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All new design is always welcome when it contributes to the development of the poker world, especially when the tournament put on a greater participation of women. The Cercle Cadet, in France didn't do exception in this sense insofar as the club will soon organize a meeting for women in its new room. Besides the reputed players who will take part in this new women's deepstack tournament called "Ladies On Fire" from Saturday, February 5 at the end of the afternoon, two daily online satellites qualifiers will be available for € 6 from January 28 to February 1st.

Organizers of poker tournaments continue to innovate every day. The last international tour that comes to add to international competition and will make its debut from this new poker year 2011 is called Eureka Poker Tour. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that this new-born will target the many countries of Eastern Europe. In addition, entry fees during the main events of each stage will be offered at affordable prices at around € 800. For this first annual event of 2011, 6 steps will be organized in five major Eastern European cities. Each meeting of the Eureka Poker Tour will be held for five days.

As expected, the € 5,300 Main Event of the European Poker Tour Deauville (EPT) attracted a large crowd of poker enthusiasts. For the first day of competition, the International Center of this seaside resort of Normandy, France welcomed 419 players consisting of amateur players, but also celebrities, talented players and fans looking for a success in live circuit. Thomas Bichon, Antoine Saout, Michel Abecassis, Valentin Messina, Patrick Bruel, Alexia Portal, and Nicolas Babel were all at the rendezvous. Players competed on the gaming tables in 8 game levels lasting one hour each.

Most of side event tournaments organized during the Aussie Millions 2011 have all achieved great success. The Crown Casino in Melbourne is now a meeting place of stars of poker. Since a few days, tables of the $ 10,000 buy-in Main Event have already welcomed participants. Until here, the event is a total success because a wide range of famous poker players was seen in the first three qualifying days. 238 players were registered for Day 1 A, 209 for Day 1 B and 274 for Day 1C. In all therefore, the main event of the Aussie Millions 2011 registered a field of 721 participants generating a huge prize pool of € 5.2 million or AUD $ 7,210,000. The grand lucky seizing the victory will thus pocket a nice prize of $ 2 million equivalent to € 1.5 million.

The program of the 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) is now known. The appointment of this World Poker Championship will run in the city of Las Vegas in a time a little bit long for a little less than two months. Compared to that of 2010, some alterations were made in the program of this 2011 edition. In total, 58 tournaments will be played and will reward 58 players during the summer. As usual, the 42nd annual World Series of Poker will again take place at Rio in Las Vegas from May 31 to July 19, 2011. This world championship of poker 201 version will have a well-crafted program with tournaments with buy-ins that vary from $ 500 to $ 50,000.

“If I win the world championship of poker next week, I will give a donation of $ 100,000 to the Canadian Foundation for Children”. That was the promise made by Jonathan Duhamel during the show "Everybody talks about it" in October 2010. Now the check with this amount is in the hands of this foundation that helps children since last Saturday, an organization that is directly related to the Canadian hockey team, through the club president Pierre Boivin. To remind, the young Quebecois world poker champion dominated the final table with 9 players by winning the gold bracelet and the enormous prize of $ 8,944,138.

The High Roller is a major event highly competitive between biggest stars of poker at every worldwide big appointment. And the Aussie Millions has not failed in this tradition. The organizers of this tournament didn't forget to offer the Invitational Shootout event with a buy-in of $ 25,000 for players who join the Crown Casino of Melbourne. As usual, great players like David Benyamine, John Juanda, Tom Dwan or Phil Ivey were part of the field of 24 participants in this televised event. But none of them didn't reach the final table which was composed by James Bord, Howard Lederer, Patrick Antonius, David Oppenheim, Barny Boatman and Eli Elezra.

Organized in conjunction with the Aussie Millions 2011 and the European Poker Tour Deauville, the World Poker Tour Southern Championship (WPT) still attracted many stars of poker. Indeed, the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi gathered 214 players for the tournament of $ 10,000 buy-in that allow organizers to collect a prize pool of $ 2 million. This field knew a slight increase compared to last year with 208 registered players. The first qualifying day of the Southern Championship ended with the elimination of 40 competitors. The 144 survivors have therefore started the day 2 and they must compete in 5 levels of play of 90 minutes each.

The Australian poker festival Aussie Millions Poker crowned another player who is the British Sam Trickett as champion of the $ 100,000 Challenge. They were 38 players who participated in this massive tournament with a big buy-in. And of course, stars of the game as Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, and Patrik Antonius or Gus Hansen take part in the game. Note that the tournament registered a prize pool of $ 3.8 million. Sam Trickett was in a very good fit and captured the title and first prize of AUD $ 1,525,000 after ousting his compatriot Tony Bloom during the final duel. For the second time, Tony Bloom once again miss the trophy and settled for the second prize of $ 975,000.

The house of Al Elchert, at Tiffin, in the State of Ohio has been victim of an armed robbery on August 24, 2010 during a private poker game taking place there. The two masked assailants threw a bag on the game table while threatening the ten gamers to store their money inside. The six participants in the game obeyed at once without waiting for the other four, according to the testimony of Elchert. In running away, the thieves dropped $ 125, according always to Elchert who insisted in the fact that for nearly a half-century that he played cards, his house was left open, and never knew incident.

Poker enthusiasts in France will once again compete for the title of the famous French step of the European Poker Tour (EPT) circuit. Indeed, this great appointment of poker was a huge success last year with 768 players registered that permit to organizers to amass a prize pool of € 3,686,400. The trophy was won by Jake Cody. From January 24 to 31, 2011, the city of Normandy will once again host enthusiasts of this game who be received at the Salon des Ambassadors, at the International Center of Deauville. Effectively, the season 7 of the EPT Deauville chose the center thanks to its huge space able to receive the estimated 1000 competitors in the Main Event which will start on January 25 at noon. Note that the center has a panoramic view of the sea and is a very privileged place to host such event.

