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With the Partouche Poker Deepstack that packed up once and for all, the Deepstack Open (DSO) remain the only Deepstack event with low buy-in hosted on the European soil. The event reach now its 4th edition and the schedule 2013 has been published. The DSO 2013 will have five stages and a final. As usual, a main event of € 550 entry fee and two side events including a Big Event of € 1,000 and € 200 side event will be in the program at each DSO event. Cash game tables will be also available to allow unlucky to continue the adventure. The organizers hope to save a great success for this new season and think to attract a field between 300 and 800 participants as they plan to negotiate hotel rates and Low cost travel arrangements to the benefit of players.

The kickoff of the NBC Heads-Up Championship 2013 was given this Thursday, January 24 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas after the opening ceremony during which, the opponents draw for the first round was held. Most of guests were present at the invitation except Daniel Negreanu and Jennifer Harman. They were replaced by David Sands and Tom Marchese. Note that the competitors were divided into four groups with the names of Diamonds, Clubs, Spades and Hearts. And they seem to have offered high level duel to the public in the first round of this head's up poker tournament. Among the unlucky are Phil Laak eliminated by Phil Ivey, Jason Mercier ousted by Dan Smith, Mike Sexton who lost face to Phil Hellmuth, Tom Marchese dominated by Doyle Brunson and Michael Mizrachi eliminated by Mike Matusow.

After five successful seasons, the Latin American Poker Tour is back this year with events and destinations which promise to be once again up to all expectations. The LAPT Season VI will indeed begin on March 13 and for the fourth time in six years, the organizers included Chile in the program of this year. The country fascinates players by its culture but also by the ease it offers to its guests. Thus, this country will inaugurate the Latin American Poker Tour Season VI for five days, from March 13 to 17 at Enjoy Casino and Resort Vina del Mar. Last year, the LAPT Chilean step brought together a field of 672 players during the Main Event of $ 1,100 buy-in. This field generated a prize pool of $ 651,840. The LAPT Chile National Poker Championship will have nine events with High Roller of $ 5,000 buy-in.

In its second year of existence, the Arena Poker Camp, a program or rather an internship based on the offer of a free poker course taught by well known players coupled to a stay under the sun of Catalonia, wants to give something even more exciting. Indeed, for its third edition, this poker and vacation concept of Nicolas Dervaux and Cyril Missillier will reopen to the public from next April 14 to 20 in the hotel Indalo Park, Santa Susanna. There will be among others Valentin Messina, Jean-Philippe Latour and Remy Épinoux as coaches who will share their knowledge and experience in poker. During this poker camp of a week, there will be seven freerol tournaments to play with packages to be won. If the Deepstack Gold tournament will mark the beginning of festivities on April 14 for 3-day meeting, it will be followed by the Mega Deepstack Gold, the Silver Turbo tournament and the Head's up Unibet Arena.

Six months after his entry into the professional arena of online poker, Rafael Nadal has just signed his first victory in this discipline. It was during a NLHE tournament of € 10 on the Spanish version of Pokerstars. Admittedly, he pocketed only a gain of € 152, far away from large sums played by players like Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey and Viktor Blom, but for a 180 ° reversal of the player, from tennis courts to the green carpet, the achievement of this ancient No. 1 in the ATP rankings, deserved to be highlighted. During this tournament, he faced with 47 players as De Raul of Granada, Alicante Sergi ... and was able to end the game in 2 hours of play.

Alongside France, Italy, which already has several years of experience in the liberalization of online gaming, published an assessment of the sector during the year 2012. The report published by the Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato (AAMS), the local regulator of poker and online casino games, evokes in general the satisfaction of the country in this direction it has chosen. "The Italian experience in the complex business of regulating online gambling is positive," says the report. Indeed, compared to 2011, the year 2012 was marked by a 1.9% increase in spending in this sector. Italian operators indeed recorded a turnover of € 749 million. As the main cause, it was especially the introduction in the second half of 2011 of casino games like slot machines and poker cash game which supported this growth.

It was last night in the Elysee Biarritz of Aviation Club de France, that the ceremony awards GPI European Poker Awards took place. The nominees were eagerly awaiting the final verdict from the jury, chaired by Nic Szeremeta and composed by Jerome Schmidt, Michael Michelin, Joe Beevers, Barry Carter, Jesse May, Stephan Gollubits and Alexandre Dreyfus. After a few weeks of suspense, the name of the Player of the Year 2012 is finally known. This is Marvin Rettenmaier who occupied the top spot of the Global Poker Index. His compatriot Ole Schemion was awarded the title of Newcomer of the Year with his two victories in the Partouche Poker Tour and Master classics Amsterdam.

Since a few time, professional players embark on foolish challenges for poker enthusiasts but for a good cause for all concerned. Having accepted the challenge to participate in 100 events of Pokerstars MicroMillions II of last year, Andre "acoimbra" Coimbra will try this time to win $ 100,000 with only $ 100. In the middle of poker, this is not the first time that a player embarks on such a challenge but this time, the amount to reach is$ 100,000 against the $ 10,000 of Chris "Jesus" Ferguson in 2006. Indeed, Chris Ferguson tried the same bet to win € 10,000 from nothing. And to complicate the challenge, the Portuguese wants to get rid of his Supernova Elite VIP status and to achieve the objective with a BronzeStar status.

