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The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) held in the poker room of Skycity Queenstown Casino finally crowned its champion in the person of Marcel Schreiner, a young professional of poker of 22 years. With this prestigious title that he won, Schreiner could then pocket a gain of € 54,634. Even if the champion gained enough experience during his participation in the two editions of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and his appearances in various online poker tournaments, his course in the final of the APPT Queenstown was not easy The tournament field was made by the best local players. Note that the final table began on Sunday. Competitors give all the best of them to continue the race as long as possible. But after an hour, the champion of the APPT Sydney Grand Final 2010, Jonathan Karamalikis, was finally eliminated to rank at the 9th place.

If last year, the stage of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona brought together a field of 758 players, this year, there were 811 players who registered for the tournament with € 5,300 buy-in. This edition 2011 accumulated a huge success. And as usual, the big community of poker stars invaded the poker room of the Gran Casino Barcelona. Indeed, during the first qualifying day, well known players as Theo Jorgensen, Alex Kravchenko, Lex Veldhuis, Annette Obrestad, Vanessa Selbst or Andre Akkari were identified among the registrants. If Vanessa Selbst took control of the first few levels of play, Sam El Sayed was ranked among the top of the list of 210 survivors of Day 2 with Martin Schleich at the place of chipleader. But the public also saw some of their favorite players eliminated early as Bruno Launais, Michel Abecassis, Pierre Neuville, Sandra Naujocks or Basile Yaiche.

September is probably the month of poker tournaments. In Corsica, poker will be honored at this beginning of September with the first edition of the Corse Poker Series (CPS). This first Corsican poker tournament will be held from September 6 to 12 in South Corsica, in Sagone Resort. A magnificent destination for this holiday season, Corsica also provides a holiday with poker as a main activity, at least for these seven days of the poker tournament Corse Poker Series. To participate in this trip especially dedicated to the game, participants should pay € 469, boat ticket from France coast included or € 379 without boat ticket. With the promotion code "Poker Mag", the event with boat optional is open for € 419 and the same stay without this option is € 349. For its first edition, the CPS promises to give packages of € 1,200, € 500, € 300 and € 200 and a ticket to the "Prestige Invitational", the stars' tournament.

Online poker is now in the center of many discussions in the United States. After the Black Friday, the press announced last week the possibility of new regulations on the practice of online poker. These regulations combined with the government's desire to reduce the U.S debt of 14 billion dollars. Poker enthusiasts in the USA could then assist to the presentation of the online poker case in the Debt Super Committee for a regularization, which will generate more taxes for the Super Committee to wipe up the debt because poker, not just only in this country but elsewhere in the world, is currently a market that can generate a significant tax for the State. So, the IRS also wants to increase its aid by raising taxes on the incomes of American citizens who work outside the United States. Federal law requires all expatriates to pay taxes on income to the IRS.

The Delaware Park Iron Man Poker Challenge once again attracted the attention of poker enthusiasts as they were 376 players who registered for this tournament available for $ 550. The poker room of Commerce Casino in Los Angeles has been busy during the holding of this event even if the record of the previous edition was not beaten. Note that the tournament ended after 19 hours of play because the participants in this endurance event had to stay 31 hours and 58 minutes on the gaming tables before the winner of the event were known. And it was Hieu Tran who seized this great victory whith the reward amount to $ 43,761. His runner up, John Barber received $ 26,552 for his fine performance.

A new stage of the tenth season of the World Poker Tour (WPT) has just been started in the poker room of Bicycle Casino, in California. At the start of the tournament, Mike Sexton, Tony Dunst, Kimberly Lansing and members of the Royal Flush Girls were there to give a press conference during which they announced the significantly changes during this season X. If the previous season accumulated a huge success, the season X will also be also a success story because players are increasingly attracted by prestigious offers awarded by the organizers. According to the tournament director Steve Haller, champions will receive VIP treatment, all tournaments will be broadcast on different TV channels and all final tables will be broadcast live on the internet.

On next September 2 and 3, the city of London will receive the largest European poker festival, Poker In The Park. This new edition will be held at Oxford Circus of Hanover Square and will bring together all the best of poker with many events and of course poker games. Poker In The Park is already in its fifth year and judging by the number of visitors last year, this festival is one of the largest poker events in Europe. Indeed, more than 20,000 people attended the Poker In The Park IV, held at Leicester Square in 2010. As usual, the festival is open to everyone and attend to the various events planned during this event is free.

The second stage of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Season 5 takes place currently in Queenstown, New Zealand at SKYCITY Queenstown Casino. The APPT Queenstown gathered 127 players from all of the Asian continent with a massive presence of players from New Zealand at the registration. The arrival of these many players from 19 Asian countries generated a prize pool of more than NZ $ 340,000 for a buy-in from NZ $ 3,000. The Main Event Day 1 of the APPT Queenstown held from August 23 to 25 created many surprises all along the day 1A, 1B and 1C.

In the United States, poker is in the spotlight with the various poker tournaments taking place this week. In Miami, Florida State, this weekend will be an important appointment for poker enthusiasts because they'll meet at the "Jeff Conine Celebrity Poker Classic" which, as its name suggests, is an event that will include many celebrities. This event is based on the theme of baseball, that's the reason why professional players from the Florida Marlins will be present there. The Jeff Conine Celebrity Poker Classic will be held this weekend at Calder Race Course & Casino and is intended to raise funds for the Conine Clubhouse of the children's hospital Joe DiMaggio. During this weekend, amateur and poker players will have the chance to share the 20 tables of Calder Casino with celebrities guest and players from the Marlins for a poker game.

This Thursday, August 25 will be held at Bicycle Casino in Las Vegas the WPT Legends of Poker Championship, which is part of the third stage of the World Poker Tour 2011. The WPT Legends of Poker Championship 2011 will effectively take place until August 30, 2011 with a buy-in of $ 3,500 + 200. For fans of the WPT Legends of Poker, they will probably notice the large decrease of the buy-in compared to previous years. For its tenth edition, it will offer the lowest buy-in of the last ten years with less than $ 5,000. Between 2002 - 2005 and last year, the buy-in of the tournament was $ 5,000 and between 2006 and 2009, fees rose to $ 10,000. This surge in buy-in was probably the cause of the decrease of participants in recent years. With a registration fee of $ 3,500 + 200, organizers plan to gather at Bicycle Casino hundreds of players during the six days of competition.

A few weeks before the start of the Grand Final of the Partouche Poker Tour Season 4, there are many players who already won the famous package for the tournament by participating in different stages of the Summer Sat, a series of qualifying tournament for this great poker festival. This weekend, the poker room of Pasino Saint-Amand-les-Eaux will welcome players to take part in the final stage of the tournament. Those who want a chance to join Palm Beach Casino, in Cannes and compete for the prestigious title should then take part in it. As in previous steps, players should pay the sum of € 1,250 to have the opportunity to participate in the main event of the Summer Sat to be held on August 27 and 28, 2011. Note that the best players of this stage, 10% of the field will receive the package of € 8,500.

