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Fans of poker in Europe will be spoilt with a series of stunning festivals this summer. On the menu are interesting tournaments that will land in the most beautiful destination spots across the continent. First among them is the Italian Poker Tour (IPT), an action-packed poker tournament to be held at the “Casino de la Vallée” in Saint-Vincent (Italy) from July 30 to August 3. The schedule include a number of highlights, namely the € 1,100 buy-in IPT Main Event and the € 2,200 buy-in High Roller. After this Italian escapade, head straight to Cyprus with the second must-attend festival, the Cyprus Poker Festival. It will take place from August 4 to 12. It also gives players a great opportunity to refuel themselves on the island’s fine-sandy beaches while part taking in a competition with guarantee-busting prize pool. The festival will take place at the Kaya Artemis Resort & Casino in Bafra (North Cyprus). The Main Event which is accessible for € 1,500 of entry-fee will be played from August 7 to 10. It guarantees € 1,000,000 of prize pool.

The gaming regulation authority in Nevada (United States) has just released a report stating revenue figure from the state’s poker industry during June 2015. From the existing 70 poker rooms across the state, the industry generated $ 15,840,000 in revenue. It actually represents 4.46% of increase compared to that in June 2014. The result comes amidst a significant drop in the number of gaming rooms and tables in the Silver State. At the present time, only 806 cash game tables remain operational. By all accounts, June 2015 has been a fruitful period with the industry performing relatively well.

Taiwan-born, Las Vegas-raised female poker pro Joanne Liu is currently sitting on top of the Global Poker Index (GPI) Female Leaderboard. The poker lady is now ranked 255th in the GPI Top 300 live tournament players, and 414th position in the Player of the Year race. Admittedly, she has been performing so well since the beginning of this year; Liu has made the money in 14 events. Her biggest cash of the year is amounted to $ 56,790. She earned it by finishing runner-up in the $ 2,140 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em 7-Handed event at the Commerce Casino (Los Angeles). A 10th-place finish in the World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder Main Event is also part of the big achievements Liu has made so far.

Pending the November Nine race, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) frachise invites all poker enthusiasts to participate in the 2014-2015 season-ending tournament, the WSOP National Championship. It kicked off on July 23 at Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort in North Carolina (USA), and is currently in full swing with a series of play-in events. The icing on the cake would be the $ 10,000 buy-in Main Event to be held from Thursday, July 30. 96 players have already claimed their passes to the poker tournament. Some received their tickets thanks to their 1st-place finishes in the Circuit Main Events while the others successfully gathered enough points by final-tabling a number of the tour events. Those who notched WSOP bracelets in the past two years are also invited to part take in the event. 14-time WSOP bracelet winner, Phil Hellmuth, is among the big names expected to be in attendance.

In this post, we pride in offering you a glance at the most anticipated poker tournaments held from Monday, July 27 until August 2. Coming first is the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker. It is a must for World Poker Tour circuit (WPT) regulars; the festival is played in the poker room of Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California (USA) this Tuesday July 28. The WPT Legends of Poker features 28 events of various variants, including Omaha and No Limit Hold'em. The highlight remains the seven-day Main Event kicking off on Wednesday, August 29. Accessible for $ 3,700 of buy-in, the WPT Legends of Poker’s field is expected to trim down to a winner on September 4.

After finishing 23rd-place in the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, talented poker pro Bohn Blake has just set the whole 2015 Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Meskwaki alight by winning the trophy. With this smashing victory, he has two MSPT titles in his win-filled resumé and now joins the big names circle with multiple MSPT titles. Besides, the freshly-acquired trophy propels him on top of the current MSPT Season 6 Player of the Year ranking. May we remind you that the final table of the poker tournament saw a number of tour champions in attendance, the likes of the former MSPT Running Aces champ “Dave Gonia” and MSPT Canterbury winner “Peixin Liu”.

