Hansen, Michael Mizrachi and Erik Seidel. In addition, 3,346 competitors were present in the various tests offered in conjunction with the event. As participants were numerous enough, the prize pool of the Main Event reaches this year € 5,684,160, a record never achieved. Thus, the person of the 9 finalists who will win the final table of the PPT 2010 will pocket a giant prize of € 1.3 million.

After a long absence, the tournament European Poker Tour (EPT) is coming back and is calling again in Vienna to offer to poker fans a wonderful festival of poker on the Austrian soil. The event will take place from Monday, October 25, 2010 at the sumptuous Kusalon palace in the heart of City Park in Vienna. The launch of the main event of € 5,300 buy-in coincides with the day to celebrate the national day of Austria, a program that will delight fans of poker who will attend this tournament. Note that famous poker players such as Sandra Naujoks, Debastian Ruthenberg and Boris Becker are part of the tournament and a title and a first prize of € 500,000 are at stake. Some participants in the Main Event were qualified in online tournaments or super satellites, while others have paid the entry fee provided for the occasion.

Decades passed but the Irish Open, the oldest European poker tournament continues its merry way. Thus, it announced its program for next year 2011. For this new edition which will take place in the Irish capital, another success is twaited both in the organizational side and on the number of participants. Organized since 1981 by the late Terry Rogers, this poker tournament among the oldest in the world has never ceased to amaze the audience. Thus, this new version of the Irish Open of April 22 to 25 2011 which will be hosted by the City of Dublin, at the Burlington Hotel, the € 3,500 buy-in event will once again have a structure worthy of a major international competition with extra stack gradually rising from 10,000 to 20,000 chips and the participation of some famous poker players.

Once again, the poker community has just proven they can demonstrate an act of generosity and that poker is a great way to financially support charitable activities. Indeed, the third edition of the charity tournament "All In For Kids" was founded by Beth Shak and Dan Shak held at the Mandarin Oriental New York on last October 21 recorded a huge success. Note that this edition has been organized to the benefit of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in order to support research on the development of fetal medicine. The event was first started with a cocktail and dinner. And the poker tournament was launched at 7:00 pm. Various celebrities such as actor Steve Martin, author Amy Tan and international poker pros Phil Hellmuth honored the event and brought success to it.

The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) taking place at Horseshoe Casino Hammond in Indiana assembled a wonderful field of 872 players for the Main Event. These competitors have each paid the buy-in of $ 1,600 with as target the opportunity to be able to return home with the sum of $ 242,909. Thus, 162 survivors were qualified for the Day 2 of the competition. The poker star Kathy Liebert was part of the field starting the second day of competition but had a miserable defeat. At the end of Day 2, it stayed only 16 competitors in the race for the final day and Kurt Jewell was in the head with the biggest stack in his possession holding 3,102,000 chips in hand.

The last stage of the Barrière Poker Tour hold this weekend and that lasted two days in the city of Lille, France, ended. Another weekend that smiled to Bertrand Grospellier alias "ElkY" who won with success the last tournament leading to the grand finale of Enghien-les-Bains. At the same time, Jean Paul Pasqualini and Lucille Cailly respectively shined in the € 500 side event composed of 36 players and that of € 175 registering 49 participants. This final phase of the BPT took place in the casino of Lille. Less than 100 participants were present at the event visiting for the occasion the northern part of France. 97 players familiar with this kind of tournament meet there before the end of this tournament with Bertrand Grospellier as winner. He assured at the same time his ticket for the final to be held on next November, from 11 to 14.

This new weekend of October is still marked by a busy schedule of poker tournaments that are all major as each other either in France or elsewhere in the world. Starting with Barrière Poker Tour Lille (BTP) to be held during three days of October, from 22 to 24, 2010 at the new Casino Barrière of Lille of course with a main event of € 1,650 and various events that are the ladies sides event of € 150, the side event of € 560 and the side event Knock Out of € 175. Several satellites are also on schedule to pull tickets for the main event, there is the satellite at 50 €, 150 € and that the satellite at 300 €.

After a firts victory in the World Poker Tour circuit (WPT) in Barcelona in 2009, Mark Randal Flowers has actually acquired all the essential criteria to join the leaders at the age of 20 years. Even if the WPT Barcelona 2009 hasn't recorded a great success, but by winning the prestigious WPT Festa Al Lago Bellagio, the big poker event in Las Vegas this week, Flowers confirmed his immense talent and great competence as a poker pro. He finished then as leading of a large field of 335 players including several professionals like Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Men Nguyen. Despite the threat of Obrestad, the star of the casino since Day 4, Flowers fight off and was awarded of the place of chip leader at the final day.

The British capital will be again a focal point for fans of poker next month. Indeed, with the tenth edition of the World Heads-Up Championship 2010 which will take place for the second year at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London, the world's best players will meet there from November 19 to 22 of this year. After having received successively the World Poker Tour, the English Poker Open, the World Series of Poker Europe and the European Poker Tour, London via the Grosvenor Victoria Casino will host another meeting of this magnitude. A buy-in of £ 2,200 with a limited number of participants fixed to 128 will be in the program of this event played in No Limit Hold'em.

After serving in the U.S. Army for 6 years, Randy Couture founded with Kim Couture the foundation Xtreme Couture GI Foundation, which provides financial assistance to war veterans and their families. On October 30, Couture is organizing the third edition of the event “All In”, an annual poker tournament to benefit the foundation to support its humble actions. This is a charity that the former sergeant is particularly attached. The event will begin at noon at the Grand Events Center at Golden Nugget Las Vegas for an auction followed by a photo shoot with celebrities of the MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) like Tyson Griffin, Martin Kampmann, Gray Maynard and many others, who will also have the honor to participate in this poker tournament thereafter. Note that Randy Couture alias "The Natural" is a famous fighter in the Ultimate Fighting Championship Hall of Fame and won six victories in that discipline.