Known for his performances in high-stakes online poker tournaments, Brian Hastings has just won his first victory in a live tournament. And it's not an amateur event but a major tournament as it's the World Poker Tour Summer Splash Regional. The poker room of Seminole Hard Rock Casino has however welcomed during this event an important field of 391 participants in which the biggest names in poker, as the leader of the Global Poker Index, Jason Mercier, were enrolled. If the latter settled for the 23th place, Hastings finally reach the victory with a reward of $ 213,877. He has proven that he can succeed in both tournaments on the Internet than in live tournaments.

The royal city of Monaco has always been a meeting point for fans of poker as it has already hosted several major tournaments. Poker Night Fever is a tournament series that comes to set up in Monaco. And to the delight of fans of this circuit, two new appointments will take place in the majestic Sun Casino of Monte Carlo. They will be held in November and December and satellite tournaments qualifiers for these two events will be held in the poker room of the hotel. And to celebrate the return of this famous tournament, Sun Casino decided to organize a special evening during which fans can meet in live with Isabelle Mercier.

The passage of the World Poker Tour (WPT) in Jacksonville is included in the new offers of this tenth edition of the circuit. The event took place in the poker room of Orange Park from August 13 to 16. With a buy-in of $ 1,500, the WPT Regional Jacksonville brought together 416 participants composed of professional and amateur players. With such crowds, the organizers collected a total prize pool of $ 622,350 and were able to give a nice balance of $ 143,145 to the winner of the tournament. This was the native of Tampa, Chris Conrad, who seized the prize and the trophy.

The Eureka Poker Tour is a live poker tournament that takes place mainly in Eastern Europe. This poker tournament that began in March of this year has a total of six tournaments that take place respectively in Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and finally in the Czech Republic for the Grand Final. The Eureka Poker Tour is attractive because of its very interesting prize pools given the number of players who are expected for the Main Event with moderate buy-in of € 800 (€ 730 + 70). For its fourth stage, therefore, the Eureka Poker Tour will make a stop in Zagreb on Monday 22 of August to Saturday, August 27. The Golden Sun Casino in Zagreb and Hotel Antunovic will welcome so for the first time a major tournament with a Main Event of € 800 with 15,000 chips and levels of 60 minutes.

This week, poker is the event not to miss on the country of Queen Elizabeth. Indeed, the Grosvernor United Kingdom Poker Tour (GUKPT), will be the major event appointment for all poker players worldwide. Scheduled for August 24 to August 28, this major event is characterized by a large prize pool of £ 100,000. The Goliath Event, as fans call it, will be held at Ricoh Arena Coventry FC, the place that will become the poker room for a few days and buy-in for all players is £ 100 +20. By judging the number of players who should be around 1,600 and the jackpot to be won during the five days of tournament, the Grosvernor United Kingdom Poker Tour event is the event the most popular nearby players from all Europe and the rest of the world being held this week.

The Cercle Gaillon, in Paris is known for its poker tournaments that attract all class of players. This gaming place already organized the Team Poker Cup, an event that recorded a great success. This time, it prepares another tournament, the Deepstack relais. It will be also a tournament per team but this time, participants will be playing deep stack poker. Each team that will participate in this tournament should be composed of two players and they will each have the task to defend the honor of their team. Indeed, the first player will participate in the tournament scheduled for Sunday, while the second will play on Monday. The two days of competition will consist of eight levels of play for one hour each during which players will receive 20,000 starting chips.

As the first stage of the International Poker Open tournament has been a real success, the next edition to be held in the month of October could also record the same success. But the organizer of the event, Stephen McLean is planning to go even further to meet more fans of poker. So he concocts a grandiose event that never existed on the European soil. This is the Super Poker Europe Event 2012 scheduled to take place from February 25 to 26, 2012. And the poker room of the City West Hotel & Conference Center in Dublin will be the host institution of the tournament. The tournament is only accessible for a buy-in of € 340 and is estimated to attract a field of 4,000 participants. Thus, a prize pool of € 1.2 million is expected to be collected and the winner will take home a nice prize of € 230,000. The televised final table will be held on March 31, 2012.

In France, online poker is regulated by the ARJEL. And last year, in July, more precisely, the authority granted the first licenses to French online poker websites and it was the beginning of the standardization of the industry. On the other side of the Atlantic, online poker is in the way to be regulated and governed by a law before the end of the year. The regulation of poker is indeed present inside the news in the U.S.A including the possible creation of a "Debt Super Committee." Created by the current President, Barrack Obama, the committee aims to discern new financial resources to reduce the growth of debt and in another hand, to prevent a possible increase of the biggest amount of the debt.

Belgium is like other European countries, a country with many fans of online poker. With the creation of the Belgian Poker Series, poker players in Belgium can compete for the first time in a real live poker tournament. So this year, the Belgian Poker Series began its tour at the Casino of Namur since last April with 576 participants during the four days of competition. The next round of the BPS will be hosted by the Casino Blankenberge. The BPS Blankenberge will begin on August 31 with satellite tournaments of € 50 + 10 buy-in but the main tournament will be played with 20,000 chips from September 1 to 4. On the first day, participants will play on levels of 45 minutes and from the second day, each round will be played during 60 minutes.

The European Poker Tour (EPT) is currently the flagship event in Europe with its Season 8 that began on August 2 in Tallinn, Estonia. After a first step in the Estonian capital, the second stage of the European Poker Tour Season 8 will give appointment to poker enthusiasts from August 27 to September 1st in Barcelona with a new face at its presidency. Indeed, the EPT found since last week a new president in the person of Edgar Stuchly. John Duthie, head thinking of the EPT as we know him today requested the service of another Austrian in addition to the current tournament director, Thomas Kremser. With Edgar Stuchly and Thomas Kremser at the head of the EPT this season, we are facing an event rich in experience with a better more quality of service. The new responsability of the Austrian is to break new European markets to enhance the reputation of the European circuit.

The World Cup of Poker is the event not to be missed in the poker world as well as the World Cup of football in the world of football. This year, the WCP is in its eighth edition with a qualification that was held on August 20 and 21 and will employ over 56 countries as it was the case last year. The World Cup of Poker is an online poker tournament where teams from different countries compete for a ticket that will allow them to participate in the grand final to be held each year in the Bahamas. Each team should be composed of 5 players including the captain that could be a professional player. During this tournament, national teams are divided into groups and only seven of them will qualify for the final Live in the Bahamas in 2012.

