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Il ne reste plus que quelques jours pour que la série de tournois Foxwoods Poker Classic ne prenne fin. A titre de rappel, ce festival de poker se déroule au sein du Foxwoods Resort Casino de Connecticut depuis le 17 mars dernier et nombreux sont les joueurs qui ont déjà décroché une victoire lors des évènements organisés depuis le coup d'envoi du tournoi. Lors de l'étape inaugurale à 600 $ de buy-in par exemple, 486 joueurs se sont inscrits pour y prendre part. A la fin de la rencontre, c'est David Grandieri qui s'est imposé et a décroché le premier prix de 58.516 $. Dorian Godin a aussi eu droit à la première place du podium après être sorti victorieux face à un field de 333 participants lors du No Limit hold'em Deepstack à 400 $ de buy-in.

A resident of Las Vegas named Joe Kuether had just won the title of the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Rincon 2012. Indeed, he managed to be the best among the 331 other competitors of the main event of $ 1,600 buy-in, which earned him the championship trophy and the gold ring of the WSOPC with a prize of $ 11,104. This is the fifth final table attended by Joe Kuether this year and he managed win to the championship three times. However, many well known poker players were present in the starting field and many of them were still in competition after the bubble burst. There were among others the WSOPC Champion Alexandru Masek, Brandon Cantu and the owner of two WSOP bracelets Brandon Cantu. All these players have been eliminated before the start of the table. Brandon Cantu, despite his experience and talent finished 11th and received the premium of $ 8,449.

The opening stage of the fifth season of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) ended with the victory of the local player Aliro Diaz. The Chilean was the best face to a record field of 651 participants and pocketed the sum of $ 76,560 as a reward. He showed a new feat to the public of the poker room of the Enjoy Casino & Resort in Vina del Mar throughout the final table. Indeed, it only took five hours for him to take the trophy. At the beginning of the meeting, he eliminated the Brazilian Halysson Sal who finished 7 th while his compatriot Felipe Velasquez launched a fatal attack against the Colombian Nicholas Batt who was awarded the 8 th place. It must be said that Chileans dominated the game.

The EPT Campione 2012 is a real success and is proved to be a popular circuit inside poker players, not only in Europe. This edition gathered 569 participants during the two entry days, a record in number of participants who generated a prize pool of € 2,764,500. After the Day 1A that saw the domination of Davide Andreoni face to a field of 178 players, 391 players registered for Day 1B, and among them, we can mention among others the presence of Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes, Steve O'Dwyer, Fabrice Soulier, Eugene Katchalov, Guillaume Darcourt, Matthias De Meulder, Dominik Nitsche, Kevin MacPhee, Ilan Boujenah, Arnaud Mattern and Martin Jacobsen.

The third edition of the tournament Estrellas Poker Tour is coming to its second stage. Since Monday, March 26, fans of the poker circuit gathered at Casino Valencia of the city of the same name, one of the most beautiful cities of Spain, famous for its City of Arts and Sciences having a unique architecture in the world. If the first two editions have been very successful, this new season promises to garner the same success. Moreover, it appears that some of the best players in the world are joining the Iberian city to participate in the event. Last year, the trophy was won by Juan Miguel Tome. They were 482 players to have played the title of the second edition. This year, organizers estimate also to gather a field of 400 participants in the main event of € 1,100 which will begin on Wednesday, March 28. This main tournament will consist of two first qualifying days and the coronation will take place on April 1st.

While the WPT National Series has just ended, a new other event was launched: the European Poker Tour. This week, the EPT Campione has just opened its doors to live poker players from all over Europe but also from other foreign countries. One of the major live poker events in Europe, the EPT always attracted the attention of players but also spectators. For his first day qualifying, the EPT Campione gathered a field of 178 players with the participation of players like Alex Kravchenko, Pierre Neuville, Roberto Romanello, Per Linde, Pierre Neuville or Anton Ionel. But at the end of the day, they were only 107 players who survived after the eight levels of play.

On the sidelines of the World Poker Tour National Series (WPT), the ACF Poker Tour was also organized. This first step registered a real success. Indeed, they were 149 participants to have invaded the poker room of the Aviation Club de France (ACF) to contest the title of the tournament of € 750 buy-in. The competition ended with a victory of the Russian player Nikolay Karman. However, many well-known players were present at the final of this tournament. There were among others Greg Ceran-Maillard, Philippe Ktorza, Suat Uyanik or Brian Benhamou. None of them managed to halt the rise of Karman to the victory.

Fans of the poker circuit France Poker Series met at Evian Casino on last Sunday, March 25 to contest the title of the first edition of the FPS Snowfest. As a reminder, this step is the great novelty of this edition 2012 of the tournament. Given the very attractive concept of the competition, many professionals in the image of Thibaud Guenegou, Guillaume Darcourt, Serge Didisheil and Ludovic Marguerat were part of the starting field. But to the surprise of the public, the trophy returned to a young player of online poker aged of 18 years only. This is the Czech Veronika Pavlíková. She had just reiterated the exploits of Annette Obrestad who was awarded the victory of the World Series of Poker Europe in London in 2007 at the same age.

The final table of the main event of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour ended last Sunday with a victory of a Scottish player, Gordon Huntly. The edition 2012 of the ANZPT Sydney was crowned with great success as 461 players took part in enabling this new champion come away with a bonus of $ 226,812. Huntly took home the trophy by ousting Liam O'Rourke, the final table chip leader at the final head’s up. O'Rourque tried to dominate the game but after half an hour of confrontation, Huntly ended up by getting a great advantage and closed the meeting by his victory.

