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The third stage of the Eureka Poker Tour circuit had just ended and the results of this step was quite satisfactory as the event was able to gather a field of 308 competitors in its main event of € 800 buy-in. Indeed, after the first two editions held in Prague and Slovenia, the Eureka Poker Tour took place in Bulgaria since June 22. And the Israeli player Idan Greenberg was elected champion of the event. By being in the place of chip leader at the start of the second day of competition during which they were only 35 survivors, Greenberg, having a big advantage put forth his talent to play poker. He managed to eliminate the Serbia Milan Rakic on the final head's up. Greenberg reached then the top spot of the podium of the Golden Sands resort Varna and pocketed a gain of € 55,145.

It remains only a month before the start of the famous tournament of poker elite organized by the FS & G Poker League founded by Jeffrey Pollack and Annie Duke. To give a more formal and serious image to the tournament, the name of the competition has been changed and now it becomes Epic Poker League (EPL). The EPL is a new circuit which will mark the poker world from this year 2011 because it will face the best poker players in live tournaments. According to Annie Duke, the EPL will consist of several TV shows and very interesting tournaments. As a reminder, the first edition of the EPL will begin on August 5, 2011 and Palm Resort & Casino in Las Vegas will be the host of the event.

Actually, it remains only nine tournaments to play in the World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP). Indeed, two other events come to end and give their results. This is the Event # 40, a No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed of $ 5,000 and the Event # 41, a Limit Hold'em Shootout of $ 1,500. In the Event # 40, it was the 8 th finalist of the WSOP 2010, Matt Jarvis who won the trophy. He was able to seize the throne thanks to his experience and talent. But during this duel, he also started the final head's up against Justin Filtz with an advantage in chips. Matt Jarvis, however, finally triumphed, and in addition to the gold bracelet, he also pocketed a gain of $ 808,538. Currently, he holds more than $ 2 million gain in the WSOP tournaments.

Jamie Gold won the status of poker legend during his unprecedented triumph at the World Series of Poker 2006 (WSOP). Indeed, by being at his first participation in a major tournament, he won the title of world champion of poker and pocketed the biggest gain of all time, $ 12 million thanks to his talent to play poker. He is gifted because of his aggressive play. After his exploits in the poker room of the Rio, Jamie Gold almost didn't get a great success in poker tournaments, but he shined as a producer of TV series and agent of stars. He assisted for example Felicity Hoffman and Lucy Liu. This poker star of 42 years is now in the center of a financial problem. Indeed, he should pay a fairly substantial amount of money, around $ 52,279.47 to the owner of the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City.

Full Tilt Poker have lost their Alderney Gambling license. The news follows the announcement in April that both Full Tilt Poker and Pokerstars had been closed down in the USA following an FBI investigation.

The edition 2011 of the Barriere Poker Tour Dinard(BPT) crowned a young champion in the person of Demiroglu Erem. This victory allowed Demiroglu to get a ticket for the big tournament of Cannes, the World Series of Poker Europe 2011 (WSOPE). His ascension to the title has not been easy but it was with perseverance and with talent that he finally succeed to Victor Delmas. As the star of the poker room of the Casino Barrière of Dinard, Demiroglu managed to eliminate some players as Maxime Durville and Willy Korchia. Romain Nussmann also had some trouble before his qualifying for the final table because of the impertinent attacks of the champion.

A top 20 of the sexiest women in the poker world was published by the World Poker Tour in its magazine of June 2011. In addition to those who practice this card game, other women who frequent the world of poker are also in the Top 20 ranking. Moreover, two main criteria permitted to distinguish on the one hand, the 20 sexiest women in poker and also the 20 sexiest players based on poker winnings where seven women like Melanie Iglesias, Joanna Krupa, Kimberly Lansing, Sara Underwood, Melyssa Grace, Alison Waite, Leeann Tweeden and Amy Weber are respectively ranked, with no earning, from the 14th to the 20th rank.

Thanks to the wonderful performance of Fabrice Soulier during the event # 37, HORSE Championship of $ 10,000, France has just won its third gold bracelet in the World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP) after the exploits of Bertrand Grospellier and Elie Payan. Indeed, by starting the final table in the second position, Fabrice Soulier was able to win against strong competitors such as Tom Dwan, Michael Binger, or Shawn Buchanan, his opponent in the final heads'up. Thus, this 42 years old French player prove that he is good at playing poker because despite a difficult final table, he climb to the victory and was awarded to another French first place in the World Series in the Rio poker room. And this well deserved victory also earned him a huge gain of $ 609,130.

The Deepstack Open Marrakesh (DSO) tournament ended on Sunday, June 26, 2011 at the prestigious casino Es Saadi after four days of intense competition between players qualified for this last round. In addition to the two side events and parts of cash Game and Sit & Go, the € 550 buy-in Main Event played with a structure of 50,000 chips and levels of 60 minutes was the most disputed part of this poker meeting in the Moroccan land. The main event gather for the occasion a field of 250 players.

One of the appointments that become indispensable in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) circuit, the "Ante Up For Africa" charity tournament will miss for the first time its rendezvous this year 2011. Indeed, traditionally scheduled during the WSOP summer events since 2007, this poker event of big names of Hollywood film dedicated to the victims of Darfur can't be played at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas during this summer. The reason is that one of the main instigators of the charity tournament, the actor Don Cheadle is currently unavailable due to an ongoing project. So the co-initiator and famous poker player, Annie Duke decided to postpone the competition a few months.

Fabrice Soulier, well known at poker tables using the pseudo « FabSoul », is a French pro player, who has stacked up over $2.5 million in winnings to date. He has just increased his winnings to $3.2 million thanks to his win in the HORSE Championship on June 24, where he picked up his first WSOP bracelet as well as $609,130.

