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After the recent conference on the liberalization of French market of gambling and online poker that had as theme "One year after its adoption, which implementation to the law about the liberalization of online gambling ?" of Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at the Maison de la Chimie, this current week will perhaps clarify the status of online poker players in France. Even though most of participants expected from this meeting more interesting issue, expect some interventions of operators and their experiences in the system for those few months of opening of the market, other news may be revealed in the next days. Indeed, several meetings have already been initiated by Senator Trucy, appointed by the President of the Senate Finance Committee and the poker community of the Hexagon are on the way.

The monthly poker tournament for the third month of the year 2011 of the Cercle Wagram was played in the evening of Saturday 26 of March. Although the influx of participants was not as much as expected during this new edition with a Main Event of € 1,000 buy-in, as a field consisting of only 97 players were recorded, the progress of the party in general was very exciting, especially when the moment when last 10 survivors of the final table faced each other. Most of players who reached this final round were in general well known faces because only a few of them are for the first time at this stage of play.

The second edition of the European Poker Tour Berlin (EPT) will be held from April 5 to 10, 2011 in the poker room of the Grand Hyatt Hotel. After the unfortunate incident that somewhat blackened the reputation of the German capital as host city of the EPT, the event will be back there and it's sure that the organizers have taken the precaution to avoid the recurrence of such disaster. As reminder, the EPT Berlin 2010 was a real success in terms of participation as 945 players were registered and a total prize pool of € 3.5 million has been collected. During this 2011 edition, Kevin McPhee will have to defend his title but other players like Mark Inizan also expect a better performance because last year, he were qualified at the 3rd place of the tournament.

Russian players have more and more success in major poker tournaments. After the stunning triumph of Natalia Nikitina at the World Poker Tour National Series (WPT) in Paris and the victory of Vladimir Geshkenbein at the European Poker Tour Snowfest that has just ended, another Russian won the super trophy of the WPT Vienna. Indeed, Dmitry Grimov, who first made talk about him by winning the title of the Russian Poker Series of Kiev and his coronation at the Venetian Las Vegas Deepstack Extravaganza in July 2010 was crowned champion of the WPT Vienna. After having played poker against 554 opponents, a field which had among its members the best in the poker world, this young player managed to win and finished at the first spot of the tournament.

Robert Bunsen was a German scientist you may have heard of before. The scientist who was born in the German town of Göttingen in 1811 invented the Bunsen burner which was named after him. The Bunsen burner was a big improvement in comparison to other laboratory burners that were used at the time it was invented. To date, the Bunsen burner is probably one of the most used laboratory equipments all over the world as it manages to produce a single gas flame that can be used for all kinds of laboratory work like for example to heat up substances rather quickly.

The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOP-C) stopped in southern California during last weekend. This new stage took place in the poker room Harrah's Rincon and a field of 188 participants was recorded during the main event of $ 1,600. Many great players like Dwite Pylgrim, Phil Hellmuth, Kyle Bowker, Adam Levy, Jerry Yang and Sam Chauhan were present but none of them managed to reach the final table of the event. Having started the final as chip leader, Seneca Easely won this step despite the presence of the World Poker Tour champion Michael Simon and the star of Rincon Alex Masek in the list of finalists. For this brilliant victory, Easely won a prize of $ 70,384, a place in the $ 1 million tournament and the precious ring of the WSOP-C. Alex Masek, Michael Simon, Lori Nunes, Hayden Fortini, Patrick Karschamroon, Narinder Khasria and Shaun Walker ranked respectively from 9th to second place.

It remains only about ten days and the 3rd edition of Cannes Croisette Hold'em Series will be back once again at the poker room of the Casino Barrière of Cannes for this year 2011. Thus, during the three days of the weekend of next April 8 to 10, the Main Event of this poker tournament will be available against the payment of € 2,000 buy-in. A few days before this great event that will gather the majority of professional players in the French circuit, daily satellites at lower prices, around € 10 with rebuys of € 30 buy-in Freezout will be played until Sunday April 3 and will ensure the participation of qualified players who will have a ticket of € 300 for a Super Satellite scheduled on Monday, April 4.

The start of the final table of the World Poker Tour Vienna (WPT) of this day looks pretty rough and the victory is not acquired even for the favorites. At the end of day 3, even if the Russian Dmitry Gromov lead the meeting with a fairly comfortable advantage, with a total of 5,325,000 tokens, or 2 million chips more compared to his nearest rival, however, only the final results of the day will tell who will be the winner. And if we talk about the experiment, the provisional chip leader has indeed a remarkable track record because he was already the winner of the Russian Poker Series and the Deepstack Extravaganza at the Venetian but also his competitors. Simon Ravnsbaek with 3.265 million chips, Maksim Kolosov who holds 1.87 million chips and Mario Adinolfi with a provisional stack of 1,620,000 are his main competitors.

From next April 25 to 30, the coastal city of Santa Susana, in Spain will have the opportunity to host the second stage of the tournament Land & Sea Poker Tour (LSPT), a poker tournament for amateurs that begin to carve out a place on the international circuit. Indeed, as particularity, this meeting offers a very affordable entrance fee including accommodation because for a week-long meeting, any player can access at a price of only € 399, a tariff that includes a full board stay in the host institution, the Florida Park Santa Susana, and also the entrance fee for this meeting. Similarly, all the hotel facilities, the swimming pool, the health club and the sauna will be available for all players who will travel there.

$ 1.5 million, it's the amount of money swindled in a little over eight years of work of Patricia Mancuso Janowski as secretary accountant in Cap Software Inc. Indeed, from May 2002 to September 2010, this U.S. citizen of 61 years old, from Texas stole very easily a million and half dollars and without any suspicion from the officers of the company where she worked 101 months as head of account in her company.

28 French high schools and universities were present at the casino Tranchant of Pougues-les-Eaux on last Saturday, March 26 at the final of the Grandes Ecoles Poker Tour 2011. A third edition in which the few hundred lucky players among the thousand claimants lived a friendly atmosphere during the Main Event tournament. Shortly after the start of the game, a first player has already been eliminated from the competition. Alternately until round No. 9, lot of participants had to leave the circuit with the defending champion Pierrick Jamal, this time ranked at the 85th place and the representative of woman players, Diane Nevot de Guisa. Thus, only the thirteen best players of all these high schools already assured of being paid competed for the nine seats of the final table.

The young Norwegian Annette Obrestad aka Annette_15 experienced a sudden popularity in the poker world with her extraordinary feat in the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE). She then made several good courses in various major poker tournaments and her last great achievement reach back in September 2010, when she won the Heads'Up championship tournament of £ 5,000 during the European Poker Tour London. Since that date, she didn't recorded a great success. But last Saturday, this period of bad luck just quit her because Annette_15 managed to climb onto the podium of the poker room of Wynn Casino in Las Vegas. Obrestad indeed won the second place of the main tournament of $ 5,000 at Wynn Classic Las Vegas, a tournament series that meets yearly top players.

