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As Spain is in crisis at the moment, it is quite normal if the tax administration is trying all means to earn more money. Moreover, the gains of online poker and poker played in live are subject to income tax. The case of the "Agencia Tributaria", the Spanish tax authorities, using the Hendon Mob databases to track all earnings of Spanish players and see if their tax returns correspond to their gains in live is a novelty in the world of poker. Certainly, the local administration does not hunt those who are supposed to have received large gains in poker but it must however recognize that this method seems very effective.

Casino of Evian, in France regularly hosts large poker tournaments. It was selected to host the first edition of the FPS Snowfest. And it seems that the second edition of the tournament will be once again held there in March 2013. But until that great event, the Casino of Evian partnered with the association 'Poker pour la paix' to start the new year with a charity tournament named Winterstats du Coeur. This tournament will take place from January 16 to 20, 2013. Benefits at this international event will be attributed to "A Chacun son Everest", an association created in 1994 by Christine Janin and that helps children with leukemia and for women with breast cancer.

To the delight of her fans, the professional poker player from Canada, Kara Scott, unveiled some facets of her personality by answering to the Questionnaire à la Proust concocted by Pokerslistings. She confessed that as an animal, she would be a rhino with hear leathery skin. If she were a country, it would probably be Canada. If she is a city, she would be happy to be Venice. If Scott was a poker tournament, she will be the World Poker Tour Venice and the main event of the World Series of Poker. And if she was a card, she will certainly be the 10 of Spades. And if she was a celebrity, she would be happy to live under the name of Sandra Bullock. When asked about the question if she were a movie, the beautiful Kara responded accurately Rocky 1 or Rocky 2, her favorite. If she were a sport, she will be Muay Thai, an extreme sport. Taking account of this response, Pokerslistings offered her Veldhuis of Elky as opponent. Scott replied wisely they are too strong for her because of their size. The beautiful TV presenter also said she would also like to play the role of James Bond woman.

As one of the four members of the online poker site Full Tilt Poker accused of embezzling funds from the company, Howard Lederer was the subject of various lawsuits. The latest accusation against him refers to the transfer of money of $ 42.5 million in his bank account, from the former Full Tilt Poker. Several civil complaints have been launched against him for having used the illegally acquired money to his personal purposes like buying more cars or recovery of real estate debt. Howard Lederer always denied these accusations. But this did not prevent the justice to award him a penalty like the sequestration of the $ 42.5 million he received.

The year 2012 is coming to end. This is also an opportunity to make an assessment. Poker like the other sectors is still a discipline in which stakes are enormous. We're talking about professional players of course. On the international level, the news was dominated by poker celebrities such as Phil Ivey, Daniel Neagreanu, Erick Lindgren and Jason Mercier. These are just a few among many other representatives who earned a lot of money in 2012. They talk about them on the various tournaments around the world. And the case of Jason Mercier is also interesting. Indeed, he is among those who raised a total of $ 8 million over five years.

In recent years, the beautiful French seaside resort of Deauville, in the Normandy region became an inevitable stop for several poker professionals. It indeed hosts a stage of the European Poker Tour (EPT). On January 30 to February 9, 2013, a new edition of the EPT Deauville will be held there again and the organizers did not wait long to reveal the exciting program that awaits participants. At this poker festival that will last 10 days, several poker variants will be played. Very attractive tournaments will be available from € 100 buy-in. To open officially the event, players are invited to participate in the main event of € 1,100 of the France Poker Series.

A few months ago, Dan Smith was a true unknown in the world of poker. But this year, he became a real star. He is following the same path of his compatriot Erik Seidel who was under the spotlight in 2011 with his many exploits. Indeed, the course of Dan Smith during this year 2012 going to close in a few days was exceptional. By winning the € 5,200 tournament of the European Poker Tour Prague edition 2012, he scored his sixth live win of the year. Indeed, the U.S. player already had five titles in live tournaments before his performance in the poker room of Hilton Prague if we only mention his trophy at the $ 100,000 Aussie Millions and the three titles at the side events of the EPT Grand Final Monte Carlo.

