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Last weekend, the Casino of Tangier hosted the Tangier Poker Million, a live poker tournament that starts to the have success among poker enthusiasts from Morocco and France. For this new edition of Tangier Poker Festival, the organizers of Tangier Poker Million and Marrakech Poker Open brought together 169 players. The Tangier Poker Festival attracted a field of 169 players. For the first time, the Main Event adopted the re-entry system that allowed 28 players to re-enroll. With a buy-in of 7,700 dirhams (€ 700), the Main Event guaranteed a prize pool of one million dirhams. Apart from Moroccans and French, we also noted the presence of Romanians of which three of them were qualified for the final table.

It remains only a few days before the kickoff of the World Poker Tour Grand Prix of Paris. This tournament will be part of poker festival called Rendezvous in Paris to be held in the famous Parisian circle game that sits on the Champs Elysées, the Aviation Club de France (ACF), from September 5 to 20. To satisfy fans who wish to take part in the Main Event of this International Competition, the ACF organizes on Friday, August 31 to Sunday, September 9 many satellite tournaments qualifiers. They have buy-ins ranging between € 50 and € 150. Two freezeout tournaments of € 1,000 that let to get packages for the World Series Of Poker Europe Cannes 2012 will also take place on Monday 17 and Thursday, September 20.

The Macau High Stakes Challenge is a Super High Roller poker tournament accessible for a huge buy-in of HK $ 2,000,000, an enormous amount equal to $ 257,000, with one rebuy. This will be an exceptional tournament especially as the organizers decided to adopt a new concept to make the event more interesting. In this context, competitors can enable the re-buy early, that is to say, during the first four levels of play and will have 100,000 chips to start. The turbo structure which principle is to increase the blinds every half hour will be also applied. With such a concept, the tournament could be completed in one day. Note that the field has been limited to 80 participants, which will generate a total prize pool of $ 22.5 million. And according to the organizers, it remain about ten places available, which already proves that the super High Roller Turbo of Macau will have a huge success.

A new stage of the eleventh season of the World Poker Tour (WPT) has just begun in Los Angeles. This is the WPT Legends of Poker. The $ 3,700 Main Event of the tournament takes place in the poker room at Bicycle Casino since Friday, August 24. The first two days qualifiers are already closed. The event recorded a total field of 622 participants including numerous big stars such as Gavin Smith, Galen Hall, Vanessa Rousso, Jonathan Little, David Pham, JC Tran, Hoyt Corkin, Andy Frankenberger and Vanessa Selbst. But a slight decrease in attendance was recorded during this edition 2012 of the tournament because last year the field totaled 757 players. However, the appointment has not lost one iota of qualities that make its fame.

The opening stage of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 9 recorded a huge success. Indeed, the € 5,300 main event attracted 1,082 participants generating a prize pool of € 5,247,700. The tournament ended with the victory of the Belarus Mikalai Pobal. Aged 28, he won the big prize of € 1,007,550 after having eliminated the online poker pro Ilari Sahamies during the final duel. Pobal expressed his happiness of having won the biggest trophy of his career as a professional poker player. The Finn, meanwhile, consoled for his defeat, with the prize for the runner-up amounting € 629,700. He clearly increased his bankroll as he already finished 4th in the Super High Roller of € 50,000.

Alongside the Main Event, the High Roller was since a few times a very interesting event in terms of prizepool at live poker tournaments and it attracts many professional players. The Grand Casino Barcelona hosted the High Roller of the EPT Barcelona, a tournament in which 101 players registered and 10 of them used the re-entry formula. In total, the € 10,000 buy-in High Roller was attended by a record field of 111 which generated a total prize pool of € 1,087,800. Many professional players made the trip like Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Scott Seiver, Pius Heinz, Jonathan Duhamel, Philipp Gruissem, Jason Mercier, Dan Smith or Angel Guillen. Taylor Paur was leading the 76 survivors with a stack of 220,400 chips. The Day 3 has as issue places in the ITM but most of top players were eliminated before entering in the money. This is the case of Jason Mercier, Angel Guillen, Bryn Kenney, Peter Jetten, Andrey Pateychuk and Mike Watson.

The ninth season of the poker circuit European Poker Tour (EPT) has just begun. As previously announced, major changes were made to improve the tournament. In this context, the organizers decided to add some changes to the London stage and that of Berlin. About the EPT London which will run from March 6 to 16, 2013, it was announced that the main event of £ 5250 planned to be held from March 10 to 16, 2013 will take place at The Landmark Hotel. But, it will be at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino that the various side event tournaments will be held. Cash game tables will be also available to satisfy all players who will be there.

There is any other doubt, the first edition of the International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT) will take place from May 31 to June 6, 2013. The organizers have just been awarded the license that will let them implement the event at Wembley Stadium in London. As a reminder, the stadium will be transformed into a giant poker room where will take place online and live poker tournaments. If the organizers are able to achieve the goal they set, about 30,000 players will be there for the tournament. Amateurs and professionals can try their luck said the Director General of the ISPT, Prosper Masquelier. And to satisfy the unlucky ones who will be eliminated during the main event, side event tournaments will be also held during the festival. It is therefore a great news for the poker community that can attend an event as grandiose for the first time.