The audience of the poker room of the Alpine Palace Card Casino assisted a unique final table last Friday. Indeed, having started on March 19, the European Poker Tour Snowfest (EPT) indeed ended by crowning the Russian Vladimir Geshkenbein as champion. Note that the main event of € 3,750 gathered at this year's edition some 482 participants, generating a prize pool of € 1,636,390. After the removal of the majority of these competitors, the final table started on Friday. Having acquired the place of chip leader on Day 4, the Italian Giacomo Maisto failed to keep that advantage until the end of the game but settled for the 4th place pocketing a bonus of € 100,000. The Belgian Philip Meulyzer, the Irishman Denis Murthy, the Dane Morten Mortensen respectively finished 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th.

The majestic city of Dublin, in Ireland will be the meeting place of professional and amateurs of poker from April 21 to 25, 2011 for the Irish Poker Open Tournament 2011. The event existed since 1981 and already acquired a great reputation among Irish fans of the game. Thus, each year, the tournament field hosts top players. For the next edition, many of these stars will be in Dublin to name Dave Ulliott aka Devilfish, former champions such as Neil Channing and Marty Smyth, Dan Harrington, Julian Thew, Robert Romanello or Tony Cascarino.

Life Rolls On foundation was founded by Jesse Billauer in order to assist young people with spinal cord injury. Affected by this problem when he wanted to shine as a professional surfer, Billauer wanted to offer to people suffering from this disease new hope for a better future despite their physical disabilities. To raise the necessary funds to support this project, Life Rools cooperate with the poker star Annie Duke to organize the first annual event "Night of Poker" to be held on May 7, 2011 in Gardena, California. Note that Annie Duke is well known by the community of poker players and poker club with her generosity and her willingness to help others. She supported numerous charitable events to name the Ante Up for Africa and Annie Duke's Celebrity Poker Night held in the poker room of Commerce Casino in Los Angeles.

The Gran Casino of Madrid will have the great honor to host the first ever European Poker Tour Champion of Champions tournament that will be played there after the Grand Final of May 13, 2011. For this new event, the organizers had the wonderful idea of bringing together on a unique freeroll table all holders of EPT title since the first tournament in 2004 to the recent winners of all EPT stages like that of Austria, the EPT Snowfest, Berlin, Madrid and San Remo of this season 7 of the current circuit. In all, the 70 champions of the different stages of the EPT Main Event will compete for this opportunity to nominate the best of the best players at the end of this final visit in Spain.

Despite their low turnout during Day 4 which is the last day of the Main Event of the European Poker Tour Snowfest, estimated at 2% of the field, Belgian poker players more than excelled in this fourth day of the European circuit. In fact, Belgium was more than honoured by placing three players at the final table of the EPT Snowfest that was be held in the afternoon of Friday, March 25, 2011 in the playroom of the Alpine Palace Hotel in Saalbach Hinterglemm. Moreover, representatives of Belgium were well placed in the standings at the final table chipcounts like the player Kevin Vandersmissen, the chip leader of the ultimate test.

The monthly tournament Ladies Night Paris of the last Saturday of March 2011 organized by the gaming circle Cercle de Clichy-Montmartre, in Paris is qualified as a major event marking the end of this month. For this new appointment dedicated to women who love poker, the massive participation of players is more than desired, especially because this tournament' of the ninth district of Paris is totally free for women. For the organizers of Ladies Night in Paris, a new record of participants surpassing 90 players is the goal for the evening of Saturday, March 26. Similarly, the number of 120, 150 and 170 registered for the month of December 2010, January and February 2011 is also to beat.

The Championnat National Individuel des Clubs (Individual National Championship of Clubs) or CNIC is the amateur poker tournament organized for three years through France by poker club and that always had a huge success. The CNIC enables members of various amateur poker clubs in France to participate in a quality tournament. This year's event will be held on April 15 to 17 and organizers including members of the Club des Club chose the prestigious poker room of Seven casino of Amnéville to host the tournament. During the CNIC 2011, the 400 best players from the 150 poker clubs and associations in France will be part of the field. Note that online poker tournaments to qualify for this event will take place from Tuesday, March 29 at 9:00 pm. 40 seats for the final of the CNIC are to win at these online qualifiers.

Decidedly, the poker world never ceases to amaze because of innovative ideas that made it a discipline that has a deserving place in the society. Besides international major events of poker already broadcast in many TV channel all around the world, other events related to this game are slowly emerging to the delight of enthusiasts and to promote this game of cards. In this vein, the merchants of the shopping center of Centre Commercial Auchan Porte des Alpes organize an event called "Poker Week", an unprecedented event in France to be held over five nonstop days from Tuesday, March 29 to Saturday, April 2, 2011 in Saint Priest, in the Rhone department.

The third day of competition at the European Poker Tour Snowfest 2011 (EPT) started yesterday Wednesday, March 23 at 2:00 p.m in the poker room of the Alpine Palace Card Casino. It was a short day because it took only 5 levels of play to determine the 24 qualifiers for Day 4. Unfortunately, all representatives of France failed to qualify for this field more and more restricted. Indeed, the last French present on the gaming tables of the EPT Snowfest who were Dominic Franchi, Sebastien Bidinger, Yoran Kerignard and Bruno Martin were successively eliminated before the end of Day 3. They however reached paid places. The Italian Luca Pagano also finished in the money at this competition. He has therefore currently 18 cashes in the EPT circuit, which proves his consistency.

Like the previous year 2010, the second poker tournament Vincent-Damphousse to help the Society of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis of Quebec will be held on Friday, March 25, 2011 at the Montreal Casino. For the new edition of this year, this charity poker tournament to support the sanitary living conditions of people living with ALS and their loved ones will this time as guests various well known people such as artist Marc Dupré and Nanette Workman, athletes Mario Tremblay, Michel Bergeron, Mathieu Proulx, Etienne Boulay, Eric Desjardins and Claude Lemieux without forgetting the great poker champion of world of last year Jonathan Duhamel.

After the first two qualifying days, 268 competitors were able to resume and play in the poker room of the Alpine Palace Card Casino for the Day 2 of the European Poker Tour tournament Snowfest (EPT) 2011. A large crowd of players and players like Manuel Bevand, Liv Boeree, Dominik Nitsche, Martin Rettenmaier, Josh Prager, Kevin Stani, Vitaly Lunkin, Martin Jacobson, Maxime Conte Anton Wigg or Christophe Monin have already said goodbye to title of this Austrian competition. Indeed, there were only 81 survivors at the end of the day and battle was very eventful on gaming tables The pressure was strong enough during the last hours of play because every competitor played poker with their best assets to try to attempt to take back home the € 390,000 for the eventual winner, or at least qualify for the some 72 places paid.