The public who came at the Bellagio poker event, have been all waiting for a good performance from the young champion of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Annette Obrestad during the Day 4 of the World Poker Tour Festa al Lago (WPT), held at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas. And viewers hoped an outstanding conquest from the young poker star. Indeed, she began the Day 5 with a large advantage in chips. Unfortunately, Obrestad had a bad day and could not defend her position until the end. She was quickly eliminated in the 13th place after an attack by Skip Wilson. However, she pocketed a reward of $ 32,240 for this great achievement.

On the occasion of the Monte Carlo International Clubbing Show 2010, a big night party at the Grimaldi Forum of Monaco bringing together the major international DJs and major groups specializing in event from November 11 to 13, a poker tournament will accompany it. The tournament “Poker Night Fever” will effectively take place at the Sun Casino during the second week of November 2010, simultaneously with the festival and during the month of December. The first online stage qualifying tournaments with packages of € 4,000 including travel by helicopter from Nice to Monaco, a pass for the Monte Carlo International Show Clubbing, accommodation and the buy-in for the event is now played. It began on October 14 and won't end until October 29.

The fourth edition of the annual tournament of the Caesars Palace casino in Las Vegas began on October 21 and will end on November 7. The poker enthusiasts who will take part in the Caesars Palace Classic will have the joy to take part in 34 wonderful event and it is certain that everyone will find the tournament that suit him. This great poker festival began with a No-Limit Hold'em of $ 200 + $ 35 buy-in. Registrations for other events are open since last Thursday and all tournaments are scheduled to begin at noon unless two tournaments scheduled for the same day. In this case, the second starts at 4 : 00 pm. Most events consist of no-limit hold'em, limit hold'em, Omaha 8 or better and pot-limit Omaha are accessible to an entrance fee of $ 200 + $ 35.

The Fantaisium editions will end the year 2010 with the release of a book about poker, specifically its hold'em variant. The next publication of François Montmirel entitled "Poker Techno Quiz" will be effectively released soon in stores. The big day of its publication is scheduled for November 2, 2010. This book containing 320 pages is quite special in the format as it is only presented as questions. The author proposes in this 2010 volume, 150 hold'em variant problems and explanations on how to play with a professional techniques to solve them. Each problem is detailed across two pages in which the problem of the game on the front page and always followed by the solution on the back. In the conclusion of the book, the writer makes a summary showing the possible difficulties encountered by the reader in relation to the suggested answers.

At the end of the Day 4 of the Main Event of the World Poker Tour Festa al LagoBellagio (WPT) , there are only 13 competitors in the race. Note that the 335 players in the starting field paid a buy-in of $ 10,300, which allowed organizers to collect a prize pool of $ 3,224,000. On Day 4, the young Norwegian Annette Obrestad has really done an extraordinary day. After eliminating a lot of experienced players, the beautiful star of poker was propelled to the head of the tournament and hold successfully the place of chip leader by earning the largest portion of the stack which is 2,009,000 chips in hand. However, Annette_15 was in the 16th position at the beginning of the day. Among the victims of Day 4 are the chip leader Steve O'Dwyer and Chad Batista, an online poker pro.

The World Series of Poker Circuit adventure at Horseshoe Casino in the city of Chicago becomes more and more exciting after its opening in October 15, 2010. The last event to date is that of the Event # 2 , a No-Limit Hold'em of $ 560 buy-in with a large influx of participants in number of 594. At the end of this meeting, that was Chad Graves who grabbed the title, a first major winner of the tournament by collecting at the same time the sum of $ 59,539 with as bonuses two free passes for the Main Event of $ 1,600 buy-in from October 22 to 24 and the $ 10,000 buy-in of the Regional Championship which will take place from October 25 to 28, 2010 at the same place.

With the approach of winter, the ski resort of Les 2 Alpes notifies already ski enthusiasts and fans of poker for the next edition of the “2 Alpes Poker Week”. This is an event that the station organized for three years in collaboration with famous operators of online poker. This third edition will be scheduled from Sunday 9 to Friday, 14 January, 2011. As usual, participants will receive five days of skiing on the 225 km ski runway of the station, enough to satisfy fans of winter sports. But organizers are also targeting poker enthusiasts at this event because in the evenings, guests can participate in by magnificent poker tournaments, starting with MTT satellites and Sit & Go to get qualify for the Main Event, which will take place on Friday.

The year 2010 saw Erik Seidel and Dan Harrington as new members of the Poker Hall of Fame. If the election of Erik Seidel is clear and need any explanation if we take count about the five selection criteria, the result obtained by Dan Harrington surprised many. The path of the two fighters, however, could clarify the jury's choice. Elected unanimously with the five criteria required, Erik Seidel, who is none other than the favorite candidate of the famous Doyle Brunson, is the player having won sixty paid seats with eight bracelets at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). That was in 1988 that this new member of the circle make talk about him for the first time in positioning just behind the star player of that time in the person of Johnny Chan and thereafter, Seidel accumulated $ 10 million of gain tournament in cash games, this game is also his favorite.

The International Poker Open 2010 took place on the last weekend in the capital of Ireland, Dublin. A tournament of three days from October 15 to 17 who saw the well-deserved coronation of the local player John Gray. A field composed of 1,293 players, amateurs and professionals had been present at this poker event. Besides the title, the winner was entitled of a sum of € 50,600 as promised. Among the big names in the discipline who were involved in the starting of this meeting of the International Poker Open, Dublin 2010, there was Marty Smyth, Neil Channing, Surinder Sunar, Liam Flood, Paul Marrow, Andy Black, " Mad "Marty Wilson, Jessie May and Padraig Parkinson.

Poker enthusiasts gave appointment at Montesino Vienna in the Austrian capital, the last weekend to participate in the Deepstack Open. 503 players entered in the tournament by paying a buy-in of € 550. Fans of poker of different origins formed the field : Austrian, German, Hungarian, French, Romanian, Polish, Italian... After three days of meeting, the 10 competitors at the final table finally demarcated. Note that half of the finalists were players from Hungary who were Octyan Norbert, Janos Toth, Roland Takacs, the chip leader of the day Lazslo Toth and Mario Karman. This huge Hungarian delegation confronted the three local players Thomas Leeb, Patrick Sykala and Wolfgang Wessin who were respectively eliminated in the 6th, 7th and 10th place and the Romanian Stan Manual (8th) and the Italian Dalassio Rosario (3rd).

