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The victory of the amateur player, Philippe Mignonneau marked the first stage of the Barrière Poker Tour Toulouse, 2011 edition, who has as reward a sum of € 15,000. This victory also allowed him to win a package for the Main Event of the World Series of Poker Europe to be held at the Casino Barrière of Cannes Croisette during 6 days, from October 16 to 21 of this year. Six stops in six other French cities are also in the program of the tournament and the closest is that of Nice which will constitute also the second step and scheduled for Friday 20, Saturday 21 and Sunday, 22 May, 2011.

Poker and humanitarian work are inseparable for Team Humanitarian Poker. Indeed, this charitable organization for children fixed as first objective the funding of humanitarian projects. To achieve its main goal, this poker club born in January 2011, created from the association Vivre son enfance (Living his childhood), has its own team consisting of 15 poker players. Thus, each member has the duty to pay the 70% of their pocketed gains during poker tournaments in which each of them participate. As first challenge, the President Marie-Line Davenne and her team will help to finance the opening of four classes in a school in India.

When Thomas Kremser said the famous words "Shuffle up and deal", the 438 competitors who invaded the poker room of the casino of San Remo to participate in the Day 1A of the tournament European Poker Tour San Remo (EPT) started the game. Many poker stars were part of this wide field of the first qualifying day of the tournament like Pieter de Korver, JP Kelly, Victor Blom, the EPT Vienna champion Michael Eiler, in search of a second victory and the former champions of the EPT Anton Wigg, Aaron Gustavson, Jake Cody and Joao Barbosa. On the French side, Arnaud Mattern, Lucille Cailly, Hugo Lemaire, Marion Nedellec, Marc Inizan, Celine Bastian, Erik Haik, Gilbert Diaz and also Stéphane Albertini were present.

For the first time, the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOP-C) will have a stop in Pennsylvania. Players who decide to join the poker room of Harrah's Chester will be able to play poker on table of no-limit hold'em, Omaha eight-or-better or HORSE. A total of 38 events with buy-in between $ 50 and $ 1,500 will be offered during the tournament which runs from this Thursday, April 28 until Tuesday, 10 May, 2011. Those who want to have the chance to join the field of the main tournament of $ 1,500 can participate in super satellite tournaments with an entry fee of $ 200 held to be held on 6 and 7 May, 2011 from 4:00 p.m and 7:00 p.m. On May 8, 2011, a super satellite of $ 50 will be also available and 20 places are to win there.

As it was announced recently, a new event called the "Champion of Champions" will mark the finale of the Season 7 of the European Poker Tour (EPT). Thus, this event dedicated to invited payers only, the former winners of the EPT, will loop the 7th edition of the European circuit. The big fight between the 70 players, who will honor this final appointment, will be played on May 13 at the Casino Gran Madrid just after the main event of the EPT Grand Final in the Spanish capital. At the time of Monday, April 25, 2011, 43 of the 70 invited players confirmed their presence at this freeroll poker tournament.

The effect of Black Friday in the United States still looms over the poker world. After the adverse impacts on operators and online players who continue to desert American sites sanctioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Black Friday now has a other impact on the schedule of live poker tournaments. Thus, after the removal of the Onyx Cup tournament, the organizers in charge of the poker championship per team World Poker Team opted to postpone for a later date the second major appointment which will see the confrontation of the best nations in poker.

This Wednesday, April 27, a magnificent tournament will start in the poker room of the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Florida. This is the last stop of the World Poker Tour (WPT) circuit, prior to the Grand Final, in which participants can play poker on the tables of Hold'em, Omaha, HORSE or Turbo. All poker enthusiasts will be very well served as tournaments with moderate buy-in will be offered at this WPT Seminole Hard Rock. For the main event of $ 10,000 buy-in that begins on Wednesday, major players are expected to fill the field. It will be a no-limit hold'em and competitors will receive 30,000 starting chips for a period of 90 minutes of play. All players aged 18 and older can register for this event.

It was during the morning of Tuesday, April 26 that the Irish Poker Open Tournament 2011 delivered its verdict. Note that the event took place in the poker room of Burlington Hotel in Dublin since last April 21. Another success story was recorded because 615 players were registered for the Main Event of € 3,500 generating a prize pool of € 1,968,000. And organizers awarded the top 64 players in the game. The tournament also attracted many top stars of poker as well as English, French and U.S players like Michael Tureniec, Delfish, Sam Trickett, Claire Renaut, JP Kelly, Dan Harrington, Andy Black or the world poker champion Vanessa Hellebuyck. But after the competition, the coronation was back in the hands of the local player Niall Smyth.

A new innovative idea was born, it's the fact to gather around poker tables SME managers and students. Indeed, the young company Small IZ Beautiful found a new concept to promote relations between entrepreneurs and future leaders in France, the theme employment will be effectively combined with the PME Poker Tour. For this first edition, the organizer invited students of the 19 High School and Universities in the French territory. This first atypical appointment between leaders and students in a poker tournament is planned for a period of two months from April to June 2011 throughout France.

The beautiful city of Italy, San Remo, will host a stage of the prestigious European Poker Tour (EPT) on Wednesday. This is the fourth transit of the event in the city and the poker room of Casino San Remo will host the next edition. From its existence, this stage of the EPT has been a huge success, bringing together over 1,000 participants. Last year, it was the lovely Liv Boeree who won the title with a colossal gain of $ 1.673.433 by winning against a large field of 1,240 players.

The breakthrough of poker in today's society continues its merry way even in small towns. Indeed, in addition to prestigious tournaments that are played almost throughout the year and the exciting news about this game and its players who, for some time, make the headlines. The growing number of poker clubs and associations, mainly French, who never ceases to grow is not surprising if we consider this success. And about this great health of poker in France, a new association was created last Friday, April 22 in the little town of Nouvion en Thiérache.

