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Doyle F. Brunson (August 10, 1933 - ) has been a legendary American professional poker player for over 50 years. He is the first to win the WSOP two consecutive times, has been inducted to the Poker Hall of Fame, and the author of some of the most influential poker strategy books. He's been voted the most influential force in the world of poker.

Showdown in Poker lingo means when the remaining players exposing and comparing their hands to determine the winner after the last betting round.

The Italian Fabrizio Rizzi, poker player who was qualified through live satellite at the Grand Prix de Paris 2009, realised a feat. He was essential facing the 138 players of this 10,000 Euro tournament setting up by "Aviation-Club de France". This Grand Prix is a habitual poker events inside the traditional appointment "Rendez-Vous à Paris". As a winner of the final table with 6 players which took place on Sunday 17th of May 2009, Rizzi won at the same time the 419,520 Euro first prize. However, the French hope to bring back home the trophy was great with qualification of 5 players from Hexagon at this finale. But this tournament was also a noteworthy discovery moment of Vikash Dhorasso's talent in poker, the ancient international player of France team of football. He took the 3rd position at this tournament with 78,660 Euro of gain.

With the audience present everyday in front of television, TV stations are more and more convinced of their capacity to attract online poker players on their web portal. Thanks to this communication support most watched everyday, audiovisual operators seem to be interested overnight to activities in touch with poker. After Eurosport which announced last week the putting up of an online poker website in England and its interest for the French market wich opening is in progress, Canal+ which launched into a setting up of a poker tournament, the American station, National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) unveils also its project. If this station already had at its disposal numerous programs talking about poker like "Face the Ace", which have just been launched at the beginning of May, "Poker After dark", "Poker Million" and as well as "Late Night Poker", this game will be present, too, on its web portal.

Few days before the beginning of the World Series of Poker, forecasts are going well concerning the probable winner's identity for WSOP 2009 edition. Isaac Baron, known under the pseudonym "westmentloAA" aged 21 years old only, who will participate for the first time in WSOP this year after having failed the edition 2008, for want of reaching the required age for the tournament, will be a player to be watched over. After having uncovered poker in 2003, during the first WSOP live broadcast, Baron had already won numerous qualifications since that time. At World Poker Tour and at European Poker Tour, this player from Menlo Park, in California (the cause of his pseudo) already accumulated $1.1 millions of gains. And this year, his main target is to add a first WSOP bracelet to his prize list.

H.O.R.S.E. is a form of poker commonly played at the high stakes tables of casinos. H.O.R.S.E. is a collection of limit poker varieties.

With the opening of online games expected on January 1st 2010 in France, La Française des Jeux which hold the monopoly in gamble on the French territory from its creation in 1974 is setting up its strategy for facing it. For his presence on the web, this state enterprise decided to equip itself with efficient and modern software. So, it has recourse to CyberArts, an American company in San Fransisco, leader and world specialist on software development and online games website building. Even if the French online gambles will be open only on the beginning of 2010, the new site of FDJ, equipped with this software has to be operational before the end of this year by using virtual money.

Ask any poker players and they will tell you that poker is definitely not just a game of chance, but of strategy and skill. Still many blame online poker for all the bad notions associated with gambling - going bankrupt, declining social status and the like.

Because of the financial crisis which extremely affects physical casino activities and the extent of the competition between websites of online games, the number one among American casinos, MGM Mirage, decided to raise an important fund on market place. After coming near bankruptcy last March, the group decided to increase its working capital and to run back to bonds on Stock Exchange. Last Wednesday, a fund collection amount to $2.5 billions has been done on financial markets. In all, 81 millions ordinary shares were sent out to collect approximately $1 billion which means 13.5% increase of the number of the casino' shares. This announcement leaded into a decrease of 40% of its shares value in stock exchange markets.

To take an advantage of the celebrities of cinema during the 62nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which will take place from 13th to 24th, "Wilheim & Karl Maybach" and "Sunflower Children" foundations decided to reproduce the setting up of a charitable poker tournament. In order to collect funds to finance these two associations' activities, the great stars playing poker, businessmen but also, simple enthusiasts of this game are invited to attend this party. The event will take place on May 17th at Cap-Eden-Roc hotel. The realizer and scenario writer Edward Norton, a great poker player known for his numerous films like "The Rounders", one of the famous films talking about poker, will be the main guest of this charitable tournament.

Even if the film titled « Deal » produced by the professional poker player, Scott Lazar was a catastrophe at the box office, Gambling Times Company which signed a contract with his producer lodges a complaint. Even if GT already paid an amount of $50,000 for the purpose of being visible in « Deal », during the projection in 2008 of this film based on poker and in which Burt Reynolds and Shannon Elizabeth play, any Gambling Times mark appeared in. Nevertheless, this mark had to be highly visible on. So, in its complaint lodged at Los Angeles law-courts, the company is claiming to the producer $1 million of damages.

Poker has many variations, and some of these are called Draw Poker. In Draw Poker, each player is dealt a complete hand before the first betting round, and then develops the hand for later rounds by replacing, or "drawing", cards.

You might ask any poker fanatic and they will tell you that their favoourite game is definitely not just a game of chance, but of strategy and skill.

Four months after the beginning of great international tournaments of poker hold in different towns of the world, organizers can already assess some probable successor of the Canadian player John Phan. Holder of the best Card Player Trophy in 2008, this title will be played again this year. At the end of the fifth season of the European Poker Tournament, the first estimation of the future possessor of this prize is already done. A temporary list of the 10 best players of the year is already available by considering the buy-in, the number of players and the position of each player at each tournament.

In spite of the notoriety and the affluence of the players at every World Poker Tour edition, its main organizer, the WTP Enterprises (WPTE) noticed losses on their activities. Because of the expenditure too high and the fall of TV tournaments revenues, the enterprises ended again the first three months of the year with a negative result. For its activities done between last January and the end of March, the WPTE has lost $ 521,000. But compared to its result during the same period of last year, which achieved with a balance - $2.3 millions, this deficit declined. Thanks to the placing of a website of poker on line, the enterprise could attract 14,000 subscribers and 1,000 members in a try period, it means 2,000 subscribers moreover compared to those at the end of 2008. These activities carry out 10% of its turnover. If its turnover was $ 5 millions during the first three months last year, it achieved at $5.5 millions during the same period this year.

Caribbean Poker is a popular casino table game, originating from the Caribbean Isles.

More and more new online poker sites appear on the web every day. The sheer number of new poker sites popping up regularly are quite high, causing confusion between online poker fans.

After winning a first WSOP bracelet during the PLO tournament for $ 5,000 Rebuy in Las Vegas last year, Phil Galfond, known by the pseudonym 'OMGClayAiken', had surely defeated the gains' record on all websites of poker on line. Getting more than $ 6,97 millions last year, he is the second biggest winner until now on all websites of poker on Internet, behind Phil Ivey. But this performance is not the result of hazard. This player follows a real training on line every day. "There is no ordinary day for me, just now. I work the entire day on my website if I don't have any competition", Galfond said.

Among the 78 starting participants at the High Rollers of the European Poker Tour of Monte Carlo, a game of 25,000 Euros buy-in, the player Vanessa Russo was the winner. During the final head's up, she defeated the American player Randy Dorfman to lay hands on the title of winner. However, a panel of talented players was placed around the final table, at the beginning. The first disqualifying was David Steike who took the 8th position. Andrew Feldman was the second to be eliminated when he left his entire stack by following Tony G gambling again for 40000 euros, but he couldn't defeat.
 
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