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The greatest failure as a poker pro is to not acquire a trophy of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Indeed, as usual, the media draft at each end of the year a list of great players who have not yet obtained WSOP bracelets. Being part of this list is a considerable embarrassment and while some are preparing to clear their names by making special efforts to win a WSOP trophy, others let down by the situation. This year 2010, Gus Hansen, Phil Laak and Gavin Smith were among the targets and they won their first bracelets.

For 2011, the tournament Australia-New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) will still be part of major poker tournaments to be held to amaze poker enthusiasts. This third season of ANZPT promises to be quite spectacular. Indeed, fans of the circuit will have the joy to assist in 8 events, the first stage is scheduled to begin in Adelaide. The tournament will consist of 16 events planned to begin on January 25, 2011. The Main Event will be available with a buy-in of AUD $ 2,400 and runs from February 2 to 6, 2011. But the biggest event of this first step is the Big Event Stakes of AUD $ 4,000. Note that the Adelaide Casino is strict about compliance. After this first stop, the ANZPT will give appointment to players in Burswood Casino in Perth, from March 23 to 27. This time, the main event will be available with an entry fee of AUD $ 2,500 and organizers estimate to bring together 300 competitors.

Five major trends have marked the poker world during the year 2010 which will end soon: a distinction of young players, the confirmation of professionals, women's performance, legislation still unstable and marketing that sometimes give another side of this game. Young players made talk about them during this year 2010, if we refer to the results since the beginning of the year until last month like the youngest winner ever known by the Caribbean Poker Adventure, Harrison Gimbel, aged only of 19 years or the coronation of Jonathan Dumahel, aged 22 at the final table of the WSOP Main Event where six finalists of the nine players have more than 25 years. Nevertheless, the year 2010 was also the year of accustomed players to big events such of poker as Phil Ivey, Michael Mizrachi, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, Gus Hansen or the player of over fifty years Roger Hairabedian who marked in his way the world circuit.

For the new year 2011, the association "As Poker Brie" wants to bring something new to contribute more in its aid to the famous charity created by Coluche, the “Restos du Cœur” (Eating of the Heart). If poker players of Seine et Marne organized a classic tournament last year, another formula more unique and more fun will be concocted by the President Florence Sauvaget and the 80 members of the club during the month of February 2011. To do better and earn more profits than last year in the benefit of “Restos du Cœur”, poker enthusiasts of the association "As Poker Brie" in Seine et Marne give rendez-vous on Saturday 19 and Sunday, 20 February, 2011 in the hall of Tournan en Brie to take part in a tournament by teams of three players who will interchange for 24 hours.

The year 2010 is ending soon. Several tournaments have been held to the delight of enthusiasts and fans of poker. Like every year, the big annual tournament, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas drew a crowd of players looking for a WSOP bracelet and the prestigious title of world champion of poker. Passionate of major poker festivals and an experienced film producer, Gabriel Kaluszynski accompanied notable players in their adventures in Rio Casino. Indeed, he made a 52-minute documentary tracing the journey of French players Marc Inizan, Antoine Amourette, Eric Sagne, Xavier Jacquet and Laurent Gauter this summer in Las Vegas. He revealed then in this short film entitled "Joueurs (S)"(Players (s)) in collaboration with great names of French poker great moments on the gaming tables, their impressions, reviews, strategies to escape a difficult situation, their quests for glory, their psychologies and advice.

CardPlayer magazine awards annually a prize for the most remarkable poker player in the international level. This year, CardPlayer elected Thomas Marchese as Player of the Year 2010. This is a very prestigious coronation that allows a player to put themselves among the notable players such as Daniel Negreanu, TJ Cloutier, Michael Mizrachi, David Pham and the Player of the Year 2009 Eric Baldwin. Some major players found themselves in top of the list during the selecting like the champion of World Poker Tour Borgata Dwyte Pilgrim who is currently in second place, Sorel Mizzi (3rd), the champion of the Partouche Poker Tour Vanessa Selbst (4th) and the runner up of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas John Racener (5th).

Aware of the miles and miles to go to join a poker club in Tergnier, Reims or Soissons, a new poker association in Laon will be launched with the beginning of 2011, according to the president of the Quinte Flush Club (QFC), Stephanie Dere, president of this new entity. In the same vein, an opening night of this new poker club is expected in early February, according always to her explanations. Currently, the office of the association of Laon is run by six people including the President. Private parties have already been held with a approximately thirty guests.

The world of poker continues to grow. Apart from the various tournaments around the world which are growing day by day, new programs cooked up by television channels for the good of the discipline are not left behind. Recently the French TV channel RTL9 plans to seduce the public of the small screen with its new show called "Head's Up Poker: le face à face!". This new product will be presented and hosted by Lawrence Artufel and will last 12 weeks during which eight amateur players who were selected during online qualifying will play in order to designate the winner who will have the opportunity to go back home with the pocket full of a bonus of € 1,000,000. The first appointment of the facilitator and actor of 33 years, voted as "the sexiest host of PAF" at the beginning of 2010, Lawrence Artufel is scheduled for January 31, 2011.