Everything is allowed at Snake's Poker Club, a few miles from Montreal. Besides poker tournaments with money, smoking and alcohol for free are possible. Furthermore, order food while playing is another special feature of this poker room of the aboriginal reserve of Kahnawake. Rebuilt in 2008, most of the customer is composed of young men, French and English. However, to play at Snake, it is obligatory to identify by becoming members of the club. Customers are photographed and the presentation of proof of identity is imperative before joining table games. And players frequenting this playing room are unanimous in saying that the place is more interesting than casinos because the atmosphere is less stressful and the game is less commercial.

Since the beginning of 2011, poker fans have been entitled of meetings of privilege such as the Aussie Millions, the Poker Caribbean Adventure and many others. The World Poker Tour (WPT) Southern Poker Championship formerly called Gulf Coast Poker Championship is also one of the biggest poker appointments that attract top players at international level. Note that the WPT Biloxi changed its name after the victory of Allen Carter in 2009. The first stage of the event crowned as champion Bill Elder. This player who was part of low stack competitors in the semi-finals, but with a priceless talent, managed to capture the title.

With his stunning prize list : 10 WSOP bracelets and two World Champion titles, Doyle Brunson because it's of course him, can't find the taste of yesteryear to play poker in Las Vegas. This city, former capital of gambling is not the same place that attracts professional poker players, according to the dean of world poker professional. For him, the high limit cash games are no longer sufficient. And more, the future of this variant is unknown with the economic situation, the prestigious international circuits and especially the rise of online poker. In short, the living legend of poker find a real change in this game, a major change in the wrong direction.

They were 64 at the starting of the tournament to participate in the € 1,500 buy-in Deepstack of the Marrakesh Poker Open on January 19, 2011. They are now 8 to play the final table which will end in the third day of January 21, at Es Saadi Casino. The first two days were very interesting because competitors did not give gift to each other. Specifically, the race for the seats to be among the last survivors of the last eight days was tough like the competition of the ten contenders when it was necessary for the competitors to play an average of 400,000 chips for a level 22 and blinds of 15k/30k to know the identity of the eight players who will compose the ultimate duel.

Since a few days, the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia hosted the biggest poker circuit in the southern hemisphere, the Aussie Millions. To start this 2011 edition, the organizers proposed a preliminary tournament of $ 1,100 buy-in that knew a huge success by registering a big field of 1,000 participants including several renowned players like Dave Lee, Annette Obrestad, Tony Dunst, James Akenhead or Tony Hachem. The second event, the 8 Mixed Games also attracted professional poker players. By winning against the other 67 competitors in the tournament, Richard Ashby won the title plus a nice prize of $ 23,800. Note that Richard Ashby is a veteran of this tournament series and has already won a trophy in 2005 without forgetting his six times qualifying for the final table of the previous events of the Aussie Millions. Despite the fact that he had the lowest stack at the beginning of this final, Ashby has once again proved his status as a major player and won the victory with brilliance.

Besides many satellites for the France Poker Tour, including that of this coming weekend and in April of this year, the Casino Phoebus of Gruissan, in France will organize soon the third stage of the monthly tournament under the Grand Prix of Phoebus, Master's of Gruissan. Indeed, during the three days of February 4 to 6, 2011 will be held the third test monthly, a No Limit Hold'em of € 1,000 buy-in with a prize pool valued at € 180,000. This event will have as structure a starting stack of 50,000 chips, starting blinds of 25/50 and 60 minute levels, a stack worthy of a great tournament.

It remains only a few days and the great annual event awaited by all poker enthusiasts in the seaside resort of Deauville will begin. An event that the responsible of the Casino Barriere will host in the new place on the seafront with a direct access from the gallery of the casino. Thus, the playoff of the Main Event of the season from 7 of € 5000 + € 300 buy-in, depending on the availability of seats, which would amount to 900 players on the European Poker Tour (EPT) scheduled from Tuesday 25 to Saturday January 29, 2011 and will be played in the Great Hall of the Centre International de Deauville, a spacious place destined to contain the players who will do the travel. But the final table of the European tournament, scheduled for Sunday 30 and Monday, January 31 will be held at the Salon des Ambassadeurs of the Casino Barriere of Deauville.

For several years, professional of poker begged the establishment of a circuit for the best poker players worldwide only. Now the project is underway and it has the name of Federated Sports and Gaming. This is a league for elite of poker orchestrated by the famous Annie Duke. Note that it also gained the support of Erik Seidel, owner of 8 bracelets of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and Jeffrey Pollack, a leading figure in organization of the world championship of poker in Las Vegas. The Elite League will be composed by a series of four televised tournaments taking place between August 2011 and the month of January 2012 promising a huge prize of one million dollars and the Palm Casino Resort in Las Vegas will host the event.

The Aviation Club de France (ACF) which throne elegantly on the famous Avenue des Champs Elysees will host on February 8 the big annual event France Poker Awards, the event eagerly awaited by French poker enthusiasts who made outstanding achievements throughout the year. The first edition registers a big success and the second also promises to be a big event. The ceremony is scheduled to begin at around 6: 30 p.m and 14 prizes will be awarded throughout the evening. Already, the nominees who can win trophies are known but it is the responsibility of the jury to take the final decision.

