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Compared with last week, the classification of the Global Poker Index (GPI) dated of March 24th didn’t know great change, especially in the Top 20. The Canadian poker player Daniel Negreanu keeps the first place of the ranking, already since more than six weeks now. He is always followed by Ole Schemion, Vanessa Selbst, Marvin Rettenmaier, Jason Mercier, Dan Smith and Mike McDonald. Shannon Shorr rises in the 8th place to the detriment of Philipp Gruissem, while Sorel Mizzi closes the Top 10 like last week. In the 11th place, we find Ravi Raghavan who, like during last week, is followed by Joseph Serock (12th), Erik Seidel (13rd), Jeffrey Rossiter (14th), Paul Volpe (15th), Bryn Kenney (16th), Scott Seiver (17th), Jonathan Duhamel (18th), David Peters (19th) and Michael Watson (20th). Scott Seiver and Jonathan Duhamel have swapped their place.

After four days of competition at Hofburg Palace, the semifinalists of the Main Event of the European Poker Tour Vienna are finally known. 50 poker players have taken the departure of the Day 4, but at the end of the day, after five levels of 90 minutes, there were only 17 players left. Chipleader at the start of the day, Pablo Gordillo managed to remain among the front runners but conceded the first place of the chipcount to the German Timo Pfutzenreuter with a huge stack of almost four million chips. Timo Pfutzenreuter is going to begin the Day 5 with 3,837,000 chips, closely followed by Pablo Gordillo (3,582,000). Four players also are in a rather favorable place with more than 2 million chips, namely Anthony Ghamrawi (2,790,000), Simeon Naydenov (2,324,000), Frei Dilling (2,280,000) and Gavin O'Rourke (2,071,000), while the rest of the field was far behind with a stack included between 1, 6 million and 400,000 chips.

On Wednesday, the Main Event of the European Poker Tour Vienna linked up with its Day 3. 189 players were present in Hofburg Palace, in Vienna at the beginning of the day. But after five levels of 90 minutes, only 50 players qualified for the Day 4. These survivors of the day are assured to leave with money, because the tournament counted 135 paid places; which means that the 80 players eliminated during the day left the poker room with a minimum gain of €8,700. Pablo Gordillo finished chipleader at the end of the day with a stack of 2,111,000. Anatoly Filatov finished in the second place of the chipcount with 1,500,000 chips. The other players who occupy a comfortable place at the start of the Day 4 were Timo Pfutzenreuter (1,065,000), Simeon Naydenov (1,040,000), Miltiadis Kyriakides (1,034,000) and Wilfried Harig (1,005,000).

In the 90’s, playing in a poker tournament with a buy-in of $1.000 was considered as enormous. The Main Event at $10,000 of the WSOP was at the end of the 90’s reserved to the wealthiest and sponsored players. Since then, poker has known a significant boom to the point that buy-ins at more than $100,000 have become common on the circuit. Baptized Super High Rollers, these tournaments with very high buy-in were subject of great criticisms, after that Daniel Negreanu had carried out five rebuys at $100,000 during the Aussie Millions. Negreanu has brought explanations on the reason of his multiple rebuys on his blog, and also on the interest of the Super High Rollers in the universe of poker; even if for some people, investing such sum in a tournament seems unimaginable.

The European Poker Tour (EPT) of Vienna is a real success. More than 900 players were registered in the Main Event at the end of the two departure days. The 341 incomers of the Day 1A were joined by 559 players at the beginning of the Day 1B, making the total number of participants to 910. This important field has generated a prizepool of €4,413,500 which will be shared by the 135 best players of the tournament. This poker event guarantees a minimum prize of €8,700, while the winner will leave with the amount of €816,000. At the start of the Day 2, about 500 players came back in the sumptuous Hofburg Palace transformed in huge poker room for the occasion. The German Sebastian Trisch is the best placed at the end of the day out of the 189 survivors.

