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The great annual ceremony of the Nordic Poker Awards summarizing the year 2010 was held on the evening of Monday, February 21, 2011 in Denmark, just before the Main Event of the European Poker Tour Copenhagen. The four awards ceremony dedicated to the best players in the Nordic countries of last year which are the best performance, the best live tournament player, the best online player and the newcomer of the year saw the distribution of rewards between two Norwegian players, one Danish and one Finnish player.

Casino of Colioure officials found another formula for the next event they are organizing for the first three days of April 2011. At the program of this appointment, a tempting live freeroll of € 30,700 prize in its physical poker room, is to share for the top 25 ranking among the 400 eligible players to this pokger tournament. This Super Freeroll of Colioure will take place as follows : there will be two days for the Day 1A on Friday 1st April and 1B on Saturday, April 2 before the final round of Sunday, April 3. The game structure is composed of a starting stack of 30,000 chips with blinds of 25/50 and levels limited to 45 minutes. For awards, the top 4 players will qualify for sponsorship contracts of the institution in addition to € 5,600 awarded to the winner with € 2,100 for the fourth.

Fund-raising having as backdrop poker games are now becoming commonplace. Apart from charity tournaments held during the stages of major poker tour, various associations organized poker games in order to have some profits that can help to sustain charity. The Lakeshore General Hospital of Pointe-Claire, in Quebec also found the appropriate idea to support the renovation of the emergency room. Thus, the hospital organizes poker tournament and invites all those who enjoy playing poker at a charity meeting to be held on March 18. Once again, it will be an opportunity for fans of this card game to play for a good cause. The pavilion on Lake Chateau Vaudreuil will be thus transformed into a poker room to host this great event to be held under the patronage of the Beaconsfield town's councilor, Rhonda Massad.

Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, welcomed since Monday one of the major step of the European Poker Tour (EPT) circuit. The Main Event with an entrance fee of € 5,000 was attended by 449 players, which is a real success for the event. For this seventh edition, 64 players will have the chance to be paid and have a share of the prize pool amounting € 2,023,496 of which € 500,000 will be awarded to the champion and € 328,600 for the runner up. After the first two days of competition, there remained only 262 survivors on Day 2. As usual, Nordic players were present in large numbers. They are known for their aggressive style of play. The 12 French players who made the trip to Denmark attended a game so hectic and only 8 of them were able to reach the Day 2 including Arnaud Mattern, Antoine Labat and Abdulaziz Abdulaziz who are in good position for the remainder of the tournament poker.

More than satisfactory, these are the words to summarize the first poker event organized to support the hockey club Les Albatros of College Notre Dame du Loup Rivière on last Saturday, February 19, 2011. First, regarding participants, even if the number set at 120 players was not reached, a hundred people from the region of Bas-Saint-Laurent, Gaspésie and Iles-de-la Magdalene came to play poker at the invitation of the Albatross. With regard to the poker tournament, for a first presentation, the organization of Les Albatros was successful in reaching its goal of funding players of Les Albatros of College Notre Dame.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) Celebrity Invitational brought together some 500 American celebrities in the world of show biz and some stars of poker. The goal of this tournament was to invite these celebrities to play poker for a good cause because by, winning the title, they will let to a charity of their choice to receive considerable financial assistance amounting $ 200,000. The poker room of the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles hosted this wonderful event and after two days of competition, the 6 players who acceeded to the final table stood out.

The regulars at the grand final of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo will know a little modification for this year 2011 edition. Basically, the change concern the place where it will be held, instead of moving in the town of the principality of Monaco, poker players will head straight to Madrid, the first Spanish city. For the choice of the place, the official information given by the Executive Director of the EPT from Copenhagen talked about the various advantages offered by the Spanish capital to its guests of all ages during the night but also the cultural variety of Madrid.

Last weekend, the biggest European bowling, the bowling of Lomme, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France was transformed into a giant poker room to host the grand final of the National Championship by Club Poker Teams (CNEC). This is a poker tournament facing the 24 poker clubs qualified in regional qualifying tournaments that were held throughout the French territory. Each club crossed then many steps and deserve all the title of champion of France of Club 2011. After two days of battle, the verdict is out and for the second time, the Ligue rochelaise de poker triumphed. Indeed, this poker club already won the title in the first edition of the CNEC final in 2009. The club officials posted on its website that this magnificent double is the result of a regularity in the game, patience, putting up a good strategy, perseverance and especially the solidarity between team-mate.

For its 19th edition, the Marrakesh Poker Open (MPO) was pride to announce its new rich program. During the eight days of competition in the Moroccan city from March 6 to 13, 2011, participants in this famous tournament of the African continent will enjoy a lot of innovations either on the organization of new tournaments or simply regarding the conducting progress of the different events. More than a week of poker events to not miss for fans of this game at the Casino Es Saadi, especially for players of the Old Continent who want to find a destination and a quality tournament in a poker room in the sun.

To start its fourth season, Brazil had the pleasure to host the first Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT). An inaugural stage that was marked by the record turnout of poker players. If the number of participants in this South American poker circuit is usually around 400 players since its inception in 2008, the inaugural vintage of the 2011 edition can be described as historic because it managed to gather a field of some 536 individuals who love poker in Sao Paulo. Well known players such as Mari Mayrinck, Humberto Brenes, Angel Guillen, or the double winner of the circuit Jose Nacho Barbero made the trip. Moreover, this city of the samba in the southern hemisphere having 11 million habitants has been delighted to receive an event of such magnitude.