The second Day1 of the European Poker Tour Snowfest went as planned in the hall of Alpine Palace Casino on Monday, March 21, 2011. A second day that saw as promised the participation of long-awaited big names of poker who come from both poker club but also professionals of online poker rooms. Thus, they were among 302 players who came there to take part in the main tournament of € 3.500 + € 250. With this second qualifying day of the Main Event of this 2011 edition of the EPT Snowfest, the expected prize pool is valued at over € 1.6 million if added with the 180 other participants of the first day of Day1. Therefore, the future winner of the EPT Snowfest 2011 will leave with a gain of around € 400,000. In addition, a minimum amount of € 5,250 will be awarded to some 72 top players in this competition.

The European Poker Tour Snowfest (EPT) started on last Sunday. For the first qualifying day, 180 players joined the poker room of the Alpine Palace Card Casino in Austrian Alps, in Hinterglemm to participate in this great event. Meanwhile, before the starting of the meeting, everyone walked the ski slopes for a few hours of skiing. This Day 1A has not been as successful as the previous edition. Thus, the field of 546 registered participants during the EPT Snowfest 2010 will not be reached. However, action will be present at this event because players in this poker room are ready to offer the best of themselves to take the title of this main event of € 3,500 buy-in.

The Mazagan Poker Million was played during the last 3 days of last week, from Friday, March 18 to early morning of Monday, March 21, 2011 in Morocco. An investment of € 3,150 was required from each participant to sit in this tournament that has as structure 60,000 chips for rounds of 50 minutes. From 81 players at the start of the first day, they were only 20 on the eve of the final table, and all these last players were paid each after the deal between qualified players. Having collected some 450,000 tokens, Cedric Rossi begin this final phase as chip leader. Gradually, the best players invited to the final round began to be known.

An excellent news on taxation has just been unveiled for professional poker players in the United States. Indeed, their worries about the deduction of expenses in the income tax would be about to end with the eventual court decision to apply the jurisprudence of the former sentence on a trial of a horse racing bettor who now, has the ability to deduct his own expenditure on income earned in game. Pending the confirmation of this new status, American professional poker players are already dreaming of lighter tax compared to annual earnings by removing, by their own volition, buy-ins of tournaments as well as costs related to travel and hotel expenses.

By finishing first among the 253 players who participated at the Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour London (GUKPT) and ousting Manig Loeser during the final heads'up, Praz Bansi has just confirmed once again that he is a very good poker player. With this new victory, Bansi achieved a historic double, he was indeed the champion of the GUKPT Bolton 2007. Besides that, he also holds two titles of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). At the meeting in London, Bansi faced however many great players but, with some techniques specific to him, the star of the Hit Squad reached the victory and pocketed for that feat a superb gain of £ 101,020. The Hit Squad is a group of five poker pro in London who made great achievements in various poker tournaments.

From April 15 to 17, the fifth edition of the popular TV show Big Game will be held at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham. Last year, the Londoner club Les Ambassadeurs had the privilege to host this poker championship. Note that it is a competition with a cash game structure and competitors must play poker for 48 consecutive hours with blinds of $25 / $50 and a minimum buy-in of $ 50,000. Players therefore need great endurance and skill to be able to resist until the end. And David Peat achieved the best feat last year, picking up a total gain of £ 147,000. Until now, he is the holder of the best result over the first four editions.

The European Poker Tour Season 7 will begin its final push in San Remo. This latest round of the EPT San Remo Main Event will be played for a whole week from Wednesday, April 27 to Tuesday, May 3, 2011. This final Italian step marks also the preparation of a rather unique Grand Final because this prestigious poker circuit of the Old Continent will have the honor to travel for the first time in Spain. Thus, it will be at the Gran Casino Madrid in the month of May that the final explanation among privileged competitors in this great event will take place and will decide who of these players will hand over the European trophy for this new season of the year 2011.

Distinct from other previous years, the tournament PKR 2011 version wants to be more innovative. For this new edition number 6, the major change made for this event is that organizers found useful to allow the direct entries in the tournament for the first time. Therefore, for a new buy-in of € 875, a prize pool valued at € 235,000 is expected for the next appointment of the PKR gamblers community that will take place for a period of 4 days from May 19 to 22, 2011 at Fox Poker Club in London.

For a week, the whole world followed closely the evolution of the disaster in Japan that has just been struck by a violent earthquake and a tsunami killing many people and causing extensive damage. Currently, the country is in a very sad situation and with the threat of a nuclear crisis, people there are living an anxious situation. The poker community hasn't remained insensitive to such tragedies. Indeed, the terrible event took place at the same time as the beginning of the final of The Big Event at the Bicycle Casino. Players were then able to watch live this tragedy. The two finalists Joe Hachem and his opponent in the final duel Victor Ramdim even proposed to postpone the rest of the tournament at this time.

Despite his behavior a bit extravagant, Phil Hellmuth has a great generosity. Indeed, Phil Hellmuth continues to invest heavily in organizing various charity tournaments to fund charities. Last year, in partnership with Robert Williamson III, Hellmuth organized the tournament Derby Poker Championship, an event that gathered poker players, celebrities and top athletes from the city of Kentucky and recorded a huge success. One again, they decided this year to offer the second edition of the Derby Poker Championship on May 5, 2011. The Palace Theater in Louisville, in Kentucky will be transformed into a giant poker room to host this event. And this year, the profits will be allocated to the association Blessings in a Backpack, which provides food subsidies to residents of the city and the Health and Climate Foundation which is an international organization that conducts public awareness campaigns and training on climate change due to environmental degradation and the consequence of such a disaster on the health of human beings.

The tournament United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) held in the poker room of the G Casino in Manchester attracted a large number of poker enthusiasts. Indeed, 615 players competed in five days to win the title and the £ 74,000 bonus of the £ 500 buy-in main event. Note that the prize pool collected amounted £ 307,500 and the 81 best players in the game were able to access the money list. The final table of the event was formed by eight players with Matthew Warowiec as chip leader, Paul Nash, Michael Biert, Robert Angood, Owen Shiels, Mick Fletcher, the holder of two World Series of Poker bracelets (WSOP) JP Kelly and Matthew McDerra who started the final battle with the lowest stack.

