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Following its collaboration with a casino in Macau, PokerStars will be present physically at the City of Dreams, the Asian capital of casino games and poker. The online poker room decided to implement soon a live poker room in this city. As goal, PokerStars wants to meet the growing needs of Asian customers in poker. This poker room is also intended to be the place to go for all poker enthusiasts because it will host the most famous poker tournaments including the Asia Championship of Poker, the Asia-Pacific Poker Tour, Macau poker festival, the famous Macau million or the Macau Poker Cup Series. As a formula, this place dedicated to poker set on an attractive daily tournaments offer and cash games tables available at any time.

Despite the holding of many poker tournaments all along the month of February and since the beginning of the year 2013, the player No. 1 of the Global Poker Index (GPI) seems to be difficult to dethrone. Indeed, last week's ranking confirms that Dan Smith is still the best player in tournament of the moment, placing him for the sixteenth consecutive week at the top of this ranking of the top 300 poker players at the moment. Third after Jason Mercier (36 weeks) and Elky (19 weeks), Smith surpassed now Eric Seidel a week for the record of the number of weeks as leader of this ranking.

From March 15 to 19, the WPT National Series will visit London to crown a new champion of poker. To this end, many professional poker players but also great fans of this game of all nationalities will gather at Aspers Casino Wesfield, gambling establishment of Stratford City, to attempt to win the prestigious title of "Lord of Poker." This tournament with a buy-in of € 1,650 will have two Day 1 during which eliminated players on Day 1A could still try again their luck to qualify in the Day 1B. The World Poker Tour's return to England after an absence since 2008 is included in the calendar of regional and national events of this famous international competition and more precisely in the full calendar of the WPT Season XI. What could therefore incite a high turnout of many Englishmen who are also known for their fervour in poker.

Joa Casino of Ax les Thermes, in France will host the first Deepstack tournament of the year 2013 in the country, from March 30 to be more precise. This is a poker tournament with the same type as Deepstack organized from next April 6 to 7 in Uriage. Poker enthusiasts as well as many personalities who like poker are expected in the multipurpose room of casino Joa Ax les Thermes this Saturday, March 30 from 3:00 pm. In the program, there will be a poker tournament in Deepstack formula that many players enjoy, with a starting stack of 30,000 chips to play for each participant on parts of 25 minutes. The 60 players expected to compete for the title of winner will be welcomed in the best conditions and will, through the playing time that will be proposed to them, adopt their own game strategy and all the techniques they have.

After the Day 1A that brought together 104 players but at the end of which 56 of them were able to qualify for the Day 2, the World Poker Tour Baden continues its course with the Day 1B, the second starting day of the Main Event. 150 players met during this day to qualify for the Day 2 and join the 56 survivors of the previous day. Many players eliminated from the Day 1A returned to Casino Baden for a last qualifying chance. At the end of the day, Senadin Cosic is the chipleader of the 75 remaining players. Just behind him, we found Daniele Scatragli, Paolo Compagno, Bodo Sbrzesny Vladimir Bozinovic, Alois Weiss, Ozkan Atalay, Samuel Guilabert and Fedor Holz, all with more than 100,000 chips.

After a busy season which brought together thousands of players from all over France through its 81 tournaments, the Winamax Poker Tour (WiPT) will begin its final phase. Indeed, if the tournament stopped city to city since October 2012, 41 cities more precisely, the WiPT will now proceed to the grand final from February 28 in the French capital. Many town as Le Mans, Dijon, Agen, Macon, Orleans, Le Havre, Bordeaux, Lyon, Lille, Nantes and Auxerre and many others were indeed in the program of the edition 2013. From February 28 to March 5, 2013, the final of the Winamax Poker Tour 2013 will be held in Paris in the Cercle Clichy Montmartre.

The edition 2013 of the World Poker Tour on the European soil began this Tuesday, February 19 with the Day 1A of the Main Event. This first meeting of the year takes place in Austria in the small town of Baden. The first starting day registered 104 players who paid the € 3,300 buy-in. At the end of the day, 56 players entered the WPT Baden Main Event Day 2. The Finn Kimmo Kurko finished the day as chip leader with a stack of 149,700 chips. Behind, we find one of the finalists of the PCA Main Event2013, the Russian Andrey Shatilov totaling 134,700 chips.