Will 4 hours be enough to make the retrospective of the first year of market opening of online gambling and online poker in France ? In anyway, a big applause for the Groupement des Éditeurs de Services en Ligne (Group of Publishers of Online Services) for its initiative in organizing the second edition of the debate on online gambling. This symposium, that will mainly talk about economic, technical and legal market opening will be held on the morning of Wednesday, June 29, 2011 in the Espace de Conférence Trocadéro, in Paris.

Announced in recent days, the Irish Winter Festival is a prestigious meeting for poker enthusiasts. Tournament organizers just unveiled the full program. On Friday, October 28, 2011 will mark the first Super Satellite for the main event, available for € 110, which is a chance for those who can not pay the buy-in of € 1,100 to qualify for the event. The main event will begin on October 29 and will run for 3 days. For the second time, the famous Blind Man's Bluff tournament World Championship of € 100 will be also part of the program and it will take place on the evening of Sunday, October 30. This event really enjoyed the public, which prompted the organizers to integrate back into the program for the edition 2011. The poker room of the Burlington Hotel in Dublin will be then the guest of a pleasant moment of relaxation.

The American professional poker player, Jason Mercier had just won his second bracelet by winning a victory during the Event # 35 of the World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP), a $ 5,000 Pot Limit Omaha. As a reminder, Jason Mercier got his first gold bracelet in 2009 and he also has 17 cashes in the World Series. During this competition, he faced a field of 507 participants and was able to eliminate his countryman Hans Winzeler during the final duel. With this triumph, Mercier was also awarded the first prize of $ 619,575. This beautiful triumph confirms the enormous talent he has to play poker. Indeed, this year he did a lot of great things with his victory in the North American Bounty Shootout Mohegan Sun. He currently holds $ 6.3 million in tournament winnings.

The Event # 32 of the World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP), a $ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em attracted 2,828 participants. And to the delight of the Canadian poker community, their representative Kirk Caldwell triumph over this wide field and won a new bracelet for the country. Having ousted Ben White during the final duel, Cadwell ended the event then at the first step of the podium and took home the grand prize of $ 688,276. In the Event # 34, a No Limit Hold'em of $ 1,000, the American Markus Schmid made a major feat. Indeed, none of the 3,143 competitors in this event couldn't bar his way, even the Australian player Justin Cohen that he faced during the final head's up, which allowed him to win his first major trophy, his first WSOP bracelet and a stunning gain of $ 488,283.

A wonderful poker event await enthusiasts of this card game from July 7. Indeed, the Mohegan Sun Casino, in Connecticut will start again the Summer Showdown Poker Tournament. To kick off the event, a $ 440 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em with a guaranteed prizepool of $ 50,000 will be held on Thursday, July 7 from 11:00 a.m. At 6:00 p.m, a $ 180 Bounty with a guaranteed prize pool of $ 10,000 is on the program. On Friday, July 8, a No-limit Hold'em of $ 300 with a guaranteed prize pool of $ 25,000 and a $ 120 No-Limit Hold'em with $ 10,000 guaranteed prize pool is also planned.

The passion for poker is not enough to allow fans of this card game to participate in the major events of the discipline that take place around the world. The case of players of the small island in the Indian Ocean, Reunion illustrates this situation. Indeed, the vast majority Reunion players who like this game have most often a difficulty in moving to a faraway place as the U.S. capital of gambling that is Las Vegas. The reason is simple, the financial means, usually expensive to prepare a poker event of this size is not always enough for the players.

The administrative closure of both Wagram and Haussmann gambling circles is inevitably felt by the customer of gambling and poker in Paris. However, this great lack is filled by the offers from other gambling places such as the Cercle Clichy Montmartre which has just offered to poker fans a pleasant event. In fact, the las weekend was a test for the gambling establishment in the French capital which will no doubt multiply tournaments in the coming days. Thus, officials organized a tournament called Very Deep, available for € 200 buy-in for two days from Saturday 18 and Sunday 19, June. This poker event received a real success with the presence of 139 players at the start of the race.

For the first time in the history, a Scottish player won the victory in the tournament United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT). Indeed, the Scot Richard Sinclair was the best player among the large field of 554 participants during the $ 500 buy-in main event of the UKIPT Newcastle. The champion began the final day as chip leader and until the end of the competition, he struggled to keep his advantage and climb to the top spot. He has just demonstrated to the public of the poker room of the Aspers Casino his talent to play poker. Richard Sinclair fully dominated the final day of the UKIPT Newcastle and ousted his opponent with brilliance at the end heads'up, Brit Raj Verma. Sinclair won then the first prize of £ 67,000.

The edition 2011 of the Aviation Club de France Summer Series will begin in less than 24 hours on the Champs Elysees, in Paris. Indeed, as usual, it's during the summer of each year that this famous gambling circle of the French capital holds its series of poker tournaments. For this year 2011, like during other previous editions, the event will take place during the 10 days of Friday, June 24 to Sunday, July 3. Less than twenty events with various buy-in including qualifying satellites are planned for this new appointment.

For the fourth consecutive time, the American soil will once again host the charity tournament Poker in Paradise Texas Hold'em which will be held on Saturday, July 23 from 6:00 p.m. As a reminder, this tournament was organized first in order to subsidize the care of retired thoroughbred horses in the State of California that are supported by the California Retirement Management Account association (CARMA). It will be an opportunity to play poker and support a good cause. On the day of July 23, Del Mar Hilton Hotel will set up a poker room to accommodate competitors.