The 2011 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Stars is a great achievement because a total field of 415 participants was recorded after the second Day 1. In fact, 273 players were registered for Day 1B, and the collected prize pool amounts $ 3,697,500. And the winner will walk away with a great reward that reach $ 1,039,000 and the runner will pocket $ 595,300. Note that a bounty worth $ 5,000 is placed on the heads of stars who are on the gaming tables in the poker room of the Bay 101. During the second qualifying day, they were 26 celebrities who participated in the tournament and there remains only 9 survivors at the end of the day.

As opposed to some ten years ago, a multitude of destinations for the various poker tournaments are available today to followers of the discipline. The current popularity of online poker and live tournaments must also somehow to this disparity of places, which, without financial resources, participation of players was previously lacking due to travel on the tournament site. For a decade, organizers but also online poker rooms and poker club played a key role in promoting poker in general with new fans and creating new circuits around the world in particular.

The establishment of the Consultative Committee of Games on Monday, March 14, 2011 was the occasion for the minister of Budget François Baroin to give more precision on the grievances of many online poker and sports betting sites about the change on the taxation of their activity and the extension of gambling license. The long-awaited tax reform by French operators of online poker and online gambling is not appropriate at the moment and will not happen this year. The new study of the current taxation of gambling and online poker considered as very high will wait until May 2012, after the presidential elections. Nevertheless, the first French official of State budget estimated that it's subservient to program for September 2011 the review of the law with a possible revaluation.

The series of poker tournament 2011 of the Grand Casino La Mamounia in Marrakesh will begin soon its fifth step. At the program of this major new event for a long competition of a week in next April, four tournaments will be offered to players who will travel in the city of Marrakesh. Moreover, many satellites with buy-in and miscellaneous structures will be played during the previous week. The dates of the step number 5 of poker tour 2011 organized by the Grand Casino La Mamounia are now known. The next Moroccan meeting will be held from April 18 to 24, 2011.

A new poker circuit had just been added to the list of quality tournaments that already acquired a great reputation in the eyes of enthusiasts. Indeed, the Onyx Cup Series was born. This is a luxury poker tournament for the elite. Winning the coronation of the Onyx Poker Cup is a huge challenge for the pros of this environment because they will play poker on high-level tables accessible with buy-ins between $ 100,000 and $ 300,000. A new era begins as tournament organizers are trying to give a differentiation between professional player and poker enthusiasts. Orchestrated by well known operators of online poker room, the Onyx Cup Series will consist of 6 series of tournament to be held in luxurious resorts in Las Vegas, Asia and Europe.

Which nation will succeed the formidable Chinese team, defending champion of the inaugural event at the World Team Poker of last year ? The answer to this question will be certainly known at the end of the second edition of the World Poker Championship by national team on May 26, 2011 at the South Point Casino in Las Vegas. At the last news, France is not present at the race for the final victory of the new edition 2011. Moreover, at a lesser degree, the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Denmark, India, Norway, the Philippines and the Wales are at the stage of formation of their respective national teams and will announce at the appropriate time their participation or not at this poker international event.

The adventure continues for poker enthusiasts because after the huge success of The Big Event tournament in Los Angeles, a new attractive poker appointment has just started in the poker room of Bay 101 Casino in San Jose, California. This is the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Stars. 142 competitors registered to play poker at the first competition day of the event with $ 10,000 buy-in. And at the end of the day, there were only 57 competitors in the race to start the Day 2. As its name implies, the tournament should gather many stars and bounties are placed on their heads to reward the players that come to challenge them.

Toulouse, Nice, Lille, Dinard, Enghien, Trouville and Bordeaux. These are the seven French cities which will one by one receive the regional stages of the new season of the Barriere Poker Tour, 2011 edition. During the 3 days tournament of each stop, the buy-in of each stage will be set at € 1,500 plus 8 packages worth € 12,000 that let to take part in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker Europe detailed as follows : € 10.400 dedicated to the WSOP main event and the remaining € 1,600 will be allocated to accommodation and transport. Moreover, the surplus of each prize pool of regional stage will be shared between the best players.

In total, 81 players composed of a good bunch of poker players participated in the Shootout Bounty Tournament of "The Big Event" which just concluded at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. Note that in this tournament, competitors must play poker at nine tables of nine players each. Only one competitor per table is qualified for the final table. However, throughout the tournament, the player who managed to eliminate an opponent receives a bounty of $ 2,000 during the first round and $ 10,000 in the final. Thus, after approximately 15 hours of play, the event ended with the victory of Pat Walsh, who won a first prize of $ 171,000 and bounties totaling approximately $ 70,000.

Usually discrete character as an avid practitioner of card playing during his lifetime, the Italian Gianni Giaroni was one of the first professional poker players of the Squadra Azura. Born in 1940 in the town of Ferrara, in Emilia Romagna, this aged poker player passed away last weekend at the hospital of Bologna, his adopted hometown at the age of 70 years. A serious illness that affected him for one month prior to his disappearance. Adored by the public, Gianni Giaroni became familiar with the European poker circuit since 2007.

The program of the fifth season of the Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) is now unveiled to devotees of the circuit. As the Club des Clubs tournament in France which is an event for members of different poker clubs of the Hexagon, the APAT is also an amateur poker festival that takes place mostly in the UK. Having achieved great success during the first four editions, the organizers decided to make some news for the next season. Thus, participants will be able to play poker in quality tournaments and may also improve their skills and experiences through the holding of the World Amateur Poker Championship, a tournament that will face amateur players of the planet.

As we all know, the Grand Final of the European Poker Tour (EPT) will move to Madrid this year. Those who follow this circuit will therefore meet in the poker room of the Gran Casino from May 5 to 12, 2011. For this first stop in Spain, organizers will allow their guests to play poker in 28 magnificent events. Indeed, Pot Limit Omaha tournament, NL Holdem and Turbo Plo will be offered during this Grand Final. In order to usher in beauty the event, a High Roller No Limit Hold'em of € 25,000 + 500 € will be in the program on Thursday, May 5. From Friday, May 6, qualifying satellite tournaments for the Main Event of € 10,600 buy-in will be also offered.

The $ 1,650 buy-in main event of the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOP-C) held in the poker room of Caesars Atlantic City attracted 442 players. The challenge was enormous, because apart from the first prize of $ 139,284, the competitors also competed for the famous gold ring for the winner and an access for the National Championship of $ 1,000,000 expected to be held in Las Vegas in the month of May. At the start of the final table, the eyes of the public were glued to the chip leader Patrick Houchins and the last champion of the event Roland Israelashvili who must defend his title. However, most of the audience who came there was surprised when the player named Brian Ali dominated his opponents at the table since the second hand when he had destitute the chip leader of his huge stack.