The famous charitable tournament World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational began last Saturday. For the 9 th edition, the poker room of Commerce Casino in Los Angelos was overrun by singers, actors and sports celebrities like Mimi Rogers, Randy Couture, Lou Diamond Phillips, Josh Malina, Coco Crisp, Donnie Wahlberg, Jerry Buss, Trishelle Cannatella and Don Cheadle. They came to play poker and provide support to various charitable organizations because indeed, the WPT Celebrity Invitational is a charity event which benefits will be allocated to charities designated by the winners of the competition.

The poker circuit Caribbean Master Poker will visit the most beautiful tourist city of the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, from March 14 to 20, 2011. The meeting will take place at the Hard Rock Hotel, a majestic resort in the heart of the city. The Caribbean Master Poker of Punta Cana will be an opportunity to play poker and make a tourist trip. During this stage at the Hard Rock Hotel, players can participate in many activities like golf, buggy, horse riding as well as watersports. Note that the organizers offer two very attractive packages including entry fees for tournaments, 7 nights full board and access to all activities offered by the hotel. This is the Red package of $ 5,000 and Blue Package of $ 2,500.

The last tournament part of the European Finals of Poker (EFOP) 2011 including the € 10,000 High Roller delivered its verdict on Thursday, February 17. The High Roller event allows participants to play poker with high level opponents and win great rewards. Note that the EFOP 2011 was held in the poker room of the famous gambling club Aviation Club de France. Apart from the award ceremonies, the first edition of the World Poker Tour National Series that designated the Russian Natalia Nikitina as winner also took place during this EFOP 2011. Some poker stars were among the finalists for the High Roller as Basil Yaiche, final table chip leader and Ludovic Lacay fourth largest stack holder. Unfortunately, they were removed too early and did not even have the chance to access to the paid places.

Announced a few weeks ago in several online poker rooms, the first season of the international league of poker will start this year. The Federated Sports and Gaming, creator of this new event has just unveiled the program of this first edition. Note that the International League of Poker has been designed to allow the 200 elites of the game to compete with each other. Thus, the top 200 players selected will play in the prestigious Palms poker room in Las Vegas. The first season will have five stages, the first will be held from August 12 to 19, 2011, the second will be held from September 30 to October 7, the third from December 1st to 10, the fourth from January 20 to 27, 2012 and the fifth including the Grand Championship will run from January 29 to 30, 2012.

The 4th Edition of the Partouche Poker Tour will be back during the last weekend of the month of February. After the first stop of the year on early January at Lyon Vert, Aix-en-Provence will receive on next Saturday 26 and Sunday, February 27 the second stage of this poker tournament. The appointment of the Pasino will have as main issue four packages offered by the Super Sat Aix-en-Provence of € 1,250 buy-in with an additional prize pool of € 40,000 for the Main Event of the World Series. Furthermore, side event tournaments with low buy-in will be offered to players like a side event tournament of € 250, the PPT Ladies of € 70 and the satellite of € 170 for the Super Sat of Nice, the city of the next step.

The appointment that everyone awaited for finally arrived for the 24 best teams in the National Championship for club teams or CNEC in France. During 2010, some 140 poker club competed each other in the knock-out stages in order to be among the few twenty team to contest the national title that is currently in the hands of the League Rochelaise Poker, a club that could repeat its feat of last year.

The Dusk Till Dawn (DTD) Poker Club was the scene of a double event during the poker tournament UKIPT of Nottingham held from February 11 to 14, 2011. First, the famous Card Room of this English town was able to gather and especially beat its old highest number of participants that was 900 players in an Internal poker tournament of £ 50 +5 buy-in at the end of the month of October 2010. Less than four months after, the casino DTD Poker Club gathered in the same place some 1,058 players at the first appointment of the UKIPT for the new year. The entry fee of the NLH tournament was 500 £ + 60 generating a prize pool of £ 529,000 with in addition, the presence of 39 participating nations.

The first edition of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Paris National Series attracted 188 players generating a prize pool of € 870,850 distributed to the 18 best competitors. A beautiful success has been recorded. Note that the event took place simultaneously with the Euro Finals of Poker at Aviation Club de France. And for the first time, a woman won a WPT title. Indeed, after a final table full of action, the victory went to Natalia Nikitina, a young 23 years old Russian who is an avid of online poker specifically High Stakes on the Internet. According to some informations, the champion already won in a tournament of € 5,000 in an online poker room after having faced male opponents for 13 hours.

The Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi has given its approbation for the legalization of cash games in online poker rooms and online casino offers in the country. The publication of the legal decree relating to this decision was released on the evening of Thursday, February 3, 2011. However, the application of this law on online poker for real money at Squadra Azzura is not available from now because players should wait until early March to see on the various Alpine sites the first cash game tables. Moreover, online poker rooms are required to follow from A to Z the new technical procedures established by the terms of reference in order to upgrade their licenses.

The Marrakesh Poker Open always attracted poker players from all backgrounds. Effectively, the tournament offered to players the opportunity to play a quality game. For the next edition, the participants in the Marrakesh Poker Open (MPO) will be entitled to great innovations. Indeed, some modifications to improve the event will be made especially as competition is becoming tougher because of the number of major tournaments held in major European cities which is increasing. Scheduled to run from March 6 to 13 at the Casino of Marrakesh, the 19th edition of the MPO will offer a freeroll with rebuys of € 50. Typically, players have access to this kind of event in online poker rooms but this time, these free tournaments for participants to win up to € 10,000 will be held during two days at the MPO.