The 4th edition of the Barriere Poker Tour (BPT) will be back in the scene of poker event during the fourth weekend of June 2011. Indeed, after the three previous steps already played in the cities of Toulouse, Nice and recently in Lille, Dinard will host the next stage of this tour for three days from Friday 24 to Sunday, June 26. The organizers of this poker event scheduled 11 tournaments. Thus, they will be offered to local players and those who will travel to attend this appointment in Brittany. Of the 11 events planned for this fourth edition of BPT 2011, there will be of course a Main Event. Its buy-in is set at € 1,350 + 150 and will offer eight guaranteed packages for the next main event of the World Series of Poker Europe in Cannes.

The tournament Canada Poker Tour will make an exceptional stop at the Tropicana Resort in Las Vegas on July 1, 2011. Indeed, to celebrate the national day of the country, the organizers of the CPT decided to prepare a big event by working in partnership with the Las Vegas Tropicana Resort newly innovated. This is Canada Day Mega Stack Poker Showdown, a new tournament added in the program of CPT 2011. Tournament organizers have chosen the Canadian poker pro Gavin Smith as guest of honor. Canadian fans of the game, even amateur or professional, will be able to play poker in a unique framework. In addition, the tournament structure is very interesting.

The 42nd edition of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) played this year 2011, at the moment, will certainly shake up once again the incredible performances of players, the rate of attendance or record in terms of acquiring bracelet... in the field of poker. Since the starting of the tour in late May, earnings and bracelets have indeed already been distributed to about thirty players and it will not stop there before the end of the tournament. Indeed, the results of this new edition won't be completely known than after mid-July. However, a small retrospective review of key figures of the 41 editions of these series of the world poker championship that succeeded until 2010 give a little overview of its popularity.

The balance of the three first weeks of the World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP) is very satisfactory until here, a first part during which poker fever invaded the different poker rooms of the Rio Casino. Throughout this period, many poker players, regulars of this world titles but also young talents earned in turn their share of bracelet. On the night of June 19 to 20, other results were known. Indeed, the Event # 29, a 10 Game Mix / Six Handed closed in crowning Chris Lee. After having faced Travis Pearson and Brian Haveson at the fourth day of competition, he won the famous gem and a superb prize of $ 254,955. In the Event # 30, the Senior No-Limit Hold'em Championship of $ 1,000, the trophy was awarded to James Hess. He won against 3,571 opponents. During the final duel, he removed Richard Harwood in the second place, pocketed the first prize of $ 557,435 and a bracelet.

While the World Series of Poker 2011 is currently continuing its fourth week of meeting in the city of Las Vegas, poker events on a smaller scale are also organized in other lands. Among the closest tournament, there is the Deepstack Open of Marrakesh (DSO) to be held at the prestigious Es Saadi casino for four days from Thursday 23 to Sunday, June 26, 2011. In the program of this deep structure Moroccan championship, there will be, among other, cash-game tournaments of € 100 buy-in with blinds of 2.5 / € 5 and Sit & Go from € 110 buy-in, two side events and of course, the highlight of this tour which is the main event of 4 days.

The World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP) come to crown two champions. Indeed, the Event # 26 No Limit Hold'em / Six Handed of $ 2,500 buy-in had just ended and at the same time awarded the trophy to the Ukrainian player Oleksii Kovalchuck. The event brought together a quite big field of 1,378 participants. Many representatives of France were part of this event and some of them, like Ludovic Riehl, Ronan Collet and Gabriel Nassif reached the paid places. Benjamin Pollack and Anthony Lellouche also defended well the French flag with their skills to play poker because they finished respectively in the 9th and 10th place. For his fine performance, the Ukrainian pocketed a gain of $ 689,739 and his first bracelet. He ousted Ionel Anton on the final duel and the third is Britain's Chris Moorman.

As expected, 10% of participants of the last Super Satellite Live of € 1,500 buy-in at the Casino of Ostend, Belgium will qualify on next Saturday 25 and Sunday, June 26, 2011 for the Grand Final of the Partouche Poker Tour Season 4. Furthermore, for players who can not attend this final meeting, they can still catch up with the seven Summer satellites to be held in a few French cities during the two months of July and August of this year. Generally, these seven live events will take place during the last two days of each weekend. In addition, tickets for each Summer Satellitte are to won for an investment of € 170 every Friday.

From October 28 to 31, 2011, the famous poker circuit, the Irish Winter Festival will again give appointment to the fans in the poker room of the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. Note that this is the biggest poker festival in Ireland, a circuit whose first edition was held in 2001. Last year, the event has been once again crowned with great success thanks to the special animation of Dennis Taylor and Eric Bistow and the introduction of the Blind Mans Bluff's Championship, a no limit hold'em tournament in the dark where the competitors can see the cards of their opponents but not his own cards. During the main event, it was Nicholas Newport who won the coronation and the first prize of € 125,000 by winning against the 347 players registered for the event. This year, organizers estimate to attract a large field at the main event of € 1,100.

The Aviation Club de France will host once again for this year 2011 a new event of the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris. This new edition will take place within six days from September 5 to 10. In addition, many satellite qualifiers will be also offered by this gambling circle in Paris during the days before the main event from September, 1 to 4 2011 for a buy-in from € 50 to € 5,000.

Fun and charity are the key words of the tournament of celebrities which will be played at the Casino of Lac-Leamy, in Gatineau on Saturday, June 18, 2011. Indeed, besides the time to indulge in a poker game, not as stressful as at major world tournaments like what is taking place at the WSOP in Las Vegas, guests who will honor this Canadian event will have the ability to accomplish a charitable mission for a good cause. Thus, each of the lucky celebrities who earn some gain should do a humanitarian donation. Therefore, the principle of the game is that each winner pays a minimum of 25% of his earnings to a charity that he will himself choose.