Some important events occurred in the poker world these days. Among the most pleasant was the emerging alliance in France between the leader of online poker Pokerstars and Lyon football club. Now, Pokerstars became the official sponsor of Olympique Lyonnais which will certainly allow it to embellish even better its image, because advertising mentioning its offerings will be transmitted on Lyon stadium screen each match played by the club. It is also about the outcome of the second event of the Aussie Millions, the biggest Australian poker festival. They were 223 players taking seat on the poker tables of Crown Casino in Melbourne to compete in Pot Limit Omaha the tournament. The public attend then an action-packed event especially during the final table. After 45 minutes of play, six finalists including Trung Tran, Nick Nicolaou, Simon Thwaites, Vadim Pinsky, Minh Nguyen and Graeme Putt gave up leaving to Sam Vakii and John Messina the privilege to fight for the trophy. The duel ended with the victory of the local player Vakii who earned the award of more than $ 53,000.

Players' jerseys in the French first football League continued to attract online poker rooms. Apart from the logos of some sports betting websites that are already worn by many players in the French league, and a few poker room as Winamax with Saint Etienne, PokerStars enters now the arena of the French first football League. The online poker site has just signed a sponsorship contract with the seven-time French champion offootball, the OL. The terms of the agreement took effect during the Ligue 1 match that oppose OL to Evian Thonon Gaillard FC. 3D logos highlighting the online poker site brands were projected on the screens of Stade Gerland during this meeting. And it will be the same for the coming matches played by the club of Lyon. Video representing the poker site offers will be also visible on the channel OL TV. And finally, the famous red spade, emblem of PokerStars.fr will be also omnipresent on the players' jerseys.

8 to 10 hours of non-stop flight to rally a country to another, whether for tourism or business will not be as boring as before, at least for players. Indeed, the concept of casino on airplanes became a reality. Thanks to the collaboration between two French companies, Designescence and AirJet Designs, the first concept of flying casino named Jet Lounge Casino has just been updated. The two engineers who contributed to the realization of the project, Jean-Pierre Alfano (AirJet) and Frédérique Houssard (Designescence), have indeed announced officially through a news launched on CNN website the selling of the product. For this first version, the lounge will only include a blackjack table and a luxury bar. But it is quite possible to see poker tables aboard aircraft in the very near future.

In this beginning of the year, the poker market transfer has been very active at PokerStars in particular, Lock Poker and Unibet. The big change was seen from the side of PokerStars that put an end to the sponsorship of two members of the Team PokerStars Pro. Indeed, the poker room did not renew the contracts of Pius Heinz and Martin Staszko, two sponsored players who were known during the World Series of Poker 2011 during which Heinz won the title and Staszko finished runner-up. In addition to the departure of these "November Niner", PokerStars also put an end to the collaboration with the Spanish Ana Marquez. However, the departure of these players has been corrected by the arrival of the English Jake Cody at the beginning of January. PokerStars succeeded to hire a real EV + by signing one of the five players to have won the Triple Crown.

The come back of Full Tilt Poker on last November allowed specialists of High Stakes to return gradually on the "ring" in the example of Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, Gus Hansen, Ben Sulsky or Tom Dwan. Just recently, Full Tilt's poker room received Phil Ivey who was joined last week by another prestigious player in the person of Patrik Antonius. Indeed, the former spokesman of Full Tilt Poker before its closure following the Black Friday was present on the website and this recovery has been more noticeable because the Finn made a day full of bounce with ups and downs. On January 17, Patrik Antonius began his new session on Full Tilt Poker with a loss of $ 300,000 but he rebounded well in the evening and began to have a positive session. This second session allowed him to pocket $ 485,000 and as balance, Antonius ends his first visit with a positive gain of less than $ 200,000.

With the New Year, Italy applies the new rules relating to online games including poker. The 'Balduzzi’ decree, promulgated in September 2012, took effect since a few weeks in the country. Among other things, its special clauses stipulate as mandatory the posting of a prevention message against addiction to online gambling, on all sites with a license, on their advertising bands as well as on the site of their affiliates. And all those concerned complied with the regulations without protest for the wellness of players. Many poker rooms and online sports betting websites in Italy had to cease their activities related to advertising and marketing just the time to comply with the procedures required by this measure.

The organization of amateur poker tournament throughout the French territory is a fingerprint that distinguishes the Club of Clubs (CdC). It is at the origin of the French National Championship per Team by Clubs (CNEC) which allows to elect the best team of poker nationally and the French National Individual Championship by Clubs (CNIC). In addition, the two competitions of this new year will begin soon. And the CdC also decided to expand its offerings. So it decided to start a new challenge which is the short-handed Championship. This event is open to a whole class of player. Obviously, the format 6-max will distinguish the tournament.