By pending the reprise of play in the final of the World Poker Tour Paris National Series, the public of the Aviation Club de France attended an event full of action at the High Roller. The tournament attracted 27 players of poker to name Bruno Fitoussi, Freddy Deeb, Nicolas Levi, Ludovic Lacay Basil Yaiche, Gabriel Nassif, Max Lycov, Mercedes Osti, Juha Helppi and Ilan Boujenah. The High Roller at the European Finals of Poker registered a prize pool of € 256,647 and the organizers plan to reward the 4 best players in the game. So the winner will leave with the prestigious title and the first prize of € 125,000, the runner up will receive € 65,000, € 46,000 for the third and € 20,642 for the fourth.

Everything is good to make a tournament a success in terms of participation. This is the likely catchword of the Avesnois Sambre Poker Club (CASP), in France which recently held its first poker tournament on Sunday, February 13, 2011. Indeed, the club headed by its President Alexandre Leuleux used mass media as newspaper, radio, website... for the organizing of this first meeting for fans of poker.

If football is considered as king of sports, poker is now unquestionably the discipline that develops the most and which has more and more practitioners either between friends or in a poker club. Regionally and nationally, this card game has also more and more success because of the popularity of tours and tournaments worldwide. Moreover, various poker tournaments are organized every year at the international level for the benefit of professional and amateur players who want to enter in the history of this discipline of the twenty-first century.

During the press conference held to inform about the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) in Cannes following a collaboration between the Group Barriere and Caesars Interactive, the program of the stages of the Barriere Poker Tour 4 (BPT) was also unveiled. Thus, for its next edition, the Barrière Poker Tour will offer to poker enthusiasts seven major steps. The main events of each event will have a buy-in of € 1,500. A minor amendment has been also provided because instead of securing packages to the final event, the organizers decided to award eight packages worth € 12,000 each for the main event of the WSOP Europe 2011 apart from prizes from the prize pool.

For 10 years, the poker community meet every year at the sumptuous lounge of the Aviation Club de France to attend the award ceremony of the European Poker Awards, which reward poker players who performed well throughout the year. This year's event was held at Queenie. The jury delivered eight trophies at the event among which five went to British celebrities. Effectively, French players hadn't enough luck in the selection. Thus, the title of best player of the year returned to Liv Boeree for her many conquests in the European Poker Tour circuit. She overtook the ladies world champion Vanessa Hellbuyck. James Edge has been voted best performance of the year by holding the title of WSOP Europe champion. And the reward for the player's career was won by Nick Szeremeta for all the magnificent feats he accomplished throughout the year 2010.

The loop has just been completed for the final of the France Poker Series (FPS), it's time now for the WPT Diamond final which began in the afternoon of Tuesday, February 15, 2010. The season 1 of the FPS which attracted a field of 567 poker players at the beginning of the tournament chose the best player at the final table, the German Marvin Rettenmaier as the winner of the title and the € 244,036 prize. The most amazing thing during the last phase, especially during the final duel is the short duration of the final head's up between the last two opponents. Indeed, it took only a dozen minutes to the new winner to end the suspense that opposed him to the French Basil Yaïche.

Playing poker became for some time an activity for everyone. It's more than obvious because the discipline is considered as more intellectual, asks physical endurance and a lot of strategies. It is then more than evident if various associations and poker club turn now to young players who will be in a few time those who will represent their teams, whether at regional, national or why not on the world circuit.

After a remarkable success during its first edition, the second edition of the DeepStack Open poker tournament will be organized once again with an exciting program. Indeed, last year, a total attendance of 3,000 players in all events of the DeepStack Open (DSO) was recorded. This year, organizers hope to get a better result of about 700 to 800 participants in all events offered at the DSO 2011. Note that the tournament is organized in order to satisfy fans either pros or amateurs. Thus, playing poker at DSO means to participate in a quality tournament with a buy-in available to all and nice bonuses in perspective.

The final table of the France Poker Series (FPS) of Paris will be played in the afternoon of Tuesday, February 15, 2011 between the eight best players of the competition. An exciting tournament if we take a look at the competitors qualified to participate in this final. To resume, it will be a fierce battle as players like the eliminated of the day as Julien "Taz" Burnay, Marc "Locsta" Inizan, Victor "Choop" Choupeaux, Charles "Charles64" Barsacq, Gregory "Juda92" Ravise, Sylvain " Artplay "Ribes, Juha Helppi, Emmanuel “Manu7373” Leclerc, Thibaut “Thibavol” Guenegou, Guilhem Delaporte, Thomas Bichon, Fabian Holling, Michaël Tureniec, Adrien “Zlatan35” Allain, Loïc “ohcaraiboa” Sa, Joël Benzinou and David Tavernier who devoted body and soul until Monday morning to hear the 8 remaining survivors of this final battle.

The countdown of the little final of the first WPT Paris National Series of the Euro Finals of Poker 2011 started in the afternoon of Sunday, February 13 for the 10 last survivors of the competition. This final battle between the 10 last qualified hosted by the Aviation Club de France will see the elimination of two players against 8 tickets for the other qualifiers who will be invited to the final table scheduled for Tuesday, February 15. Moreover, besides the 10 last participants in this decisive phase, eight other players will be paid according to the earnings distribution. The players ranked from 11th to 13th won each € 13,065 while the 14th to 18th in the ranking left the tournament with € 8,710.