The France Poker Series (FPS) since its launch last year became the tournament's most crested of the Hexagon. The France Poker Series Sunfest Mazagan, season two of the FPS will be held then from December 1st to 4 in Morocco in the prestigious Mazagan Beach Resort. The best French player at the moment, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Julien Brecard and also Arnaud Mattern will be part of this adventure under the sun of Morocco. As with the first season, the FPS Season 2 will have in its program numerous tournaments like the Main Event of €1,100 + €100, the High Roller of € 2,700 + 300. Also featured during this tournament, there will be a NLHE Knockout, a PLO six-handed and a HORSE 8-handed with a buy-in of € 270 + 30.

The case Chino Rheem was during the last few weeks the subject of many debate and made the front page of poker news since the time that the Epic Poker League decided to exclude players who lack ethics to the game and undermines the integrity of the tournament. Winner of the Epic Poker League, Chino won a million dollars and has subsequently begun to repay his debts. But the amount gained in this tournament could not cover his multiple loans and generated some confusion among his creditors. The reason is that Chino Rheem around 50% of his gain in the latter Epic Poker League was already in stake and at the end, the player pocketed a few thousand dollars over a million dollars received. Indeed, Will Molson and a dozen other players said they were victims of the Asian-American player to having lent him money.

Fans of the Partouche Poker Tour (PPT) circuit are eagerly awaiting the start of the final to be held in Cannes from September 12 to 17, 2011. During the various stages of the Summer Sat PPT, a series of qualifying tournament for this great event, many players already acquired the famous package of € 8,500. Note that the final of the fourth season of the PPT will have a big guaranteed prize pool of $ 4 million and it is sure that it will gather all of the poker elite. So, the French public can also prepare to watch Patrick Antonius, Phil Hellmuth, Gus Hansen, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak and Tom Dwan in action during the tournament.

For the fifth consecutive year, the Santa Clarita Valley (SCV) association Youth Project and the Chiquita Canyon Landfill will hold together a charity tournament called Hold 'Em Not Hassle'Em. This poker tournament will be held on October 15 and this time, the Gateway Parkway Valencia, California will set up a majestic poker room to host the event. Participants in this meeting will then play Texas Hold'em poker with buy-in of $ 100 for those who register before September 15 and $ 125 for those who register after September 15. During this tournament, players will not only contribute to a charity but they can also win great prizes. There will, for example, travel packs to be won, tickets, hotel stay in Las Vegas and the biggest prize of the game will be a place for the World Series of Poker 2012.

While everyone thought that the case Jose "girah" Macedo was definitely closed, the online poker room that employed him doesn't seem to agree as. This former employer of the Portuguese recently decided to launch a legal proceedings against him after the involvement of Dan Cates and Haseeb Qureshi in the case of Macedo scam. Haseeb Qureshi admitted having played in a challenge on the wesite with the account "girah" and also his involvement in this story of chipdumping of $ 100,000 on last May that Macedo made with an account on the same site under the moniker "SamChauhan ". Daniel "jungleman12" Cates also confessed to having played several times on the accounts of Macedo.

Global Poker Index, the global ranking of poker professionals continues to give news after the various tournaments held around the world. After the Epic Poker League, this ranking that takes into account several criteria such as buy-in of $ 1,500 minimum, gains, or the number of participants in an event, has been modified again. If Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, currently on holiday, monopolized the title for several months before the first step of the Epic Poker League, by being just ahead of Jason Mercier with a few points, Jason Mercier and Erik Seidel took the opportunity to take the first two places of the GPI. The performance of these two Americans were in fact very remarkable during the first stage of the Epic Poker League Season 1. Mercier was third in the tournament while Erik Seidel was the runner up. Thus, the French was relegated to the third place with 100 points less than the new leader.

Appointment very anticipated by poker enthusiasts in France, the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris (WPT) will begin on September 5 ans will only end on September 10 at the Aviation Club de France (ACF). And to the delight of poker enthusiasts who wish to participate in this international tournament, the popular poker room on the Champs Elysees decided to hold satellite tournaments qualifiers for the event from August 25 to 31. This is a boon for those who can't pay the proposed buy-in at the main event of the WPT Paris. In order to develop these special events, the ACF decided to cancel the regular tournaments that take place during this period.

After its first two successful steps, the Black Belt Poker Tournament Live of Neil Channing will be held again from November 18 to 20, 2011. If the two previous events were held at Grosvenor Victoria casino in London, this new appointment will be held at the famous club Dusk Till Dawn Nottingham. For this edition of November, one of the best poker players of Great Britain as Neil Channing, Richard Ashby, Sam Razavi and Jamie Burland have already confirmed their participation. With this event, then, fans of the game of Nottingham can play poker deepstack in a really low buy-in. Indeed, the tournament will be available for $ 150 buy-in and will have a guaranteed prize of $ 50,000.

David "Chino" Rheem has just been awarded the title of the best American player after his performance at the Main Event of the Epic Poker League 2011. During this major tournament held in the "city that never sleeps," Chino won the championship ring and a nice sum of $ 1 million. Behind this impressive performance, however, Chino is involved in a case of scam and bad faith that tarnish his reputation. According to the exchange of discussion on TwoplusTwo.com, this poker player of Asian origin has multiple loans since 2009 and he hasn't yet repaid them. Chino indeed ripped off Will Molson and Joseph "sublime" Cheong of $ 40 000 each. There is also the story of the bet not paid to Ben Lamb at the WSOP 2011. During the encasement of his gains at the last EPL, David "Chino" Rheem honored his bet with Lamb and paid his creditors but only 10% of the total amount borrowed.

The world of French poker became more and more known in the international level with the performance of its professional players like Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. Effectively, he'd just made the cover of the famous poker magazine Card Player. This illustration in one of the poker magazines the best known by poker enthusiasts around the world highlights the reputation of the French on the international stage. Card Player, for recall is an American magazine but the presence of Bertrand Grospellier in this tabloid made that he's not just a French national champion but and "international" star. The magazine gives in this publication a full interview of the French from his beginning in poker to his recent achievement at the Seven Card Stud Championship in which he won a WSOP bracelet for this year's 2011. In France, ElkY has already made the cover a special publication of Live Poker.

Poker is a great way that can help raise money, a windfall that associations and charitable organizations, especially in the United States did not fail to note. To this end, Poker Night rallied to the cause of Quad-City Times in its program on the education of children in Quad-City region. On Friday 19 August, Poker Night and the newspapers QCT will hold a Texas Hold'em tournament at the Golden Leaf Banquet and Convention Center. At this event, all poker players, amateurs or professionals will be invited to participate in a charitable poker tournament for only a buy-in of $ 30 and $ 20 re-buy.

A field of 478 players were registered at the Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon which took place in the poker room of the Grand Lisboa, in Macau. At the end of the competition, a native of Singapore, Patrick Kar Keng Lee was the best player and won the trophy with a gain of $ 133,417 during this tournament. It is not easy to climb to victory when we began the final day at the 21st position with a low stack. But Patrick was able to lead well his game and managed to resist until the end. Note that there were only 26 players in the race during the final day of competition and a good portion of them surrendered after an hour of play. Two hours later, the nine finalists were designated.