Live Poker magazine has just announced the verdict of its annual ranking by awarding Roger Hairabedian as the best French player of the year, a title coveted by Bertrand Grospellier. The two rivals have even embarked on a bold course throughout the year to gather the most points to win this special award. Effectively, Live Poker classification is a benchmark for measuring the performance of French poker players. And it is Big Roger who had the last word. So this is his third title in the Live Poker ranking. Note that Big Roger promised € 100,000 to the player who happens to win two consecutive title. This amount would have been offered to Grospellier, the holder of the trophy in 2011 but he failed to retain his title.

Two years after the liberalization, we feel that French gambling and online sports betting dominated by poker, is still moving. If the regulated market have more and more place and becomes increasingly essential for players, the case of operators who bid for a license is completely different. Some of them have already abandoned for various reasons. But as expected, only operators who have a good trade policy survive. The case of 888, Ad Astra and Sofun Game who just came to cancel their online poker licenses in France is the latest example. For Sofun Game, it is not surprising at all as this operator of the social betting website Betkup.fr has always had many difficulties because it did not have enough cash from punters. In other words, the site did not have enough visitors taking part in the game.

Among the famous names known in the poker world who make talk about them lately, Gus Hansen is surely in the batch. In the space of a month and a half, Hansen lost more than $ 2 million since the reopening of Full Tilt Poker. To learn more about him, nothing more beautiful than to ask him questions directly about poker, his way of thinking about it ... The man replied frankly on Twitter this interview from the users. On December 10, he answered these questions through the social network Twitter of Full Tilt Poker. According to Hansen, he would liked to be a professional athlete but above all, it has not been the case.

The Euro Finals of Poker (ACOP) are part of the biggest poker events to be held in early 2013. For its 16 th edition, the event will offer a wonderful program for lovers of the game. To pen the year, there will be the Parisian step of the World Poker Tour National Paris which will run from January 10 to 14. Its main event is accessible for € 1,500. After this inaugural tournament will be held the ACFPoker Tour Season 2. It will be a two-day competition in which the buy-in will be limited to € 750. Its remarkable structure will certainly contribute to its success as indeed, the competitors of the ACFPoker Tour 2013 will receive 25,000 starting chips for levels of play of 40 minutes.

Thanks to the partnership between Caesars and the Lucien Barrière group, France still continue to host during the coming year the championship of poker at the European level, the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE). If the WSOPE began in London, after four unconvincing editions, Caesars in partnership with Barrière group had the idea to change its place of holding and organize the event in a country of the Euro zone, that's why the choice of France. The competition were held in Cannes until here. In the first edition, a great success was recorded. In fact, 593 players joined the poker room of La Croisette to compete for the title of the WSOPE 2011 Main Event. Then, a slight decrease in attendance was recorded during the edition 2012. But the two partners seems to have decided to improve more. Indeed, the WSOPE 2013 will now be held in the suburbs of Paris, in Enghien-les-bains more precisely.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 was a mythical day for many people. The 12/12/12 was indeed a lucky day as promised for superstitious. But anyone can't say if Dexter Koh was part of it or not. But in any case, that day was unique for him. This English of 30 years indeed participated in a poker tournament and a had good performance that allowed him to make a huge gain of £ 121,000. Many people would place this beautiful kitty in a secure investment. But apparently, Dexter do not share this idea. In fact, after having published on his twit his happiness and enthusiasm for having well ended the year 2012, he took the road for Aura Mayfair Club, one of the most famous nightclubs in London, in order to have a drink. But he did not limited to one drink, he decided to celebrate.

The € 10,300 High Roller event of the European Poker Tour Prague (EPT) delivered its verdict. And it was the German Marvin Retteinmaier who emerged victorious. Note that this tournament held in the poker room of Hilton Prague brought together 108 participants and generated a prizepool of € 1,130,000. The top 12 players in the game have been entitled to a share of the reward. But as a champion, it's the young German who pocketed the big share of € 365,300. It was Fabian Quoss that he beat in the final duel. Philippe Ktorza did everything to defend the French honors but failed to reach the podium. However, his good run allowed him to pocket € 96,900. His compatriot Aubin Cazals was ranked 9 th. In the third place was Juha Helppi. Sorel Mizzi completed the top five. However, we must mention the presence of Jason Mercier at the 7 th place and Eugene Katchalov at the 12 th place.