This weekend, fans of poker who haven't been able to visit the city of Las Vegas to compete in the world championship of poker will be entitled to two wonderful events. First, there is the sixth edition of the Million Poker Race, which will begin this Friday, June 17th in the poker room of La Mamounia casino in Marrakesh, Morocco. Note that since Monday, June 13, qualifying satellite tournaments for the main event of 22,000 dirhams (approximately € 2,000) were held in the casino. Competitors will then play poker deepstack starting with 40,000 starting chips for levels of play of 40 minutes. The organizers offer a guaranteed prizepool of € 90,000, which should delight those who will travel there. But besides this main event, this Million Poker Race Season VI will also provide to participants who will be there very interesting tournament schedules as the € 500 buy-in Heads'up starting this Saturday, June 18. The field is set for 32 participants. And finally, there is the € 230 side event to be played on Sunday, June 19.

Tournaments of the prestigious World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP) still continue to attract the eyes of the followers of this card game this weekend. Moreover, there are only a few poker appointments in the program this weekend. Among the events to report, there will be two tournaments that will be played in the Aquitaine region, in southwestern France. These are respectively the WSOP Super Sat to be held at the Casino Barrière of Biarritz and the Open de Poker that will take place in Gujan-Mestras.

After the great achievement of the French number one Bertrand Grospellier, another representative of the Hexagon also won a bracelet in the Event # 22 of the World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP). It is Elie Payan, a member of Orleans Poker Club. His triumph earned him a superb winning of $ 292,825 and his first bracelet. But another passionate of poker also received his first WSOP title. Online poker professional player, the American John Monnette had just won his first live tournament trophy. With his experience during his participation in 16 WSOP final tables, John Monnette knew how to take the lead despite the presence of great players like John Racener who finished eighth, John Juanda who finished in the sixth position or Eric Buchman, the runner up of the game. Apart from the precious jewel, the champion pocketed a sum of $ 278,144.

As in all disciplines, each player has only a single goal during the competition: reach the top and snatch the victory. This mindset is currently observed in the determination of poker enthusiasts who actively participate in the some fifty tournaments offered on the sidelines of the World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP) which is held in the city of Las Vegas, in the United States. The only difference with other disciplines is that the efforts made by the best players are directly paid in cash. Moreover, about twenty players already enjoyed this wonderful feeling with the added bonus and as usual gold bracelets.

Israeli Tourism Minister, Stas Misezhnikov just did his report on the results of this sector in front of the Hebrew Parliament for the year 2010. This recent communication in front of the committee in charge of this domain was once again an opportunity for member of the Netanyahu government to re-launch his idea to allow legal casino operations in Israel. The Jewish state, like many other countries, defends formally the existence of gambling on its territory, however, such an initiative could also make possible the holding of poker tournaments in this country.

A new stage of the tournament United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) will start in the poker room of Aspers casino Newcastle this Thursday, June 16, 2011. This British poker circuit has always been very successful and even if the UKIPT Newcastle will be held on the sidelines of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, organizers hope to raise even a field of 500 participants during the main event of £ 550. The main tournament started this Thursday from 2:00 p.m. and there will be two first qualifying day. The final table is scheduled to take place on Monday, June 20.

To the delight of the French public, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier won the Event # 21 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas. Once again, the great "Elky" show to the world his great talent to play poker. In addition to the prestigious bracelet that he won, the first of France during this 42nd edition of the WSOP, and the reward of $ 331,639, the great champion has been entitled to the famous Triple Crown and joined the rank of Gavin Griffin, Roland de Wolfe and Jake Cody. This victory of Grospellier at the Seven Card Stud Championship of $ 10,000 is not a fortuity because he was always well placed throughout the competition despite the fact that formidable opponents like Men Nguyen, Sorel Mizzi, Chad Brown and Jason Mercier participated also in this event. And this new conquest pulled up the No. 1 French poker player in the 27th place in the ranking of tournament winnings.

The Italian Poker Tour 2011(IPT) will soon begin the second stage of the season 3. According to the timetable established by organizers of the Italian circuit, a new stop will be held in the coming days in the town of Campione. Thus, followers of this card game who didn't moved to Las Vegas for the WSOP underway can meet at this Italian poker event of five days from June 23 to 27. Besides, a little trip on the Squadra Azzura territory to honor such a competition worth the travel with the structure proposed. In short, for this second tournament at Casino Campione, the buy-in is set at € 2000 + 200 and will have a significant prize pool.

La ley del 12 de mayo de 2010 en el punto de mira, el póker y las apuestas deportivas continúan debatiéndose a nivel del parlamento. De hecho, el reciente informe parlamentario de la Comisión de Finanzas redactado por los dos diputados Jean-François Lamour y Aurélie Filippetti ha suscitado una posible reforma del texto legal ya aprobado el año pasado. De tal manera, en la ley de finanzas rectificativa estudiada actualmente en el hemiciclo, los dos elegidos proponen algunos cambios, sobre todo a nivel de póker. Esta enmienda afecta particularmente a la sustitución de 2% de tasas en las apuestas por una tasa del 20% del producto bruto de los juegos. Para ellos, esta medida es necesaria para eliminar las ofertas ilícitas favoreciendo las prestaciones legales, sinónimo de una bocanada de oxígeno para la economía.

Sin City, America's capital of gambling and a well known city of poker all around the world for the past years is no longer the leader in this domain for some time face to the spectacular rise of Asian casinos. Indeed, Las Vegas has already lost the top of the podium of the city's international gambling since 2007 in favor of Macao. And more, the sales recorded for the year 2010 is no more increasing in the city of all excesses, the city of big poker tournaments of the New World. Of course, the prize returned to Asian gambling establishments in Macao with 23.5 billion dollars of turnover. They are followed from afar by casinos of Las Vegas with $ 6 billion, which in turn are closely followed by casinos of Singapore that achieved a turnover of 5.1 billion dollars.