After his second place at the Lemurian Poker Tour Madagascar, Jeremie Guez had just taken a beautiful trophy which is the Marrakesh Poker Tour XIX (MPO) title, a victory with a big reward of € 39,438. This tournament of € 1,350 was attended by 142 participants composed of many top players, much of whom failed after the second day of competition as Alain Roy, Isabelle Mercier, Mesbah Guerfi or Marc Trijaud who finished 11th. After the elimination of Rémi Marrale of the game, the 9 finalists stood out and well known players like Hairabedian son, Leo Laslandes and Karine Nogueira were included.

Finally, as it was augured last few days ago, the champion title of the tournament The Big Event was granted to Victor Ramdin. Despite the good start of Jeremy Ausmus, during the final table of this poker tournament in Los Angeles that brought together some 416 participants at the beginning, he failed to capitalize his advantage as chip leader and ended simply at the third place with a prize of $ 190,000. Ramdin, who led at the eve of the final was the best player of this final meeting. He overtook the other finalists with an excellent strategy. He indeed eliminated well-known poker players like Joe Hachem of Australia in the final head's up. The latter even gained a slight advantage in chips at the beginning of the duel, but this didn't prevented the native of New York to win the trophy.

The Federal Commission of gambling and Gambling house in Switzerland organized a raid on a poker club in Basel. The reason of this visit by representatives of the Federal Gaming Board is that the poker club in question is suspected of organizing poker tournaments prohibited by law. At the scene, the 40 leaders of the Federal agents accompanied the Basel cantonal police found 40 players participating in a tournament. None of these players weren't arrested and they were free after the control of the authorities of Gambling house.

With twenty years of existence and some 5,000 members in its establishment, the spacious tournament poker room of the Cercle Multicolore of Reims, in France became, since its inception in 1991, a well known place that organize excellent live meeting of poker. Among the tournaments that this French provincial circle will propose, are among other, a cash game with five tables of No Limit Hold'em of € 1/2 with buy-in between € 50 to € 200 and another no-limit hold'em proposed at € 2/ € 5 with a buy-in limited at € 100 to € 500 and a special table with blinds of €5 / €5 for a minimum buy-in of € 250.

It remains only a few hours before the denouement of the former NAPT Los Angeles, called actually The Big Event. At the fourth day of competition, the 22 survivors meet again in the poker room of Bicycle Casino to try to be finalist of the event. It was a very eventful day and it took only 5 hours to differentiate the 8 competitors who will complete the final table of the first The Big Event. It was surely one of the best days of playing poker of the U.S. player Jeremy Ausmus because by beginning the Day 4 with a very low stack, he then pushed in place of chip leader with over 4 million chips in hands.

The amateur tournament Land Sea Poker Tour, which was just held in the Principality of Andorra has been a real success. It is an amateur poker circuit in which non-professional players played poker in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere but also a meeting to win prizes while spending an enjoyable skiing holiday. Attractive tournaments have been in the program as the Freezeout that crowned Anaïs Hellal and that let him win a DSO Marrakesh pack worth € 1,000 and a subscription to That's Poker. The Turbo NLH was won by Danny Perrault who pocketed thanks to this feat the a LSPT Spain pack and it was Rebergue who triumph at the Shooting Stars giving him access to the DSO Marrakesh.

Despite some upheaval of last minute at the former NAPT Los Angeles poker tournament, now renamed The Big Event, the Commerce Casino in the City of Angels was able to attract many people. Indeed, this event of $ 5,000 buy-in for a huge prize pool of less than $ 2 million, or $ 1,921,327 exactly was attended by 417 participants. After 3 days of competition, almost 400 players lined up at the starting point of this poker tournament had to leave the circuit. The Day 3 was fatal to great players like Men Nguyen, Barry Greenstein, Joe Cada, David Chino Rheem, Alex Kravchenko, Tom McEvoy, Daniel Alaei, Carter Phillips, Chris Moorman and Arnaud Mattern, they all left the tournament empty-handed. At the opposite, Daniel Negreanu and Jeff Williams, also eliminated, simply settled for one of the 56 paid places.

This week, poker enthusiasts in England will be quite satisfied because two major events including the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) and the United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) take place simultaneously. If the £ 1,590 Main Event of the GUKPT started on Thursday on the poker room of the Grosvenor Victoria casino in London, the main event of £ 550 with a guaranteed prizepool of £ 200,000 of the third stage of the UKIPT started on Friday at G Casino in Manchester. The final is scheduled to be held on March 14 and side event tournaments are also scheduled to take place in conjunction with this great event. Last year, the UKIPT Manchester gathered 518 players and Joeri Zandvliet was crowned as champion.

On Friday 11 to Sunday, March 13, 2011 will be held at the casino Phoebus, on the seaside of the Mediterranean Sea, the new edition of the Open Gruissan. Three days of action during which some 150 participants who enjoy playing poker are expected in this small seaside resort in the Gulf of Lyons to fight but mostly to try to win a few thousand Euro provided for this deepstack tournament, among the most interesting in the French poker circuit.

On March 22, 2011 at the Maison de la Chimie in Paris, a symposium on the legalization of online gambling will be held under the patronage of the French Minister of Budget, Public Accounts, Civil Service and State Reform, François Baroin, the Senator Trucy and the deputy Jean-François Lamour. Indeed, one year after the opening of the market, the Authority of Regulation of Online Games or ARJEL granted approvals for many operators of sports betting and online poker. New online poker rooms have been created while some operators that have already offered their services for French gambling enthusiasts couldn't get licenses. At this symposium, a debate on the evaluation of actions of the ARJEL will be held. The crackdown and approval procedures will be discussed during this debate.

Unlike the previous stage of Dublin which was attended by many people with 465 players, the last stop during the weekend, in Luton of the poker tournament English Deepstack Championship has been stingy of participants. Indeed, the influx of players was very low because only a few 188 players found useful to make the trip. However, this handicap in the number of players did not remove the interest of the tournament, especially the remarkable performance of the only woman player in this competition. To summarize the English championship deepstack of last weekend, the only woman competitor of the vent, Amy Trodd surprised by winning the final table.

Cercle Cadet, the French gaming circle mark its birthday every year. For this year 2011, this anniversary tournament will be celebrated as it should be. Thus, there will be of course various tournaments with guaranteed prizes and satellites offered each week. They are detailed in various online poker room including three special super satellites in April with at key at least 32 tickets of € 700 including 10 tickets each for the two Super Satellites of € 80 for Monday 4 and 11 April and 12 additional tickets for the Super Satellite of € 100 of Friday 15 April. And also, this poker room of the 9th district of Paris will offer to poker players two Event tournaments spread over four days.

