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Online poker industry in Europe is likely to encounter a possible change in the next couple of months with the outcome of the two rulings from the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg (CJEU) and the Royal Court of Justice in London (RCJ). Both verdicts could have a significant impact on European online poker law. The first case concerns the Royal Scandinavian Casino in Aarhus, Denmark, and the European Commission. According to the gaming facility, Danmark-based online poker providers are charged lower tax rates compared to those charged to land-based casinos; the Royal Scandinavian Casino argued the fact is contrary to Article 87 of the “Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union” (TFEU).

In recent years, Sheldon Adelson has campaigned for online poker prohibition in the United States. The billionaire and owner of several land-based casinos has been exercising lobbying against online gambling, and his target might be reached by December at the "lame duck legislative session." Indeed, the bill "Restoration of America's Wire Act" (RAWA) submitted by South Carolina Senator, Lindsey Graham and Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz, will be debated in Congress on November 9 to 26, 2014, and would be passed to the Committee on the Judiciary for consideration. It is likely that RAWA would be approved by the Congress towards which billionaire Sheldon Adelson has a massive influence. Many of them are said to be financially supported by Adelson during their respective election campaigns, and in return, the Congressmen would have the proposed legislation passed.

As usual, the Global Poker Index (GPI) provides a weekly updated list of its Top 300 tournament poker players in the world. That of September 22 sees American Dan Smith atop the rankings for the sixth consecutive week. OleSchemion, Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier and Scott Seiver complete the Top 5. Alex Bilokur, the one who won the 45th annual World Series of Poker - $ 10,000 Pot Limit Hold'Em, is among the top 10 players in live poker tournament. He jumped up three spots to secure 9th place. Several players move up fairly high this week. This is the case of Daniel Weinman who recently hit the top prize of the WPT Borgata Open- $ 10,000 Super High Roller. Blake Bohn, Anatoly Filatov, Ray Qartomy, Zohair Karim, Justin Zaki, John Racener, Sam Trickett, Sean Winter, Shyam Srinivasan, Steve Watts, Guy Goossens and Farid Jattin are also among them. Bahbak Oboodi is crowned the biggest mover of the week with 154 spots won to rank 259th place.

Aquitaine has always been a great host city of the Deepstack Open circuit. After the stunning success of the previous edition, it comes as no surprise if the DSO is back to Gujan Mestras Casino. As expected, the Deepstack Open Gujan Mestras is taking place from September 25 to 28 in the Gujan Mestras poker room. It features the traditional € 550 buy-in Main Event along with three side events, available from € 120 to € 200. With a limited field of 500 participants, the DSO Gujan Mestras is expected to attract all poker lovers across Europe. As usual, players will enter the game with a starting stack of 50,000 chips on 50-minute level of play. Notable poker players from France, including Erwann Pecheux or online poker pros such as "RoroFlush", "Sou33" and "Gloub94" are expected to be part of the field. Note that last year, the DSO Gujan Mestras was a sell-out.

Electronic poker tables are among the technological evolutions emerging from the virtualization of casino games to boost the image of poker. So far, these machines have not reached the desired effect. Many poker lovers tend to play classic poker tables with a human dealer. After years hiding under the shadow of traditional table games with a breathing dealer, electronic poker tables now make a step further to re-conquer poker enthusiasts’ heart. Recently, Plaza Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas announced that it run an e-poker tournament available for $ 5 of buy-in with a guaranteed prize pool of $ 200. Of course, play is going to be on electronic poker tables.

As the end of the year is drawing near, the capital of France, Paris, offers multiple events dedicated to poker lovers. The fourth quarter of 2014 is actually booked by two major events, slated to take place in two different but all prestigious poker rooms in Paris. The festival will begin from November 22 to 30 with the France Poker Series Paris (FPS) at Cercle Cadet, followed by the World Poker Tour National Paris on December 4 to 7, 2014, at Cercle Clichy-Montmartre. Sponsored players will be logically granted tickets to compete in these two poker events. For the others, they have a wide range of choice. Included on the must-have list is a reasonably huge entrance-fee to play one of both series. For those who feel like playing France Poker Series, they will have to pay € 1,100, whilst those who prefer the WPT National Paris will have to bring € 1,200 as a buy-in.