Now, the organizers of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) will focus particularly on a new calculation system to identify the player of the Year of the series. Thus, those responsible of this prestigious international tournament felt useful to renovate the method of selection given the controversy that occurred last year about the designation of Frank Kassela rather than Michael Mizrachi. Therefore, it was decided that the new parameters of calculation in the ranking of Player of the Year 2011 will be applied from this year.

Among the medium poker circuit organized around the world, the Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) is the one that experienced the greatest success. As a reminder, the HPT amazed those who like to play poker through the many stages of the tournament held on the U.S. territory. In addition, almost every main event of the HPT have been a huge TV show. But in the next years, the reputation of the HPT will be still more assertive because the circuit has just been bought by the Federated Sports and Gaming (FS + G). Note that the FS + G created the largest gathering of professional poker and this new partnership can be more than successful.

The Britain's Darren Woods had just seized the 19 th bracelet of the World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP) at the Event # 19, Limit Hold'em 6-Max of $ 2,500 buy-in. While French audience were hoping for a victory of their compatriot Gabriel Nassif, he was eliminated at the 6th position. However, he has just made a great achievement as he currently stands in the ranks of French players who record a WSOP final table. The action is also in full swing at the $ 1,000 No-Limit Hold'em tournament, which brought together a wide field of 3,175 participants. It remains only 27 survivors, but all representatives of the Hexagon have been removed. Jason Sommerville is placed at the top of the pack with 749,000 chips in hand. Despite the advantage he acquired, he should still face formidable players like the Hungarian Valdemar Kwayser who won a bracelet in the last edition and the Dutchman Lex Veldhuis. Besides the famous jewels of the WSOP, the winner will also leave with a nice gain of $ 493,091.

The closure of a few Parisian gambling circles was one of the last news in France. If before, the reasons of the sanctions taken against these gambling establishments were still unclear, currently all information referring to these events begin to spread two days after the closure of the cercle Wagram and Club Eldo. Indeed, the spokesman of the Direction générale de la police nationale (DGPN), Pascal Garibian stated that the two gaming clubs, well known in the poker world are also linked to organized crime case. The news site Leparisien.fr also unveiled that the case also involved the cercle Haussmann. Effectively, the leaders of the institution are involved in a case of organizing illegal gambling.

Another prop bet between poker players marked the day of Sunday, June 12, 2011 in the U.S. first city of gambling. In fact, for a quite unusual bet, it is! Thus, both followers of the discipline who are Brandon Adams and Patrick Antonius clashed during the last day of the week but also during the feast of Pentecost, on a tennis court in Las Vegas. As stake of the challenge, it depends on a match between the two poker players during which, the first who has two sets is the winner.

The $ 1,500 HORSE tournament of the WSOP 2011 ended with the victory of Aaron Steury. This is the Event # 17 of the World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP). Note that the event brought together a field of 963 players generating an enormous prize pool of $ 1,300,050. The winner pocketed a gain of $ 289,283 and the precious bracelet by ousting the former champion Michael Chow on the final duel. Top players was among this filed present at the poker room of Rio for this tournament and some of them finished in the money list as Tristan Clémençon who awarded the 10 th place and Victor Ramdim who currently has four WSOP 2011 final tables and finished 9th. In the Event # 17, Adam Friedman reaced the third place.

The tenth season of the World Poker Tour (WPT) already started a month ago with the stage of Barcelona that crowned Lukas Berglund. The organizers established a very interesting program, and as the world championship of poker in Las Vegas monopolizes completely the attention of all poker enthusiasts at the moment, the next stage of the WPT 2011-2012 will only take place in the month of July. Indeed, it will be the Casino Portoroz in Slovenia that will host the next meeting of the WPT Season X from July 17 to 21. Fans of the circuit will after that go to the poker room of Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, from August 25 to 30 for the WPT Legends of Poker.

The weekend of Pentecost was not a time for any rest or respite for players qualified for the final of the Joa Poker Tour 2011 held at Casino La Siesta, in Antibes, France. But it was also a fruitful journey and that paid off big for the best players. Indeed, this stage of the tournament which was played on the Riviera, near Juan les Pins, available for a buy-in of € 1800 offered to the winner a prize of € 40,000. And it was Jean-Philippe Rohr who had the opportunity to win this great prize pool, a ranking established following a deal between the 3 remaining players of the game. The runner up, Sebastien Weiler and Adrien Guarrigues, 3rd, however, pocketed respectively € 28 000 and € 17 000.

Despite the potential negative effects that the Black Friday bring in the market of online poker in the U.S.A, the results of the first 16 tournaments played so far at the World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP) reveal a very positive result. Even if there is still 42 tournaments to play in these World Series, some increase in the rate of influx has already been registered so far compared to the year 2010. If the same number of tournaments registered 13,882 participants last year, for the 42nd edition of the WSOP, there were already 14,632 players who were registered at these meetings, or 750 more players or 5% increase.

Players, teams of online poker room, clubs but also ordinary fans can now prepare and train well to acquire good strategies and be ready for the Season 8 of the European Poker Tour (EPT). Indeed, the timing of this tournament, the most anticipated on the Old Continent, has been unveiled as part of its season 2011-2012. Compared to the last edition, some changes were made in the timing of passage of this circuit in different European cities where the competition is accustomed to held a stage. In total, this first of the eighth season of the EPT will be held from August 2 to February 6, 2012 and will feature 7 stages.