After a week of intense tournament, the WPT Paris National Series 2012 ended with the victory of Gregory Benac. The eight finalists played during seven hours until only one player remained on the table. The first player to have left the table was Yann Deychey and pocketed for his eighth place at this poker tournament € 15,245. A few hands later, Antoine Valantin and Philippe Abdul were also eliminated and left the final table with a respective gain of € 20,565 and € 25,720. Franck Boyer after having eliminated Abdul joins soon after the ranks of eliminated players and pocketed at the same time € 30,870. Boyer lost all his chips against Shinya Shimada. Jeremy Nock also surrendered and let the three players vying for the title: Antoine Saout, Gregory Benac and Shinya Shimada. He pocketed € 38,565 for this feat by reaching the fourth spot.

The WPT National Series Paris Open of Poker continues its course after the two qualifying days for the Day 3. The day of Thursday was attended by 52 survivors of the Day 2 and at the end of the day, there were only 21 players with the Japanese Shinya Shimada who finished the day as chipleader with a stack of 1,301,000 chips. Half of the field was removed during the day, like Clement Bonin, Nicolas Cardyn, Pierre Drochon, Steven Moreau, Patrick Bueno, Alain Goldberg, Jean Daligault and Marc Inizan. The Day 4 will be held in the afternoon of Friday and the 21 survivors will fight until the final table players are defined. These 21 players are already in the money and will be spread over three tables during the day.

The fifth edition of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) started since Wednesday, March 21. This is the third time that this poker circuit is held at Vina del Mar in Chile, the second competition held in the country since the terrible earthquake of 2010. Last year, the event brought together 321 participants, a record field in the history of the LAPT. And the trophy was awarded to the Brazilian Murilo Figueredo who pocketed $ 146,000. For the first day of competition of the LAPT 2012, 284 players were present at the Casino Enjoy & Resort to take part in the tournament. But during the Day 1B, 367 players registered to create a total field of 651 players, a big increase of affluence. The prize pool gathered reach then $ 651,840.

Designer of the French National Championship by Team of Clubs (CNEC), a competition that garnered enormous success since its inception in 2007, the Club of Club (CdC) currently offers a new challenge much more professional. This is the CdC Team Challenge, another team tournament which has the same concept as the CNEC except this time, no need to be a poker club to take part in. Indeed, the CdC Team Challenge has as format the principle as teams formed by four players each with one of them as captain will face each other. The teams will compete first in online poker championship and the best will have the opportunity to participate in the live finals to be held at Seven Casino of Amneville on Sunday, May 6, 2012, at the same time as the CNIC 2012, a popular poker appointment in France.

Google Mobile App has seen a real improvement in technical stand point and this could certainly satisfy Blackberry users. As it's already a real information tool thanks its ultra-powerful options, Google Mobile App comes to offer other benefits to users. Indeed, with this application, it is now possible to access to all Google services with greater speed and efficiency as browse the web, access to his phone address book and the inbox of a Gmail e-mail account or have more satisfactory results when searching a document. It is important to mention that the UI app has a search bar and many icons to enjoy all the functionalities of Google and quick access to various applications like Gmail Google Maps, Google news or Google Reader.

The last update of the world poker ranking Global Poker Index (GPI) once again revealed that Jason Mercier is still leading. This is the fifth consecutive time that the American throne at this place, a record. He was entitled to this honorary title because of his regularity. This owner of a Triple Crown is ahead of Bertrand Grospellier by accumulating 2,980 points. But which also marked the ranking of this week is the fall of Seidel. He was relegated to the fifth place due to insufficient of performance on poker scenes. The leader of the All Time Money List is therefore behind Shawn Buchanan who moves to the 3rd position and David Sands (4th). As for Eugene Katchalov, Sorel Mizzi, Vanessa Selbst, Will Failla and Steve O'Dwyer, they are also part of the Top 10 and are ranked at the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th.

After the Day 2A of the WPT Paris National Series which was marked by the qualifying of 23 players for the Day 3, the remaining survivors from day 1, 109 participants gathered yesterday for the Day 2B. Among these players, we found familiar faces in poker such as the French Jean Paul Pasqualini, Anthony Lellouche, Tristan Clemencon, Emeline Her and Olivier Chaignard. After a few levels of play, more than half of the field fell like Antony Lellouche, Hemeline Her, Tristan Clemencon and Jean Paul Pasqualini and there were only 29 survivors. Alexandre Viard is at the top of the ranking on the eve of Day 3 with a stack of 528,000 chips followed by Remi Le Meur (473,000) and Clement Bonin (384,000) in the top 3 of the chip count of the day.

Fans of online poker in the United States must be patient. While federal regulation of online poker is still a non possible project, the State by State regulation also appears to have a problem especially in the process, forcing many States such as Iowa, Hawaii or the Mississippi to abandon approaches. Although no legislation affects the prominence of intrastate regulation, it appears that the process is too complex and too long to achieve. Actually, only Nevada managed to accomplish the long process and the regulation is official since last month. The Gaming Commission is preparing the granting of the first agreements. This success is probably caused by the fact that the State always relied on the revenue from gambling to boost its economy and development.

