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The 17th edition of the Hold'em Series tournament will take place at the Aviation Club de France (ACF) in Paris from November 16 to 25. This festival of poker that will last 10 days will be an opportunity to play No Limit Texas Hold'em poker. The famous French game circle that fits on the Champs Elysées will be the point of appointment of this variant of poker. Six tournaments are offered in different rooms of the facility, which include two No Limit Hold'em tournaments accessible for € 1,000 and € 500 which will take place on November 17 and 18 and November 21 and 22.

The Pot Limit Omaha, Event 3 of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) hosted 97 players who paid the buy-in of € 5,300. At the end of the first day, 25 players managed to qualify for the Day 2 and Erich Kollmann was the chipleader. The day was very fast because the elimination of players followed until the time that the qualified finalists for the final table was known. The list of the nine survivors of the day was set when Bruno Fitoussi was eliminated by Michael Mizrachi. Among the finalists of the WSOPE Event 3 therefore, we find Jason Mercier, Jussi Nevanlinna, Roger Hairabedian, Michael Mizrachi, Joe Hachem, Michael Schwartz, Jussi Ryynanen, Michel Abecassis and Ville Mattila.

If the Cercle Clichy Montmartre in France was able to continue its activities, the Cercle Gaillon was not so lucky, it was forced to close its doors. This is rather disappointing news for live poker enthusiasts who had the habit to rub the place. Located in the eighth arrondissement of Paris, near the Champs Elysées, this gambling circle is a very interesting site but does not seem to have found the right solution to redress its financial problems. Thus, the establishment found no other way than to liquidate and terminate permanently its operations. As a reminder, the circle game has undergone a receivership. But this was not enough to save the institution.

The English Poker Open tournament was held at Fox Poker Club in London. They were 137 players who joined the poker room to take part in the event. Some of the best poker players in the UK have been part of this field like Liv Boeree, Sam Trickett, James Akenhead, Roberto Romanello, Surinder Sunar, Neil Channing and Ben Jackson. None of them unfortunately got a place on the podium. It's the young Danish player, Mickey Petersen, champion of the European Poker Tour Copenhagen who won the victory of this edition 2012 of the English Poker Open. This is the second major title acquired by the Danes whose career began there in just four years.

Since the acquisition of Full Tilt Poker by PokerStars, French players and those from America awaited eagerly the return of their funds that has been agreed by the two poker rooms and the Department of Justice in the United States. As a reminder, Full Tilt has been revoked its license in the United States and suddenly, player funds were frozen. In France, the process of funds recovery advance because last Monday, September 24, the French Regulatory Authority of Online Games (ARJEL) issued a statement after its agreement with PokerStars announcing players reimbursement before November 6. This information will certainly make happy many fans of online poker who has been member of Full Tilt in the past.

After various stages organized in many cities such as Paris, Cannes and Magazan, the grand final of the first season of the ACF Poker Tour was held in the poker room of the prestigious Aviation Club de France and ended with the victory of Florent Marques. It was a successful event because it brought together 153 players including poker professionals such as Bruno Fitoussi, Isabelle Mercier, Lucien Cohen, Antony Lellouche and Antoine Saout. The prizepool collected at this tournament of € 1,500 entry fee amounted € 215,730.

Last Friday, the main event of the World Poker Tour Borgata Open unveiled its fate after several days of competition. Note that this competition was held in the poker room of the Borgata casino in Atlantic City and recorded a huge success as it was attended by 1,181 players generating a prize pool of $ 3,897,300. After having faced this broad field and removed Matthew Burnitz at the final table, Ben Hamnett was the winner of this event. He got the first place and pocketed the first prize of $ 818,847. For the American, this is his first major title. This victory also allowed him to earn a place in the grand final of the WPT Season XI which will take place at Bellagio in Las Vegas in 2013. Hamnett thus succeeds to Bobby Oboodi, the champion in 2011 who managed to win against a record field of 1,313 participants.

The update of the Global Poker Index (GPI) offers a real suspense every week as well as the world's best players and their fans wait it anxiously. By taking into account the performance of the best new poker players of the moment, the list regularly experiences some changes. In this context, the new update that has just been made public mention the enormous progress of Philippe Gruissem. With his third place at the World Poker Tour Grand Prix of Paris, which earned him a prize of € 170,006, Gruissem made a sensational entry in the top 10 of the GPI. He won 12 seats and is currently in the 7th position. There is also the rise of Andrew Lichtenberger in the sixth position. At the other side, Vanessa Selbst lost two places. For the moment, the title of leader is still occupied by Bertrand Grospellier.

Since last Friday, the Casino Croisette Cannes vibrates on the rhythms of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE), the ultimate appointment of poker enthusiasts in Europe. 7 events are scheduled and as the WSOP events taking place in America, each of these events will allow the winner to pocket a bracelet of champion. The Event # 1, a Six Handed NLH of € 2,700 buy-in, which final table took place on Sunday, brought together a field of 227 players. After three days of competition, Imed Ben Mahmoud won his first WSOP Europe bracelet after a final table against players like Sylvain Ribes, Senh Ung, Matan Krakow, Roberto Romanello or Yannick Bonnet. The Franco-Tunisian was in a bad position because at the start of the final day, he was in sixth place in terms of chips but he managed to get a place in the head's up against the chip leader of Day, Yannick Bonnet.

