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Nevada is one of the three States in the USA with regulated online poker market. For a couple of months, Nevada has experienced straight online poker revenue drop. According to the September- report released by Nevada Gaming Control Board, its market showed a 6.7% drop in revenues to $ 693,000 compared to that of August. It fell by 8.9% compared to the same month last year. Worse, the September’s result is the lowest ever recorded this year since the State published its first revenue-figures last February: August ($ 742,000), July ($ 985,000), June ($ 1,037,000), May ($ 862,000), April ($ 792,000), March ($ 926,000) and February ($ 824,000).

The Belgian Poker Challenge (BPC) is a poker tournament that has always attracted public interest, especially poker players from France. This year, the BPC expects to seduce a large number of French participants as the France Poker Series Paris has been officially cancelled following the administrative closure of the hosting facility, Cercle Cadet. After the Belgian Poker Challenge Spa of last September, the BPC is making another stop in Namur from November 28 to December 7, 2014. This BPC Namur features a wide range of offers, including the € 1,100 buy-in Main Event, € 250 Six-max, € 1,000 Heads Up Invitational, € 250 Pot Limit Omaha and the € 110 Ladies Event. Actually, the BPC Namur 2014 offers 18 events run over 10 days. May we remind you that the previous edition recorded 470 entries. This field generated a prize pool of € 608,180, the € 97,304 of which was awarded to first-place finisher Laurens De Smet. Run alongside the BPC Namur Main Event was a High Roller event that saw the reigning European Poker Tour champion “Davidi Kitai” emerged victorious from the battle.

Matt Culberson wrapped up the 20th stage of the Heartland Poker Tour 2014 (HPT) this week with a great win. After multiple stops across the USA, the Heartland Poker Tour 2014 played down the curtain-fall in Missouri. As expected, the Main Event was the most anticipated battle by players who made the trip to Ameristar Casino Resort Spa St. Charles. The $ 1,650 entry-fee poker tournament drew a massive field of 393 participants. With this high attendance rate, the prize pool jumped up to $ 538,115. Of the 393 entries, only nine managed to reach the final table after a few days of play in the Ameristar Casino poker room: Ron Amos, Matt Cannella, Matthew Mueller, Matt Culberson, Reginald Roberts, Joshua Turner, Carl Masters, Michael Ross and Jeffrey Brin.

The Barrière Poker Tour (BPT) is a series of poker tournaments which continue its merry way in France. Indeed, the previous edition was a great success, and now the organizers ambitiously prepare the upcoming season. As is the tradition at the BPT, the Season 2014/2015 will begin with an inaugural leg in Enghien-les-Bains. Casino Barrière plays host to the event from October 30 to November 2nd 2014. Like the previous edition, the structure remains the same. The € 500 + 70 buy-in Deepstack Main Event opens the festivity; it is run over three days and guarantees € 150,000 of prize pool. The BPT Enghien-les-Bains features 10 tournaments including several side events like the € 1,000 buy-in Masters, a side-play dedicated to High Roller poker enthusiasts. Satellite tournaments run from Thursday include the € 120 Single Re-Entry, the € 75 Mega Turbo Unlimited Rebuy and the € 100 Single Re-Entry.

The Card Player Poker Tour (CPPT) has just landed in Inglewood, California, for an exceptional stop this year. Known for its horse racetrack, Inglewood is also home to a poker room, the Hollywood Park Casino, one of the most reputable gambling facilities in the area. Indeed, Hollywood Park housed the inaugural CPPT leg named “Card Player Poker Tour Hollywood Park Westside Poker Championship”, the structure of which attracted 354 participants. With this massive field of players, the initial prize pool of $ 100,000 jumped up to $ 103,500. After a few days of battle, Tigran Manukyan bested the 354-player field to notch the win. Richard Soares, Massoud Eskandari, Huy Pham, Daniel Houlbrook, Kerby Hill, Estrella Baltazar, Tigran Manukyan, Jason Kim and John Hulett are the nine survivors reaching the final table of this poker event.