The first edition of the Everest Poker One tournament held in the Salle des Palmiers of Sporting Club de Monte Carlo was a great success. In fact, 221 players with an important number of celebrities joined the capital of Monaco to participate in this poker tournament. And at the end of this exceptional competition, the German Julian Kabitzke grabbed the coronation with a gain of € 300,000 after having ousted his compatriot Alexander Debus during the final heads'up. The runner up was for his part awarded with a bonus of € 170,000. The Champion of the World Poker Tour Venice, Alessio Isaia, who was in good fit during this championship come to gradually evolve with his low stack at end to finish in the 4th place.

Despite the formal prohibition of the French law for youth under 18 years to play games with money, the survey research center and information for consumer organizations or Crioceras in France showed that 15% of young players aged between 10 to 17 indulge in gambling. Thus, this study realized on 2,687 French and Dutch speaking students in primary and secondary reveals that more than one in seven of these people play for money, even poker. These young players spend an average of € 32 monthly and practice these games that are prohibited to them twice in the week. As other results, the Center says that these young people start to play with a mean age of 13.8 years.

The ranking of the 30 best paid athletes during the last twelve months or on the recent season in 30 different sports was released on Wednesday, April 20, 2011. According to the results published by the journalist John Mastroberardino of ESPN Magazine, the first place was shared by the baseball player Alex Rodriguez and Manny Pacquiao, the boxer for a huge gain of $ 32 million for the salary of the first and the same amount was pocketed by the second in two fights. But what is exceptional in this classification is the place occupied by more than deserved by poker thanks to the achievement of the Grand Champion of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2010, Jonathan Duhamel.

The Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Nevada SPCA) and the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) announced the holding of the fifth annual charity tournament of Jennifer Harman. Since its existence, this tournament aims to support the actions of the Nevada SPCA to protect animals. This year, the poker room of the Peppermill Resort Casino in Reno will host the event which will run from May 20, 2011. Note that the tournament will take place during the Nevada State Poker Championship held as part of Season VII of the Heartland Poker Tour's (HPT). This charity tournament will allow many pros players, Hollywood celebrities and generous players to play poker and support a humble question.

Since Thursday, the royal city of Monaco is hosting a prestigious poker tournament. This is the Everest Poker Tournament The One which is held in the room Salle des palmiers of the Sporting de Monte-Carlo. This is once again an excellent opportunity for stars of the game to play poker in a professional setting and get a huge prize because, a prizepool of $ 1 million will be offered in the main event of € 5,300 buy-in starting this Friday, April 22, 2011. A field of 300 players will invade the poker room to compete for the title of the event including a multitude of professional players like the American Kevin MacPhee, the German Tobias Reinkemeier, the Britain's Kenny Hallaert, Isabelle Mercier, Javin Martinez, Anthony Lelouche, Jean Paul Pasqualini, Bruno Fitoussi, Alain Roy, Big Roger, Guillaume Darcourt...

Recently, the Belgian Constitutional Court took the decision that from the second half of this year 2011, all public places are declared "non-smoking areas." Previously, from December 2009 until this decision, this measure wasn't yet applied to some locations such as cafes without fresh food service and gambling rooms, poker room or casino. To avoid the concept of giving more advantages for some shopkeeper, the Belgian Constitutional Court corrected its decision by establishing the principles of equality. Consequently, many smokers of various types of institutions including casinos, poker players included, must leave the place or at least move to the areas reserved for smoking.

Any other bill on live and online poker won't be submitted again before the year 2012 in the State of Hawaii. Indeed, the Hawaiian standing Committee of Finance, composed by the affairs and economic revitalization Committee and the House Judiciary, decided to abstain, for a minimum period of one year, the study of the legalization and regulation of poker. However, with the Senate bill 755, the Hawaiian leaders in charge of the analysis of this field had the opportunity to comply, once and for all, this issue concerning the poker law. Thus, it is with Utah, the only two U.S. states which do not to recognize the legalization of this form of gambling.

After having hosted brilliantly the first tournament WPT National Series which is the Diamond Championship, a step won by the Russian player Natalia Nikitina, the Aviation Club de France will once again have the honor to host another major event of the international poker circuit. Indeed, it is expected that the World Poker Tour will return in the French capital in next September as part of Rendez-vous in Paris of the ACF. Moreover, this Parisian step is always part of the season 10 of this prestigious tour.

The first ten qualifying stages of the France Poker Tour of the new edition 2011 are actually completed, except the last stop which will be played in Marseille during this Easter weekend of April 23 and 24. During the first four months of this year, from January to April, 10 French cities hosted this prestigious circuit on the territory of France. Thus, these poker events take place successively in Paris on January 15 and 16, in Bordeaux on January 22 and 23, in Lille from February 12 to 13, in Limoges on February 20, in Strasbourg on February 26 and 27, in Lyon on March 5 and 6, in Troyes on March 13, in Rennes from March 19 to 20, in Toulouse in March 26 and 27 and Tours in last April 9 to 10.

The Black Friday of American poker websites was a turning point for online poker rooms working on the territory of the country of Uncle Sam. In fact, the indictment of 11 leaders of three main poker websites in the U.S.A affected significantly the American virtual gaming world with an important fall in terms of visitors, which has a significant financially impact. But as diction say, the misfortune of someone make the happiness of others, other U.S. poker websites are currently experiencing excellent sales. Moreover, the punishment inflicted by the investigative authorities of the United States to these three sites in its territory is taken as a positive aspect in the development of the whole system.

The entire week of April 11 to 17, 2011 that had just ended was among others, marked by the Cypriot poker event. Indeed, the poker tournament called "Middle East Championship" was held during 7 days at Casino Merit. In the program, a dozen tournaments were offered to players who made the trip with quite affordable buy-ins for participants. Different entry fees ranging from € 300 to € 4,400, this last was that of the Main Event played over two days, was available.