Rafi Ashkenazi, former CEO of Playtech, is now at the head of a gigantic poker empire. Indeed, he has been named general manager of Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker according to a statement from the Chairman of the Board of Rational Group and its CEO Mark Scheinberg. He will then have the daunting task of being at the head of the largest online poker company internationally. Note that Ashkenazi knows very well online gaming for his work on behalf of Playtech, a giant of online games software production as general manager and member of the Board of Directors for seven years. His mission at Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker is to perform a rigorous monitoring of the Group's operations. In this context, he must ensure the proper functioning of the poker room and its various tools, the safety of players and the smooth running of all operations related to the field of marketing. The new director must also take measures to ensure that customers can easily access the products offered by these gaming rooms.

A gigantic fraud, that is what can be described the act of Achilleas Kallakis. Former poker player, he is accused by the justice of embezzling nearly $ 1.18 billion, a sum that belong to the Allied Irish Banks (AIB). If he is found guilty, he can faces imprisonment for life. Poker enthusiast, Kallakis is a player who were seen in live tournaments between 2005 and 2009. In all, he accumulated a total gain of $ 300,000 during this period. His greatest achievement was a third place during the Pacific Poker Open which allowed him to pocket a bonus of $ 100,000. His performance during the Party Poker European Open III, a popular video poker is also one of the highlights of his career.

For the fifth consecutive year, the Terrou-Bi resort of Dakar, Senegal hosted the tournament Dakar Poker Tour. Compared to the previous edition, the edition 2013 of the tournament worked well because a field of 123 players has been recorded during the main event. Poker players from Norway, Seychelles, Germany, Italy, France and Morocco were among the competitors. But in the end, the trophy was awarded to a local player named Mehidine Fares. He ousted Sébastien Compte during the final duel and pocketed the first prize of € 25,091.

Besides being a good poker player, Vanessa Rousso also has a gift for music. In addition, she expanded her knowledge of the field, resuming her studies at Berklee College of Music for a year. She shared her new passion to her colleagues at the closing ceremony of the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in the Bahamas in 2013. In fact, Vanessa totally enlivened the evening behind her Disc Jockey headphones. Her remarkable talent was particularly welcomed by some of her friends like Daniel Negreanu, Jonathan Duhamel and Liv Boeree. With such a talent, the Franco-American may also have a place in the world of show biz. As a reminder, Rousso began in online poker tournaments and achieved a major feat by finishing runner-up of the WCOOP. Having studied economics, she refused to rely on luck in a poker competition. She instead preferred to rely on a scientific theory, and apparently it succeeded.

As every year, the ARJEL, the French regulatory authority of online games presented its greetings 2013 but it was also an opportunity for the authority to make new recommendations face to the context experienced by online poker in France but also in Europe. Regarding the presentation of greeting itself, the French Regulatory Authority of Online Games chose to abandon the traditional press release and meeting with key players of online poker in France by opting for a simple press release on its official website, financial crisis requires. Which also attracted the attention of Internet users was the position of the ARJEL on strengthening the sector. The Authority therefore recommends the opening of legal offer of new variants of poker, the fight against illegal offer and the pooling of cash of poker tables.

The edition 2013 of the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure closes with a positive balance for the organizers. In the side of players, this edition also shakes up a lot of things as in the poker ranking Women's All Time Money List. Throughout the 10 days of non-stop competition, 1,600 players moved to the Bahamas with a record entry of 6,101 participants to honor the annual meeting of the PCA. But the prize of this edition returned to Vanessa Selbst thanks mainly to her victory in the $ 25,000 High Roller. The American woman player pocketed just about $ 1.5 million after having been paid also for her 11th place finish during the $ 100,000 Super High Roller. Selbst totalize then the biggest gain of all time on the side of women players with $ 7,004,037, just ahead of Kathy Liebert ($ 5,855,655) and Annie Duke ($ 4,270,549).

The cruelty of the killing of Newtown on December 14, perpetrated in Sandy Hook Elementary school continues to affect lots of people, even poker players. This was the case of Greg Jensen who made a great achievement in the Super High Roller of the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure (PCA). Indeed, for his 6 th place in the tournament, he won a $ 286,200 gain. But he did not pocketed it, he preferred to pay the full amount to the victims of the massacre in this primary school in Connecticut. Jensen traveled to the Bahamas after receiving as a gift the ticket to the main event of the PCA. Arrived at his destination, the poker enthusiast of 40 years decided to have fun by participating in the Super High Roller tournament which brought together 47 players. His great performance in this event was the trigger that prompted this man working in the world of finance to make this act of generosity.

For its first stop in the Australian soil, the World Series of Poker that will take the name WSOP Asia Pacific during this trip name, will not do things by halves. There will be 5 bracelets to win in the program. This event will be held effectively at Crown Casino in Melbourne from April 4 to 15, 2013 and will propose five events with bracelets even if other poker tournament will animate the meeting. The first is a No Limit Hold'em Accumulator of $ 1,100 buy-in that will take place from April 4 to 8 and will have three Day 1. The second tournament offering a bracelet will be held from April 7 to 9 and it will be a Pot Limit Omaha of $ 1,650. The third will be a Mixed Event of $ 2,200 entry fee and will be held from April 8 to 10, the fourth is a Six-Handed No Limit Hold'em of $ 5,000 to be played from April 9 to 11. And the last, which is also the big appointment of the tournament is the $ 10,000 main event which kickoff is set for April 11.

The Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure reserved many surprises during his few days in the Bahamas. Poker enthusiasts were able to attend the victory of Dimitar Danchev during the Main Event, who was awarded a $ 1,859,000 gain. But the biggest surprise comes from Vanessa Selbst who after the announcing of her engagement with Miranda Forster won her first $ 25,000 buy-in High Roller. Last week, Selbst claims Miranda Forster's hand on the eve of the $ 100,000 Super High Roller of the PCA. But the acceptance of her wife has not so far given her more chance during the event during which she was eliminated in the 11th place.

After having completed a great season in 2012, Laurent Polito had just started 2013 with a new conquest. Indeed, the champion of the € 10,000 High Roller of the European Poker Tour Barcelona won the € 1,500 main event of the first World Poker Tour National (WPT) organized within the circle game Aviation Club de France (ACF) in Paris. As a reminder, the event registered a great crowd of 229 participants, generating a prize pool of € 322,890. Short stack at the start of the evening, Laurent Polito was unbeatable and was able to qualify for the title.

Antoine Saout had just spent a wonderful evening during this beginning of the year. In fact, besides having won the 4 th place in the World Poker Tour National Paris (WPT), he also produced two major achievements in online tournaments including a victory in the tournament All Star Game held on Pokerstars and the third place in the online poker tournament Winamax Series. So 2013 could be once again the year of the Breton player, who a year ago, complained of his lack of performance on poker tables. If his 4 th place at the WPT earned him a gain of € 24,750, his triumph at the All Star Game allowed him to receive a reward of € 38,300. And with his 3 rd place at the Winamax Series, his total gain during a single evening is approximately € 100,000.

In Australia, Crown Casino of Melbourne prepares to host the poker event of the year in the country, the Aussie Millions edition 2013. Indeed, it is the second largest poker tournament in the world and it still looks like the biggest poker tournament ever held in the southern hemisphere. The kickoff will take place in a week. For the history, the Aussie Millions is held at the beginning of each year and includes about 26 tournaments. Initially, the tournament was known as "The crown Australian Poker championships." It was only since 2003 that the tournament was finally called Aussie Millions. This first edition was marked by the rising of the main event buy-in which was set at $ 10,000 and the proposal of a guaranteed prize pool of $ 1 million. And the tournament earned immediately the estimated success. International stars joined Crown Melbourne at each new edition. Last year, for example, Phil Ivey, Scotty Nguyen, Annette Obrestad, Daniel Negreanu and Tom Dwan have been part of the field.

The main event of € 1,500 buy-in of the World Poker Tour National Series Paris 2013 will soon end. Indeed, the eight finalists will join the poker room of the Aviation Club de France, to fight for the title. Omar Lakhdari is well placed on the top with 2.3 million chips. This used of the circle has a large advance ahead of the player who is in the second position who is Paul Fayngersh. The latter has a stack of 953,000 chips. However, Lakhdari is not safe to win the tournament anyway. Few French poker stars are still in contention and can block his path. For example, there is Laurent Polito, Stéphane Bendiba, Damien Lhommeau and Antoine Saout who are respectively in the 3rd, 5th, 6th and 8th position. Yossi Iffergan and Florent Estegassy complete the final table.

After six days of competition, the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure had finally its finalists. The final table of the edition 2013 of the PCA Main Event began with talented players who can win the title, who are Joao Nogueira, Dimitar Danchev, Andrey Shatilov, Owen Crowe, Jerry Wong, Jonathan Roy, Joel Micka and Yann Dion. At the start of the final, the American Jerry Wong held the chip lead with a big stack of 7,400,000 chips. But from the beginning of the day, Jerry Wong began losing most of his stack, 2 million chips against Dimitar Danchev. Meanwhile, Joel Micka took the chip lead with more than 8 million chips and ended up alongside Dimitar Danchev. The final round really began when players left one by one the table, leaving only Dimitar Danchev and Joel Micka fighting for the head's up of this poker tournament. The short stack Joao Nogueira was the first player to leave the final table after having been beaten by Joel Micka. He pocketed $ 165,900 for his eighth place.

The main event of the $ 10,300 Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) approaches more and more to its final day. The Day 3 closed and made a lot of victims, who include Matt Glantz, Joe Cada, Shannon Shorr, Michael Mizrachi, Dwight Pilgrim, Lisa Hamilton, the French Gilbert Diaz, Ashton Griffin and Max Silver. However, they all already acceded in the money list. There remain now 59 players in the race led by Patrick Kelly, owner of the biggest stack of 1.7 million chips. Three familiar faces including Joe Serock, Darren Ellias and Owen Crowe follow him closely with a respective stack of 1,320,000, 1,040,000 and 1,000,000. Regarding the fate of the young Argentine 19 years, Nicolas Godoy, who particularly shone in the poker room of Atlantis Resort on Day 2, he is always in the top 5 and will begin after the tournament 970,000 chips in hand.