Dust Till Dawn poker room, Nottingham, was hot Sunday night with the Genting Poker Series 2014 (GPS). The event was wrapped up with Ayub Ali’s win. The £ 440 Main Event actually recorded 632 entrants whilst last year it had seduced 935 participants. Despite this drop in attendance, the event featured a great time of fun and excitement. 71 players made the money in the battle, and shared out the guaranteed prize pool of £ 252,800 with a minimum payday of £ 880. Numerous were notable players who made it through comfortable “In The Money” places: Lee Tatters (11th), Mark McCluskey (13th), Yucel "Mad Turk" Eminoglu (16th), Leon Campbell (18th), Ben Martin (19th), Gurnam Rana (22), Rob Sherwood (26th) and Stuart Fox (29th) were among them.

Cannes was seething with excitement last weekend with the Unibet Poker Open (UPO). After Tallinn and Copenhagen, the UPO made a stop in Cannes by running five events; including the traditional € 1,100 buy-in Main Event. Players would enter the game with a stack of 20,000 chips for 60-minute level of play. Thanks to the re-entry formula which remained till the fourth level of the two starting day flights, the prestigious poker room “Casino Barrière Le Croisette” saw a total of 457 entrants. Interestingly, the poker event attracted many celebrities, some of whom contributed in enlarging the UPO’s re-entry rate. Philip Ktorza, Pierre Ménès, Jan Koller, Peter Calamusa, Hugo Pingray and Drea Utvik Karlsen… are among them.

Online poker landscape in New Jersey, one of the three States with regulated online poker market in the United States after the Black Friday, has not reached yet its highly coveted peak. Though it has always encountered multiple ups and downs including market saturation, it stands still partly due to lack of liquidity. Compared to the whole month of July, New Jersey online poker revenue increased by 5% in August, generating $ 2.25 million, figures released by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (NJDGE) suggested. Since the beginning of the year, NJ online poker market has generated $ 21 million in revenue. However, that figure fell below the $ 34 million that Governor Chris Christie expected from NJ regulated poker.

To conclude the WPT Borgata Poker Open, the World Poker Tour organized an invitational Sit & Go challenge. Sponsored by the American company “Monster”, the "WPT Monster Invitational" seduced a number of notable names in the poker industry. Indeed, the "WPT Monster Invitational" held at the poker room of Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa (Atlantic City) was marked by six exceptional poker players: Scotty Nguyen, Antonio Esfandiari, David Williams, Vanessa Selbst, Tony Dunst and Phil Laak. Players would enter the game with a stack of 250,000 chips. After 90 minutes of play, Scotty Nguyen took the way out. A few hands later, Tony Dunst was knocked out to fifth place. His elimination allowed Vanessa Selbst to bag up the chip lead over the four remaining survivors. 30 minutes went by and the room saw Vanessa Selbst crushed Antonio Esfandiari.

The Day 4 of the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open’s Main Event concluded late with six poker players remained in the hunt for the highly coveted title. The final table was set at 3:30 a.m. Unlucky as he was, professional poker player Jean Gaspard failed to reach the ultimate phase. He fell to seventh place. Start-of-the-day chip leader Jean Gaspard was awarded $ 135,393 as a consolation prize. Of the 31 players who made it through Day 4, only six survived the battle. Jean Gaspard’s elimination has somewhat paved the way for the six remaining players to meet in the final table scheduled this Friday September 19. Kane Kalas bags up the chip lead. With an impressive stack of 14,025,000 chips, he is best-placed to win his first World Poker Tour title. Darren Elias (8,000,000 chips) and Blake Bohn (7,705,000 chips) also garner comfortable stack heading to the televised final table of six, while the other three survivors train behind with 3,245,000 chips for Aaron Overton, 2,050,000 chips for Jose Serratos and 1,795,000 for Ray Qartomy.