If usual poker tournaments are held in lavish casinos and gambling circles, Esprit Poker wanted to change the situation by organizing a special event for fans of this game in a public place get a real success. Indeed, the amateur poker tournament Poker Weekend, held at Auchan Porte des Alpes, on March 29 to April 2 has been a real success. It was a great opportunity for amateurs to play poker and improve their strategies through the educational program offered at the event. Indeed, poker lessons were delivered to participants on initiation and development tables set up by the organizers. Different activities based on "Poker" have also held during the event.

Each year, since 2007, the biggest championship of cash game in the world takes place. For the year 2011, those passionate about this poker marathon met at Dusk Till Dawn Club Nottingham, United Kingdom. And as usual, the event brought together many great players like Sam Trickett, Neil Channing, Luc Schwartz, Mike Matusow, Roland De Wolfe, Roberto Romanello and Viffer Peat. As reminder, these competitors played poker continuously for 49 hours. And action was once again at its best in this UK prestigious poker room. As the target is to resist as long as possible to clinch the biggest prize of the game, the battle was fierce. Rob Yong, Keith Johnson, Matusow, Per Linde and Trickett were among the losers of this TV show.

The French Individual National Championship of Clubs, edition 2011 had just ended. Indeed, the grand final of the CNIC 2011, pitting players from various poker clubs took place last weekend at Seven Casino of Amnéville. A great poker event organized by the Club des Clubs, which brought together on one circuit some 400 amateur players from 127 poker clubs and associations throughout the French territory. In fact, this new confrontation of amateur poker players of the Hexagon has seen a massive turnout of over 17,000 fans during the selection stages. Moreover, this last visit paid the top 60 in the ranking, while the top 14 players could each win a package for various tournaments of the next World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour.

Two hours separated the attacks of the casino of Aix-en-Provence, and La Ciotat of the Partouche group in the Bouches-du- Rhône in the early morning of Monday, April 18, 2011. The first robbery perpetrated by seven men wearing balaclavas and carrying Kalashnikov took place at 2:00 a.m at Pasino Aix-en-Provence and its poker room. In less than three minutes, the 400 guests players with fifty employees witnessed the taking of money worth € 100,000 in the cash register. The commando immediately took the highway to Marseille on two powerful vehicles stolen also. The attack of this important institution in the region, also a Mecca of poker with a considerable fleet of 350 slot machines and the largest poker room in France was held under the registration of 250 cameras, said the CEO of the casino, Michel Albanesi.

After its stop in St. Louis, the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOP-C) continue to delight fans of poker with its move to Las Vegas. Indeed, it is the turn of the prestigious poker room of Caesars Palace to host the event which takes place from April 14 until April 30. The place is deemed to be a reference host of poker event because various major tournament at the international level are held annually if we only mention the NBC National Heads-Up Championship. This is the sixth consecutive year that the WSOP-C calls at Caesars Palace and this time, the program is simply outstanding. Those who enjoy playing poker will find a lot of satisfaction because a wide variety of tournament with an entry fee ranging from $ 70 to $ 1,600 awaits them at this stage of the WSOP-C Las Vegas.

Whether for online poker players or to operators which are PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com and AbsolutePoker.com, last Friday, April 15th was a tragic day. Indeed, the FBI decided to close the access to these three online poker rooms. The reason is that leaders of these gambling sites are accused of money laundering, bank fraud and illegal acts. As a reminder, online poker game is illegal in the U.S.A. Since October 2006, the law entitled Unlawfull Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) prohibited all money transfers to online poker websites. While most gaming sites decided to abandon the game, these three sites didn't closed their accounts. They were helped by some operators as Daniel Tzvetkoff, the director of the company Intabill to continue to operate in the U.S. market. And this latter was apprehended by the justice since April 2010.

The ESPN channel that airs famous poker shows pulled PokerStars advertising from its network. It won’t probably be airing adverts of the indicted poker websites who invested almost $27 million into TV advertising last year. WSOP and WPT shows won’t be affected by the decision. However, North American Poker Tour Presented by PokerStars.net won’t get on the screen through ESPN’s channel. Many players have money deposited with the seized poker sites and have now a reason to worry about their funds.

A second casino and poker evening was organized by physical training teachers of the high school of Mont-de-La Salle, in France on Friday, April 8, 2011. This action is similar to what was done last year and is part of the modernization of the gym of the school. This second casino and poker evening appointment was attended by a hundred players over 18 years during which awards were distributed to winners of the tournament thanks to the helping hand of many sponsors. Thus, the total amount of contributions collected from these participants at this poker game totaled $ 4,000. A considerable amount compared to that gathered at the first poker charity event of the year 2010 with a gain of $ 2,600 paid by players.

Like Vanessa Selbst in the main event of the North American Poker Tour Mohegan Sun (NAPT), Jason Mercier also won for the second time the High Roller Bounty Shootout of $ 10,300. Note that 78 players were registered during this event in the poker room of Mohegan Sun to participate in this tournament. And as usual, this kind of event always attracts the best of the discipline. Thus, several major poker players were part of the list of participants like the champions of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Joe Cada and Jonathan Dumahel, Victor Ramdim, Taylor von Kriegenbergh and Barry Greenstein. Note that the Bounty during the final table was $ 10,000 and the player who managed to eliminate the most competirors also received a place for the Bounty Shootout event of the next stage of the NAPT.