At the end of one year rather prosperous, Dan Smith was finally awarded the title of GPI Player of The Year 2012. The verdict came last Tuesday, January 8. Marvin Rettenmaier was nevertheless in pole position in the last weeks of the year to win the trophy after winning the High Roller event of the European Poker Tour Prague (EPT), but Smith beat him a few points thanks to his victory at the side event of $ 5,000 buy-in of the same event. The privilege of being voted the best poker player in the world, Smith won it thanks to his talent. As a reminder, he won six victories in live tournaments and pocketed about $ 3.8 million in prize money. His biggest trophy is the $ 100,000 buy-in Challenge of the Aussie Millions 2012 that let him pocket a premium of more than a million dollars. But we must also mention his three victories in the side event of the EPT Monte Carlo.

Multiple Olympic champion, Michael Phelps is an athlete no longer to present in the middle of swimming. But apart from this sport in which the Maryland native excels, poker is also a game that fascinates him for some years now. After leaving Olympics pools, Michael Phelps converted into high level player in another field. Online poker player, Michael Phelps is back in international competition at the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure which is currently taking place in the Bahamas. In fact, Phelps was seen at the Atlantis Hotel of Paradise Island with a Baltimore Orioles baseball cap and a long beard that made him unnoticed. But despite this camouflage, connoisseurs immediately recognized him. Seeing Michael Phelps in the sunny Bahamas was not a surprise because for years, he was already seen practising his new passion several times in Las Vegas. In 2008, just after the Beijing Olympics, Michael Phelps take part in a $ 1,500 tournament at Caesars Palace.

While all the attention of live poker enthusiasts are now glued to the Bahamas at the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure, Macao prepares to host the edition 2013 of the Macau Poker Cup. This week, the organizers of the MPC announced that the 17th edition of this great adventure will take place from January 11 to 20 in the poker room of Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex. The Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon series will include nine events. The main attraction of this festival of poker in this part of the world is the Red Dragon Main Event of HK $ 11,000 buy-in. The Red Dragon Main Event will begin on January 17 during which hundreds of players are expected given that the event has two starting days. This year, the Red Dragon Main Event of the Macau Poker Cup promises a huge prize pool of HK $ 3,000,000. Celina Lin will be among the players expected because she will be there to defend her victory of last year. In the previous edition, Lin beat a field of 391 players and pocketed a gain of HK $ 854,000.

Jennifer Harman, well-known player in the world of poker as holding more than $ 2.6 million gain and two WSOP bracelets, was one of the participants in the American reality show Sin City Rules. But apparently, TLC channel already seems to want to stop the broadcast of the program. Sin City Rules is a show that highlights the real lives of women with strong personalities in Las Vegas. And even if women like the wife of the architect who designed the Las Vegas skyline, Kimberly Friedmutter, fashion designer and former miss or the TV presenter, miss and daughter of a local mobster, Alicia Jacobs, were among the participants, the show did not attract the estimated TV viewers and the last 3 episodes will be canceled.

The idea of Prosper Masquelier and Laurent Tapie to offer a giant poker tournament of € 20 million guaranteed prizepool and that should meet at Wembley Stadium 30,000 players with their respective tablets finally registered a small change. The International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT), the event that attracted the curiosity of poker enthusiasts will still happen but in a lesser size. For reasons that only the organizers know, the meeting will be held in another scale. Officially, the online tournament that should be played on the stadium is finally canceled. Players will play from home on the online poker rooms partner of the event which are Mypok.fr and Partouche.fr for French participants, Poker770 for players in Spain and Netbet.it for Italians. Qualifications will begin on February 3rd and will end on May 16, 2013.

As part of the implementation of a good regulation of online gambling market, the Gaming Commission of Nevada is considering a bill called the "Assembly Bill 5," a bill that aims to implement a common liquidity between American states that have already legalized online poker market. With the current law, operators licensed in this state may have difficulty to have profit because the market is rather small. In fact, Nevada has only 2.7 million inhabitants. And anyone know how many of them are keen of online poker and how many are willing to play in the internet version of this game. Thus, local authorities will discuss about this new bill on February 4. If it gets a majority vote, the Governor of Nevada will conduct the search for a common agreement with other governors of states with regulated online poker how this sharing of liquidity can be integrated in terms of tax and administrative.

For the first time, the Open Face Chinese (OFC) was part of the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure Program (PCA), and this Chinese variant of poker, could now be more present at major international poker tournaments. Even if the 59 entries and 18 re-entries collected in this tournament in the Bahamas, for an entry fee of $ 2,150 is quite low, but for a relatively new variant at international level, this event was a real success. "This is my first poker tournament open Chinese face", said professional players, a fact which tells the character really new of this variant. And those who have just come to discover to spend up to 20 hours of play at a time.

Keen of the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom chose not to go under the sun of the Bahamas during the edition 2013 of the PCA even though in 2012, he won the Super High Roller of $ 100,000 buy-in of this famous tournament. The player took a decision rather anecdotal by playing on Full Tilt Poker but ultimately paid off. Everyone waited effectively the come-back at Atlantis Resort of Blom to defend his title, who as a reminder won $ 1,254,400 after a head's up with Dan Shak, but apparently he was busy elsewhere. Since the reopening of the online poker room until last Saturday, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom played 4,875 hands and his gains reached $ 1,894,805. And just three days later, the Scandinavian rises his earnings up to $ 4,073,070 with 11,338 hands played. Effectively, his day was impressive on Tuesday, January 8. Indeed, Isildur1 pocketed $ 1,356,296 in 24 hours which allowed him to record a gain of nearly $ 2.5 million in a week.