Launched just four weeks ago, Fantasy Poker Manager wants to be the essential application for professional and amateur poker player on Facebook. The Facebook app of Zokay Entertainment seems to make sensation among fans in the point that the World Poker Tour offered it a partnership. Indeed, the World Poker Tour and Poker Fantasy Manager signed yesterday a partnership agreement for a period of three years. The objective is to launch a fantasy poker game through Fantasy Poker Manager. This partnership will have a double impact because for Zokay Entertainment, the WPT is a great circuit that can support the promotion of this Facebook application while Fantasy Poker Manager is an excellent application that can highlight WPT products. The CEO of the World Poker Tour, Steve Heller confirms this statement by noting that poker fans can instantly follow the evolution of their team members during the events of the WPT.

The champion of the World Series of Poker Circuit Caesars Palace 2013 (WSOPC) was crowned last Monday, February 18. This is David Tuthill, an amateur from Florida. He emerged victorious in front of a field of 743 participants including professional poker players at this $ 1,676 buy-in tournament. His performance let him receive a reward in the amount of $ 223,197. He also won the opportunity to the famous gold ring and a place for the WSOPC National Championship to be held in New Orleans. Note that when the final day began, all eyes were riveted on the chip leader Jeff Fielder. The latter already has a WSOPC title that he won a month ago at the stage of Choctaw.

PartouchePoker.fr plays its reputation in recent months. In September, the Groupe Partouche has been heavily criticized for the prize pool of the Partouche Poker Tour and a few days ago, Jean-Paul Pasqualini and Cedric Rossi, accused of cheating during the final table of the Partouche Poker Tour 2009 with videos in support also made the headlines. Most recently, the news website Mediapart mentioned the existence of accounts on the online poker room that was opened by family members of the group while such an operation is prohibited by the legislation on online gambling of 2010.

Another amateur poker player come to achieve a huge feat in Brussels at the World Poker Tour National Brussels (WPT), which was held from February 14 to 18. This is the Russian Yunoz Tuguz. He triumph face to a large field of 449 players after five days of competition rich in action and emotion. This victory earned him a place in the professional world and a prize of € 135,000. He eliminated the Danish Erichsen Bo Kjaer during the final head's up. This last pocketed the runner-up prize of € 96,000. The Dutch Razab Mohamed was meanwhile awarded the third place.

Online poker is an industry that is booming in France despite market volatility since its regulation in July 2010. Since this new regulation by the ARJEL, many operators received their license and subsequently launched their platform in ". fr". And since that time, some operators were able to overcome the competition and sits a real domination of the sector while others face difficulties. But the precariousness of the French market does not appear to worry EuroPoker which also wants to capture a market share. Indeed, the Swedish operator which operates mainly in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia recently decided to launch its online poker site in France after a long period of development.

They were 130 players who joined the poker room of the Grand Casino Brussels to compete for the title of € 1,500 of the main event of the 3rd stage of the ACF Poker Tour. The prize pool assembled for the occasion amounted therefore approximately € 90,000. The competition ended with the victory of Tobias Peters who ousted local player Pieter Ram during the final duel. With this feat, the Dutchman bagged the first prize of € 20,300 and also won a place in the Grand Final to be held at the Aviation Club de France next September. The third place was occupied by a Belgian named Mihail Stinca.

After a bad start last week, the $ 1 million challenge between Rui Cao and Patrick Antonius finally began last Saturday with a 2 to 7 Triple Draw of $ 1500 / $ 3000. The two online poker players started with a No Limit Holdem before the Finns suggests to the French to continue the session in 2 to 7. Rui Cao accepted the proposal of his opponent, but after 45 minutes, Antonius had already won $ 150,000. Cao was back into the game and earned $ 37,500 from his opponent before the break. After three hours of pause, the two players took back the part with a slight advantage for Rui Cao who totaled $ 100,000 gain but Antonius came back into the race to finish the first round with $ 300,000 or the amount that the two players set to win in the 2 to 7 of $ 1,500 / $ 3,000.