The Genting Poker Series (GPS) is one of the most popular poker tournaments in England. The GPS 2014 is now two legs away to come to an end. Edinburgh (Scotland) is playing host to the penultimate stage of the event. Kicking off this Wednesday, October 29 at Genting Club Fountain Park, the Scottish poker festival will be run over five days during which players will be served with four events, the £ 440 buy-in Main Event included. Featuring three-day flights, players will enter the battle with 25,000 chips to play to 24-minutes blinds. The Day 1A battle is held online, in the poker room of GPS partner. Recall that the Main Event guarantees a prize pool of £ 125,000, a great sum to be distributed to the best players of the tournament. Last year, the GPS Edinburgh Main Event gathered 352 players. Mark Lane cashed the £ 30,850 first-place prize out of a total prize pool of £ 140,800.

Le World Poker Tour National Philippines a été à la hauteur des attentes. Après quelques jours de compétition dans la salle de poker du Solaire Resort and Casino de Manille, il ne reste plus que 6 joueurs pour prétendre au titre dans le 97.700PHP Main Event. 385 joueurs se sont inscrits à l’entame de ce tournoi de poker, mais le field est très vite réduit à 6 au terme du Jour 3. Le nombre de participants à ce Main Event a généré un prizepool total de 32,9 millions de pesos philippins. Le vainqueur de cet événement empochera 6,9 millions de pesos philippins, mais les autres finalistes seront aussi largement récompensés avec des gains à sept chiffres. Le premier joueur éliminé de cette table finale quittera le Solaire Casino avec 1,4 million PHP. La cinquième place sera récompensée de 1,7 million PHP contre 2,3 millions pour le quatrième, 3,1 millions pour le troisième et 4,8 millions pour le runner-up.

The World Poker Tour National Philippines was up to the expectations. After a few days of battle in the poker room of Solar Resort and Casino-Manila, the 385-player field was played down to 6 contenders for the PHP6.9 million first-place prize. As a reminder, 385 players participated in this poker tournament. At the end of Day 3, only 6 participants remained in the hunt for the title. The 385-player field generated a total prize pool of 32.9 million Peso Filipinos. Of course, the one who will best the remaining field will cash PHP 6.9 million. Any way, the other finalists will also be sweetly rewarded with seven-score prizes. Actually, the first to leave Solar Resort and Casino will earn PHP 1.4 million, the fifth place will be rewarded PHP 1.7 million while fourth will pocket PHP 2.3 million, PHP 3.1 million for the third and PHP 4.8 million for the runner-up.

Talented Daniel Negreanu and poker tournament director Jack McClelland Poker have just been inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame this year. Indeed, the World Series of Poker recently released the names of 10 finalists for the Poker Hall of Fame. After a vote by the governing council of this very selective group, consisting of 21 PHF active members and 20 journalists, Daniel Negreanu and McClelland were chosen over Mike Matusow, Ted Forrest, Humberto Brenes, Huck Seed, Jennifer Harman, Bob Hooks, Chris Bjorin and Frenchman Bruno Fitoussi. With this new induction into the Poker Hall of Fame, Daniel Negreanu and Jack McClelland become the 47th and 48th members. Hence, they follow the footpath of Tom McEvoy and Scotty Nguyen who found themselves inducted in 2013.

Organizers and the online poker room partner of France Poker Series (FPS) have officially announced the cancellation of the FPS Paris, a poker event which was planned to be held at the Cercle Cadet from November 21 to 30. As mentioned on the statement, the unprecedented administration closure of the host gambling club is the main cause of it. Regarding how the current situation evolves, the organizers have decided to cancel the event as it would take a pretty big amount of time to find another facility to do so. Actually, they are forced to cancel the stage. Despite all this, players can always switch to other tournaments scheduled in other attractive cities like Deauville, Namur and Prague_ where the game of poker is King. According to France Poker Series official “Cedric Billot”, these alternatives are available to all (online) qualified players.

Italy has made an ambitious step forwards to modify its tax legislation on gambling. With the advent of a verdict issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union, Italy’s taxation authorities lost the case as the CJEU ruled in favor of Italian live poker players. Indeed, the CJEU handed down a judgment exempting Italian players from taxation on gains cashed in poker tournaments held overseas, or in any other country within the European Union. This judgment issued on Wednesday, October 22 solves a dispute between Italy’s tax board and two professional poker players, Pier Paolo Fabretti and Cristiano Blanco. As a reminder, Cristiano Blanco and Pier Paolo Fabretti have respectively $ 835,010 and $ 372,180of poker earnings they did not declare to the Italian tax authorities.