The 19 years of existence of the Cercle Multicolore of Reims, in France won't pass as unnoticed this year. Indeed, in addition to various weekly poker tournaments offered by the gaming circle, three major events are on the agenda of the institution for the next two months. Thus, to mark a milestone its 19 spring, the circle will organize at first a poker anniversary tournament "Girls & Boys" freezeout of € 100 which will be held on Thursday, May 19, 2011. This test will have a guaranteed prizepool of € 5,000 and the beginning of the registration will be held from Monday May 9. Moreover, the 30 first girls who come won't pay an entrance fee.

Even if the step in Toulouse of the Barrière Poker Tour (BPT) was held in conjunction with the Partouche Poker Tour Nice, a real success has been recorded as 123 players registered for the main event of € 1,500 buy-in. The desire to win a package to the World Series of Poker Europe Cannes (WSOP-C) encouraged certainly players to participate in the tournament. Note that the winner was entitled to a package amounting € 12,000 for the Main Event of the famous championship in Cannes. After the competition, thanks to this victory, Philippe Mignonneau won a first prize of € 15,000. As for the runner up, Michael Benhammoudda, his second place let him win a prize of € 10,000.

The news came by last friday, april the 15th 2011, a day to remember to be the worst of online poker history. This sad day have already a name : Black friday. The US Attorney of Manhattan, Preet Bharara, filed charged against the three web sites Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and Absolute Poker, saying that they have been breaking the law by making available their online gambling websites allowing US citizens to play poker. 75 bank accounts used by the poker companies and their payment processors where also seized.

Despite prestigious international poker circuit, organization of various smaller tournaments are also in full swing currently. For example, various regional competitions on French territory are played almost every end of the week. Thus, the third edition of the Open de Parthenay de poker, organized by the poker club Gâtine Poker Tour will be held on the morning of Saturday, April 16, 2011. For this third meeting, which is an important step in the regional individual ranking, the GPT club led by its President Anthony Hamidovic host a few hundred and forty players, mainly those of the region, at the Maison des associations du Tallud.

Bad deeds will pay sooner or later, it's by this saying that the humiliating adventure with so many risky daring acts experienced by Sefula Seji could be summed up. Ranked 27th during the last World Series of Poker Circuit, this poker player from the city of New Jersey has been finally unmasked for his cheating committed in the gaming establishment of Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. As rigging plan in a poker game, the player used a sandpaper to mark a small dot on the top back of a card worth ace. The same marks are on the other cards of the poker game on places a little more below for his own identification with their respective values.

Now, big and quality poker tournaments played regularly are no longer the exclusive preserve of Western countries, like the United States and Europe. Now, other parts of the world, Asia, Oceania, Africa and South America receive more and more tournaments on their land. It's the case of Australia which host since April 13 the Australian New Zealand Poker Tour Sydney (ANZPT) with a main event of AUD $ 2,200. The first two days of qualifying have been completed and a total field of 393 participants was recorded. The tournament has seen a decline in attendance because last year, 446 players attended the event. However, success is always guaranteed because several big players like Hachem brothers are among the competitors. The player who will succeed to Angelo Hanataj will be announced on April 17. This latest won last year the title and the first prize of AUD $ 219,432.

After the magnificent coronation of Vanessa Selbst at the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun, the World Poker Tour Hollywood Poker Open (WPT) also announced its verdict. If spectators who came at the championship expected the victory of Erik Seidel, given his performance since the beginning of the year and his course during this tournament, he end up finally the tournament as the runner up. Indeed, the title of champion of the WPT Hollywood Poker Open was won by an amateur named Mike Scarborough, known by the nickname of Cincinnati Kid. From the beginning of this final battle, Mike Scarborough already stated his skills by being in possession of the second biggest stack of the party.

Kyle Cartwright has just completed a major feat in the poker room of Harrah's Circuit under the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOP-C). Indeed, after being part of a broad field of 449 participants, Kyle Cartwright won the top spot in the tournament held at Harrah's St. Louis marking his first major trophy, but his third gold bracelet. Cartwright's talent was no more to show because he already won two preliminary events of the WSOP-C St. Louis before his feat in the main event. Kyle Cartwright deserved very well his victory because he started the final table as chip leader and as the only one who reached the milestone of two million chips.

The reputation of Bertrand Grospellier aka ElkY as one of the best poker player in France is no longer unknown to fans of this card game. Moreover, he repeatedly demonstrated his power in his various participations in major events during which he won trophy and cashes if we mention the title of champion of the PCA 2008 and the World Poker Tour Festa Al Lago. Note that ElkY is also on the top of the list of players having the biggest win in France with 6.5 million dollars on his account. To the delight of his fans and fans of the game, Bertrand ElkY will provide them poker courses in Morocco.

There is more doubt, Vanessa Selbst is part of the best poker players. Like the great players Johnny Chan, Johnny Moss and Stu Ungar, the young champion did an impressive back to back which means that she won the coronation at the same tournament during two consecutive years. Indeed, with brilliance, Selbst won the title of the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun 2011, an exceptional performance that the public acclaimed when she walk up on the podium of the poker room to receive her trophy and the $ 450,000 reward. Note that this is the sixth major title that she won. So now, she recorded a total gain of $ 4,365,277.

This week-end, the southern of France will host two major poker events. In Toulouse, the Barrière Poker Tour (BPT) circuit edition 2011 will be launched before its steps in Nice, Lille, Dinard Enghien, Trouville and Bordeaux. Apart from the unconditional quality of this tournament that gained a great reputation within the poker enthusiasts, the famous packages to the World Series of Poker Europe Cannes (WSOPE) are assets that could guarantee the success of the event. Note that the tournament will run from April 15 to 17 and a varied program will be proposed including the event of € 1,350 + € 150 buy-in.