The World Poker Tour Malta was a successful event despite a lower attendance compared to the edition 2011. Indeed, there were 169 participants seen during the Main Event of € 3,300 buy-in, but at the start of the Day 4, the last day of the Main Event, there were only six potential players for the title, the € 120,000 award and the $ 25,000 package for the WPT Bellagio Championship. The final table was played between Alessio Isaia, Yorane Kerignard, Hui Chen Kuo, Sampo Ryynanen, Zeljko Krizan and Jackson Genovesi but at the end of the day of Thursday, it was Yorane Kerignard who emerged as the winner after a head's up with Jackson Genovesi. A regular of the EPT with three final tables at his credit, the player is a French online poker player known in France under the nickname "viirusss." Yorane Kerignard dominated the final duel until winning the last hand when Jackson Genovesi made all in.

It's this Friday, September 21, 2012 that begins in Cannes the World Series of Poker Europe 2012 (WSOPE). During two weeks, every poker room at Casino Barrière Croisette will host a large gathering of poker. Note that the edition 2011 was awarded by the trophy "Best Event of the Year" at the European Poker Awards. This new edition will be certainly entitled to the same credit according to the program that organizers concocted. As a reminder, seven tournaments of the WSOPE Cannes 2012 will allow players to win a bracelet. We can estimate that a large number of professionals will join the French Riviera to attend these events especially the € 10,450 Main Event, the kickoff is scheduled to take place on September 29. This No Limit Hold'em tournament will spread over five days and the champion will be announced on Oct. 4, 2012.

The World Poker Tour circuit will land in China in December 2012. In fact, the tournament organizers decided to add a Chinese step in the program of the eleventh season of the circuit. According to its CEO, Steve Heller, this stopover in China promises to be successful. He believes that China is full of thousands of poker enthusiasts who are waiting for an opportunity like this. They will then have the possibility to play poker in a totally professional setting without having to spend money to pay the travel expenses abroad. He hopes that this will be the beginning of a long series of professional events held in the country.

Last week, many tournaments were held. After taking part in these events and achieved good results, some poker players improved their position in the Card Player Player of The Year 2012 rankings. Mohsin Charania and David Baker are part of them. Regarding Charania, he accomplished a great feat in the $ 2,500 buy-in main event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Grand Prix of Paris. In fact, he finished fifth and pocketed an award of $ 121,987. This excellent performance also earned him 320 points. With the 2,100 points he earned by winning the biggest tournament of the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo, Charnia was propelled to the 14 th place of the ranking.

The 104 survivors for the Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Malta (WPT) joined the poker room of Casino Portamaso last Tuesday, September 18 to resume the game. This second day of competition ended with the elimination of 78 players. Jackson Genovesi managed to keep his leadership. He is in the lead with 767,500 chips in hand. Three French are also part of the 26 survivors. Two of them who are Yorane Kerignard and Ilan Boujenah are in a very good position. They occupy respectively the second and fourth place. Kerignard has repeatedly proven to be a very good poker player because he has three final tables in the EPT tournaments. At this event, he contributed to the elimination of Erik Cajelais. Ilan Boujenah for his part ended the adventure of Jason Mercier. The third French still in contention is Julien Blague. Unfortunately, he has a short stack of 72,000 chips. He should resist a few time if he wants to achieve in the money list. Note that 21 players will be eligible for a prize.

Strongly criticized by the media and some players within the organization and the announcement of a "guaranteed"prize pool of 5 € million, the Partouche Poker Tour has been removed from the program of activities of Partouche Group. But the end of the Partouche Poker Tour is none other than the aftermath of the crisis in the online poker room partouche.fr. Indeed, the poker activity of Partouche Group experienced a financial results downfall with a decline of 4% in the first two quarters of 2012 and 7.7% for the third quarter with a turnover of € 112.8 million, a disappointing turnover concluded observers. All sectors of the Partouche group were affected so they it was forced to find a solution to reduce the costs and investments in order to minimize the impact caused by the decrease in gross gaming. The gross gaming revenue fell by 5.5% in Q2 and 8.4% in the third quarter, € 168.5 million.

If the World Poker Tour Malta was marked by a weak field, the WPT Borgata Poker Open attracted more than 1,181 participants. Indeed, this edition 2012 of the WPT Borgata Poker Open is a real success. Many poker stars joined Atlantic City in the United States to take part in the main event of $ 3500 buy-in. They compete for a place in the $ 25,000 WPT World Championship and the first prize of $ 818,847 from the huge prize pool of $ 3,897,300. Note that 110 players will be entitled to bonuses and they are certain to pocket at least $ 7,070. On Day 1A, 374 players entered the competition while on Day 1B, there were more than 800 players who joined the poker room of Borgata casino.

International Game Technology (IGT) decided to stop its online poker operations in Europe by advancing as reason the change of regulations that tend to destroy profitability. As a reminder, IGT is the largest slot machine manufacturer in the world. It also has a powerful online poker operating system. IGT's decision is effectively the result from the fact that some European countries prohibit the access to foreign players, which greatly reduces the performance of operators. Last year, IGT paid $ 115 million to acquire Entraction, an online poker operator based in Sweden who had more than four million players. But businesses are not so interesting. Thus, IGT decided to stop. However, the cancellation applies only to online poker. Thus, other online games such as bingo, slots and sports betting are still available.

