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Paralleling the ongoing European Poker Tour Season 11 held at the Casino Barcelona, APAT (Amateur Poker Association & Tour) also launches the first edition of the “Belgian Amateur Poker Championship (BAPC)” in Namur (Belgium); it is scheduled to kick-off in September 19 to end in September 21, 2014. The BAPC is a national poker tournament which is expected to seduce a great number of Belgium’s poker lovers and poker enthusiasts from its neighboring countries. Admittedly, the Belgian Amateur Poker Championship is not as popular as the EPT, but the event is worth a trip, especially for players who want to combine poker and leisure, as the city of Namur offers an unparalleled setting for a peaceful stay in the heart of Wallonia Needless to say, the city’s casino has been a Mecca getaway for European gamblers these days.

The first stage of the XIII season of the World Poker Tour (WPT) has been in full swing since August 23at Bicycle Casino, Las Vegas. By dropping the buy-in down from $ 5,000 (year 2011) to $ 3,700, the organizers expect to attract an impressive numbers of participants, especially with the new gaming offers being introduced. In fact, “Quantum Reload” has been launched this summer, a new concept allowing players to qualify for the Main Event directly on Day 2, alongside the classic re-entry format of $ 10,000 buy-in. Unfortunately, it does not ignite great desire from participants; actually, the attendance rate in this WPT poker tournament has significantly declined in the past four years. Only 593 entries were recorded in the Main Event of the WPT Legends of Poker, while the year 2013 saw 716 players, 662 in 2012 and 757 in 2011. Speaking of Quantum Reload, it attracted 27 poker players including Greg Mueller, Richard Seymour, Richard Sklar, Layne Flack Keven Stammen, Phil Laak and Ali Eslami yet.

Germany's Andre Lettau literally crushed the largest ever field in the European Poker Tour (EPT)’s history. With a record breaking field of 1,496 participants, the € 5,300 No Limit Hold’Em Main Event of the EPT Season 11 gives the 100th edition of this Catalonian poker tour the best image it has long been looking for. Of the € 7,480,000 prize pool, € 2,612,125 was distributed to the finalists. The event was also marked by a strong domination of German poker players. Among the eight players who run for the € 5,300 NLHE Main Event title on Wednesday, three were Germans: Ji Zhang, Andre Lettau and the final-table chip leader Hossein Ensan. Indeed, the final table was made up of players from various nationalities namely Kiryl Radzivonau (Belarus), Slaven Popov (Bulgaria), Andrea Dato (Italy), Andrey Shatilov (Russia) and Samuel Phillips (United States).

The Winamax Poker Tour is one of the highly anticipated poker tournaments by poker enthusiasts in France in this second quarter of 2014. As expected, the Winamax Poker Tour kicks off its 4th edition in October 25 and visits 38 French municipalities prior to the “Grand Final” in the prestigious poker room of “Cercle Clichy-Montamartre”( launch date: February 2015). The 4th edition of Winamax Poker Tour will be inaugurated in October 25 and 26 at the “Grande Halle de la Villette”. The Paris’ Grand Final, for its part, will take place from February 26 to March 4, 2015, and will offer a guaranteed € 500,000 prize pool. Meanwhile, free live tournaments will be run across France with 43 events in total; those events provide a number of seats to participate in Paris Grand Final.

After five days of waiting, the final table of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona 2014 Main Event is finally set. Of the 1,496 players who teed off the poker tournament of € 5,300 buy-in, only eight competitors survived at the end of Day 5. 25 players had returned to Casino Barcelona, and after a few hours of play, 17 players were ousted, leaving Ji Zhang (Germany), Kiryl Radzivonau (Belarus), Slaven Popov (Bulgaria), Andre Lettau (Germany) Hossein Ensan (Germany), Andrea Dato (Italy), Andrey Shatilov (Russia) and Samuel Phillips (USA) run for the title and the € 1.6 million payday.

King's Casino, a casino facility operating in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, is one of the greatest gambling establishments hosting major poker festivals in Europe. This week, the poker room of King's Casino will house the “Deutsche Poker Tour” (DPT). Featuring various poker events accessible from € 40 to € 195 of buy-in, the DPT will surely attract a great number of poker lovers across Europe. Kicking-off in August 27, this five days poker festival includes various events, but the highly anticipated one is the Main Event € 100,000 guarantee. With a direct buy-in of € 195, Deutsche Poker Tour’ Main Event has always seduced poker players; this time the DPT generates a prize pool of € 100,000. The final table will be played from August 28 to 31. Indeed, participants will receive a starting stack of 40,000 chips with blind levels that increase every 40 minutes of play.