Poker is a sport where you play big and also it is possible to grab a large sum of money. And for years, this game was the scene of fighting between large players ans also between online poker rooms. Here, we are talking about high stakes cash earnings. This is the case between Full Tilt Poker which wins against PokerStars. A victory means greater fame. Money is the main indicator, and each member of each team is a kind of ambassador. Thus, the new team of "Viktor" Isildur1 "Blom let talk about it him with this well known poker player. Effectively, the man becomes the biggest winner of the week with $ 1.1 million made in 48 hours, a real success which is still impractical for many players in online poker.

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With the reopening of Full Tilt Poker, many professional players returned to play online on the room. This is the case of Victor Bloom, Tom Dawn or Hansen. This week, the world of online poker including Full Tilt members welcomed the return of Phil Ivey, who after the Black Friday, was forced to leave out online poker to focus on live poker. Indeed, the closure of Full Tilt Poker was a hard blow for the player sponsored by the room and its reopening in November helped enthusiasts and members of the room to meet.

As it was announced a few days ago, the Spanish tennis prodigy, Rafael Nadal, started on real money poker tables of Pokerstars on Sunday. He was then part of the field of some 1,842 participants of the main event of € 200 buy-in of the Spain Championship of online poker or Escoop. As a reminder, during this adventure, he took the nickname 'RAFA'. And the huge success recorded by the event has probably a link with the participation of Nadal. The prizepool gathered reach then a much larger amount than that of the proposed guarantee. It reached € 339,241.14.

On Thursday, December 13, Amaya and Playboy announced on a press release their agreement to develop a website of lottery and online poker highlighting the Playboy brand from 2013. Note that Playboy Enterprises, owner of the famous eponymous charming magazine and a great audio-visual company has been already present on the market of online games in 2009 in association with Cryptologic Network. The group then ceased its operations and transferred its players on Boss Media. Similarly, the white rabbit, prestige brand of Playboy has not been used to promote online poker for real money. And Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner decided to make a comeback and at first glance, he prepared well this return. A year earlier, he bought the company and established partnerships with various companies practising in online gambling industry. And he seems to have found the best partner in the person of Amaya Gaming Group.

An informal meeting of regulators of online gambling in several European countries including France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Germany took place in Paris on December 11 and 12, 2012. The purpose of this meeting is the searching for "national and European perspectives of online gaming industry," according to the statement of the French Regulatory Authority of online games or ARJEL. The participants all agreed on the fact that gambling can increase the risk of insecurity. Regulators therefore need to find an agreement to optimize exchanges to better regulate the market. The establishment of a system of regulation at the European level ishould be possible. The ARJEL did not forget to greet the German contribution to the debate in a statement. It also mentioned the success of the exchanges with the Gambling Commission in the United Kingdom.

There remains now only 55 players competing in the main event of € 5,300 at the European Poker Tour Prague (EPT). At the lead for the rest of the competition is Ramzi Jelassi, the champion of the Italian Poker Tour San Remo. He occupy the leading position with 1,238,000 chips in hand. The Swedish poker pro Chris Brammer follow him closely in the second position with 1,021,000 chips and Jeff Sarwer ranks third. In the side of French players, four players will still come back in the poker room of Hilton Prague to defend the colors of their country who are Manuel Bevand with 522,000 chips, Jonathan Khalifa with 486,000 chips, Fabrice Soulier who amassed 265,000 chips and Roger Hairabedian with 173,000 chips. Everything can still happen as these players have also all the possibilities to reverse the trend.

Social networking platform internationally renowned, Facebook will propose in 2013 online gambling through a new partnership with 888 Holdings PLC. Known for its platform 888poker, the operator will provide to members of Facebook gambling in real mode that will start in the UK. According to its CEO, Itai Frieberger, 888 planned since a long time to develop games for real money for social gaming and the potential of Facebook will allow them to offer its "freemium" offer. Facebook also welcomes this partnership given the experience of 888 in the world of online gambling for both security and for the quality of its offerings. But this offer will be only available for the United Kingdom and Facebook will block users connecting from outside the United Kingdom. At first, the 888 offer will be limited to 'Bingo Island, "a bingo game for real money, but games such as slot machines, poker and other casino games will be added to the offer later.