Spain is a perfect destination for holidays. The Costa Brava is a resort that can offer a remarkable stay on the Mediterranean. From October 28 to November 3, 2012, poker enthusiasts can afford a dream vacation in this resort on the north-eastern part of Catalonia with as main activity: poker. Given the success of the first edition of the Arena Poker Camp last April, the organizers decided to repeat the 100% Poker stay Arena Poker Camp II. During these six days of festivity, a varied program awaits all poker enthusiasts in Santa Susanna. On the menu, there will be poker courses offered by confirmed coaches in the person of Steven Moreau, Nicolas Delvaux, Valentin Messina, Fabien Perrot, Jean-Philippe Latour, Remy Epinoux or Nicolas Boschiero, conferences animated by educational team and guests of this event, tournaments and finally various entertainment every night.

The third step of the Unibet Open stopped in London and was attended by 315 players during its main event of € 1,650 buy-in. This event was held in the poker room of Aspers Casino and ended with the victory of Pratik Ghatghe, a young Englishman who pocketed, thanks to his performance the sum of £ 85,050 or the equivalent of € 106,120. Note that several French poker professionals took part in this competition. There were among others Regis Burlot, Flavien Guenan, Lucille Cailly, Quentin Lecomte, Jean Paul Pasqualini and Nicolas Dervaux. Unfortunately, only three of them have been entitled to a place in the money list. There are Julien Theron who ended up in the 27th place and Erwan Calvez who occupies the 18 th place.

After a stopover in Paris, the World Poker Tour (WPT) is currently visiting two major cities of the world. Indeed, on the sidelines of the American stage, the WPT Malta began a few days ago and its main event of € 3,300 buy-in key is curently in its second day of competition. The event which takes place in Portamaso casino gathered a small field of 169 participants generating a prize pool of € 500,000. However, despite the low attendance, the WPT Malta 2012 brought together many poker pros like Jason Mercier, Kara Scott, Vanessa Selbst, Erik Cajelais, Marvin Rettenmaier, Dan O'Brien and Tony G.

Since a few years, the British Poker Awards recognize the best actors in the poker world in Great Britain. This distinction is a great thing for players, gambling rooms, magazines, and other personalities of British poker. This year, the honors goes to Sam Trickett who won the majority of awards given to players. Trickett was effectively exceptional during last season and he's the Britain's player the most publicized of the moment. Assaulted shortly after his participation in the Big One for One Drop during which he pocketed $ 10,112,001, Sam Trickett travels from tournament to tournament around the world and his journey was successful because he won the PPT 2011 and was the runner up of the Super High Rollers of the Aussies Millions 2011 without forgetting his 4th place at the € 5,000 PLO WSOP Europe. He is also a well known player in cash game especially in Macau, and last Thursday, he won $ 561,000 in PLO.

The new Apple iPhone 5 is out and has already been hailed as a fantastic product as well as a perfect Smartphone, but what does it really mean for online players, the ones who like to play casino games on internet for example, or poker, or any other game? Of course there will always be the ones to say that to play online with a Smartphone is never practical or agreeable for the players but they are wrong in this case because the new iPhone 5 is exactly what the players where hoping for. Bigger screen, thinner, feather-weight, compact, solid and faster, and these are only a small part of the new model’s improvements. To play casino online with this model is to live a fantastic experience due to the clarity, the rapidity and the fluidity of the games.

Since Sunday, September 16, 2012, the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London hosted a new stage of the tournament Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour (GUKPT). The poker festival began with a satellite tournament qualifier for the £ 1,070 buy-in main event, the highlight of the event which kickoff is scheduled to take place on Sept. 20 from 2:00 pm. The entry fee for this tournament was set at £ 35 and 10 seats were distributed. Note that the main event will be composed of two Day 1. In terms of structure, players will start the game with 20,000 starting chips for game levels of an hour. And like other major tournaments of the moment, the organizers decided to adopt the re-entry format for all the events offered as part of this poker festival. Latecomers will also have the opportunity to participate as registration will be open until the end of the sixth level of play.

The main event of the Macau Poker Cup Championship which was held at the Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex ended with the victory of the Chinese businessman Rui Chen. And despite his status, this 37-year champion won his place for this event by participating in a satellite tournament of HKD $ 1,000 entry fee. He was particularly brilliant as he began the final table as chipleader. He also contributed to the elimination of Robert Streatfeild in the ninth place. Rui Chen confirmed then that Chinese are experts if it's about mind game. This surely explains his victory. After the exit of Ryan Hong in the eighth place, the two women finalists left one by one the part starting with Lisi Wei followed by Jessica Ngu even if the public hoped to see a woman winning the tournament.