Delaware is one of the three States in the United States, alongside New Jersey and Nevada, where online poker is legal and regulated. Online poker market in Delaware has experienced a downfall in terms of revenue compared to that of other States which, month after month, has been increasing. The State of New Jersey generates the highest revenue with its $ 2,146,500 from online poker in July. According to figures released by the Delaware State Lottery, online poker recorded a revenue increase of 22.61% (July). But the market is still at its second lowest-generating month for the State of Delaware. In fact, the three racinos operating in Delaware only amassed $ 31,398 of poker online revenue. Certainly, a significant improvement was spotted in June, a $ 25,608 figure, but we are still far from the $ 57,468 recorded in May. Note that Delaware’s online gaming market in general fell by 38% in July to $ 5,510,993 from $ 8,844,489 in the month of June. Speaking of the overall e-gaming net revenues, the figures suffered a slight decline of 7.6%, from $ 187,332 (June) to $ 173,096 in July.

The Main Event of the European Poker Tour Barcelona (EPT) sets a new record. The € 5,300 Main Event actually gathers 1,496 players in the poker room of Casino Barcelona. And after four days of competition, the field dropped to 25 players. They were 102 competitors to play the Day #4, but after 12 hours of battle, Dutchman Bram Haenraets closed out the day as the chip leader. He garnered 4,395,000 chips. He is closely followed by Piotr Sowinski (4,355,000 chips), while the other players trail far behind. However, some players secure comfortable places heading to Day #5, scheduled to run on Tuesday after the definition of the final table of eight. At the end of Day 4, Mikkel Nielsen finished third in chip counts with 3,135,000 chips in hand, followed by Hossein Ensan (3,075,000), Slaven Popov (2,695,000), Andrea Dato (2,290,000) and Ji Zhang (2,285,000). Pawel Brzeski (8th, 1,980,000 chips), Kiryl Radzivonau(9th, 1,860,000) and Mikhail Rudoy (10th, 1,815,000) complete the € 5,300 Main Event/ Day #4 Top 10 Chip Counts.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) landed last Saturday in the poker room of Bicycle Casino, Bell Gardens (California State, USA) by kicking off the WPT Legends of Poker. Featuring an innovative and attractive concept, this poker event did seduce 156 participants on Day 1A, a figure mirroring its eventual success. As a reminder, players eliminated on Day 1A were given the opportunity to try their luck again on Day 1B or pay a buy-in of $ 10,000 to be able to compete for the Day 2A. The Day 1A field is composed of a bunch of poker stars and former WPT champions. Owen Crowe, Scott Clements, Matt Salsberg, Todd Terry, Mike Secton, Ryan Riess, Joe Tehan and Brandon Crawford made it through this day. As for Andy Frankenberger, Dan Heimiller, Will Faill, Freddy Deeb and the defending Champion Jordan Cristos, they will have to re-enter to get back to the final table.

The Western Poker Championship 2014 concluded with Maz Misaghian winning the first-place prize. For its last stop, this Australian poker tournament of $ 2,200 buy-in brought together a large number of poker stars at Crown Perth, Western Australia. At the end of the two Day 1 flights, the starting field of 100 participants was dropped by almost half. Indeed, they were only 60 poker players to head for Day 2 battle, with Jarod Shawcross stood atop as the day’s chipleader. And at the end of this highly eventful Day 2 flight, chipleader Jarod Shawcross secured his honorific place, making him the favorite contender of the title.

As is the tradition at the World Poker Tour (WPT), it makes its way to several continents with a view to service all poker fans around the world. In a few days, the WPT Legends of Poker will open the 13th season of the World Poker Tour at the Bicycle Casino. Most of the WPT events are taking place in the United States but Europe is still in the spotlight with two regional stops in Cyprus and London. Unlike last year, Europe will no longer host more but two stages of the WPT Regional events. Paris and Prague have been excluded from the schedule due to a significant decline in attendance. May we remind you that WPT Prague only attracted 306 players while three days earlier the EPT poker tournament had seduced more than 1,000 poker fans. As for France, the figure is far from being encouraging: it dropped down from 312 players in 2011 to 187 in 2013.

