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After the closure of the WPT Alpha 8 on Steven Silverman’s victory, the competition continued at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino of Hollywood (Florida), with the Main Event of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. Three days passed and there were only six players left out of the 2,384 of the beginning. The 21 survivors of the Day 3 returned in the poker room of this prestigious Florida casino, but only 6 players survived up to the end of the day. Chipleader at the beginning of the day, Blair Hinkle kept his advance with a stack of 22,800,000 at the end of the Day 4, or 4 million more than that of his direct pursuer, Justin Bonomo. At the second place of the chipcount, in the Main Event’s final table of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, we find again Justin Bonomo with 18,500,000 chips, followed by Ray Qartomy (13,050,000), Mukul Pahuja (10,200,000), Samuel Guilabert (4,675,000) and Greg Lehn (2,200,000).

The inaugural step of the new circuit of the World Poker Tour Alpha8 Florida was held this week inside the poker room of Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino of Hollywood, in Florida. 21 registrations for 18 players were recorded during this event at $100,000 of buy-in, but the field was reduced to 9 players during the Day 2. Matt Glantz started the day with the biggest stack, followed by other poker players such as JC Tran, Jason Mercier, Isaac Haxton, Steven Silverman, Joseph Cheong, Bill Perkins, Jeff Gross and Daniel Alaei. Bill Perkins was the first who left the table without being paid. A little time after, Jason Mercier, Daniel Alaei, Joseph Cheong and Isaac Haxton were eliminated before the ITM (In The Money) with 4 players, which guaranteed a minimum gain of $243,180. The chipleader at the start of the day, Matt Glantz, was the next player who left the table. His elimination at the first paid place allowed him to pocket $243,180. The three remaining players, Jeff Gross, Steven Silverman and JC Tran, took a break after the elimination of Matt Glantz.

The WPT Foundation is an association which gathers professional players of poker, celebrities, artists and sportsmen, in order to support charitable organizations. Last weekend, the association organized a charitable poker tournament to support the Los Angeles Lakers Youth Foundation, charities aiming at promoting the integration of young people inside society, through sport and education. Baptized «The Frank Mariani & Jerry Buss No Limit Hold'em Poker Classic », the event gathered 57 personalities in the poker room of Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, among whom professional poker players such as David Chiu and Toto Leonidas, and also high-level sportsmen like the former tennis player Vince Van Patten. During this event, the lure of gain was forgotten even if every one knows well to play poker, for the advantage of generosity and the WPT Foundation collected $7,800. The quintuple winner of the WSOP, David Chiu, has even given one of his bracelets in honor of the former boss of the Los Angeles Lakers deceased this year, Jerry Buss.

After a very full Day 3 which was marked by the participation of 100 survivors of the previous days, the Main Event of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open continues its progress, with the Day 4 in which 21 players took the departure. The chipleader at the start of the Day 3, Justin Bonomo, is still in the running for the $1.7 million, but he conceded the first place of the chipcount to Mukul Pahuja, with 8.125 million chips. The latter has 2 million chips more than his direct pursuer, Blair Hinkle (6.550.000). All players have more than one million chips but some poker players like Ryan Olisar, Derrick Cutler, Jeremy Kottler, Amir Lehavot, Griffin Benger and Justin Bonomo are well placed, with more than 4 million in stack. The 21 survivors of this poker tournament will play until the constitution of the final table with 9 players, which guarantee a minimum gain of $174,525.

After the Season IX full of surprises, which ended with the victory of Steve O'Dwyer during the European Poker Tour Grand Final Monte-Carlo, the circuit starts the new season with the Spanish step, which is currently taking place at the poker room of Casino of Barcelona. This new edition of the EPT Barcelona has 27 tournaments, among which the mythical Main Event, from September 1st to 7th, and will be accessible for a buy-in of €5,300. Two other major events are planned in the program, namely the High Roller at €10,300 and the Super High Roller at €50,000 of buy-in.