Namur is a city in Belgium known in the universe of European poker by various live events organized at the Casino of Namur. Next month, this gambling facility will be the host of a new event which should seduce local players, those of France and also of other countries neighboring Belgium. Baptized Namur Classic’s Festival, this poker tournament will last over a week, from April 14th to 21st, with the holding of several events including a Main Event with guaranteed prizepool of €155,000. This main event is accessible for a buy-in of €550, with a departure stack of 50,000 chips and blinds which increase every 45 minutes in the Day 1 and 60 minutes for the other days. Players can also qualify for satellite tournaments organized before the two departure days, for a buy-in of only €110.

Vienna seems to be a poker destination very appreciated by players in this period. After the success met by the Eureka Poker Tour, 1,432 registrations in the Main Event and 455 in the High Roller, more than 300 players registered in the Main Event of the European Poker Tour during the Day 1A. As a reminder, Zoltan Gal has won the Main Event of the Eureka Poker Tour for a gain of €208,655, while Lars Tungel stood out in the High Roller tournament (€77,250). The first day of the Main Event of the EPT Vienna has gathered 341 players, a field which comes closer of the one of the last step of the season 7 (578 incomers), while the Day 1B promises more significant rush with its re-entry formula. Note that out of the 1,432 registered in the Main Event of the Eureka Poker Tour, 975 entered in the Day 1B.

During last weekend, the casino Barrière Cannes Croisette was the host of a stage of the Deepstack Open. The new season of the DSO is well and truly launched after the inaugural step in Barcelona in February. The poker room of the Croisette knew an important rush from March 20th to 23rd of this year, with the holding of the DSO Cannes. The Main Event with a buy-in of €550 attracted 622 players. The event guaranteed a prizepool of about €300,000, shared between the 125 players of paid places. Out of the 622 registered of the Day 1, only 10 managed to qualify for the final table of last Sunday: Yann Belkheir, Gérard Demailly, Jean-François Valliere, Anthony Kazgandjian, Éric Abbas, Jonathan Khalifa, Alexandre Hocquaux, Dimitri Zhauner, Viken Kasmayian and Simeone Vuillet.

In the margins of the European Poker Tour in Vienna, the room of the Palace Hofburg in Austria hosted last week the first step of the season 4 of the Eureka Poker Tour. The event was as high as its ambitions because 1,432 players were present in this all transformed in poker room. With its buy-in of €1,100, the event guaranteed a prizepool of €1,389,040, shared between the 215 players of the paid places. This inaugural stage of the Eureka Poker Tour Season IV was honored by the presence of some notable players, following the example of the French Benjamin Pollak, of the British Zimnan Ziyard (winner of the EPT Loutraki 2011) or the Italian Max Pescatori (2 WSOP bracelets).

The sharing of liquidities seems to make positive progress in the United States. After the agreement signed in last month for the establishment of an interstate market of online poker in Nevada and in Delaware, the two governors of both States agreed for the launching of the project sooner than planned. The Governor of Nevada, Brian Sandoval, and the one of Delaware, Jack Markell, have recently decided that the sharing of liquidities between their States will be launched by this summer, while it was previously planned before the end of the year 2014. The intrastate online poker concerns Nevada and Delaware, but both governors don’t exclude to pool the market of poker with New Jersey. Nevada and Delaware are two small States with lower population compared with New Jersey. A sharing of liquidities with New Jersey would be a godsend with its almost 9 million of inhabitants, 11th out of the 50 States. The subject has already been mentioned by the Governor of Nevada, Brian Sandoval, and his counterpart of New Jersey, Chris Christie, but no agreement has been signed for the moment.