Even if the income of poker as a game of chance according to the law, are not normally subject to tax income, the French tax administration does not consider this like this. Professional players who receive the tax bill, consider it as too harsh and are outraged. Like any other French citizen, except those who decided to go into exile and take up residence in a country with more lenient taxation, poker players are willing to pay their taxes. However, the IRS does not seem to understand what they effectively received and the same administration does not understand what they invested. To be heard, Julien Adrien and Allain Brécart decided to unveil some kind of injustice against them.

Just like last year, the World Poker Tour hasn't forgotten to halt once more in the land of Ireland. And logically, it is the capital, Dublin which welcomed this first step of the new year. For this year 2013, there were 238 players who took part in the main event of the tournament. Despite renowned tournaments that are played in parallel in this beginning of the year, the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas is the most prominent, the WPT Dublin managed to gather a nice field. Even some European poker stars have been present, last Sunday, the final table gathered the best players of this meeting who were Simon Deadman, Joachim Haraldstad, Daniel Laming, Fintan Gavin ... But it will be ultimately Simon Deadman, originally from Colombia, who won the title of the WPT National Series.

The travel in the Bahamas of this new year of Scott Seiver was a very good thing for this American player of 27 years. This trip allowed him to pocket a little over $ 2 million. 2013 began with a great feat for Scott Seiver. This player has just won the award for the $ 100,000 buy-in High Roller of the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure (PCA). Besides the great merit to add this prestigious title to his name, this victory earned him a reward of $ 2,003,480. 47 players registered for the tournament, which began last Sunday and that gathered at the poker room of Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas the biggest names in poker.

For this new year, the online poker giant Pokerstars implemented a promotional campaign designed to reward players who acquired the Supernova status, the highest status in the poker room. And many players seem to have decided to embark on the adventure. Alex Wice played poker for 39 hours and 25 minutes to accumulate the 100,000 points needed. He launched in a fearless race against a player named MouldyOnions. The two competitors took part in all sit & go and hyper turbo high-stakes tournaments organized on the site. Very tough and very efficient, Alex Wice won the status in a record time. The result was announced officially last Wednesday by the head of the VIP program, Steve Day.

If senators Harry Reid and Jon Kyl delay to obtain the right answer on their desire to introduce a bill for federal regulation of online gambling in the United States, fans of online poker can claim victory because the intrastate regulation is undergoing a huge success. Indeed, in Nevada, several operators have already won their approval and it only remains for them to follow some legal and administrative order to begin their operation. This expectation will still last a few months for passionate, until March or April but the delivery appears to be close. In Delaware, the bill to legalize online casino gambling was adopted in June 2012. Everyone must await the outcome of the project.

Online gambling could be addictive but professional players like Erick Lindgren who, following some bad results during the past year and fell in this vicious circle, decided to take care about his case. This former member of the Full Tilt Poker team pro follow effectively a rehab in California during the first week of January and he decided to talk about his addiction problems. This former star of the departed team assume his case and discussed about it in an interview with Bluff Magazine. According to "E-Dog", his nickname on the online poker, his boundless passion for games turned into a vicious circle, a hell where there is no longer any mark except of course, poker and sports betting on the web. The player becomes sick at the end.

Clara Morgane is a French woman poker player that should not be presented anyway. As a reminder, she was presenter of the NJR Star Poker and the Caribbean Poker Mission during which she met the greatest poker players at international level as Fabrice Soulier and Bertrand Grospellier and famous personalities like Alexis Laipsker. In an interview she gave to IlovePoker.fr, Clara Morgane talked about her projects and her new year gift for her fans. She therefore decided to launch a package Love Poker. This is a game that is both simple and entertaining. It allows players to share their world with their wives because according to Morgan, the package is to play in couple. The game concept is still based on the rules of poker but bluff and calculation are the elements to master to win a game.

The HendonMob/Poker52 ranking highlights the performance of players in live tournaments. About the French player rankings for 2012, Bertrand Grospellier is at the top. And everyone is unanimous, ElkY deserved well this place. Note that he won the trophy of the European Poker Tour Berlin (EPT) and was awarded the third place of the Super High Roller of the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. After a short period of scarcity, Elky was back again in poker winnings in September to claim the silver medal of the High Roller of the World Poker Tour Prague. This new exploit confirmed his leadership. Lucille Cailly occupies the second place in the standings. She also did an excellent course in 2012. Note that she finished second in the EPT final in Monaco. She also repeatedly demonstrated her talent for playing poker.

Just the new year started that things seem to run very fast for some poker players. This is the case of Alex Wice, an online player, who reached the Supernova status in a record time of 39 hours. Effectively, this poker player collected 100.000 FPP (Frequent Player Point) and obtained an additional reward from the operator (100,000 FPP bonus) for his performance. According to this crazy online poker player, he will not stop there because he hopes to do something more interesting this year 2013 which is to collect 8 millions FPPs! But he is not the only player who got such an good feat because other players also started well the year.