A new poker tournament was born. This is the iSeriesLIVE, a tournament "winner takes all" available for a buy-in of € 10,000 which first edition will be held on the sidelines of the Irish Poker Open in Dublin from April 6 to 9. The iSeriesLIVE has an original concept. Indeed, the tournament will face on poker tables 10 players who will be completely cut off from the outside world from the beginning to the end of the meeting. The competition will be a live broadcast and several libe betting will be launched. Thus, viewers around the world except those of France and the U.S.A can participate.

The edition 2012 of the WPT National Series Paris is currently the main topics of newspapers and specialized websites in France and its neighbouring countries. Having began last weekend with three qualifying days, the WPT National Series Paris, is now in its second half of Day 2 after the Day 2A which just ended on Tuesday, March 20 at the ACF. The Day 2 will receive a lot of players from everywhere with a strong presence of French poker players like Anthony Lellouche, Fabrice Soulier, Jean Paul Pasqualini, Antoine Saout, Ronan Monfort, Nicolas Delvaux, Tristan Clemencon and Michel Abecassis. The Day 2A gathered half of the 193 survivors of Day 1 with Fabrice Soulier, Michel Abecassis, Ronan Monfort, Nicolas Cardyn and also Nicolas Delvaux.

The Swede Daniel Haglund won the title of the Main Event of the Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour (GUKPT) Walsall. This event of £ 1,000 buy-in was attended by 152 players among whom many British poker stars like Julian Thew, Jerome Bradpiece, Chaz Chattha, Jeff Kimber, Stuart Fox, Sunny Chattha, Dan Carter... These top players were all vying to win the biggest share of the prize pool of $ 153,000. However, none of them managed to reach the final table of 8 which was dominated by the Swedish, the third in chips at the beginning of the meeting.

After the Days 1A and 1B which saw the qualification of 97 players, the WPT National Series Paris continues its course with the third qualifying day : the Day 1C brought together a field of 178 players. In all, the day of departure of the WPT National Series Paris gathered twice of the field of last year, a record attendance of 370 participants generating a total prize pool of € 527,700. The winner of this poker event will walk away with a package for the WPT Grand Prix of Paris in 2012 and € 92,570 of prize pool. After eight levels of play as during the first two days, Omar Lakhdari seized the chip lead with 164,800 chips. Of the 96 survivors of the day, there are also Antoine Saout (156,000), Clement Bonin (153,000), Jean Paul Pasqualini (141,000) and Barbara Martinez (100,000) in the leading pack.

Poker aficionados in France have a new exceptional event from March 22 to 25, 2012. Indeed, for the first time in the history, the France Poker Series launch a new event that is the France Poker Series Snowfest to be held at the Casino of Evian, in the French Alps. Given the success garnered by the European Poker Tour Snowfest, the organizers of the poker circuit very popular among French players were attracted by the concept. In this first edition of the tournament, several events will be offered to participants. There will be at first the main event of € 1,100 entry fee which will be held from March 22. A satellite tournament of € 150 buy-in to qualify for this major event will be held at the casino on Wednesday, March 21.

The poker circuit Deepstack Open visited the city of Cannes from March 15. If in 2011, the event was a great success with 536 registered players, this year the success was even more important. More and more players seems to be interested in the concept of playing deep stack poker for a modest entrance fee as they were 545 participants to pay the buy-in of € 550 for this edition. And many great players were part of the starting field like Jean Paul Pasqualini, Roger Hairabedian, Fabien Perrot, Paul Testud, Antonin Teisseire, Omar Karib, Giuseppe Zarbo and Jean Jacques Mars. Note that during the first edition in 2011, the trophy was won by the Italian Luca Colangelo.

The Aviation Club de France (ACF) hosted since Saturday, March 17 the Main Event of the WPT National Series Paris which is part of the WPT National Open Series of Poker. During the first qualifying day, 95 players paid the buy-in of € 1500 + € 150 but only half of the field were qualified for Day 2. After eight levels of play, Eric Fourniols finished the day as chip leader with a stack of 157,350 chips. Among the 49 survivors of the day, we can mention the presence of Ronan Monfort (123,000), Paul Pires-Trigo (110,000), Quentin Crutel (82,000), Idris Ambraisse (67,000), Aurelien Guiglini (66,000), Jean-Luc Voyer (63,000), Laurent Gauthier (60,000), ...

The kickoff of the European Poker Tour Prague Deepstack will be held on March 21. This is an opportunity to play poker in an idyllic setting and in a tournament with a beautiful structure. Indeed, poker enthusiasts who will join the King's Casino of Corinthia Hotel Prague will compete in a deepstack event of € 550 buy-in during which they will receive 50,000 starting chips for game levels of 60 minutes. As a reminder, during its visit in Dublin in 2011, the tournament registered an unprecedented success because it attracted a large field of 590 participants including stars such as Max Silver, Steve O'Dwyer or Jonathan Duhamel. The event ended with the victory of the Belgian Christophe Vanzieleghem who pocketed during this edition the sum of € 53,065.

On Saturday March 17, the step of the European Poker Tour (EPT) that took place in Madrid ended with the victory of the Danish player Frederik Brink Jensen. This € 5,300 buy-in main event has been exceptional, a stop which attracted a field of 477 participants generating a prize pool of € 2,313,450 which was distributed to the 72 best players. Note that the prizes for the three players who reached the podium of the poker room of Gran Madrid of Casino were decided following a three-way deal. After having ousted Fraser Macintyre during the final duel, therefore, the Danes took home the top prize of € 495,000. The Danes therefore continues to embellish his gains because before this feat in Spain, he has already won the runner-up place at the Aussie Millions 2010 and totals in all 11 cashes. He therefore accounts currently cash in live tournament of just over $ 2 million.