The “France Poker Series Lille” battle has just been concluded with a non-France citizen winning the trophy. It was Bart Lybaert of Belgium who emerged victorious in the FPS Lille Main Event. He beat France’s Jamel Hassani in the heads-up. The “Bart Vs Jamel” clash actually lasted about 90 minutes for sixty hands played. Invincible, Bart Lybaert came up victorious of the clash and was awarded the top prize of € 122,000. This is his biggest win and second career cash following his 1st-place finish in the 2013 Eureka Main Event. Runner-up of the poker tournament, Northern France native “Jamel Hassani” wouls console himself for € 85,300. Finishing 3rd-place is Sonny Franco. He cashed € 60,100. The other final-tablists are Arthur Conan (4th, € 45,600), Julien Bottollier (5th, € 36,100), Romain Paon (6th, € 27,400), Romain Morin (7th, € 20,100), Matti Konttinen (8th, € 15,100) and Eemil Tuominen (9th, € 12,100), the first man to be sent to the rail in the final table.

After the World Series of Poker, all yes are now on the ongoing Mid-States Poker Tour Meskwaki, another world-reknown poker festival which is currently held at the Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel in Tama, Iowa. Currently in full swing, the poker tournament seduces players from across the country. They were 179 to participate in the race on Day 1A of the Main Event, but only 33 of them would survive after 14 levels of play. Yousri Ali grabs the chip lead heading to Day 2 of the 2015 MSPT Meskwaki Main Event with 309,500 chips. Rex Clinkscales (286,000), John Joachim (266,500), James Wilson (230,500), Tony Frost (168,000), Rob Wazwaz (162,000), Joe Ingersol (157,500), Karakikov Pavlin ( 141,500), Henry Mlekoday (140,500), Andy Van Blair (136,500), and poker lady “Patricia Bott” (41,000) are the other runners who will battle it out on Day 2.

Sky Poker UK Championship is one of the most enticing poker circuits in the United Kingdom. Slated to take place from August 19 to 23, 2015, at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham , the 2015 edition of the championship promises to be a poker tournament of exception. Actually, all events featured in the 2015 Sky Poker UK Championship’s schedule will bear a 6-Max Format. Besides, each of them guarantees a super interesting prize money. An illustration: the £ 550 buy-in Main Event kicking off on August 20 lures participants with a whopping £ 250,000 prize-pool guarantee. It will run five starting-day flights.

As of July 22, 2015, the overall Global Poker Index (GPI) rankings see Jason Mercier leading the world’s Top 300 live tournament players. The Florida-based poker pro has just leapt over Anthony Zinno. The latter recently sit on the same seat for two consecutive weeks. This is an impressive comeback that actually gives a fresher look to Mercier’s resumé. Mercier’s last atop the rankings is dated back in September 2013. This week, he holds 4,020.73 points. Right close behind him is Zinno with his 3,895.66 points. Dan Smith and Scott Seiver are respectively ranked 3rd and 4th position. Stephen Chidwick rounds out the Top 5.

France’s online gaming regulatory authority, ARJEL, has just released its second quarterly report about how the country’s internet-based gambling has evolved this year. The 40-page document actually saw, once again, a drop in cash games activities. Indeed, the number of active players per week dropped by 5% with wagered money figures falling by 10%. Despite all this, the country’s Gross Gaming Revenues remain stable. The ARJEL-issued report showed a tiny GGR decrease of 2% amidst time when Sit & Go and Espresso tournaments are gaining popularity among players. The same report demonstrated an increase of 16% on tournament entry-fee figures, equalling € 421 million. 73% of this amount represents the entry-fee figures from Sit & Go tournaments while the 27% part equals multi-table tournaments’registration fees. A priori, MTTs or MultiTable Tournaments no longer appeal to gamblers.

Chile native Claudio Moya came up being the last man standing at the 2015 Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Peru Main Event. The field was composed of 366 poker players, all setting their hearts to the top payday at Atlantic City Casino in Lima. Finishing first-place of the $ 2,500 buy-in tournament, Claudio Moya was awarded the largest share of the prize pool, a whopping $ 135,576 prize. He actually entered the final day as a chip leader but gradually lost a pretty good amount of his chips. Talented yet lucky he is, Moya successfully managed to keep his head up high and made it through the 10-hour final table. He met Lebanon’s Shadi Moustapha in the heads-up. The eventual runner-up had a relatively great chip advantage over Moya at some actions away from finish but it was the Chile native who sealed the win. Moustapha was awarded $ 120,000 of consolation prize. The other final-tablists of the 2015 LAPT Peru Main Event are Daniel Ramirez, Cristian Aceiton Ruiz, Marcus Martinez, Helio Neves, Jose Lli and Ricardo Chauriye.