Of the 61 entrants on Day 4 of the Main Event of the EPT Barcelona, only 24 players were qualified for the next round with Samuel Rodriguez as chipleader with a stack of 5,330,000 chips, it took only six hours to the majority of the field to be eliminated. Among the eliminated, the short stack of the day Matthias De Meulder was the first to leave this stage of the tournament. After a few levels, the elimination continued with those of Yuri Gulyy, Kevin Weiland, Konstantin Puchkov, Andrey Zaichenko, Zimnan Ziyard, Leo Margets, Daniel Rudd, Guy Thomas, Konstantin Streletskiy, Felix Kretchmann and Anatoly Gurtavoy. It was the same for the three French players Burlot Régis, Jean-Jacques Mars and Ilan Boujenah who was the bubble boy of the day because he finished in the 25th place. Of the five French qualified for the Day 4, only Lucille Cailly and Alain Roy are still in the race.

The next edition of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) which will take place in Cannes for the second time promises to be a great festival of poker. Indeed, as it was announced several months ago, the event will have an ultimately rich program. There will be seven tournaments enabling players to win the famous gold bracelet and 69 side event tournaments. Cash game tables will be also available in the poker room throughout the two weeks of competition, what could really satisfy poker aficionados. And on Tuesday, August 21, the organizers have just communicated two major news always about the tournament.

The statement made by Judge Jack B. Weinstein of Federal District Court in Brooklyn highlighting the fact that poker is a game of skill really delighted fans of online poker in the United States and the Poker Players Alliance. For the story, Judge Weinstein was appointed to investigate a case concerning a private poker game held in Staten Island. It turns out that the organizer collected 5% of profit from each player. For organizing a clandestine gambling, he risked ten years imprisonment. But the judge declared that he was not guilty by arguing that poker is not a game of chance but a "skill game". Thus, it is not affected by the regulations listed in the Illegal Gambling Business Act of 1970. Note that the judge take his decision based on various studies and analyzes carried out on one million hands of Texas hold'em. The fact that professional players have more chance to win than the least developed also proves that poker is a game requiring talent.

The European Poker Tour Barcelona welcomed on Wednesday the 207 survivors of the Day 2 to designate the remaining sixty players to continue the adventure in Barcelona. After five levels of play, the bubble burst for the ITM and the first eliminated player from the remaining 160 left with a gain of € 8,400. Aliaksei Boika is the bubble boy for having failed at to enter in the cashes. Eliminations succeeded after that and at the end of the day, only 61 players had their tickets for the Day 4. Antonin Duda is on top of the chip counts with a well stocked stack of 1.47 million chips.

The Riu Pravets Resort in Sofia, Bulgaria will host the 7th edition of the Pravets Poker Masters tournament from August 30 to September 2, 2012. This event will bring together many French poker pros. Indeed, Elie Payan, Guillaume Darcourt, Leo Truche, Dragan Galic, Emile Petit and Barny Boatman will be part of the field for the main event of € 1,130 entry fee which kick off will be on Thursday, August 30 from 3:30 pm. The main tournament will spread over three days and will consist of two first qualifying days. The final will take place on Sunday, September 2 from 2:00 pm. The organizers also decided to implement re-entry format. So the unlucky of the Day 1A can retry their luck and return on Day 1B by paying again the buy-in of € 1,330. The main event has a guaranteed prize pool of 50,000 BGN.

This Tuesday, August 20, 607 players were back at Gran Casino of Barcelona for the Day 2 but at the end of the day, 400 players were eliminated. After three days of the European Poker Tour in Barcelona, there are only 207 survivors of the 1,082 participants. The Day 3 will have as challenge the ITM because only 160 players will be rewarded. The last player entering in the money will gain about € 8,400 and for the winner, he will walk away with € 1,007,550 against € 76,100 for the runner up. John Juanda is the chipleader of the day by having accumulated 732,400 chips. Behind Juanda, we found Ilari Sahamies with a little over 500,000 chips, followed by Shahriar Soltaninassab, Samuel Rodriguez, Guy Bachar, Aku Joentausta, Marcos Fernandez, Lucille Cailly, Anders Hansen and Joni Jouhkimainen who composed the top 10 of the Day 3 in terms of chip count.

After the Summer Satellite of La Grande Motte, the Partouche Poker Tour Season V will visit Saint Amand-les-Eaux for the last PPT Summer Sat, the last opportunity for fans and lovers of poker to win tickets for the grand final of the PPT Season V. Since July, the PPT traveled France through its 5 Summer Satellite : Pleeuf Val-André, Arcachon, Juan-Les-Pins, La Grande Motte and St. Armand, which represented as additional opportunities for players to participate to one of the major events of the year to be held in Cannes from September 3 to 9 in the magnificent Palm Beach Casino. This event is characterized by a buy-in of € 8,500 and especially its guaranteed prize pool of € 5 million.

The next enthronement into the Poker Hall Of Fame 2012 will be held in the month of October. Already, players wishing to participate in the selection can register by completing the form available from the website of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Note that the Poker Hall Of Fame awards annually a prize to those who actively contributed to the development of poker, regardless of their role in the poker industry. Many players have already received this award as Johnny Moss, Doyle Brunson, David Reese, Stu Ungar, Jack Strauss, Puggy Pearson and Phil Hellmuth. Last year, Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson were the lucky selected while many poker personalities were nominated for the award like John Juanda, Scotty Nguyen or Annie Duke.