The tournament New Zealand Poker Tour Queenstown (NZPT) will be held from August 22 to 28 in the heart of the famous Skycity Queenstown Casino. The organizers who aim to make this event the biggest poker festival ever held in Australia planned an outstanding program. During one week, poker enthusiasts who will join the city of New Zealand will be entitled to a first main event accessible for NZD $ 3,000 buy-in. The main event is expected to attract over 200 participants. Huge prizes can be won by the best players as a total prize pool of NZD $ 540,000 is estimated to be collected at this event. On August 22, a satellite tournament qualifier for the main event will be organized and is available for $ 60. Note that the main event begins on Aug. 23 and will consist of three first qualifying days.

Online poker was since a few years a global event. Like other European countries, Italy has many online poker websites as well as many different players involved in poker tournaments held online in the country. Online gambling in Italy is indeed regulated by the authorities and fans can legally play online, but it's very limited. But since last July, a new update was provided by the Italian regulation authority. Licensed operators can now offer online casino games but in regard to changes in online poker, these operators will have to wait until November. As for games like online slot machines, players should wait the first quarter of 2012.

The prestigious French game circle, Aviation Club de France (ACF), continue to welcome poker enthusiasts in its poker room. On August 10, 2011, the weekly tournament NLH of € 500 buy-in was attended by 73 players who competed to acquire the lion's share of the prize pool of € 34,965. Many poker pros made magnificent achievements in the various events organized by the ACF to name Lucien Cohen, Thierry Morel, Leo Laslandes, Jonathan Layani or Patrice Sitbon. And during this € 500 NLH, Antoine Saout also proved once again his talent to play poker, winning the victory with a bonus of € 11,190.

From August 12 to 14, poker enthusiasts in Spain were able to attend the seventh stage of the Spanish Championship of Poker VI (CEP) held at the Casino of Tarragona. Probably the biggest poker Iberian tournament, this championship was attended by 88 players and it was marked by the coronation of Sabates Juan Lopez. As usual, the organizers relied again on the variant of poker the most played over the world, No Limit Texas Hold'em with a little modification in the buy-in. During the seventh stage of the tournament, Sabates Juan Lopez grabbed the first place winning € 16,220, he just outpaced Marin José Fuentes who won € 10,130. At the third place, we found Laura Gallardo Ribot (€ 6,080), followed by Ruben Herrera Setian (€ 5,070) and Jose Arroyo Nieto (€ 3,550) who completes the Top 5.

If poker is a real livelihood for some, many players appreciated this game for its entertaining side. Last week, many of the famous American celebrities met at Beverly Hills Hotel for the third annual charity event organized around a Texas Hold'em poker tournament. The purpose of this event was to raise funds for the improvement of education associations such as the Alliance for College Ready Schools, the Richard Merkin Middle School and the United Friends of Children. This event brought together more than 200 guests made up of celebrities like Powers Boothe, Dennis Haysbert, Gabriel Aubry, Vinnie Jones, Kelly Hu, James Remar, Matt Craven, Richard Karn, Chris Rich, governor Gray Davis, governor Michael Leavitt and his wife, Mayor Richard Riordan and philanthropists as Eli Broad and Michael Milken.

The different poker tournaments held regularly in each country continue to become more and more famous. In Germany, the Hohensyburg Casino in Dortmund received this Monday, August 15 the opening phase of the Partouche Poker Tour WestSpiel 2011. This first step of a long tour was attended by 79 players who competed for eight tickets for the finals to be held in December. During the seven preliminary rounds, the 79 players competed in a € 50 No Limit Hold'em with unlimited rebuy. Thanks to the rebuys and add-ons, the prize pool of the first day amounted to € 11,050. For all the five rounds to be held until Friday, August 19, the pot will be divided as follow : 25% of the amount collected will be distributed at each end of the stage and the other 75% remaining share will feed the final in December.

The stage of the tournament United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) held in the poker room of Corn Exhange, in Edinburgh just close with a victory of Fintan Gavin. Indeed, the Irish emerge finally victorious from a batch of 518 participants, a noticeable performance that also let him pocket a jackpot of £ 61,500. Before this victory in Edinburgh, Gavin is already more or less familiar with podiums of major poker tournaments as in 2008, hehas already reached the position of runner-up of the European Poker Tour Barcelona (EPT). It must be said that the seventh stage of the UKIPT has been very successful because the guaranteed prize of £ 200,000 has been exceeded, £ 251,715 was raised at the meeting.

Major poker tournaments always knew how to attract fans of poker. Competition obliges in this industry and operators are always looking for ouststading events beyond players’ expectations. Fans of poker native to countries where major poker tournaments like the European Poker Tour (EPT) or the World Poker Tour (WPT) are held are impatient to live good days and to know names of their new champions. This year, internationally well-known organizers of poker tournaments reserve to players an outstanding schedule during the last six months of the year. After having been in Estonia from last August 2 – 7, the famous European poker tournament, EPT, will be appreciated by Spanish poker players on August 27 to September 1st, during its eighth season.

Impatience obliges. Four months after the Black Friday that happened to online poker universe in the USA, Full Tilt Poker has to take the biggest and the most serious decision of its existence. This online poker room had to dismiss an important number of its American employees. According to some sources, those employees cashed their salary after the decision made by the DoJ (Department of Justice) on April 15, 2011, forcing them to close their office’s door. Termination of all its activities running on the American territory, in other words, in its international department, tells more about this online poker room future.

After his seventh position during the November Nine of the World Series of Poker 2008 and throned as winner of the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond of the same year, David « Chino » Rheem becomes famous once again by winning the Epic Poker League Main Event. It is about a fair victory if the presence of great players of poker during this final table of $20, 000 buy-in is concerned like Erik Seidel, the runner-up, Huck Seed, Jason Mercier or Gavin Smith. But unfortunately, his victory is subject of controversy and scandals. A week before his win, Will Molson, winner of the latest PCA High Roller was calling for Rheem’s dishonesty. According to him, Rheem borrowed money from him in oder to let him participate in the High Roller tournament of $ 10, 000 during the EPT London held on October 2010.

Poker is a game more and more appreciated by British players as evidenced by the performance of Sam Trickett on the professional circuit. To reward poker players in Great Britain, the British Poker Awards annually awards the title of best player of the year and other awards to win. For this year 2011, Sam Trickett is the best placed to claim the title of best player of the year. In 2010, he already won the title of "Best New Player" and he's currently nominated for the title of "Best Player Cash", the "Best Social Media User" and also "Best Tournament Player." The winner of the "British Poker Awards" will be announced on September 3 at the Poker in the Park to be held at Hanover Square in London.