More stricter control on online poker sites that claim to be abroad, especially outside Europe, but doing a lot of operations in Sweden was announced by the Ministry of Taxes in Sweden. In fact, according to the law in this country, the declaration of gains earned on online sites based outside the European continent and particularly from Sweden is a duty. This applies to Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, who recently unmasked after so many years as an unidentified young poker star. According to a Swedish newspaper specialist in finance heading, Dagen Industri, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom would have to pay $ 149 million to the Swedish tax authorities.

Like other circuits that are back for this New Year, the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) didn't fail the opportunity to meet again enthusiasts of the game. The two events scheduled in the calendar of the second season of this tournament in North America will be held respectively in March and April. The city of Los Angeles and Uncasville will host these two major events in the country of Uncle Sam. These two tournaments of the North American Poker Tour 2011, season 2 are summarized in championship events and Shootout Bounties. Moreover, this last was greatly appreciated according to the last turnout at the Poker Carribbean Adventure in the Bahamas which attracted a field of 216 competitors with a buy-in of $ 5,000.

The first edition of the event Auron Poker Ski had a lot of success, which prompted the organizers to repeat the experience. Indeed, ski enthusiasts and fans of the Partouche Poker Tour (PPT) circuit found themselves at Auron, in the Mercantour station to participate again in the second edition of the Auron Poker Ski since January 17, 2011. Apart the beautiful slides on the snow runway and participation in various activities offered by the resort, skiers have the opportunity every night from 7 p.m to 11 p.m to play freerolls to win packages for the Main Event of the PPT 4. Note that the organizers reserved a package of €10,000 for the main tournament of the PPT 4, a package of € 1,500 for the Super Satellite PPT 4 and tickets of € 170 for a satellite of the PPT 4 to 10 players. But various lots as a ski pass 2011 season, a ski material or ski trips are also to win.

Recently, it became customary for organizers of major poker tournaments to offer charity tournaments to the benefit of various charitable associations in order to prove that the poker community also has an excellent mood and great generosity. The organizers of the Poker Caribbean Adventure (PCA) circuit have not forgotten this humble cause during the PCA 2011, they chose to contribute in the fight against AIDS. Thus, on last January 13, a poker tournament was organized for the benefit of "amfAR, or Foundation for Research against AIDS. Many celebrities like the actor Kevin Dillon, Fatima Moreira, Ricky Lake, Jayde Nicole and renowned poker pros as Bertrand Grospellier, Arnaud Mattern, Liv Boeree, Sandra Naujoks, Lex Veldhui and Marcel Luske attended the event.

The third edition of the Dakar Poker Tour starts to take place on the world circuit. This 2011 version lasted a full week this January, from 11 to 17 in the Senegalese capital, precisely at Terrou-Bi Resort. Besides the Main Event of € 1,500 which was played for 3 straight days of January 14 to 16, other events were scheduled for this meeting held on the African continent such satellites of € 155 and € 47 buy-in to qualify for the main event and the package for the Big Series of Poker in Marrakesh and a Freezout Deepstack of € 500.

Tournaments with deep structure had big success these days and this will be true for this 2011 season of poker. To continue the way with this same atmosphere, the Partouche Poker Deepstack (PPD) will offer this trend by opening for the next month a new French poker circuit that will visit 4 cities in 5 steps. After this tournament, a general classification will be released and the best of the best will receive a package of € 10,000 for the final of the Partouche Poker Tour and the second player will be assured of his buy-in for the second edition of the Partouche Poker Deepstack. In addition, holders of the third to the tenth ranking will each have a ticket to a stage in the season 2 of the PPD.

After 11 hours of exciting game, Will Molson got head to win the title he coveted so, that of High Roller champion of the Poker Caribbean Adventure 2011 (PCA). For two successive years, Molson has to settle for the runner-up place of the event of $ 25,000 buy-in while William Reynolds grabbed the victory in 2009 and Bertrand ElkY ousted him on the final duel in 2010. It was with joy and relief that he received his coronation and his huge prize winner of $ 1,072,850 at Atlantic Resort and Casino in Bahamas on Sunday, January 16, 2011. Note that Molson faced several key players during the final day of the tournament. He knew ups and downs throughout the day. Indeed, there were times when he lead his game with a very low stack and other times when he managed to climb up the chip lead.

The United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT), the biggest UK poker circuit will be back, as all major international poker circuit, during the 2011 season. Each year, the organizers of this magnificent tournament offer various stages including that of Nottingham, one of the most glorious. Indeed, last year's Nottingham UKIPT gathered 650 participants and crowned as winner Andrew Couldridge. Already, fans of the circuit can prepare to join the prestigious poker room of Dusk Till Dawn Nottingham from February 11, 2011 to attend the openenin season of this tour. This time, organizers hope to register a field of 800 players for the Main Event of £ 500 + £ 60 buy-in with a guaranteed prize pool of £ 200,000. The event will end on Feb. 14.

The final of the World Cup of Poker 2011 was played during the two days of January 14 and 15 in the Bahamas, at the same time as the Poker Carribbean Adventure (PCA). To recap, 9 teams were qualified and faced to earn the win and pocketed the enormous sum of $ 100,000. After a perfect course of the team of France in the first day that it finished chipleader with 50,000 chips, the second day was at the advantage of the poker team of the Squadra Azura that dominated the other 8 teams at the end of 12 hours of playing time. The first nation to be eliminated from the competition was the Philippines which survived until five hours of game and had left with $ 5,000.