The final of the high-limit version of the Deuce-to-Seven Draw Lowball of the World Series of Poker 2011, a meeting that formed the Event # 16 of the world championship in Las Vegas, was played last Saturday, June 11. If this $ 10,000 tournament brought together 126 participants since Thursday, a turnout that let to collect a total prize pool of $ 1,184,400, there were only 14 players who were able to integrate the money. And it was a real battle of professional players as these players qualified for the final day totaled a cumulation of 33 WSOP bracelets. The day before, other renowned poker players like Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, David Uliott, Tom "durrrr" Dwan... have already been eliminated.

After the recent closure of the cercle Haussmann on May 23, 2011, two other gaming circles of Paris also met the same fate. Indeed, the police closed one by one the cercle Wargram and the Club Eldo. As a reminder, the opening and operation of gaming circles in France are governed by the Finance Act of June 30, 1923. This law states that during one year, operators can offer their service to fans of poker and other gambling legally. However, they must follow regulations regarding the compensation of their employees for example. After this first year of operation, they must send a request to reopen by presenting a strong case highlighting the ability of the gaming circle to continue its activities for the years to come.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas has already started since ten days and many players won a bracelet. The audience of the poker room of Rio casino also attended to wonderful performances at previous competitions. And the action will still continue. Effectively, since last June 8, those who like playing poker Limit Hold'em have already joined the gaming tables in the context of the Event # 14, a competition of $ 2,000 buy-in, to try to win the trophy in the hands of Eric Buchanan, actual title holder. The 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship tournament of $ 10,000 buy-in has also started yesterday. On June 12, the event # 21which is a Seven Card Stud Championship of $ 10,000 will be in the program. Last year, it was Men Nguyen who won the title.

The Act of May 12, 2010 on online games, poker and sports betting continues to be debated at the French Parliament. Indeed, the recent parliamentary report of the Finance Committee drafted by the two deputies, Jean-François Lamour and Aurélie Filippetti attracted a likely reform of the legal text already approved last year. Thus, in the supplementary budget currently studied in the Parliament, both elected propose some changes, particularly in terms of poker. This amendment relates particularly the substitution of the 2% tax on rake by a tax of 20% of gross gaming revenue. For them, this measure is necessary to eliminate illegal offers while promoting legal operators, synonym of a boost for the economy.

While the prestigious World Series of Poker in Las Vegas are now entering into more new events, the second weekend of June 2011 will be also very interesting for poker enthusiasts in France. Moreover, participants will have numerous choices between going to Antibes for the final of the JOA Poker Tour or moving to Saint-Amand-les-Eaux to take part in a new tournament of the Partouche Poker Deepstack or taking part and honoring the usual poker tournament to be held in Gruissan.

The general assembly of the poker club in the village of Baradoux, France was held on last Saturday, May 28, 2011. Thus, 83 players having a license from Marvejols, Saint-Chely-d'Apcher, Langogne, Mende and Badaroux were at the rendezvous at the town hall. This meeting was an opportunity for the association to renew its officers. Without any surprise, the members trusted once again to the new team led by former President Samuel Palot. Moreover, the work done by the former leaders elected for one more year, according to the balance sheet reported by the first official of the poker club was very satisfactory for the rest of the team. Effectively, the club of Badaroux participated among other in various tournaments in France as well as those that took place abroad such as in Spain, Ireland or Morocco.

Double Impact is not just a movie title, it’s also the new tournament that the Cercle Gaillon offers for a few time to poker enthusiasts in the French capital. In fact, it's an event that takes place each week in this gambling establishment located near the Champs-Elysees. The entry fee to let players participate in this weekly tournament is set at € 500. For the actual structure of the event, players start with 15,000 chips and they have rounds lasting 30 minutes each. Presented as an individual poker championship tournament, Double Impact of Cercle Gaillon defined as rules of the tournament the qualification of the three best players from each weekly competition for the grand final scheduled for Monday, September 19, 2011.

Montgenèvre of Hautes Alpes, in France will be the pioneer city that will host the first edition of Sports Events Poker. This new brand event will highlight two disciplines that have their place in the society. Indeed, sport and poker will be at the forefront during the few days of escape in this French city located near the Italian border. Moreover, the duo of sports and poker will remain linked each other during this event. Therefore, it will be from the performance of each participant in sporting events that will depend the allocation of chips that each player will have for the poker games to play after.

The 14th edition of the Mazagan Poker Million marked the last two days of the first week of June 2011. Indeed, this prestigious Moroccan tournament was held on June 4 and 5 of this year in the luxury Mazagan Beach Resort. Of course the € 2,000 buy-in main event of this circuit was the most followed and that registered the most participants who did the trip in the sunny climate of Morocco. Moreover, they were 40 players who wanted to get the guaranteed prize pool of 1 million dhirams or € 100,000 at the beginning of the event, during the first day of Saturday.

The countdown has begun for entrepreneurs and young graduates qualified for the final of the PME Poker Tour (« SMEs Poker Tour ») from the moment that the date for Saturday, June 25, 2011 was announced. Indeed, the two months of qualifying tournaments are completed, now, it's time for the ultimate confrontation between the two worlds that compose in their respective ways the current economic power of France and for the near future. For this unique poker event, 15 managers of small and medium enterprises having professional experiences will face the fury of the 55 graduates of High School and French Universities in the prestigious Cercle Gaillon in Paris.

Undoubtedly, poker is no longer a game reserved exclusively to men. Indeed, more and more women players who are playing very well this game begin to stand out and become serious opponents to major players. Like the great women poker players the two Vanessa, Selbst and Rousso, Annette Obrestad or Liv Boeree, the course full of pitfalls followed by the American player, Maria Ho deserves to be reported. First, this Californian of 28 years began to play poker for the first time in November 2002. Then she decided to become professional in this game during the summer of 2005.