The biggest poker event of Belgium, the Belgian Open Poker Championship (BOPC), just ended in propelling Marcel Bjerkmann in the top of his pro career in this discipline. Indeed, the Norway's 21 years just proved his talent as being among the best players by winning the Main Event of € 1,500. His career in the casino of Namur was just amazing because despite a few setbacks that marked his participation in the Day 1 of the BOPC, Bjerkmann distinguished himself by accessing to the status of chip leader of the event from Day 2 to the final table, a final phase which he completely dominated. Indeed, the young champion arrived at the casino with 5 hours of lateness which nearly eliminated him from the list of participants.

The Deepstack Open and the World Poker Tour (WPT) tournament series will be received by the Casino Es Saadi in Marrakesh during ten days in next November. After the tour of Aix-en-Provence, Dublin, Namur, Vilamoura and Vienna, the event will visit the Moroccan capital from next November 20 to 30 with a very attractive structure as usual. For the Deepstack Open of € 550 buy-in, there will be a starting stack of 50,000 chips with levels of one hour during the three days of competition. In addition, many satellite and side events will mark the week leading up to the World Poker Tour Marrakesh. A short-handed Omaha of € 500 euros and a NLHE of € 1,800 are also in the calendar for two days.

On October 23, the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles will host its second annual charity tournament "Poker For Cause". The casino already hosted such an event last year and was successful in appointment as many celebrities fulfilled the tournament field, among whom figured pro players like Jamie Gold and Alex Outhred and also some famous actors and actresses like Jennie Garth and Jennifer Love Hewitt. For the next edition, organizers also rely on large crowds of enthusiasts to support this humble poker event to the benefit of Children's Institute organization. It is a charitable organization that helps child victims of domestic violence, abuse or neglect, a phenomenon that affects more than 17,000 children in the city.

The countdown has begun for the new six fateful days with the launch of the World Poker Tour Bellagio Cup VI in Las Vegas, held from October 15 to 21, 2010. Indeed, the new season of the WPT, the 9th of its kind, officially started with a field of 243 players on Day 1 for an entry price of $ 10,300. At the end of the Day 1 of the tournament, Guillaume Darcourt, the French, who already has at his prizelist a WPT title in Bucharest this year is the chip leader with a large margin of about 75,000 chips on his pursuer. This first day was also marked by the non-performance of big names in poker like Billy Baxter, Men Nguyen, Chad Brown, Eli Elezra, or Joe. A valuable benefit to the current player in pole position to reissue and win the tournament.

The final stage of the Spanish Poker Tour 2010 is set for November. This Grand Final will take place over four days from November 18 to 21 at the Gran Casino Costa Brava in Lloret de Mar. All the great players of the Old Continent will compete again in this prestigious event to pocket the € 300,000 guaranteed of the Main Event. Satellite tournaments for the Grand Final qualifiers are already underway and until 14 of the next month. Previously, four other events are scheduled from November 15 to 17, 2010 which are a Step II of €100 + €10, a Step III of € 460 + €40, a Super Satellite of € 200 + € 20 (100 € rebuys and add on) and freeroll tournament reserved to all players who have finished in the paid place in at least one step of the SPT 2010 for a prize pool of € 45,000.

The tournament United States Poker Championship (U.S. PC) will again take place at Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City from November 1st to 22nd, 2010. It is the only poker championship hosted by the casino. And even if the tournament does not appear as famous and grandiose as major tournament like the World Poker Tour or the World Series of Poker, it could still provide real satisfaction to poker enthusiasts who will go to the casino in November. Furthermore, the championship will be eventful with a majority of hold'em poker, the most popular variant played. However, seven-card stud, Omaha and HORSE tournaments will be also offered during the championship. The buy-in events will vary between $ 300 and $740+$ 60.

The 3rd phase of the France Poker Series 2010 (FPS) offered an extraordinary show to poker enthusiasts this weekend. The Pasino Saint-Amand-Les-Eaux hosted 233 players, a field less impressive than the stage of Divonne, but composed of many major players like Thomas Bichon, Mylène Cogan, Bertrand ElkY, Alain Toy, Marion Nedellec, Vanessa Hellebuyck, Antonin Teisseire but also Cathy Hong. All these people thus met and clashed with the goal to win the tournament title. But only 9 players were allowed to sit on the final table and which include Thierry Sellam, Fabien Luchia, Fabien Carliez, Frank Cartigny, David Jaoui, David Herbez and Ahmed Debabeche. The female gender was also well represented at this final by the presence of the champion of the ladies event of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Vanessa Hellebuyck who finished in the 8th place at the end of the competition and Katrie Casper.

A study by the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) for over a decade revealed recently the benefits of brain games, against brain disease like Alzheimer. The result of this study launched since 1999 and published in mid-September 2010 took as target some 6,000 people over 65 years and has shown the beneficial advantage of such intellectual activities. And in this category, we all know that poker is also an intellectual game even if it's a money game. Practice such a game is challenging for the brain. Thus, the possibility of being infected with a disease like Alzheimer is reduced to 50% in people aged over 65 years, according to the first head of the INSERM Karen Ritchie.

The Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Festa Al Lago 2010 (WPT) had just ended. The inscription continued until the end of the fifth level of Day 2 and the organizers were able to record a final field of 335 participants. The WPT Festa Al Lago is one of the most famous circuits in the poker world and this year, many renowned players stormed the majestic Bellagio casino in Las Vegas to take part in the event like Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Daniel Alaei, Steve Zolotow, Scott Seiver, Howard Lederer and Vladimir Shchemelev. At the end of day 1, Payman Arjang and Arnaud Mattern were in the lead. But the second day of competition unveiled also a nice confrontation because after a tough battle, it stayed only 99 survivors to begin the day 3. Mattern was among those who were eliminated and Phil Ivey also.