Poker has become a sensation among card game players across the world. What it sets apart from other card games is that it offers a rich panel of variants. In recent years, the Open-Face Chinese Poker (OFC) has experienced a growing reputation around the globe, a good reason driving organizers to dedicate a related major competition. Indeed, the Open-Face Chinese Poker World Championship will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, in December prior to the Prague Poker Festival and the World Poker Tour National. Born out of the initiative of Lithuania’s poker pro Tony G, his online poker room is organizing the competition. Recall that Tony G is an active member of the current European Parliament.

The Czech Republic will host the sixth edition of the International Poker Championship of the Czech Republic, the Czech Poker Festival 2014, in mid-November. It is expected to attract a great number of poker enthusiasts from Eastern Europe. Every year, many poker players across Europe meet in Prague to participate in the Czech Poker Festival while enjoying the beauty of the city. As usual, the CPF is held in Prague, in the poker room of Smíchovské Card Casino and the newly operational Kings Casino. Scheduled from November 12 to 23, the festival features 16 events (12 major and 4 qualifying events), including the highly anticipated Main Event. Participation in the festival is opened for anyone who wants to indulge oneself in poker. The highlight of the CPF Championship is the 12,000 CZK buy-in No-Limit Hold’em, an event which will be run over three days, from November 19 to 21. As a reminder, the Czech Poker Festival seduced 1,144 players last year, guaranteeing a prize pool of 1,000,000 CZK.

Morocco is the haven of live poker events in Africa. In recent years, the country has been the most-favoured destination of poker fans from France and from other European countries who want to indulge themselves in casino while enjoying a dream holiday. However, playing poker under the sun on the other side of the Mediterranean might not be as interesting as years earlier since the Justice & Development Party (PJD) has led the coalition government. Actually, the PJD has been looking for several months to modify the current law, the objective of which is to ban advertisement related to gambling. As a result, certainty is that it would drop down attendance rate in casinos. The fact is that foreigners (tourists) make up the largest part of casino-goers list in Morocco.

In the previously planned schedule 2014 of the France Poker Series (FPS), Parisian gambling club “Cercle Cadet” should host the Paris leg of the tour from November 21 to 30. However, things are likely to change as the current evolution of the shady deal in which Paris-based gambling club are involved threatens the holding of major poker tournaments. “FPS Paris” is one of the most anticipated events by poker enthusiasts in France and from neighboring countries. Note that the FPS Paris attracted 800 players last year. But the temporary closure of the Cercle Cadet after that of the Aviation Club de France (ACF) shed doubt on the possible holding of the FPS Paris. May we remind you that the online poker site that partnered with Cercle Cadet had already run satellite qualifiers for the Main Event and the FPS High Roller since last weekend. This week, the FPS Paris Poker Week would grant 75 tickets. Due to this unprecedented situation, Cercle Cadet was forced to cancel the event.

Live poker tournaments are expected to head back to Norway. A new bill has recently been introduced to the Parliament with a great focus on modifying the harsh regulation that banned live poker in the country. The said bill was put under discussion following the recommendations issued by Thorhild WIdvey, the Norway’s Minister of Culture, along with the preparation work carried out by Norway’s gambling regulator, the “Lotteritilsynet”. As a reminder, the draft law aims to expand local gambling market with live poker and establish a new legislative framework ruling event organizers. During an interview on Friday, October 17, Thorhild Midvey noted that, thanks to this bill, Norway could earn back national poker championships which are held abroad.

The Mid-States Poker Tour 2014 at FireKeepers, Battle Creek, saw Ryan Dykhouse as the winner after he knocked a massive field of 517 poker players out. At the end of the three-day flights, only 9 players of the 98 survivors on Day 2 battle would make it through the final table: Mark Johnson, Adam Friedman, Jeremy Ehrke, Nick Pupillo, Phung Ngo, Steve Anderson, Jim Dominique and Chad Bienz, all in the hunt for the highly coveted title. Notable names who failed to reach the final table included Patrick Steele, Michael Ross, Dash Dudley and Jean Gaspard. Unlucky as they were, Chad Bienz, shortly followed by Jim Dominique, were the first players to see their runs cut. For his ninth place, Bienz collected $ 10,000 whilst Dominique was awarded a check of $ 14,250.