Since its launching a few years ago, 4 years to be precise, the ranking Global Poker Index (GPI) receives a weekly update. For the sixth successive week, the Canadian Daniel Negreanu dominates the classification of the 300 best players of live poker in the world. The German Ole Schemion remains on Daniel Negreanu’s heels, while the third place went to Vanessa Selbst, following the update of last March 17th of this year. Vanessa Selbst won four places and thus outstrips Marvin Rettenmaier, Jason Mercier, Dan Smith and Mike McDonald. Philipp Gruissem takes the 8th place (+2), followed by Shannon Shorr and Sorel Mizzi who closes the Top 10 with a gain of six places.

JC Tran has won the Main Event of the WPT Bay 101 Rolling Thunder, after beginning the final table in the fifth place in chips number. This victory has allowed the American to add additional $302,750 to his earning in career, and especially a second WPT title. JC Tran was able to adjust his mistakes during the final table of the WSOP 2013, 5th place, and stood in front of 165 players during this poker tournament. Justin Cuong Van Tran is currently counting 2 WSOP bracelets and two WPT titles, without forgetting the 39 paid places, among which 7 in the final tables of the World Series. His first title in WPT dates back to 2007, during the World Poker Challenge in Reno, in which 474 players took part.

The third study of the industry of Spanish poker published by the Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ), the equivalent of the ARJEL in France, has indicated that Spain is a country favorable to the practice of online games, and that players prefer more casino games, sports betting, bingo or lotteries. Online poker attracts numerous gamers in Spain, among whom the majority are degree holders: university degree (52%) and post-graduate diploma (9%). In online casino gaming, the rate of degreed players decreases by 48% for university degree and 8% for post-graduate diploma. In Spain, 81% of players of online poker are men, among whom 68% are less than 34 years old. But slot machine attracts the most of young players of less than 34 years old (78%).

The WPT Bay 101 Rolling Thunder has reached its final table, after four days of fierce competition in the poker room of Thunder Valley Casino. On the 465 players of the departure, only six managed to be qualified for the final, after the elimination of Ryan D'Angelo in the 7th place. Bubble boy of the final table, D'Angelo settled with a prize of $41,410. Quoc Pham was the chipleader of this final table, while Ken Jorgensen was the shortstack. Both are unknown players of this final because the four others, namely Preston Harwell, Benjamin Zamani, Mimi Luu and JC Tran, have already stood out their imprint in live tournaments.

Yesterday, the poker tournament WPT Rolling Thunder linked up with its Day 2. The 190 survivors of the two departure days came back in the poker room of Thunder Valley Casino, in California. The stake of the day was to finish in the money and consequently to be qualified for the next day. In fact, the 24 survivors of the Day 2 are already in the money, with a minimum gain of $12,780. Thus at the end of the day, 24 players survived for the Day 3, including well known players like JC Tran (19th, 278,000). The local player vises a second WPT title after a missed final table in the Main Event of the WSOP 2013 (5th place).

After the stage at Foxwoods Resort Casino in February of this year, which ended with the victory of Ron Pease, the circuit of live poker Card Player Poker Tour (CPPT) will begin this week the third step of its Season 2 in Reno, in the United States. The Atlantis Casino Resort & Spa will be the host of this event, from March 20th to 30th. During these 10 days, about ten poker tournaments are included in the program with a buy-in going from $120 to $1,100.With its numerous Side Events, namely the No Limit Holdem, Omaha, Survivor, Bounty, Six Max, Win the Bottom, the visitors have the opportunity to participate in the event and indulge themselves in tournaments with moderate buy-ins.

After the WPT L.A. Poker Classic, California has been the host of two other poker events of the World Poker Tour circuit since last week: the Bay 101 Shooting Star and the Rolling Thunder. The WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star ended by the victory of James Carroll, for a gain of more than $1.25M, while the Rolling Thunder continues its progress with the Day 2 of the Main Event. Hostilities started on last Friday at Thunder Valley Casino. 450 players came in the poker room of the gambling facility to participate in the Main Event with a buy-in of $3,500, such as Phil Hellmuth, Antonio Esfandiari and Ludovic Lacay, eliminated by the opening of the tournament. The field is clearly lower than those registered by the WPT L.A. Poker Classic (534) and the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star (718), but the WPT Rolling Thunder has widely surpassed itself for a first edition.