The 112 survivors of Day 2 met this Thursday, March 15 at Gran Casino Madrid to designate the some 20 players who will continue the Main Event of the European Poker Tour Madrid 2012. Of the 112 participants, 72 players will enter in the money but only 24 of them will have access to the Day 4, the penultimate day of competition. Kevin Macphee, Rebecca Gerin, Toby Lewis, Johhny Lodden, Alex Kravchenko, Kenny Hallaert, Olivier Busquet, Jacob Rasmussen and Barny Boatman are among the players who are in the money at the Main Event. The Day 2 chip leader Mike McDonald is also qualified for the next round but lost a few places compared to his position at the entrance of Day 3.

Last weekend, the 100 th main event of the Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) circuit made a stopover in St. Louis, Missouri. Created in 2005, this circuit registered a huge hit among players and became really famous. The HPT is actually one of the most famous tournaments in the United States. During this special edition, organizers brought together a field of 328 players. It must be said that this significant anniversary was celebrated with dignity because of renowned players such as Greg Raymer, the great Phil Hellmuth, Chris Moneymaker, Darvin Moon but also Allen Kessler were present in the poker room of Park River City and Lumiere Casino. With a buy-in of $ 1,650, the prize pool collected rose then $ 476,256 that let the winner walk away with a huge price of $ 119,064. And this kitty was awarded to the American player Will Failla who won the victory after having defeated Brian Nguyen during the final heads'up.

With its 10 years of experience, the World Poker Tour (WPT) continues to innovate its offerings. To commemorate this fateful anniversary, the circuit decided to expand its offerings on the European continent through the creation of the WPT National Series. The opening stage of this new meeting will take place in Paris. Indeed, from next March 17, players are invited to join the Aviation Club de France to take part in. Note that the tournament is held in conjunction with the festival of poker Paris Open of Poker. It should be noted that the WPT National Series are available for a buy-in of € 1,650 and will consist of three days of competition.

From March 16 to 25, 2012, the Aviation Club de France, the most famous French game circle that sits on the Champs Elysees will host the eighth edition of the tournament Paris Open of Poker. As usual, several tournaments will be in the program to allow participants to play poker with satisfaction. The two major events that are waiting for poker enthusiasts at the festival will be the World Poker Tour National Series Paris (WPT) available for a buy-in of € 1,500 and the ACF Poker Tour of € 750 entry fee. Players can earn a place for these two tournaments by participating in satellite tournaments of € 50 and the side event of € 300 to be held from March 19 at 8:00 pm.

The European Poker Tour Madrid continues its course after the day 1A during which only 67 of 125 players survived. The Day 1B brought together meanwhile 352 participants, but after five levels of 75 minutes, there were only 197 players. Eugene Katchalov, Ivan Freitez, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Andrey Pateychuk, Steve O 'Dwyer, Leo Margets, Victor Ramdin and Mickey Petersen were among the 155 players who were eliminated on Day 1B. Among the players who qualified for the Day 2, there is Jake Cody, Mike McDonald, Kevin MacPhee, Kenny Hallaert, Per Linde, Olivier Busquet, Tristan Clémençon, Juan Maceiras, Martin Jacobson, Jacob Rasmussen, Nacho Barbero, Stephane Albertini and Melanie Weisner. But at the end of the day, it's the Spanish Juan Navarrete Azon who took the chip lead with 173,200 chips.

The Mega Poker Series tournament, the poker event that will know surely more success in the future, just ended with a victory of Tom Langley. The event was held at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham and was attended by 227 players in total among whom 13 of them were registered twice. In total, a prize pool of £ 133,920 has been collected and the 36 best players were rewarded. It was a deep stack tournament in which competitors received 77,000 starting chips for game levels of 77 minutes. Many players in the ubiquitous in largest poker tournaments in the world like Sam Trickett, Daniel Carter, John Eames, the runner-up of the World Poker Tour Dublin Charles Chattha, the finalistof the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure 2012 Ruben Visser, the finalist of the European Poker Tour Koen Visscher and Jamie Burland, the WPT champion Sam El Sayed and many representatives of the online poker site Poker770 were present there. Moreover, many of them were in the money.

After several months of negotiations between the two parties, the file about the possible purchase by Bernard Tapie's Group of the mythical online poker room Full Tilt Poker advance to the final agreement. For recall, this website was one of the largest platforms victims of the Black Friday: Justice and the American authorities have had to close it because of irregularities. A real earthquake in the middle of the poker and online casino in the United States. According to information from different sources including eGaming magazine, the shareholders of the investment company of the businessman Bernard Tapie are in the final phase for the realization of the project. Still according to the same source, the signature could be done in two weeks at the latest.

To have the privilege to play poker in a unique setting, amateurs of this game can attend the second stage of the tournament Land Sea Poker Tour (LSPT). Indeed, the largest and the most famous tournament for amateur is inviting fans of the circuit from April 23 to 28, 2012 in Andorra. As usual, the event will combine play and relaxation. This time, the Holiday Inn, a large hotel complex situated in the Principality of Andorra, in the Pyrenees, between Spain and France has been chosen as host of the LASP Andorra Veilha. Note that the first LSPT tournament was organized in the same hotel.