The original version of the book "Poker winners are different" written by Dr. Alan Schoomaker was released in 2009. Two years later, French speaking readers, especially poker enthusiasts will be served with the arrival of the book on the French market. Thanks to the collaboration between Ayesha Carmody and François Montmirel, this new publishing entitled “Ceux qui gagnent au poker sont différents” by Fantaisium editions will be available from June 9, 2011. The book's author, who is an expert in poker psychology, highlighted in the few pages he has written various aspects relating to the basic profile of winning players.

Poker tournaments succeed but aren't alike. Indeed, far from prestigious circuits that are the World Poker Tour or the World Series of Poker 2011 which is in full swing actually in its 42nd edition in the U.S. capital of games in Las Vegas, small towns of France, including St. Florentin also live at the pace of the game. Last weekend, it was effectively at the bar Le Dilo that a stage of the Challenge national de poker hosted by a French site has been organized. Indeed, this town is one of the forty cities participating in this national challenge for the poker's most popular variant and the most practiced in the world, Texas Hold'em. Thus, they numbered about thirty amateurs therein who were present at the appointment.

Despite some negative image that the Black Friday carried in the poker world, the bill to regulate the sector of online poker in the U.S.A wasn't gone unheeded so far. In fact, according to the first superintendent of the American Gaming Association as part of the iGaming great show in Dublin, the procedures to legalize the federal enactment at the American Parliament are in the right direction. Moreover, Frank Fahrenkopf already informed followers of online poker about its probable publication during the autumn 2011. At least, this famous law should be released at the latest in the new year 2012, according to his explanations.

The action continues to amaze the public of the Rio poker room as part of the 42nd annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). A few players has already been entitled to the famous gold bracelet of this 2011 season starting with Sean Drake, a croupier from California who managed to win face to the 129 casino employees who registered to participate in the Event # 1. His performance also earned him a first prize of $ 82,292. After having failed three successive times the victory during the $ 1,500 Seven Card Stud event, Eugene Kachalov finally win his first WSOP bracelet and also pocketed for this feat the sum of $ 122,909. Note that Kachalov had as opponent Alessio Isaia of Italy during the final duel and that victory was acquired face to a field of 357 players including various well-known players such as Tom Dwan, Frank Kassela or Daniel Negreanu.

It remains more than seven weeks of poker madness to live in Las Vegas as part of the holding of the world championship of poker in the city. As usual, such a high concentration of several great players and stars of poker in this city of Nevada do that cash game tournaments are organized everywhere. This time it was in the High Stakes poker room of Rio that fans of that kind of tournament gathered. It's sometimes difficult to have complete information on these cash games where a huge amount of money is in stake and where most of the time, very wealthy businessmen are also on the gaming tables.

Seven months ran out since the start of the first round of the ESSEC Poker Championship as part of the edition 2010-2011. Today, the end of the competition is close with the arrival of the last and eighth round of the tournament. Indeed, the name of the best poker player in the French High School of Economics and Commerce championship will be finally known during this final evening of Wednesday, June 8, 2011. If they were fifty-two students who compete during the inaugural round in December 2010, they are currently seventy-three candidates to compete for the first rank of this special poker tournament for apprentices of economic and commercial institutions.

Last weekend, the stage in Lille of the Barrière Poker Tour (BPT) tournament brought together 132 players. Despite the holding of the world championship of poker in Las Vegas, the BPT Lille had the same success as the previous two stages and attracted well known players as Nicolas Babel, Lucien Cohen, Sam El Sayed and Vanessa Hellebuyck. But after the two days of confrontation, it's Pierre Portier who had the chance to succeed to Bertrand Grospellier, the 2010 title holder. To win this superb victory with a prize of € 28,000, Pierre Portier alias "Piotrec" ousted Youcef Benzerfa in the final heads'up. However, he highlighted throughout the competition his big ability to play poker. Benzerfa won then the title of runner up with a prize of € 23,000 including the famous package to the World Series of Poker Europe Cannes (WSOPE).

As the many poker tour played in national or international level are not yet sufficient, the large family of poker tournaments in France just got bigger with the announcement of the first edition of the Corse Poker Series. With this new context that simply delight fans of this card game, both online poker players as those who frequent the halls of land based casino, will be happy. Effectively, the country of Jean Paul "el Kosico" Pasqualini, Stephane Albertini. .. will host a new event, which promises to be pleasant. Thus, from September 6 to 12, 2011, followers of this card game will have a new event to play at the Sagone Resort, on the Island of Beauty. Indeed, the Corse Poker Series should be included from now in the calendar of players.

The$ 25,000 buy-in Head's Up tournament of the World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP) ended by crowning the young British Jake Cody as champion. Victorious of the final duel between him and the champion of World Poker Tour Yevegnjy Timoshenko, Jack Cody just won the last most prestigious poker title that miss to him. Indeed, Jack Cody already won a stage of the European Poker Tour (EPT) held in Deauville in 2010 and the WPT London 2010. With this new conquest in Las Vegas, he has just acquired his first WSOP bracelet, while pocketing a reward of $ 851,192, and joined the ranks of players holding a Triple Crown with Gavin Griffin and Roland de Wolfe. With this victory, Cody now stack more than $ 2.6 million in tournament winnings for the entire two years of his career.

Poker Magazine is currently celebrating its fifth anniversary. Born in 2006, this leader of poker press always offered to fans of the game interesting informations. To commemorate it, the magazine released a special issue highlighting the number 5. Readers can find inside the magazine's special anniversary the presentation of the 5 best bluffs, the 5 sexiest poker players, the 5 bracelets of the World Series of Poker obtained by French players, the 5 golden rules to success in poker, the 5 qualities of a good poker player, the 5 best moves, the 5 biggest winners in tournaments, the 5 best films of poker, the 5 tips to find a sponsor, the top 5 bets in the history of poker, the WSOP five anecdotes that are still unknown by the general public, 5 bad behavior of a poker player and many other informations as intriguing one to each other.