The Asian continent is beginning to get a place in the global calendar of the most popular poker tournaments. Besides the United States and Europe, the next Asian Poker Tour (APT) of next month may register a great rush of the world's best players. The last date that would confirmed his participation is none other than the renowned Phil Ivey who will visit the tournament of Macau on November 6 to 14, 2010 and he will have as opponents Adrian Allain, the defending champion. A tournament familiar to famous local players as Johnny Chan, JC Tran, Nam Le, Quinn Do, David "Chino" Rheem, Steve Sung and Kwang Soo Lee who already participated in it.

The Provence Poker will blow out its three candles this year 2010. To mark this anniversary, this French amateur club is preparing a weekend poker festival of Toussaint on October 31st and November 1st. It was indeed in 2006 that a group of friends from Salon de Provence had the wonderful idea of creating the Provence Poker which plays an important role in the development of amateur poker in France and which is also one of the founder of Clubs of Club association by being from the beginning a full member of its Board of Directors. The club of Provence was the initiator of the Championnat National par Équipe des Clubs (CNEC) of National Championship per Team of Clubs in February 2010.

A very special event will mark on the third weekend of October at the Casino of Montreal. This property will host on the day of Sunday, October 17th, 2010 a private poker tournament where well known public figures will take part for a community good cause. As objective, $ 25,000 will be shared among several nonprofit organizations in Quebec. Convinced by a cause that is important, each of the participating stars will play their best to climb and take a seat at the final tournament. At the end of the test, the best players and the best performing will leave with funds for the agency that works with them.

The World Series of Poker Circuit of Indiana (WSOPC) ended after having offered an exciting competition for fans of poker who came to invade the Horseshoe Casino Southern Indiana. The 9 best competitors among the 289 initially enrolled have therefore started the final table with Charles Moore as chip leader. Thanks to his great advantage with a stack of 1,233,000, all his other competitors started the game with a number of chips less than 900,000, it was with no surprise that he finished at the top of this tournament. Joel Merwick, Jorge Solorzano, John Alfera, Brian McKain, Kris Bradshaw, Mike Foster and John Holder left the party one by one to leave the two remaining players compete for the final duel.

The tournament Belgium Open Poker Championship (BOPC) has already started a few days ago and 607 players were registered during the first four days of competition. This year's tournament saw a slight drop in attendance, 210 players less than last year. However, the competition promises to be exceptional because the field is composed by many great players such as Liv Boeree, Ruben Visser, Tristan Clémençon, David Kitai, Marc Inizan, Nicolas Delvaux, Valentin Messina ... At this stage, a small incident affected the running of the competition as a power outage caused the suspension of the match for about 30 minutes. Tournament organizers have also evacuate some German journalists who helped their compatriots to cheat on the gaming tables. They were watching the other players' cards in order to transmit the acquired information to their friends. Also note that this stage of the BOPC attracted only a small number of media.

Finally, a good news for fans of poker ! A new brand of competition is added to the existing ones but whose particularity lies in the fact that this new poker tournament will be dedicated to non-professionals in the discipline. Thus, the Association Paloise de Poker and the Ligue Gascogne du Poker Associatif will soon launch the circuit Florida Amateur Poker Tour, which aims to help practitioners of this card game who wish to travel and play poker and win ticket to let them access to the big leagues.

The Main Event of the tournament Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Melbourne (ANZPT) attracted 310 poker enthusiasts. By paying a buy-in of AU $ 2,700, they clashed for three days to win the title with a prize of AU $ 195,700. At the end of Day 2, it remained only 11 players vying for the title. It must be said that the Crown Poker Room of Melbourne hosted a great event that allowed the 37 poker players from this tournament to win a share of the prize pool. On Day 3, Ryan McKay and Joe Allis had to surrender and were respectively ranked 11th and 10th. Thus, the finalists stood out with Kristina Jeney as chip leader.

The success of poker is no longer limited to the various international events that continue to grow in the 7th art or that draws lots of spectators for a while. Even today, this discipline is becoming a daily bread of American viewers with the project that prepares the producers of the series “Weeds” of the U.S. television network Showtime. Indeed, Jenji Kohan and Matthew Salsberg, creators of the TV series “Weeds” will try to recreate as faithfully as possible the world of this game with "Whales" where the daily life of poker players who just come to move in Las Vegas to compete in the World Series will be spread over the small screen.

The 9 finalists who will fight for the title and the beautiful bracelet of the World Series of Poker Circuit Indiana (WSOPC) are now known. Note that this event did not attract the expected number of players but still offered a pretty show. However, the 289 participants who invaded the Horseshoe Casino have not been disappointed with the game level and quality of the tournament on the No-Limit Hold'em table of $ 1,600 buy-in with a prize pool of 416,160 $. According to organizers, it will be the 30 best players in the tournament who will share this sum. On Day 2, the 64 survivors of the first day of competition faced off again to be a finalist or at least be part of the rewarded players. The few notable players who attended the event including Robert Cheung, Chris Viox also favorite for the National Championship currently holder of 145 points failed during this Day2.

381 players enrolled in Spain Cirsa Casino to compete for the title of the Valencia Open tournament. A dozen French players were among the field, a slight decrease compared to previous events. Expected to participate in this great tournament, Jean-Paul Pasqualini was unable to attend it at the last minute. Despite a defeat accumulated by most representatives of the Hexagon, the regular of the Wargram Circle, Yoni Houri, was able to defend the honor of the French community of poker by being part of the finalists of the event. Throughout his career, the young Houri didn't registered very great success in live tournaments despite his reputation of being an excellent player. But in Valencia, he accomplished a major feat by finishing sixth. He managed to overtake Michael Schuerpf, Tim Van De Riet, Jose Melia and Andre Joranger who were placed respectively at the 10th, 9th, 8th and 7th place. The two French players Frank Sylvestre and Samlane Phomveha also appeared in the list of winning players.