The poker tournament Asian Poker Tour crossed Asia since 2008. After four successful seasons which led the organizers to extend the circuit up to Mauritius Island and even London during the previous season, the APT comes back to its origin, with step which take place exclusively on the Asian continent, a new poker destination during these last years. For the first time in the circuit’s history, the Asian Poker Tour 2013 came in South Korea, with a step in the province of Jeju. Since August 18th of this year, the poker room of Ramada Casino was in an excitement with the Asian Poker Tour Korea. 11 events were programmed during a week, including a Main Event at $2,700 and 10 Side Events with a buy-in going from $120$ to $450.

The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open is a poker tournament lasting one month, which is highlighted by its Main Event with $10 million of guaranteed prizepool. The competitions have already started at the beginning of August, but the players dealt with the Main Event at $5,300 since last week. The prizepool guaranteed of 10 million dollar was exceeded with the participation of 2,384 players during the three departure days, Day 1A, 1B and 1C. This large crowd generated a prizepool of $11,920,000 among which $1,745,245 will be given to the winner. After the three departure days, Jesse Chinni started the Day 2 as chipleader with a stack of 377,500 chips, on the 783 players who came back on Sunday, in the poker room of Seminole Hard Rock of Hollywood, in Florida.

The Christchurch Casino of Christchurch, in New Zealand, was the host of the New Zealand Poker Championship (NZPC), during a week. The Main Event was the event the most expected by players of Pacific-Asia region, during this poker event. 127 players paid the NZ$1,500 buy-in to take part in the event and generated a prizepool of NZ$190,500. The 16 best players of this poker tournament entered in the ITM and were rewarded with a minimum gain of NZ$5,500, against NZ$47,000 for the winner. The NZPC Main Event 2013 has just beaten its own record of attendance of last year, an event which gathered 90 players and was won by Paul Hockin.

After the Queenstown Snowfest, the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) continues its Season VII with a step in Melbourne. The poker room of Crown Casino in Melbourne will be the host of this fifth step of the APPT. The key point of this poker tournament remains the Main Event, planned in the beginning of September, but the battle will start on Sunday with the No Limit Hold’em Accumulator, of $50 buy-in. Eleven events will be planned during these 16 days, from August 25th to September 9th, of this Australian poker festival, for a buy-in ranging from $50 to $3,000. The Main Event of the APPT Melbourne 2013 will be held from September 5th to 9th, for a buy-in of $3,000 instead of $5,000, over two last years. In fact, the entry fee was reduced in order to propel players’ attendance. This news will certainly seduce more players who are more and more numerous to go in Pacific-Asia to play poker.

Alexey Rybin has just won the Main Event of the World Poker Tour Season XII circuit’s first step. Thus, he succeeds to the German Marvin Rettenmaier who, as a reminder, became more famous on the circuit by winning the High Roller. 262 players went in the poker room of Merit Crystal Cove Hotel & Casino during the Day 1 of this Main Event, but only six players survived during the final table. Alexey Rybin is a real revelation of this inaugural step of the Season XII of the World Poker Tour. He was royal throughout this poker tournament, as he took the chiplead by this Day 1A till the end of the final table. For this “overwhelming” beautiful victory, the Russian pocketed a gain of $258,000 which includes a package of €25,000 for the great final of the World Poker Tour in Las Vegas.

Chipleader at the start of the Day 4 of the World Poker Tour Cyprus’s Main Event, Alexey Rybin kept his advance until the final table. The day started with the 14 last players of this poker tournament, on the 262 players registered during the Day 1. But at the end of the day, there were only 6 players who played for the title: Alexey Rybin, Albert Daher, Andrei Nikonov, Kayhan Tugrul, Sergey Rybachenko and Pierre Sayegh. These six players qualified for the last day of the Main Event, after the elimination of Maximilian Droege in the 7th place, bubble boy of the final table.

The Global Poker Index (GPI) groups the 300 best players of live poker tournament in the world. For its last update of August 21st, the GPI knew a big change, as well in the Top 10 as in the rest of the ranking. Jason Mercier remains the indisputable leader of the classification, while Marvin Rettenmaier seized the second place, previously occupied by Joseph Cheong. The later was relegated to the 3rd place, just before Michael Watson and Ole Schemion for the Top 5. Occupying the 6th position during last week, Marvin Rettenmaier won four precious places, following his remarkable performance in Cyprus, the inaugural step of the Season XII of the World Poker Tour. In fact, the German has just won the High Roller tournament at $10,000 of this poker event and adds $182,000 to his bankroll.