The World Poker Tour Grand Prix of Paris, which was held at the Aviation Club de France comes to end with the victory of Matt Salsberg after a head's up against the WPT 2010 champion Theo Jorgensen. The Paris stage of the WPT Season XI gathered in all a field of 228 players, including 24 re-entry during the five days of competition but on Saturday, during the final day of the Main Event, there remains only six participants who clashed to claim the title: Theo Jorgensen, Timothy Adams, Matt Salsberg, Mohsin Charania, Fabian Quoss and Philipp Gruissem, the first to be eliminated left the tournament with a gain of € 75,765. After an hour and a half of play, Fabian Quoss left the final table followed a few hours after by the EPT Monte Carlo 2012 champion Mohsin Charania who for his 5th place pocketed € 95,615.

The WPT Grand Prix of Paris is now in its fourth day after the Day 2 held on Thursday at the Aviation Club de France. At the end of the day, it is Philipp Gruissem who holds the chip lead followed by Bryan Colin and Matt Salberg who close the Top 3 of the chip counts. In all, 63 players will start the Day 3. We find in the list of survivors many professional players and a large presence of French representatives like Juha Helppi, Antony Lellouche, Basile Yaiche, Jason Mercier, Antoine Saout, David Benyamine, Theo Jorgensen, Fabrice Soulier, Jean-Philippe Rohr, Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes, Andy Lichtenberger, Idris Ambraisse and many other. Other qualified players but with a short stack for the next round are Tony G (47,200), the GPI leader Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (33,900) and Alain Roy (30,400) who will have to fight to survive against these players with a big stack. The chipleader of the day Philipp Gruissem has a stack of 280,600 chips.

The € 1,100 buy-in Main Event of the Barcelona stage of the European Masters of Poker (EMOP) started on Thursday, September 13. Last year, the event attracted a field of 455 participants and ended with the victory of the Norwegian player Andreas Hagen. The event is gaining more and more notoriety and became a popular meeting for amateur and professional of poker. The first day of qualifying has already started in the poker room of Barcelona casino yesterday at 16:30 and the Day 1B is scheduled to begin this Friday, September 14. The organizers estimate to gather about 500 participants in this edition. About the structure of the tournament, competitors were each entitled to 20,000 starting chips with blinds of 50/100. The level of play is 45 minutes and from level 7, it will be an hour. The final table of the tournament is scheduled to take place on Sunday, September 16 from 5:00 pm.

A few weeks ago, Bertrand Grospellier was at the second position of the Global Poker Index (GPI), behind Jason Mercier, but now, he takes again the leading position. The talent of this French number one in poker is no longer unknown to the middle of poker. Moreover, by recalling his beginnings, everyone admit that his rise in the world of professionals was very fast. And now, this performance continues and shines internationally through this GPI first place. He holds 2,811.07 points in this ranking and he surpasses the American with 100 points. In the third place is Dan Smith, followed by Marvin Rettenmaier in the 4 th place. O'Dwyer complete the Top 5 list. And Jason Mercier is still incuring large risks because Rettenmaier, Lichtenberger who is currently ranked 7 th place and Elky are in good positions at the World Poker Tour Grand Prix of Paris. Vanessa Selbst, Mike McDonald and Shawn Buchanan are respectively in the 5th, 8th and 10 th place.

Decidedly, live poker tournaments are flourishing this weekend in France. In addition to the WPT Grand Prix of Paris, which is currently taking place at the Aviation Club de France, another major event takes place in the south of the country at Hotel & Casino Le Phoebus Gruissan, a tournament that began last Wednesday. The poker room of Casino Le Phoebus has already hosted satellites of € 100 buy-in for a qualification for the Main Event whch buy-in is € 500, however, the field is limited to 200 players. The main event will be based as in the previous editions of the TexaPoker Series on a deepstack structure of 50,000 starting chips and levels of 45 minutes.

The names of the ten finalists for the title of Poker Hall of Fame 2012 have just been revealed. Note that they have been selected following a public vote and a selection from the members of the Poker Hall of Fame. In a good position to win the title is Chris Bjorin. The Swedish poker pro aged 64, who currently resides in London, has more than $ 5 million in earnings and won two bracelets at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). David Chiu is also nominated. 52 years old, this native of China has four WSOP bracelets. He also recorded a huge achievement by ousting in 2008 at the World Poker Tour Championship Gus Hansen, which let him earn a gain of $ 3.3 million.

The biggest poker festival of London began on Wednesday, September 12 and will only end on September 16. This is the Unibet Open London. Fans of the event are expected at Aspers Casino Westfield London on Thursday to take part in the Main Event, a no-limit hold'em freezeout of £ 1,650 buy-in. The tournament field is estimated to reach 400 participants. A magnificent structure is proposed with 20,000 starting chips for game levels of 60 minutes. Satellite tournaments qualifying for the main event were held in the poker room of the casino on Wednesday, September 12. And those who haven't yet earned their tickets can retry their chances on Thursday as other satellite qualifiers for the Day 1B will take place. In the previous edition, the trophy was awarded to Paul Valkenburg who managed to win face to a field of 272 participants and he pocketed the sum of £ 109,550 for his feat.

A great rendezvous for poker enthusiasts, the World Poker Tour Grand Prix of Paris is currently taking place in Paris at the Aviation Club de France. The € 7,500 buy-in Main Event began on Monday with the Day 1A which was marked by the participation of 96 players and 51 of them were qualified for the Day 2. Among the survivors of the day, we find Antony Lellouche, Basile Yaiche, Theo Jorgensen, Jacques Enjoubault, Dominik Nitsche, Jonathan Duhamel, Marvin Rettenmaier, Jason Mercier, Nicolas Levi, Kara Scott, Daniel Cates, Philippe Ktorza, Justin Bonomo, Roger Hairabedian...