Irish authorities have shown a real ambition to reshape online poker /gambling legislation these days. Both gambling providers and players are all concerned with the government initiative. Following the footpath of England, Sweden and Norway, Ireland is now poised to review its gambling legislation. Indeed, Irish Parliament wants to impose 1 % tax on online poker cash game earnings. According to Ireland Minister of Finance, Michael Noonan, the decision has been made to back up equine industry. Despite the fact that the bill was handed to the European Commission early in summer for an in-dept examination, the new taxation is expected to be ruled by the end of this year or in early 2015. “The online gambling-related taxation will help the Republic of Ireland build a better future with a new economic policy while generating € 25 million to the country’s coffers”, Michael Noonan said.

Germany’s Sebastian Pauli rounded his poker stay in London off with a stunning victory in the European Poker Tour London (EPT). He bested a massive field of 675 players to win the £ 4,000 buy-in EPT London Main Event. Those who returned to the poker room of Grand Connaught Rooms for the final table included chip leader Sebastien Pauli, Kevin PacPhee (USA), Jake Cody (Britain), Arture Koren (Germany), Pablo Gordillo (Spain), Jakub Mroczek (Poland), Jonathan Bensadoun (France) et Kevin Killeen (Ireland). Unbeatable as he is, Sebastian cuts MacPhee’s second EPT title wish. Note that MacPhee emerged victorious in the 2010 EPT Berlin. Sebastian Pauli entered the face-to-face clash with 12,810,000 chips while his rival had 7,445,000 chips in hands.

The Euroepan Poker Tour London Main Event is running its penultimate day this Friday, October 17. The final table is slated to be held the next day with 8 players in contention for the title. Indeed, Day 2’s 36-player field was played down to16 at the end of Day 3. Note that the winner of this poker tournament will cash nearly £ 500,000. German poker player Sebastian Pauli leads the 16 survivors heading to Day 4. A number of high-profiled poker stars including the current EPT Deauville champion Jake Cody also remains in the race for the 2014 EPT London title. Sebastian Pauli is best-placed to conclude Day 4 in style with 2,674,000 chips. He is closely followed by Jake Cody with 2,291,000 chips. Both players are the only contenders with a comfortable stack of over 2,000,000 chips

Poker enthusiasts in Latvia and Singapore feel helpless facing the would-be stranglehold of France’s online gaming regulator, ARJEL, on the decision leading both countries to update their respective gambling blacklist. As a reminder, a delegation composed of Latvia’s gambling regulator officials visited France last July to discuss with French counterpart, ARJEL. The focus of the meeting would be an exchange of experience on the field. Barely one week later, Latvia's Lotteries and Gambling Supervision Inspection (IUAUI) released its newly updated national gambling blacklist. The announcement was published right on the homepage of every gambling site involved in the matter. A month earlier, on Thursday June 5, 2014, a Singaporean delegation had had a meeting with ARJEL officials. Surprisingly enough, on Tuesday, October 7, the Singapore Parliament launched the second debate on the famed “Remote Gambling Bill”, a legislation which, once approved, would ban definitely all gaming/gambling providers from the country.

As we all know, the GPI releases a weekly update of its list ranking the top 300 live tournament poker players in the world. Indeed, the Global Poker Index rankings of October 13 see USA’s Dan Smith sitting on the driver’s seat for a couple of weeks now. He is closely followed by Germany’s Ole Schemion. The other players who make up the GPI Top5 remain in the same place as last week: Daniel Negreanu stuck on third place, followed by Jason Mercier (4th) and Scott Seiver (5th). The GPI rankings dated October 13 is marked by the rise of Olivier Busquet rocketing to sixth place (+5) thanks to his fresh win in the 2014 UKIPT High Roller poker tournament.