Roger Hairabedian is one of great personality of poker industry in France. In recent weeks, "Big Roger" has launched the opening of a poker tour accessible to all poker lovers. Known as “Marvellous Poker Tour” (MPT), the event will tour several countries to offer players the opportunity to participate in a poker tournament while discovering the beauty of the host countries. Related information was published in bits, and bizarre as it seems, the place and date of the final are already revealed while the details of the tour remain unknown. Indeed, Marvellous Poker Tour will make stops in the following countries: Cyprus, Madagascar, France, Italy, Spain, Montenegro, Morocco and more.

The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa of Atlantic City was hot until the early hours with the Day 2 flight of the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open. As a reminder, Day 2 battle concluded at 02:30 (local time). 150 players entered the game, but only 31 of them survived. 30 players ht the rail empty handed. Steve Dannenmann was the first player to wave goodbye. He pocketed $ 6,750 for his In The Money place. As for David Melian, he was crowned “the bubble boy of the poker tournament”. At the end of the day, Jean "Prince" Gaspard bagged the chip lead with 5,464,000 chips. The Prince is well ahead with almost 2.5 million chips over his nearest opponent, Blake Bohn (with a stack of 2,951,000 chips).

Given the geopolitical crisis in Eastern Europe, multiple economic sectors have been experiencing considerable downfall. The latest case in point: the crisis in which Russia and Ukraine are involved. In recent months, it has become a conflict between Russia and the West, the result of which appears to slow down the process on online poker legalization in the country. Worse, the Ukraine crisis is gaining momentum as the Western countries intervene. Europe and the United States have imposed multiple sanctions to Russia. For its part, Russia threatens to stop supplying gas to the whole Europe. As we mentioned above, the world of poker online is also affected by the crisis. The Russian government ministries held a meeting in August 2014, and all agreed that online poker legalization is vital for the country’s economy. However, the parliament may decide not to approve the online poker bill over fear of the fact that Western e-gaming providers would amass revenues from the Russian gambling market.

As we all know, “Aviation Club de France” has been famed as the haven for live poker tournaments in Paris, the reputation of which is owed to its regular tournaments like the ACF Cup, and countless more. The “Aviation Club de France” is also known for hosting such major events like the World Poker Tour National Series of Paris. In recent days however, the ACF has made the headlines of local newspapers. This time, the focus is not on its enticing poker tournaments. Actually, the ACF has been subject to searches and arrests. The Judicial Police (DCPJ) and its gambling commission body raided the gambling facility last Tuesday and arrested a number of persons presented in the room.

They were 606 players to survive from the two starting days of the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open. They all returned to the prestigious poker room of “Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa”, Atlantic City, on Tuesday for Day 2 battle. After eight levels of play, the field was reduced to150 players. Actually, 30 of them will be sent to the rail empty-handed on Day 3 which is scheduled on Wednesday September 17. Blake Bohn bagged over 150,000 chips higher than that of his nearest rival at the start of Day 2. Heading to Day 3, Blake Bohn is armed with 807,500 chips while Qartomy Ray finds himself in second place of the chip counts with 623,000 chips.

With its1,226 entrants, the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open now boasts its fourth largest WPT field in history, the third’s among events held at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. Actually, the Day 1B attracted 826 players, while the Day 1A saw a field of 400 participants. The 1,226-player field of the € 3,500 Main Event has generated a prize pool of $ 3.9 million, a massive amount that will be shared out among the 120 best players of the said poker tournament. The first who will be sent to the rail is guaranteed to take home a $ 71,621 of prize. For the winner, he will cash $ 843,744. After two-day flights of the event, 605 players including 171 survivors of Day 1A and 434 of Day 1B will return to the poker room of Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa on Tuesday for Day 2 battle.

The edition 2013-2014 of the Barrière Poker Tour (BPT) concluded in Lille with Julien Montois claiming the first-place prize. This poker tournament started in November 2013 with a stop at the Casino Barriere of Enghien-les-Bains. Indeed, its curtains fell last weekend at the Casino Barrière of Lille. In terms of attendance, the BPT Lille attracted few crowds (317) compared to the field registered at BPT Toulouse in June (404). As a reminder, Merabet Hilal won the BPT Toulouse for € 36,000. And this last stage of the Barrière Poker Tour saw Julien Montois bested a field of 317 participants (258 players and 59 re-entries) to claim the title. It is still worth noting that nine players made it through to the final table.