The Champion of the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Caesars Atlantic City is finally known. This is Ryan Eriquezzo who just won his second WSOPC ring. Note that the event brought together 641 participants consisting of online poker pros and well known live tournament players, and at the third day of competition, there were only 22 players in the race with Ryan Higgins in the lead. The player aged 27, native of Connecticut bagged the biggest win of his career amounting $ 191,194. Note that he won his first bracelet in the Bayou Poker Challenge, a tournament organized as part of the WSOPC in 2010. This young champion is not a novice in the middle of live tournaments especially since he accomplished a great feat in 2011 by winning the title of the Borgata Winter Open, a victory that earned him a bonus of $ 71,978.

For the 10th stage of the Season 8, the European Poker Tour has chosen the Spanish capital to gather European poker enthusiasts and also foreigners from March 12 to 17. On Monday, March 12, 125 players came at the € 5,300 buy-in Main Event of the EPT Madrid which takes place at the Gran Casino Madrid. The event attracted many renowned top players on the circuit like Eoghean O 'Dea, Alex Kravchenko, Chris Moorman, Martin Staszko, Adeniya Martins, Arnaud Mattern, James Akenhead, Pierre Neuville and also James Dempsey but after this first day of qualification, only 67 players survived to the Day 2. And it is the Ukrainian Sergey Baranov who finished the day as chip leader with a stack of 152,500 chips after eight levels of one hour.

Last weekend, French poker enthusiasts gathered at the Casino Lyon Vert of Lyon for the second edition within a few weeks of the Partouche Poker Deepstack. After the first edition in February, the PPD Lyon brought together 296 participants and has seen the coronation of the French Jimmy Gillot who pocketed € 30,000 for his victory. On the eve of the final table (Day 3), it remains 19 players for the only nine seats of the final and Jimmy Gillot was the chip leader at the entrance of the day with a stack of 2,873,000 chips. 32 players were in the money with a minimum gain of € 1,000 and the bubble boy of these cashes was Tahrik Mohammedi.

The second day of competition at the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC), currently visiting Atlantic City was closed and there are only 22 players vying to play on Day 3. It must be said that this day was an opportunity for the public to watch many professional poker players at work on the table. Indeed, in the middle of the day, the organizers decided to offer a live broadcast that saw marquee players such as Josh Brikis, David Fox, Manh Nguyen, Garry Gates and Edward Pham who competed on same table. This was indeed the first time that a live broadcast took place within the WSOPC before the final table.

The Season 8 of the European Poker Tour (EPT) reaches now its 10 th step. The event took place since last Monday in Madrid, Spain. During the opening day of the tournament, the poker room of the Gran Casino Madrid was invaded by 125 poker players who came to participate in the Day 1A of the € 5,300 main event. During the first stopover of the EPT in the Spanish capital in 2011, the best players at the international level were part of the field of 686 participants generating a total prize pool of € 6.8 million, allowing the winner Ivan Freitez to receive a huge gain of € 1.5 million. The same record attendance is expected for this new edition.

The Asian Pacific Poker Tour Seoul 2012 (APPT) came to end and delivered its result last Sunday, March 11. By winning against his 267 competitors in this poker tournament, Andrew Kim won the trophy and the first prize of $ 145 million krw, just over $ 129,000. During the third day of competition, there were only 16 competitors in the race. And it only took a few hours for to know the nine competitors of the final table. It was a meeting fairly rhythmic. The eliminations started early and the runner-up in the Aussie Millions, Kenneth Wong, was the first to leave this Korean poker tournament final. Ranked in the place of chip leader at the start of the final day, Daisuke Endo followed him at the 8 th place. Taewook Kwon and Jose Severino also followed their footsteps soon after to rank respectively 6th and 7th.

The World Series of Poker Circuit Caesars stop now at Caesars Atlantic City. In total, the tournament attracted a field of 619 participants. Part of the largest internationally poker tour, the WSOPC bring together top players, whether professionals of online poker or regulars of live tournament. Some of them have even failed to be among the survivors for the Day 2 like Chris Klodnicki, Chris Tryba, Mike Leah, Amanda Musumeci or Adam Lippert. Note that the removed during a the Day 1A were allowed to retry their chances at the next qualifying day. The former champion Brian Ali was among those who was eliminated on Day 1A but he chose to settle with his result. A the other hand, the game continues for the other finalists from the previous edition as Patrick Houchins, Roland Israel and John Andressas well as for other top players such as Joe Palma, Kurt Jewell, Mike Santoro, Dwite Pilgrim, Garry Gates, Christian Harder, Jeremy Alaska, Andy Frankenberger, Alemu Makonnen or Alex Queen.

Last week was marked by an unusual and exceptional event. 364 players gathered in Florida for the title of the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star with the participation of many stars. The purpose of the event was to play poker but mostly to shoot pro players throughout the five days of competition. Of the 364 enrolled, only six players were qualified for the final table on last Friday, March 8 who were Joe Elpayaa (908,000 chips), Joe Serock (952,000), Lune Kim (2,098,000), Ubaid Habib (2,274,000), Erik Cajelais (3.64 million) and Andrew Badecker (1,040,000) who occupied respectively the six seats.

Described as the "Best Event of the Year" at the European Poker Awards, the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) will be back in this edition 2012. Like last year, the event will be held in Cannes, in the Casino Barriere Croisette and the Hotel Majestic Barriere. Regarding the date of the tournament, the organizers decided to shift a fortnight so that players can truly enjoy their stay. Note that the € 10,400 buy-in main event was a huge success as a field of 593 participants was registered. By ending as the best of this field, the American Elio Fox bagged the first prize of € 1.4 million.