The third day of the World Poker Tour Hollywood Poker Open being held in Lawrenceburg, Indiana State, let to know the 9 best players in the tournament. Note that they were 97 participants at the beginning of the match but only the 6 last survivors will be eligible to sit in the televised final table of the competition. The chip count classification of this Hollywood stage is as follows : chip leader, Steve Barshak with 601,000 chips, runner-up, William Reynolds having 541,000 chips ; third, Erik Seidel with 526,000 chips; fourth, Mike Scarborough (467,000), fifth, Allen Kessler who has 226,000 chips, sixth, Ali Eslami (204,000), seventh, Tom Marchese who has 182,500 chips, eighth, Terry Jacobs, who owns 106,000 chips and ninth, Andy Whetstone with a chip count of 83,500.

In addition to major tournaments that characterize global poker, crazy bets between professional players in this field are also news that attract more followers of poker today. Generally, these prop bets have nothing to do directly with the poker world, it's only the practitioners of this cards game that are the main concerned. The last crazy bet of the moment that is prepared currently, still unofficial, is the next fight in a boxing ring in the U.S. capital of gambling, Las Vegas, of two famous poker players, the French Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and the Dutchman Lex "rasz" Veldhuis.

Poker which success is a reality in France, the legalization of online poker since mid-2010 attests its good health and the increase in the number of tournaments throughout the Hexagon, is also becoming more popular with the media. Indeed, every big television channel, cable or not, has its emissions around poker. In this optic to get at the same level as its competitors, the audiovisual channel Direct Star decided to diffuse to the public the the season I of the famous tournament France Poker Series (FPS) that was held from May 1st, 2010 to February 13, 2011 in different cities of France. This new show will allow viewers to see their favorite stars playing poker. Also, they can admire the feat of the German Marvin Rettenmaier and the beautiful course of Leo Truche.

The schedule of poker tournaments for this month of April is very tight. If the European Poker Tour Berlin comes to end, the action is at its best in Mohegan Sun under the North American Poker Tour and in Lawrenceburg with the final of the World Poker Tour Hollywood Open. And those who love this game also have an appointment at the poker room of Atlantic City Casino from this April 13, 2011. This is the second edition of the tournament Borgata Spring Poker Open, a magnificent event that will last several days because it won't end until April 29, 2011. This edition 2011 will allow participants to play poker in tables of Texas Hold'em No Limit, 6- Hand max No Limit, HORSE, Pot Limit Omaha and Omaha High Stud during the 53 events in the program.

The balance of activity indicators of online gambling including online poker, sports betting and horse betting for the first three months of this year 2011 was not in its best performance, according to figures published by the French Regulatory Authority of online games (ARJEL). The French market suffers from the impact of restrictive legislation. Of the three areas proposed by the operators to bettors, only online poker has a positive balance unlike the other two with a more or less stable for horse betting and negative balance for sports betting.

The third edition of the Cannes Croisette Hold'em Series took place during three days from Friday to Sunday of last week. This tournament with a buy-in of € 1,800 + 200 gathered a hundred poker players at the first day of competition and finished with 10 participants invited on the final table of the last and third day. Moreover, this new appointment of the Cannes Croisette Hold'em Series was the occasion for Adrian Allain to confirm his status as Barrière Poker Player 2011 by sweeping all potential competitors who were present at the event among whom was the last winner of the second edition of the race in December 2010, Jean-Paul Pasqualini, ranked 4th in the tournament.

The game continues in the poker room of Mohegan Sun Casino under the tournament North American Poker Tour (NAPT). At the third day of competition, 74 players were present at the gaming tables to try to qualify for the final day, during which only 24 participants will be accepted. The list of paid places was also known on Day 3 and 56 players were able to access it. Todd Terry, Dan O'Brien and Nick Binger who was the bubble boy of the game was among the eliminated players. Fortunately, this last was able to take his revenge by qualifying for the Shootout Bounty of $ 10,000 buy-in. After the bubble burst, the field began to shrink, starting with the elimination of the runner up of last year Mike Beasley. Jerry Wong, Deborra Greg, Jeff Papola and Lee Markholt followed in his footsteps some time later.

Without a doubt, the Macau Millions was the largest poker tournament ever held in Asia. Indeed, the event which took place in the poker room of the Grand Lisboa casino from April 2 to 10, 2011 brought together a field of 1,329 participants. It was possible because organizers proposed a unique tournament during which participants had 7 days of departure and those who failed to qualify during the first day could try their luck for the next days, which certainly explains this turnout. In addition, the entrance fee was quite reasonable because enthusiasts and amateurs played poker in a major and a professional tournament for only HK $ 2,200 which is the equivalent of € 200.

Rodolphe Tissot's film « La Tueuse » which highlights the downside of addiction to gambling, like poker will be released on DVD from April 20, 2011, after a year of broadcasting on movie theater and television. The outstanding theme treated in this French film excellently played by Adrienne Pauly is unfortunately another facet of this intellectual and strategic discipline. As synopsis, Mathilde, a young woman of about thirty years, has an employment problem even with a nursing degree. In love and pregnant by a man, she has only one alternative, poker a game that she know perfectly, that's what her nickname « La Tueuse » (the killer) for her outstanding performance in front of her opponents on gaming table, but this notoriety brings the player into the wrong direction, that is to depend too munch on poker, something that will bring bad consequences to her life.

Poker is evolving and land based gaming establishments also follow this rhythm and offer more and more interesting tournaments. Thus, as part of its new agenda that will delight players of the region, the casino of Collioure, in France hosted its first big poker tournament freeroll held last weekend. Henceforth, the rendezvous will be played during each last weekend of the month. As rule, the € 700 Main Event of last month of each weekend, offered to amateur poker players in the region, will lend the structure of the European Poker Tour with its 30,000 chips and levels limited to 60 minutes each.