The final of the Barrière Poker Tour 2010 circuit in Enghien-les-Bains will take place from next November 11 to 14. But before that, in just under two weeks, the tournament will hold its 7th and last stage of this year at the Casino Barrière of Lille. Indeed, the BPT will visit this new hotel brand which just had opened its doors in March. Accommodate the famous circuit of Barrière will be a first for the organizers northerners. For this seventh and final stage of Barrière Poker Tour Lille, nothing will change. Thus, the main event will always be a guaranteed prize of € 100,000 with a buy-in of € 1,650.

The Main Event of £ 1,070 buy-in of the tournament Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour (GUKPT) in Brighton closed with the victory of Paul Foltyn alias "Badpap”, a poker pro from Doncaster, in South Yorkshire. He played very well his final table against other players like Jose Azoriin, Paul Romain, Mark James, John Eames, Damian Evans, Chaing Jenyue, Manuel Palanca, Michalis Michael, and Lee Taylor. Note that 160 participants were registered to compete for the title of the event during the three days of competition. However, the hero of the day did an excellent course in winning the trophy and the reward of 46,400 pounds or the equivalent of $ 73,968.

Brignogan Beaches, in Brittany, France is the place chosen by the Brest Hold'em association to receive the poker tournament Brittany Open 2010 during the weekend of October 23 and 24, 2010. Indeed, it will be along the Atlantic Ocean, specifically in the room Chardons bleus that will be held the four poker tournaments organized for the occasion. During the two days of the weekend of October 23 and 24, 2010, the Brest Hold'em association will provide to participants two events for Saturday and two for Sunday. For the first day, 200 players will be invited to participate, including 120 persons to compete per team of 1 at the event# 1 during which the best of them will be pleased to receive four packages which will let them to play in a side event of the next Warsaw Open including travel, accommodation and a buy-in of € 150.

It was on last Sunday, October 10, 2010 at Casino Es Saadi Marrakech, Morocco that the long awaited Marrakesh Poker Cup tournament took place. Finally, it was a high roller of $ 50,000 buy. The tournament recorded only a field of 13 players even if organizers decided to reduce by half the entry fee planned at $ 100,000 at the beginning. This field is composed of stars of poker like Tom Dwan, Roger Hairabedian, Cedric Rossi, Anthony Lellouche and Robert Mizrachi. With a starting stack of 100,000 chips, players competed fiercely to win the title and the grand prize. Eliminations were then inevitable and Jean-Noel Thorel and Daniel Conte were the first victims. Hairabedian and Rossi followed them a few hours latter.

It is not only in the reality that poker is the front page of media with countless tournaments that take place almost all the year in several cities worldwide. Similarly, in the 7th art, the discipline inspires filmmakers. For evidence, there were among others films like the Cincinnati Kid, Maverick, The Rounders, Lucky You, Deal, The Grand, Casino Royale or the latest King of Poker of last year in Asia. Currently, a new poker movie is the top of the U.S. box office. Featured for the fist time at the film festival of Cincinnati last weekend, "Hitting The Nuts" directed by Joe Boyd is a comedy about poker.

The European Championship of Omaha variant within the scope of the Poker Nations Cup 2010 was held in Baden, Austria last weekend. A European tournament which attracted 85 players who respectively paid a buy-in of € 3,000 for a prize pool of € 242,250. After a Day 1 that give him luck by having already been qualified among the chip leaders and a Day 2 a little more difficult in the management of players still in the race, the Italian Maurizio Guerra finally ended as winner with a gain of € 72,675. Guerra is considered now as among the elite of online and live poker of the Squadra Azura. In the final, he faced players like the Hungarian Valdemar Kwayser and Harry Casagrande. And at the final head's up, he beat the Iranian Eskimo.

As previously announced, the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC), is in stop in Indiana since October 2, 2010. This is the second step of the 2010-2011 season and poker enthusiasts were invited to join Elizabeth in the Horseshoe Southern Indiana to participate in its various events organized for the occasion. Note that 10 bracelets will be distributed to the best players in this series and each player will have the opportunity to earn points for the qualifying for the WSOP Circuit National Championship in 2011 taking place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on May 2011. It will be a big TV show where the 100 qualified players will compete to be part of the top 10 awards. Note that the champion at this tournament in May will receive a WSOP bracelet.

From 13 in 2005 with as challenge to finish in the top 5 of 3 different tournaments, the number of online poker players who managed to realize the feat of winning three different major online poker tournament in three different rooms on 7 consecutive days increased steadily. For the year 2010 that won't draw up its final statement until January 1st, 2011, the Triple Crown now exceeds 100 winners by rewarding 118 players of this title. A figure quite eloquent that shows on the one hand, the popularity of the poker and secondly, the technical mastery almost perfect of players.

Poker players grouped in teams to compete for the title of the World Team Poker tournament (WTP). Each country has a team led by a captain. In the previous competition, China seized the title. Absent during this competition, Spain has now a team and appointed its captain. Called as the Matador of poker, Carlos Mortensen will lead the Spanish team for the next competition of the WTP. His exploits and his talent as a poker pro allowed him to get this enormous privilege. For over 10 years, Mortensen participated in numerous tournaments and continued to accumulate great results.

The city of Namur will host for more than a week the sixth edition of the Belgium Open Poker Championship (BOPC). This tournament is back in Belgium from October 9 to 17, 2010. In 2009, Antonio Guida, the winner and current holder of the title won a check of more than € 300,000. He was the best player among the 817 participants who took part in the Main Event. To return to this new 2010 edition of the BOPC, there will be at first the program of the main event with a buy-in of € 1,500 + 200 which will be played on the 9 days of competition. Thus, the Day 1 will take place in four days, the Day 2 in 2 days. Finally, the 3 remaining days of the tournament will be played during which the first day of October 15, 2010 will receive 36 players in maximum.