From August 24 to 27, 2012, poker enthusiasts will have the opportunity to meet in the annual tournament APAT European Amateur Championship of Poker (ECOAP) to be held at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham. During the weekend of festivities, many tournaments that will satisfy the best poker players are scheduled. The ECOAP will begin on Friday, August 24 from 5:30 pm with the inaugural Team Championship tournament accessible for £ 110 buy-in. The event will take place over two days. Another tournament, the Stud Event of £ 55 will be also held the same day. This variant of poker played rarely not only in Britain but also at the international level won't certainly fail to attract many players. Note that the final of the Team Championship will be held on the sidelines of the Six-Max Championship of £ 55 buy-in to be held in the poker room on Saturday, August 25 from 3:00 pm.

The first High Roller tournament of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 9 named its winner. Organized under the EPT Barcelona, the event of € 50,000 buy-in crowned Dan Smith. Since the beginning of the year, this young American player continued to show his talent for poker. So he continues his ascent. It should be mentioned that until here, he already won the tournament title of the $ 100,000 Aussie Millions 2012 which allowed him to pocket one million dollars. He also won the victory in three side event tournaments of € 5,000 buy-in organized within the framework of the grand final of the EPT Monte Carlo and his third place at the World Series Of Poker 2012 also reflects this regularity. This new trophy in the Super High Roller allowed him to add in his bank account € 962,925. He now has over three million dollars in earnings.

After the Day 1A of Sunday, the Gran Casino of Barcelona hosted the second first day of the EPT Barcelona Main Event. The day registered a field of 670 players, while the first day drew 403. In all, the Day 1 brought together a field of 1,073 participants which is the second largest crowd in the history of the European Poker Tour after the EPT San Remo Season VI which was attended by 1,240 players. After eight levels of play, nearly half of the field was eliminated with only 378 survivors. In all, 604 players including 226 survivors of the Day 1A will join today the Gran Casino tables for the Day 2.

The sixth edition of the poker tournament Vincent Lecavalier Texas Hold'Em Celebrity will take place on September 16 at Trepin's Hospitality Centre in Tampa. Once again, it's an opportunity to play poker for a good cause. Indeed, the benefits obtained by this charity tournament will be awarded to the Department of paediatric cancer and blood disorders center Vincent Lecavalier. The entry fee for guests at this tournament will be $ 500. As for spectators, the participation in the event is $ 400. Note that various events will take place during the evening as auctions and cocktails which will brighten generous participants who do not participate in the tournament. According to information released by the organizers, more than 25 celebrities are invited to take part in the tournament which starts from 8:15 pm and Dick Vitale will be the special guest.

A must live poker circuit in Europe, the European Poker Tour (EPT) is currently in its ninth season. Spain inaugurated the opening of the new season with the EPT Barcelona Gran Casino in the same city since August 15 to 25, 2012 with the € 5,300 buy-in Main Event that began on Sunday, August 19. Last year, the Main Event of the step of Barcelona attracted 811 players generating a colossal prize pool of € 4,000,000. But ultimately, it is the German Martin Schleich who won the title and € 850,000 after a head's up against the Spanish Dragan Costic. On Sunday, the EPT Barcelona drew a crowd of 403 participants for the Day 1A and the second day of entry will accommodate many more listings. Many stars like Daniel Negreanu, Pius Heinz, Dan Stern, Martin Jacobson, Adeniya Martins, John Juanda, Benny Spindler, Liv Boeree, Alex Veldhuis and Matthias De Meulder registered but only some of them are qualified for the Day 2. We note thus the unexpected eliminating of Liv Boeree, Arnaud Mattern and Benny Spindler.

The Canadian poker pro Matt Marafioti is the target of many poker enthusiasts active on the U.S. forum TwoPlusTwo these days. He is mostly accused of computer scam. His accomplice is none other than the Swedish player named Samer Rahman. The charges were unveiled by an anonymous participant who published the exact transcript of conversation between the two players on Skype. He conversation between the two players plan to hack the computer of Will Molson to let Marafioti be able to view his opponent's hole cards and win easily the victory.

The Summer Satellite of the Partouche Poker Tour (PPT) of La Grande Motte will take place from August 17 to 19. The event will combine holiday and poker. In fact, fans of the game will be welcomed in a relaxing place that is none other than the casino of La Grande Motte, housed on the Mediterranean coast. During the weekend, tournament participants will be able to enjoy the sun and the beach while enjoying their favorite game. Note that this is the penultimate Summer Satellite of the PPT season 5. In the program, there will be very attractive tournaments, the most important is the € 1,250 buy-in Main Event. Its kickoff is scheduled for Saturday, August 18 from 1:00 pm. The best players will as usual receive packages for the grand finale to be held in Cannes, a major event with a guaranteed prize pool of € 5 million.

The nominees for the British Poker Awards are already announced since a few days. The public can already start voting. However, it is important to mention that the edition 2012 of the award of the best British poker players had some major changes. Indeed, new categories have been added to the list of prizes to be awarded during the ceremony. We must mention first the prize for the largest contribution to the growth and development of poker or "Biggest Contribution to Growing and Promoting Poker." The nominees for this award are: Gary Oakes and Kevin Proctor who are the creators of the Genting Poker Series, the leader of the United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour, Kristy Thompson, the creator of the European Deepstack Mike Lacey, Tony Kendall and Rich Prew of BlondePoker who are also at the origin of the existence of the APAT and Sky Poker Tour, Russell Tamplin of the Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour, Simon Tomsett of Palm Beach Big Game and Simon Trumper of Dusk Till Dawn.