Despite the formal ban by the Islamic religion of gambling and game of hazard such as poker, blackjack, roulette, baccarat and slot machines, the Syrian authorities closed their eyes by authorizing the unofficial opening of a casino in December 2010 on its territory. The explanation is the difficulty of the region to develop; because Arab fortunes are rather attracted by the rival Lebanese casino Jounieh, near Beirut. Located near the international airport of Damascus, Syria's first casino was inaugurated and opened its doors without drums in the evening of December 24 of last year.

Since January 11, 2011, the Terrou-Bi Resort in Senegal gathers poker enthusiasts including a large delegation of French poker pro for the third edition of the Dakar Poker Tour. It must be said that French players did well to save quite remarkable achievements at this tournament. The event began with qualifying tournaments for the Main Event, on January 13, 81 poker players clashed during the Side Event deepstack of € 500. The final table of the event was dominated by French players and the victory went to Mathieu Jacqmin, a regular of the Club Haussmann while Roger Hairabedian and Arnaud Esquevin won respectively the second and third place.

The biggest festival of poker of Bahamas which marks the beginning of the year comes to crown its winner who is none other than the American Galen Hall. To remind, the Poker Caribbean Adventure 2011 (PCA) was a huge success with 1,560 participants garnering a prize pool of $ 15,132,000 which $ 2.3 million was dedicated to the champion of the event. Better known as an online poker player, Galen Hall managed to catch the victory after defying major competitors on a hectic final table. Indeed, the American emerged ahead of his compatriot Chris Oliver, who held the title of the chipleader during the final heads'up. The great advantage of Oliver in chips did not prevent Galen Hall to grant himself the largest title and biggest win of his career.

The time has again come for the new season of the “Open de Gruissan” which will take place during the last 3 days of this week, from January 14 to 16, 2011. Phoebus the casino in the station of Aude will propose a complete and attractive program for lovers of poker. Moreover, many cash game poker tables will be available to participants including 4 tables of Texas Hold'em No Limit and 4 tables of Omaha High. For this new edition of the Open de Gruissan 2011, there will of course, the € 660 Main Event buy-in which will run for three days from January 14 to 16, receiving a maximum field of 200 players, this tournament will have a structure consisting of a slow Deepstack with a starting stack of 50,000 chips and levels of 50-minute rounds.

The Day 5 of the Main Event of the Poker Carribbean Adventure (PCA) has seen the qualification of the 8 players’ finalists who will meet during the night of Saturday to Sunday. This final appointment will decide who will be also the winner and win a sum of $ 2,300,000. This main event was also held in suspense and was outstanding for players and spectators from the beginning to the end of the playoff race. The place of chipleader was very disputed in the example of Day 3 which was occupied by Chris Oliver, the American player who will keep this position for the final on Day 4, where Ana Marquez and Chris Moneymaker took possession of the chip leaders, but unfortunately, are found in 11th and 10th in the standings.

The New Year is an opportunity for everyone to do a little review of the year but mainly it's time to set new goals for twelve months. Poker players are among those who have the most wishes in their professional work. Like the aspirations of Nicolas Levi and the Canadian player Daniel Negreanu, this last who already reveal his desire of reaching the head of the All-Time Money List of the moment, Rui Cao has not hesitated to deliver his ambitions for this new year 2011. As main objective during the next twelve months, the French player will do everything possible to be among the best practitioners of Pot Limit Omaha in Head's-up.

They all have twenty years and they practice the same discipline what has its place in the world today. The only and big difference that they have with young people of their ages is that they are geniuses of online poker and are millionaires. Moreover, a documentary film making of Li Dong on their success in this firld will be released shortly on the internet and the big family of poker players worldwide already wait. Still students when the explosion of online poker started, these talented players were simply fascinated by the performance and how to live lives of players they begin to know through the TV broadcast of the World Championships WSOP and the World Poker Tour.

Mega Beat Bad Jackpot is fairly typical in casinos in the U.S. unlike what happens in France that is practiced only rarely. The award given to poker players in the game rooms is another aspect that differentiates the two countries. United States, as its name suggests, a pot of a considerable amount is liable to move the hands of those who play it. By cons, in French casinos, the croupier a smile with the compliments of the staff and a glass of champagne is plenty.

Series of poker tournaments continue to succeed all around the world. Each circuit has its own characteristics which makes its reputation inside poker players. However, each competition worth a travel to enrich the experience already acquired, whether for experienced of the discipline of for novices in this field. The Poker Carribbean Adventure is living proof that shows that any player is never safe from surprises. The new 2011 edition of the Aussie Millions will be played from January 13 to 31 at Crown Casino in Melbourne and will not be an exception to this rule.

The realization of the great project called "Big Series of Poker" initiated by Roger Hairabedian will be done during the 18th edition of the Marrakesh Poker Open on January 18 to 23, 2011. This decision was taken during the recent visit of the number 1 French player in Dakar since 2009 who talked with organizers of the Dakar Poker Tour 2011 in the context of the preparation of the second edition. In short, the new 2011 edition in the Senegalese capital from January 11 to 17 will be the first satellite qualifier for the step of Marrakesh; the competition will inaugurate the BSOP. Moreover, live qualifications would be held for the preliminary stages through packages equipped with luxury vacation and buy-in for the main tournaments like the very accessible package of € 2,800 with 5 nights at the hotel Terrou Bi-Dakar and € 2,220 of buy-in, which will be part of the circuit BSOP from 2012.