If as usual, big poker events that gather illustrious poker players offer a unique show to the public, the International Series of Poker (ISOP) was not conducted as such. This is a circuit that has just come into being composed of nine steps that take place in a few European cities. With fairly moderate buy-in ranging between € 320 and € 1,000, the first stage of the ISOP was held at the Gran Casino of Barcelona last weekend with a main event of €500 + 50. The field at this Main Event was estimated to reach 600 participants but in the end, it only registered 230 players with a guaranteed prize pool of € 150,000. It was expected that players eliminated on the first day of competition will have a chance to come back in a second first day of competition. Organizers have also planned to reward 50 players.

Poker experienced a considerable growth in recent years like many major international tournaments taking place around the world. A discipline that has its origin and its features that marked the history of playing cards that continues to evolve. Speaking of poker, you can not escape his country of origin that is the Wild West that is situated at the heart of the United States at the time of the famous gold rush. Indeed, it was during this period that poker became an integral symbol of the Wild West where all the cowboys and adventurers put money on who has the highest hand. Poker that often ends in a cruel duel with gun in which masculinity was also an imperative in those days. A bad experience that living legends like Doyle Brunson lived in the back room of a bar in Texas under the influence of alcohol and weapons.

The series of tournaments of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) for the year 2010 has just closed with the last event of last weekend which saw the participation of many famous players and five bracelets distributed. Two new events marked the calendar this year, namely the £ 2,650 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em for 224 players and the £ 10,350 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller Heads-Up which gathered 103 participants. For this year 2010, the WSOPE are summarized inside others by a first bracelet of Phil Laak in the six-handed and a performance of Chris Bjorin in the number of cashes and found himself at the head of players reaching the most final tables at the WSOPE. Jeffrey Lisandro make also talked about him by winning his fifth bracelet in the £ 5,250 Pot-Limit Omaha.

The final of the tournament Irish Poker Festival was held in Killarney last weekend. At the start of the competition, 632 players were registered at the Main Event of € 500 buy-in. But after four days of competition, many competitors have already been eliminated until the 10 finalists stand out. Most of opponents of the final table were all local players like Valerie McGrath (800,000 chips), Paul Lucey (402,000 chips), Allen Mc Clean (720,000 chips), Barry McGleenon (1,500,000 tokens), Paul Vernigo (564,000), Mark Coyne (1,000,000) and Brian Murphy (680000). The other two players who completed the final table are of British origin like the chip leader Jon Kalmer and Richard Connolly.

The tournament France Poker Tour (FPT) is a championship that start to become a must on the agenda of poker enthusiasts around France. Last year, the tournament registered 7,700 players with 634 participants during the main event. The final was held at The Aviation Club de France with a No Limit Hold'em of € 1,000 buy-in. What makes this poker festival unique is that it offers to enthusiasts a platform to show their talent and expertise and to face major national and international players. So in 2011, the tournament will begin with a first stage to be held at Carousel du Louvre. And the event will run in several cities in France until April 2011, which would be a great opportunity for poker fans to try their luck for a successful entry into the professional circuit.

Within the biggest poker tournament in London, the European Poker Tour (EPT) which has just crowned its champion, a special event to honor the ladies of poker was also held at the Hilton Metropole in London. This tournament for ladies of the EPT London gathered 57 players consisting of real poker professional as the EPT Berlin champion Sandra Naujocks, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Charlotte van Brabander, Michelle Orpea, the French Claire Renaut and Celina Lin . These competitors have thus paid the buy-in of 500 pounds and offered a beautiful show to the public who attended the tournament. None of these great figures of female poker however, took to the throne. Indeed, this time, the glory was thrilled by the French player Anais Lerouge, who is not at all new in the poker world as she already counted $ 100,000 in earnings during her three-year career and recently at the Partouche Poker Tour 2010, she pocketed € 68,050, by ranking at the place of runner up at the side event of € 1,500 buy-in.

Worthy of a head's up World Championship and strengthened by its success last year, the World Head's Up Poker Championship has already announced its program and its new edition this year 2010. The very good news that needs to be communicated is that this championship will be played in the 2010 edition simultaneously with the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour for two consecutive years. Thus, the World Head's Up Poker Championship will be happy to return to London Victoria Casino for this new challenge. The new test consists of a € 2,200 event buy-in which will take place in the British capital for less than a week, precisely from November 19th to 24th 2010.

The Caribbean Adventure is a real wonderful circuit that attracts the attention of poker enthusiasts at the beginning of each year. Composed of several events, the Caribbean Adventure is also an opportunity to escape to the beautiful islands of the Bahamas. In 2011, it will be the lavish Atlantis Resort and Casino who will host the usual competitors in this grand festival of poker which will run from January 7th to 16th, 2011. If during the 2010 step, 47 tournaments were in the program, organizers have decided to aim higher in the next step with 50 events to compete including two No Limit Hold'em High Roller tournaments of $ 100,000 and $ 25,000 buy-in. A multitude of buy-in moderate tournaments between $ 150 and $ 5,000 buy-in will also be held to allow less fortunate players to take part in the festival as Pot Limit Omaha, Pot Limit Omaha Hi Lo, 8 Games, Pot Limit Hold'em and other poker variants.

The family of poker tournaments continues to grow. Indeed, the Grand Series of Poker (GSOP) have further strengthened the various poker tournaments that already exist. To begin, the organizers of this new event have chosen the city of Riga for its first international competition. According to the latest news, 270 players will be part of this adventure which will begin during this month of October. 20,000 participants took part in qualification for GSOP which 80% were amateurs. Various partners of the Grand Series of Poker offered qualification and buy-ins packages for the event.

Like international competitions which do their come back for season 2010-2011 during this month of October 2010, poker tournaments in France which will mark the tenth month of the year do the same. In all, the two stops in the north of France that are the France Poker Series (FPS) and the Barriere Poker Tour (BPT) but also the traditional autumn series of tournaments of the Aviation Club de France are among the most awaited. After the second successful step in Divonne-les-Bains, France's third stage of Poker Series will visit the Pasino Saint-Amand-les-Eaux on October 16th and 17th, 2010, a game room that has hosted a Super Satellite of the Partouche Poker Tour. The Main Event of this new stage of FPS is set at € 1,200.