This was before the start of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2010 that the world champion of poker 2008, Peter Eastgate, announced his retreat from the gaming tables, an information that disappointed many of his fans. A few months ago, the great champion sold his precious bracelet to the benefit of the UNICEF. The poker community believed therefore that the young Dane retired permanently from the world of this card game. But the surprise was back whene the name of Peter Eastgate appeared in the list of competitors at the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Indeed, Eastgate announced his imminent return on the green tables.

The Florida Poker Tour is a tournament designed for poker enthusiasts eager to participate in a tournament of quality and inexpensive. After the successful of the first edition in October 2010, the tournament organizers have decided to propose a new edition to satisfy fans of the circuit. Thus, from February 21 to 25, 2011, poker fans are expected at the Florida Park Hotel in Costa Brava, Spain for the second edition of the Florida Poker Tour Winter Games. With € 360 only, those who enjoy poker will stay in a luxury hotel during the 5 days of competition and will have access to all the events in the program.

On one hand, there were the nine finalists of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). On the other, there were 18 skilled amateurs qualified in live qualifications. It was these some thirty participants who took part in a special tournament, a freeroll with $ 15,000 on the sidelines of the Mega Stack Challenge competition held at Foxwoods Resort Casino. Three of the nine November Nine players who were the world champion Jonathan Duhamel, Michael Mizrachi and Matthew Jarvis reached the stage of the last four players of the part with an amateur player named Ben Hopkins, who is none other the winner of the game facing his ultimate adversary, Matt Jarvis.

Despite the unfortunate incident of the season 6 of the European Poker Tour (EPT) held in Berlin, the organizers have not given up and will be ready again for the challenge by choosing the German capital this year. Berlin will be therefore still part of the destinations that will host this great event on the European continent on behalf of Season 7 of this year 2011. For this long-awaited return, players will have less than a week during the month of April to compete.

On last February 5, 69 players among whom some were men participated in the poker tournament Ladies on Fire, a women's tournament offered by the prestigious Circle Cadet in Paris. The elegance and beauty shone out in the playroom during the game because beautiful professional poker players invaded tables to mention players as the champion of the Ladies tournament of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas in 2010 Vanessa Hellebuyck, Barbara Martinez, Marion Nedellec, Mylène Cogan, Karina Nogueira, Elsa Bargiarelli, Alana Pariente and Laurie Bismuth. The Cadet Club was full of actions during the ten hours of confrontation because the competitors offered all the best of themselves for winning the famous prize which is a package for the next Ladies tournament of the WSOP 2011 and the share of the prize pool valued at € 3,100.

Having retired as a professional poker player, the Dane Peter Eastegate, world champion of poker 2008 decided to participate in the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship 2011. This is a great challenge of poker in which players compete un head's up face to the eye of the public because the tournament will be broadcast on television. This year's championship will be held from March 3 to 6 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, a very privileged place to host such an event. They will be 64 poker elite to name the famous poker player Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, Vanessa Rousso, Andy Bloch, Huck Seed, Paul Wasicka, Doyle Brunson, Jonathan Dumahel and the runner up of the latest edition Erik Seidel to participate in the tournament.

For the fourth consecutive year, the poker room of Gembloux will not fail in its habits. Indeed, after the first three successful edition of this poker fair for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010, the new annual edition hosted by the Belgian region Walloon is already prepared because the reception of this great event is planned for the end of February 2011. Two full days are offered for Belgian and French fans to gather around new topics in this event.

Besides the prestigious event of the Euro Finals of Poker, the Aviation Club de France had the privilege of hosting on the evening of Tuesday 8 February the 2nd edition of the France Poker Awards for the poker year 2011. Unlike last year, held in Deauville, the second ceremony honored 14 winners players and entities alike this year if they were 8 rewarded for the year 2010. Besides the 12 elected best players in their respective fields, there was the internet vote for the audience award and the jury award.

The verdict was known at Casino Di Venezia after days of competition full of actions. While poker enthusiasts who have closely followed the progress of the final of the World Poker Venice(WPT) expected a victory of David Vamplev; the champion of the European Poker Tour has been entitled to the third place on the Venetian podium because the trophy and the € 380,000 award was won by the Italian Alessio Isaia. Indeed, the great advantage of Vamplev in chips was not sufficient to enable him to win the title. It should also be said that the Italian who started his career as poker pro in 2005 already won the championship of the Italian Poker Tour San Remo in 2009 after a miraculous journey.

The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) have always been a meeting place for fans of poker in the European continent. Since its existence, the WSOP Europe took place in London, the capital of Great Britain. This year, thanks to the collaboration between the Group Barriere and Caesars Interactive, the big event will move in Cannes. Thus, the Casino Barrière of Cannes Croisette and the Majestic Hotel will be the host of the tournament. Note that the WSOPE 2011 are expected to take place from October 7 to 21. This majestic city of Riviera will be a mecca of poker this autumn because apart the WSOP Europe, the final of the Partouche Poker Tour will be also held in Cannes in September 2011.

The fourth edition of the European Poker Deepstack confirmed its reputation as a great poker circuit because even if the field of 1,000 participants was not reached, the tournament has still known a huge success with 737 players registered for the Main Event of € 550. Last year, the tournament attracted a field of 465 participants and crowned the French Fred Brunet as winner. The 737 competitors from 30 countries thus competed for the title in the Irish capital and for a share of the prize pool of € 360,000 gathered for the occasion. In this edition, the organizers decided to award the 72 best players in the game. For five days, the Ballsbridge Inn hosted then an intense poker tournament.