The Epic Poker League, the appointment of the best poker players in the world is now in its fourth and final day. And after the second day, only 18 of the 63 participants remained in the race. Sam Trickett, as usual, succeeded his bet by ending the Day 2 with 1,032,000 chips. During the second day, we saw the defeat of many players as Dwyte Pilgrim, Shannon Shorr, Chad Brown, Antonio Esfandiari, Sorel Mizzi, Vanessa Selbst, Phil Laak, John Racener, Daniel Alaei ... Among the 63 players who began the second day of the tournament thus, 18 were able to qualify for the Day 3 who are Sam Trickett (1,032,000 chips), Hasan Habib (646,000), Isaac Baron (637,500), Erik Seidel (609,000) and Adam Levy (587,000) for the Top 5. The Top 10 is completed by Jason Mercier, Matthew Glantz, Eugene Katchalov and David "Chino” Rheem. Only six of these survivors of the Day 2 will however have their ticket for the final.

After the last two qualifying tournaments in Aix-en-Provence on August 19 to 21 and Saint-Amand-les-Eaux on August 27 and 28, fans of the Partouche Poker Tour (PPT) circuit will meet in the luxurious poker room of Palm Beach Casino in Cannes from September 12 to 17. This will be indeed the date of holding of the Grand Final available for a buy-in of € 8,500. Last year, the event brought together many poker professionals and many of them have yet confirmed their participation in the edition 2011 of the final as Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan, Phil Laak, Jean-Robert Bellande, Gus Hansen, Antonio Esfandiari or Phil Hellmuth. And without a doubt, French poker best players will be also part of this new edition in order to try to succeed Vanessa Selbst, the champion of 2010.

Held in conjunction with the first stage of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Season 4, the second edition of the Americas Cup of Poker (ACP) elected the Canadian team as champion. The ACP 2011 was attended by Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and a team of players from different countries named Rest of Latam. Note that the event took place in the poker room of the Mantra Resort Casino Punta del Este, in Uruguay. After two days of competition, the Canadian team represented by its captain Greg Debora, John Mehrassa, Robert Van Thuyl, Henry Wong and Jason Collins was the best, and eliminated the Mexican team with a score of (5 - 0) during the final round. This performance allowed them to get the trophy and the first prize of $ 25,000, a victory that also pleased the captain of the team.

Announced a few months ago, the stage in Malta is another step added to the 10 th season of the World Poker Tour (WPT). This event is expected to take place from September 20 to 24, 2011. It will be therefore held just after the French step to be held at the Aviation Club de France. The organizers and the host institution which is the casino Portomaso Malta hope to meet a broad field consisting of amateur and local and foreign professional during the main event of € 3,300. Indeed, those who want to retry their luck after a failure in Paris are expected to go in Malta. It is the same hope about players who will join the city of Cannes to attend the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) and those who will be heading to London for the European Poker Tour. Indeed, these two events will take place several days after the WPT Malta.

From September 30 to October 6, the British capital will host the next stage of the current season of the European Poker Tour (EPT). All category of poker enthusiasts will find an event that suit them at the EPT London because there will be 31 tournaments on the program. The flagship event which is the main event of £ 5,250 will start on Oct. 6 and will run for 7 days and the final table will be broadcast on television. As usual, qualifying satellite tournaments will be offered and will be held on Thursday, September 29th for those who want to compete on Day 1A and Friday, September 30 for competitors of the day 1B. Most competitions will be held in the poker room of Hilton Metropole Edgware Road. But to delight fans of this card game who will reach London for the event, cash game tournaments will be held at Grosvernor Victoria casino. And other events will be also held at the 'Vic' like the European 8 game Championships of £ 2,150.

The first stage of the EPIC Poker League began on August 9, 2011 at Palms Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. This tournament that gather the biggest players in the world on the professional circuit of the moment was marked, at the end of the first day by the consecration of Eugene Katchalov. For its first edition, the EPIC Poker League organized by Annie Duke and Jeffrey Pollack had a promising start with a number of participants around 137 people. The buy-in of this NL Hold'em tournament 6-Max is $ 20 000, so the prize pool collected is approximately $ 3,140,000.

Poker is now considered as an intellectual game that has a big reputation in France with the coronation of French professional poker players like Bertrand "" ElkY "Grospellier and David Benyamine on the international circuit. To mark the rise of poker in France but also throughout the world, ElkY and Lee Nelson just released a new book which is entitled "The Raiser's Edge". The two players already collaborate in 2010 with the release of the poker book called "Kill ElkY". And this new publication is also marked by the presence of Tysen Streib and Tony Dunst who contribute to the loose-aggressive style (Loose-Aggressive).

Teams of poker players will have the opportunity to participate in tournament dedicated to them on next August 12 to 14, in Vienna. Named European Team Challenge of Poker, this tournament will bring together all teams of poker players in Europe during three days of competition in any kinds of poker like Pot Limit Omaha, deepstack NLH, NLH Sit & Go, pot limit Omaha cash… Each team has to be formed by four players and has to participate in all six competitions in order to collect the most points possible and to be qualified to attend the final. To be eligible to this big European poker tournament per team, all teams have to pay an entry fee of € 40. Organizers expect to register the participation of at least 125 teams from all countries that belong to this continent. The ETCOP title and an estimated prize pool of € 40,000 will be awarded during this event.

This year, the European Poker Tour Barcelona (EPT) stage will be held during the summer time. This event is scheduled to take place in Gran Casino annex poker room, Barcelona on August 27 to September 1st, 2011. An outstanding program is waiting for players during the EPT Barcelona because 20 tournaments will be provided to participants. And of course, the famous Main Event with € 5,300 entry fee that gathered 757 participants in 2010 and awarded the champion title to Kent Lundmark will be one of those tournaments. Note that he is the second Swedish winner of the EPT Barcelona after his compatriot, Alexander Stevic in 2004. Swedish spectators can then expect from their representatives another success, once again. And for France, only Jan Boubli was able to win this title since the existence of the EPT Barcelona and this happened in 2005. However, we cannot neglect performances done by French players like Patrick Bruel in 2007 during the final table. Everyone hope that French representatives will do their best for better result this year.

Three women players of poker have been elected to join the members of the Women In Poker Hall Of Fame. We are talking here about Krysty Gazes, Margie Heintz and Phyllis Caro. Note that the Women In Poker Hall Of Fame was established in 2008 in order to pay respect to women who achieved remarkable success in poker and having done their best to promote this game. A ceremony will be held on September, 2011 at Golden Nuggets Casino, Las Vegas to officially introduce these ladies. After this ceremony, they will have henceforth their honorable place beside the 10 members of this prestigious circle like Jennifer Harmann, Kathy Liebert, Cindy Violette or Marsha Wagoner.