A new poker tournament has just entered the arena. It is about the Thomas Kremser Poker Tour (TKPT). As its name suggests, the tour is named after its founder Thomas Kremser, a sworn live poker tournament director with a relatively shining work portfolio, namely with the European Poker Tour (EPT). As a reminder, Thomas left the EPT and eventually made his own run after the Black Friday. With the help of his wife, Marina Kremser, Thomas founded their own company, the TK Poker Events. For a broader visibility, he now bets on launching a tour. No concrete information relating the long-term TKPT is released yet. Despite all this, the full schedule of its first stop is now available. It will be played from November 19 to 28, 2015 at Maho Beach Hotel & Casino in St. Maarten, a Caribbean island with unmatched charms.

The long-awaiting “Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Season 8 Grand Final” will heat up the whole Sao Paulo, Brazil from November 25 to December 3. It will be held in conjunction with the Brazil Series of Poker (BSOP) Millions. In fact, the two poker tournaments have just come up with a new collaboration to jointly run a one-of-a-kind festival featuring 32 attractive events of various buy-ins. The developers of both tours will join forces to offer an exceptional schedule from which they hope to hit a record-breaking attendance rate. Boasting itself as the biggest poker series in Latin America, the BSOP Millions’ contribution in this festival makes the whole schedule special. Actually, 15,000 players part took in the tour last year, 2,749 of whom registered in the Main Event. It was Wilson Calixto who wrapped up the event for a whopping first-place prize of $ 416,168.

Last weekend, Laurent Polito delivered a smashing performance in the World Poker Tour National Series. After a fruitful trip in Las Vegas, France-based poker pro Laurent Polito claimed another win in the WPT National Brussels. The battle took place at Grand Casino Viage in Brussels, Belgium. With this victory, Laurent Polito made a record-breaking achievement with 4 trophies in 30 months. Apart from that, Laurent Polito’s career resumé includes 3 other WPT National titles, two of which he won in the Paris leg of the series in January 2013 and December 2014, the 3rd in the 2014 WPT National Cannes. Admittedly, he has come a long way to claim the 2015 WPT National Brussels title.

Indeed, it is a fact that the recently-concluded 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) captured the greatest attention of the world’s poker community. At the same period, great events took place paralleling this international competition. Include the like of Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza (DSE) III. This poker tournament has just been concluded with Samuel Bernabeu sealing the win. As a reward, Bernabeu cashed the top payday of $ 537,017. Recall that the DSE Main Event kicked off in Venetian’s poker room, in Las Vegas, on July 12. It attracted a player field of 547 entrants, 63 of them would finish in the money. Those 63 ITM-place finishers earned parts of the generated $ 2,557,225 prize-pool.

Following its successful results as a host to the Aussie Millions Poker Championship and various world-renown poker series, Melbourne’s famous gaming facility, Crown Casino, will soon play host to the Deaf Poker Australia (DPA) Championship for the first time. With its ever-increasing popularity among local players, the poker tournament in question will be a foretaste to the forthcoming Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) to be held in Melbourne from October 8 to 20. In any case, the DPA is marching towards its legitimacy as the biggest poker series in the southern hemisphere. May we remind you that this championship is exclusively dedicated to deaf and hearing-impaired players. Moveover, part of the prize pool will be used to benefit the “Death Poker Australia” charity. According to DPA tournament director, Landon Blackhall, this upcoming battle at Crown Casino’s poker room promises to be a stun.

As expected, results from the recently-concluded 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and its 67 poker tournaments have shaked up the current Global Poker Index (GPI) rankings. Numerous are the notables who successfully made some big leaps upwards in this world-renown poker festival. Jason Mercier is part of them. The American poker pro has just delivered an impressive performance by jumping over 6 spots to get back to 2nd position. Securing the lead is Zinno Anthony. Dan Smith, for his part, now sits on 3rd position with Scott Seiver right behind (4th position). Seiver is listed among the week’s biggest gains as he jumped over 8 spots. Davidi Kitai (5th), Stephen Chidwick (6th) and Dario Sammartino (7th) remain in the same position as last week. As for Bryn Kenney, he lost 5 spots this week to 8th position. Paul Volpe is also back in the Top 10 and is currently ranked 9th. Rounding out the Top 10 is Byron Kaverman.