The crowning of the winner of the World Poker Tour Venice (WPT) will be held soon as the final table of the event will begin in a few hours. The audience at the Casino Di Venezia will certainly attend an interesting struggle because of the skill of the competing players for the final head's up. Vamplev holds the place of chip leader with a great advantage in his possession because he holds 4.1 million chips. He is on his way to another victory. Already crowned champion of an event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) event and a World Series of Poker (WSOP), he could access the same rank as Roland de Wolfe and Gavin Griffin as holder of three titles WPT, EPT and WSOP if he triumph at this final.

After the victory of Darko Stojanovic in the Silver championship of € 1,000 buy-in with a prize pool of € 170,715 at the Euro Finals of Poker (EFOP), the Day 3 and final day of competition of the Gold tournament of € 2,000 buy- in with a prize pool of € 290,000 was also interesting. At the resumption of the third round, which began with a field of 12 survivors of the 146 participants who attended the meeting, Pierre Milan was the chip leader with 651,500 chips and Ilan Boujenah held the place of runner up with his 603,000 coins while the hero of the day, Julien Muel had 454,000 chips and at the third rank.

The idea to associate poker with tourism and recreation is currently a concept that has great success. After the success of tournaments to exotic destinations in the example of the Mazagan Poker Million Morocco and the Big Poker Series, which next stop will land in Madagascar, the Great island of the Indian Ocean, tournament organizers continue to offer original tours different from the usual extra tempting offers, including tournament buy-in available to all followers of this card game. The last new series of tropical tournaments proposed is that which will take place in the seaside resort of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic in mid-March of this year.

They were 1,503 players who take the start of the first live stage of the season 6 of the France Poker Tour (FPT) on the weekend of February 5 and 6, 2011 at the Carrousel du Louvre. Only the top 30 players competing in Paris will have the opportunity to participate in the Grand Final of the FPT scheduled from May 19, 2011 at the Aviation Club de France for a prize pool of around € 1 million. 13 other French cities will receive the other stages of the FPT 6. The closest live stops will be those of the end of next week of February 12 at Lille and Dijon. To be eligible to participate, live qualifiers are compulsory. Moreover, it is still possible to qualify directly online for the Grand Final. To do this, you have to win a package of € 1,800, € 1,000 to enter the tournament and € 800 for personal expenses during the weekly tournaments of € 100 buy-in on Monday and Thursday.

Less than 10% of the 146 competitors who took part in the Gold Championship of € 2,000 of the Euro Finals of Poker (EFOP) with a prize pool of € 290,000 on Saturday are still competing for the title and the famous check of € 76,100. After the two fateful days of the event, it remains only 12 players for the resumption of Day 3 with blinds of 3.000/6.000 on the circuit to try to win the first podium of the gold championship. Pierre Milan with 651,500 chips is the chip leader, followed by Ilan Boujenah, runner-up holding 603,000 coins and other players as Julien Muel 454,000, Benjamin Pollak 303,000, Sardal Tal 231,000, Idriss Ambraisse 163,000, Dino Marsan 153,000, Bruno Solo 124,000, Jean-Noël Thorel 120,000, Christ Falck79,000, Fabien Perrot 55,000 and Petr Ionescu 38,000.

Despite the incident that marked the morning of Monday, February 7, 2011 and that troubled players and the nine finalists of the Partouche Poker Deepstack, the calm returned and replaced immediately the panic in the adjacent hall to St. Amand's Pasino. The final table was played until the designation of the best participant in this new circuit. Moreover, for a first launch of the event during the last weekend, the tournament was able to gather a field of some 355 competitors. The structure offered by the organizer has also been a factor that give success to this tournament open to everyone for a buy-in of € 500. It started with 50,000 chips with 60 minute scalable rounds.

The series of attack on French casinos is not yet over. Indeed, the Casino of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, which hosted the final table of the Partouche Poker Deepstack, in the morning of Monday, February 7, 2011, was the victim of a robbery carried out by four intruders in a few minutes. Around 2:30 in the morning, several shots into the air followed by the launching of tear gas cut the atmosphere that prevailed, the time for robbers to steal the estimated amount of € 100,000 and fled before the arrival of police at the scene. The final phase of the tournament immediately continued as if nothing happened.

Less than two months after the sad story of robbery perpetrated by a masked gunman at Bellagio on December 15, 2010, the alleged thief is finally behind bars to await his trial court. Indeed, Anthony Michael Corleo, committed the fatal mistake of his life to find the wrong men as buyer of his poker chips stolen, in the person of an undercover police officer on the night of Wednesday, February 2 2011. A routine operation of the local police that earned him handcuffs and the straight direction to Clark County Jail.

They were only 4 or 5 friends who gather to play poker at the home one of them a year ago. An organization that asked only a little space. Shortly after, the group expanded to accommodate 10 to 15 players with as difficulty to problem to find a place to held the parties, but at the end, the group of players lead by Jerome Vidal choose the back-room of a downtown bar after its closing. As this was not enough, the idea of forming an association was inevitable for many followers of this discipline. Thus was born the association Riom Poker, which just celebrated its first anniversary.

The national final of associations of poker in France will be held during the fourth month of 2011. This individual competition registered some 3,498 tournaments played as part of the championships held in the 147 clubs members of the Club des Club. In all, a total of 11,369 players participated and are written in the classification for members of the CdC. For its part, the online championship is the same field was not unworthy because it received the participation of some 1,613 followers of the game. However, they will be only 400 players to have the right to contest for the national title for three days from mid-April.