The “European Poker Tour” poker tournament now reaches its penultimate day with the Day 4 battle scheduled this Thursday. Of the 127 warriors who entered Day 3, only 36 survived heading to Day 4. Poland’s Jakub Mroczek possesses the largest stack forward to Day 4 with 1,790,000 chips in hands. Players armed with more than one million chips include Portugal’s Joao Vieira (1,151,000) and Germany’s Artur Koren (1,126,000). Indeed, Day 3 was a hotly contested battle insofar as every single participant in the 127-player field fought hard to wrap the day up with a nice “In The Money” finish. Note that only 95 players would make the money in this 2014 EPT London Main Event. Mateusz Zbikowski was the first knocked-out. He took home £ 7,750 though (for his 95th place).

After three days of poker battle at the Grand Connaught Rooms (London), the Main Event of the European Poker Tour London concluded Day 2 flight with only 135 poker players (of the 675-player field) remained in contention for the title. Many notable names in the poker industry joined the Grand Connaught Rooms poker room, but most failed to qualify for the next round: Daniel Colman, Christoph Vogelsang, Ole Schemion, Viktor Blom, Dermot Blain, Andrew Chen, Luca Pagano, Joao Nunes, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Leo Margets, Jennifer Shahade, Ike Haxton, Mikhail Shalamov, Rob Hollink, Michael Tureniec, Frederik Jensen, Davidi Kitai, Rupert Elder, Dominik Panka and Fedor Holz are among them.

The atmosphere within Paris-based gambling clubs has been quite a stir these days. One month ago, the” Aviation Club de France” (ACF) was raided by French Judicial Police; and recently the poker room of Cercle Cadet has suffered the same fate. Tuesday, October 14 around 5:30 a.m, a dozen of police officers led by France’s Gambling and Racing Commission officials raided Cercle Cadet, one of the most prestigious gambling clubs located in the ninth arrondissement of Paris. Things being at stake include a major poker tournament, the France Poker Series, which is scheduled to take place on November 22. Compared with the case the ACF is involved in, that of Cercle Cadet seems to be tough enough by considering information broadcasted by the media early on Tuesday. Indeed, the French Judicial Police suspected Cercle Cadet of running undocumented gambling operations, conspiracy, extortion by organized group, money laundering, embezzlement between France and Morocco and breach of trust.

The London stage of the European Poker Tour (EPT) has been a success in terms of attendance. The Day 1A recorded 140 entries while the EPT Main Event Day 1B seduced 440 players on Monday, bringing the total field to 580 players. Thus, the EPT London 2014 has broken the attendance record of the last three years. This record-breaking field is probably the fruit of a reduced buy-in to £ 4,000 from £ 5,000, a fruitful decision made by the organizers to arouse attractiveness to the circuit. The festivity is hosted in the poker room of the Grand Connaught Rooms, featuring eight 75-minute levels of play; the end of Day 1B flight saw 280 survivors. Georgios Zisimopoulos secured chip leader with a nice stack of 171,500 chips.

The Grand Final of the United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) concluded with Brett Angell claiming the top prize. He entered the final table as chipleader, and eventually dominated the battle to the entire disappointment of Nickolas Davies, Rasmus Agerskov, Sandro Mescola, Vladimir Troyanovskiy, Fabrizio Fuchs, Caicai Huang and Mark James. 1,089 players took part in the race, but only 8 participants remained in contention for the UKIPT 2014 Main Event title. After a failed UKIPT Nottingham final table last year, Brett Angell made it big by winning the UKIPT 2014 Main Event, an enticing tournament held in the poker room of the Grand Connaught Rooms (London). Brett found himself facing Switzerland’s Fabrizio Fuchs in the heads-up; the clash lasted about 1 hour and 45 minutes, at the end of which Britain’s Brett emerged victorious. For his first-place finish, Brett Angell cashed £ 115,083 while Fabrizio Fuchs collected £ 98,717 of consolation prize.

Grand Connaught Rooms has been abuzz for a couple of week now with two famed poker festivals namely the European Poker Tour (EPT) and the UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT). While the UKIPT Main Event has just reached its final table, the EPT London Main Event kicked off on Sunday. The festival began with the UKIPT Main Event poker tournament. Of the 1,089 players who registered on Day 1, only 8 made it through the final table. Brett Angell secures the chip lead with a nice stack of 5,190,000 chips. He now ranks well ahead of Nickolas Davies (4,000,000 chips), Rasmus Agerskov (3,150,000 chips), Vladimir Troyanovskiy (2,705,000 chips), Mark James (2,300,000 chips), Caicai Huang (1,960,000 chips), Fabrizio Fuchs (1,240,000 chips) and Sandro Mescola (1,145,000 chips).