As foretold, Jeffrey Pollack and d'Annie Duke’s Epic Poker League really begun. And the Pro/Am, the opening tournament which gathered amateurs and professional poker players at Palms Resort Hotel poker room announced its verdict. Among a field of 189 players attending this first Pro/Am tournament, Steve O'Dwyer was able to win the title with $23,810 as reward and a ticket for the Main Event of $20,000 buy-in, starting from today. Note that thanks to his talent to play poker, O'Dwyer ranked 129th in the Global Poker Index (GPI) classification. Three weeks ago, he won the Bellagio Cup VII No-Limit Hold'em tournament of $5, 000, indeed, that allowed him to pocket $259, 456. And also, he compiled 11 paid places in the World Series of Poker and three silver places in the World Poker Tour, and also his sixth position during the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World poker Classic, 2009 that got him winning $202,362 in total.

On last August 4, the Federated Sports & Gaming updated the best professional poker players’ classification in live tournament. FS & G established the Global Poker index by taking into consideration three criteria : the results in live tournament during these last three years, the number of participation (more than 20 participations) and finally, the buy-in which is at least $ 1,500. Logically, recent tournaments give to players the best points and the highest ranking in the classification more than old events. According to this update, Bertrand « ElkY » Grospellier still remains at the first ranking of the best player in live tournaments, currently, if the above criteria are concerned. This French player gathers a total of 2,473. 13 points during the last 36 months or three years, far ahead of the American player Erik Seidel and his 2,457.36 points.

After the world championship of poker in Las Vegas, people will have their eye on Palms casino Resort, Las Vegas henceforth where the first stage of the EPIC Poker League takes place. As announced a few months ago, the event will gather on one place professional poker players. The game will be rude during the main event of $ 20, 000 buy-in because a field of 218 participants is expected to come to play and most of them are renowned poker players. This Main Event is expected to begin on Wednesday 10th of August at noon. It is too soon to say how many qualified players there will be and how many they are invited to assist in Palms poker room tomorrow but in all cases, qualified players during the Pro-am tournament that already starts, will be present and currently, Andy Bloch and Steve o’Dwyer are in the list of those players who were able to qualify themselves in this event. Note that the charity tournament already begun.

Surprising events marked the poker world this last time like Alex Rodriguez’ affair incriminating him for having participated in private poker parties or José Macedo’s one, for scam. José "Girah" Macedo, Portuguese emblem in poker, was recently accused of having scammed some online poker players in high stakes. Macedo recognized his implication in this affair of scam against « imfromsweden » and « MossBoss ». Those two players have been scammed of, respectively $ 10,000 and $ 21,900. This Portuguese scammer incited these players and many others to play against another player using a username « sauron1989 » who is none than Girah himself. Working as a coach in an online poker room, he played against his opponents with the ability to observe their cards.

This fourth season of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) still continue reaping success. After a successful stage done in Chile on March of this year, the LAPT Punta Del Este recorded also a wide field of 422 participants, in Uruguay. And for the first time in history, a local player, Alex Komaromi, was able to win this tournament. We can say that this 21 years old champion becomes his country’s pride. During the third day of competition, the game was rude in this poker room. Four Brazilian players did their best to win this tournament during the final table. But the Venezuelan player Engelberth Varela knew well how to tackle and eliminate Monteiro. He was then, the first to leave the table and his compatriots Fernando Araujo (7th), Nelson Neto (6th) et Felipe Sangalli Pasini (5th) joined the list of those eliminated players a few times later.

Baseball fans especially thoses who are fans of the New York Yankees were last week upset by the case Alex Rodriguez who was accused by the Major League Baseball (MLB) to have played poker in illegal party. A-Rod, the Yankees' star player, according to the American magazine "Star" participated in an illegal poker game that ended in a brawl. The player, according to the U.S. tabloid still would have been involved in illegal poker games with other stars fans of poker like Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Tobey Maguire and Ben Affleck. The practice of poker itself is not prohibited by the Major League Baseball which is trying to remove its players involved in sports betting including private poker games.

The Austrian poker world has seen great progress with the creation of the Austrian Pokersport Association (APSA) in 1996. After the founding of this association, poker is currently considered as an intellectual sport in Austria. To celebrate its fifth anniversary, the APSA decided to organize the first official championship of Austria called "Poker Austrian Master." For this year's event, designed especially for Austrian poker enthusiasts, almost 200 players are expected to compete in solo and per team. The best players in the country are expected to put a little spice to the tournament where many prizes will be distributed to the winners. In individual competition, the winner will win a VIP package for a travel including flights, hotel and tickets to the Real Madrid. In addition to this prestigious award, the winner will receive a national champion belt that he will have to defend at the next National Championship of Poker Austrian Masters.

The second season of the Grand Series of Poker (GSOP) began and the city of Manchester has been chosen to host the first stage of the tournament. The event was held from August 2 to 7, 2011 in a beautiful poker room furnished in Old Trafford. The GSOP is becoming a very attractive poker meeting, which also explains the success of the first season. And this inaugural step of the season II is a complete success as 257 players paid the buy-in of $ 1,250 to take part in the tournament. The final day did not last long because it took only four levels of play to know the name of the two players who will compete for the title during the final heads'up who was the German Jens Kerper and the Norwegian Rolf Inge Kwanik.

The inaugural phase of the eighth season of the European Poker Tour (EPT) crowned its champion who is none other than the Swiss player of 21 years, Ronny Kaiser. His excellent performance during the fourth day of competition, held last Saturday, allowed him to reach easily the victory. Indeed, Kaiser was one of the 24 semi-finalists and he managed to get an advantage in chips after having eliminated Michael Graydon. Kaiser was then qualified for the final table and has even picked up the place of chipleader. Note that Kaiser is a player used to play poker cash games and he specialized in Pot Limit Omaha. And he took advantage of his experiences because he was able to confront the many players of the final table like the poker online pro player Keloporo Sami, the winner of the Pot Limit Omaha tournament of the World Series of Poker Las Vegas 2011 Ben Lamb and also Grzegorz Cichocki.

Poker raises currently a major debate in France, especially about its juridical status. The question is whether poker is a game of chance or a game of skill. For amateurs, the answer is clear : poker is a game of skill but according to legal institutions in France and also all around the world, the answer is still unclear. The debate began some time ago in the Court of Toulouse during the prosecution of Jean-Pierre Gleizes, owner of a poker room, where he hosted poker games for public without having obtained a license from a competent authority as the ARJEL. The court acquitted the accused of all charges based on French law and jurisprudence. The French government subsequently filed an appeal in front of the Council of State as the defense chosen by the accused was based on the nature of poker.

Poker is a game that attracts more and more celebrities in France. Thus, many top athletes including French professional footballers learned and practised this card game the most popular in the world like the former footballer Jean-Philippe Rohr. This latter converted to poker after a fantastic career in football and in Metz and as Olympic champion in 1984. Top-level sport, as we know, is a profession that pays millions but when the time of end of career comes, it's time to discover another world that pays as much as sport. Jean-Philippe Rohr is probably the former professional athlete who found his way by playing poker.