After the 2010 edition, a new organization of the first major poker tournament between French schools and universities will mark the year 2011. As usual, the Grandes Ecoles Poker Tour (GEPT) are open to all students enrolled in colleges of France such as business schools, engineering schools, universities, technical colleges and college. For this 2011 edition, there will be two phases to cross to participating students. The first qualifying round will be played at each institution to select the representatives of every high school who will defend the honors of their institutions at the ultimate test which is the second and final phase.

Each group is different because of its organization but an association has its own ambition with its main objectives. Today, many formed alliances choose prioritizing poker which is the card game the most practiced around the world. Thus, the association Black Diamond 48, since its inception in 2009, has as only motto to promote poker in Lozere, in France. No later than Sunday, January 30, 2011, this grouping led by President Laetitia Malvy with her team of volunteers, devoted an afternoon to poker at the Youth Space.

The new project "Big Poker Series" launched by Roger Hairabedian on the African continent started since early 2011 in conjunction with the second edition of the Dakar Poker Tour in the Senegalese capital on last January 11 to 17. This new poker event combining sun and exotic destination scored by his mark the 18th edition of the Marrakesh Poker Open on January 18 to 23 in this Moroccan city. To continue this momentum, the tournament will move in the Indian Ocean, with its tropical climate, this mid-February for its third stop.

Two major tournaments are taking place to the delight of fans of poker. This is the $ 3,500 Main Event of the Borgata Poker Open, which began a few days at the Borgata casino in Atlantic City and the Euro Finals of Poker (EFOP) which started at the club playing in Paris, Aviation Club de France (ACF). Currently, participants at the Borgata Poker Open are in action to contest the title of the event and the first prize worth $ 532,210. Note that the starting field is 718 participants and after the first three days of battle, there will be only 72 survivors, who constitute the paid list. Renowned players such as Vanessa Selbst, Gavin Smith are in an excellent position to capture the trophy at the final table and the Mizrachi brothers.

Two new incidents come to surface in the poker world. The first episode recalls the Ali Tekintamgac case at the Partouche Poker Tour during which the player cheated to win the title. The same incident just happened in the tournament hald at Holland Casino Classic Urecht Dom. Indeed, a player named Kadir Karbulut tried to repeat the same scene with an accomplice, a German journalist. Fortunately, the champion of the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo 2009, Pieter de Korver guessed the fraud and warned his opponents table. The players refused to continue the game and claimed the exclusion of Kadir Karbulut. After conducting a little investigation, the casino officials decided to oust the player from the table. Note that De Korver had a suspicion in realizing the presence of a foreign journalist around the table, which is really unusual for a tournament of this kind taking place in Holland.

A busy schedule, that is what will mark the second month of 2011. Starting with the beginning of the France Poker Tour Season 6 set for the first weekend of February. There is also the Euro Finals of Poker that took place with the beginning of the month and won't only end in February 16. Also, the season 1 of the finals of the France Poker Series is also an interesting event with a full program that will last a whole week.

The 14 steps that will compose the France Poker Tour (FPT) circuit begin with the first week of February 2011. Thus, the sixth season of the FPT will give a foretaste of this event during two days this weekend. The French capital, through the Carrousel du Louvre, will again be honored to host the first stage. This special meeting would also be qualified as one of the most prestigious poker tournament on the Old Continent. Media coverage will not be forgotten with the arrival of many journalists.

Phil Hellmuth, a leading figure of poker with many achievements during his career also mobilize for charity tournaments. Despite his sometimes eccentric behavior, the famous player has a generous soul. In partnership with the two football stars Adrian Peterson of Minnesota Vikings and Larry Fitzgerald of Arizona Cardinals, Hellmuth lends his image to meet his fellows to help the Starkey Fearing foundation by participating in the charity tournament “Raise your hand for Africa”. The event will be held at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas on February 18 and 19, 2011. A VIP reception will officially open the event on Friday from 8:00 p.m. The poker tournament will begin on Sunday at 11:30 with a parade of guests on the red carpet. And from 1:00 p.m, players will find themselves on the gaming tables of the Golden Nugget. Note that many prizes will be awarded to participants and the winner.

Poker fever will invade the city of romance from February 3 to February 9, 2011. Indeed, after a very successful step in Biloxi, in the Southern Championship, the World Poker Tour (WPT) circuit will land in the City of the Doges in Venice for an exceptional new stage. The Casino Di Venezia, locating in the palace of the Doge Vendremin Gabriele D'Annunzio, will be the host institution of the tournament. The luxurious casino, offering a panoramic view over the Grand Canal, will host the top players awaited participating in the WPT Venice as well as local poker enthusiasts who will probably come numerous in order to defend the colors of their country.

After a slow start of the project at the Bowling of Tour, in France in 2008, the poker project concocted by Alexandre Sztargott, director of the company Événementiel Poker, reached today maturity. Indeed, the organizer who had the idea to hold poker tournaments in bowling but also in other establishments such as bars and restaurants on the French territory plans over thirty tournaments this year. Currently, about 16,000 players are part of this young design that begins to take a place in society. Each week, these followers of poker play between themselves through these various places, in order to multiply points.