Alongside the ongoing European Poker Tour London festivity at the Grand Connaught Rooms, many poker globe-trotters have flied to Australia to participate in the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC). Poker stars including Jonathan Duhamel and Scott Clements are among those who made the poke-trip to Australia. Both men final tabled the $ 5,000 AUD Eight-Game Mix event. Indeed, George Danzer won another WSOP bracelet Sunday in the poker room of Crown Resorts- Melbourne. Note that the $ 5,000 AUD Eight-Game Mix event is the Event # 8 of the WSOP APAC this year. The German professional poker player bested a field of 48 participants to grab his third WSOP bracelet of the year. He is now the sixth player in WSOP history to win three gold bracelets in a single year. He has thus entered the closed circle of poker legends including Puggy Pearson, Phil Hellmuth, Ted Forrest, Phil Ivey and Jeff Lisandro.

Sweden has made a decisive shift way into regulating poker industry in recent years. While local poker players benefit from a great freedom of bets, the country remains fairly strict in terms of taxation. Since 2012, “Skatteverket”, the Sweden’s tax authority, has been actively working on chasing poker players who hide their cash games or live poker tournament earnings. As a reminder, players who wager on regulated poker rooms possessing licenses approved by the European Union are not taxed on their winnings; however, those who gamble on non-EU licensed poker sites are required to report their earnings and pay regular taxes. To track down this second class of players, the Skatteverket has cooperated with other Swedish authorities and a panel of tax havens.

The European Poker Tour (EPT) has always been the most popular poker circuit in Europe for a decade now. As announced in April, the EPT Season 11 inaugurated, as usual, its opening with a stop in Barcelona. Five other stops were also unveiled during the official announcement, namely in London, Prague, Bahamas, Deauville and Monaco. Since October 8, the festivity has served poker lovers from the other side of the Channel, Britain. A rich panel of events are featured in the London stage of the EPT, but the most anticipated one is the Main Event, scheduled this coming Sunday. May we remind you that only three stops were listed for the first quarter of 2015, but the organizers have made a decisive step into adding another one. Alongside Bahamas and Deauville, Malta will also play host to the EPT Season 11.

While the case of the Aviation Club de France (ACF) is barely moving, a newly-planned reform relating to regulation of gambling clubs is likely to appear in the near future. Actually, the administrative closure of the ACF seems to motivate France’s authorities to thoroughly review the May-5-1947 Decree ruling local gambling clubs. Speaking of the ACF and its reopening, the case remains pending from the indictment of its president, Marcel Francisci, another ACF official and two casino dealers. As a reminder, the French national judicial police raided the ACF on Tuesday, September 16 at dawn over suspicion of undeclared gambling operations and money laundering. The fate of its 213 employees is now overshadowed by the unprecedented shutdown of ACF, one of the most prestigious poker facilities across France. To join force and arouse awareness of the case, a rally is expected to be organized on Thursday, October 9 on the Champs-Elysees.

The organizers of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) announced the schedule of the APPT season 9. The poker festival is planned to enliven ten different sites. The new season will begin in mid-January with the Aussie Millions Poker Championship and will be closed by the Asia Championship of Poker. The festivity will run from January 14 to February 2nd, 2015, with the Aussie Millions Poker Championship at Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. The APPT will then serve poker lovers with the ANZPT Perth (February 5 to 15), the Macau Poker Cup 22 (February 27 to March 15), the ANZPT Sydney (March 11 to 23), the APPT Seoul (April 7 to 12 ), the APPT Macau (May 13 to 24), the APPT Manila (July 31 to August 9), the Macau Poker Cup 23 (August 28 to September 13), the ANZPT Melbourne (October 8 to 20) and the Asia Championship of Poker (October30 to November15). This latter will close the season at PokerStars Live poker room in Macau.

The UK & Ireland Poker Tour is one of the most popular poker circuits in Europe. While the High Roller event reached its ultimate day on Saturday, the Main Event crawled on to its final table on Monday. They were 15 players to compete in the £2,200 buy-in High Roller event, but the $ 22,253 first-placed prize went to IsaiScheinberg. In comparison with the other players who participated in this poker tournament, including European Poker Tour champion Mickey Peterson, Scheinberg has first entered the close circle of top earners with his three final table places and $ 45,000 of career earnings.