Each year, the best poker club of France wins a prize after participating in various regional qualifiers facing 185 teams and a high-level final called the National Championship per Clubs Team (CNEC). It becomes then France champion of poker per team. The event is organized by the Club or Clubs (CdC) in collaboration with a poker club of their choice. The last two editions of the tournament showed a real success. Note that they were held in Lille in 2011 and in Provence in 2012. The CdC revealed the next destination of the tournament. And it turns out that the Montdidier Poker Club in Picardy was choosen.

Tom Dwan is a world-renowned player in the world of online poker. Tom "durrrr" Dwan explores new horizons to make money while helping his fellow man. In fact, the FTP "The Professionals" team member is offering his service since a few time on ExpertInsight.com, a coaching site that Brandon Adams launched on last April for users seeking advice and guidance from professionals. On this platform of contact with experts, "durrrr" offers his services for $ 6,500 an hour. Coaching players for $ 6,500 an hour is a great way to compensate his poor performance since the Black Friday.

Until now, many online poker players are easily persuaded that their luck abandoned them when they failed. The most accustomed players call the circumstances "Badrun." However, proving if their impression is right should be the best way to be sure about this. To do this, there is nothing better than to check closely cards distribution. Such an operation is now possible thanks to the release of a new software : PokerProb. This is program that has a specific feature that allows players to analyze the cards received by each player on a poker table. Indeed, PokerProb gives players the opportunity to check whether the distribution of cards complies with statistics.

It's almost a year since that the popular television series The Micros has not been programmed. Because of lack of financial resources especially, the director John Wray and his friend writer Jay Rosenkrantz said previously that it would no longer be possible to continue this poker adventure in cartoon version so beloved by the public. The animated version was classified somewhere in their wardrobe. And yet, the two men certainly not lack ideas. For proof, a new episode was just released. This is a work commissioned by PokerStars. A real good news for followers of this issue. In fact, fans will be delighted because this animated series on poker will be back on December 9th. Entitled "Lost Episode", this new party has as theme online poker post Black Friday.

The market of online poker in the U.S.A is considered by experts as the greatest in the world. It is therefore not surprising if actors as game and software developer, as the online poker giant Zynga is interested in this market. Each State has its own vision about this game very appreciated by the local players. Liberalization of online poker in this great country is on the way. In addition, Zynga filed its case in the hand of the Gaming Commission of the State of Nevada even if since a few months, it has serious financial problems. As the case is complex, its analysis needs a long time: between 12 and 18 months. The real-money games are seen by many as a salvation and Zynga rushes into.

Absent on the U.S. market of online poker for two years, PokerStars is about to make a comeback. In fact, the website iGamingBusiness and Wall Street Journal announced that the online poker giant plans to conquer the U.S. market after the Black Friday. But according to the U.S. law applicable on the license application to operate online poker, PokerStars is doing things in the rules. According to this law, only operators already having a land based casino may apply for an online poker license in the state gaming commission. PokerStars has chosen the State of New Jersey to establish and chose to buy the Atlantic Club Casino, the Atlantic City Hilton for its part will be still operated by Colony Capital. The cost of the transaction is around $ 50 million, but no agreement has been signed yet.

The head's part on four tables of NLHE $ 100/200 where Tom Dwan were opposed to Viktor Bloom held on the evening of Sunday, December 9, attracted particularly the attention of many poker enthusiasts. Specialists in High Stakes tables, Bloom and Dwan offered a unique show for their fans. They stake a great prizepool of $ 200,000. Note that the two players have already met in November 2009 in the same circumstances and Isildur1 overcome his opponent after a few days of fighting. Three years later, we must say that luck is still on the side of the Swedes. The genius of poker once again demonstrated his talent. While the American started the event on the right foot, he failed to win finally. After an hour and a half of game only, the public got a glimpse of the end of the duel.

The famous Prague Poker Festival continues! While the World Poker Tour Prague had just crowned its champion, the European Poker Tour has just started in the same city in the poker room of the Hilton Hotel. The event stopped for the sixth consecutive year in the lovely capital of the Czech Republic. For the first qualifying day of the main event of € 5,300 buy-in, it drew 337 participants, which allows predicting the success of the tournament. Last year, the tournament field amounted to 722 participants. The organizers hope to raise more then 400 players on the Day 1B. And the Day 1A took place peacefully. At the end of the day, there were more than 180 players competing.