While the year 2013 has just begun, Barry Greenstein known by all as the Robin Hood of poker, is already facing a financial problem that forced him to sell his house. It's a member of TwoPlusTwo forum who discovered the reality. He stumbled on a real estate ad highlighting the sale of the house of Barry Greenstein. It seems that the latter began this process in order to pay an old debt in the amount of $ 200,000. However, a year ago, Greenstein guaranteed that he entirely repaid the loan. But he seems to have forgotten to pay fully his commitment.

Online poker market faced several obstacles, preventing it to know a good development during the year 2012. Among the events that highlight this problem include the closure of several online poker rooms in France. These latter had real difficulties to achieve the necessary breakeven. According to an article of Financial Mail, experts remain pessimistic about the future of the market, especially for this year 2013. English leaders of online gambling industry indeed discussed at a meeting held last week that the poker world is currently structured. It is composed of a minority of large operators and a majority of small operators trying to get a place on the market. The latter, however, had difficulties to resist and if they want to continue their business, they should regroup and gather their strength.

The gambling industry, casino mainly, flourishes in Macau. This former Portuguese territory reassigned to China since 1999 is known worldwide for its activities related to casino and for some time for high stakes poker. According to the Bureau of Inspection and Coordination of games, the year 2012 has been very profitable. Indeed, Macao gambling sector ralize a turnover of 304.14 billion patacas or 28.67 billion Euro. The year before, casinos therein recorded a big leap of 42%! In 2012, it was only 13.5% but it is still a great achievement compared to other countries where casino is also a big activity. The reason for this decline is simple: the crisis has an effect on the number of attendance of players and on the bet of Chinese players. But that didn't prevented Macao to be in the head of countries where they the highest increases in the world were recorded.

Poker played online or live went on several stages before its current situation. Who says poker also said structure which is essential for the attraction or the beauty of this card game. Poker room and casino operators are competing ideas to give to each tournament or event, offerings that will characterize them. The case of casino Dusk Till Dawn Club Nottingham in England will mark a new phase in the development, diversification of offers. The initiator is the Welshman Roberto Romanello, a man who has not certainly the reputation of Phil Ivey, but is beginning to make a name within the poker community. Among his feats, we can mention the EPT Prague and the WPT Bratislava.

Antonio Esfandiari marked the poker world in 2012 with his fabulous victory at the tournament Big One for One Drop. As a reminder, he won the title of this charity event held at the World Series of Poker 2012 (WSOP), which earned him a large prize of $ 18,346,673. The Magician throne then on the top of the rankings "All Time Money List » by recording a total earnings of $ 23.5 million during his career. He has 6 million gain more than the master of High Stakes, the Britain's Sam Trickett. Certainly, his gain in the Big One for One Drop gave enormous advantages in the standings. However, it is not enough to play well in a single poker tournament to win a major title as the player with the biggest gain of the year to dethrone him during the year 2013.

The Aviation Club de France (ACF) is the most preferred place to host the biggest poker tournaments held in the French capital. And this famous circle game on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées, will still give joy to players during this new year. This year, the ACF will effectively celebrate its 18 years of organizing gambling and poker in the heart of Paris. It organizes regular tournaments during periods when it does not accommodate large events. The institution intends thereby to organize an Anniversary Tournament to celebrate this fruitful alliance with the world of professional poker from January 4 to 6.

Year-end and the transition to the new year is the perfect time to designate poker players who marked the past year. It is a common practice in other domain such as music, sport like football for example. In Belgium, the naming of the most deserving poker players began in 2008 with the “As d’Or” (Golden Ace). Such action aims to democratize this card game. The idea is to Georgy Versteppen, president of Spa poker club which is also the oldest poker club of the Flatland. 2012 was eventful and brought many awards for Belgians. Belgium has a contingent of poker players quite well known on the European level.

The World Series Of Poker continue to be exported. After Europe, Las Vegas and at a few kilometers from Africa, this mots famous poker tournament in the world will have a stage in Melbourne in 2013. This international event will take place from April 4 to 15, 2013 in "Crown Casino of Melbourne" where superb competitions will face the best poker players in the world. While the program has not yet been announced by the organizers, they already said that this festival will reward five winners with five events bracelets come into play. According to Ty Stewart, WSOP Executive Director, the holding the famous poker tournament in Melbourne is a pride for the organizers because this city and especially the Crown Casino in Melbourne are already recognized for its success in organizing the Aussie Millions.

The year 2012 was a redoubtable year for French actors and online poker players. The closure of many rooms that was not able to take a share of the market like 200% Poker Poker83, LuckyJeux, Titan or Chilipoker was the most remarkable. Besides this, there was also the controversy over the Partouche Poker Tour and the online poker room of the same group was forced to disappear in the sector because of financial difficulties faced by the Group Partouche. And of course, it's the same issue that is none other than the tax imposed on legal gambling sites, a little above the capacity of operators which is the origin. Indeed, this tax is calculated on the turnover of operators and not on profits. Taxes that no longer allow operators to launch more attractive tournaments and that bring players to go to illegal sites.