As part of the European Poker Tour in Barcelona, the first stage of the season 11, Casino Barcelona hosted the national circuit named Estrellas Poker Tour. The Main Event of € 1,100 buy-in attracted 2,560 entries. After five days of competition, nine players were qualified for the final table: Daniel Barriocanal, Andrew Chen, Matias Ruzzi, Corinne Baucher, Simon Hemsworth, Nir Levi, Vladislav Donchev, Bela Toth and Hakim Guitoun. Simon Hemsworth was the first to head to exit. The British poker player took home € 31,114 for his 9th place. As a reminder, 383 players reached the In The Money’s places in this poker tournament; they pocketed from € 1,713 to € 393,354 of cash.

German poker pro Ole Schemion leads the Top 300 live tournament poker players in the world on Global Poker Index (GPI) up-to-date rankings of August 18. Daniel Negreanu, Dan Smith, Scott Seiver, Byron Kaverman, Jason Mercier, Paul Volpe and Alex Bilokur are respectively ranked 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th place. Jumping up from 15th to 9th place, Mukul Pahuja is now ahead of Jacob Schindler, Erik Seidel, Jonathan Duhamel, Bryn Kenney, Martin Jacobson and Stephen Chidwick. Martin Kozlov is the biggest mover of the week thanks to 220 spots he recently won. He thus entersthe GPI Top 300 at the 294th place, as Craig McCorkell (197th, +115), Oleksii Khoroshenin (236th, +66), Chris Hunichen (261st, +46) and William Chao (268th, +41).

The European Poker Tour Season 11kicked-off on Monday with the EPT Barcelona’s €50,000 Super High Roller event; it also celebrated its 100th event the same day. This poker event attracted a great number of talented players. Olivier Busquet topped the 77 player-field to hit the top prize of $ $ 1,191,096. Eleven players reached the “In The Money” places and shared out a prize pool of nearly $ 3.7 million. Surprisingly, several notable names in poker industry left the tournament empty-handed. Ole Schemion, Erik Seidel, Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier, Igor Kurganov, Doug Polk, Fabian Quoss, John Juanda and Vanessa Selbst were among them.

The European Poker Tour has been the most famed live poker tour in Europe since its first launch date eleven years ago. And thanks to the fresh partnership between EPT and Global Poker Index, EPT Season 11 “Player Of the Year” promises to be a little different. Indeed, this season will include some changes in the ranking formula for the Player of the Year Award. In Season 10, the title was awarded to a single player. The EPT POY race was played by top players like Thomas Muhlocker, Stephen Chidwick, Alex Bilokur and Vanessa Selbst. But Germany’s Ole Schemion eventually bested them to claim the title with his 1,337.74 points. For Season 11 which has just started in Barcelona, the EPT informed that there will be three Player of the Year leader boards at the end of the season.

In recent years, Nicolas Delvaux has serviced European poker players, both amateur and experienced ones with a 100% poker event with which are organized various tournaments, training sessions and multiple entertainments in the Costa Brava. From October 21 to 25, Arena Poker Camp is visiting Lloret de Mar, Spain, for its fifth edition; its menu promises to be as enticing as in the previous edition. During these five days, participants are guaranteed to play a tournament every day; this is actually a remake of the most-liked offer scheduled in the 4th edition. In fact, the Arena Poker Camp is preferably dedicated to both beginners who want to progress in poker, and to highly experienced poker players who want to play and enjoy the trip in Costa Brava. Thus, the event offers a complete package for € 520 of entry-fee. Included in this sum are a half-board accommodation at four-star hotel Anabel, 10 hours of training and a number of nightly animations.

Last week, Sioux Falls’ Grand Falls Casino, a gambling establishment located in South Dakota, hosted the 49th stage of the Mid-States Poker Tour. The $ 1,100 Main Event attracted 201 entries, creating a prize pool of $ 201,000. And after three days of competition, Blake Bohn bested the remaining 10-player field of the tournament to win the MSPT Grand Falls’ Main Event. The final heads-up saw, as a reminder, Blake Bohn and Jeff Bryan. This victory enabled this Minnesota native to cash $ 54,607, bringing his career earnings totaled over $ 1.4 million. For his part, Jeff Bryan left the final table with $ 32,170 of prize for his second place in the poker tournament.