Like most of European countries, and even the world, Montenegro will also have its poker tournament, an event that should be included in the essential steps of poker of the coming years. This is the Open of Montenegro, a meeting whose first edition will be held at Maestral Casino & Resort of Budva, Montenegro from April 9 to 14. For information, the event was designed by the French Roger Hairabedian and the society of Pierrick Torasso, Poker Casino Consulting. Deepstack structure will be featured at this festival of 6 days. In the program, there will be a main event of € 1,100 buy-in. It will be spread over three days with a re-entry format. Competitors for the main event will receive 20,000 starting chips for levels of play of 60 minutes. A Deepstack of € 560 buy-in will also serve as inaugural tournament. It will be held over 3 days.

While professional players get into extra poker challenges all so crazy, some opt for high stakes duels. The latest is that between Rui Cao and Patrik Antonius, two high stakes specialists who will compete on tables of No Limit Hold'em for $ 350,000, the same amount in Pot Limit Omaha and $ 300,000 in 2-7 Triple Draw, which means a total challenge of a million dollars. Daniel Negreanu for his part recede from this practice and chooses a charity. In fact, the poker champion decided to raise funds for charity without choosing poker tables. The purpose of this fundraiser is to help St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, United States which is a specialist in the treatment of childhood cancers.

The kickoff of the online qualifiers to the International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT) should already be underway. But the organizers decided to postpone it for next Sunday, February 17 due to some technical problems. However, it turns out that other factors anticipated the taking of this decision. Effectively, the biggest poker tournament of the century still have some concerns. As a reminder, its satellites that take place in the poker room Poker770 and Lock Poker are available for buy-ins of € 2.20 and € 11. However, the campaigns were quite convincing. As a reminder, several marquee players were chosen as the ambassador of the tournament like Michael Mizrachi, the recent winner of the World Series of Poker Circuit Africa. In addition, free tickets were distributed at the last edition of the Partouche Poker Tour tournament.

This week, gambling and online poker was the headlines of newspapers in Switzerland with the development of a future legislation by the Federal Council. The two main lines of the future legislation are tax exempt earnings of gambling and the end of bans of online gambling websites. In Switzerland, winnings of lotteries and professional bet are currently subject to tax while those of casino games, including poker, are not. The change tax of rules was essential for the government to ensure that all games are treated the same way. To this end, the Federal Council opted for the tax exemption of all gambling in order to increase the market as a portion of revenues from lotteries, casinos and sports betting ensure the operating budget of the Confederation and cantons and feeding the budget of Old Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) and Disability Insurance (DI).

The World Poker Tour (WPT) visited in Hollywood, Florida from February 8. For its main event of $ 3,500 entry fee, 369 players were present. The prize pool gathered amounts $ 1,199,250. The 36 best players in the game are entitled to this award. After four days of competition full of bounce, the finalists of the tournament are already known. With more than three million chips, Darryl Fish served as chip leader. He has a large advantage, which could enable him to climb to victory. Moreover, he is not a novice in major poker tournaments even though he never managed to win a trophy. Indeed, Darryl Fish has several cashes.

The Grinder embellished his record with the prestigious World Series of Poker Circuit Africa (WSOPC). This event took place in the Emeral Resort & Casino in Johannesburg, South Africa and attracted many worldwide poker players. Note that six events that let players win a gold ring were in the program at this poker tournament. The $ 3,300 main event was marked by a field of 116 participants. Among the leaders at the final table, Michael Mizrachi took advantage of his overage in chips and his many years of experience to take the title and the precious jewel. As a reminder, The Grinder already has three WSOP bracelets and two WPT titles. He therefore has a total earnings in live tournament of $ 14 million. His new feat earned him a reward of $ 101,267.

Compared to the two other major poker tournaments worldwide, the World Poker Tour and the European Poker Tour, with a variant for South American continent for the latter, the LAPT, the World Series of Poker, despite the fact of being the most exclusive poker event in the world, has some delay in terms of diffusion throughout the world. The WSOP is certainly the rendezvous of poker enthusiasts from around the world that are held every year in Las Vegas but its export to other parts of the world experienced some delay. Despite the success of the league and the number of Europeans and Asians who travel to compete in the WSOP at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, organizers were slow to offer the brand on other continents. Even if there is the WSOP Europe, and to Africa and Asia Pacific recently, however, this progress was only observed recently.