In this 2011 edition of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), the event that surely please the public is the opportunity to relive the ultimate historic confrontation between top stars of poker in the "Grudge Matches" catgory. This is an inaugural tournament of the event. Thus, the famous duel between Johnny Chan and Phil Hellmuth in 1988 has therefore been played once again. At that time, the young Hellmuth as the hero of the show by beating Johnny Chan. However, during this new meeting, Johnny Chan got his revenge because he effectively defeated after a hectic great duel Hellmuth. The next rematch will face Chris Moneymaker and Sam Farha.

There's something new on the first French channel which is entirely devoted to gambling, sports betting and poker. Indeed, for the month of June 2011, a new tournament will expand the lineup of Lucky Jack TV. Consequently, viewers who enjoy poker will certainly appreciate every Sunday the new program "ACF Prestige Invitational” in addition to the World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour, Aussie Millions and the Wynn Championship already proposed by the managers of the channel. Thus, the first appointment appeared on television on Sunday, June 5. Furthermore, for those who missed the broadcasts of every Sunday, they can always catch up with the many replays. Moreover, they are scheduled every weekday except Wednesday.

The poker appointment organized jointly by the founder of Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberté and the World Series of Poker will certainly beat the record of entry fee of all circuits ever played. Indeed, both parties gathered their efforts to prepare the event of the century. Thus was born the tournament "The Big One for One Drop", a historic poker meeting available to a buy-in of one million dollars. However, the actual preparation of this titanic event will still be an intensive and very time-consuming labor. Therefore, players who wish to participate in this tournament will have to wait until next year.

It is officially confirmed, one of the biggest names in poker will not honor the prestigious global appointment of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), which has just started in Las Vegas. Indeed, according to a statement signed by Phil Ivey, because it is indeed him, he will not travel to the U.S. gambling capital. In this missive, the poker star said that despite his willingness to participate in this international event, he can only resign. In fact, he is really sorry for the many fans but mostly for other players who have awaited this reunion to have the privilege to compete against him. Which is a shame for the show.

The past weekend was marked by the Championnat de France Interclubs 2011 (France inter-club Championship). On this occasion, more than 180 poker players represented some 90 poker clubs and enthusiasts participating in this new appointment, which was held at the Château des Condé de Vallery for the year 2011. The two days of competition let designate the new title holder for this year. Besides the main event for the many players from clubs, those who did the trip especially those who were prematurely eliminated from the Main Event were able to enjoy with other activities that were proposed, such as tennis or bocce.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) started in Las Vegas since Tuesday, May 31. For 7 weeks, poker enthusiasts from around the world will meet in the poker room of Rio casino in Las Vegas to compete on poker tables during the 58 events in the program. And this year, the public can live a fabulous show, including the famous Heads'Up Rematch. As a reminder, the tournament will begin with the $ 500 No Limit Hold'em casino employees. But the real inaugural tournament of this great festival will be the $ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em championship Heads'Up. Last year, Canada won the trophy thanks to the excellent performance of Jonathan Duhamel. Like previous champions of the event, he will probably want to repeat his feat.

A great event for those who like playing poker deepstack, the International Poker Open tournament 2011(IPO) will be held from October 21 to 23 in Ireland. As a reminder, the IPO is the biggest deepstack event of the European soil. It offers to passionate of poker not only the opportunity to participate in a very professional game, but it is also accessible in a moderate buy-in of € 225. In the previous edition, the organizers registered a huge success by bringing a field of 1,293 participants offering a first prize of around € 50,000. For this 2011 edition, the same success is expected.

Last Sunday, the public in the poker room of Caesars Palace, in Las Vegas attended the final table of the first World Series of Poker Circuit National Championship (WSOPC) tournament. On the evening of Sunday, therefore, the verdict was out and Sam Barnhart was the great lucky who won the trophy, the first prize of $ 300,000 and the beautiful bracelet. The champion eliminated James Anderson, who won the Midwest Regional Championship in Hammond, Indiana, during the final heads'up. At the beginning of this final duel, James Andersen had a slight advantage in chips. But it was not enough to propel him to victory. But for his performance, he received a wonderful bonus of $ 200,000.

Five cards on the table and two more in hands, it's basically the atmosphere imaginable once each week in the evening at the René-Cassin room, in France. Indeed, members of the Wild Poker 04 association meet every Thursday evening at tables to play and share their passion, which is poker, with friends. Moreover, the 40 members would rather play the Texas Hold'em variant without betting money. Nevertheless, the game principle remains intact with the use of tokens as well as the ability to bluff. At the end of each weekly meeting, only the player who has the best hand wins.

The Moroccan player Houssam Mhamed defended heroically the honor of his country by seizing the throne in the main event of € 1,350 buy-in of the Marrakesh Poker Open (MPO) XX. However, they were 165 competitors who were registered for this competition which was played over three days with several big names of French and international poker. At the last day, the action was in full swing in the poker room of Es Saadi Casino. As highlight of this main event, the public enjoyed a tumultuous battle between Erik Haik and Mehdi Hsissen. The little statue of Superman of Mehdi Hsissen really brought happiness to him because he was able to dominate the former second best player in France.

Erica Schoenberg and Erick Lindgren have finally taken the plunge. Indeed, after a little over a year of dating, the two lovers and poker players both have wed on Sunday, May 29, 2011. The celebration of the happy event was held in Santa Barbara, United States in the presence of a multitude poker professionals like Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth. Moreover, various reactions followed the union of the two lovers including the own comments of the interested. But the most remarkable of all was that of Mike Matusow, who has never thought about the commitment of E-Dog, hoping one day to follow his path.
 
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