In order to promote the International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT) tournament, its organizers who are Bernard and Laurent Tapie and Prosper Masquelier decided to call other poker stars at the international level to represent the tournament at various major events that will take place until May 2013, when the ISPT will take place at Wembley Stadium in London. Since the obtaining of license, they have already signed with three renowned players who are Michael Mizrachi, Sam Trickett and Liz Lieu. Recently, they integrated David Benyamine and Patrik Antonius in the team. Both players are known to the public through their many achievements. They won't certainly fail to give more success to the ISPT.

A new edition of the impressive Card Player Poker Tour (CPPT) is scheduled to take place from April 13 to 20, 2013. What will make this event unique is that it will take place aboard the MS Oasis of The Seas. The Card Player Cruises company is the organizer of this poker cruise. In this context, it offers packages of $ 979 per person for 7 nights on board. At first sight, players who will take part in the adventure will be certainly satisfied if we talk about the program prepared by the organizers. About the CPPT program, there will be obviously a main tournament open for $ 1,100 buy-in which will be filmed and will be broadcast online. Participants in this event will have the chance to challenge two poker stars who are Barry Schulman and Linda Johnson.

The first qualifying day of € 7,500 buy-in of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Grand Prix of Paris' Main Event has already delivered its verdict. They were 95 players who joined the Aviation Club de France (ACF) to take part in this event, which will be spread over five days of competition, the final day is scheduled to take place on September 15, 2012. As in the last edition, top players have been present in the poker room to compete for the title of the tournament won by the American Matthew Waxman. At the end of the Day 1A therefore, an amateur named Jacques Enjoubault managed to pick up the chip lead. He holds 225,200 chips in hand. It will be hard to maintain his position because he is closely followed by stars of the game like Antony Lellouche who has 178,275 chips and Basile Yaiche with 142,000 chips in hand. At this WPT in the French capital, local players are well represented.

One of the best destinations for live poker lovers, Prague will once again organize this year the Prague Poker Festival, an poker event that had great success last year. This year, the Czech Republic attract the attention of all poker players in the world with a busy agenda which will begin on November 26 until December 16, 2012. In the program, there is the Grand Series Of Poker (GSOP), the World Poker Tour (WPT) and the European Poker Tour (EPT), but the Main Event of these two last events are the star attractions of the Prague Poker Festival 2012. The GSOP and the WPT Prague chose King's Corinthia Hotel Casino while the EPT Prague will take place at the Hilton Prague.

Olivier Baux was victorious of the Main Event of the Poker Crown tournament in Melbourne, Australia, a tournament during which 461 players were registered. Note that the event had two Day 1. After the first two qualifying days, the field narrowed. Thus, there remained only 273 players who competed for the Day 2. The second day was also very difficult. Only 50 competitors were qualified for the Day 3. Each of them get however a share of the prize pool. The 10 members of the final table were also known during that day. Olivier Baux was very efficient since the beginning of the tournament. Indeed, with his enormous talent to play poker, he participated in the elimination of Aaron Perdue, Craig Ivey and Dave Brownlee who finished respectively 6th, 5th and 4th.

After the WPT Legends of Poker held at the end of August at Bicycle Casino in California, France will be honored with the World Poker Tour Grand Prix of Paris, which is currently taking place at the Aviation Club de France. The Main Event of the WPT Paris stage has just begun but the poker festival will really begin from the weekend with the Omaha Cup, a Pot Limit Omaha tournament of € 5,000 buy-in. The event attracted 44 players which included big names of live poker tournament like Elie Payan, Antony Lellouche, Basile Yaiche, Michael Mizrachi, Theo Jorgensen, Samuel Chartier, Juha Helppi, Matthew Soucheleau, Xavier Niel and Jean-Noël Thorel. But after two days of competition, it’s the French poker pro David Benyamine who emerged victorious after a head's up with Elias Damouni. For his title, Benyamine won a prize of € 94,050.

After the elimination of the Russian Karen Sarkisyan during the final heads'up, the German Schemion Ole therefore grabbed the title of the final of the Partouche Poker Tour Season V. Note that the champion proposed a deal to the runner-up before the duel. He offered seventy thousand Euros more than the prize for the second place. And after the final meeting, the match ended with the victory of the German. This latter is not a novice as he already has several other victories. As the group's president, Patrick Partouche, finally decided to offer the guaranteed prizepool of € 5 million, the winner ended the event with a big amount of € 1,172,850. Note that the final table of six began on Sunday, September 9 in the poker room of Palm Beach Casino in Cannes. The French public had a representative during this final in the person of Fabrice Touil. Despite an excellent course he did since the beginning of the competition, the French player finally bowed at the 6th place. He also started the game with a short stack. It was therefore easy for Ole Schemion to eliminate him.