The latest stop rounding out the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Season VI will be held at Meskwaki Casino in Tama, Iowa (USA). Scheduled to kick off this Saturday July 18, the menu includes a panel of qualifying events, satellites and the eagerly anticipated $ 1,100 buy-in Main Event. The latter will begin on July 24. This poker tournament actually guarantees a whopping prize pool of $ 300,000. According to MSPT operator “Bryan Mileski”, the MSPT Meskwaki stop has always been a smashing success. A number of Iowa’s big names, namely poker pros Jeff Fielder and Blair Hinkle are among the regular participants there-in. Recall that the MSPT’s penultimate stop run at Venetian Casino attracted 1,964 entrants with Angelina Rich grabbing the top prize.

Aussie Millions is among the most anticipated poker tournaments held every year in Australia. To the very delight of Australia-based poker enthusiasts, the 2016 schedule has just been unveiled. It will be played from January 13 to February 1, 2016. As is the tradition, Melbourne’s Crown Casino is playing host to the series. Actually, the 2016Aussie Millions schedule features 24 events to be held in Crown Casino’s poker room. The most important of all, the AU $ 10,600 buy-in Main Event, is slated to kick off on Sunday January 24, 2016. It will run three starting day flights with the eventual winner to emerge on January 31, 2016. Alongside the trophy and the top payday, the champion will be given a seat to the Asia-Pacific Poker Tour festival.

Justin Schwartz was among the penultimate day’s survivors in the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Driven by his own volcano-like character, he recently addressed his rivals for a new challenge. The young online poker prodigy highlighted that he is ready to tee himself against anyone in a $ 25/50 blind pot-limit Omaha. In recent past, Schwartz was involved in a verbal clash against the Canadian poker pro, Daniel Negreanu, the scope of which was about some differences of points of view regarding internet-based poker. This time, Negreanu is poised to take on the challenge, yet, denying it as a revenge. According to him, the Kid Poker wants to give a life lesson to his opponent he considers as a little kid. Hence, valid is the Negreanu Vs Schwartz clash. If defeated, Schwartz is deemed to face weight loss challenge, do some reading, practice yoga and meditation while enrolling himself in a personal development program at Choice Center Leadership University.

In the poker room of the luxurious Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, the upcoming battle promises to be a stun with 9 players of the 6, 420-player field remain in the hunt. These survivors are automatically given seats to the forthcoming WSOP November Nine event. Unfortunately, the Canada-born poker pro Daniel Negreanu is not listed among the luck ones. He actually saw his run cut to 11th-place. Deep would also be the fall for the event’s bubble boy, Alex Turyansky. Leading the way to the ultimate battle is the formidable US’s Joe McKeehen with 64 million chips. Among his victims include the bubble boy and then best-positioned Daniel Negreanu. Speaking of his current feat, McKeehen finished “runner-up” in the WSOP Monster Stack event in 2014. Though he has the biggest stack among the finalists, McKeehen would need extra efforts to be able to turn his game a notch.

The 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is drawing to an end. However, there are other interesting events to come to the very poker enthusiasts’ delight. One of them is the Borgata Summer Poker Open to kick off on July 14, 2015. It actually promises to be an action-packed festival with 23 poker tournaments of different variants on offer, the likes of No-Limit Hold'em, Omaha and HORSE. These events are accessible from $ 230 to $ 2,500 of entry-fee. Speaking of its Main Event, it will run four day flights starting from July 26; the entry-fee is set to $ 2,500. Obvious as it is, Borgata Casino-Hotel & Spa in Atlantic City (USA) is playing host to the tournament.