From March 27th of this year, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino of Hollywood, in Florida, will host the fourth edition of its Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, in the margins of the season XII of the World Poker Tour circuit. Like each year, a series of poker tournaments is organized, but the Main Event remains the key point of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, with its $5 million of guaranteed prizepool. The poker room of Seminole Hard Rock is going to know an important rush during 21 days because 20 events will take place there up to April 16th. The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown will start with the Side Events, beginning with the NLH Deep Stack with a guaranteed prizepool of $1,000,000 for a buy-in of $560.

At the end of last week, the poker room of the Casino di Venezia in Italia hosted the edition 2014 of the Gioco Digitale WPT Venice Carnival. 144 players registered in the Main Event with a buy-in of €3,000. After six days of relentless competition, the poker tournament ended on a victory of Andrea Dato. During the last day of the tournament, six players still competed for the title, among whom most of them were renowned players on live circuit, namely the best English player Sam Trickett, Alessio Isaia (winner of the edition 2011), Sotirios Koutoupas, Andrea Dato, Mario Vojvoda and Maurizio Saieva.

During the last weekend, the last day of the Main Event du Latin Series of Poker Millions (LSOP Millions) was played with nine players, in the persons of Jose « Nacho » Barbero, Oscar Ortiz, Keshavarzi Maziar, Leonardo Tarazona, Carter Gill, Adam Reynolds, Alon Raz, Guillermo Echevvaria and Francis Cruz. Leonardo Tarazona started the final table with the most of chips on the table (2,653,000), but at the end of the day, the poker tournament turned in the favor of the American Carter Gill. Carter Gill started the final table in the eight place of the chipcount (1,301,000), just before Adam Reynolds who counted only the half. But he was quickly at the lead by eliminating most of players gathered on the table. The shortstack of the final table, Adam Reynolds, was his first victim, followed a few hands later by Francis Cruz (6th, $33,950).

The first edition of the poker tournament New Caledonia Poker Open has succeeded its bet by gathering almost 200 players during its two first departure days. After the 214 incomers in the Day 1A, 125 players came at the Grand Casino of Nouméa, in New Caledonia, to take part in the Main Event of the New Caledonia Poker Open. A total of 249 players have participated in the event; an important rush which has led the organizers to increase the initial prizepool of XPF 5,000,000. The 25 ITM players will share the prizepool of XPF 29,000,000 (AU$ 375,000), among which XPF 6,000,000 (AU$ 77,000) for the winner. The re-entry formula has allowed eliminated from the first day to try their chance again. Fabrice Ho, Emanuel Seal, George Manolas, Graeme Putt, Billy Argyros, Kamel Bekhaled, Henry Wang, Jan Suchanek as well as Andrew Shanahan were among the players present in the poker room of the Grand Casino at the start of the Day 1B.

Alberto Cartin is definitely the strongman of the poker tournament Latin Series of Poker Millions (LSOP). Since the Day 1B, the Costa Rican dominates in master’s hand the Main Event by finishing chipleader at the end of each day, except for the Day 3. At the end of the Day 5, Alberto Cartin is the leader out of the 26 survivors with more than 1.5 million chips. These survivors of the previous day will come back this Friday, March 14th in the poker room of Majestic Casino in Panama City, Panama, for the penultimate day of the LSOP Millions 2014. Alberto Cartin occupies a favorable place at the start of the Day 5 with a stack of 1,655,000 chips, while his direct pursuers are at little more than one million chips, namely the Colombian Andres Parias (1,189,000) and the American Manne Ravi (1,159,000). The chipleader of the Day 3, Alon Raz, will also be part of the field for the Day 5 with his 913,000 chips.