The Macau Poker Cup Championship’s inaugural tournament, a NLH of HKD 8,800 entry fee, crowned David Steicke. They were 161 poker players who joined the Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex to take part in this event. The prize pool gathered amounted HKD 249,360. Talented players were present at the competition like Ray Chiu who occupied the chip lead after the Day 1, Hung-Sheng "Shaq" Lin who was crowned Asian player of the year 2011 or Celina Lin. Note that the organizers rewarded 19 players.

The President of Partouche Group, Patrick Partouche officially declared that it’s the last edition of the tournament Partouche Poker Tour (PPT). This is a decision following the controversy caused by the lack of guaranteed prize pool of € 5 million. For the history, it was communicated to the public since the start of the promotion of the event a year ago that the PPT 2012 will have a guaranteed prize pool of € 5 million. However, this campaign will not be held. In fact, players discovered that the PPT Cannes 2012 prizepool amounted only € 4.2 million. It is obvious that such news caused discontent among participants and many poker enthusiasts. With 580 registered players, the prize pool has not reached the € 5 million promised, and the organizers have no intention to pay the € 800,000 missing. However, even the latest communications concerning the kickoff event in Cannes spoke about this nice prizepool. It is therefore a false statement. The publication of all sorts of criticism multiplied then.

Land of refuge for American poker players after the Black Friday and the prohibition of online poker in the United States, Montreal is a destination of choice for organizers of live poker tournament. And programs keep coming because after the Stardust Canadian Poker Classic held at Stardust Poker Mansion in Montreal last week, the month of November will mark the come back of the World Poker Tour in the country. Absent on the circuit for a few years, the WPT Montreal is therefore returning this time at Playground Poker Club in Montreal. This poker room has taken over the WPT Montreal after having been held in the past at Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls for a few seasons. During 11 days, the Playground Poker Club will receive the world's best players and followers of the circuit.

The Eureka Poker Tour will be held in Latvia, within the luxurious Royal Casino SPA & Hotel Resort in Riga, from October 1st to 7. This is a great destination because apart from the beautiful landscape, the capital, Riga, also offers plenty of entertainment that could meet players during their stay. The highlight of the event is the main event of € 1,100 entry fee, to be held from October 4 to 7. Satellite tournaments qualifiers are already organized to allow players to earn a place in this great tournament. They are accessible only for € 0.10 buy-in. Apart from the Main event, many side events will be also organized.

The 283 survivors of the two first days of entry of the Partouche Poker Tour V regained on Wednesday tables of the Palm Beach Casino poker room for Day 2 of the Main Event. After five levels of 90 minutes, the Day 2 was closed by the eliminating of Bruno Launais. Of the 562 players who paid the € 8,500 entry fee, there were only 123 survivors who will be present this afternoon for the Day 3. Gaston Onana takes the chip lead, a position that occurred in the last minutes of the day on a last hand between Gaston Onana and Johanes Van Til. Having lost the hand, Van Til pays Onana and ends up with 128,000 chips on the Day 3. Gaston Onana sees his stack ballooned to become the chipleader with a stack of 412,000 chips.

Several major poker tournaments took place in recent weeks. There were among others the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker, the Macau High Stakes Challenge and The River's WinStar main event. It is obvious that through their performance during these events, some players improved their positions in the rankings Player Of The Year (POY). In this context, we should mention the rise of Max Steinberg in the 18 th place. As a reminder, Steinberg made tremendous feat this year. He won his first bracelet of the World Series of Poker and had just finished runner-up at the WPT Legends of Poker to be held at Bicycle Casino. He won several points, which explains the fact that he had a place in the top 20 ranking.

The edition 2012 of the Macau Poker Cup Championship (MPCC) begins this Friday, September 7 and will only end on September 16. The event will be held at the Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex. During this festival of poker that will last ten days, several tournaments are scheduled. The flagship event is the $ 20,000 Main Event buy-in with a guaranteed prize pool of $ 4,500,000 and will be played from September 12. On Tuesday, September 11, a Turbo Rebuy of $ 1,000 entry fee that will let players to earn a spot for the Main Event will be held in the poker room. Note that last year, the event brought together 308 players and ended with the victory of Raidan Kan. The champion was entitled to a prize of $ 1.25 million. He confirmed that he will return to defend his title this year.

This week, live poker tournament will be honored with the UKIPT Newcastle taking place on the other side of the Channel and the Barriere Poker Tour to be held in Lille. From September 7 to 9, the Casino Barrière of Lille will receive the eighth and final stage of the famous French circuit: the Barrière Poker Tour. As each stage of the BPT, the most interesting tournament will be the Main Event but many side events are also planned for players who have been eliminated prematurely to let them always find a poker table.

After the three stages of Galway, Dublin and Nottingham, the third edition of the UK & Ireland Poker Tour continues its course with the UKIPT Newcastle which will be held at Aspers Casino from Wednesday, September 5. Many events are on the program starting with the NLH 6-Handed of £ 110 buy-in and the £ 55 Super Satellite for the Main Event. This Main event will start on Thursday and participants must pay a buy-in of £ 770 for a starting stack of 15,000 on levels of 60 minutes. The day also features a Super Satellite for the Main Event and a NLH Turbo of £ 110 entry fee. The Main Event extends over five days with the final table scheduled for Monday, September 20. Last year, the Main Event of the UKIPT Newcastle was won by Richard Sinclair. He pocketed a gain of £ 67,000.