After a successful stopover in Deauville, the Barrière Poker Tour tournament (BPT) visited this weekend the French town of Cassis, a city in the Bouches-du-Rhône. Note that this poker circuit gained especially a great reputation among the public since it allied with the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE), an event that will take place for the third consecutive year in France. Indeed, the BPT offers to players the opportunity to qualify for the main event of this great event. By participating in the € 1,350 + € 150 buy-in main event of the BPT Cassis, the top 5 players won their seats for the main event of the WSOPE 2013 through the 5 packages of € 12,000. Of the 135 players who took the start, it was Philippe Vert, who was unbeatable and leaves the tournament as winner and pocketed € 25,500.

Lately, the number of athletes who decided to become professional poker players increased greatly. The Catalan tennis prodigy, Rafael Nadal joined this community. As a reminder, Nadal deserted tennis courts due to his injury. Pending to recover, he decided to move from tennis court to green carpet. 26 years old, this player should however overcome many steps before becoming of an ace poker even if he has already been a king in tennis. However, he is willing to invest in learning. He just signed a contract with the online poker room, PokerStars. Since then, he reappeared in movies and advertisements of the room. For PokerStars, the image of the young tennisman is the best thing to launch the domain .es of the room.

As every year, the capital of the Czech Republic receives one of the biggest poker festival in Europe during the Prague Poker Festival. Corinthia Hotel and Hilton received since last week this great poker event composed of the World Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour and the Grand Series Of Poker. King's Casino of Corinthia Hotel receives currently the € 3,300 Main Event of the WPT Prague which is already in its third day while the EPT Prague and the GSOP Live are respectively planned from December 9 and 12. The European Poker Tour will be held at the Hilton while the King's Corinthia Hotel Casino will once again host the GSOP Live. The EPT's buy-in is € 5,300 while that of the GSOP remains the cheapest of the three with only € 1,100, enough to attract many more players.

That's exactly a year and a half, on June 8, 2011, that the Cercle Wagram was closed after the entering of the police in the place to take control of the facility in the morning. And since last Wednesday, December 5, the trial of the gambling circle Cercle Wagram has been reopened where ten people were judged in the correctional court in Paris. These ten defendants, consisting of one woman and nine men aged between 41 years and 52 years, were indicted for conspiracy and extortion. Some observers see in this case the signature of the mafia of Corsica.

From January 10 to 14, 2013, Paris will host the World Poker Tour National Series. The Aviation Club de France (ACF) will once again host this event that will last four days. Its main event is accessible for € 1,500 and will have a deepstack structure. In fact, players who will sit on the poker tables of the ACF will have 25,000 starting chips and 40 minutes of levels of play. Once again, the final table of the WPT National Series Paris will be broadcast. It is scheduled to be held on Monday, January 14, 2013 from 4:00 pm.

Becoming a professional player is the wish of most of poker players. On TurboPoker, this wish can come true, at least for members. For the year 2013, the poker room offers to its players the opportunity to join its Pro Team at the "Rising Star", an event that could interest many players. Rising Star allows members to be part of the four members of the TurboPoker Team Pro and participate in live tournaments by representing the room. But for this, players should pass three steps that will determine their level.

The Prague Poker Festival is well and truly launched with the World Poker Tour, which is already at its Day 1C, the third departure day. After the first day one that brought together a field of 155 players, Casino King of Corinthia Hotel hosted the Day 1B which recorded 179 players. The Day 1A saw the qualification of 55 players with Pasi Heinanen as chipleader. Among the survivors of the day, we found : Shannon Shorr, Pawel Brzeski, Sebastien Garrasi, Oleksii Khoroshenin, Hella Yngve Steen, Roman Korenev, Marc Andre Lang, Michael Watson, Julian Herold, Paul Volpe, Aaron Gustavson, Rinat Bogdanov... Many players were thus eliminated during the day but the re-entry formula allowed them to return to the Day 1B.

On December 3, 2012, Mike Sexton published on his PartyPoker blog entitled "The Structure Debate" a debate on structures or in tournaments. He again spoke about his dislike of deepstack structure. The commentator of the World Poker Tour announced that players who think to optimize their chances of winning a gain due to the increase of level of play and the extension of days of competition in a tournament are wrong. He used the word of one of his acquaintances as argument who said: "Good players do not complain structures, they adapt to it." Mike Sexton continued his explanations in formulating a practical example. He mentioned that all poker players do not have time to play a long tournament. Many people must also consider their work and family life. He also mentioned the feat of Chris Moneymaker who won the title of world champion of poker after qualifying in a satellite tournament, proving that even a beginner can win when he can adapt to the structure of the tournament on which he will participate.