After the World Poker Tour Merit Classic North Cyprus which ended with the victory of Russian “Alexander Lakhov” for $ 310,000, season XIII of the WPT has been in full swing at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, Atlantic City, for two weeks now. It is about the Borgata Poker Open, a poker event featuring 24 tournaments with a buy-in of $ 400 to $ 3,500. As to be expected, the $ 3,500 buy-in event is the highly anticipated one by poker fans. Indeed, the $ 3,500 Main Event of the WPT Borgata Poker Open seduced 400 participants on Sunday, the first starting day of the battle. At the end of that Day 1A, only 172 made it through the next stage. Ben Bianco leads the remaining 172-player field heading to Day 1B after a tough clash against Allyn Shulman. As a bonus, chip leader Ben Bianco was awarded a pair of Monster Headphones.

Currently famed for its unprecedented economic surge, Singapore has also been a model in the Asian online poker industry in recent years. However, the regulated online poker market in the country could undergo some restrictions that would penalize both operators and players in the coming months. Indeed, Singapore is planning to update its legislation on online game to a certain approach that looks strangely different from that of other countries. Actually, the bill named “Remote Gaming Bill” would criminalize both players and poker companies operating offshore. Additionally, transactions proven as e-gaming money transfers to those offshore platforms would be blocked. As for the fine, players would be subject to a six-month imprisonment or a fine of up to $ 5,000.

The French “Autorité de Régulation des Jeux En Ligne”ARJEL (Regulatory authority for online games) released on September 10, 2014, its annual activity report for 2013. This is actually the first annual report under the chairmanship of “Charles Coppolani” since he has taken office in February 2014. According to the report, 2013 was marked by a sharp decline in online poker compared to other regulated gaming offers. Indeed, the Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) from poker fell to 13%, as well as that of horse racing (-6%) while sports betting’s rose by16% during the same year. For those who are not in the know, GGR is the net income from gaming activities, the difference between wins and losses before costs and expenses deduction.

Online poker providers in the United Kingdom are to undergo change to their operations following the new online gambling legislation slating to enter into force by October 1st. Conscious of their business, many gaming operators including online casino platforms and online sports bookmakers are now rushing to comply with the new law, as required by the UK Gambling Commission. With this new Gambling Act, those gaming providers are to possess UK licenses to legally operate in the country. However, some decided to withdraw from UK gambling market due to the unexpected changes regarding local gambling regulations. And accordingly, they are white listed by the UK gambling commission until they have UK licenses in hand.

The second stage of the season XIII World Poker Tour (WPT) wrapped up with the victory of Alexander Lakhov. The WPT Merit Classic North Cyprus has attracted 375 players, but only six of them returned to the poker room of Merit Crystal Cove Casino. The final table of six included Alexander Lakhov, Toby Lewis, Dmitry Gromov, Igor Devkin, Nicolas Chouity and Ori Miller. Russian professional poker player Igor Devkin was the first to head to exit. For his sixth place, he earned $ 62,000. Entering the final table as the short stack (with 435,000 chips), Devkin did his best but unable to resist a little longer. Israel’s Ori Miller fell to fifth place for $ 77,000. He was followed soon afterwards by England’sToby Lewis (4th, $ 102,820).