At the start of the day, 236 players paid the buy-in of € 8,500 at Palm Beach Casino in Cannes to try to qualify for the Day 2 of the Partouche Poker Tour alongside the 123 players already qualified from the Day 1A. After seven levels of play of 90 minutes, there were more than 123 players qualified for the next round with Johannes Van Til as chipleader with a stack of 187,300. Many professional players managed to qualify for the Day 2 like Marvin Rettenmaier, Sam Trickett, Patrick Antonius and Liv Boeree. We also identify a large number of French players like David Benyamin who has 36,000 chips but also Bruno Launais, Tristan Clémençon, Thibaud Guenegou, Alain Roy and Nicolas Levi who have more than 50,000 chips.

The Main event of € 8,500 buy-in of the grand final of the Partouche Poker Tour 2012 (PPT) began on Monday, Sept. 3 in Palm Beach Casino in Cannes. On Day 1A, 325 participants including online poker pros and elite of live tournaments take part in the event. Each competitor is entitled to 30,000 starting chips. Note that the eliminated on Day 1A can still retry their luck on Day 1B through re-entry format implemented in this edition 2012. Despite the rain, the first qualifying day of tournament went well. At the end of the meeting, there remains more than 160 players.

Known as a swimming star, Michael Phelps has a passion for poker and it seems that he's a talented player. Indeed, the multiple Olympic champion pocketed $ 100,000 after attending a cash game held in the poker room at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Note that the interest of the swimmer for poker game is not nothing new. He expressed his desire to become a pro of the game for a long time. Moreover, in order to achieve this goal, he trained with renowned players like Antonio Esfandiari, who even became his personal coach. Everyone knows this latter's talent and the exploits he already accomplished. So, the performance that Phelps showed in this tournament in Las Vegas is not surprising. In addition to the opportunity of having good teachers, Phelps also has the skills to be a very good player.

On Monday, September 3, the poker room of Crown Casino hosted the nine survivors of the Main Event of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Melbourne 2012. At the start of the day, Tom Grigg held the chip lead but at the end of the day, it's Sam Razavi who won the title of the APPT Melbourne. The day began with the elimination of Brendon Rubie. For his 9th place, Rubie left the final table with a prize of $ 27,175. A few hands later, Kristian Lunardi eliminated the short stack of the final table Nigel Andrews in the 8th place. After having ousted Andrews, Lunardi fell at the 7th place followed by James Bills in the 6th place. The two players fell face to Wayne Bentley.

The Crown Casino of Melbourne, Australia hosted on Sunday the before last day of the Main Event of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Melbourne, a day during which 44 players gathered around tables with as main interest places for the final table. After only an hour of play, 10 players already left the poker room. Grant Levy, Tony Hachem and Dale Marsland, recent winner at a Side Event of the Aussie Millions were the next on the list. Marsland was eliminated in the 29th place and was the last eliminated player without having been paid. From this moment, all remaining players were in the money, but many players didn’t resist until the dinner break.

Thanks to their results at the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona, many players improved their position in the Global Poker Index 300 (GPI). Note that the last update of this poker ranking which now belongs to Zokay Entertainment has just been made public. Thus, after having finished seventh in the High Roller tournament of € 10,000 of the opening stage of the EPT season 9, Bertrand Grospellier won 47 points. He occupies the second place in the standings and it remains only three points to put him in the same position as Jason Mercier, the leader of the GPI 300 of the moment. Dan Smith, who won the trophy of the Super High Roller of € 50,000 is in the third position. Note that the U.S. player is also leader in the ranking GPI Player of The Year.

While many poker professionals came in Macau to participate in the Macau Poker High Stakes Challenge, it’s a local player, Stanley Choi, who won the victory after having ousted Guan Zhu Fai in the final duel. Note that in this Super High Roller tournament open for a buy-in of HK $ 2,000,000, the organizers registered the participation of 71 players and 21 rebuys. The total prize pool reached therefore U.S. $ 23,511,128. The winner had then the joy to pocket a large reward of HK $ 50,000,000 equivalent to 6.45 million U.S. dollars. The Macau High Stakes Challenge became then one of the biggest poker events held in the Asian continent. With the structure adopted, the game was very quick. And many players experienced an early elimination. They include Andrew Robl, Joe Hachem, Brian Rast and Brian Powell. Nam Le, Johnny Chan, Erik Seidel, Mike McDonald, Gus Hansen, Tom Dwan and Vivak Rajkumar joined them on the bench of removed after a few rounds.

Finally, the main event of the $ 3,700 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker ended with the victory of an amateur player named Josh Hale. As a reminder, 622 players joined the poker room at Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California to take part in the event. But they were no more than 6 to have accessed the final table. Having started the final with the highest number of chips in hand, Hale was able to replace all his opponents who were all great professionals. Note that Max Steinberg was looking for a WPT trophy but could not face the champion of the day. He was beginning the final duel with a stack three times larger than Steinberg. For this major feat, Hale pocketed thus the biggest payday of his career which is a premium amounting $ 500,000, and he was also awarded his first major title in live tournaments.