The 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event is now some actions away from reaching its final table. As we have seen previously, results from this ongoing poker tournament have impacted the current Global Poker Index WSOP Player of the Year ranking. Among the lucky ones are notable names who successfully accumulated considerable points by finishing in the money in the Event #68. Mike Gorodinsky is part of them; Mike is currently the most successful player in terms of gains. He leads the pack with 2,157, 19 points. His greatest achievement remains his 1st-place finish in the $ 50,000 buy-in Poker Player's Championship. He earned 513.13 points and the $ 1,270,086 top payday. In this festival, Mike G has grabbed 9 ITM places, including 1 runner-up and 1 third-place finish.

While a great panel of notable European poker pros have flyed to the United States to participate in the 46th annual World Series of Poker held at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, numbers of enthusiasts move but without crossing a border. They actually play locally-run tournaments such as the German Poker Tour which recently took place in Spielbank’s poker room, in Duisburg. It was the 7th stop of the German Poker Tour after that held in Aachen in June. Eight (8) poker enthusiasts made it big by paying the direct Main Event buy-in of € 330. Any way, the event recorded 20 entries, 4 of whom made the money for a minimum gain of € 500. It was Dirk Milarch who emerged victorious by beating Pierre Sibione in the heads-up.

The Main Event of the World Series of Poker is heading to its Day 5 after an knotty weekend. Of the 6,420 poker players who part took in the battle, only 237 survived at the end of Day 4. That pack actually includes two recently crowned WSOP champions. Crushed, 424 participants failed to capitalize their dreams to hit the Main Event’s top prize of $ 7.6 million when Day 4 met its end. Joseph McKeehen bagged up the chip lead at the end of the day and is now heading to Day 5 with confidence. McKeehen possesses 3,122,000 chips, ahead of Upeshka De Silva with 3.067 million chips. As a reminder, two weeks, De Silva won ago his first bracelet by topping 1,655 players at the $ 1,500 buy-in NLH event (Event #45). He earned $ 424,577. Erasmus Morfe sits on 3rd position in the chip count with 2,502,000 chips. He is listed as the tournament’s favorite runners with his two recently-won bracelets.

Majestic Star Casino, one of the most vibrant gambling facilities in Gary, Indiana (USA), will play host to a world-renowned poker event from July 23 to August 2. It is about a stop of the World Poker Tour DeepStacks, one of the most popular poker circuits among those with recent entrance in the arena. Recall that the WPT Deepstacks was born as a fruit of a partnership between World Poker Tour and Deep Stacks Poker Tour . Successful, it now gains an ever-increasing popularity. At Majestic Star Casino this year, the poker tournament will features 16 events of affordable buy-ins. The $ 100,000 Guaranteed Main Event remains the top highlight of the festival. It will kick off on July 31. The entry fee to this battle is set to $ 1,000 + $ 100.

It is a fact that online poker industry in Italy has been experiencing a downward swing for years while that of casinos and sports betting keeps rising. To cope with this constant decline in poker revenues, the country is planning to enact a legislation which would reduce gaming-related taxes and give ways to liquidity sharing compact with other European countries. It's a win-win solution that would benefit local gaming operators, poker players and the country as a whole. Gaming attorney from DLA Piper, Giulio Coraggio, highlighted that innovation is a key component in the success of the country’s poker market. He also added that there are other challenges to face, namely finding ways on how to identify the best yet marketable poker variant that appeals to a great number of players.

It’s not worth announcing that there was a lot of movement in the two rankings of the Global Poker Index (GPI) this week and that, due to the 46th edition of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas. In the top 10, we see the strong growth of Anthony Zinno. This poker pro from Massachusetts climbed 7 places and is now at the top of the podium. He is the provisional leader with 3,896.36 points. This phenomenal rise is due to his many exploits at the WSOP. Among others, he won his first gold bracelet by winning the Event # 60, a Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller of $ 25,000 buy-in. He also finished 7th of the famous charity poker tournament One Drop.

Finally, the Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2015 (WSOP) recover its breath, the 3rd Day 1 was the right. In all, the total field reaches 6,420 participants generating a prize pool of more than $ 60 million. It is the eighth largest field of participation in the history of this great poker tournament. Therefore, like last year, the winner will walk away with $ 7.6 million in his pocket while the other finalists will earn at least $ 1 million. If the first two qualifying days were calmer, the Day 1C registered a record field. The organizers have indeed registered more than 4,000 entries on this day.