The inaugural event of the Marrakesh Poker Open XIX (MPO) tournament delivered once again as promised a great poker event. Indeed, the launch of this event in the poker room of Casino Es Saadi in Marrakesh was marked by the presence of a large number of players who participate in the Freeroll Jack Daniel's. In fact, 153 players competed during this tournament with a prize pool of € 10,531 which ended with a triumph of Ricardo Giacalone. He pocketed € 10,531 for the occasion. Hairabedian father and son also made good course because Big Roger finished 13 th while Gregory managed to rank 10th. The MPO XIX will continue to amaze players with a whole series of interesting events in the program.

Since the beginning of this month of March, several poker tournaments have already gathered players but also ordinary admirers of this game everywhere, both in France, on the European continent or in America. Indeed, there have been two wonderful events including the National Heads-Up Championship won by Erik Seidel and the Partouche Deepstack Lyon won by Raphael Kohn. And until the end of the month, the poker room of some big casinos will continue to offer great shows because many tournaments to let everyone play poker and win great rewards are still in the program. To continue this series of March, there will be the phases of the France Poker Tour in Bordeaux from March 12 to 13, in Troyes on March 13, in Rennes on March 19 and 20, in Marseille on March 23 and 24 and in Toulouse on March 26. On March 12, rendezvous is also given at the Cercle Gaillon for the Team Poker Cup. And the Hexagon will also house the beautiful event Open Gruisan composed of a main event of € 660 buy-in to be held from March 11 to 13 and a tournament of € 250 buy-in schedule to be played on March 12 and 13.

After an initial adjournment during the year 2010, the poker show “Poker & Betting Show" scheduled to take place during the coming three days of April 1, 2 and 3, 2011 in Hall 5.1 of Parc des Expositions de la Porte Versailles, in France won't finally take place. The reason given by the organizers for this cancellation is the inability of the market of online games to meet the needs of the multitude of visiting clients, exhibitors, partners for this kind of event described as outstanding. To explain this situation, they said that the claims required by visitors will not be honored by the exhibitors because of their low coverage on the market or because of the lack of adequate resources for this great event. In addition, the organization side is not yet ready.

The "short handed" tournament of Casino of Arcachon gathered on last Sunday, March 6, 2011 afternoon some 50 players in the poker room of the hotel. The principle of this event of 6 players as guests on each table has been specifically chosen to make the game more interesting by betting on games simultaneously offensive and aggressive, according to the communications manager of the casino, Pascal Lassagne. Moreover, the atmosphere was more than warm because the show was indeed at the rendezvous in the Imperial lounge.

536 participants enrolled in various stages of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) for this 2011 edition. The buy-in of this Latin American tournament part of the 4th edition was set at $ 3,000 and a prize pool valued at $ 1.6 million were distributed. Therefore, the best player in the grand final to be held in the month of September of this year in a place still unknown at this time will pocket a tidy sum of $ 370,000.

He just recently celebrated his 102 years old, more precisely on last February 21, 2011. It is Andrew Amatrudo who was born in Philadelphia in 1909, the player considered until now, otherwise there's another proof, as dean of poker players still active. Indeed, despite his age that exceeds a century, this legend as the people who know him call him continues to play regularly in Stud poker in the poker room of the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, which is located in a few meters from his apartment.

The Aviation Club de France (ACF), the prestigious Paris circle game continues to offer for those who enjoy playing poker exceptional tournaments. Indeed, apart from the usual tournaments, new satellites allowing competitors to win packages for major events in the European cities will be scheduled from next week. Note that the circle game already holds every Sunday qualifying tournaments for the Final of the France Poker Tour VI (FPT) to be held from March 19 to 24 in the sumptuous poker room of the ACF. From March 14, satellites to pick up packages for the World Poker Tour (WPT) in Vienna will be also set up every Monday night from 8:00 p.m. It will be a satellite Rebuy of € 100 buy-in and the winners will receive a ticket of € 3,500 for the tournament of March 25 to 29 in Vienna.

The year 2011 started very well for Erik Seidel. Indeed, during the first two months, he registered very good results with a title at the High Roller World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic and another top trophy at the High Roller tournament of the Aussie Millions. And another new triumph scored his career. For the first time, Erik Seidel won the champion title of the National Heads-Up Championship (NHPC). After having beaten Chris Moneymaker on the final line, Seidel was entitled to the place of honor on the podium at Caesars Palace poker room, in Las Vegas. Note that 64 players tried their luck during the 7th season of the NHPC.

Fans of deepstack tournament met in the poker room of the Partouche Lyon Vert Casino during the Partouche Poker Deepstack (PPD) of this weekend. The event attracted 500 participants and demonstrate once again the popularity of this circuit. Note that the organizers set up a nice structure that allows to players present at the event to show their skills. The final day ended so quickly because the last 4 players in the race decided to make a deal. Indeed, Raphael Kohn, Alexandra Petitjean, Nicolas Kloeckner and Ludovic Heinry decided to stop playing and designate the winning player based on the number of chips in hand. Raphael Kohn was therefore awarded of the trophy and the first prize of € 35,130. Petitjean is the runner up with a prize of € 32,750. Nicolas Kloeckner and Ludovic Heinry ranked respectively 3rd and 4th.

While the audience in the poker room of the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles expected a quadruple from Carlos Mortensen or a second triumph of Vivek Rajkumar, the surprise was at the appointment when Gregory Brooks grabbed the victory. However, Brooks is a young player of 23 years, a great online poker player who is native of New Jersey. And it is indeed his first appearance at a World Poker Tour (WPT). The experience and talent of the two WPT champions have not been sufficient to curb Brooks. He led an aggressive game and a fearless race to victory. His strong performance earned him a huge success because he won the prestigious title of champion of the LA Poker Classic after ousting Rajkumar at the final duel. Gregory Brooks has been the star of the TV show in Los Angeles and won thanks to his triumph the first prize of $ 1,654,120 plus a seat to the $ 25,000 event at the Bellagio, in Las Vegas.

Since Monday, February 28, 2011, the Plaza Crownne of the Principality of Andorra host many poker players who come to enjoy the wonderful offer made by the Land Sea Poker Tour. Note that this is an event offering to participants the opportunity to play poker at very well structured tables but also an opportunity to spend pleasant relaxing stay with family. The tournament was inaugurated by a Turbo NL which brought together a field of 172 players. The 15 survivors are still challenging to be a finalist and win the title. Florian Castri, holder of 216,000 chips and Arcachon poker club president holder of 169,000 chips are at the top for the moment.