The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) has just begun its step in Seoul, South Korea. Fans of the circuit met at Paradise Walkerhill Casino for the tournament. On Day 1A, there were 129 players who joined the poker room. Very optimistic, the organizers expect a record in attendance. At the end of the day, Christopher Park reached the place of chipleader by being the only player who amassed more than 100,000 chips. He will begin the second day of competition with 119,800 chips in hand. Note that other 55 players were qualified for the Day 2 which include Fakher Alizai holder of the second largest stack, Barry O'Callaghan, Michael Guzzardi, and also the Aussie Millions champion Oliver Speidel who did an excellent course at this first qualifying day. He is currently in the 7 th place with 74,400 chips.

This weekend, French poker enthusiasts will be spoiled in terms of choice with the Partouche Poker Deepstack in Lyon and the Barrière Poker Tour in Bordeaux. The Barrière Poker Tour is a very popular circuit among French and foreigners poker enthusiasts because of its prizes. Indeed, many packages to the World Series of Poker Europe of next year (5 packages of € 12,000) will be distributed at the event in addition to the guaranteed prize pool of € 120,000. These allocations are the result of the partnership that began with Caesars Interactive and Lucien Barrière. The € 1,350 buy-in Main Event is limited to 300 players and 81 players are currently already qualified through qualifications held at the Casino Barrière of Bordeaux and qualifications through online poker rooms.

After the first two qualifying days, the 149 survivors joined the tables of the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star to designate the few players who will for be eligible for the Day 3. Throughout the day, we witnessed the shooting of many stars such as Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Fabrice Soulier, Jason Mercier, David Pham, Tommy Vedes, Men Nguyen, Allen Cunningham, Michael Mizrachi, Linda Johnson and Kathy Liebert. Of the 149 players who started the day, only 20 of them were qualified for the Day 3 of this poker tournament with as chipleader Scott Baumstein who won the € 10,000 High Roller of the Master Classics of Poker in in 2011.

The Partouche Poker Deepstack is one of the most popular live poker tournaments in France. Face to the success that the stage of the PPD in Lyon registered and the number of players who could not participate because the tournament, especially the Main Event was open to 500 players only, the organizers will repeat this event on on March 9 to 11. Thus, the season 2 of the Partouche Poker Deepstack will consist of two steps in Lyon. After the PPD of February 10 to 12, the Lyon Vert will receive this weekend the fifth stage of this prestigious French tournament before flying to Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (March 30 to April 1st) for the rest of the events.

Since the launching of the GPI Player Of the Year a few weeks ago, the Global Poker Index updates weekly the rankings of professional players for the title of player of the year. This week, the Canadian Jonathan Duhamel is in the first step of the podium with a score over 500 points. But the big increase returns to Noah Schwartz who jumps twenty places and he is now himself in second place ranking just behind Duhamel. A large gap separates the Canadian of the rest of the pack because the new runner up has 326.05 points followed by Faraz Jaka (308.35), Sam Chartier (305.80) and Jason Koon (284.24) who close the Top 5.

After a 7th place at the final table of the EPT Copenhagen, Steve O'Dwyer has just completed a new achievement on the international circuit. Indeed, this American poker star won the title of the World Poker Tour National Series (WPT), which was held in the casino of Munkebjerg Velje, Denmark. This tournament available for an entrance fee of € 1,500 + € 150 attracted 289 participants. O'Dwyer was the only foreigner on the final table. But despite that, this American player managed to beat local players that also to the fact that he occupied the place of chip leader at the beginning of the confrontation. He know how to keep his advantage and started the final duel between him and Martin Tonnesen with a stack level four times bigger than that of his opponent, which greatly helped him to victory.

It was after four days of competition that took place within the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond that the champion of the $ 3,125 buy-in main event of the Chicago Poker Classic was known. This is Anthony Marsico, a native of Bloomingdale, Illinois. Playing poker during four days with a crazy rhythm had nothing easy but Marsico announced that he felt very well despite his tiredness. Moreover, he is still appreciating his victory. Thanks to the magnificent performance that he signed, this young player used to parts of pot-limit Omaha cash game won the first prize of $ 265,825 and 900 points in Card Player Player of The Year, allowing him to rise to the 32 th place in this ranking and to have the same ranking as Oleksii Kovalchuk and Eui Woong Kim.

Last Monday, 142 players came in San Jose, California for the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star and only 54 of them were qualified for Day 2. Unique, this tournament is not included in the program of the World Poker Tour but allows fans to rub shoulders with professionals, specifically to shoo them. Indeed, the goal is to track professional players and each pro player eliminated is equivalent to a bounty of $ 5,000, and a t-shirt autographed by the Shooting Star is also available to shooters. Forty-seven professional players participated in this first day ofqualifying . And the chip leaders for day 1A and 1B received $ 10,000. At the end of the day, Bryce Yockey finished in the top of the table (245,300 tokens) and eliminated Erik Seidel on his way, which already let him to receive a total of $ 15,000.