The United Kingdom decided to make a change in the terms of the bill on legislation of online games, including online poker. The new bill has been introduced on December 3. It was developed following a consultation launched in April 2012 and may be applicable from the end of 2014. As a reminder, the UK Gambling Commission, which oversees the regulation of the online gaming market in the UK is active since 2005, so all operators who have a UK license or a license delivered by countries belonging to the white list namely members of the European Economic Area or EEA, Gibraltar, Isle of Man and Alderney may exercise legally on the UK market. They just need to pay a tax rate of 15% levied on gross profits.

Zynga and Facebook are social web platforms that have a great place. Both platforms have recently reported a story that could interest many players : the launch of real money games in regulated markets. Indeed, the new contractual terms allowed them to extend their range of online poker in regulated countries. According to the terms of this agreement, Zynga would be able to launch its real money online gambling while Facebook may develop its own gambling project initiated by a bingo for real money project that was launched in the UK in August. Known on Facebook for its funny games, Zynga will offer its real money games on this platform of social networks as well as on other social platform and especially on the new platform of the group Zynga.com. All new games of Zynga will be presented there.

Monday was a little special day in the world of gambling in India. Indeed, this day was marked by a somewhat peculiar complaint of a woman against her husband supposed having lost her at poker probably. According to the complaint, her husband would have bet ten days ago in a game that he finally lost. And as the old adage say "promises are made to be kept!", the colleague who played with the husband came into the couple's home to collect his due. But the woman managed to escape and subsequently filed a complaint against her husband at Jarcha's police offrice, in Noida. According to the representative of the police, the fact happened in Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad district. The husband was arrested by the police since.

The Danish poker player Theo Jorgensen was the victim of an armed burglary at his home in Copenhagen in the evening of Sunday, December 2. He received three bullets in his leg and lost money in the amount of € 4,500. According to information, the criminals who attacked the former dealer and his wife used a gun. The poker star was hospitalized after the call for help of his wife. He is now out of danger and investigations by the police continue to find the culprits. For information, Theo Jorgensen is a great poker player even though he always preferred to remain discreet. He already has a title of the World Series of Poker in 2008 and won a title won in the World Poker Tour Grand Prix of Paris in 2010.

The reopening of Full Tilt Poker has been crowned with a lot of success especially as it has been eagerly awaited. In fact, at some moment, up to 15,000 players attended its daily cash game tables since its come back. Such attendance is certainly due to the quality of the offer by the new operator which is none other than PokerStars. Unfortunately, this success did not really last long. For two weeks, the poker room registered a considerable decline in its participation rate, estimated at 40%. The cash game tables at Full Tilt Poker attract more than 5,000 players per day while a month earlier, the number of participants was three times higher. The causes of this decline in attendance are not yet defined. English media evoke various reasons such as resentment of former subscribers, an aggressive promotional campaign in the short term or the end of affiliation programs.

To prepare players and let them arrange their agenda during the coming year, the calendar 2013 of the Grovernor United Kingdom Poker Tour (GUKPT) has also been revealed. Innovations that will certainly fill fans of the circuit will be offered. Note that the GUKPT is a tournament organized in different British cities. However, it draws poker enthusiasts from all over the world because it is composed of tournaments with nice structures and affordable buy-in. For the season 2013, it will have 12 steps in the program. The inaugural stage will take place from February 24 to March 3 in London. The tour will then stop in the city of Manchester from April 8 to April 14 before moving in Stockton on May 5 to 12. Stages of Portsmouth, Walsall, Brighton, Bolton, Manchester Didsbury, Luton and Blackpool will then after. During the summer 2013, that is to say from August 18 to 25, 2013, the GUKPT will be in Coventry for a special stage. This is indeed an opportunity to participate in a professional tournament open for a small buy-in of £ 120.