Cyprus is the inaugural step of the World Poker Tour Season XII. The competition started since last Friday in the poker room of Merit Crystal Cove, a 5-star casino-hotel, in the northern part of Cyprus. The start of the season of the WPT 2013-2014 didn’t excite players, given the Main Event of the WPT Cyprus knew a fall of attendance of 20%, compared with the Cypriot step of the previous season. 262 players paid $4,400 of buy-in to take part in this main event of six days. This event at $1 million guaranteed prize pool was honored by the presence of some global stars of poker, following the example of Sam Trickett, Michael Mizrachi, Marvin Rettenmaier, Kelly Kim, Daniel "Jungleman" Cates, Kara Scott or the French Roger Hairabedian and Erwan Pecheux. But all these people didn’t stand up till the end of the Day 3.

Majestic Star Casino Hotel of Gary, in Indiana, in the United States hosted since last week the 5th step of the poker tournament Heartland Poker Tour. 520 players have taken the departure of the Main Event after they paid the buy-in of $1,650. After three days spent in the poker room of Majestic Star, nine players qualified for the final table which was held on Monday; namely Bob Chow, Vu Huang, Bruce Knee, Darryl Ronconi, Joe Wilson, David Gutfreund, Mike Deis, Thomas Schrepfer and Murat Muftari. But at the end of the day, it was the winner of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker Circuit Hammond 2012, Bob Chow, who won the title and the $171,534, after a heads-up with Vu Huang. However, the latter settled with a gain of $104,859.

The Mediterranean region will be very animated in October with two poker events, precisely one in Morocco and the other on the Mediterranean Sea, on a cruise ship. Becoming a very much appreciated poker destination by Europeans, especially French, during these last years, Tangier will be once again the host of a poker tournament, from October 30th to November 3rd 2013. The Casino of Tangier organizes during five days the Tangier Millionaire Maker, an event which will be accessible for a buy-in of MAD 9,900, or €990. Players will benefit from a departure stack of 35,000 chips on level of 45 minutes for the Day 1 and 60 minutes for other days. The Tangier Millionaire Maker should host local and famous European players, given the level of the tournament. In fact, the event guarantees a gain of MAD1, 000, 000 for the winner.

Online poker in France stood out like a real social phenomenon after its regulation in 2010. But within these two years of legalization, poker activity is in slow motion, even in decline, as evidenced by the new quarterly analysis of the French Regulatory Authority of Online Games (ARJEL), which was published on Monday. In its report, the Arjel indicated that the French online poker goes badly and it has even reached its lowest level since 2010, during the last week of June. The entire sector went gone in the second quarter of this year and for the 20 authorized websites. In detail, the number of players has fallen of 7% to 273,000 active players’ accounts within a year. The President of the Arjel, Jean-François Vilotte, evoked a return of players towards illegal websites, which propose more generous offers.

The poker room of City of Dreams, in Macao, was since last week the host of one of the most select poker tournaments in Pacific-Asia. The Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon registered 645 incomers, but after three days of hard competition, only nine players reached the final table. This last day of the Main Event of Macau Poker Cup gathered Victor Sheerman, Tom Alner, Frank Maley, Jason Chong, Thomas Ward, Wilson Fu, Joao de Castro, Shinichi Takenouchi and Brian Yip, chipleader with a stack of 2,065,000.

The tenth season of the European Poker Tour will start in September, with the EPT Barcelona. This new season benefited from some notable changes on the whole of the circuit. In fact, the organizers brought changes so that players would be able to participate in EPT events, as well in the Main Event as in Side Events. The organizers have increased the number of Side Events for all steps of this season. More variants of poker have been added in the program, but their running depends only on the legislation of the host country. Players will take advantage of late registrations until the fifth level, for these numerous Side Events.

Since last week, the poker room of City of Dreams is abuzz with the holding of the Macau Poker Cup. The events already started last week with the NLH Deepstack of HKD 2,000, won by Celina Lin, but the poker event the most expected by players remained the MPC Red Dragon. This main event of $11,000 buy-in gathered 375 players within its two entry days. Participants came from around the world in order to try to become famous in one of the most important poker tournaments of the Southern hemisphere.