Since the beginning of the year, organizing of charity tournaments increased sharply, reflecting the generosity of poker community. Indeed, after the World Poker Tour (WPT) Invitational to the benefit of Chrysalis, Raise Your Hand For Africa of Phil Hellmuth to the benefit of Starkey Hearing Foundation that knew a big success, a new event to the benefit of Realities for Children Triumph Awards will be held in the city of Fort Collins, Colorado on March 26 and 27, 2011. A large delegation of celebrities to name Tiffany Michelle, Maria Ho, Jennifer Leigh, Jena Delk or Linda Johnson and Jan Fisher will be present alongside people with generous hearts to play poker to the benefit of abused children in Larimer County.

From six stages during the first season of the France Poker Tour, the French national championship of poker that is in its sixth season has now seventeen stops throughout France, according to organizers of the circuit. If the inhabitants of big cities are already familiar to play poker in this championship, great work remains to be done to the benefit of small and medium cities, according to officials of France Poker Tour. So, it's in this objective that this national poker tournament is held for the first time in the capital of Aube, Troyes.

Accessible only by invitation, the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational at Commerce Casino, in Los Angeles ended after ten days of fighting between celebrities and players known in the poker world. In all, they numbered 482 to attend this event. This appointment was only a formality for professional players in this field because the final table consisting of the six best players in the field were all experienced players on the circuit. For the final duel particularly, it took only 60 minutes to find the winner of this special "celebrity" tournament.

To the delight of poker enthusiasts, two new circuits have been created. Indeed, it is the Belgian Poker Series and Portugal Poker Series. Those who enjoy playing poker in these two cities will therefore be satisfied because they have the chance to go to a tournament of size without having to do thousands of kilometers. In addition, these are big events with beautiful structures and beautiful and accessible prices with moderate buy-ins. The Belgian Poker Series will consist of three stages to be held in the luxurious poker room of Casino de Namur. The first stage is scheduled to take place from April 14 to 17 and the buy-in for the event is fixed at € 800. The second stage will take place from June 23 to 26 and the last stage is scheduled for December 2011.

There are only a few hours before we know the great champion of the World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic. Indeed, after the fifth day of competition, the top 6 players who will compete on the final table is finally known. It was a short day because it took only six hours to distinguish the lucky players for the final show. Indeed, it will be a televised final table that will let the public enjoy the tournament and performances of their favorite players in live on TV but also in online poker rooms. Having already won three WPT events, Carlos Mortensen is currently leading the race with 5,235,000 chips in hand. It will be also his fifth appearance on a televised final table of the WPT and a triumph will make him the first player holding four WPT trophies. Such a feat will also let him rise in the Top 5 list ofthe All Time Money List ranking.

The episode on the debate on online poker in the United States is not yet closed. It even continues to blow so hard that it has impacts on live events taking place every year in North America, particularly in the administration of California. Because of this law, the North American Poker Tour will from now have only of a unique stage for this year 2011. Thus, the only destination of this North American poker circuit will run for five days from coming April 9 to 13 in Uncasville.

The exception proves the rule. That's what we can say about the World Series of Poker Circuit 2011 of Palm Beach Kennel Club in Florida. Indeed, if the age stipulated by the U.S. law to play poker is 21 years, some States and Indian casinos became used to host on their tables players aged 18 and more. As if this rule wasn't enough, it seems that among the 712 participants at this stage in Florida, the first place of this circuit was won by the younger players who is John Riordan, aged 18 years only. He is now the youngest poker champion before inter alia, the six-time WSOP champion and member of the Poker Hall of Fame, TJ Cloutier, the world champion 2007, Jerry Yang or the one who achieved a new paid place on the circuit, Dwyte Pilgrim.

The 43rd issue of Live Poker is already available in various kiosks. This time, the editorial team of the poker press publish at the headlines of its cover another talented French player who shone during the poker year 2010. This is the very young player of the Hexagon Marc "Locsta" Inizan who talked about him during the European Poker Tour in Berlin of last year during which he found himself in the third step of the podium. In the pages that Live Poker devote to him, this new rising figure of French poker gives a detailed exclusive interview about his career, his first start to play poker and especially some tips to stay on course during a big event.

Great news for fans of poker in general and the concerned player in particular who is Phil Laak. In fact, the Guinness Book of World Records validated the performance established by Phil "Unabomber" in June of last year. To recall, it was during this period that American poker player held 115 hours without sleep on a poker table. Specifically he started playing on June 2, 2010 at 12:04 a.m and finish the game on June 7, at 7:04 a.m. Thus, he beat the previous world record of the longest poker game of 78 hours which was held by Paul Zimbler. For this incredible achievement, Phil Laak and his record of the man who played as long as possible in a poker game will therefore appeared in the Guinness Book of Records 2011.

The West Indians will soon have the chance to participate in a festival of poker. Indeed, the Antilles Poker Tour (APT) was established in order to allow locals and tourists of the islands of the Caribbean to play poker in a professional setting. The first edition of the APT will thus take place from May 1st to 21, 2011 at the Casino du Gosier, Guadeloupe and in the Casino of Batelière Martinique. The grand finale will take place in the poker room of Casino du Gosier from May 17 to 21. To participate in this great adventure, several options are available for enthusiasts of the game because they can invest € 1,300 and get directly a spot at the main event. But, they must hurry because there will be only 80 places available for this first choice.

The World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic (LAPC), currently taking place at Commerce Casino in Los Angeles attracted a good number of poker players by offering various events and great prizes. Among these tournaments was the $ 25,000 buy-in High Roller, an event that offered to elite of the game the opportunity to play poker on high level tables last weekend. The famous poker room of Los Angeles witnessed an ultimate confrontation between the big names in the discipline which ended with a victory of Erik Seidel. The player showed his supremacy in this high level tournament because recently he already won the champion title of the $ 250,000 Super High Roller of the Aussie Millions 2011.

The alliance between Poker770 and one of German football's most famous players, Lothar Matthäus, has been officially announced, the latter becoming the official face of the poker site, part of the iPoker network. The imminence of this event had already been reported in January by Hochgepokert.com. Matthäus, who is 49 years old, works as the coach of the national football team of Bulgaria, he is now under contract with the well known online poker site. This is a first for this prestigious football idol who likes poker as a pastime helping him to relax during his spare time. He will participate in international poker tournaments but no date has yet been specified. He did not have much time to devote to poker, however, as the new Poker770 ambassador; he has already announced the kickoff of the German Championship Poker GCOP which will be held in the Casino Kings in the Czech Republic.