A great rendezvous for lovers of live poker tournament in Asia, the Asian Poker Tour gathered during the past few years many players in the Pacific and also in the Indian Ocean. For this year, the organizers of the Asian Poker Tour have chosen a new destination in the heart of the Indian Ocean, Mauritius. Ti Vegas Casino Grand Bay will receive from August 19 to 26, 2012 a stage of the Asian Poker Tour called APT Asian Series Mauritius. This appointment of the APT out of Asia will be held during eight days and have several tournaments, but the highlight of this tour is the € 900 buy-in Main Event.

The final table of the World Poker Tour Parx Open Classic Philadelphia unveiled its results. Player with the second biggest stack at the start of the competition, Tony Gregg won the victory and pocketed thanks to his performance a bonus amounting $ 416,127 including a package worth $ 25,500 for the WPT World championship. This is one of the greatest achievements made by this American in his career as a poker player. He tried for a long time to earn a spot at the top of the podium. But he had to settle for the second place in the PCA 2009 and a 6th place in 2012, a place of bronze at the high roller of the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo 2012 and a fourth in the six-handed tournament of $ 2,500 buy-in of the World Series of Poker.

A new opportunity to play poker and to assist those most disadvantaged in the world is once agai offered to fans of this game. In fact, on August 18, they are expected at Grand Del Mar in San Diego, United States to participate in the tournament "Chips For Charity." This is a charity tournament organized for the purpose of financing the activities of the NGO "Sentebale", a charity that emerged thanks to Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho. The NGO works to help children and young people in Lesotho who are in precarious situations such as orphans, AIDS or cholera victims. "Sentebale" means "I do not forget." This name was given in memory of Diana, mother of Prince Harry, who was best known for her investment in various charities.

Caesars Entertainment registered a record Bad Beat Jackpot during the evening of Monday, August 13, 2012. The event took place in its casino in Atlantic City, the city located in New Jersey on the East Coast of the United States, which attracts many poker enthusiasts. During the evening, they were 411 players who joined the poker room of Caesars. Narong Sae Whited was present and its seems that it was his lucky day because he earned a bonus of $ 237,154 not because he won the tournament but for a Bad Beat. As a reminder, a bad beat jackpot is offered in the case if a player having a winning combination lost face to a player with a much stronger hand.

Since 2009, the identifier Isildur1 attracted a lot the attention of everyone in the world of online poker. Having participated in the biggest high stakes tournaments since the last months of 2009, this player managed to keep his identity in the strict anonymity for over a year. It’s only one month after the signature of his contract (for a sum alleged having 7 digits) with PokerStars in December 2010 that the mystery of his identity has been unveiled. The public knew from this moment that Isildur1 was hiding a young Swede named Viktor Blom. He played against great online poker players and participated in high-level and difficult tournaments. His talent captivated the poker world.

For the final of the Word Poker Tour Parx Open Poker Classic in Philadelphia, the young Stephen Reynolds will lead during the last round. Indeed, he has a few hundred thousands more tokens that Tony Gregg and Cris Lee with a stack of 4,000,000 chips against respectively 3.6 and 3.04 million for his first two pursuers. Before having been eliminated from the tournament, the player called "Santa Claus", Robert Pyne, offered to show his cards for $ 20 at the end of the round. His look "reindeer and sleigh" shows that he still believed in Santa Claus, a magician that he hasn’t meet during this tournament.

Last weekend, players from the four corners of France met in Deauville to attend the seventh stop on the Barrière Poker Tour (BPT) circuit, stop after that of Enghien-Les-Bains, which was held last month. The success was especially registered during the € 1,500 entry fee Main Event because the organizers registered a total field of 172 participants. The event ended with the coronation of John Montury. The native of Toulouse was the best during this meeting and ousted Brice Bourgeix during the final heads'up. So he comes to realize the greatest achievement of his career. With this victory, Montury also pocketed the prize of € 18,300. And as eight other competitors in this tournament, he was entitled to a package for the Main Event of the World Series of Poker Europe Cannes (WSOPE) amounting € 12,000.

The magnificent performance that the German Marvin Rettenmaier recently completed as part of the World Poker Tour circuit is still a subject of debate highly appreciated by the poker community. Everyone agreed that the player is in top of his fit and had just embellished his career with two prestigious titles. Moreover, any player was able to compete him in the last two years compared to his many successes. The latest exploit of the German in Cyprus has also upset the Player Of The Year ranking. Indeed, a few days ago, Dan Smith was in danger of losing his leadership because of the presence of Rettenmaier at the final table of the WPT Cyprus. And that's what really happened. Even if he was eliminated in the second place, the German still recorded a significant growth. He is now leading with 1026.47 points. He won two seats.

The ninth season of the tournament European Poker Tour (EPT) has well and truly begun. Indeed, fans of this poker circuit joined the city of Barcelona, Spain to attend the inaugural stage of the new season. A great poker festival begins so because the casino of Barcelona is also the host institution of the Estrellas Poker Tour. Thus, on Wednesday, a Super Satellite Main Event qualifier for this tournament, accessible for € 165 buy-in will take place in the poker room of the casino from 7:00 pm. In the other hand, the € 5,300 main event of the EPT Barcelona will run from August 19 to 25. Last year the event attracted 811 players generating a huge prize pool of € 4,055,000. Players and observers are waiting whether the same success will be registered or not this year.