Saturday, April 9 was the day's tee of the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun. The event of $ 5,000 buy-in was attended by 387 registered players and the prize pool is quite attractive because it reached $ 1,746,330. Thus, the winner of this tournament will win a huge reward of $ 450,000. Competitors played poker in 8 levels of play during this first day of competition at the end of which, Chris Tryba was awarded the place of chip leader. Note that the field has many known players like Victor Ramdim, John D'Agostino, Carlos Mortensen, Farah Jaka, Jason Mercier, Jeff Madsen, the reigning champion Vanessa Selbst and also Vanessa Rousso, who all succeeded to be part of the field of Day 2.

The 2011 edition of the European Poker Tour Berlin (EPT) has just ended peacefully even if a drop in attendance compared to last year's edition was observed. The bad memories of the robbery in 2010 but also the sequence of poker tournaments of the same kind could be explained as the cause. Nevertheless, the 773 players who came to play poker in Spielbank casino offered to the public a sensational show. Indeed, during the days of competition, action has always been present on the gaming tables. After the Day 3, which ended with the elimination of many French players, the final table finally started on Sunday, April 10. Any French player has been admitted to the list of finalists because Fabsoul, the last hope of the Hexagon was eliminated in the 11th place.

The Swedish Supreme Court finally ruled on the fate of poker that divided the opinions of poker players with the administration of that country. A decision that wasn't easy to take because the conflict already dated two years with the case between, in 2009, the Swedish national lottery and four organizers of live poker tournaments and online tournaments for real money. A priori, the Swedish judges required the service of poker experts and mathematicians for an explanation of the principle of the game and then draw a conclusion. Ultimately, they based their assessments on the kind of poker played.

Ranked 3rd in 2008 and twice first in 2009 and 2010 in Live Poker rankings, Roger Hairabedian wants to help to give a new image to the French poker world. Thus, the current best poker player on the French territory invites the entire community of poker in the Hexagon to challenge his excellent course that never cease to get better during the past two years. The goal is to reach for the years 2011-2012 the top poker ranking which is the highest step of the podium. To give more motivation to each player, the former judoka from Marseilles and current best poker player in France is ready to offer € 100,000 for the one who manages to equal his performance through the numerous tournaments to compete for the two consecutive years.

The Marrakesh Poker Open (MPO) never disappointed those who enjoy playing poker since its existence. And once again, the 20th edition will be an exceptional poker appointment because organizers prepared a wonderful program full of novelty. Participants of the MPO XX may therefore play poker in a quality atmosphere and win many prizes. To begin, the Jack Daniel's Freeroll that conquered a huge success during the nineteenth MPO will be back on May 22. It will be a Re-buy tournament with an add-on of € 50 with a guaranteed prize of € 10,000. And competitors will start the game with 2,500 starting chips for a level of play of 20 minutes. There will be also very exciting tournament as the € 225 and € 500, Freezeout, 12 satellites composed of different poker variants that will allow players to win packages for the main event of the World Series of Poker Europe in Cannes.

The European Poker Tour Berlin (EPT) have reached its third day of competition. Indeed, with the end of Day 2, there are only 119 survivors, who will be all rewarded, who joined the poker room of Spielbank Casino last Friday to participate in Day 3. This second day of competition was the last for most of representatives of France because if they were 30 players at the start of the competition, they will be only 6 players to continue the battle. However, France is in the spotlight thanks to the feat of Fabrice Soulier. Indeed, it was a lucky day for Fabsoul and he played well in poker because he managed to climb up to the rank of chip leader by earning the biggest stack of the day. He is the only player having over 1 million chips. The German player Alessandro Laubinger follow him at the second position with 742,400 chips in hand and his compatriot Giuseppe Pantaleo is at the third position with 578,500 chips.

The long-term hard work of the International Federation of Poker having as objective to let consider poker as a skill game continues its merry way. This enormous and difficult task of Anthony Holden's team, president of the federation, is usually to find partners who embrace the same vision as the Federation in order to promote poker. Thus, after a partnership agreement signed with the International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) that includes all around the world the international federations of bridge, chess, checkers and game of go, the IFP signed a new partnership agreement with major Japanese company Dentsu, specializes in advertising and marketing, Mind Sport Partners, a company based in Singapore.

Poker serving future lovers, this is a few words the spirit of the new concept of the agency specialized in event organization, Speed Poker which chose the slogan "combine the efficiency and intimacy of speed dating to the friendliness of poker. " In this new and wonderful idea, the manager of this poker event organization agency elected as main targets all single persons and invite them to participate in some evening parts to play poker but mostly to get to know gradually through discussion between male and female players.

The second qualifying day of the European Poker Tour Berlin (EPT) has just ended. To recall, 456 players registered for Day 1B. The total field of the event is then 773 participants. Compared to the edition 2010, a little reduction of the turnout was recorded because last year, the EPT on the German soil hosted 945 participants. To return to the current meeting, at the end of the day so, the field was reduced to 202 participants and Sander Berndsen, a regular of cash game, is leading the race by piling up the biggest stack of the day, 242,900 chips. For the other eliminated poker players, a bunch of stars have been bad luck on Day 1B and won't be part of the field for Day 2 like Liv Boeree, the defending champion Kevin McPhee, Annette Obrestad, James Akenhead, Tony G, Praz Banzi, Jake Cody, Luca Pagano and Dario Minieri.

Since the existence of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), the final heads'up was always the best moment of the tournament, a final duel during which the two best players of all the series who trained for over a year compete to win the prestigious title. During this 2011 edition, the organizers wanted to let the public revive these historical heads'up. Thus, three heads'up rematch will be in the program of the annual meeting of fans of this same circuit in Las Vegas. The first is the incredible duel between Chris Moneymaker and Sam Farha. They clashed at the final of the WSOP 2003 and at the time, Moneymaker was still an amateur but he won the confrontation and the big sum of $ 2.5 million.