Candidate for the next U.S. presidential election, Mitt Romney is a threat to the future of online poker in the U.S.A. In fact, his program that was approved at the Republican Convention of August 28 in Tampa, Florida has a negative consideration on gambling. In the document, Mitt Romney expressed his desire to "make Internet a family-friendly." In another word, it means that he intends to destroy for ever the opening procedures of the online poker market. As a reminder, the Department of Justice stated that the regulations included in the "Wire Act" does not apply to online poker. It turns out that the Republican Party also called on the Justice Department to reconsider his decision by refering in this subject.

Mythical live poker tournament in Oceania and the Pacific, the Asia Pacific Poker Tour is now in its Season VI. Since Thursday, August 30, the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia hosts the Main Event of the APPT Melbourne. 98 players paid the $ 5,000 buy-in on the first day of entry, but after seven levels of play, there were only 65 survivors for the Day 2. Brendon Rubie is the leading temporarily the field with a stack of 103,575 chips. And Rubie is a well known gambler in Australia judging from his record. The Australian effectively won a prize of $ AUD 200,000 for his title at the Side Event of the Aussie Millions 2012. Many poker stars took the start of the Day 1A like the Aussie Millions 2012 champion Oliver Speidel, David Allan and Jason Gray who have not had the chance to qualify for the next round.

The Day 4 of the WPT Legends of Poker hosted the 18 survivors of the previous day to sort the last group of players who will have access to the six-handed final table. Players left then one by one the tables of Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles until the six survivors to the final table were defined. Among the twelve poker players eliminated, we can mention the case of Joseph Cheong, WSOP November Nine in 2010, who was the first to leave the table. Cyrus Farzad who started the day as chipleader was meanwhile eliminated in the 12th place but pocketed $ 32,000. Josh Hale was responsible of the eliminating of Jim Willerson, the bubble boy of the final table. Of the 622 players who registered for the Main Event of $ 3,700 buy-in so, only Max Steinberg, Jeff Madsen, Raouf Malek, Greg Mueller, Josh Hale and Ali Eslami are still vying to compete for the WPT title.

The grand final of the Partouche Poker Tour (PPT) season 5 will start in a few days. In September, poker enthusiasts will gather in Cannes in Palm Beach Casino Partouche to attend this great festival. A colorful program will be offered at this event which will take place from September 3 to 9, 2012. Firstly, there will be a main event open for € 8,500 buy-in with a guaranteed prize pool of € 5 million. The tournament, as usual, will be certainly a rendezvous of the best players. Among those who confirmed their presence, there is Phil Hellmuth, Fabrice Soulier, Jason Mercier, Antonio Esfandiari and finally Sam Trickett who will be back there to defend his title.

Recognized as a online poker professional player, Jens "jean89" Kyllönen decided to try a new adventure with a trip in the space. Note that Kyllönen is a star of online High Stakes cash games. But he also made great achievements in live tournaments. Indeed, he is known by the public by having been victorious at the European Poker Tour Copenhagen in 2009. With his performance, he currently holds approximately $ 1.4 million in live tournament earnings and $ 3.5 million in virtual tournament winnings. The Finn would be ready to break his piggy bank to experience such a trip into the space. Moreover, he has already made a reservation with the company Virgin Galactic.

The World Poker Tour National Series is a preliminary event of the WPT. The opening stage of the second season of the circuit will be held from November 8 to 11, 2012 in Gruissan, a wonderful town located along the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France. Phoebus Gruissan was chosen as the casino to host the tournament. The Main Event of € 1,650 buy-in will begin on November 8. It will spread over five days of competition and thanks to the re-entry format, the unlucky players on Day 1A have the right to return to retry their luck on Day 1 B. Note that a field of 300 participants are expected at this tournament.

As the International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT) finally got its casino license provided by the Gambling Commission of Great Britain and the formal agreement of the Brent Council, organizers will now accelerate the preparations and launch advertising campaigns to ensure the success of the event. In this context, they chose a new ambassador in the person of Sam Trickett. Indeed, after Michael Mizrachi, it’s this British poker pro who won this special mission which is to represent the ISPT in the coming events like during the great final of the Partouche Poker Tour. Note that Trickett, who a long before dreamed of being a professional footballer, found his place in the world of poker. He became a big player in live tournaments. His latest conquest goes back to the World Series Of Poker 2012 during which he finished second in the Big One For Drop. He pocketed the enormous gain of $ 10,112,001. Currently he has a total of $ 16.4 million of gains, which propelled him into the top 5 of the All Time Money List.

The poker room at Bicycle Casino in Las Vegas hosted on last Monday the 84 survivors of the Day 2 in order to decide to name the 18 players who will participate in the next round of the Main Event of the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker 2012. In addition to the 18 seats for the Day 4, the issue of the day is the ITM. The bubble burst when Elio Fox stumbles face to Yevgeniy Timoshenko’s cards. The 63 remaining players could then hope a minimum prize of $ 7,500. The elimination was followed until there were only 18 players on the tables. Among the eliminated of the day but were in the money, there is Todd Terry, Matt Keikoan, Ray Henson, Jared Hamby, Dwyte Pilgrim, Isaac Baron, Erick Lindgren and also the former WPT champion Yevgeniy Timoshenko.
 
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