The Global Poker Index (GPI) ranking registered some major changes this week, after the UK & Ireland Poker Tour which was held last week in the poker room of Full Tilt Poker Village. Jason Mercier remains at the head of the ranking, with 200 points ahead on Joseph Cheong, followed by Daniel Negreanu, Michael Watson, Ole Schemion, Marvin Rettenmaier and Philipp Gruissem for the seven first places. Steve O'Dwyer rises in the 8th place of the GPI, after a superb second place at the Irish Championship at €2,300 of buy-in, in the UKIPT Galway. The American won two places in the classification of the 300 best poker players worldwide, relegating Bertrand « ElkY » Grospellier and Igor Kurganov at the 9th and 10th place.

Unlike Macau and the Philippines, legislation about poker is very strict in Taiwan. This week, poker made again the headlines of newspapers in this island of East Asia after that a politician has given a favorable opinion on this card game the most played in the world through online poker rooms and live tournament. Indeed, the Minister Yang Chiu-hsing had suggested during a ministerial meeting a new definition of poker as an "intellectual competition". This proposal feeds the possibility for organizing poker tournament in Taiwan.

After the success of the edition 2012 of the Empire State Championship, its organizers invited poker enthusiasts for a new edition at Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York. The tournament began last week, but the most anticipated event by players was the $ 1,650 buy-in Main Event. The Empire State Championship was also an opportunity to launch Poker Night in America, a new TV show that mixes tournament and High Stakes. This new poker show was set up by the producers of the Heartland Poker Tour, Todd Anderson and Andy Rich and the WSOP Media Director, Nolan Dalla. Poker enthusiasts are honored with this show, filmed on a private jet between Las Vegas and New York, which brought together some icons of poker. Among others, Will "The Thrill" Failla, Shaun Deeb, Nick "Nicky Numbers" Brancato, Dwyte Pilgrim, Amanda Musumeci, Dennis Phillips, Matt Glantz and Darvin Moon are among these players.

Regular of poker tournaments in Macau, Celina Lin made again talking about her by winning the inaugural event of the Macau Poker Cup. This is the fourth time in her career that Celina Lin Pei Fei won an event at the Macau Poker Cup poker tournament, the last time was in 2012. This poker player of 30 years won effectively the MPC Red Dragon Taipa Main Event of last year faces to a field of 391 players during which she pocketed HKD 85,800 (about U.S. $ 11,061). This year, the Chinese rewrote her name in the annals of the MPC by winning the NLH Deepstack HKD 2,000 (U.S. $ 260) buy-in. 205 players participated in this event, but there were remains only ten players in the poker room of City of Dreams Resort after two days of tournament: Hazel Chui, Liu Ye, Daniel Sing, Celina Lin, Xin Yin, Hui Tsung Lee, Lok Chun Wang, Ming Leung Ip, Georgiy Belyanin and William Hsu. These players met at the final table, which guaranteed a minimum gain of HKD 7,130.

Considering last news, online poker gamers in Nevada and New Jersey will not wait long time anymore so that the agreement about a common liquidity between the two markets would be signed. In fact, the checking Commission of Nevada revealed that studies concerning partnership terms are in phase of completion and law relative to it will undoubtedly legalized during 2014. Nevada and New Jersey want to establish a solid road map, which makes the process so long and hard. Note that Nevada legalized its market since a year, while New Jersey voted the bill concerning online gaming in February. It is important to say that the partnership between these two States is more obvious because their respective gaming commissions have attributed operation licenses to the same companies, in particular Caesars and MGM.