For its fourth edition, the Auron Ski Poker will be held in the French resort of Auron where 300 participants will be divided in the restaurants and bars of the Southern Alps. This is an event organized by the Partouche group with three major tournaments at each night of January 14 to 18, 2013 including a Ladies tournament, a Main Event and a series of sit & go. During this tournament, fans of winter sports and poker will combine once more the pleasure of snow and the biggest thrill of poker tournaments with free buy-in.

The Millionaire Matchmaker is a famous TV program that aims to help millionaires in their search for true love. In its sixth edition and the first episode, this American reality show will host Daniel Negreanu, the famous player who never stops talking about him in the greatest poker competitions. While he has already been seen in numerous television shows having poker as subject such as Late Night Poker, three seasons of High Stakes Poker, Ultimate Poker Challenge, Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament, Game One and many others, this gifted of poker of his generation will try to find the love of his life through the show The Millionaire Matchmaker.

He is considered as one of the young wonders of poker and whose future in this game is considered by many people as being assured. This is Shannon Shorr, only 27 years old but already has a great prizelist record. According to Moneywalker, Shorr is one of those who are the first to surf on online poker. Then he turns towards live poker. Admittedly, he has not the stature of a professional player like Phil Ivey for example. However, with nearly $ 5 million of gains in live, we can say that the man is above the average of amateur poker player. His course is impressive especially as this formidable poker player participates in all major events. Casinos, tables of big palaces in Europe, he frequented them all.

It is often said that poker stars all started in free poker tournaments. They improved after their performance and then tried their luck in real money online or live tournaments. Amateurs and beginners of poker in France will be able to play poker for free and in a professional setting. In fact, the poker club of Besançon named Besançon Hold’em Poker (BHEP) invites them to participate in a major event on January 7, 2013. This tournament is part of the BHEP competition for the New Year. Note that this poker club organizes about 60 poker events per year. Tournaments are held in a friendly and legally setting. No money comes in.

The award ceremony of the best actors and poker players across Europe, the GPI European Poker Awards will be held as planned on January 23, 2013 on the sidelines of the Euro Finals of Poker. The nominees for the 12 th edition of the event are already known. And to the delight of fans of poker in France, many French players are part of the list. Thus, Gaëlle Baumann, Lucille Cailly, Aubin Cazals and Ole Schemion will fight for the title of Newcomer of the Year. The trophy for the best performance in tournament will be awarded among either David Kitai, Rocco Palumbo, Marvin Rettenmaier, Ole Schemion or Sam Trickett. Gaëlle Baumann, Liv Boeree, Lucielle Cailly and Elizabeth Hille will be one of those who will receive the title of woman player of the year.

This may seem stupid for many of us but some professional players do not know yet the meaning of these initials used on poker rooms. Firstly these abbreviations indicate the type of game played. For a NL 1,000 for example, it is then a big cash game table high limit NL 1,000. In the middle of poker, if there is a player who could be taken as a reference, Tom « durrr » Dwan could be considered as one of those who are adored by the public, a poker player who is at the top of rankings as well as in terms of earnings as in terms of losses. Media and journalists do not stop talking about this player on the web, in specialized poker magazine etc. The launching of challenge between members of the best players of online poker is also something very common. Comments, wicked tweets initiated by such player on such an opponent after a tournament, lead their addressee to respond quickly to attacks against them.

Planning a High Roller tournament accessible for a huge buy-in in the program became a habit for organizers of major poker tournaments. In addition, this kind of event begins to seduce elites of poker. The edition 2013 of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) will once again include such a tournament. The event will be called the Super High Roller and it will be available for a buy-in of $ 100,000. As a reminder, the PCA already proposed the same event since 2011. Last year, 38 players took part, which allowed organizers to gather a prize pool of $ 3,136,000. The trophy and the first prize of $ 1.2 million was awarded to Viktor Bloom. The latter managed to get rid of the illustrious Daniel Negreanu during the final duel. For the next edition, a record attendance is expected.

The excellent course recorded by Dan Smith was in the headlines of poker news for some time. Effectively, this player made many good feats this year. He won six trophies if we only mention that of the Aussie Millions tournament of $ 100,000 during which he pocketed $ 3,739,797 in prize money. His performance also earned him the first place in the Global Poker Index (GPI). Dan Smith became then the world's No. 1 in poker for the year 2012, which will end in a few days. The second place went to Marvin Rettenmaier. The German player had just recorded a big growth. The French, Bertrand Grospellier finished third. Even if he didn’t have the privilege to be crowned, he still defended very well his country, France by acceding in the leading trio.

In Europe, the legalization of online poker is gradually following its merry way. Italy and France led the way followed by other EU countries. Now it is the turn of Germany to follow this path through the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein. This latter has effectively issued its first online gambling license. And this is PokerStars that is the poker room licensed to operate legally in the leading economic power of the Old Continent. Suddenly, the world's leading online poker room is the first legal operator in the country of Goethe. According to Guy Templar, Development Manager of PokerStars, local law that is to say that applicable in Schleswig-Holstein is consistent with their desire and politics. The law ‘GlüG S-H’ protects players but it also generates employment.
 
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