After the announcement of the come back of the famous TV show Poker After Dark, poker fans in France will also benefit a new poker show. Indeed, from March 8, poker enthusiasts and subscribers of the TV channel M6 will be able to follow in their small screens the second season of Big Game. This is a program offering to an amateur player who qualified from an online poker tournament the chance to challenge professional players as the legendary Doyle Brunson, the Canadian pro Daniel Negreanu, the French number a Bertrand Grospellier, the holder of 11 World Series of Poker bracelets Phil Hellmuth, Jason Mercier, Phil Laak and Tony G in a cash game High Stakes.

The second edition of the World Series of Poker National Championship (WSOP) will be held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino on July 6. The event will take place at the same time as the 43 th edition of the WSOP. In this edition 2012, some changes were made. Indeed, in order to develop a tournament that let to distinguish the best poker player of the circuit, the organizers decided to expand the field. Thus, in addition to players who qualified during the WSOP Circuit 2011-2012, the top 100 players at the WSOP and WSOP Europe in 2010 and 2011 will be also present at this tournament. In total therefore, the tournament field will be around 200 participants.

Last week, Slovenia has seen a step of the Season 3 of the Italian major poker tournament : the Italian Poker Tour. Indeed, Perla Casino & Hotel Nova Gorica hosted for five days the 286 players who registered for the tournament with € 2,200 buy-in for a total prize pool of € 545,000. At the start of the day 2, 160 players joined the tables to identify the players who will be admitted for the next step and at the end of the day, there were only 32 players who had the possibility to claim the title of the IPT Nova Gorica. On Day 3, the penultimate day of competition was marked by the elimination of the $ 2,500 NLH champion of the WSOP 2011, the Ukrainian Oleksii Kovalchuk but also by the leading of a woman on the eve of the final table.

For its first time in the Indian Ocean, the World Poker Tour National Series in Mauritius has been a success even if the event is not on the main board of the World Poker Tour. In all, the event gathered a total of 290 players who fought a fierce battle throughout the five days of competition. The WPT Mauritius was open to all players around the world who could pay the modest sum of € 1,200. At the entrance of Day 1A, 139 players were registered, but at the end of the day, only 60 of them were qualified for the next round. These 86 survivors of Day 1A were joined by 86 survivors of Day 1B of 151 enrolled. The Day 2 hosted 146 players who survived from the two first days and they defined the 35 players qualified for Day 3.

After its step in Los Angeles, the World Poker Tour (WPT) will visit from this Monday, March 5, California. Indeed, fans of the circuit are currently taking place on one of the most famous stages of the circuit which is the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars. As usual, several poker stars will participate in the tournament and they will be the bounties of the event with reward of $ 5,000 to be awarded to players who eliminate them. We should also mention that the chip leaders after the two Day 1 will receive a bonus of $ 10,000. In the first two days of competition, the world champion Jonathan Duhamel, Joe Hachem, Scotty Nguyen, Mike Sexton and Phil Hellmuth will be among the stars to eliminate at this poker tournament. Note that players who succeed in ousting the star bounties or who get the bonus as the tournament chipleader will have access to $ 10,000 buy-in.

The Italian Poker Tour (IPT) Nova Gorica started as planned on Thursday, March 1st. A drop in attendance was recorded for the main event at € 2,200 buy-in because if last year's event brought together 390 players, this year, there were only 286 participants who have taken place in the poker room of Perla Casino & Hotel. The organizers gathered a total prize pool of € 545,000. In the second qualifying day which took place last Friday, March 2, 191 players competed on the tables of this event held in Slovenia. Local and foreign poker players such as Dario Minieri, Luca Pagano, Martinez Massimilano or the Ukrainian Oleskii Kovalchuk were present among this field.

The World Poker Tour is a live tournament of international stature that attracts more and more participants from around the world. Organizers announced last week the launching of a charity event aimed to provide support to various charities that work for the respect of human rights, protecting the environment or the fight against poverty. Named WPT Foundation, the foundation will support at first the actions taken by We Advance, Conservation International, World Enough Project and Central Kitchen. The WPT will provide first-time donation of $ 100,000 to the foundation. This donation will be accompanied from next March 11 by different events in the framework of WPT Playing for a Better World having as only purpose to raise funds for the WPT Foundation.

This week, with the backdrop of the bankruptcy filing of the FS + G, the organizer of the Global Poker Index (GPI), a great change has been recorded in the rankings. The most striking feature is the progression of Vanessa Selbst, due to her excellent track record in the LA Poker Classic inaugural tournament. After having won the trophy at the $ 5,000 buy-in NLHE that brought together 98 participants, the U.S. player has risen to the 5 th position of the GPI with 2,515.36 points. She won three seats and accessed at the fifth position. There is also the rise of Jonathan Duhamel who is currently in the 10th place. Note that the Quebecois was the runner-up of Vanessa Selbst at the same poker tournament and as reminder, he also made a very good run at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. These good results enabled him to win six seats.

The World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic finally delivered its verdict last Wednesday, February 29. While the audience of the poker room of Commerce Casino in Los Angeles expected a victory of one of five professionals on six players who occupied the seats of the final table, it was Sean Jazayeri, an amateur player, who seized the trophy. Indeed, as usual, the final table of the WPT LA Poker Classic has been very tough. Holders of the lowest stack at the beginning of the party, Jason Sommerville and Jason Burt were, unsurprisingly, were the first to leave the table and were respectively ranked 5th and 6th. Noah Schwartz tried to resist in order to win at least the third place. Unfortunately, he had to settle for the 4 th place.