The second classic UB Poker Pro Montreal, who took place in the poker room Four Aces, in the Kahnawake reserve was played the past weekend. This tournament of $ 1,500 + $ 150 buy-in was attended by some 151 players with a majority composed by Quebecers, which is logical because it is a nearby meeting. This appointment reserved a large sum of $ 71,500 for the winner and had as guests the poker pros Mark "Poker H0" Kroon and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, but they left empty-handed.

Since his great achievement at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) of Las Vegas in 2010, the world champion of poker Jonathan Dumahel is increasingly visible in major tournaments around the world. And he didn't failed to make a stopover in France, in Deauville. By visiting this seaside resort in Normandy, the world champion 2010 didn't merely come for tourism. Indeed, the young Canadian triumphed at the € 10,000 High Roller of the European Poker Deauville (EPT). While most of the EPT Deauville event were won by French as the main event that sacred Lucien Cohen, the Ladies Event won by Anais Lerouge, the € 1,000 bounty crowning Guenan Flavien, Fabienne Graffouillère as winner of the € 1,500, the € 2,000 NLHE won by Ronnan Collet or the € 1,000 Bounty won by Yohann Azoulay, the young champion once again defended the honor of his country by seizing this title.

Since February 1st, the Aviation Club de France (ACF), one of the most prestigious poker tournament hosts in France houses the Euro Finals of Poker (EFOP), a great event which will last two weeks. The EFOP invites poker enthusiasts to attend the tournament as scheduled for the occasion. The event eagerly awaited by all is the World Poker Tour National Series Diamond Championship of € 5,000 which will be played from February 9. A large delegation of top players are expected to attend and after 5 days of competition, the successor of Hugo Lemaire will be known. Elites of poker will also challenge on February 14 on High Roller tables of € 10,000. And woman players will qualify for a NLHE Ladies Championship of € 200 the same day.

The new issue of Live Poker has just been recently available at newsstands. This 42nd publication of this magazine devoted to poker didn't miss as usual to publish the different sections that distinguish it. This 42nd issue hold the reader in awe with the consecration of several pages to the two poker stars Daniel "Kid Poker" Negreanu and Arnaud "Frenchkiss" Mattern. Thus, in a special 10-page dedicated to these two main proponents of the discipline, these Canadian and French players are the guests of its interview rubric.

The year 2010 brought many new things in the conception of poker which has a significant place in the world. In addition to innovations made by organizers in various regional, national and especially international tournaments, there were also efforts in the field of mediatizing these tournaments. This way of working played a significant role in promoting this card game, especially with viewers through the multitude television shows devoted to poker.

If most of the stages of major tournaments was held during the first month of 2011, February which has exactly 28 days will do as better. Indeed, many interesting events are still waiting for poker enthusiasts. France will host many big tournaments starting with the Euro Finals of Poker to be held at the Aviation Club de France from February 2 to 16, 2011. This is an event consisting of several tournaments with entry fees ranging between € 200 to € 10,000. The most awaited event of the Euro Finals of Poker is the Diamond Championships of € 5,000 from February 9 to 15 but the trophy ceremonies for the poker community will be also in the program. The next event for fans of the Partouche Poker Tour circuit will be at the Pasino Saint Amand-les-Eaux from February 4 to 7 and in Aix-en-Provence on February 26 and 27. And the Carrousel du Louvre will host the France Poker Tour to be played on February 5 and 6.

While the French public never expected to see on the podium of the European Poker Tour Deauville (EPT) one of their countryman, Lucien Cohen, a 47 years big lover of poker did the unexpected. Indeed, this French player, manager of a rodent and pest control company, won for the Hexagon the coveted victory of the French community of poker. Before the final table, most of renowned players including Ludovic Lacay, Bertrand Grospellier, Fabrice Soulier and Bruno Launais experienced all a tragic end and missed the chance to compete for the prestigious title of the event. At the beginning of the final table, the public still had a glimmer of hope thanks to the presence of Julien Claudepierre in the list of competitors. Anthony Hnatow was also present on the table. Unfortunately, both players surrendered and were placed respectively in the 4th and 7th place.

The poker world knows no limit. Apart from the regional, national and international professional circuit of this discipline that attracts many practitioners, other tournaments are becoming popular inside enthusiasts of this cards game, like competitions played between enterprises. Thus, the second edition of the poker tournament inter-company organized by the French School of Poker of Lille was held at Planet Bowling of Lomme on Sunday, 30th January, 2011. A new appointment that registered a big success compared with the first edition organized by the same school. For this new edition, the organizers gathered forty four regional companies and some 220 participants.

85 participants were present at the Ladies Event tournament of € 300 + € 30 buy-in at the European Poker Tour Deauville held on Saturday, January 29, 2011. Another meeting which saw the good fit of the French poker player Anaïs Lerouge. After a faultless throughout the race, the former partner of Antoine Saout found herself facing the experienced player Marine Labernardie, who has at her credit more than five years of live tournaments. As final result of this heads-up, the winner of the £ 550 + £ 50 buy-in Ladies Event of the EPT London of October 2, 2010 took over, winning the first place with a gain of € 8,600. A new success of Anais Lerouge that allowed her to pocket more than € 100,000 in prize money in live competition.

The main event of the Aussie Millions 2011 started a few days ago and a big number of poker stars paraded at Crown Casino in Melbourne to try to win the prestigious title of this Australian tour. After days of competition full of actions, the final table of the event was finally known and on Saturday, January 29, 2011, the 8 finalists including Chris Moorman, Randy Dorfman, Patrick Antonius, Michael Ryan, James Keys, Samad Razavi, Jeff Rossiter and David Gorr began the final battle. Note that the competitors played for a big prize of $ 2 million.