After the absence of the French team at the starting of the World Team of Poker's casting, the countdown began now for the captain and coach at the same time of the French national team in poker. For this daunting task, Fabrice Soulier has the duty to find the 8 members of Team France, who will compete in the world nations poker tournament scheduled for May 24, 25 and 26, 2011. Besides the 7 players elected to represent the national team of the Hexagon, the choice of the last player member shall be decided by the public during a vote proposed by the finalist of the Main Event of the Partouche Poker Tour, leader and manager of the Team France of poker.

As it was announced in early February 2011, the final big event of the National Individual Poker Club Championship (CNIC) in France will take place in less than ten days in the city of Amneville, more exactly on April 15, 16 and 17. Most of the details of this prestigious poker tournament for associations have already been revealed like the number of participants at this final stage which is set at 400 players, including 360 considered as the best among the 11,000 members of the 140 poker clubs that competed during the some 3,500 tournaments. They will be completed by 40 qualified participants of the 1,600 who took part in online qualifying through online poker rooms.

Organizing poker tournaments with very expensive buy-in became a trend since the beginning of the year. And the organizers of the World Poker Tour (WPT) also decided to not miss this phenomenon that can certainly let rise their turnover because events like the $ 250,000 Super High Roller of the Aussie Millions, the Onyx Cup Series, which is in preparation seems to have more and more success. Even if the $ 25,000 High Roller tournament was still part of the program of every step of the WPT, this time, players who are willing to bet up to $ 100,000 buy-ins are invited. The event will take place on May 18 and 19, 2011. And despite this amount of money to pay to be part of the field, several players familiar with the WPT Championship and the prestigious poker room of the Bellagio casino already answered the call.

The second edition of the European Poker Tour Berlin (EPT) started as it was announced on Tuesday, 5 April. Even if the memories of the incident of last year are still present in minds of players, they were 315 to register for the first day of the tournament. With this turnout of the first day, organizers hope a real success of the event and the poker room of Spielbank Casino can attend a big event. Already on Day 1A, fantastic spectacles was available on gaming tables and at the end of the day, half of the starting participants did not survive. Indeed, they were only 151 players who were qualified for the second day and most of French players were already eliminated. Players as Ludovic Lacay, Alexandre Brivot, Antony Lellouche, Guillaume de la Gorce, Alexia Portal, Claire Renaut, Antonin Teisseire and Bruno Launais left the tournament prematurely.

The JOA Group launched the third season of the Joa Poker Tour circuit. Indeed, after the Bounty tournament of Luxeuil casino last weekend, a very attractive tournament is still awaiting fans of the game for the days to come. Indeed, the group aims to offer discount price tournaments to enable all enthusiasts to play poker in a professional setting. The JPT 2011 look therefore like a big festival of poker where Bounty tournaments of € 20 buy-in and deepstack tournament of € 300 are organized in all poker rooms of JOA casinos which are Ax- Les-Thermes, Canet-Plage, César Palace in St-Paul-lès-Dax, Gerardmer, La Siesta in Antibes, Le Boulou, The Pines, Montrond Crouesty Port, Saint-Jean-De-Luz, Santenay and Uriage.

At the beginning of its activity four years ago, the French association Arène Poker-Club has never failed in its primary objective which is to be represented by as many players as possible in the various and important poker event at national level. These some 48 months of existence enabled the affiliate to the Club des Clubs of poker to cross a lot of steps in improving standards of play of its members, according to the statement of its chairman, Arnaud Lelion. Moreover, the members of Arène Poker-Club had the opportunity to experience at first this game, to practice it later and to grow to reach some experience before facing various situations during prestigious tournaments.

A field consisting of 414 participants filled the poker room of Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London to attend the Black Belt Poker Tournament London Live II Champ on last April 1st to 3rd. Note that the buy-in of the event totaled $ 275 and it was a deepstack tournament with tempting structure, an opportunity for competitors to play their best games and reveal their tips learned in their respective poker club. After 3 days of high level competition, the tournament gave its verdict and crowned Peter Wigglesworth as champion. Despite the presence of numerous talented opponents in this competition, he managed to win after the final table who opposed him to Seth Webber, who finished 9th, Stephen Power (8th), Louis Manson (7th), Raj Rughwani (6th), Andy Nguyen (5th), Gavin Hall (4th), Giareth Alder (3rd) and the runner-up Michael Yiannikou.

The seven steps of the Barrière Poker Tour (BPT) will qualify exceptionally the best players of the tournament in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) in Cannes this year 2011. Indeed, if qualified players of the previous editions have been used to take part in the final of the BPT, this time, they will be entitled to sit in the main event of the World Series of Poker Europe scheduled for next October. The city of Toulouse inaugurate this first meeting of the Barrière Poker Tour innovated from April 15 to 17, 2011. During these three days, many events will be in the program of participants among which, the Random Bounty tournaments of € 440, the Turbo for Ladies of € 120 or a Freezeout Deepstack of € 500 + € 50.

The first stage of the Deepstack Open circuit (DSO) started as planned in the poker room of Costa Brava casino on last March 31. This kind of tournament continues to have a real success because many fans were present on the field with a total of 470 registered participants. Note that the competitors received 50,000 starting chips with a level of play of 60 minutes. After the second day of competition, it remained only 22 survivors and the French player Alain Gourier was successfully enthroned in the place of chip leader. His compatriot Jonathan Tordjman occupied the second position just before the final day of Sunday, April 3.

The total field of the World Poker Tour Bratislava finally reached 221 participants, a tournament that can be characterized as relatively successful because the meeting was held in the midst of two major steps of European poker circuit that is the EPT Snowfest and that of the stage of the same tournament in Berlin. The total prize pool collected amount them € 488,935 and this sum was shared among the 27 best players in the game and of course, the biggest share, or € 140,685 was offered to the winner. And it was the Colombian player Robbert Romanello, chip leader at the beginning of this final table who kept his advantage until the end of the meeting. Indeed, at the end of Day 3, he already awarded the first place by accumulating a large stack of 1,803,000 chips. Jesper Hoog ended up second with 1,042,000 chips in hand during the first minutes of the final. But at the finish, he ranked only at the fifth place.