Italian Finance Minister “Pier Carlo Padoan” announced a series of measures to keep Italian-based gamblers safe from illegal gambling providers. The 140-page resolution entitled "Report on tax evasion" has just been presented to the Council of Ministers, marking a sheer determination of the Italian government to unseal suspicious transactions on illegal e-gaming sites. Actually, the Italian tax services will be in use to track down illegal gaming rooms that have no licenses issued by the Italian gambling regulator, AAMS. In case of suspicious transactions, the gambling operator as well as players involved would be immediately fined. These measures are applicable to all types of gambling, including poker. Note that in recent years, the Italian gambling market has entered a totally new dimension with the advent of online poker rooms.

From October 1st to 5, Holland Casino in Valkenburg, the Netherlands, hosted a national circuit of the World Poker Tour (WPT). This is the first time that the tour makes a stop in the Netherlands. The result did match what the organizers hoped for. Indeed, the € 550 Main Event seduced 402 participants. After five days of battle in the poker room of Holland Casino, the WPT National Valkenburg had its curtains fallen by the victory of Niels van Leeuwen. This is actually a great win for Leeuwen as he topped a massive field that included the top-ranked poker player in the Netherlands, Marcel Luske, and many other notable Netherlands-based poker pros.

The third stage of the France Poker Series (FPS) concluded on Sunday, October 5, with the Main Event emerging its winner after a tough battle that lasted about ten hours. Those who made it through the final table are Luuri Nesterenko, Dominique Franchi, Silma Macalou, Michael Poirier, Jean-Marie Peyron, Vladyslav But, Nicolas Guest, Lado Momcilovic and Hugh Cohen, the nine survivors of the 582-player field of the poker event. The said field generated a prizepool of € 558,720, € 327,730 of which was shared out among the finalists. Indeed, the final table of the FPS Cannes was played in the poker room of the Pullman Cannes Mandelieu Royal Casino on Sunday. Luuri Nesterenko bested the field after a tough heads-up against Dominique Franchi. Both players wrestled for two hours, and that the end of the game saw Luuri prevailed over his opponent.

Spain’s online poker market is also hit by the crisis that suffocates European gambling sector. However, that of Spain is holding up a little better than its counterparts. The DGOJ (La Dirección General de Juego del Ordenación), the Spanish gambling regulatory authority, recently released figures relating the country’s online gambling revenue for the second quarter of 2014. Like in the other European countries where online poker market is fragmented, Spain wrapped the second quarter up with a slight revenue drop, particularly in cash game. Indeed, the budget cut allocated to the market’s advertising is among the reasons of the revenue drop: volume of bets and the gross gaming revenue (GGR) are all plummeted. Statistically speaking, Spain’s online poker market withstands the downturn better than France and Italy. Actually, Spain online gambling market gradually loses ground while France has already been in the red for a couple of quarters now.

As expected, the Cannes stage of the France Poker Series (FPS) kicked off last Thursday afternoon. They were 198 poker lovers who met in the poker room of Royal Pullman Casino for the first day flight of the FPS Sunfest Cannes Main Event. The battle started around 1:00 pm. Players were given a starting stack of 25,000 chips on 12 levels of 45 minutes. Of the 198-player field, only 77 made it through the next round. Finland's Matti Konttinen and France’s Quentin Lecomte lead the Day 1A chip count with more than 170,000 chips each, while the rest of the field train behind with 140,000 ones. Matti Konttinen provisionally bags the chip lead with 186,500 chips heading to Day 2. Quentin Lecomte, for his part, ranks second with 170,700 chips, followed by Fabrice Soulier (139,800 chips), Arnaud Mattern (105,500), Vanessa Brie (101,700), Steven Moreau (96,500) and Nicolas Le Floch (77,800). Note that the 77 remaining players will return to Royal Pullman Casino this coming Saturday for Day 2 battle.