The big poker event held at the Hilton London Metropole has just ended. The European Poker Tour (EPT) London was a huge success with 848 players registered for the Main Event. The 8 finalists began the final phase of the tournament with Sweden's Per Ummer as the first eliminated. Despite his fame, Tom Marchese has also not been able to show his game and his skill on the final table and was eliminated at the 7 th place. He was then followed by Fernando Brito, Kayvan Payman, Artur Wasek and the chip leader of that time Kyle Bowker. They were great surprise at this appointment, something that the community coming to attend this poker tournament was not expecting to see. Indeed, no one doubted that the Scotsman of 23 years David Vamplev could be qualified at this level.

Morocco will host a poker festival that will gather famous French and international poker players at Casino Es Saadi in Marrakesh. This is the World Poker Tour Marrakesh 2010 (WPT) to be held from November 27th to 30th, 2010. Won by the French Christophe Savary last year, the WPT Marrakesh is a major event that attracts many enthusiasts. Thus, this Moroccan step of the WPT will know the participation of players like Roger Hairabedian, Andy Black, Liz Lieu, Sandra Naujocks and also Liv Boeree. But from Saturday, November 20th, they can also take part in the preliminary tournament including a DeepStack Open of € 500 + € 50 buy-in. The organizers hope to gather a field between 350 and 400 participants at this tournament.

The fourth stage of the season 3 of the most prestigious poker circuit in Spain, the Spanish Poker Tour in Valencia (SPT) had just ended, a tournament which ran from October 1st to 3rd, 2010 at the Casino Cirsa. This new stage of SPT Valencia brought together some 195 participants for a guaranteed prize pool of € 195,000. The competition which took place on the Iberian Mediterranean coast has received well-known European poker players like Steven Van Zadelhoff, Catarina Santos, Cristiano Blanco, Leo Margets, Tobias Wagner, the WSOP champion Sigur Eskeland, Laura Cantero but also French players as Claude Julien Pierre, Valentin Messina and Leo Truche. This new Spanish Poker Tour tournament designated as winner the Dutch Koen Berendsen with a nice sum of € 61,200 after taking the best place in a quick head's up against his compatriot Rene Van Damme who won € 18,540.

The first tournament of the Poker Club Beaucaire, in France took place during the end of the afternoon of the first weekend of October 2010. This first-ever tournament freeroll which stake are made exclusively in virtual money, saw the participation of 17 players on two gaming tables at the Salle Saint-Pierre-de-Rive. Each player was entitled to 10,000 chips and blinds starting at 50 and 100, to double every twenty minutes. Considered as a meeting of enthusiasts, this first friendly meeting of poker enthusiasts nonetheless reward with prizes the best three competitors.

The Casino Cirsa Valencia hosted since Friday, 1st October the fourth step of the 2010 season of Iberian poker tournament Spanish Poker Tour (SPT). This is a very popular poker event. Note that at each stop, organizers offer a guaranteed prize of € 150,000. For this stage of Valencia, 180 participants have paid the buy-in of € 1,100 Main Event which allowed organizers to collect a prize pool of € 180,000. And indeed, illustrious poker players completed the field. Furthermore, this tournament was played with a magnificent structure deepstack with 15,000 starting chips for 60 minutes of play. So after two days of battle, the starting field was quickly narrowed to 18 survivors, the last qualified for the rest of the competition and they will be rewarded all. Among the great figures of poker who had to leave the party soon were Valentin Messina, Cristiano Blanco and the winner of the SPT Aranjuez, Catarina Santos.

After a few tournaments played in September like the WSOP Europe and the final of the Partouche Poker Tour, the month of October announced the coming back of many poker tournaments and the beginning of the 2010-2011 season of poker. At the program, there will be inter alia, the € 1,650 Poker Open to be held from October 7th to 10th at the Casino Gandia. The Belgian Open Poker Championship 2010 (BOPC) of € 1,700 will take place from Saturday 9th to Sunday, October 17th at the Casino of Namur with numerous side events. Moreover, the Vienna Deepstack Open, the € 550 Main Event of the fifth stage of the amateur and semi professional poker players circuit will move to the Casino Montesino on October 14th to 16th.

The fourth day of competition of the European Poker Tour London (EPT) took place last Sunday. They were 24 players who participated in the competition. After eight hours of confrontation, the 8 last qualified to compete for the title of the event were known. The only French player still in the race on Day 4, Thomas Bichon, was eliminated early, but it was enough to him to be ranked at the 14 th place and collected 30,000 pounds for the occasion. This Monday, October 4th, therefore, these lucky finalists will begin the final day of the tournament. And the battle will be fierce because talented and internationally known players are part of the list of finalists.

As it was expected, this step of the Season 7 of the European Poker Tour (EPT) has recorded an unprecedented success. Indeed, after the Day 1A with a remarkably broad field of 339 participants, the Day 1B also registered a record attendance with its considerable 509 registered players. In sum, therefore, 848 participants were present to fight for the title and the price of this magnificent tournament. At the end of Day 1B, the Italian Claudio Cecchi were at the head of the race with 237,500 chips. The former Irish footballer and twice winner of the Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour Tony Cascarino, Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu are also included in the list of players in the best position for the rest of the competition. Approximately 250 players survived on Day 1B and 400 competitors will start the second day of competition.

The room Cosec in Dinard, in Brittany hosts since three years the Brittany Poker Championship. A base camp that is not likely to change place for a long time like it is for the fourth edition of the Brittany Poker Championship 2010 which will take place during the days of November 27th and 28th. Thus, some 300 players from twenty-one clubs of France will travel to take part in three events that will be in the program of this event awaited since a long time by many practitioners of this discipline. The first which is the main event will run for two days and each player will be entitled of 15,000 chips with blinds of 25/50. The duration of rounds of this first test is forty minutes.