The trophy of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville 2013 has been won by the French player, Rémi Castaignon. This amateur poker player of 29 years earned however his place in the main event of € 5,300 buy-in through an online qualifier. As well as seven other French players, Bertrand Grospellier, Jan Boubli, Pascal Perrault, Lucien Cohen, Ludovic Lacay and Arnaud Mattern, he adds so to the list of French players in possession of an EPT trophy. Note that Castaignon began the final table as chip leader. At the beginning, he had some difficulties with the attacks from the German Enrico Rudelitz. But it was with perseverance and calm that he climbed to victory with a reward of € 770,000.

Last weekend, Tom Dwan made a comeback on online High Stakes tables. Indeed, he registered an exemplary performance as in 48 hours, he won about $ 2 million in prize money. In addition, he was facing real elite of online poker as Ben Sulsky, Phil Ivey, Phil Galfond and Hac Dang. The latter was awarded the title of biggest loser after suffering attacks from Durrr. Note that the latter began his adventure with a NLHE duel of $ 300 / $ 600 face to 'Saniker' and 'bbvisbadforme'. He continued after with tables of Pot Limit Omaha and 2-7 Triple Draw. And he particularly excelled during his match against Ben Tollerence. In fact, he got rid of his opponent in 81 hands.

Since last week, Adelaide Casino, Australia hosts a major event poker : the Poker Zone Cup. The edition 2013 of this poker festival began with two Side Events: the $ 230 NLHE Teams and the $ 30 Pot Limit Omaha. And it was a success because the poker room of Adelaide Casino was packed. Indeed the Event 1 was attended by 51 teams of two players or 102 players while last year, the event brought together only 49 teams. The team of Michelle McShane and Clinton Dodd won the event before Craig Ivey and Cathy Ivey. The winner of the $ 230 NLHE Teams pocketed $ 3,380 while their dolphin collected $ 2,240. The Event 2, the $ 30 PLO also attracted many participants which generated a prize pool of $ 3,080 for a buy-in of only $ 30. The event was won by Craig Ivey who pocketed $ 1,430.

After over a month of waiting, those who closely follow the case of online poker legalization in New Jersey finally had a good news. Indeed, Governor Chris Christie decided to approve the bill thereto under some conditions which are mainly the optimization of fight against gambling addiction, the increasing of tax revenues and the adoption of a clause of revision. For the history, the bill legalizing online gambling in the State was handed over to the Governor in last December. And after the 45 days which was offered to him, he published a rather satisfactory verdict. The Poker Players Alliance, through its Executive Director John Pappas told that this decision by the governor is a great victory for lovers of online poker in the State.

The results of the Aussie Millions and the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 2013 (PCA) completely messed up the rankings Global Poker Index (GPI) Player of The Year. The last update that has just released showed the rise of Dan Shak on the top. Note that this poker player finished 4 th in the $ 100,000 challenge and the $ 10,600 Main Event of the Aussie Millions and finished 8th in the Super High Roller of $ 100,000 of the PCA, feat which let him earned 207 places. Igor Kurganov follow him closely. This player also started very well the year 2013 by writting in his record a 4th place in the $ 5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo of the PCA, a second place in the $ 100,000 challenge of the Aussie Millions and a victory in the $ 25,000 challenge of the same tournament. He progressed 279 seats then. With his fourth place in the $ 250,000 Challenge that has not been yet taken into account, Igor Kurganov could propel in the lead.

The fourth day of the European Poker Tour Deauville hosted the 51 survivors of the Day 3. It took only 6 hours for the remaining competitors to define the three tables of 23 players for the Day 5, day during which will be defined the eight finalists of the Main Event of the EPT Deauville. At 6:00 pm, the tournament director ended the day when two players were eliminated simultaneously at the 25th and 24th place, bringing the number of eliminated of the day to 28. Of the 782 participants in the first starting days therefore, there remains now only 23 players to fight for the title and the € 770,000 prize for the winner. At the end of the day, Cyril "DonLimit" André finished in the top of the table with a stack of 2,108,000 chips. Rémi Castaignon is just behind with 1,997,000 chips, followed by Hugo Pingray (1,864,000) to complete the Top 3 of the chip counts at the start of Day 5.