Created in 1979 by Benny Binion, the Poker Hall of Fame inducts one or two members annually. The induction ceremony takes places in November in the Penn and Teller Theater, Las Vegas. 10 exceptional poker players have been nominated this year: Daniel Negreanu, Jennifer Harman, Humberto Brenes, Mike Matusow, Chris Bjorin, Huck Seed, Bruno Fitoussi, Bob Hooks, Ted Forrest and Jack McClelland. For Daniel Negreanu, this is the first time he finds his name listed among the finalists eligible for the 2014 Poker Hall Of Fame. In fact, the career accomplishments of this Canadian poker pro include six WSOP bracelets, two World Poker Tour titles and five final tables on the European Poker Tour. He also leads the "All Time Money List 'with $ 30 million of total career earnings.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) is undoubtedly one of the world famed poker festivals. The WPT is currently making another stop in Cyprus (Europe) with the “WPT Merit Classic North Cyprus” at Merit Crystal Cove Hotel & Casino. As to be expected, the tour announced on Monday that it will return to the United States in mid-September with the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open. This event will be held at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, Atlantic City (New Jersey) from September 14 to 19. Actually, the said gaming facility will host four World Poker Tour events of the Season XIII. Though gambling market in Atlantic City suffered from a deep saturation, doubled by a never-ending crisis since the beginning of this year (Atlantic Club, Showboat and Revel Casino recently laid off over 5,000 employees), the tour is committed to make a challenging stop in Atlantic City.

Bulgaria has recently taken a further step into expanding its economic scope with online gaming legalization, following the footstep of France, Italy, Norway and Spain. Interestingly, the Bulgarian market looks very promising, as reported by Bulgarian State Gambling Commission (SGC). Indeed, the report suggested that the country’s online poker market has allowed the State to garner nearly 30 million Bulgarian Lev ($ 20 million) in the six previous months from fees, gaming taxes and fines. By considering the $ 500,000 of expenses spent by the State in the same half-year period, the $ 20 million of gaming revenue is a positive sign of how well Bulgaria’s gambling landscape goes so far. For those who are not in the know, the first gaming license in Bulgaria was granted to Rational Group’s Pokerstars in February 2014. Betfair was the second operator to be licensed to operate poker games services in Bulgaria.

The Russian government is recently considering legalizing online poker, with a view to impose taxes on players’ earnings. Related documents have been brought onto discussion table these days. In Russia, gambling is prohibited by law except in four areas where regulated gambling market has been entitled special authorizations by the Russian authorities: Azov City (Krasnodar Krai), the Primorye (Primorsky Krai), Altai Krai and Yantarnaya (Kaliningrad Oblast). Any way, illegal gambling services including online gaming offers are still current despite the law. And by all accounts, online gaming is likely to sit beyond the law on gambling since its definition and delimitation remain unclear. This is the case of poker, which is mostly considered as a game of chance than that of gambling.

The Day # 3 of the World Poker Tour Merit Classic North Cyprus concluded with 30 players remaining in the hunt for the title. Previously they were 79 participants to return to the luxurious poker room of Merit Crystal Cove Hotel & Casino on Day 2. Sam Trickett wrapped the day up by finishing 31st place. As he reached the 45 “In The Money” places, he got home with a prize amounted to $ 9,500. Louis Salter is crowned “the bubble boy”; he finished 46th place and headed to exit empty-handed. As for Aleksey Arakelov, this poker player was ousted out in 45th place for $8,500.

Casino Perla of Nova Gorica, Slovenia, will house the new edition of the Italian Series of Poker (ISOP) Deep Experience from September 26 to 29. All poker enthusiasts in Europe are invited to participate in this Italian poker festival which stands out for its Deep formula. Indeed, the ISOP DEX is a poker tournament that will undoubtedly attract many players because it shares the same structure as the Italian Deep poker tour, especially with its formula that exclude rebuy, accumulator and re-entry in the same day. All of which are expected to bring a new gaming experience and better gameplay especially during the first starting day. Players will enter the game with a starting stack of 70,000 chips in 40 to 75-minute levels depending on the progress of the poker tournament. As for the prize pool, the bar of € 100,000 is likely to be exceeded easily.

Following the Legends of Poker, the World Poker Tour (WPT) made another stop in Cyprus. Since last weekend, the poker tour has invited all European poker fans to participate in the WPT Merit Classic North Cyprus while enjoying the sunshine of the Mediterranean island. This second stage of the WPT XIII season, the first being in Europe, is held at Merit Crystal Cove Hotel & Casino until September 10. With a guaranteed prize pool of $ 1 million, the $ 4,400 buy-in WPT Cyprus Main Event brought together 311 players (150 players on Day 1A and 161 on Day 1B); and thanks to the re-entry formula to level 10 of Day 2, the number of participants rose up to 404, generating a prize pool of $ 1,471,300. That amount of money will be shared out between the 45 best players of this poker tournament.