The poker room of the Grand Casino Brussels – Viage has been since last week the host of a national circuit of the World Poker Tour. The Danish Lasse Frost and the Belgian Anthony Rodrigues stood out during this poker event, by winning the Main Event and the High Roller tournament. The Main Event has gathered a field of 376 players, predominantly composed of Belgian and French, but finally, it was a Danish who has won it at the end of five days of competition. Compared with previous editions (450 in February 2013 and 440 in December 2013), the field has slightly moved back, but the atmosphere and competitiveness were always present, making of this 2014 edition of the WPT National Brussels a real success. Lasse Frost pocketed €102,000 for his remarkable performance, while Dimitri Monfroy settled with €72,400 for his 2nd place.

The poker tournament Latin Series of Poker Millions has gathered an important field, thanks to an innovative concept which in organizing qualifying tournaments in different casinos of Latin America, in Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Honduras, Colombia, Chili and Dominican the Republic; before coming in Panama for the holding of the Day 2. The poker room of the Hard Rock Hotel in Panama City, Majestic Poker, hosted on Tuesday evening the Day 2 of this event with a buy-in of $850. The survivors of the Day 1 (27 in the Day 1A, 22 in the Day 1B and 32 in the Day 1C) were joined by the 48 qualified players of different casinos of Latin America, or a total of 129 incomers. The stake of the day was to be qualified for the Day 3, because the players present were already assured to finish in the money and leave with a minimum gain of $2,100.

Since the Black Friday, the indicator was reset to zero in the United States, and new licenses have been distributed for operators of online poker. But the law on online gambling remains strict to the point that many States didn’t legalize online gaming, while the States where it is legalized are limited to an interstate offer. Now, only the States of Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey have decided to legalize online poker, but other States like California won’t take long time to follow them. These last months, Nevada seems to be the most active among these States, with the appearance of three rooms of online poker. But 2014 promises a great evolution because four other rooms could be able to open their doors by the end of the year.

The Circle Clichy-Montmartre hosted on last Sunday the final of the poker tournament by team of the Winamax Poker Tour (WiPT). The Big Roger Team stood out during this tournament which consisted of full ring, short-handed and head-up, after a final played with the Dead Money Team. By the beginning of the competition, spectators’ attention was fixed on the Big Roger Team, which was composed of experienced players in the persons of Roger Hairabedian, Antonin Teisseire and Stéphane Bazin. A total of 294 players spread over 98 teams, among whom 50 qualified for free took the departure of this tournament with a buy-in of €990. The Big Roger Team won the final, after a semifinal in front of the Team Starboobz, which was made up of François « starbob »' Robert, Pierre « sharkl0 » Drochon and Clément « Narcofisho » Bonnin.

Last weekend was marked by the departure of the poker tournament Latin Series of Poker Millions, in Latin America. The concept is rather original because the participants will come in the poker room of Majestic Casino of Panama City, in Panama, only in the beginning of the Day 2. The Days 1 will take place in several casinos on the American continent, like those of Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Honduras, Columbia, Chili as well as the Dominican Republic. This new concept enables players to avoid wasting money for the travel, the accommodation, the food in Panama, before being assured to be paid. In fact, players qualified for the Day 2 will be already in the money of this Main Event with a guaranteed prizepool of $1 million.

The poker tournament Poker Belgique Masters was held as expected at the end of last week at King's Casino Rozvadov, in Czech Republic. The poker room of the gambling facility was full to bursting during the holding of the Main Event with a guaranteed prizepool of €100,000. With its three departure days, the Main Event with a buy-in of €249 gathered 462 incomers. But the field generated €100,543 and exceeded consequently the guaranteed prizepool announced by the organizers. The event guaranteed 45 places for a minimum gain of €480. Helmut Pajer was the first player paid during the eve of the final table.