The edition 2014 of the UK Poker Championships held at Dust Till Dawn poker club in Nottingham concluded with Leigh Wiltshire winning the Sky Poker 6-Max Main Event. On Sunday six players, all in contention for the title, returned to the poker room of the DTD: Abhishek Khaitan, Stephen Devlin, Neil Strike, Andy Young, Leigh Wiltshire and Paul Haycock. With his 11,780,000 chips, Abhishek Khaitan led the six survivors in chip count at the start of the final table, a stack that was nearly the equivalent of his nearest rival. It would take 10 hours of play for the winner to emerge from the final table of this poker tournament. Indeed, it was an excitement-filled final which held the whole audience breathless in 10-hours’ long.

While the European Poker Tour is in full swing with its inaugural tournament named “Estrellas Poker Tour”, the UK Poker Championships, for its part, continues to gain the attention of poker community with its Main Event. Now reaching its final table after three days of fierce competition at Dusk Till Dawn poker club in Nottingham, it saw 45 players competing for final day, but only 6 of them managed to secure seats for the final table. Thankfully the 39 players eliminated on the ITM day took home £ 2,250 of prize each. Note that this tournament guarantees 53 paid places. Sam Trickett finished 54th place and was the bubble boy. Other top players were also kicked out to ITM: Keith Johnson (41st), Mathew Frankland (32nd), Paul McTaggart (25th), Tom Middleton (20th), Jon Kalmar (17th), Ben Dobson (15th), Neil Channing (14) and Tommy Bingham (10th) were among them.

The Spanish poker festival has been in full swing with the Estrellas Poker Tour’s Main Event (ESPT), a great tournament held at Casino Barcelona since last weekend. 1,310 entries were registered during the first two starting days of the € 1,100 ESPT Barcelona’s No Limit Hold'em Main Event, including 438 on Day 1A and Day 1B at 872. This edition 2014 of the Estrellas Poker Tour Barcelona is likely to beat the previous record of attendance. As a reminder, the event attracted 1,798 players last year; this year, the field-board already sees 1,310 entries registered for Day 1C. This third and final day flight of the ESPT is expected to gather more than 1,000 players. In addition to Day 1A and Day 1B fields, the total number of participant would reach over 2,300 poker enthusiasts.

Elior Sion won the UK Poker Championship 2014 6-Max High Roller run in the poker room of “Dusk Till Dawn” poker club in Nottingham, UK. The £ 3,000 buy-in event seduced 53 players, but only 6 of them made it through to the last day flight. Several well-known icons on UK’s online poker participated in the event, including Tom Ambler, Dan Charlton, Naftali Bresler, Scott Margereson, Mickey Petersen, Adam Forsyth, Tom Middleton, Martyn Frey, Andy Bacon, Ben Vinson, Mark Wilson, Ian Gascoigne and Adam Reynolds, among others. Surprisingly enough, most of these players were eliminated out of the ITM as only seven players shared out the prize pool of £ 180,000. Robert Hallworth was the bubble boy of the table and the first to fall in the money. His seventh place in the tournament provided him a prize of over £ 7,000.

Macau Poker Cup 21 concluded Wednesday with China’s Zhenru Xie winning the Red Dragon Main Event. The Chinese poker player topped a 808-player field to claim the title. Those 808 players generated a huge prize pool of HK $ 7,837,000, a sum which was shared out by the 108 "In The Money" survivors. After a few days of competition in the poker room of “City of Dreams” in Macau, the field was reduced to 9 players: Hu Liu, Pete Chen, Takuya Yamashita, Enming Zhang, Wai Leong Chan, Mathew Ryan, Chen Wang, John Hoang and Zhenru Xie. The first elimination occurred at the fifth minute of play when the Malaysian “online pot-limit Omaha” player Wai Leong Chan fell in the 9th place for HK $ 135,600. China’s Enming Zhang and John Hoang of Vietnam followed him afterwards. Both men earned respectively HK $ 175,000 (eighth place) and HK $ 232,000 (seventh place).