Since Black Friday, Mexico as well as Canada have become the new home of professional e-poker players. In addressing the expansion of online gaming, Mexican authorities decided to renew Mexico’s aging gaming laws. Since 1947, the existing Mexican gaming laws have never undergone change nor have they been subject to any updates while both land-based casinos and online poker landscape in the country now experience a considerable growth in terms of attendance.

Daniel Gagnon emerged victorious of the new edition of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival Main Event. As a reminder, the festival kicked off Friday August 22, but the main event of $ 1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool was held on August 29. 1,063 poker players joined the $ 1,100 buy-in Main Event at Playground Poker Club of Montreal, Canada. After six days of play, including three-day flights (1A, 1B and 1C), the Poker Playground Montreal Festival Main Event saw the field reduced to nine players. Daniel Gagnon ranked atop in terms of chip count at the start of the final table with 6,990,000 chips; he was shortly followed by Noeung Troeung with 5,415,000 chips. With more than 3 million chips, John Helou, Michael Mellor and Nguyen Thi also entered the final table game with a comfortable lead over other finalists including Yannick Lamarre-Delooz, Alexander Lavigne, Lorne Wechsler and Daniel Gagnon.

The “Top three on the update list of the GPI “Top 300 live tournament poker players in the world” dated September 1 remains unchanged. New Jersey’s poker pro Dan Smith continues to lead the Global Poker Index leaderboard, ahead of Germany's Ole Schemion and Canada’s Daniel Negreanu. Jason Mercier won two spots and now secures fourth place. He thus has Scott Seiver and Byron Kaverman relegated respectively to fifth and sixth place on GPI standings. Mike McDonald, for his part, jumped up 30 spots, and now back to Top 20 at 16th place. Ditto for Amichai Barer (19th place, +19).

The 2014 edition of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open concluded with Dan Colman hitting the top prize. The 23-years old American poker player bested a field of 1,499 participants and cashed the $ 1, 446,710 first-place prize. In addition to the cash, Dan Colman was also awarded 1,920 Card Player “Player Of the Year” points. As a reminder, nine players reached the final table of this event, all in the hunt of the title: Mike Leah, John Dolan, Martin Hanowski, Roman Valerstein, Daniel Colman, Joe Kuether, Brian Hawkins, Blake Bohn and Shawn Cunix. Note that this is the sixth final table Colman played in this year, allowing him to add another seven-figure score into his bank account. Interestingly, his year-to-date earnings now total $20, 980,768; included in this eight-figure score is his prize from the $ 1 million buy-in “Big One for One Drop” poker tournament.

Latvia’s “Lotteries and Gambling Supervision Inspection” (IUAUI) has just completed an update of its new online poker sites blacklist, the fifth of its kind in few months. Several gambling sites such as Unibet, Everest Poker and Poker Playboy now join world famed poker rooms PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and 888poker on the blacklist, bringing the number of unauthorized sites to 102. As a reminder, online gambling has been legalized in Latvia since January 1, 2006, under the "Gambling and Lotteries Law." Interviewed by PokerNews, IUAUI Director “Signe Birne” said online gambling market in Latvia is populated by illegal and unlicensed online gambling providers. In recent years, the regulator has seemingly tolerated the presence of those unauthorized e- gambling sites. However, things have taken another turn with the State issuing licenses that allow gambling company to legally operate in Latvian market. On the other side of the bench, illegal operators argued that the gambling law’s requirements are too tough, and that license fee is too expensive.