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This summer, Las Vegas has once again met thousands of poker players decided to try their luck at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Some of them took advantage of their stay in the city of light to take part in the second edition of the WPT500, a poker tournament branded World Poker Tour (WPT) which was held in the Aria Resort & Casino. The event granted 614 players because it registered a huge field of 5,113 participants thanks to its several starting days. The biggest share of the prize pool, a sum of $ 330,000 was awarded to Craig Varnell. The winner of the final duel, the American player ousted the Brazilian Lucio Antunes. Their confrontation was quick but rich in action. Note that this is the second feat of Varnell this summer. He just won a fantastic prize pool for having finished in third place in an online poker tournament.

After more than a month of tournament, the World Series of Poker 2015 (WSOP) will close soon. The Main Event at $ 10,000 has actually started with a rather sad fall of attendance on Day 1A. With 1,716 registered players in Day 1B, the most famous poker tournament in the world has a total of 2,457 entries. To reach the field of 6,683 players of last year, it should expect to attract 4,226 participants from over on Day 1C which is rather unlikely. To come back to the course of the Day 1B, a small incident occurred in the Rio poker room. It was flooded after torrential rain that fell on the city of Las Vegas. The administration had to order the cessation of games for some time. After dinner, the game continues and at the end of the day, there was 1,154 players in the running. Hamiz Feiz is the chipleader and holds 182,675 chips in hand.

The Gol Gol Big One Poker Classic is one of the major poker events held in Australia. Its 2015 edition will be held on July 11 and 12. The poker industry in Australia is in excellent health. One can find in the country all categories of players including cash game enthusiasts, poker pros as well as simple amateurs. They regularly visit casinos and clubs to play. The Gol Gol Big One $ 40k Poker Classic is precisely an event that can bring them together on the same stage. It will guarantee to participants a fun and playful atmosphere that they find in clubs while having the appearance of a professional poker tournament like the World Championship which takes place in Las Vegas right now.

By being the most prestigious poker tournament in the world, the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) displays regularly a record attendance. For this edition 2015, the surprise was however observed as the registered field on Day 1A of the Main Event at $ 10,000 was only of 741 players. There is a fairly consistent regression compared to last year which was of 772 participants. Despite all this, the tournament was deemed a success. The structure was also appealing. The competitors had a starting stack of 30,000 with blinds of two hours. After the first qualifying day, 470 players survived. At the top of the chipcounts is William Kakon. He holds a stack of 152,325 chips. But this slight advantage can’t ensure him yet for being qualified for the Day 3.

The second edition of the Chad Brown Memorial event, held in memory of Chad Brown as part of the launch of the campaign against cancer called "Suck Out Sarcoma", was successfully held at Planet Hollywood Resort of Las Vegas. Celebrities in the poker world have participated in this event. Having started with a cocktail and an auction, the Chad Brown Memorial ended with a charity poker tournament at $ 240 of buy-in with $ 100 rebuys. The competition brought together a few dozen players, including professionals such as Chris Moorman, Jennifer Tilly, Linda Johnson and Liv Boeree. Note that the benefits were paid to TJMartell Foundation, an organization that supports research against cancer, leukemia and AIDS.

The flagship tournament of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 began on Sunday, July 5. As usual, this event features the most famous poker variant which the no-limit Texas Hold'em. Thousands of players from all over the world, including celebrities, professionals and amateurs will therefore try to seize the prestigious trophy. Note that the start of the poker tournament marks the end of this great festival which began on May 27 in Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. The organizers had changed the deal a bit as instead of guaranteeing $ 10 million reward to the great champion; they decided to give prize to the players who are in the top 1,000. However, if the event brings together a field of about 7,000 participants like last year, the winner will still win a huge jackpot. Qualified for the final table with 9 will be known on July 15.

On Thursday, while participants were busy playing gold-bracelet poker tournaments at Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino, in Las Vegas, officials at World Series of Poker (WSOP) made public the 2015 -2016 schedule of their regional circuit events. Running its 12th season this year, the WSOP Circuit will keeps going global and will serve poker fans around the world from early August 2015. The festival will conclude in May 2016 with the season-ending WSOP Global Casino Championship. Of course, this ultimate battle will take place in Las Vegas. The kick-off event of the WSOP-C Season XII will be held at Foxwoods Resort Casino, in Connecticut, from August 6 to 17, 2015. Late the same month, another stop will be held at Horseshoe Baltimore, in Maryland.