The regulatory authority of online gambling in Latvia has just released against all odds a blacklist of operators which will no longer can offer their services to players residing in Latvia. Less known in the online gambling market, Latvia is nevertheless one of the European countries that legalized online gambling including poker for several years. Latvia has legalized online gambling in 2003, but the market was reserved for local operators. The Latvian market is open to foreign operators since 2011 following the new regulations published by the European Union on online game. In 2013, the Department of Supervision of Lotteries and Games of Latvia distributed 17 licenses. Since then, more than 160 online gambling sites have obtained licenses in the country but only a few have games in local languages.

The European Poker Tour (EPT) is the best known live poker circuit in Europe. The tour will celebrate its 10th anniversary and its 100th Main Event during the EPT Barcelona. During these 10 years, more than € 617 million, including € 357 million in the Main Event were distributed to players. Compared to other series, the EPT can be distinguished by its final table composed of 8 players against 9 for the WSOP and 6 for the WPT. Victoria Coren-Mitchell is the only woman player who won two EPT bracelets, during the Season 3 Season in London and 10 in Warsaw. Since the launching of the European Poker Tour, 60,450 players participated in the tournament. The season 6 registered the highest attendance with 9,157 players while the Season 1 had the lowest attendance with only 1,468 participants.

In recent years, Denmark has been a paradise for online poker enthusiasts. The key to the success of the Danish online gambling market is owed to a less restrictive system (law) compared to those of other countries in the European Union, including Italy and the United Kingdom, where e-gaming market is legalized. However things have changed these days as Danemark’s online poker market is experiencing a rather alarming shift. Indeed, the industry has just suffered from its second consecutive year decline as the Danish gambling authority Spillemyndigheden (National Gaming Authority of Denmark, the equivalent of France’s ARJEL) reported. The e-poker market in Denmark now shows a 20% decline in revenue for the second quarter of 2014. Compared to the same period last year, the figures go down from $ 8.98 million to $ 7.18 million.

The edition 2014 of the Sydney Poker Championship concluded Monday with Martin Kozlov beating Bernard Beh in the heads-up clash. This Australian poker pro bested the 235-player field of the $ 3,000 Sydney Champ Main Event. Actually those players generated a prize pool of $ 658,000, the amount of which was shared out by the 24 ITM survivors of this poker tournament. Day 1A brought together 111 entries led by chip leader Danny Zhong with a stack of 170,200 chips. He shared the table with 59 survivors. Among the 124 registered players on the second and final Day 1 flight of the Main Event, only 73 managed to qualify for Day 2. Esan Tabrizi led the chip count on Day 1B with a stack of 144,400 chips. Of the 132 players who made it through to Day 2 battle, just 19 were qualified to make the final day.

Since last week, numerous were the European poker players who have moved to Cyprus to join the last poker festival held at Noah's Ark Hotel & Casino Resort. Actually the $ 1,500 Cyprus Poker Open Main Event has attracted 285 entries. After the 172 participants on Day 1A, Day 1B, for its part, garnered 113 entries. To enable prematurely eliminated players to get back to the game, they were given great opportunity to retry their luck thanks to the re-entry formula. Those prematurely eliminated players include Dmitry Varlamov, Aleksandr Pak and Vladimir Troyanovskiy. And after nine 45-minute levels of play on Day 1B, only 55 players won their tickets for Day 2 and join the 81 survivors of Day 1A. Anyway, players still have the chance to reenter in the first four levels on Day 2.

Since Saturday, Macao has become the Mecca appointment for the best poker players in the Asia Pacific region thanks to the holding of “Macau Poker Cup”. Included in the MPC agenda is the HK $ 11,000 Red Dragon event guaranteeing a prize pool of HK $ 5 million. By the end of the three starting days, it has attracted 808 participants, generating a huge prize pool of HK $ 7,837,600. Day 1C had the largest field with 447 entries including the 2012 CAPO champion “Xing Zhou”, Terry Fan, Tom Alner, Hoang Anh Do, Jian Yang, Iori Yogo, Sparrow Cheung, Hai Bo Chu, Steve Yea, Juicy Li, Thomas Ward, Yohwan Lim, Andrew Scott, Kitty Kuo, Raiden Kan and the Taiwanese Hip-Hop artist MC Hotdog.

For some months, California has been poised to walk in the footsteps of Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey in terms of online poker market regulation. But in recent days, the landscape of online gaming industry in California has increasingly been clouded. Actually the State will not see its online poker legalization ruled this year 2014. The fact is that Senator Lou Correa decided Wednesday to shelve his bill. According to report, the vote will not take place this year because the current legislative session does not have enough time to really consider the bill before the parliamentary summer recess scheduled from August 31.