It was necessary to wait 164 hands and almost 7 hours to know the winner of the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic during the final table. In the morning of Friday, Chris Moorman was the last player remaining on the final table, after pushing Glenn Lafaye aside. At the beginning of this final table of the Main Event of the WPT LAPC, six players still aspire to the title. Michael Rocco begun the day with the highest number of chips (5,615,000), followed by Chris Moorman (3,190,000), Patrick Bruel (2,280,000), Josh Neufeld (1,930,000), Glenn Lafaye (1,855,000) and Adam Friedman (1,150,000). But the eliminations followed one after one to the point that Chris Moorman and Glenn Lafaye met in their first final head-up in the 129th hand, with respective stacks of 7,750,000 and 8,275,000. 35 hands later, the situation changed and Chris Moorman stood out on his opponent. He pocketed $1,015,460 and Gold Monster 24K headphone, while Glenn Lafaye settled with $662,840 for his place of runner-up of this poker tournament.

Since a few years, webcast was an integral part of the European Poker Tour with its EPTLive. Earlier in this week, the president of the EPT, Edgar Stuchly, announced the introduction of the Eureka Poker Tour in the EPTLive. The inclusion of the Eureka Poker Tour in the EPTLive is a great first one for the EPT and the community of poker worldwide, because in the past, the EPTLive settled to broadcast images of regional circuits on the web. The purpose of the « EPTLive » webcast is to develop the industry of gambling, to share with all fans of poker all over the world the atmosphere and experience in live tournaments, and consequently attract new players, explained M. Stuchly. This complete broadcasting of a final table finale of the Eureka Poker Tour will be for the EPT an opportunity to determine the continuation of the broadcasting in the future. In fact, the results and comments of spectators will be decisive for the pursuit of the broadcasting of regional final tables on the EPTLive for 2015.

After inaugurating the first international-scale poker tournament in Madagascar about three years ago, Roger Hairabedian, the player number 1of the ranking LivePoker during 4 editions has just got a great praise in his favor. In fact, a local casino of this country of the Indian Ocean, the Casino du Grand Cercle de Tananarive, will attribute the name of Terminator to its gaming room, which is going to become the "BigRoger's Poker Room". To inaugurate it, the casino will prepare series of cash game during a week: from March 16th to 23th to be precise. And of course, Roger himself won’t miss this party, in order to confront once more to local players, as he has already done in other tournaments in the country, following the example of the Lemurian Poker Tour.

In Los Angeles, in the World Poker Tour L.A Poker Classic, up to now, Patrick Bruel is sure to come back in France with at least $200,440 in his pockets, the consolation prize which will go to the first player eliminated of the final table of his poker tournament. But by holding the 3rd biggest stack of the final table, 76 big blinds (BB) against187 BB for the chipleader and 28 BB for the short stack, Bruel the French has nothing to be ashamed of. Well and truly back on poker tables, after more than 2 years of break, Patrick seems to be in excellent shape and finish this prestigious circuit, passing in the city of Angels with the 1st place, synonym of gain of $1.015 million, shouldn’t be pushed aside. In any case, after winning a bracelet in 1998, nothing prevents him to repeat this achievement for this year 2014.

After four intense days of poker at Commerce Hotel & Casino in Los Angeles, survivors of the WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event move to the Day 5 this Wednesday when the six finalists will be nominated. 63 players took off with this tournament from the beginning of the Day 4 and only 18 of them survived at the end of the day. Josh Neufeld was the chipleader at the start of this Day 5 with a 2,326,000 chips as stack. He holds a comfortable rank during this semi-final because his direct pursuers have 1.8 million of chips in hands: Glenn Lafaye (1,743,000), Chris Moorman (1,731,000), Joe Serock (1,596,000), Michael Rocco (1,410,000), Adam Friedman (1,244,000) and Patrick Bruel (1,039,000). At the 7th place, the French singer is in a good position so; he may be entitled as winner of this tournament, or at least, will receive a full pay envelope.