After the stopover in Cyprus which ended with the victory of Marvin Rettenmaier, the World Poker Tour (WPT) is actually visiting Bensalem, Pennsylvania for a new stage. Indeed, the WPT Parx Open Poker Classic had just started last Friday, August 10th in the poker room of Parx Casino and its $ 3,500 buy-in Main Event was attended by a total field of 500 participants of which 234 enrolled in Day 1A and 269 at Day 1B, which generated a prize pool of $ 1,600,500. On Monday, the 47 remaining competitors will return for Day 3 and in the place of chipleader is Brent Roberts. He is closely followed by Brock Parker and Shankar Pillai. Note that many well known players were seen in the poker room during the first two qualifying days. Despite the implementation of the re-entry system, most of them failed to go further. This is the case of Joseph Cheong, Charania and Marvin Rettenmaier.

In the U.S.A, the opening of the online poker market is still a real subject of debate especially regarding the regulation at the federal level. About the intrastate regulating, only Nevada managed until here to establish an adequate regulatory system, an environment that could soon let the authorities open the market. California wanted to follow its example. But a priori, poker enthusiasts in California are far from having a same success. Indeed, it turns out that many bills have been proposed by proponents of the regulation of online poker in California since 2007 and none of them managed to succeed.

As it was announced a few weeks earlier, significant changes have been brought to the 9th season of thet European Poker Tour (EPT). Among the most important is the organizing of several High-Roller tournaments available for a buy in more and more expensive. Indeed, during this new season of the EPT, 16 high-roller events will be in the program including the three Super-High Roller of € 50,000 which will take place during the step of Barcelona, the PCA Bahamas and the EPT Monaco, the two tournaments of € 25,000 of Bahamas and Monaco and the € 10,000 high roller reload to be proposed at each stage of the EPT 2012.

The nominees for the next British Poker Awards ceremony are already unveiled. Ten different awards will be distributed during this great event scheduled to take place on September 17 on board of the boat HMS. There will be the title of the best player in tournament, the best online poker player, the best cash game player, the poker personality of the year, the best poker forum, the best British tournament, the best poker league, the best player on the international level as well as the title of player of the year. At first glance, some candidates are nominated for two different titles. To this end, there will be Sam Trickett who will compete for the trophy of the best player in tournaments as well as the best cash game player. Chris Moorman and Chris Brammer are also selected as the best tournament players in live and online. And Vicky Coren and Neil Channing both covet the title of poker personality of the year and the best blogger.

As one of the events not to miss for French lovers of poker, the Barrière Poker Tour (BPT) will be in Deauville next weekend. It's effectively the seventh stage of the BPT 2012. Very interesting tournaments will be in the program of this edition 2012. First, we must mention the main event open for € 1,500 entry fee which will have a deep stack structure. The tournament starts on Saturday, August 11 at 12:00 am. As usual, participating in this event will be a great opportunity for players to earn a spot for the main event of the World Series of Poker Europe Cannes 2012. Five packages of € 12,000 each are to won. The best players will also receive some nice bonuses.

The World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic hosted as planned on Day 4 the 18 survivors of the previous three days. The chiplead changed constantly between poker players as Victor Paraschiv, Artur Voskanyan and Kiryl Radzivonau but finally, it's the winner of the Merit Middle East Poker Championship 2011, Ran Azor, who becomes the chipleader of the six survivors of the Day 4 with a stack of 2,405,000 chips. Behind Azor, we found side by side Artur Voskanyan and Marvin Rettenmaier with respectively a stack of 2,003,000 and 2,002,000. The remaining players of the final table has less than 2 million chips: Kiryl Radzivonau (1,865,000), Victor Paraschiv (1,115,000) and Joseph El Khoury (435,000). Many players have been eliminated but the most unlucky of the day was the chipleader at the start of the day, Erik Cajelais who fails a walk from the final table.

At each of its editions, the Texa Poker Series is very successful. Indeed, the event brings together amateur and poker professional since a few times as Alain Roy, Jeremy Palvini and Jean Jacques Mars. To the delight of fans of the circuit, a new phase is scheduled to take place on August 11 and 12. The organizers have chosen the casino Le Phoebus located in the seaside resort of Gruissan. At first glance, the participants in this event will attend a nice poker tournament. They can also spend a family vacation. As usual, a Main event featuring a deepstack format accessible for an entrance fee of € 500 will be in the program. The kicking off of the tournament will be held on Saturday, August 11 from 2:00 pm. Competitors will therefore have 50,000 starting chips for game levels of 45 minutes. In addition to this main event, a € 200 buy-in side event will be also offered to players on Sunday, August 12 from 4:00 pm.

Marvin Rettenmaier just demonstrated once again that he is a very good poker player. He is effectively intending another trophy for the World Poker Tour (WPT). Indeed, after having won the WPT Championship at Bellagio in last May, he already aims a new title. At the latest news, the German managed to qualify for the final of the WPT Cyprus. With this new exploit, Rettenmaier is well positioned to reach the first place of the Global Poker Index Player of The Year. Certainly, David Baker, who has done an excellent course at the last World Series of Poker, is still leading with 715.90 points. Henceforth, he should better win more points because he may be overtaken by the German, who is currently ranked second in the standings with 682.08 points.