Switzerland’s Grand Casino Lucerne hosted since Wednesday the famed poker tournament “Poker Circle Swiss Open”. After the first two starting days, the 680CHF (buy-in) tournament seduced 138 participants. Grand Casino Lucerne’s poker room saw 80 entrants on Day 1A, 22 of whom only were qualified for Day 2 battle. Among the 58 players on Day 1B, only 17 managed to secure comfortable places for the next battle. It is worth mentioning that the Main Event of the Poker Circle Swiss Open features one more day (scheduled on Friday) to qualify for the said event before the survivors of Day 1 get back to Grand Casino Lucerne this Saturday for Day 2.

As usual, every week the list of the top 300 tournament poker players in the world undergoes a change. On the August 4-updated list, German poker pro Ole Schemion reclaims his No.1 place on the Global Poker Index (GPI). He overtakes the American poker player Dan Smith to second place with nearly 100-point difference: 3,997.15 against 3,907.02 points. Daniel Negreanu remains in 3rd place, just ahead of Scott Seiver who jumped up from 10th to 6th place. Byron Kaverman (-1), Jason Mercier (+2), Paul Volpe (-2), Erik Seidel (-2), Alex Bilokur (-2) and Martin Jacobson (+6) round out the Top 10 this week.

The Cyprus Poker Open has just kicked off in style with Valeriu Coca winning the Russian Poker Tour’s Main Event. Many European players traveled to Noah's Ark Hotel & Casino Resort to participate in the first major event of this Cypriot poker festival. For a buy-in of $ 550, the RPT Main Event attracted 356 players, generating a prize pool of $ 172,660. Valeriu Coca emerged victorious by outlasting the 26 survivors of Day 2. Actually 27 were qualified for the Russian Poker Tour final. And after a few hours of play, Valeriu Coca won the tournament by crushing Shkliar Yaroslav in the Heads- up clash. Coca hit the top prize of $ 41,300 while Yaroslav Shkliar earned $ 29,350 for his second place.

The European Poker Tour celebrates its 100th event this summer in the place where it all began, Barcelona. Barcelona has always been an important stop in the 10 seasons of the EPT. To honor the 100th event of the European Poker Tour in style, the organizers opted for a truly big show. Actually various poker events and loads of activities are planned during the EPT Barcelona in which all poker enthusiasts are invited to participate. 48 tournaments will be held from August 16 to 27 with buy-ins ranging from € 120 to € 50,000. As usual, the European Poker Tour will be associated with the Estrellas Poker Tour (a local series run by PokerStars). The Estrellas Main Event will be available for a buy-in of € 1,000 + € 100. To participate in the EPT Main Event play, participants will also have to pay a buy-in of € 5,000 + € 300. Moreover, many satellite tournaments will be held at Gran Casino Barcelona, allowing players to qualify for the Estrellas Poker Tour and European Poker Tour main events.

The Barrière Poker Tour is one of the national live poker circuits running in France every year. Though the season 2014 is not over yet, the ongoing event did not stop Barrière Group from unveiling the schedule of the Barrière Poker Tour’s 2014-2015 season. It is worth noting that the season 2014 will end in September at Lille. As is the tradition, Barrière Group casinos scattered throughout France will host this new edition. That of Enghien will open the festival. Besides, the festivity will continue with other seven stages. Indeed, the new season of the BPT Deepstack has one stage more compared to last year (8 to 7). Additionally, this edition 2015 sets itself apart by the introduction of two new stops as requested by players: the first being in Nice, the second in Blotzheim. As for the menu, the organizers did not want to change their winning offers. The Barrière Poker Tour is famed for its ten poker tournaments (run in one weekend) including the € 570 Main Event Deepstack.

The Main Event of the Card Player Poker Tour Choctaw (CPPW) attracted a lot of poker players for its guaranteed prize pool of $ 500,000. The guaranteed prize pool was far exceeded as 599 participants visited the Choctaw Casino Resort to participate in this event. For a buy-in of $ 1,500 + $ 120, the field generated a prize pool of $ 871,545 of which nearly $ 600,000 was distributed among the finalists. It took only three hours to see the winner of the poker tournament. Indeed, the final table was quick and the final victory played between Gary Luther and Austin Lewis turned rapidly to the advantage of the latter. Austin Lewis began effectively the heads-up with 6,800,000 chips against 5,550,000 for Luther.