The winners on various categories of the France Poker Awards will be announced on February 8. A ceremony will be held at the Aviation Club de France this day to honor dozens of individuals for their separate performances made during the poker year 2010. If they were eight in number to receive the trophy from the hands of Bruce Toussaint at the ceremony of the France Poker Awards in Deauville, alongside the latest Norman European Poker Tour of the year 2009, they will be approximately the double to be rewarded a year later. This price increase can be explained by the multiplication of categories rewarded.

The town of Deauville, in Normandy will host for a whole week the European Poker Tour (EPT) from January 24 to 31, 2011 at its International Center. Besides the nine planned satellites scheduled for this European tour, two of which are attached to the Main Event of € 550 buy-in, there will be a total of twenty tournaments in the program. Of course the main event of the European festival of poker will be the most popular event among participants and which aim to gather more than 1,000 players for this great event. This event will have as entry fee € 5,000. For the side events of the EPT Deauville 2011, ten additional tournaments will emerge for this New Year and are defined as Turbo formats.

A tournament of the Mega Stack Challenge series will again meet the November Niners 2010 of the world championship of poker. Indeed, without exception, the nine finalists of the last Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) of last year will be present for a rematch at Foxwoods Resort Casino. Nevertheless, the nine players won't have an easy task because they will have to eliminate the other opponents before having the chance to achieve their common goal of being at the final table. In addition to this great event which will take place on February 8, 2011, the finalists of the November Nine 2010 will be the special guest of the different series of tournament of 10 days of Foxwoods Mega Stack Challenge XIX from February 4 to 13.

The meeting of the State of New Jersey take on Tuesday the decision of allowing online gambling, including poker through the law A2570. Indeed, the majority of the members of the chamber, that is to say 63 votes against 11 with two abstentions, gave its approval to confirm the validation of the bill of November 2010. The next step but not the least is now the appreciation of Governor Christie who has 45 days to say whether he is for or against the decision of the meeting. If he does not use his veto, the law will be applicable in this American State from July of this year 2011. This probable pattern means that players in New Jersey will have to limit play among them, far away from foreign fans.

This first month of the year 2011 will mark the 18th edition of the Marrakesh Poker Open (DFO) which will be played at the prestigious Casino Es Saadi, in almost a week on January 18 to 23. In all, this new edition is composed of a Main Event with a buy-in available to all players and three Big Poker Series including a Deepstack and a shorthanded. This is the new formula that distinguish the events of this DFO 2011. These variants are in fact the formats most passionate practiced discipline.

1,560 this year against 1,529 last year; this is the number of participants who took part in the first two days of the Main Event of the Poker Carribbean Adventure that took place on Saturday 8 and Sunday, January 9, 2011. A new record attendance that has a direct impact on the prize pool that will be $ 15,132,000 and the colossal amount offered to the winner of the tournament estimated at $ 2,3 million. After these first two days of competition, players who had a chance to regain the starting point of Day 2 were only 645 on Monday night. What is certain is that the winner of the main event of last year, the youngest champion in the history of PCA, the American Harrison Gimbel won't no longer be among the contenders of the title of this seventh edition. He was ranked in 587th position.

The anniversary tournament of the Aviation Club de France (ACF) to celebrate the 16 years of the poker room was played during the three days of last weekend. An event festival which saw the participation of some 241 players with buy-in fixed at € 200. These 72 hours of competition were exciting because the ranking of Day 1 was not the same at the end of the tournament. This special birthday event of the Parisian circle was also won by a regular at the ACF, in the person of Guy Halimi who won € 15,000. With those who have reached the final table, 27 players in total have been paid.

The five new poker tables named "Cenacle Creation" of Clichy-Montmartre with a table "special TF"up mounted on platform with luminous railtrack will be inaugurated during the tournament-event organized by the circle on Friday 14 to Sunday 16 of January, 2011. A new capacity that can accommodate 170 participants will be the new face offered by the Clichy Montmartre poker circle with twelve fixed tables and 2 side tables for the € 500 Dreamstack with a garanteed prizepool of € 50,000. This poker tournament of three days will have as starting structure blinds of 400 with 20,000 chips and progressive levels of 45 minutes on the first day, 60 minutes for the second day and 90 minutes on the third day for the two remaining tables. So, the influx of players will be crucial on Friday, in this case € 85,000 will be at stake.

For this New Year 2011, Poker Magazine begins a new way to address the readers in order to fill more their thirsts. Of course, the various topics that have made Poker Magazine a reference especially in the community of gamblers in France are still kept, but other improvements will make their appearances in the coming new numbers from this beginning of the year. Among the new additions, there is at first look, a new look which will focus on clarity, decorated by excellent illustrations. Technical articles written by French poker aces and foreigners for all the followers of the game will primer as usual.

This January will mark the start of the return of the European Masters of Poker or EMOP 2011 and this tour will be extended until November of this year. This third season will have as destinations six European countries, including for the very first time Ireland. As usual, each event will consist of a variety of tournaments including a € 1,100 Main Event buy-in that will provide mainly during the journey through the first six European stop a first price in average between € 50,000 and € 100,000.

Eugene Katchalov first, Daniel Negreanu second, this was the final verdict of the Poker Carribbean Adventure Super High Roller which was played the last weekend. A final table with only 7 players where the top 5 have been rewarded. Before the final confrontation between the two men which lasted a little more than 3 hours, the recent winner of the tournament and the runner-up have been eliminated in turn, inter alia, the first outgoing players of the last straight line as Andrew Lichtenberger and Sandor Demjan and the experienced Costa Rican Humberto Brenes, Nick Schulman and Bryn Kenney. From the outset of the head's-up, the winner of the prestigious event, Eugene Katchalov had a large advantage thanks to two pots keeping him in a comfortable place with 8.5 million chips against only 1 Million for Kid Poker.