The poker festival United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) Galway ended on Monday, with the victory of Alan Gold at the Main Event. 629 players took the departure of the event since Thursday, August 8th, but only 8 players withstood until the last day: Damian Porebski, Dimitri Pembroke, Paul Febers, Jonathan Slater, Daragh Davey, Alan Gold, Benjamin Spragg and Christy Morkan. Alan Gold started the final table as chipleader, with more than 4 million chips, while his direct pursuer had 600,000 chips less, Daragh Davey (3,435,000). This final table was one of the fastest in poker tournament, because it took only four hours to determine the winner. The Scottish, known to be able to play poker well, pocketed €187,494 and free tickets for the four next steps of the Season IV, namely the UKIPT Series 3 in London, UKIPT London, UKIPT Isle of Man and UKIPT Nottingham, from September 27th of this year.

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) is one of the poker tournaments that self-respecting players in the United Kingdom don’t miss for nothing in the world. During the end of last week, G Casino of Bolton hosted the 8th step of the Season 2013 of the GUKPT. 133 players, among which 44 at the Day 1A and 89 at the Day 1B, have paid £550 to take part in the Main Event of three days. At the end of the two departure days, the Main Event of the GUKPT Bolton had only 32 players left. During the weekend, the later came back in the poker room of G Casino, with the hope to qualify for the final table or at worst, finish within the 13 paid places for a minimum gain of £1,000. But 17 among them have prematurely left the Day 2, as from the first level of 60 minutes. Tina Bandyle was the first player ousted from the ITM.

The Main Event of the poker tournament United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) Galway exceeded expectations, with the registration of 860 players throughout the two departure days. The 231 participants of the Day 1A were joined by 629 others, at the Day1B. With its buy-in of €1,100, the guaranteed prizepool of one million euro was widely overpassed: €1,140,000. At the end of the two departure days, 282 players managed to qualify for the Day2, among whom 105 were rewarded with a gain of more than €2,000. Only 51 players have survived at the end of the day. This poker tournament was marked by the lost of some well known players outside the ITM, following the example of Daniel Bavec, Hana Soljan, Liam Flood, Chris Derrick, Dave Masters, Jon Kalmar or John Magill.

The edition 2013 of the APPT Sydney Poker Championships has been taking place since last week, at the poker room of Star Sydney Casino & Hotel, in Australia. For its buy-in of $3,000, 88 poker players have been registered during the Day 1A, in which 41 players survived. These survivors of the Day 1A were joined by the 61survivors of the Day 1B, on a field of 139 players. 102 players started the Day 3 and the competition continued until there were only 11 players on the table. The final table was established when Phi Yuu and Sailendra Sa were eliminated. Aaron Benton was the chipleader at the beginning of the final table, with 1,050,000 chips. The runner-up of the Main Event of the APPT Queenstown, Daniel Laidlaw, was also among the 9 finalists, alongside Brad Fowle, Kwong Phung, Michael Kanaan, Michael Weiss, Robert Spano, Michael Doodson and Tony Kambouroglou.

Announced in July, the World Poker Tour Alpha8 is a new international circuit, which stands out by these tournaments of $100,000 buy-in minimum. This new series of High Roller poker tournament will take place in North America, Europe, Asia and South Africa. Apart from the very high buy-in, like the one of the One Drop High Roller of the WSOP, whose buy-in is amounted at $111,111, the WPT Alpha8 stands out by its 8-handed final table. As its name indicates, the final table is played between 8 players, but not 6 as we are used to see at the final tables of the World Poker Tour. From March 16th, 2014, poker fans will be able to follow this FOX Sports 1 tournament in streaming live. The program will be presented by the delightful Lynn Gilmartin. The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open will inaugurate from next August 26th, the new circuit with the WPT Alpha8 Florida.

The UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) is one of the most select poker tournaments in the United Kingdom. Since last July 27th, Ireland hosted the UKIPT Galway, which has 60 tournaments. The Main Event of €1,100 buy-in, which started in July 8th, is the key point of this Irish poker festival, but other events attracted the attention of a large number of players. The major events of this week were the final table of the High Roller tournament and the one of the Irish Poker Championship. 36 players have paid the High Roller’s buy-in of € 2,200, but only six players survived up to the final table. Sergio Aido Espina won the event and a gain of € 24,450€, after a few hours of battle with Kyle Maguire, Dermot Blain, Chris Day, Jan Przysucha and Niall Farrell. As a reminder, the Spanish won the WPT National Series of Barcelona in October 2012 and the NLH Event of the UKIPT London, in last month of March.