The WPT Merit Cyprus Classic brought together 327 participants during the first two days of entry, but after three days of competition, there were only 18 survivors for the title. The 53 survivors of Day 2 returned to Merit Crystal Cove Hotel & Casino for the Day 3 of four levels of 90 minutes and 30 minutes for the last. The challenge of the day is to qualify for the next round or at least to win a place in the ITM. The organizers of this poker tournament set 36 paid places with a minimum gain of $ 8,070, making a quarter of the field will leave the tournament without being paid. About the winner, he will walk away with a tidy sum of $ 287,784 and $ 184,020 for the runner up.

According to the quarterly report of the ARJEL, the French online gambling authority, since its legalization in April 2010, online games began to have its place inside gambling market in France. And with the rise of online gambling, public finances do not complain because according to the direction of tax legislation, this booming sector would yield 1.4 billion euro to the State. Online games that include lotteries, horse racing, sports betting and online poker is a real cash contributor for the State because the tax revenue collected at the state level amounted € 4.7 billion per year.

While the inaugural stage of the season 11 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) which takes place in Cyprus didn’t ended yet, the program of the Regional Series to be held in Tampa have been made public. The event will take place in the poker room of Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa from September 7 to 16. Fifteen tournaments will be organized during the poker festival. The inaugural tournament including No Limit Hold'em Deep Stack will be available for € 515 buy-in. Re-entry format will be adopted at this event with a guaranteed prize of $ 125,000. The tournament will consist of two first qualifying days. The final is scheduled to take place on Sunday, September 9th from 11:00 am. Regarding the structure, competitors will begin with a starting stack of 15,000 chips and levels of play of 30 minutes.

A few months earlier, the poker community asked questions about the future of the Global Poker Index (GPI) following the bankruptcy of its native society. Now, the problem seems to be set. Indeed, the GPI will be still updated because it has just been acquired by Zokay Entertainment after having been taken over by Pinnacle Entertainment for a long time. According to the CEO of Zokay Entertainment, Alexandre Dreyfus, the GPI is one of the best poker ranking systems. The selection criteria imposed in the selection of the 300 players who will be part of the ranking is very relevant and they are really worth the performance and levels of players. As a reminder, the ranking is based on the performance of players during the last three years, their regularity in the game and many other factors.

A stage of the tournament Deepstack Open (DSO) will be held at Circle Cadet in Paris from August 29 to September 2, 2012. As a reminder, this is a deepstack tournament open for a moderate buy-in of € 550. During the step of Cannes, held last April, the event set a record field of 545 registered players. For the Paris stage, the organizers hope to achieve similar success. It will be a great opportunity for amateur players to play poker in a tournament having a professional setting. Regarding the tournament, the main event will consist of three first qualifying days. Competitors will receive 40,000 starting chips for game levels of 40 minutes. The "re-entry” format will be available during this event.

Last Sunday, the 19 survivors of the poker tournament Genting Poker Series returned to Stoke Genting Casino for the last day of the Main Event in which nine players were selected to participate in the final table. Eliminations succeeded until only one player remained on the table. Yucel Eminoglu won the Genting Poker Series Stoke and joins previous winners of the three steps of the GPS, namely Ruslan Vlasov (GPS Star City), Albert Sapiano (GPS Fox London) and Paul McTaggart (GPS Edinburgh). During the fourth stage of the Genting Poker Series, the Turkish player was the best on a field of 482 players who registered for the Main Event of £ 430 buy-in generating a prize pool of £ 192,800.

During the first half of the year, many poker events succeeded. With their results in these tournaments, some players experienced a nice increase in the classification Player of The Year. Tommy Vedes is one of them. Indeed, winner of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock, Vedes had just completed a new exploit. He finished fourth during the Main event of $ 5,300 entry fee of the Florida State Poker Championship. It was indeed a wonderful course because the final table of the event gathered many good players. Well known players as Darryll Fish, Micah Raskin and Adam Levy were present there. Thanks to his performance, Vedes won 100 points, which allowed him to reach the top 10 ranking. He occupies now the 8 th place.

It became a habit for poker professionals to launch bets, also known as Prop Bet. This time, the game involved Michael Mizrachi, renowned for his ability to play poker and Giorgio Medici who is also a real pro in the game. Medicis effectively launch a bet with $ 100,000 at stake to Mizrachi before the kickoff of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). The clause in the prop bet is Mizrachi won’t win a bracelet. However, the poker community hailed his impressive performance at the Players Poker Championship during which he won the victory for third consecutive time. So he deserves to pocket his $ 100,000. But Medicis unfortunately, can’t pay this amount of money.

Since last Wednesday, poker enthusiasts from the United Kingdom met in Stoke for the Genting Poker Series. This season, the GPS has 7 steps that crisscross the kingdom since the beginning of February. After the stage of Star City (Birmingham), Southend and Edinburgh, the Genting Poker Series was calling in Stoke for the £ 430 buy-in Main Event generating a guaranteed prize pool of £ 800,000. This stage of Stoke will be followed by the Genting Poker Series of Sheffield to be held in next September. The grand finale at Palm Beach Casino in London is meanwhile expected in December for a buy-in of £ 1,600.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) Merit Cyprus began on Saturday, August 4, 2012. Note that this is the inaugural stage of the 11th season of the circuit. They were some 327 participants to have started the Main event accessible for $ 4,400 buy-in. The first day of competition was very eventful. And it turns out that the starting field dropped quickly because there are only 132 players vying for the rest of the competition. On Day 1A, the registered field was 163 participants, including top players such as Gaelle Baumann, Chris Moorman, Erik Cajelais, Marvin Rettenmaier, Daniel Cates and Nicolas Chouity. But it's Maxim Panyak who was at the head of the 67 survivors for the Day 2. He amassed 255,800 chips.