Poker elites love each challenge. After the head's up with a big stake that opposed the French Rui Cao and the Finns Patrik Antonius, the poker community can expect another duel between Roger Hairabedian and Bertrand Grospellier. Note that the challenge Cao vs Antonius is scheduled to begin on February 16th. But, the protagonists decided to give to the public a taste of this confrontation. So they started the game with variant 2-7 Triple Draw. After 3 hours of play, the French player got a significant advantage on his opponent. He effectively collected a profit of $ 330,000. It remains to see whether Cao and Antonius will continue the battle with the remaining two variants that are Pot Limit Omaha and No-Limit Hold'em or if they will decide to wait until the agreed date.

The Day 3 of the European Poker Tour Deauville (EPT) is already close to. It was a decisive day for several players as the starting field of 154 participants was reduced to fifty survivors only. The audience in the poker room assisted in a magnificent tournament as competitors all wanted to be part of the 120 in the money. At the end of the day, the Israeli Shahaf Haday grabbed the chip lead as having accumulated more than one million chips. Five French players also secured their place for the Day 4 by accessing the top 10. Matthieu Hervé is the best placed just behind Shahaf at the second position. Aurélien Guiglini, Pingray Hugo, Cyril André and Enrico Rudelits occupied in the other side respectively the 5 th, 7 th, 9 th and 10 th position.

February will be particularly animated in poker tournaments. Recently, Dublin was the capital of poker during the European Deepstack Poker Championship held from January 31 to February 3. From Thursday, February 7 to 10, it will be the turn of the famous Moroccan city Tangier to host the Tangier Poker Festival. The Main Event will be open for € 700 with re-entry. Professionals may also like to try the High Roller of € 1,800 which will begin from Feb. 9 to complete this nice festival where cash game tables and sun are waiting for players. Across the Atlantic, specifically in Florida, the World Poker Tour will be held from February 8 to 12. The poker room at Seminole Hard Rock Casino Hollywood should welcome many stars. The buy-in for the event is $ 3,500, which also rhymes with sun galore.

The European Poker Tour Deauville just reached its Day 3 after the Day 2 that was marked by the elimination of 260 players. Indeed, the Day 2 hosted the 419 survivors of the two starting days but after the day of Tuesday, there were more than 159 players on the Day 3. The challenge of this new stage, also the main objective is to access to the next rounds and to finish in the ITM which 120 players will be paid. David Ostrom began the afternoon of this poker tournament with the biggest stack but other players like Casey Kastle, Jesper Feddersen, Marvin Rettenmaier, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Martin Jacobson, Arnaud Mattern, Fabrice Soulier, Nicolas Levi, Isabelle Mercier, Jake Cody, Antoine Saout, Steven Moreau, Xavier Detournel, Vanessa Rousso, Elizabeth Hille and Aubin Cazals were still in contention to access in the Day 3. But most of these players were eliminated during the day.

The French national tour France Poker Series (FPS) is on the verge of becoming a major event in France. Launched in 2011, the France Poker Series has been a real success over the past two seasons. On the one hand, the event attracted players because of its first choice destination and the quality of the organization. To this end, the France Poker Series registered a significant influx during its first two seasons if we only mention the attendance of the FPS Season 2 during its last two steps. The FPS Paris hosted 715 players while the grand finale of the season 2, which was held last week in Deauville gathered 828 players. The France Poker Series Deauville saw the coronation of Patrick Braga who won € 165,000.

Since the resumption of Full Tilt Poker, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom had his ups and downs that fell his gain to $ 1.7 million. After his feat early in the year when he managed to win nearly $ 5 million in ten days in high stakes poker tournament, Isildur1 experienced reversals that made him lose a few million. According to HighStakesDB, the site that lists the gains of high stakes specialists, Isildur1 still record a positive balance until here despite a few setbacks. Indeed, the Swedes has currently $1.7 million gain during the year. What remains somewhat little if we consider the $ 1.36 million gain he realized in one day in January.

Last week, the Global Poker Index launched the Fantasy Poker Manager, an application on Facebook that takes the concept of the famous video game Football Manager. In the side of the ranking of the best players, the weekly update continues. But compared to last week, there was a lull in anticipation of the update next week. Indeed, the GPI will be mainly influenced by the European Poker Tour Deauville, the World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open and the Aussie Millions poker tournament, which attracted many internationally renowned players and always showed pleasant performance from several players.