Brian Zimcosky won the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) after overcoming a field of 228 players at Majestic Star Casino in Gary. During the last stopover of the MSPT in Gary in March, Zimcosky finished third in the Main Event for a prize of $ 28,141. And this summer, the native of Michigan won a second victory in live poker tournament after that of 2010 in Verona, during the Empire State Hold'Em Championships. He collected $ 24,731 by winning the $ 550 No Limit Hold'em. During the second call of the MSPT at Majestic Star Casino, Brian Zimcosky affords the biggest cash of his career, $ 61,870, by winning the Main Event. Bryan Schultz left the tournament in the 9th place, followed shortly after by Mike Mustafa.

The Deutsche Poker Tour Summer Edition is a success! Rozvadov’s “King's Casino” saw 478 poker players participating in the DPT Summer Edition’ Main Event. Re-entry was allowed for prematurely eliminated players to get back to the game, the result of which brought the total field size up to 609. The field generated a prize pool of 103,000 Euros for a € 195 (buy-in) poker tournament. After three days of battle, 198 players managed to qualify for Day 2. Gernot Kroiß is the chip leader at the start of the day with an impressive stack of 425,500 chips. He is the only player of the day to have garnered over 400,000 chips.

Cyprus is poised to host its poker festival of the year at Noah's Ark Deluxe Hotel & Casino. This gambling establishment will be enlivened by the Cyprus Poker Open and other stages of the Russian Poker Tour along with the Lebanese Poker Cup. Since August 1st to 12, the poker room of Noah's Ark Deluxe is expected to attract a great number of poker enthusiasts because this Cypriot poker festival has 38 events including satellite tournaments. The festivity will begin with the RPT Main Event. The event will be played in four days with two starting days guaranteeing a prize pool of € 100,000 for a buy-in of $ 550. The Cyprus Poker Open is also to run several side events before the $ 1,500 Live Main Event (the prize pool of which gurantees € 100,000). During the two days flight of this CPO Main Event, players will enter the game with a stack of 30,000 chips with blind levels that increase every 45 minutes.

Since July 17, the Choctaw Casino Resort (in Durant) has hosted the seventh stage of the Card Player Poker Tour’ Season II. 68 events have been run during these 15 days and more than $ 1 million will be distributed to players until the final day of the tournament on August 12. Indeed, the CPPT Choctaw receives since August 1st, players who will participate in the $ 1,500 Main Event. Last year, the event attracted a field of 735 players, generating a prize pool of over $ 1.1 million. Mohammad Arani emerged victorious in the CPPT Choctaw 2013’s Main Event after a tough heads-up with Allan Farber. Mohammad Arani earned $ 220,626 while Allan Farber consoled himself with $ 136,011 for his second place.

The city of Reading, United Kingdom runs this week the seventh stage of the 2014 season’ Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT). The festival is to be held from July 30 to August 3 and will offer 6 poker events including the Main Event of £ 550 buy-in. In 2013, the GUKPT Main Event Reading seduced a field of 165 players. James Martin beat Jeff Kimber and Eliie Biessek and earned a prize of £ 22,640. This time, the 5 days of competition at Reading’s Grosvenor Casino poker room will begin with a satellite tournament of £ 110 buy-in, by qualifying in which will allow players to secure some seats in the Main Event. The Main Event is scheduled from July 31 to August 3. And those who fall in the three satellite events can try their luck at qualifying for the Main Event by paying £ 550 of re-entry fee.

The European Commission introduced mid-July its first recommendation on principles for the protection of consumers and players of online gambling services. The said recommendation would allow Portugal to better prepare for the regulation of its online gambling market. Seduced by the absence of gaming tax in the country, many professional poker players have moved to Portugal. However, things are to change soon since the regulation of online gaming industry is expected to set up by late 2014. Accordingly, the new special tax on online gaming (IEJO) is said to claim 15 to 30 % taxes from online gaming and online betting’s gross revenues. As for sports bets and horse racing, the tax figure would be from 8 to16% of the volume of bets. Before the summer recess, the Portuguese parliaments had passed a draft bill in the Council of Ministers. Hence the government has a six-month period to fully implement the regulation of its domestic online gambling market with a great focus on taxation.
 
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