The first stage of the season 4 of the Partouche Poker Tour took place during the weekend. An appointment in the town of Lyon that gathered a field of 333 participants including 33 candidates that had their qualifying tickets for the Main Event in Cannes. The winner of the tournament is also part of the online qualifiers from € 6. For this feat accomplished, the best player of the tournament 2011, the French Laurent Morel who took part for the first time in a tournament with a live ticket of € 8,500 for the main event of the PPT, won a WSOP package of € 10,000 for the city of Las Vegas as well as € 20,451.

Poker continues to charm the world through its tournaments which make its international reputation as well as other formats that play a significant role in the development of this discipline. Particularly in France, quite a few areas succumbed to the charm of this card game considered as strategic and strengthen the personality of those who practice it. This attraction to poker did not leave indifferent the Soulac 777 Poker Club or SPC777 founded by Thierry Loqmane. This association of only one year of existence was satisfied with the results of these few months of existence during its general assembly.

The Diamond Championship, a World Poker Tour stage will probably be one of the highlights of the 13th edition of the Euro Finals of Poker from February 1st to 16th, 2011 at the Aviation Club de France. This first visit of the World Poker Tour National Series will take place at the Parisian circle for a period of 6 days from February 9 to 14 of this year and will have a new buy-in of € 5,000. Besides this WPT National Series step, a multitude of events will be on the agenda of the EFOP for the series of tournament for over two weeks in the French capital.

Live and online poker tournaments, poker movies, documentaries about poker players, television shows relating this game and the list is far from being finished when we refer in particular to the various new developments that this New Year concoct for the development of this discipline. What is certain is that fans of this cards game will never lack imagination to contribute to the development of poker. The last known project that will make its appearance at the end of this first month of the year 2011 is the first volume of the poker strip cartoon entitled "Dame de cœur" (Queen of Hearts) of which two other volume will be produced also this year.

Since the great success of the Poker Caribbean Adventure in 2004, the tournament earned the privilege of being a great very popular circuit appreciated by players after the famous World Championship of Poker in Las Vegas. Again this year, the tournament will delight fans on the island paradise of the Bahamas. Moreover, the PCA 2011 has indeed started on January 6. Organizers scheduled 48 events which include the Super High Roller of $ 100,000 buy-in. This is a tournament that offers a very big buy-in and it is certain that the field will be composed solely of poker stars and wealthy businessmen to name the founding director of Small Ventures in the USA, Bill Perkins and the Japanese Masa Kagawa.

Since the Canadian Jonathan Dumahel received the consecration of world champion of poker 2010, Canada became a major center of poker action. This great development of the Canadian poker industry coincides with the holding of the second edition of the tournament Poker Pro Classic Canada, the First Circuit held in Quebec. The inaugural event of last year was successful because 246 players in this country were present like Mark Kroon, Dave Stann and the Heads-Up champion Benjamin Lablond. To recall, Bill Kontaratos, Benjamin Lablonde, Tony Basile, Brian Friesen, Maxime Villemure, Zof Xavier, James Werry, Brian Hodhod, Ryan Howard and Oliver Baskic were the finalists of the event and the title and the largest share of the prize pool of $ 370,000 including $ 118,000 returned to Olivier Baskic.

The law in France bans the organization of public poker tournaments since June 2010. Face to this restriction, poker clubs are slowly disappearing in the vast desolation of lovers. Indeed, the majority of young people between 18 and 25 attracted by poker are accustomed to indulge their passion in these clubs. Unfortunately, they will turn to online games as poker clubs close their doors one by one starting with Fripoker Freiburg followed by Swiss Poker Club Vich. Victim of a financial problem, Heavenpoker of Montagny-pres-Yverdon is also on the Brink and expects to make a decisive balance during the month of March.

What a laudable idea concocted by Matheu for this new year 2011 to promote the poker world! A small initiative of his part; but also a big boost for French fans of the discipline who want to try their luck in the city of Las Vegas. Thus, with the creation of a unique accompanying "Vegas by FMC: consulting poker”, players who want to make the trip to Sin City will not have to worry, either for themselves about the service offered from the point of departure, Paris or once on site not to mention the financial benefits offered.

Another poker tournament is prepared for the new year at the initiative of the association Nanterre Handisport Club. A new charity edition organized by members of the NHC in favor of the same club. This great event of the most practiced poker game in the world what is Texas Hold'em will take place on April 30, 2011. This time, the president of the NH Club, Sandra Rey and other officers of the association have the ambition to offer some 220 seats for people who want to join to this Nanterre Poker Tour 2011 version. Those wishing to take part in this charity event tournament must fulfill at least € 15 for as entry fee. Regarding prices, many prizes offered by the partners of the tournament are to be won, especially for the best of the competition.

With each new year, people start to make wishes for a better future. If some decide to stop smoking, others decide to do more sport, Nicolas Levi and Daniel Negreanu, two great poker players, expect to accomplish great exploits to embellish their poker pros careers. For Nicolas Levi, after a glorious year 2010, an active participation in cash game tournaments is one of his major resolutions. To win all the bets, Croc Monsieur is planning to improve his game by reading books and watching videos of coaching and won't forget to choose the right game table and know when to stop after a losing session. Note that Nicolas Levi will be among the competitors of the largest live events taking place during the months of January and to perform well, he plans to have more confidence, to think carefully before acting, prepare well before the tournament, well watch the game and the behavior of his table opponents.