After Vienna and Madrid, Montenegro will be the host of the next step of the Mega Poker Series (MPS). The MPS Montenegro is an opportunity not to miss to visit the Balkans and the seaside resorts along the Adriatic Sea. This poker tournament will be held from September 25th to 29th, in the poker room of Maestral Resort & Casino. This sumptuous establishment stands out by its location on a rocky peninsula of the Pržno’s coast. The place offers an idyllic setting for vacationers and a new poker destination for enthusiasts of this cards game. In last April, on the occasion of the second step of MPS held in Madrid, the Australian Hanh Tran won the Main Event, after heads-up with the French Yehoram Baroukh Houri. Tran pocketed €34,000 for this conquest in Spanish land, in front of 351 other players.

The Global Poker Index (GPI) is the poker database the most complete, since its acquisition in last July of The Hendon Mob. At the last updates of August 6th, the GPI registered a large number of changes as well in the Top 10 as in the rest of the classification of the 300 best worldwide poker players. Jason remains at the head of the ranking, but Philipp Gruissem let the second place to Joseph Cheong. Daniel Negreanu (+3) goes back up on the podium, after a few weeks passed in the oversight. Michael Watson wins also three places and occupies the 4th place, before Ole Schemion (-1) and Marvin Rettenmaier (-3). Philipp Gruissem lost five places this week and slips back to the 7th place, just before Bertrand Grospellier, Igor Kurganov and Stephen O'Dwyer, to end the Top 10.

The organizers of the Australian poker championship, known under the noun Aussie Millions, have revealed the program of the next edition of the circuit for 2014. This great appointment of enthusiasts of poker in the southern hemisphere will take place as usually, at Crown Casino of Melbourne, in Australia. The Aussie Millions 2014 will include 20 events which will be held from January 23rd to February 10th, 2014. Players can participate in each event, for a buy-in between $1,100 and $250,000. This Australian poker event will start with the No-Limit Hold'em AU$1,100, but the key point of this poker tournament remains the Aussie Millions Main Event. This event will be accessible for $10,000 and will extend over 7 days. In last February, the event was won by Mervin Chan, on a field of 629 players. He pocketed AU$1,600,000, after he played the final table alongside renowned players such as Dan Shak, Jay Tan, David Yan and Patrik Antonius.

Since a few months, online poker has kept making news headlines in Northern America. But these last times, live poker comes back on the front of the scene, especially in Quebec (Canada), with an idea of taxing poker of saloon. Illegal practice but tolerated, saloon poker seduces a large number of players in Quebec, given its status of “poker outside casinos”. Rounds and poker tournaments inside saloons generate an attendance and significant cash, to the point that the Minister of Income of the province of Quebec decided the establishment of a taxation system on the revenue of saloons which propose poker to their customers. If the bill is adopted by the elected, saloon poker taxing will start in February 2015.

The Season 1 of the Card Player Poker Tour ended by the victory of Mo Abedi-Arani, at the Main Event of the CPPT Choctaw. Abedi-Arani won $220,626 and a bracelet for his victory. This $1,500 buy-in event gathered 735 participants, which generated a prizepool of more than $1 million. The Day 2 started with the 96 survivors of the two departure days, but at the end of the day, only 9 players survived for the next and last round of the tournament, the final table. A large number of notable players begun the Day 2, but didn’t managed to play poker well as they do regularly and most of them didn’t succeeded to reach the final table. It was the case for Tommy Vedes, Alex Phahurat, Grant Hinkle, TJ Cloutier, the winner of the CPPT Venitian Allyn Jaffrey Shulman, the holder of the WSOP bracelet, Chance Kornuth, or the November Nine Rob Salaburu.

In last May, the organizers of the World Series of Poker Europe presented the schedule of the circuit. As planned, this event will take place in France, at Casino Barrière of Enghien-les-Bains, from next October 11th to 25th. After Cannes, the WSOP Europe changes destination this year and come in Paris, the city of lights. The greatest novelty of this edition 2013 of the WSOPE is the addition of a new bracelet at the Ladies Event. In fact, the poker event dedicated to women of the WSOP Europe is from now on endowed with additional bracelet, which changes the number of the WSOPE 2013 bracelet into eight but not 7 as in 2011 and 2012. Traditional event which was introduced in 1977 at the WSOP, the Ladies Event of this year is accessible for a buy-in of €1,100 and the winner of the event can cry out loud and clear his title of champion of Europe, thanks to this new bracelet.