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After five days of hard play, the six finalists for the WPT LA Poker Classic 2012 final are known. For this tenth edition of the LA Poker Classic, 549 players were registered at the start but on the eve of the final table, it remains only six players. After six levels of play, there the elimination of twelve players was observed starting with Nick Binger and Daniel Idema. A few levels later, the world champion of poker 2005 Joe Hachem also took the way out to the 12th place. Jason Dewitt was the next on the list. Eliminated in the 11th place, he pockets a gain of $ 60,610. He was followed shortly afterwards by Sorel Mizzi (10th - $ 60,610), Stephen Chidwick (9th - $ 79,060) and David Pham (8th - $ 110,680). The bubble boy of the day is Allen Carter who fails in the 7th place but console still with a nice sum of $ 155,480.

The company Federated Sports + Gaming (FS + G) which gather great poker enthusiasts as Annie Duke and Jeffrey Pollack, which was the organizer of the Epic Poker League, a tournament organized to highlight the best superstars of poker, had just filed for bankruptcy on last Wednesday, February 29. If in the eyes of poker community, this fact confirms the view of some poker pros on the future of the EPL as Daniel Negreanu, leaders of the firm have taken pains to explain that this is a just a procedure undertaken in order to implement a reorganization that is supposed to allow them to restart another more efficient organization.

The French National Championship by Team of Clubs (CNEC) 2012 was held on February 25 and 26 in Provence, France. The 27 best poker club in France qualified for the final met in Charles Trenet room to compete for the title of champion of France. Participants competed in tournaments of Sit & Go where the goal was to record the maximum points. After two days of competition though eventful, the Poker Club of Abbeville received finally the trophy, by having amassed 233 points. The poker club beat Limoges Poker Club with only 7 points. The third place went to the AJPPR club while Tregor Poker Club took the fourth place.

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The success was at the appointment in the $ 1,600 buy-in main event of the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) held at Palm Beach Kennel Club of Florida. Indeed, an increase of about 5% in attendance was recorded as 778 players entered in this poker tournament as the edition 2011 registered a field of 742 participants. The organizers managed to record a prize pool of $ 1,131,990. The final table was held last Monday and after a day full of action, the champion in the person of the Canadian Jim Harnden was known. This poker enthusiast of 58 years is not at his first exploit in poker tournaments. Indeed, he has already clinched the title at a No-Limit Hold'em tournament of $ 500 buy-in organized through the Canadian Poker Tour in 2008. His experiences enabled him to triumph in the tournament. And as a champion, he was entitled to the trophy, the first prize of $ 226,395, the gold ring and a ticket for the WSOP Circuit National Championship to be held in the magnificent Rio poker room in Las Vegas, in the month of May.

After a Day 3 marked by the qualifying of 54 players led by Tuan Phan with a stack of 1,140,000 chips and also the elimination of Phil Ivey, the World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic 2012 is continuing its course with the Day 4. The survivors fought then to designate the last 18 seats before the final table. The 54 survivors of the previous day meet themselves at Commerce Casino in Los Angeles to compete for 18 seats for the next round before the final of this poker tournament. Five levels of game later, Noah Schwartz took the lead, followed by another American, Dan Kelly with a stack of 1,770,000 and 1,749,000.

To the delight of poker fans, the diffusion of the famous TV show, Poker After Dark will resume from March 5. Note that this TV show emerged around the beginning of January 2007 and its release was canceled on September 23, 2011 just after the Black Friday, the scandal that caused the indictment of leaders of the show former sponsor, Full Tilt Poker. NBC announced that 24 episodes that haven't been yet released wait viewers including four weeks of cash game and a week of sit'n'go. But until officials decide on their release date, it is certain that the public can see the old episodes on their small screens from March 5. Among the scenes that are going to twirl fans of the show after that date are Sit'n-go tournaments of $ 100,000 during which John Juanda, Phil Ivey, Huck Seed, Erick Lindgren, Tom Dwan and Phil Galfond were involved.

Some additional information has just been unveiled about the initial stage of the sixth season of the tournament Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT). This tour is highly anticipated by non-professional of poker because it is an opportunity for them to play poker in a professional setting. Thus, to ensure the success of the inaugural event, the William Hill English Amateur Poker Championship to be held on April 7 and 8, 2012 at G Casino Coventry, tournament organizers worked with an online poker room. Through this partnership, all fans will have the chance to earn their ticket to the tournament that brings together a field of 200 participants, by signing up for qualifying satellite tournaments held since February 27, 2012.

The World Series of Poker Africa 2012 experienced an improvement in terms of attendance rate compared to the first edition. The amount of the buy-in reduced and the presence of the ambassador Scotty Nguyen, a famous professional poker no longer to present, are certainly the causes of this considerable progress in the field. The $ 3,300 buy-in main event of the WSOP Africa indeed raised a total of 218 participants generating a prize pool of $ 634,380. After three days of competition, it was the local player Joe-Boy Rahme who won the title of champion of the WSOP Africa 2012, the lion's share of the prize pool totalling $ 158,595 and the gold ring.

The elimination of the best poker player, Phil Ivey was the highlight of the third day of competition at the World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic. Everybody admit that the prodigy of poker had some difficulties early in the championship. However, the public of the poker room of Commerce Casino in Los Angeles expected a rebound from him. While there were only 55 players on the table and competitors struggled to get ITM, Phil Ivey had to surrender and settled for the place of bubble boy. At the end of the day so, there were only 54 players in the race and they will all be entitled to premiums.
 
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