The next step of the Summer Sat of the Partouche Poker Tour (PPT) will be held in Arcachon this weekend. Poker fans who haven't yet fixed a program for August 6 and 7, 2011 are invited to join the lavish Casino of Arcachon, in France. As in previous stages of the tournament, participants can find various events there, the most interesting is the Summer Sat of € 1,250. By entering this tournament, players will have the chance to qualify for the finals of the PPT. As a reminder, the event will take place between September 12 and 17, 2011 in the city of Cannes. And as usual, the prize pool at this meeting of the Summer sat of Arcachon will be divided into several packs of € 8,500.

It remains only 63 players for the Day 3 of the European Poker Tour Tallinn (EPT), which takes place this Friday. The second day of competition of the tournament was fateful for many players because the field of 198 participants was quickly reduced to a little more than 60 players after only 6 levels of play. And in this wide elimination, the unfortunate departure of many elites of the game was noticed like that of David Vamplev, Rupert Elder, Kevin Stani, Annette Obrestad, JP Kelly, Richard Toth and Martin Jacobson. At the end of the day so, the Swedish Nikolas Liakos managed to accumulate the largest stack, which earned him the place of chipleader. Everyone admitted that Liakos led with perfection his game because he started the day with a 86,000 chips, he managed to gather 250,000 chips in hand after two levels of play only. Then he continued to play poker with enthusiasm and talent until the end of Day 2. Liakos is thus leading the top 10 with 460,000 chips in hand.

The XXI edition of the Marrakesh Poker Open (MPO) is scheduled to take place from September 21 to 25 at the famous Casino Es Saadi. Once again, poker enthusiasts will have to visit the beautiful Moroccan city to participate in a poker tournament. On the program, there will be effectively the main event of € 1,350 buy-in but there will be also very attractive side events. During the main event, competitors will play deep stack poker, and they will receive 50,000 starting chips for levels of play of 45 minutes. A guaranteed prize of 1 million Dhirams equivalent to € 100,000 will be shared to the best players and, the winner will take home a nice sum of money. And the start of the main event is scheduled for September 23 at 2:00 p.m.

After the successful tournament in Brasilia, Chili and Peru, the fourth season of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) is now making a stop in Punta del Este, Uruguay for a new adventure. The event started yesterday August 3 and will close on August 7, 2011 and during this period, fans of poker willing to join the luxurious Mantra Resort Spa and Casino will be entitled to an outstanding program. The Main event with $ 2,500 of buy-in will get started on Thursday from noon. Not forget that it was Jose Barbero the winner, last year and $ 279, 330 of prize was given to him.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) is the biggest event of the year that poker fans of the world are waiting for. For its 10th Season, a new event is in the program, the Irish stage. The WPT President, Adam Pliska has just announced that the World Poker Tour Season 10 will stop in Ireland at the legendary Dublin City West Hotel from January 5 to 8, 2012 and the buy-in will be € 2,500. But before this big tournament, Adam Pliska explained that a press conference will take place in order for them to announce the different progressions and plans they made to ensure smooth completion of this Season 10. The trophy of the best player of the year during the World Poker Tour Season 9 will be awarded to Andy Frankenberger, the champion of this summer.

For those who are living in the other side of the Atlantic but also in the Old Continent and keen on poker, they have a wide choice of big tournaments to choose during this month of August. But the most prominent in the eyes of poker fans is surely the Legends of Poker Tournament Series which already took place on last July 28, a tournament that gathered many players, guaranteeing a prizepool of 4 millions dollars. This year, the Legends of Poker Tournament Series will be special because of its first Hold'em No Limit event having a prizepool of 1 million dollars while the buy-in is only $125. This series will last one month and will close on August 25.

For this new season of the European Poker Tour (EPT), the first stage of Tallinn reaches its second day. After the place of chipleader won by Maksim Kolosov on Day 1A with 100 000 chips, it is now the turn of the Spanish player Oscar Lima to lead the game with 132 000 chips. At the first beginning of this tournament, 180 players paid € 4,250 for 30 000 chips in order to be present on Swissotel’s tables. After the Day 1A, 130 were able to stay after having run 7 levels of 60 minutes each. The Awesome is the triumph of Oscar Lima that marked the Day 1B. The young Spanish player of 23 years old plays his first big major tournament but because of his way of play during this second day, it is believable that he still has great chances to do great things during this Estonian EPT.

The eighth season of the circuit European Poker Tour (EPT) has just started in the heart of the Estonian capital, Tallinn. Although the buy-in of the tournament is very affordable, the event has not accumulated the expected success because they were only 92 players who have joined the poker room of Swissotel to take part in the Day 1A. Despite this low peak recorded during the first day of competition, this stage of the inaugural EPT Season 8 promises to deliver an exceptional poker show to the public. Many former EPT champions were part of the field to name Martin Jacobson who amply demonstrated his competence to play, the EPT Prague champion Roberto Romanello and Kent Lundmark who won the EPT Barcelona. This first day of this poker tournament also welcomed players such as Fernando Brito, Kevin Vandermissen, Mathew Frankland and Maksim Kolosov.

The Scottish stage of the famous poker circuit for non-professional players, the Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT)was held in the poker room of Gala Casino Merchant City in Glasgow last weekend. The event registered a field of 131 participants who paid a buy-in of 75 pounds. The assembled prizepool reached then £ 9,825. And the event crowned as champion Grant Speirs. He therefore got a gold jewelry, was entitled as champion of the APAT Glasgow and pocketed the first prize of £ 3,095. Note that they were only 24 players to have had the chance to be part of the field of the second day of competition, a decisive day because aafter a few hours of confrontation, the final table was built.

While the World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP) will end in a few weeks, the months of August and September will be still busy for poker enthusiasts. Indeed from the beginning of this month, the European Poker Tour (EPT) which is held in Estonia, in Tallinn specifically, has already paved the way for numerous interesting competitions. This meeting marks the beginning of a busy calendar with many European and worldwide tournaments. The EPT Tallinn currently lists nearly 92 players with professional players as Arnaud Mattern, Kevin Stani, Martin Jacobson, Praz Bansi, Roberto Romanello, Fernando Brito, Joe Ebanks, David Vamplew, etc. This first round of the EPT will be followed by the WPT Legends of Poker of August 25 to 30, in California. This tournament is the third stage of the WPT 2011 with a buy-in reduced to $ 3,700. This tournament is particular by the fact that player can re-register on day 1B after their elimination on day1 A.