The final day of the World Poker Tour Biloxi (WPT) was full of suspense. Indeed, having made outstanding achievements throughout the competition, Hoyt Corkins and Allen Carter were in the way to complete a double for the first time in the Southern Poker Championship. Note that since the existence of the event, no player managed to achieve such a feat. Unfortunately, the myth wasn't broken because the victory finally returned to the Russian Alexander Kuzmin. If Hoyt Corkins experienced a tragic end of day and had to settle for the 19th place, Allen Carter, acceded the final table of the $ 10,000 buy-in Event.

The field competing at the European Poker Tour (EPT) of Deauville has already narrowed to 221 players. Indeed, after the second day, most of the competitors have to leave the gaming tables of the Salon des Ambassadeurs. Known by the public for his lack of seriousness, Cyril Hanouna was among the victims. To the chagrin of their fans, Patrick Bruel, Marc Inizan, Antoine Saout, Mario Cordero, Tristan Clémençon, Jose Barbero, Kevin Mc Phee and Pieter have also joined the ranks of those who packed up for the Main Event of the EPT Deauville 2011. Note that the 501 players who started the Day 2 competed in 5 levels of play.

Seven months of satisfactory job with 55 cases studied and under treatment, 48 licenses delivered for 35 operators divided as follows: 15 for sports betting, 25 for poker and 8 for horse betting. This was roughly the report presented by the chairman of the French Regulatory Authority of Online Games (ARJEL), F Vilotte during the ceremony of greetings for the New Year 2011, who particularly mention the progressive and sure effectiveness of the new law. For this new year, the ARJEL, through its president, hope sincerly that the whole European sector of online gambling market will be on the same wavelength, at least in the control of illegal offers that will have dire consequences on EU consumers.

Among the tournaments offered by the organizers of the Aussie Millions, the one of $ 250,000 buy-in was sensational. With such an entry price, only a few players risked venturing to be part of the field but the 20 participants fixed has still been achieved for this poker tournament. Furthermore, the emotion was present, especially for the one who would be the winner of this event. Indeed, after his third place at the $ 100,000 Challenge of Monday, January 24, 2011, Erik Seidel did in this record entry fee tournament the biggest win of his career which was $ 2.5 million. A valuable amount that allowed the U.S. player to reach the 3rd rank in the All Time Money List of gains in live poker tournaments, following Daniel Negreanu and Phil Ivey.

The year 2011 started well for poker enthusiasts. Since early January, several major tournaments have already came back and it is already clear that February will be as well. Another poker appointment is indeed already announced for February 12 to 20, 2011 in the poker room and events center of the Pala Casino & Spa Resort in California which will host the Winter Poker Open tournament. A wonderful program available for a moderate buy-in will be offered during these dates like the opening tournament, a No Limit Hold'em of $ 50 buy-in which will be followed by a $ 25 No Limit Hold'em Bounties of $ 125. The Ladies tournament will be held on Feb. 13 and poker players must pay an entrance fee of $ 100. As for the main event, it will have a guaranteed prize pool of $ 25,000 and is scheduled for February 20, 2011 from 11:00 a.m for a buy-in of $ 340.

As in other disciplines, the poker world has not only good news. There's also unfortunate stories unfortunate which headline this card game that has known for some time a worldwide success because of the multiplying of the number of tournaments around the world that different media continue to tell. The senseless history that live now the professional of poker, David Saab will not please fans but it arrived. Basically, this Australian player is accused of drug trafficking with two other accomplices, including Robert Reemeus, another poker player. They are in custody pending their trial....

The verdict of the best online tournament player for the poker year 2010 fell during mid-January 2011. The suspense was not in the appointment and the order set from the beginning of the year until the twelfth and last month of 2010 is ongoing. As a reminder, the online professional poker player Jordan Young aka 'Jymaster11', the best performing in this online discipline already did a good start from the beginning of last year in the ranking of the best players in Tournament Leader Board.

As expected, the season 7 of the European Poker Tour Deauville started with a real success. Indeed, this first stage of the year 2011 registered a broad field of 891 participants, one hundred players more than as at the same event last year. So once again, success was at the appointment. The second Day 1 brought together 472 registered players and top players like Bruno Fitoussi, Freddy Deeb, Viktor Blom, Daniel Negreanu, Isabelle Mercier, Vanessa Rousso, Arnaud Mattern, Patrick Bruel, Luca Pagano or the champion of the World Series of Poker 2010 Jonathan Dumahel were part of the field. The prize pool to decide between the 128 best players of the tournament thus amounts € 4,276,800 and the champion of the EPT Deauville 2011 will collect the handsome sum of € 880,000.

Paris will host the first to the 3rd of April, 2011 a great event highly anticipated by operators of poker and sports betting but also by enthusiasts. This is the Poker & Betting Show, a show dedicated to the world of online gambling in France. The great event which was scheduled for the end of 2010 will be finally held in the Parc des Expositions, Porte de Versailles in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, a vast area of 5,600 m². During this event which is a first for the Hexagon therefore, followers of online gambling can discover all the existing offerings since the legalization of the market. Since the opening, the online gaming industry, poker, sports betting and turf have evolved. Each operator identified strategies by offering very attractive deals to acquire more affiliates. The various gambling clubs offer magnificent poker tournaments that have known for most hits, either live or online tournament.
 
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