Awaiting the start of the World Poker Tour Prague (WPT) organized in the framework of the Festival of Prague, players met in Morocco to compete for the title of the WPT Mazagan 2012. A field of 146 participants was recorded during this event. Even if it was not a great success , nevertheless, the public of Mazagan casino poker room got a beautiful show especially during the final table. But despite the presence of many renowned players, the trophy was awarded to an unknown player. This is the Italian Giacomo Fundaro. He has just won his first major title. Certainly, he participated in many tournaments and has several cashes, but he has not yet reached the top spot.

Next week, amateur and professional poker players in Australia and its neighbors will gather for a good poker event. The poker tournament called "Brisbane Poker Championships" to be held in Brisbane, one of the biggest poker tournaments in this part of the world, will indeed held another call. Its organizers await then players from December 13 to 16 at the prestigious Treasury Casino & Hotel Brisbane. The Brisbane Poker Championships Main Event will be played with two days of entry for a buy-in of $ 1,500. Participants bwill egin with a stack of 20,000 chips for levels of 45 minutes. With these two starting days, the organizers hope to attract many participants. If the participation of 300 players is reached, the Brisbane Poker Championships Main Event will offer a prizepool of $ 412,500 with $ 105,000 for the winner.

Doyle Brunson, the second heavyweight in the poker world alongside Daniel Negreanu, had just chosen the same side as the Canadian about the proposal of a mandatory"clock" during poker tournaments, including televised tournaments. The thinking time given to each player seems too long for the veteran of poker, he even considers it as unlimited. Will the idea proposed by Daniel Negreanu on last October on tweeter be considered? Indeed, Doyle Brunson requested finally a watch against the slowness of some opponents in their decision to let him timing the attitude of each player. Thus, he tacitly accepts the regulation of time to act and to shorten, probably because of his impatience.

The Mazagan Beach Resort welcomed on Thursday the Main Event Day 2 of the World Poker Tour in Morocco during which 81 players were registered. At the end of the day, they were only 25 survivors with Clement "OhMyGuru" Beauvois who keeps his position as chipleader. This member of the PMU Team Pro reinforces his ranking as the WPT Mazagan best player after a remarkable first day. He finished the Day 2 with a stack of 461,000 chips while his pursuer Jeremy Nock has 298,000 chips. Victor Choupeaux completed the podium not far behind with a stack of 291,500. Also included in the top 10 chip counts on the eve of the Day 3, players like Clement Beauvois, Jeremy Nock, Victor Choupeaux, Fred Brunet, Sergey Vasilyev, Sébastien Compte, Giacomo Fundaro, Achille Voltolina, Paul François Tedeschi and Bruno Lopes.

After only a month of play on the new version of Full Tilt Poker, Gus Hansen lost nearly $ 2 million. The majority of this amount, he lost on tables of Omaha-8 games of $ 2.000/4.000, which is nevertheless the favorite variant of the player. In the other side, it was the players Upstart KPR16, Sally Woo and Cottonseed1 who won big sums from this failure of the Great Dane. But apart from the case of Hansen, there were many lucky players in the high-stakes online poker parts of this month on the same poker room if we only mention the example of Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, Ben "Sauce 123" Sulky and Ilari Sahamies.

With its eight successful years, the Belgium Poker Championship is back from Thursday, November 29 to Sunday, December 9. And for the sixth consecutive year, it will be the Casino de Namur that will host this great poker event in Belgium. Its organizers hope to gather 800 players and the ambition is not too much as only the Main Event has four entry days (Day 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D). And with the re-entry system till the dinner break of Day 1D, it is likely that the field will exceed 600 players. The Main Event is available for a buy-in of € 1,500 and will start from Saturday, December 1st for the Day 1A. It has a deepstack structure with a starting stack of 30,000 chips on levels of 60 minutes on Day 1 and 75 minutes for the next rounds. Aside from the Main Event, the Belgium Poker Championship will also have in its program numerous side events with a buy-in of € 110 to € 4,000 for the High Roller.

Playing poker can pay you a big jackpot but you can also lose everything overnight if you can not manage your bankroll. Thus, poker players are not immune to bankruptcy and can be found on the streets after a long moment of glory. The last known case is that of Dutch Boyd who, after the apotheosis of his career have actually nothing because of a bad management. When poker started to take off, Dutch Boyd was stunning on the tables of live poker tournaments. In 2003, Boyd finished in the 12th place at the World Series of Poker and a few years later, he won two bracelets and 17 WSOP cashes. Dutch Boyd won in 2006 the $ 2,500 Short Handed NLH and the $ 2,500 in 2010 LH / Six Handed while pocketing gains of $ 475,712 and $ 234,065. It raised more than $ 2 million in live tournaments.