The passage of the tournament Italian Poker Tour (IPT) in San Remo was a great success. There were 426 players who joined the poker room of Casino San Remo to take part in the tournament. After the third day of competition, the eight players who would fill the final table stood out. On the top of the list was the Romanian Dan Murariu who managed to collect the largest part of the stack amounting 3,021,000. Giovanni Bigoni, Fratello Matteo, Enzo Tommason, Vitalii Minakov, Matyas Poloche and Andrea Ventura were also qualified for this last round. But it must be said that Luca Pagano fight hard to defend the honor of his country and finally win the victory.

The main event of € 525 buy-in of the European tour, European Deepstack, ended with a victory of Carlos Lopes. If the first edition of this poker festival accumulated a large turnout, the edition 2011 was also a success story. 513 participants invaded the poker room of the Casino Namur in Belgium to compete for the title of the tournament. Note that competitors played poker with an excellent deepstack structure offereing 50,000 starting chips and a level of play of an hour. And at the end of this stage of the Belgian tournament, it was Carlos Lopes who was entitled to the first place on the podium after having faced Maxime Durville during the final heads'up. These two top players of this tournament are all accustomed to online poker.

The awards ceremony for the best poker players in the UK will take place during the fifth season of the London Poker in The Park, in London on September 3. There are several categories of prizes to be awarded to qualified players. And the public can already vote for the player of their choice. For the award of the best cash game player, the public can choose between JP Kelly, Richard Ashby, Roland de Wolfe, Sam Trickett and Andrew Moseley. For the title of Best Mixed Game Player, you will still find Richard Ashby who will compete against Matt Perin, James Dempsey, Phil Shaw and John Kabbaj. For the category of best PLO player, the nominees are Ashby, JP Kelly, John Shipley, Devilfish and Ben Grundy.

Despite the enormous advantage in chips accumulated by Philip Willcocks at the beginning of the final day of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Melbourne (APPT), Leo Boxell ended the tournament by picking up the coronation. With this well deserved victory, Boxell confirmed his status as an Australian professional poker because he is effectively ranked in the first position of Player of the Year. Note that he shone in many events in recent years and with the award of AUD $ 330,000 he comes to pocket, he had currently more than $ 1 million gain. The final table of this inaugural stage of the APPT was however hectic as each competitor was in a good position to win. But after the clash that lasted about nine hours, Leo Boxell was ultimately the best.

The new result of the Global Poker Index (GPI) was published on July 26, 2011. The numerous poker events that was played in the meantime helped to change the results because the great exploits of some players allowed them to earn extra points. Nevertheless, the French No. 1, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, who sat a week earlier at the top of the table kept his place. It is the same for the high limit poker enthusiast Jason Mercier, who is still at the second position. Unfortunately, the Russian Eugene Katchalov was removed for the 4 th position and left his place to Eric Seidel. Fabrice Soulier also won a promotion and has taken the place of Sorel Mizzi while the latter is currently in the 7th place. And always in the top 10 of the GPI of July 26, Tom Marchese moved up to the 8th place and it's David Baker and John Juanda who are now in the 9 th and 10 th position.

There are only a few days before the start of the first stage of the tournament Epic Poker League (EPL). As a reminder, this is a poker tournament organized by the Federated Sports + Gaming (FS + G) of Jeffrey Pollack and Annie Duke. And it was created to allow the elites of poker to play in a universe that is dedicated for them. So the EPL will confront on the gaming tables players having the same level. Note also that the first stage will take place in the poker room of Palms Casino in Las Vegas. The EPL will provide exceptional performances to all lovers of this card game. And in order to make the event even more phenomenal, the FS + G decided to work with some audio-visual channels.

The 5th season of the tournament Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) began on July 29. A field of 260 participants from 18 different countries joined the luxurious poker room of Crawn Casino in Melbourne, Australia to attend the event. With a buy-in of $ 5,000, the prize pool generated was $ AUD 1.2 million. The winner will then receive a gain of $ AUD 330,000. The third day of competition of the APPT Melbourne took place on Monday, August 1st. And at the end of the day, the finalists composed of two players from New Zealand and seven Australians were finally known.

The final stage of the Ante Up Poker Cruise tournament is scheduled for next December. Indeed, known as the Winter Poker Cruise, this event will enable poker enthusiasts to participate in tournaments on an exceptional luxurious ship. For this next poker trip set to take place from December 10 to 17, the Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas will start its travel at the Port of New Orleans and will stop in Cozumel, Mexico, Falmouth, Jamaica, Grand Cayman and Georgetown. This year, the Ladies International Poker Series association (LIPS) was elected to sponsor the Winter Ante Up Poker Cruise. Through this partnership, poker players on board will have the great privilege to participate in a tournament which is designed especially for them during the trip. This is the Ante Up Women's Championship.

The head office of the Coventry Football Club, in the heart of the Ricoh Arena stadium, in the West Midlands region will be transformed into a poker room to accommodate the Grosvernor United Kingdom Poker Tour Goliath (GUKPT) which will run from August 24 to 28, 2011. The GUKPT Goliath's ambition is to become the biggest European tournament that brought together the biggest field because indeed, the organizers hope to attract at least 1,600 participants. The buy-in for the main event is set at 120 pounds and it will have a guaranteed prizepool of £ 100,000. During this tournament, competitors will play No-Limit Hold'em poker that will have a structure of a deepstack tournament. There will be 25,000 starting chips for levels of play of 40 minutes.

The unfortunate experience of fans of poker in the United States occurred during the Black Friday and even the unpleasant consequences it caused has left no other choice to U.S. players than to leave their territory. The first one who made the decision to pack is Phil Galfond. Indeed, as he already announced, once the tournaments of the 42nd edition of the World Series of Poker 2011 (WSOP) ended, he will move in another country, and it was Canada that he has chosen. Currently, therefore, this great poker player makes his home in Vancouver where he said, he feels good in this city known for its lifestyle and its changing weather.

The fourth stage of the third season of the European Masters of Poker (EMOP) circuit began on last Thursday, July 28. The Clontarf Castle in Dublin, Ireland is the host of the event and the confrontation between registered players already started in the poker room. Indeed, the first qualifying day of the EMOP Dublin h 2011 as been initiated. The main event of € 1,100 buy-in has a beautiful structure. Competitors received 20,000 starting chips. The second qualifying day is scheduled for Friday, July 29th and the final day is scheduled to be held on July 31.

The accused in court, persons in charge of an establishment in the city of Toulouse, France, supposedly to be a gambling house, that offered especially poker games were released. Indeed, the Criminal Court of this town ruled on that case on last Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Thus, Jean-Pierre Gleizes, manager of "Les Coulisses" and "St. Tropez" and his friends are now free. Before ruling on this case, the jury would have heard a multitude of explanations. Effectively, the center of the debate was centered around the Article 1 of the Act of July 12, 1983 which states that "any participation of the public in the managing of a gambling house is punishable by three years' imprisonment and € 90,000 fine."
 
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