Over the past few years, shot clock implementation during live poker tournament has been making headlines but it is not applied until now. During the WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event which is taking place at Commerce Hotel & Casino poker room, in Los Angeles, organizers are discussing about it once again and considering shot clock introduction during future tournament seasons. They already carried out a survey of players present at this event. It should be noted that shot clock is a rule that forces players to make a decision within a limited time or they will lose their hands. Numerous players have already called upon tournament to implement this system generally imposed in many sports. It is a system that avoids waste of time. It is for example, imposed to all basketball players to make a decision within 24 seconds, timed by a shot clock. It is better to know that in poker, a player has to make a decision too, before the game can continue.

On Monday, the 174 survivors of the Day 2 of the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic’s Main Event went back in the poker room of Commerce Hotel & Casino in Los Angeles. The stake of the day was determined in the ITM, reserved for only 63 players, for a minimum gain of $18,970 on the prizepool of $5,126,400. At the end of the Day 3, Jesse Yaginuma finished at the top of the list with a stack of 804,000 chips, followed by Glenn Lafaye, Jennifer Tilly, Bryn Kenney, Michael Rocco, Allen Pock, Adam Friedman, Huy Lam, Dan O'Brien, and Mukul Pahuja to conclude the top 10 of the chipcount, at the start of the Day 4 with more than 420,000 chips. Among the survivors of the day, we find also Matthew Waxman, Eric Buchman, Patrick Bruel, Hasan Habib, Ravi Raghavan, Greg Merson, Jason Mercier, Eugene Katchalov, Mike Sexton, Jonathan Duhamel as well as Andy Frankenberger.

Since a few years, Las Vegas has been conceding its place of ideal poker destination in Macau in terms of high stakes rounds. This new Eldorado of high stakes poker, located on the other side of the Pacific, seduces professional players with its blinds which may reach US$7,000/14,000. Macau has become the Mecca of high stakes pokers in which a lot of professional players intend to have a stop, at least once in their career. Tom « durrrr » Dwan, Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius and John Juanda are among the great names of poker who have already participated in a round of no-limit hold’em HKD10, 000 /20,000 of the Big Game. In this kind of rounds, millions of dollars under the shape of chips, or rather plates, pass from a hand to another one, and a pot at more than HK$20 million is common.

While most of great names of European poker went in the United States to take part in the WPT L.A. Poker Classic 2014, those who stayed on the Old Continent will be able to indulge themselves with national circuits. This week, enthusiasts of live poker tournaments can move in Czech Republic with the holding of the King’s Poker Belgium Masters. This event will take place at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov, from March 5th to 9th of this year, with a Main Event which guarantees a prizepool of €100,000 and numerous Side Events with a buy-in going from €65. The Main Event counts three departure days with the possibility of re-entry, with a buy-in of €249 for departure stack of 40,000 chips and on levels of 40 minutes. Satellite tournaments called « Main Event Turbo » will be organized before the departures of the Day 1A, 1B and 1C, with 8 seats guaranteed each day for a buy-in of €40.

Since the middle of January, the Commerce Hotel & Casino in Los Angeles received the 16th step of the circuit World Poker Tour Season XII. Numerous poker events followed one after one since this period, but the key point of this WPT L.A. Poker Classic remains the Main Event with a buy-in of $10,000 which started during the last weekend. 501 players registered in the Day 1 of the Main Event, but thanks to the formula « late registration » up to the beginning of the Day 2, the event counts a total of 534 registrations. Out of the 501 incomers of the Main Event’s first day, on Saturday March 1st, 370 managed to qualify for the Day 2. Scott Blackman was the chipleader with a stack of 190,300 chips before Ali Eslami (129,200), Joe Tehan (112,850), Daniel Steinberg (111,000) and JC Tran (108,800), but other notable players continued the adventure, following the example of Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Sexton, Marvin Rettenmaier, Greg Merson, Will Failla, Erik Seidel, Vanessa Selbst, Betrand « ElkY » Grospellier, Fabrice Soulier, as well as Patrick Bruel.

 
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