Poker lovers across France and from its neighboring countries are expected to meet this weekend on the shores of the Mediterranean with the France Poker Series Cannes (FPS). The poker room of Pullman Royal Casino is playing host to the event from Thursday with multiple poker tournaments on the agenda, including the highly anticipated €1,000 + € 100 buy-in Main Event € 300,000 guarantee. Included among the side events featured in the France Poker Series Cannes are the two-day-flights € 2,200High Roller Event and the € 330 buy-in Mini FPS. Moreover, a number of satellite events (available for € 120 and € 150 of entrance-fee) have been held since Monday, the qualification in which would allow players to secure seats in the Main Event.

Online poker landscape in Belgium has been overshadowed by threatening clouds in recent days. Actually, the Belgian Gaming Commission (BGC) has launched a fight against illegitimate e-gambling industry with a view to protect vulnerable players over gambling addiction. Following the implementation of the tax bill targeting Belgium’s top earners (their earnings are subject to over 75% of tax), free casino and poker applications now lie in the sights of the commission. The attack was carried out four years ago with the release of the online gambling blacklist (online poker included) following the adoption of a new law on Belgian online gaming market. And this time, free mobile poker and casino apps are to join the banned group. Thus, it would come as no surprise if we see a free e-gambling apps blacklist blacklist emerge in the coming days.

Only three States including Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware, have regulated online poker market in the United States. Though Delaware possesses the tiniest market compared to the other two States, it wrapped up the month of August with a remarkable revenue increase while Nevada, the reference in online poker market in the United States, recorded a sharp decline during the same period. With $ 38,655 (€30,475) being posted, e-poker revenue in Delaware experienced a considerable surge in the second consecutive month, showing 22.6% increase in July, figures released by Regulators in Delaware suggested. All told, online poker market in Delaware is marching through its glorious path even though the result is far from beating the $ 84,477 peak in March. According to some gambling-industry analysts, the increasing trend might be the result of efforts undertaken by operators to revitalize the market.

Live poker circuit has seen many millionaires emerged in recent years. For this year 2014, 10 players amass over $ 3 million of cashes, the first of whom possesses more than $ 21 million of earnings. Thanks to his victory in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open-Super High Roller event, “Jacob Schindler”, is ranked tenth with $ 2,968,418. Dan Smith, the No.1 ranked poker player on the Global Poker Index standings secures 9th place with a gain of $ 3,186,314, over $ 2 million of which is won in the Super High Roller event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. With $ 3,349,135, Isaac Haxton occupies the 8th place. Finishing second place in the Challenge event at Aussie Millions in Melbourne, he added more than $ 2.5 million to his record. Online poker pro Doug Polk garners $ 3,582,815 to secure 7th place. The majority of his earnings is cashed this season, including his first-place prize in the $ 100,000 buy-in event at the Bellagio, Las Vegas.

The sixth stage of the Deepstack Open /Season V ended with the victory of Samuel Okou. The main event of this DSO Gujan Mestras recorded 348 entries. DSO’s stop at Gujan Mestras was a highly anticipated poker event by Aquitaine –based players. It also won a great attention of poker lovers from France. Last year, Yassir Erragh had bested the DSO Gujan-Mestras’393-player field. This year, chance smiles at Samuel Okou. For his win, the € 550 buy-in poker tournament awarded Samuel Okou € 30,540 of prize. Roman Lewis fell to second place after tough heads-up against Okou. Despite all this, he cashed € 20,500 as a consolation prize. Known on online poker platforms as "Fold4win", Okou claimed his very first live tournament win at Gujan-Mestras.

The Winamax Poker Open Dublin has recently concluded with a local player hitting the top prize. Indeed, the edition 2014 of this poker tournament was won by the Irishman Tom Kitt. The Regency Hotel of Dublin excitingly vibrated under the rhythms of four-day long WPO event. The Winamax Poker Open Dublin seduced 994 players, bringing the prize pool up to € 485,569. Tom Kitt’s win is considered as a great feat given the fact that he entered the final table as the shortest stack. France has the most numerous representatives in this tournament, but the title chose another player of different nationality. However, three French players reached the WPO Dublin Top 5: Venant Alexis (2nd, € 51,000), Pierre Tassin (3rd, € 37,000) and Adrien (4th, € 28,569). As a reminder, the 2013 WPO Dublin attracted a record-breaking field of 1,087 entries.
 
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