As usual, the prize distribution ceremony of the European Poker Awards will be held on the sidelines of the European Finals of Poker which is usually held at the Aviation Club de France (ACF). This year's event is scheduled to take place from February 1st to 16th, 2011 and the awards ceremony is scheduled for February 13th. And already, the list of nominees for each award category is known. Unfortunately, French poker players have all missed the chance to be among the nominees despite their good performances throughout the year. The young British Jake Cody will compete for the award of Player of the Year 2010, the Newcomer of the Year and Best Performance in a tournament of the year. Liv Boeree and Annette Obrestad will contest for the trophy European Player of the Year. Note that Boeree is also selected to be elected to the price Revelation of the year.

Macao, the Chinese city do not cease to surprise by his rank of meritorious capital of the world game by displacing far the city of Las Vegas. This superb health of the center world of gambling and poker that has already held the record revenue at the expense of the city of the state of Nevada impressed even for the year 2010 which just ended. Indeed, this city, a former Portuguese colony reverted to China a few years ago, has once again proved that it now reigns in one master in the gambling world. For the annual financial results of 2010, figures obtained by Macau casinos are eloquent.

The rich and only book traces the career of poker since its distant origin known until now of the discipline would be sold in the British capital. This best collection of poker books exhibited in London several months ago found a new owner whose identity is yet unknown. What is certain is that this new owner is a lover of poker, but again, the entire collection, called "All In" was sold to hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to observers. Fruit of many efforts with a multitude of passions over several years, the expert in rare books and poker enthusiast, Natalie Galustian, confirms that this reference book devoted to poker is made up of a hundred many old books and authentic photographs.

The year has just begun while Star City Casino in Sydney, Australia has already had to face to an unpleasant situation. Effectively, on new year's day, a participant in a poker marathon session has swallowed 42 beers including 5 bottles every 2 hours. The player was found drunk in the morning while throughout the night, he played well and the hotel staff did not notice anything unusual about his physical condition. It must be said that the player effectively controlled well the effects of alcohol. But Star City was penalized for this incident.

Playing cash games is a huge challenge. Players can win a jackpot or lose their entire bankroll. In 2010, some followers of this kind of high-limit poker tournament knew dead-end and have lost millions of dollars as Brian Townsend, who totaled $ 4.1 million loss. Sami Kelopuro alias "LarsLuzak" was also part of the major victims because he expended $ 907,369 throughout the year. The Dane Gus Hansen registered also his worst result in 2010. He ended up losing $ 1,601,376. Fortunately he made impressive achievements in live tournaments. A priori, luck abandoned these poker players. We hope that 2011 will be more prosperous and more glorious for these great losers of 2010.

Some players marked in 2010 by their great performance and achievements that they made. Some of them are already renowned players who only show their talents and repeat their exploits while others are indeed new entrants in the professional world of poker, but by cons who posted very good results. The public still hopes to see them again in good fit throughout this year and relies on their expertise to show the same results. Among these major players are Tom Marchese newly elected Player of The Year by Card Player magazine thanks to his victory at the North American Poker Tour Venetian and his exemplary career at the World Poker Tour Foxwoods and the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo (EPT), Eric Baldwin, who won the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Los Angeles Bounty Shootout and shined at the main event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Las Vegas 2010.

A first Super Satellite will begin the New Year 2011 for the fourth season of the Partouche Poker Tour (PPT). An exceptional event waits then poker enthusiasts this coming weekend at Casino Lyon Vert. On the menu of this Super Satellite reunion will be offered a € 1,250 buy-in tournament on two days of January 8 and 9 which will have as structure a starting stack of 20,000 chips and rounds of 40 minutes. Furthermore, annex tournament of € 250 buy-in Freezout and a PPT LADIES buy-in at € 70 Freezout, a Satellite qualifier for the Super Sat Aix-en-Provence of € 170 Freezeout of Buy-in on February 26, 2011 will be in the program of these two days.

The kickoff of the France Poker Tour for this New Year 2011 is scheduled for the first weekend of February. The Carrousel du Louvre, in Paris will open the show on February 5 and 6 for a number of participants limited to 1,500 players. A week later, 500 players can be received at Lille on February 12 and 13 while Dijon will host 200 other players. On February 19, this third week of the month will be the turn of Limoges to host the confrontation of 200 players. Finally, Strasbourg will end the tournament on February 26 and 27 with 500 players as participants.

Poker is definitely a discipline which has known considerable growth in these recent years and will certainly continue its way for this New Year 2011. Besides the boost provided by the release of legislation by the legalization of online poker and online bet, the consideration of this game, the image that the public derives from this game, the intellectual interest in its strategies ... are all factors that makes it a more captivating game. On the other hand, the emergence of numerous clubs in villages and even the most faraway regions of France makes that poker is a game more than popular.

The 16 years of the circle of game and live poker room of the Aviation Club de France will not go unnoticed during this New Year 2011. To mark this celebration, the ACF will organise a live poker event for 4 days from January 6 to 9. The program include a poker tournament that will not have to envy other meetings already sheltered by this place, with structure and an affordable entrance fee for the 300 participants invited to compete. This tournament that is normally dedicated to "friends of regular tournaments" will have as variant to play a Texas Hold'em No Limit. Players who had points in the ACF tournament overall 2010 will have to pay as buy-in € 200.