The World Poker Tour will visit the British capital in March. This tournament will be named the WPT National London and the festival will be held in the poker room of Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City. The full program of the WPT National London is still being finalized but according to some sources, the Main Event of £ 1,500 + £150 of the WPTN of London will have two starting days, the "re-entry" format will be allowed and late players can register until the end of the sixth level of play, a real novelty.

The Aussie Millions which were held in Melbourne ended its edition 2013 with the $ 25,000 Challenge event last weekend. This poker meeting attracted a field of 27 players and was marked by the coronation of Igor Kurganov. At the start of the event, the audience attend a fantastic style of play delivered by players like Antonio Esfandiari, Vanessa Selbst, Joe Hachem, Jesse Sylvia, Grant Levy and also Jeff Rossiter who were eliminated before the final. After a few hours of play, there were only eight players out of the 30 registered. The eliminations of Mark Teltscher, Jonathan Karamalikis and Ole Schemion helped to define the final table composed of 5 players: Erik Seidel, Igor Kurganov, Niklas Heinecker, Fabian Quoss and Philipp Gruissem.

The Aussie Millions is a very popular poker event in the Asia Pacific since its inception a few years ago. In this edition2013, the Crown Casino in Melbourne which is hosting the Aussie Millions received 629 players who paid their AU $ 10,000 buy-in, which generated a prize pool of AU $ 6,290,000. Note that last year, the Main Event of the Aussie Millions gathered a record field of 721 players. After eight days of competition, there were only seven players on the 157, 196 and 269 inscribed in the three first days. Dan Shak led the final table with 3,775,000 chips but his direct competitors in terms of chip count, Jarrod Glennon and Patrik Antonius were not far away with respectively a stack of 3,600,000 and 3,345,000 chips. The other four seats of the final table were occupied by Mervin Chan, Joseph Cabret, David Yan and Jay Tan who started the final table as the short stack with 1,220,000 chips.

Last weekend was very busy in poker event in both the Old continent and on the other side of the Atlantic. Since last Friday, Harrah's Tunica Event Center, Mississippi hosted the Main Event of this big poker festival that brought together 666 local players throughout the two first days. The Day 1A was marked by the registration of 272 players who have been reduced to 37 at the end of the day. Bryan Campanello was leading the survivors of the Day 1A with a stack of 467,000 chips. There are also Chali Abebe, Blake Whittington, Gary Marshall, David Clark, Kyle Cartwright, Patricia Pate, Matthew Colvin and Aaron Massey among the qualified for the Day 2 at the end of the day.

While the European Poker Tour Deauville just finished its two entry days, the grand finale of the France Poker Series Deauville ended with the victory of Patrick Braga. The Canadian kept his lead and won with ease against players like Bruno Santos and Andrew King, who had more than 3 million in chips at the start of the final table. As a reminder, the final table was composed of eight players, including three French: Julien Rustom, Ronan "Roroflush" Monfort and Olivier "TracyChatman" Averso. Konstantinos Nanos, Olivier Averso and Richie Allen completed the other three seats of the final. The first eliminated player from the final was Olivier Averso who left the table with € 16,000. Short stack at the final table with 110,000 chips, Richie Allen was the next on the list of eliminated followed shortly after by Bruno Santos (€ 31,500) and Konstantinos Nanos (€ 39,500).

The Super High Roller tournament of $ 250,000 of the Aussie Millions 2013 began in the evening of Thursday, January 31. The event brought together 14 big names of poker internationally known with four players who make a rebuy. So in total, there were 18 entries generating a prize pool of $ 4,500,000. By looking back over the progress of the first day of competition, it was marked by the elimination of several players like Andrew Robl, Paul Phua, Tony Bloom, Gus Hansen, Jason Mercier, Antonio Esfandiari and Philipp Gruissem. The German Tobias Reinkemeier was in the other hand very lucky. After eliminating Paul Phua, he ended the day by reaching the chip lead with over a million chips in hand. Until now, he is in the good way to win the trophy.