Nothing is formalized yet but it seems that Unibet is about to leave Ongame for iPoker. The rumor is expanding on the internet for several weeks with the announcement of the migration of Unibet for Partygaming or iPoker network. Amaya, the owner of Ongame France refuted the information that Pokerfuse.com put online but if that happens, Ongame will no longer offer its services in France. Pokerfuse also speaks about a very short-term migration, which means that the separation between Ongame and Unibet will be in the coming weeks before the end of the year. The possible departure of Unibet will effectively seal the fate of Ongame on the French market because apart from the migration of the Swedish operator, Bwin has also decided to join Partygaming by the end of the year. So no operator will no longer use the logistics of Ongame on the French online poker market from January.

Poker tournament organizers reveal gradually the calendar dates of their event during 2013. Regarding the Irish Poker Open circuit, the next edition is scheduled to take place from March 29 to April 1st, 2013. It is the most famous Irish poker event created by Terry Rogers in 1981. It is also the oldest European poker tournament. It always had a large field composed of a large number of well known poker players like Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, David Benyamine, Daniel Negreanu, Dan Harrington, Carlos Mortensen, Freddy Deeb or Phil Laak. Last year, the tournament attracted 500 players and crowned as champion Kevin Vandersmissen.

Morgan Stanley, one of the largest investment bank in the world, provides according to a study it launched that in a near future, social gaming and poker, will converge. In the case of social gaming, Zynga Poker of Facebook is one of the most developed with an average of just over 105,400 users in seven days against 25,600 on the global market leader PokerStars. This union would be based on the existence of common interests between the two sectors such as the offering of leisure service but with a bonus in the one side and real money on the other. And to show more the advantage of this complementarity, Morgan Stanley argues that since the economic crisis of 2008 and Black Friday, the stock price of the two sectors are falling, which requires complementarity.

Since Monday, November 26, fans of poker and especially head's up are honored at the new competition of Pokerstars.fr. "Heads-Up Madness" as it is called is an event that consists of three tournaments. The event offers a total prizepool of € 15,000 and participants should win in Sit'N Go tournaments to qualify for the Heads-Up Madness. In fact, players are invited to participate in Heads-Up Sit'N Go of € 5 and the best will have, in addition to their gain, win tickets to attend these three free poker tournaments. The Heads-Up Madness consists of three tournaments of different levels: Low, Medium, High.

Five years after their arrest and incrimination for having offered to players the opportunity to play poker with money in Toulouse bridge room, nforbidden as outside casinos and gambling circles holding a legal administrative authorization, Fédou, Jean Claude Sabatier, Jean-Pierre Gleize and Claude Marbleu are still waiting for the verdict of the justice. Even if the criminal court had already given due in July 2011, calling poker a game of "strategy" but the prosecution didn't digested the verdict, even if it had already been proven. This is why the following of the case in the Court of Appeal.

Morocco is since a recent years a leading destination for poker enthusiasts. At the end of November, the World Poker Tour Mazagan is an excellent opportunity to extend holiday in Morocco. El Jadida receive the World Poker Tour in the Mazagan Beach & Golf Resort. The Moroccan step of the WPT always attracted players and this is why the WPT Mazagan is included in the program of the World Poker Tour Season XI. From November 27 to December 1st, professional and poker enthusiasts will meet in Morocco after the WPT Montreal of this week. This poker festival will include in all eight events but the € 3,500 buy-in Main Event is the star attraction of players.

The poker tournament World Poker Tour (WPT), which took place in Montreal broke the record regarding the number of participants. It indeed recorded 1,173 players. Although this WTP Montreal ranks third among the most important in the history of this poker tour, it give the chance to the eliminated of the first day to retry their luck during the day 1B. After an absence of four years on the Canadian soil since 2008, Playground Poker Club hosted the fervently main tournament of Canadian $ 3,300 entry fee. But before the Day 1B, the two longtime friends Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak had the idea to practice with local professionals, the country's national sport which is hockey. And several players but also the Royal Flush girls joined them.
 
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