Various poker tournaments, facing both poker club but also simple players alternate each other but are not the same. Generally, the peculiarity of big events are among other things, the duration of the competition. For Joa Poker Tour Season 3, for example, the qualification stage for the decisive final rendezvous at Joacasino La Siesta in Antibes on June 10, 11 and 12 will be played for over three weeks from May 8 to 29 during a festival of tournaments that will take place at Joacasino Ax-les-Thermes. An appropriate time which is offered to those who like playing poker to distinguish themselves with a very affordable extra entrance fee.

Like events and poker tournaments to be held throughout France, international poker tournament schedule for this beginning of the second quarter of 2011 is also very varied. Various circuits which will be played mainly in Europe and in the United States will delight players. There will be at first the stage of the European Poker Tour (EPT) San Remo including a main event set at € 5,300 buy-in that took place during eight days from Sunday 27 of March to Sunday, April 3, 2011, and will be relayed by another week from Tuesday 5 to Sunday, April 10 in the city of Berlin with a main event having the same entry fee, that is to say € 5,300.

After the great success of the Vienna World Poker Tour (WPT), the step of Bratislava has also just started in the poker room of Golden Vegas Casino. This gaming room host for the second time the tournament. For the first qualifying day, 90 players registered for the Main Event of € 2,700 buy-in. The action was indeed at the appointment because the field was filled with many well known players. The Day 1A was therefore closed with the elimination of 31 competitors. To the delight of the French poker community, most of the representatives of France managed to appear in the list of survivors like Itay Rokni, Ronan Collet Roman, Julien Muel, Yoan Benard, Thomas Bichon who made a good run finishing in the 15 th position and the talented Ludovic Lacay who once again demonstrated his competence and managed to fit in the top 10.

The verdict was finally known at the poker room of Harrah's Rincon after a final table full of action. Indeed, the World Series of Poker Circuit Regional Championship (WSOP-C) come to crown its champion, Ali Eslami. Note that the final table was composed by players like Dwite Pilgrim but he failed to win his third victory in the WSOP Circuit-C and settled this time for the 8th place or Steve Brecher who finished 4 th. The two players pocketed respectively $ 38,808 and $ 90,223, and like the other competitors in the final table, they will be part of the field of the National Championship. Ali Eslami played well in poker for his first year of participation in major tournaments. After a second place in the tournament The Big Event of Commerce Casino Los Angeles, he won this time his first trophy. His experiences in cash games clearly helped him to earn success in tournaments.

Many French tournament will mark the second quarter of 2011 that had just began. Thus, the French poker tournament, DeepStack Open which organize this weekend of March 31 to April 3, its first step is the nearest. It will be followed by a second Mediterranean DSO to be held in Cannes on April 28 and May 1st. Besides the buy-in set at € 550, three sponsorship contracts will be new offer of this season. Furthermore, the third edition of the Hold'em Series will be played from next April 8 to 10 at the poker room Casino Barrière Cannes Croisette against an entrance fee of € 2,000. Similarly, the final stages of the France Poker Tour will successively make stops in Tours on April 9 and 10 and in Marseille on April 23 and 24 before the Grand Final at the Aviation Club de France in May.

By collaborating with the renowned magazine dedicated to poker, Card Player, The Best Poker Player rankings provides a great innovation in the results of international poker players and casino by offering a lot more results. Indeed, several comparative tables highlighting worldwide results have just been added. The classification is made with accurate data and careful study. Thus, The Best Poker Player provisionally awarded Erik Seidel as the player that gained the biggest sum in live poker tournaments of this year 2011 with a total gain of $ 4.4 million. In online poker championship, Yevgenjy Timoshenko holds the first place with $ 3.3 million gain. On the French side, David Benyamine managed to fit in the top 10 these two rankings.

For the third day of competition at the World Series of Poker Circuit Regional Championship (WSOP-C), 18 players joined the Harrah's Rincon. At this meeting, the competitors played poker for a high stakes. Indeed, to be part of the 9 finalists is an achievement which each participant covets because apart from the $ 282,242 first prize, every player at the final table will get access to the famous National Championship tournament to be held from May 27 in the prestigious poker room of Caesar's Palace, in Las Vegas. Thus, at the end of the third day, those who have their tickets for the final are known. Despite the loss of some major players like Daniel Negreanu, Todd Terry, Scott Montgomery, Kyle Bowker, the top players managed to qualify into the list of finalists.

After a long and remarkable absence during the second half of 2010, Gus Hansen, who is now back in the international poker scene continues to make talk about him since the beginning of the year 2011. In fact, apart from the remarkable performance of this player called "The Great Dane" on cash game tables High Stakes Poker Online throughout the first three months, having collected a gain of just under $ 5 million with over 750 sessions played since the beginning of the Year, the former Danish tennis player of 37 years remains a big supporter of this sport and all the other disciplines that are practised with a racket and a ball.

Motivated by the excellent performance of its poker players on the international level, estimated at 18 ITM (in the money) for 98 participants during the season 7 of the European Poker Tour, Belgium wants to boost this dynamism by providing a major poker circuit on its territory. Indeed, this country is currently the best poker nation in the EPT circuit during the year 2010-2011 pending the last appointment of May 12, in Madrid. Indeed, if we take a look at the last EPT Snowfest, three Belgians managed to climb onto the final table who were Kevin Vandermissen, Koen Visscher of Team 770 and Philip Meulyzer. On the other hand, remarkable results have also been made by its citizens in other international competitions.
 
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