Since the internationally boom of poker industry, many poker enthusiasts have decided to pursue a professional career. As each job in the world of show biz, poker pros also require the service of an agency. Original Consulting was founded in 2009. This is an agency run by true poker professionals who are specialized in managing the careers of professional poker. Indeed, the agency provides ongoing support to players either in their daily life or during the tournaments they attend. All fields are concerned by that aid. As an example, the agency supported the removal of Thomas Bichon. Thanks to the services of Original Consulting, players do not have to do difficult tasks, mainly legal file. Moreover, with a long year of experience, Original Consulting can be an ally for poker professionals wishing to promote their careers.

The bill about online gambling and poker in Denmark will not be published as scheduled by the Danish Government on January 1st, 2011. Because of the break for the notification vis-à-vis the European Commission to the Government of that country which would end on October 11th of this year, therefore, the analyze of the bill will only run after that date. Furthermore, the Danish government who administer until here only one monopolized license for half a century has a lot of work to do especially about the legal clause to consider, which is downright impossible to finish before Christmas 2010. Richardt Funch, head of Ladbrokes Nordic in Denmark even talked about the technical requirements that are still unknown but should be controlled. So in his opinion, this bill won't be ready before the month of March or April 2011.

There were 339 players registered at the Hilton Metropole Hotel, in London yesterday to attend the first Day 1 of the £ 5,250 buy-in Main Event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) London. After this first day of competition, it remained only 146 survivors to begin the day 2. A huge elimination was then observed during the competition and countless great players present in the starting field had to leave the game as Lex Veldhuis, Carlos Mortensen, Vanessa Selbst, Sorel Mizzi, Jeff Madsen, Greg Mueller and Faraz Jaka. But other notable players still managed to stay in the competition like Greg Raymer, Tom Marchese, Jake Cody, Arnaud Mattern, Shannon Shorr, Alex Kravchenko, John Juanda, Ivan Demidov and Jim Collopy.

The fourth stage of the Spanish Poker Tour (SPT) of the 2010 season will catch the attention of poker fans this weekend. A festive and very awaited weekend with this new stop on the tour in Spain. After the three previous prestigious rounds organized successively in Aranjuez, Ibiza and Castellon, that of Valencia will take place from October 1st to 3rd, 2010 and aims once again a record field of participants with the presence of many players already qualified as Leonard Truche, Valentin Messina, David "Mcturtle" Daraux and Fred de Bousquet Beziers.

Sergeant John Jones and his retired U.S. Marine Corps partners created the Wall Street Warfighters Foundation (WSWF) in 2009. It is an organization that trains veterans of war in Iraq and Afghanistan to begin a career in the financial industry. Most of the time, soldiers return from there with disabilities and they need help to start a new life. In order to help and give them a chance to renter easier to civilian life, despite their disabilities, the WSWF therefore organizes a poker tournament called Celebrity Poker Warrior tournament to be held at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, New York City on Thursday from 6:30 pm. The success of this event will let the Foundation fund their training project for war veterans.

The Marrakesh Poker Cup will be one of the biggest events, if it's not the only one, that will mark this coming of October. Scheduled to take place from Friday 8th to Sunday, October 10th, 2010 at Casino Es Saadi, this prestigious appointment of poker with an international level with record entry fee of $ 100,000 having a prize pool between two and four million dollars, will be different because of the presence of big names in the discipline. The latest who confirmed his coming to this final meeting is Tom 'durrrr' Dwan, currently and certainly one the biggest star of the poker world with of course Phil Ivey. Moreover, apart from Roger Hairabedian, founder and co-organizer of this project, David Benyamine, Michael Mizrachi and ten leading U.S. players will also be part of the event.

Poker is not just a game but also a hobby that is practiced for a good cause to speak only of charity events in order to raise funds. The World Series of Poker is one of the pioneers in organizing this tournament with Ante Up For Africa. Programming poker tournaments for charity purposes is also an excellent means of communication especially for people who are already famous in their respective communities. Thus, two couples of star Eva Longoria-Tony Parker and Demi Moore-Ashton Kutcher will soon invite professionals and poker enthusiasts to join them at poker-auction parties.

The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) has just crowned its champion, James Bord. It was a poker event which amazed all the assistance in this Casino At The Empire London. During the final day, the suspense and emotion were at the rendezvous because every competitor has shown great ability to win the prestigious title and the wonderful bonus of £ 830,401, equivalent to $ 1.3 million. Indeed, the renowned players who have already made great achievements in the poker world were among the finalists as Roland de Wolfe who has already recorded a victory at the World Poker Tour and has a WSOP bracelet. However, he was not the lucky winner at this WSOP Europe in London because he finished at the 4th place with a gain of £ 278,945.

The European Poker Tour (EPT) London started at the Hilton Metropole since Tuesday, September 28th, 2010. This is a very awaited poker festival with exceptional events. Thus, two side tournaments including the $ 5,250 No Limit Hold'em Heads'up and the 8 Championship Game of $ 2,150 buy-in is already taking place within the framework of the EPT London and 37 other tournaments combining different variants of poker are still in the program and expect players until October 5th, the closing date of the event. The Main Event of $ 5,000 buy-in started on Wednesday, September 29th. It is composed of the first two days of competition. In season 6, a field record of 730 participants was registered. But that record could be beaten at this third stage of the season 7 because just for the competition on Wednesday, organizers have announced 400 registered players.

A group of New Zealand players will certainly beat the record for the longest poker part of 115 hours straight currently held by Phil Laak. Indeed, the collective known as NZ Poker Tours will attempt for the month of November 2010 to exceed 4 days and 19 hours of play longevity and will write in their new performance in the Guinness Book. The tedious appointment will start on Monday, November 22th for five straight days at the Grand Hotel Wanganui in New Zealand. 80 Kiwis will be selected to play poker tournament that will probably last over 115 hours. A $ 20 NL Hold'em rebuy unlimited entry will be the main event of this new record attempt. The 80 players in New Zealand will start with a stack of 20,000 chips with blinds of 100/200 and they can increase it only after that the record has been beaten.
 
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