The French association Club of Clubs (CdC) created the Official Ranking of French poker Clubs. It’s a nationally live ranking of French poker teams on territory in the country. Note that the clubs eligible for this classification are those involved in the National Championship of Clubs per Team (CNEC), an event organized by the CdC, which is held annually. Regarding the classification criteria, the CdC will use a specific principle which is the Elo system, which was launched by the International Federation of Chess (FIDE) in 1970. Initially, this system allowed to classify the levels of players in games that are played in pairs. But it registered some major changes to become an adequate means of classification for a competition involving several participants. The poker club will be therefore compared according to their performance, their level and regularity in live competitions since 2011. This system also takes into account the indirect method of selecting team members adopted by the training received by each member, the quality of leadership and motivation of each poker club.

Organized as the inaugural tournament of the European Poker Tour Deauville (EPT), the main event of the France Poker Series (FPS) is actually launched. The event brought together for the first day 226 players. At first glance, the field is rather shy, and probably, it will not match that of the last edition, which amounted 715 participants. However, the Day 1A of the final FPS was marked by the presence of several nationally and internationally poker pros. At the end of the first day of competition that has 11 levels of play, there are only 98 survivors with the champion of the FPS Paris 2012, Ludovic Sultan as chipleader. He has 163,000 chips. He comes to maximize his chance to win for the second consecutive time the trophy. Nicolas Jeangorges and Jose Besalduch Traigueros do not give up the tournament as they respectively have 164,400 and 163,400 chips.

Finally, the total field of the AUD $ 10,000 main event of the Aussie Millions 2013 reached 629 players, generating a prize pool of AUD $ 6,290,000. 64 players will share the prize pool and the champion will receive an award of AUD $ 1,600,000. Note that this poker tournament reaches now in its fourth day of competition. The Day 3 ended with the elimination of many players. In fact, it remained only the half of the starting field of 69 participants. Of the 36 survivors, the local player Ray Ellis occupy the chiplead with more than a million chips. But he is closely followed by the Finnish Patrick Antonius, who finished the day with a stack of 957,000 chips, a good position which gives him a certain advantage for the continuation of this poker tournament.

The Global Poker Index (GPI) is the ranking of all players in the poker world. And every week, an update is provided following the performance of players during previous live tournaments. In line with the Global Poker Index, Zokay Entertainment, the company headed by Alexandre Dreyfus, which is also the owner of the GPI, launched on Thursday morning an application on Facebook that could let poker enthusiasts from around the world to participate in a game called Fantasy Poker Manager. In the past, games of the same ilk have already been presented in the example of the Fantasy Poker League, Fantasy WSOP or the PokerProManager but access was restricted to a smaller scale.

The $ 3,500 buy-in Main Event of the World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open resumed with the second day 1. The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City hosted the Day 1B that brought together 645 players. Added to the 397 players registered on Day 1A, the first days of the Main Event of the WPT Borgata gathered in all a record field of 1,042 players. This field generated a prizepool of $ 3,335,442 with $ 730,053 will go to the winner. The top six players will reach the final table as the 100th player in the ITM will receive a prize money of $ 6,637. After the Day 1A which allowed 209 players to qualify for the Day 2, the Day 1B began with 645 registered but at the end of the eight levels of play, only 396 players survived. The Day 2 will receive the 605 survivors of the Day 1 for eight levels of 75 minutes.

The Norman step of the European Poker Tour (EPT) has just started in the poker room of Casino Barrière of Deauville. This is one of the biggest poker events taking place on the French territory. For this edition 2013, the EPT Deauville joins the France Poker Series (FPS). Players started the game with the inaugural tournament which is the FPS main event of € 1,100 buy-in. Regarding the main event of the EPT which has € 5,300 buy-in, the kickoff will be held at the Centre International de Deauville on February 3. And as in each edition, another record attendance is expected. Moreover, the fact that the tournament takes place in a spacious place also shows that organizers hope to repeat the same success again. Last year, it attracted a field of 889 players and ended with the victory of the Belarus Vadim Kursevich. He received a large reward amounting € 889,000.