The Main Event of the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) has actually attracted 1,499 players and after a few days of play in the poker room of Seminole Hard Rock, in Hollywood (Florida), the $ 5,300 Event only sees 6 survivors in contention for the title along with the $ 1,446,710 first-place prize. Despite an overlay of $ 2.5 million, organizers have kept the SHRPO $ 10,000,000 guaranteed Main Event, nearly $ 4.6 million of which will be granted to the finalists. Indeed, the final table of the 2014 SHRPO promises to be hotly contested since it has three formidable stars of poker, all securing comfortable places compared to the other contenders. 2014 Card Player “Player of the Year” contenders, Mike Leah and Dan Colman are well ahead of the battle with 15,455,000 and 10,230,000 chips respectively.

Indeed, Seminole Hard Rock Casino of Hollywood has run the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) despite an incident this gambling facility has experienced in recent days. As the “European Poker Tour Barcelona” along with the “World Poker Tour Legends of Poker” launched later than planned, few were the poker player who made the trip to Florida to participate in the SHRPO event. And despite the drop in attendance this year, 1,499 participants against 2,384 entries in 2013, the organizers have decided to maintain the guaranteed prize pool of $ 10 million for the 300 best players in this $ 5,300 poker tournament. The 2014 edition of SHRPO embodies an overlay of $ 2.5 million, that is, a prize pool of 7.5 million, a great sum to be won compared to a mere € 600 000 prize of the ISPT Wembley.

Poker enthusiasts from France and Italy have moved in great number to San Remo to participate in the Deepstack Open (DSO) poker tournament. Held in the luxurious San Remo Casino, the event concluded with the victory of Roumania’s “Alain Medesan” for €25,000 as he beat Eric White after a tough heads-up. The latter finished at second place for € 17,000. As for Enzo Giannasca (3rd), he completed the podium and took home a check of € 12,000. Nicolas Heidet secured 4th place for € 9,500), followed by Olivier Cossais (5th, € 8,100), Dominique Terzian (6th, € 6700) Danielle Mazzia (7th, € 5,595), Malek Grabsi (8th, € 4,500) and Danilo Colomba (9th, € 3,700). The € 550 DSO Main Event actually seduced 267 players but only 9 players of them returned Sunday to the poker room of San Remo Casino for the final table. In comparison with the previous edition, the 2014 DSO San Remo records an attendance rate increase of 20%.

King's Casino vibrated under the rhythm of the Deutsche Poker Tour (TPD) last weekend. 485 players had moved to Rozvadov, Czech Republic, to participate in this poker festival. Two events were held throughout the weekend, the € 195 Main Event and the € 75 NLH Freezeout. In this new edition of the DPT, the Main Event attracted the greatest attention from players. 404 players were registered on the first starting day of the event, and 126 others joined them afterwards thanks to the re-entry formula, bringing the final field to 530. This massive field actually generated a prize pool of € 100,000. After two days of play in the biggest European poker room, Germany’s Ali Yildirim claimed the Deutsche Poker Tour title after a stunning win over compatriot Franz Haid in the heads-up. Following their deal, the winner took home a prize of € 21,000 while runner-up Yildirim cashed € 17,006. Initially, the 1st and 2nd place were respectively scheduled to collect € 23,474 and € 15,132. Germany’s LEO (€ 9,894), Czechs Marek Hanzlík (€ 6,305) and Jan Zavoral (€ 4,365) completed the Top 5 ITM places.

The first stage of season XII of the World Poker Tour (WPT) concluded with Harry Arutyunyan winning the WPT Legends of Poker. Held at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California, its 593-player field generated a prize pool of $ 2,172,999. After seven days of competition, many notable players were eliminated; some headed to Bicycle Casino exit empty-handed while the others finished “In The Money”’ places. ITM-placed players include 2013 World Series of Poker winner, Ryan Riess; he cashed $ 11,865 for his 35th place. The two former WPT champions Freddy Deeb (43rd) and David Williams (52nd) respectively collected $ 9,710 and $ 8,630. After a week’ long battle in the poker room of Bicycle Casino, the field was dropped to six players, all in hunt for the Legends of Poker title: Tyler Kenney, Harry Arutyunyan, Tyler Cornell, Taylor McFarland, Mike Eskandari and Jeremy Kottler.
 
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