With its selection criteria worthy of a professional poker media, Bluff Magazine, among the leaders in this field, elected the Canadian Sorel Mizzi as "Player of The Year" 2010. Thus, after having realized the ranking of the best players according to their performance in different major tournament, this magazine has named Sorel Mizzi. A well-deserved coronation for this Canadian player; whose performances throughout the year 2010 were simply exceptional. He began by rounding up the price of the 3rd place of the Aussie Millions, acceded to three final tables in the World Poker Tour circuit (WPT), was among the finalists of the event $ 1,500 Seven Card Stud at the World Championships of poker in Las Vegas and also earned 22 paid places in other major tournaments at international level, exploits that allowed him to save $ 1.9 million gain.

For the first time, a poker tournament dedicated for non professional players of poker is born. This is the Land & Sea Poker Tour, which aims to provide a poker game where a friendly and attractive atmosphere of relaxation will be at the appointment. However, the Land & Sea Poker Tour will have a highly professional aspect in order to offer a game of quality to enthusiasts. As an opening, the Land & Sea Poker Tour programs four tournaments which will take place in different countries for the year 2011. Organizers have therefore chosen the Pyrenees in France, especially the Principality of Andorra for the first stage of this tournament. Indeed, this tournament for non professional will start on February 28 until March 5, 2011 in the heart of the Crowne Plaza Andorra.

For this weekend of the new year, poker fans will still have rights to magnificent tournaments. Indeed, the Borgata Casino invites players to participate in the New Year's Eve Tournament of $ 200 + $ 30 buy-in. It will be a deepstack tournament Turbo No Limit Hold'em that will allow players to win some nice prizes. Since Wednesday, everything was ready at Vegas Motel Minot in North Dakota to host this Texas Hold'em Championship. This is a tournament involving players from 14 States including Canada and Brazil. The main event which will bring together 1,800 competitors for the title and the grand prize of $ 40,000 began on December 29, 2010 and the final day is scheduled to take place on New Year's Day.

Something new has just been announced in the world of poker TV programming. Indeed, another concept will be diffused on French television for the New Year 2011. If Estelle Denis has chosen confrontation between girls and boys, Eurosport opted for the battle of generations in its special television program "Poker Dome". If it was expected that the young official team of the TV Channel formed by Basil Yaiche "Basou", Clement Thumy "Clem2511", and Hugo Lemaire "Hhhhugo" will face three other players on the internet, finally, the team will be in front of experienced players who marked for quite some years the French circuit. The three professionals are Bruno Fitoussi, Anthony Lellouche and Jean Paul Pasqualini. In short, a duel which is summarized by the head's up meeting between the youth against the old generation.

With the year 2010 that ended, a little recap of major events that marked the environment of poker during the year can let us remember in a few lines the great moments that have thrilled fans of the game. To start, it is essential to speak about the deepstack label. Indeed, organizers of poker events have almost preferred tournament with a deep structure and it must be said that fans found pleasure to participate in. Cash game also gained prominence and many of the best names in the game at international level didn't miss meeting of high level cash games that took place around the world including favorites like Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius. Note that the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau also incorporated a cash game tournament in its program.

To mark the end of the year 2010 and the beginning of 2011, a new special publishing of Live Poker, the 41st of its kind is currently in publication and is already available in kiosk. As usual and this for a few years, this magazine summed up in its few pages the results of the poker community on behalf of 2010. Thus, the highlights of the year that has just ended in this discipline are on the menu for this special issue. Besides the annual retrospective, the ranking of the year is also included in this 41st publication. Faithful to is manner of presentation, this new issue of Live Poker differs only from other numbers by its release during the holiday season.

Programs of major tournaments for 2011 are announced one by one to let poker pros accustomed to these big events, but also casual gamers who want to start their careers, to prepare their programs. Reaching proficiency levels in poker like Phil Ivey, breaking out of the anonymity of online tournaments like Jean Paul Pasqualini, who started in this circle a few years earlier or get to the top of several major tournaments in the world as Chris Moneymaker after online qualification are indeed always possible for any regular player.

With the popularity of poker, big events around this game marked the year 2010, facts that did not go unnoticed by the general public. The opening of the online poker market in several European countries especially in France was one. Indeed, long awaited by operators and players in the world of online gaming, the French authorities finally gave the green light on April 6, 2010. The legalization of online poker created a real expansion of this game and also changed the game offerings. New circuits have been developed and licensed poker rooms increased their advertising campaigns without forgetting the production of several television. In short, a considerable success, however, the law on online poker is still subject to severe criticism. Cheating perpetrated by Ali Tekintamgak at the Partouche Poker Tour also marked this season. A priori, the champion of the World Poker Tour Barcelona already won the victory by cheating because his two accomplices pretended to be journalists communicated to him his opponent’s table cards.

Laws on online gambling in Ireland existed since a long time. They were even there for decades but no longer fit the needs of Irish consumers of the 21st century. Fortunately, the government realized up this gap for some time and is trying to bridge the large gap that exists but also to update its legal system. Nevertheless, the procedure to adopt is not easy to have a new law that is at least tailored to players and operators of online games, poker included. The drafting of a new law that requires a clear plan will not happen overnight.

The next biggest Texas Hold'em tournament outside of Las Vegas has set its final preparations for the meeting planned in the afternoon of Wednesday. This last touch was the installation of banners and the location of tables that will receive the final table for the New Year's Day 2011 during which more than 1,800 poker players will compete. These few thousand participants who will participate in this Texas Hold 'Em Championship at Dakota, in Motel Vegas, Minot are also entered into the heart of the tournament on Wednesday evening during a freeroll tournament to be well placed in the Main Event and try to win the sum of $ 40,000 that begins on Thursday.
 
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