Held in May, the Asian Poker Tour Vietnam has been a smashing success. And the coming month, poker enthusiasts in Vietnam will be served with another big event, the Vietnam Poker Cup (VPC). The President of Ho Tram Resort Casino, “Shaun McCamley”, along with Andrew W Scott, the Chief Executive Officer of World Players Entertainment (WPE), officially announced the news in a joint press release. As far as the kick-off date is concerned, it is now set on August 21st. All things considered, Vietnam is sure to enjoy an upward swing regarding poker industry.

It's been over a month now since the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has been heating up Rio All Suite Casino, in Las Vegas. Day 35 of the poker festival is actually marked by Takahiro Nakai’s victory in the $ 1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em. Takahiro is the second Japan-born poker player earning a WSOP gold bracelet, the first being Nayoa Kihara. Unbeatable, online poker enthusiast “Takahiro” bested a massive field of 2,497 entrants to seal his very first victory in an international event. The ultimate clash would see Takahiro Nakai and USA’s Mel Wiener battling it out for quite a long run.

By winning the prestigious poker tournament “Player's Championship” in the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Mike Gorodinsky has just claimed the lead in the current Global Poker Index-WSOP Player of the Year ranking with 1,771.21 points. The talented poker pro actually cashed a whopping payday of $ 1,270,000 for his victory. He also notched some excellent ITM places in other high buy-in events in the same festival, namely a 2nd-place finish in the $ 10,000 Raaz Championship, and a 3rd-place’s in the $ 5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed. Admittedly, well deserved is his 1st position on the list.

Cela fait plus d’un mois que les World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ont animé le casino Rio de Las Vegas. La 35e journée de la compétition a été marquée par la victoire de Takahiro Nakai au No-Limit Hold’em à 1.000 $ de buy-in. C’est le second joueur japonais qui a décroché un bracelet en or. Le premier est Nayoa Kihara. Il s’est imposé face à 2.497 joueurs, ce qui constitue un énorme exploit pour cet adepte de poker en ligne qui vient de participer pour la première fois à cette compétition mondiale. Notons que Nakai a évincé l’Américain Mel Wiener au duel final qui a duré plusieurs heures. C’est au cours de la même journée que la journée finale de l’Event# 60, le High-Roller Pot Limit Omaha à 25.000 $ de buy-in s’est aussi déroulée.

The recently-introduced draft law in Pennsylvania, the SB 900, reportedly imposes an exorbitant tax of 54% on online poker’s GGR. This tax rate has been the core source of discord at the two hearings organized by the Community, Economic & Recreational Development Committee. Many representatives heavily criticized the clause in question. They argued that with such conditions, online poker will be profitable neither for the interested operators nor for poker players. Some even said that the decline in revenue experienced by online poker operators in Europe is partly due to inadequate fiscal conditions. In France for example, a 46% tax on Gross Gaming Product is instituted. To overcome this struggle, France’s online gaming regulatory authority ARJEL is considering a tax reform, along with possibility to establish an international player-pooling. Hence, many would suggest that the best way to ensure a better future for Pennsylvania’s online poker industry is to follow the New Jersey’s model. Recall that a 17.5% tax is levied on New Jersey’s i-poker GGR.

By beating businessman-turned poker pro Bill Klein, Jonathan Duhamel emerged victorious of the Super High-Roller One Drop, a poker tournament part of the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Admittedly, Duhamel has made an exceptional feat. He has come a long way through thin and thick before he notched it up. He actually saw himself teeing against formidable rivals, including the final day’s chip-leader Daniel Colman. The latter delivered a truly aggressive tactics but eventually fell to 3rd place. Unexpectedly, an incident occured in the poker room of Rio All Suite, delaying the heads-up’s start. A man inside the rail had a heart attack. The incident has somewhat disturbed the players but when calm returned, the game continued. Speaking of Colman, he finished 3rd place for $ 1.5 million. Yet, he dethroned Phil Ivey in the “All Time Money List”.

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