The organizers of the World Series of Poker Circuit had just unveiled the schedule 2012-2013 and the real novelty of this edition is the step of Harrah's Cherokee Casino & Hotel in the program. From April 4 to 15, 2013, therefore, Harrah's Cherokee will be the host of the WSOP Circuit, one of the most popular tournaments inside local players in the United States. Last season, the tour brought together 71,691 participants in its events with WSOP bracelet. With the introduction of new destinations such as North Carolina with the WSOP Circuit Events - Harrah's Cherokee, organizers hope to register more success compared to last year as stated by Ty Steward, the Executive Director of the WSOP. For Harrah's Cherokee Casino & Hotel side, leaders are enthusiastic about the choice of the WSOP for a stop within the institution. This choice is reflected in the level of work and the provision that the casino has undertaken since its inception in 1997 said its CEO, Brooks Robinson.

The Cercle Clichy Montmartre, in Paris is obliged to cease its activities related to gambling since July 31 as its operating license was not renewed. Yet, it turns out that the gambling establishment that is located in Paris followed all of regulations. Indeed, the director of this institution offering poker was really surprised by that decision. He told that all senior and the team worked hard to provide to fans of poker and gambling a legal framework. The French authorities therefore indicated any malfeasance or association with organized crime networks, which was the reason of closure of the other gaming circles in the French capital. Note indeed that the Cercle Clichy Montmartre is the fourth game circle penalized in this way. The other institutions that have already been closed are Wargram, Haussmann and Eldo.

The big event for those who like to play poker deepstack will take place this Friday, August 3 from 5 pm at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham. This is the Super Sized Deepstack open for to £ 200 buy-in. This event always brought together many poker enthusiasts. This time, organizers brought some improvements to make the tournament more attractive. In this context, another format was adopted. Indeed, to take place at the famous format re-entry, the organizers opted to satisfy particularly fans of poker by offering format freezeout tried and tested. Regarding the structure, it will be obviously slow, enough to allow players to win the battle with their performance and talent. Competitors in the tournament will be therefore entitled to 30,000 starting chips with blinds of 50/100.

The IPT San Remo, which took place in the poker room of the Casino of San Remo brought together 375 participants who generated a total prize pool of € 727,500 which € 180,000 was offered for the winner. After four days of competition, there were only nine players for the title race: Andrea Dato, Raffaele Bertolucci, Alessandro Meoni, Julien Norbert Dolay, Johnatan Maisonneuve, Giuseppe Zarbo, Nicolo Allisiardi and Omar Rodriguez. After a few hours of play, the IPT San Remo saw the coronation of Alessandro Meoni. The first player to have been eliminated by Meoni at the final table was Giuseppe Zarbo who, for his 8th place, received € 14,000. A few minutes later, Julien Norbert Dolay ousted the French Jonathan Maisonneuve. A 7th place awarded with € 21,000. Omar Rodriguez was the next on the list followed by Andrea Dato. Both players left the final table with gain of € 29,000 and € 36,000.

In recent years, Macau, the Las Vegas of Asia, became a destination for poker professionals. Last week, Macau received a step of the Asian Poker Tour in which 267 players signed up for the Main Event of $ HKD 25,000 buy-in which is approximately € 3,200. The field let raised a total prize pool of $ HKD 1,913,100. After several days of competition, the eliminations succeeded and the final table hosted the 9 survivors of this poker tournament: Winfred Yu, Aaron Lim, Richard Yueqi Zhu, Carlos Chang, Tom Alner, Yue Qing Zhou, Martin Nilsson, Yi -Po Lee, Samad Razavi and Ai Min Zhang. The Chinese Zhu Richard was the chipleader with 754,000 while Yi Po Lee and Martin Nilsson started the final table as the shortstack with 169,000 and 162,000 chips.

The new season of the Partouche Poker Tour is effectively underway with the first Summer Sat which was organized in Pleneuf Val-Andre last week. This weekend, the Partouche Poker Tour Season 5 will stop in the Landes de Gascogne in a prestigious institution: the Partouche Casino of Arcachon. This second major event of poker enthusiasts in France is planned next weekend. The Partouche casino is located in Deganne castle since 1903, an exceptional setting situated in a resort that allows guests to enjoy their stay at sea through various marine activities. The PPT offers in this idyllic setting for a weekend entirely dedicated to poker but players can still provide a swimsuit in case of early elimination. Nevertheless, a Side-Event of € 250 buy-in is held on Saturday for those less fortunate to qualify for the Main Event satellites of € 170 buy-in held the day before.

Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars found finally an agreement to stop their prosecution for defrauding American players by offering illegal online poker games. Indeed, the two online poker sites agreed that all assets of Full Tilt will go to PokerStars for $ 731 million as announced on Tuesday by Preet Bharara, federal prosecutor of Manhattan. The acquisition of Full Tilt Poker will allow it to repay $ 547 million to U.S. players, a sum that PokerStars will pay in the coming days at the Department of Justice (DoJ). The remaining $ 184 million will be used to repay non-American players, including $ 5 million for French players. By the end of this week, the DoJ will receive an upfront payment of $ 225 million from PokerStars to complete the acquisition.

From August 10 to 12, The Barriere Poker Tour 2012 will stop in Deauville. The Casino Barrière of Deauville will host the seventh stage of the BPT 2012 during which many tournaments and satellites were planned. The highlight of this poker stage remains the € 1,500 Main Event buy-in guaranteeing a prize pool of € 120,000. The main event will be held from Saturday, August 11 and the five best players could win packages worth € 12,000 per unit for the World Series of Poker Europe 2012 in Cannes. Players in the ITM, 15% of participants will share a prize pool of € 60,000.

During the publishing of the report on the second quarter of 2012, the French Regulatory Authority of online games (ARJEL) talked about the decline in attendance including of online poker especially cash games, the rise of sports betting after the Euro 2012 and continuous increasing of horse betting. This report was also an opportunity for the French regulatory commission to mention the popularity inside poker players to use mobile phone to indulge their passion. According to the report, the months of April to June 2012 was marked by the increase by 18% of connection on platforms of online poker from mobile devices for a total of 153,100 players. 15% of the connection has been made from smartphones and 3% with digital tablets. In the second quarter 2011, only 7% of online poker players opted for this mobile solution.

After the ANZPT Queenstown which recently closed its doors with the victory of the Australian David Allan, poker enthusiasts of Oceania and its neighbors will gather from this Wednesday, August 1st for the Sydney Championships 2012. The Star City Casino of Sydney will host this poker event to be held on August 1st until August 12. In all, the Sydney Championships 2012 will have 10 events. With the end of the ANZPT Queenstown and the WSOP 2012, the organizers expect a record crowd. On Thursday, August 9, satellites to qualify for the Main Event are expected.

The new season of the European Poker Tour will begin in mid-August and the organizers planned many new events in the program. Besides the program itself, the EPT Season 9 provides a novelty that would raise the enthusiasm of fans of live poker tournament. Indeed, a new award will be offered in the eight steps of the EPT Season 9: a watch. The organizers swapped the traditional gold bracelet of the tournament for something new, luxurious and useful. This change is also due to the change of sponsor. The Season 8 was sponsored by Shamballa Jewels during which the bracelet inlaid with ceramic balls, white gold balls, pink gold ball and a diamond paved valued at € 10,000.

The Route 66 Casino Hotel Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted the Heartland Poker Tour final table which took place on Monday. Many players and stars, a total of 131 participants attended the Main Event of $ 1,500 buy-in but in the end, the final table was played between six players : Steven Carruthers, Allan Hedin, Benjie Benavidez, Greg Raymer, Scott Dougherty and Robert Crawford. Greg Raymer was the chipleader at the final table with a stack of 1,081,000 chips. He was closely followed by Hedin with 985,000 chips while the rest of the group had less than 700,000 chips. Crawford and Dougherty statrted the final table as short stack with respectively a stack of 371,000 and 234,000.

The Italian Poker Tour (IPT) San Remo brought together a field of over 375 players who carried out € 2,200, the entry fee amount of the Main Event. At the end of the Day 1, 157 players were qualified for the Day 2 but only 45 of them will be retained for the next round. Costantino Russo, Giorgia Tabet and Joseph Pastura were eliminated on Day 2 but they were rewarded with a gain of over € 3,000 each for their tickets in the ITM. Sandra Naujoks, who won the EPT Dortmund in 2009, had less luck when leaving the tournament without being paid at the end of the Day 2. The 45 survivors were all in the money and all the eliminated of the day were rewarded. This is the case of Frank Kalfon, Zhaping Zeng, Ludovic Sultan, Muhamet Perati, Pasquale Braco, Mauro Canavese, Dario Sammartino...

On Friday July 27, the French Regulatory Authority of online games (ARJEL) provided an update of the market of gambling and online poker in France for the second quarter 2012. In general, the market of online games is starting to take a prominent place in the environment of gambling on the French market. Indeed, the second quarter of 2012 was marked by a sharp increase in the sector as it can be seen with the rise of poker, sports betting and horse betting. Compared to the same period of 2011, cash game declined by 6% or a total amount of € 1.51 billion. On the other hand, tournaments are in full expansion with an entrance fee of € 345 million, an increase of 24% compared to the second quarter 2011. Online poker records a weekly average of 295,000 active accounts.

Since last Monday, July 23, the Skycity Casino Queenstown in New Zealand hosted the ANZPT Queenstown Snowfest, the penultimate stage of the Season III of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour. The stage of Queenstown gathered 149 players during the three first days for a buy-in of NZD $ 2,700 + 300. The field generated a prize pool of NZD $ 402,300. 87 players were qualified for Day 2 but at the end of the day, they were only 31 players who get their ticket for the Day 3. The 31 survivors met then once again on Day 3 to tie the nine places of the final table that occupied finally by Matt Wakeman, Jordan Westmorland, David Evans, Ken Demlakian, David Zhao, Bryan Huang, Ricky Kroesen, Ivan Zalac and David Allanont. The Australian Ken Demlakian was the chipleader at the final table with a stack of 529,500.
 
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