This first quarter of 2011 will be eventful in poker tournament as for the first two months of the year. Indeed, many stages of major tournaments are still awaited. From March 2 to 13, 2011, another major event including a stage of the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOP-C) will be held in the luxurious poker room of Caesars Atlantic City, another opportunity for fans to play poker inorder to attempt to win a gold ring. Indeed, 9 bracelets will be distributed at the tournament which will be composed by tables of no limit hold'em and Omaha. Players who want to win one of the famous jewelry can therefore choose between the nine tournaments that offer buy-ins ranging between $ 350 and $ 1,560.

Last week, those who like playing poker in live tournament have been really spoiled because many events were in the program. It was the case of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) which made a stop in Sao Paolo, Brazil, the European Poker Tour (EPT) Copenhagen which ended with the victory of Michael Tureniec and the World Poker Tour (WPT) LA Poker Classic, which continues even now in the prestigious gof the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles. The Brazilian tournament was a success because an unprecedented 536 participants have been registered to play poker at the $ 3,010 buy-in event. Organizers have therefore recorded a prize pool of $ 1.4 million and the winner in the person of Alex Manzano won a wonderful prize of $ 370,000.

Failing the holding of the Mazagan Poker Million planned for February and March 2011, the Moroccan Mazagan Casino will offer in their places for three successive days of next March 18 to 20, tournament in deep structure. Indeed, for reasons that depend on the organizer of the event, the Casablanca Casino is happy to offer a preview of the Poker Mazagan Deepstack for poker players. Moreover, it is only a postponement because the habitual big event of the establishment will return for the month of April 2011. Thus, the operator of this prestigious tournament in Casablanca will present a deep structure with a buy-in of € 3,150. The number of participants who will compose the field is limited to 120.

The Partouche Poker Tour Supersat of Aix-en-Provence has just ended. Another tournament that turned out among the dozens of steps still to go before the grand finale of the PPT Cannes scheduled for September 2011. The two days of Saturday 26 and Sunday, February 27 saw not only the excellent play of participants but also the rising number of players compared to last year. This year, they was 453 for with a multitude of professional players. Thus, as it was announced that 10% of participants will qualify automatically, the 45 best players in the standings will be present at the last meeting in Cannes.

The timetable of the Joa Poker Tour 2011 edition 3 is now unveiled. Basically, a long circuit of two months will wait players who will embark on the adventure. For this latest vintage, the JPT will run from April 1st to May 31, 2011 with a final destination of the tournament that will land in Antibes, France. One but big change will mark this appointment of sixty days, which is a series of qualifying tournaments held in the thirteen casinos that are: Aix Les Thermes, Canet Plage, Saint Paul Les Dax, Gerardmer, Antibes, Le Boulou, Les Sables d'Olonne, Luxeuil Montrond, Port Crouesty, Saint Jean de Luz, Sathenay and Uriage and will end in a "Deepstack” tournament. Thus, each regional winner of this poker tournament deep structure will be entitled to a "Package Region" to defend during the grand final of € 1650 +150 buy-in that will be played at Casino La Siesta of Antibes from June 8 to 12, 2011 with as prizepool € 300,000.

While the Lemurian Poker Tour Madagascar, as part of the Big Series Poker Tour, third stage which took place from February 17 to 22, 2011 at the Hotel Colbert Antananarivo, has just ended, now an international poker tournament is launched in this part of the Indian Ocean. Indeed, Mauritius will host at the end of March and for a little less than ten days from March 26 to April 3rd 2011, the new poker tournament Million Paradise Poker Tour.

After conquering the title of a side event of the European Poker Tour Barcelona 2010 and the place of runner up of EPT London 2008 as well as other wonderful performances on famous poker tour like a 7th place at the final of the Partouche Poker Tour 2009, the Swedish Michael Tureniec picked up another victory. Indeed, the Swede once again shone at the EPT Copenhagen 2011 and walked up the podium of the poker room of the Casino Copenhagen to receive the trophy and the prize for the champion. A well deserved victory after several days of confrontation in Danish territory.

The poker room of the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles is a meeting point of poker stars who are currently competing for the prestigious title of World Poker Tour (WPT) LA Poker Classic. Indeed, the $ 10,000 buy-in event of the Commerce Casino was attended by 681 participants, most of whom are top players. Note that the total prize pool of $ 6,537,600 is a record and this colossal sum of money will be shared between the 63 best players of the game with a big share of $ 1.6 million for the winner. Two full days of racing action took place and only 238 players were able to survive. Those survivors will then begin the Day 3.

The famous poker circuit European Poker Tour (EPT) chose once again to make a stop in the Austrian resort Alpine Palace from March 20 to 25, 2011. It must be said that the charm of the place conquered the poker world leaders because since its existence in 2009, the resort hosted beautiful poker events including a stage of the Euro City Poker Tour 2009. Organizers of the EPT have also decided to organize a stop of the circuit in the station and at the EPT Snowfest 2011, about 600 poker players are expected to join the poker room of the Alpine Palace. They have at this tournament a chance to play poker in a very friendly atmosphere, winning a prestigious trophy, to participate in other adventures available on the station as skiing and enjoy a relaxing holiday although the cost of travel is quite high.

The third stop of the Big Poker Series has just ended. After Dakar and Marrakesh, it was the turn of the capital of Madagascar, Antananarivo, to host the event. Despite the distance of this country, a few important delegation of French players were present at the casino of the Hotel Colbert to play poker during this Lemurian Poker Tour. The € 500 side event attracted some players and ended with a victory of a local player Zouzou Hassim Azim. For the main event of € 1,500 buy-in, 84 participants have been registered. It must be said that the tournament recorded a great success and participants told their satisfaction on the reception and the organization in general.

The countdown began for the 20 teams that will be present at the Team Poker Cup scheduled to take place in the poker room of Cercle Gaillon, in the French capital on Saturday, March 12, 2011. A competitive appointment awaited by French poker players. Indeed, it will be after the tournament of this day that the best professional team of the Hexagon will be known and will receive the trophy of the "Team Poker Cup." For this big event of poker and French online poker rooms that will be hosted by the prestigious Cercle Gaillon of Paris, the 20 applicant teams of three players, will have each the opportunity to align in a live confrontation of three Sit & Go, a professional gambler who will be assisted by two other amateur players.

As usual, and since its inception in 2005, the surprise was not at the rendezvous during the National Heads Up Poker Championship 2010 edition if we talk about the participants. The 64 players selected for the traditional poker heads up championship are all regulars with a few exceptions like Daniel jungleman12 Cates, Tom Marchese and Emmitt Smith who will be there on March 4, 2011 for their first participation. Moreover, some innovations have been introduced in the tournament itself like the buy-in that is around $ 25,000 instead of $ 20,000 as before. Thus, the prize pool rose to $ 1.8 million which is also a record never reached by the competition with a considerable sum of $ 750,000 to award to the winner of the tournament.
 
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