After the High Roller, the Crown Casino of Melbourne welcomed last Sunday competitors for the Aussie Millions Main Event 2013. After the first three days of competition, a total field of 622 participants was recorded. And registrations are still open until the start of the second day of competition. But anyway, the rate of attendance of the event seems to register a little fall. If in 2011, the main event of this appointment of Australia welcomed 721 participants last year, there were 62 players less. Despite this drop in attendance, the event continues to attract international stars of poker. On Day 1C, 269 players were present in the poker room. And U.S. players, English and many other nationalities as John Juanda, Melanie Weisner, Sam Trickett, Antonio Esfandiari, Gus Hansen, Brandon Adams, Jens Kyllonen, San Shak, Joe Hachem, Elio Fox, Phil Ivey and Jeff Lisandro was part of the starting field.

The World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open is one of the biggest stages of the WPT. It meets in every edition several big names in poker. Last year the event attracted over 700 players and the victory was awarded to Michael Mizrachi. The edition 2013 has just begun in Atlantic City with the main event of $ 3,500 entry fee. A great success is expected as 397 players joined the poker room of Borgata Casino for the Day 1A. The field is composed by many renowned players like Dwyte Pilgrim, Andy Frankenberger, Tony Dunst, Matt Matros, Jason Koon, Will Failla, Erix Baldwin and David Baker. They also managed to qualify for the Day 2.

While most of poker players have been retained in Las Vegas to compete for the title of the NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship, the $ 100,000 High Roller tournament of the Aussie Millions 2013 hosted a nice field that did prove once again the reputation of this tournament in the land of kangaroo. The presence of players like Gus Hansen, John Juanda, Patrik Antonius, Philipp Gruissem, Jason Mercier or Sam Trickett at Crown Casino in Melbourne has been noted. Known as a true specialist in online poker High Stakes, Andrew Robl grabbed the trophy and the first prize in the amount of $ 1,000,000 after a rather difficult first day. Indeed, Robl was the only player to have enjoyed the re-entry format effective during this event.

Last Sunday, the Gran Casino Madrid hosted the final of the Main Event of the first stage of the Estrellas Poker Tour 2013 after five days of fierce competition. 632 players came to participate in the Main Event of the ESPT Madrid for a registration fee of € 1,100. This field generated a prizepool of € 606,720 including € 103,000 for the winner. By judging these figures, this step of Madrid, which opened the sixth season of the Estrellas Poker Tour was a success. After four days of competition, the ESPT hosted the final table which met eight players, the survivors of the 632 players at the start of the departure day. The final table was composed by Pedro Oliva, Richard Milne, Francisco Arce, Miguel Sánchez, Vicente Delgado, Angel Botana, Adrian Mateos Diaz and Jose Alvarez.

The Finn Markus Ristola has just showed a great performance during the final tournament of the Diamond Championship of the Euro Finals of Poker (EFOP). He indeed won the title of this event of € 5,000 entry fee which was attended by 47 players in the lounge of the Aviation Club de France. Finalist of the World Series Of Poker Europe 2009, Ristola made a sensational rise to victory. He managed to eliminate in a few hours his four opponents. This strong performance allowed him to touch the big reward amounting € 85,000. In the place of runner-up is the German player, Hauke Heseding who pocketed € 62,340 for his 2nd position.

The NBC Heads-Up Championship 2013 comes to have its champion. This is Mike Matusow, who, after four days of competition that has not been easy, triumphed after the final duel that opposed him to Phil Hellmuth. Indeed, after having eliminated John Hennigan, he played the semi-final with confidence against Scott Seiver. The televised duel ended with the victory of Matusow. Once the semi-finals completed, it remained one last hurdle to overcome for him which was a duel with Phil Hellmuth. This final battle began in the poker room of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas at 9:00 pm. Both players received each 800,000 starting chips, a very interesting duel for the audience.

The city of Kiev received since Saturday, January 26 the Main Event of the one of the biggest poker tournaments in Eastern Europe, the Russian Poker Tour. 197 players registered during the two starting days of the € 1,700 buy-in Main Event. But after two days, only 113 of them were qualified for the Day 2. The Day 1A brought together 80 players but at the end of the day, there remained only 43 with Ukrainian players in majority like the chipleader Slava Tochelovski. His compatriot Levan Karamanishvili ranks second (185,200 chips), followed by the Russian Vyacheslav Kovalev (117,800) who completed the podium. On Sunday, January 27, 117 players registered in Rus Hotel Kiev for the second departure day of the RPT Kiev.
 
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