The weekend was full for poker lovers of the Southern Center of the United States, with the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw, held since Saturday at Choctaw Casino Resort of Durant, in Oklahoma. The Main Event at $1,500 gathered 735 players who generated $1,103,091 for an initial guaranteed prizepool of $500,000. The Main Event of the CPPT Choctaw of this year is a huge success for the organizers because in 2012, the event generated only $760,000 of prizepool. This year also, the winner will leave with a nice sum of $220,626 against $136,011 for the runner-up. After the two departure days, 99 players survived, among which 30 during the Day 1A who where joined on Sunday by the 66 survivors of the Day 1B. The chipleader of the second departure day, Arthur Morris, the one who succeeded the most to play poker well during these first days, is the leader at the start of the Day 2, with a stack of 585,500 chips.

Since last week, the poker room of Sky City casino of Queenstown knew a significant attendance because of the sixth and last step of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT). 126 players took the departure of the Main Event; but after a few days of competition, only 9 players reached the final table, which guaranteed a minimum gain of more than $10,000. Already chipleader during the Day 2 and Day 3, Jonathan Bredin kept his advance till the end of the competition and pocketed the NZD 93,000, or € 55,230 promised to the winner.

The third departure day of the Main Event of the ANZPT Queenstown Snowfest was held on Thursday, with the participation of 47 players. By combining the three days of departure, this event gathered 126 participants. At the end of the day, 18 players survived and will joint the survivors of the two firsts entry days of the Main Event. Been used to the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour and especially this step of Queenstown, Bryan Huang was at the top of the chart at the Day 1C, with a stack of 99,425 chips. He will be also the chipleader of the set of the Day 1C and the start of the Day 2, which will take place at the poker room of Sky City casino of Queenstown, this Friday. With three participations at the ANZPT Queenstown Snowfest, Huang has always reached twice the final table and this could be the right year, after a good start at the Day 1. Bryan Huang finished at the 9th place in 2010 and at the 7th place in 2012.

This week, the French Gambling authority of online gambling (ARJEL) published a new report which revealed the hidden face of the market of online poker in France. According to this survey, the market is overdrawn but some operators managed to be more competitive, while others have difficulty to survive. But as usually, the ARJEL doesn’t give a name. In 2012, the market of the French online poker registered 6,182 million euro bets in cash game and 1,397 million euro of buy-in in tournaments. The Gross Gaming Revenue of operators of online poker rose in 297 million euro. By subtracting 37% of the Gross Gaming Revenue which corresponds to the VAT, the operators have 186 million euro of Net Profit of the Games left.

The Global Poker Index (GPI) has just received its last update of the week, on July 29th. In general, the ranking has undergone a few changes, particularly in its Top 10, while the rest of the classification has known some modifications with players who enter in the Top 300 and others who go out. This week, Jason Mercier, and his 3,235.74 points, keeps the head of the ranking, with 40 points more than those of Philipp Gruissem (3,194.41). Marvin Rettenmaier, Ole Schemion and Joseph Cheong conclude the Top 5. At the 6th place, we find Daniel Negreanu, followed by Michael Watson. Igor Kurganov rises in the Top 10 by collecting 3 places.

After the Day 11 during which 40 poker players took part, the Main Event of the Season 5’s last step of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT), which is currently taking place in Queenstown, linked up on Wednesday with the Day 1B. During this second entry day, 30 players joined the tables of Sky City’s poker room. But at the end of the day, there were only 22 players left, after five levels of game. Daniel Laidlaw is at the top of the chipcount with a stack of 85,900 chips. Laidlaw established most of his chips on the elimination de Daniel Mayoh.

The Main Event of the Australia New Zeland Poker Tour started on Tuesday, in the poker room of SkyCity casino in QueensTown, in New Zealand. Sixth and last step of the Season 5, the ANZPT Queenstown Snowfest gathered 40 players for its Day 1A, an event at €1,800 of buy-in. But after six hours of game, 26 players survived with Michael Chon as chipleader, who counted 59,375 chips. Among the players who joined the tables at the beginning of the day, we could find known figures of the Australian poker, following the example of Oliver Gill, Jesse McKenzie, Matt Wakeman, Ben Gilholme, Tom Grigg, Ben Richardson, Stevan Chew, Tim English, Liam O'Rourke or Hugh Cohen.

As already announced, the Season XII of the World Poker Tour will start in next August 16th, during the WPT Cyprus. This inaugurating step of the new season will take place at Merit Crystal Cove casino. For this Season XII, the organizers have brought novelties for the greatest benefit of spectators. In fact, the circuit will benefit from five televised events and the first will be the one of Los Angeles at Bicycle Casino Bell Gardens. The WPT Legends of Poker will be the first to be broadcasted, with its Main Event which, since its launch in 2002, gathered legends of poker. Among the winners of this inescapable step of the World Poker Tour circuit, we find the living legend of poker, Doyle Brunson, and also Dan Harrington, Andy Frankenberger and Will Failla. The WPT Legends of Poker will be held from August 29th to September 4th, whose Main Event will be accessible for a buy-in of $3,700.

The Sky Poker Tour is a poker tournament which meets a great success in England. Since the beginning of the year, four steps were held and the latest is the Sky Poker Tour Nottingham. This event took place during the last weekend at the Dusk Till Dawn Casino of Nottingham. 246 players have paid the buy-in of £220, to take part in the Main Event. After the Day 1, the field was reduced to 43 players with James Rann as chipleader. During the second day, 33 out of the 43 survivors of the first day were in the money, but the competition continued until the six-handed final table was defined. The bubble boy of the ITM was Stephen “Jenners” Jennison, following his elimination at the 34th place.

After the victory at the Main Event of the Mini IPT Sanremo of last week, the poker festival at Casino di Sanremo continued with the Italian Poker Tour (ITP). This second step of the IPT 2013 was marked by the participation of 245 players, among which there were 64 during the Day 1A and 181 at the Day 1B. All these people paid a buy-in of €2,200, which generated a prizepool of €477,240. This main event reached its final table after four days of competition, in which eliminations followed one after one to reduce the field at 8 players. 33 players took the star of the Day 3, as for stake for those who manage to play poker well, the 24 places paid with minimum of €5,600, but mainly with qualification for the final table. Notable players such as Carla Solinas or Jackson Genovesi finished outside the ITM. Yuriy Nesterenko was the bubble boy, after he was eliminated at the 25th place.

Since a few years, Australia has become a reference destination for amateurs and professionals of poker. Within a year, the country hosts several major tournaments, following the example of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour, the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour or the Aussie Millions. Last weekend, the State of Tasmania received the Tasmanian Poker Championships in the poker room of Wrest Point Casino of Hobart. With its re-entry format, the Main Event at $290 of this edition 2013 of the TPC recorded 92 registrations, which generated a prizepool of $23,000. Among the notable players who took the start of this event, in the poker room of the Wrest Point Casino, we could find Will “Willy Lowball” Jones, Fflur Higgs, Amon Mustchin Toby “Mr Bellagio” Meredith, Zijie Zhao, Mads Neilson or David Bowen.

The final table of the Eureka Poker Tour was held as planned on Sunday, with the eight survivors of the previous days: Liran Machluf, Stefan Ivanov, Tane Tanevski, Georgios Phiniotis, Alexander Moiseev, Papantoniou Stylianos, Ivo Donev and Michal Vojtisek. The final table guaranteed a minimum gain of €9,200. This sum went to the local player Ivo Donev, who was eliminated by Tane Tanevski, at the 8th place of this poker tournament. The two last Cypriots of the tournament were eliminated just after. Georgios Phiniotis and Papantoniou Stylianos have pocketed respectively €12,160 and €16,180. The elimination continued with the one of Stefan Ivanov, who was rewarded with €22,750 for his 5th place. As he failed at one place from the podium, Michal Vojtisek consoled himself with €29,800.
 
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