A new poker organization do now its merry way for the delight of young talents who aspire to take part in the biggest tournaments on the professional circuit. The concept of poker holiday which means that the fact of buying holiday stay including a ticket to participate to a poker tournament is spreading increasingly to different types of recreation. Winter or summer, getaway stays rhyme now with a chance to pocket a ticket for a major tournament. An opportunity to participate in the World Poker Tour in Vienna or in the final of the de France Poker Tour of the Aviation Club de France is possible, for example with the FPT Winter Games tournament in Santa Susana, Spain.

The Poker Club de Villenauxe-la-Grande, is officially formed with the filing of its status nearby the sub-prefecture of Nogent-sur-Seine, in France. This new association is open to all adult people who have a passion for poker, specifically No Limit Texas Holdem. Like any association, this poker club has a board which is chaired by Stephanie Compper, with Loucas Compper as secretary and the treasurer is Chris Mayer. The Chairman, initiator of this project, who has just moved in this town, is essentially a player for fun. It's in this idea that she created the association that promotes the integration into local life with the spirit of sharing the passion for poker. According to the club president, she wants to especially encourage women to form a real female team in Villenauxe and in the region.

Usually, women poker players represent only 6% of the field of a tournament and most of the time, men conquered the titles. This year, women were honored as a good number of these women poker players made a good run in major poker tournaments. The remarkable success of the female population in the world of poker began in March when Annie Duke won the trophy of the NBC Heads-Up Championship by ousting Erik Seidel at the final duel. A month later, Vanessa Selbst and Liv Boeree accomplished the same feat respectively at the North American Poker Tour Mohegan Sun and the European Poker Tour (EPT) San Remo. The World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas were also an opportunity for the fairer sex to prove their skills. The eyes of the public were fixed on the star of the WSOP Europe Annette Obrestad. Unfortunately, she failed to repeat her feat. However, she conceded a good gain of $ 40,000 during this tournament.

At each end of the year, it is customary to do a little recap on the performance and achievements made by poker players throughout the year. However, the selection remains complicated because the choice of classification criteria is not at all easy. The Top 20 international players illustrates the players who amassed the greatest gains in tournaments for the year 2010. In the top of the list is of course the world champion of poker 2010, the Canadian Dumahel Jonathan, who collected for his performance at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas a prize of $ 8,987,310. His runner-up John Racener is in second place and at the third place is Saguhyon Cheong. Michael Mizrachi also enjoyed great success this year and is in the 4th position.

Like every year except 2009, the nine finalists of the 7th edition of the World Cup of Poker will go to the Bahamas in the beginning of January 2011 to win the title and the $ 100,000 prize pool expected. Among the nine nations qualified for this final stage, only Italy and the United States managed to be qualified once again after the 6th edition of 2010. Moreover, 7 of the nine teams captains are already known : Jose Barbero lead Argentina, the Philippines will be led by Neil Arce, the United Kingdom will have as leader Liv Boeree, Juan Manuel Pastor will head Spain, Slovakia will have as guide Dag Palovic, Arnaud Mattern will be in command of the team from France and Italy will have Luca Pagano as leader. The captain of Ukraine and the United States are currently unknown.

Representatives in the Congress supporting the legalization of online poker in the United States never tire to propose innovative bills to convince his peers of the value of this legalization. Thus, a new bill called the Consumer Protection & Revenue Generation Act of 2011 to legalize online poker in Florida has been deposited by Joe Abruzzo in the Congress. This text that takes into account only as authorized players over 18 years of the State, offers the only permission to play at licensed operators websites within a legal framework that is protective for players while providing new resources for the State. It is mentioned in the text that a license hub operator "will be available to companies interested which in return, will pay $ 10 million non-refundable to the State and an annual fee of $ 500,000 for the license”.

The second edition of the $ 10,000 buy-in tournament of the World Series of Poker Circuit Championship Regional delivered its verdict at Harrah's Atlantic City. If during the step of Hammond, the event attracted 226 players, the edition of Atlantic City experienced a decline in attendance with only 136 registered players. Nevertheless, the public had the right to assist to a wonderful event. Thus, Jason Burt, Todd Terry, Ketan Pandya, Micah Raskin, Nick Mitchell, Seth Fischer, Chris Klodnicki, Andy Frankerberger and Chris Bell participated in the final table of the tournament. The battle was long and tiring because it took seven hours to see the first player who was Seth Fisher, who held the lowest stack at the party, leave the table. Nick Mitchell suffered a similar fate some time later and then followed by Jason Burt.

With his new title as world capital of gambling, Macao also continues to become an inescapable destination for major poker tournaments. Indeed, from one year to another, this Chinese city enjoying an exceptional favor in terms of development of casino and gambling halls continues to see new poker tournaments to the delight of lovers of this game. Thus, some program of tournaments taking place in this city in 2011 have just been announced. To start the year, the Asian Poker Room will host players under the Macau Poker Cup to be held from February 21 to 27. The organizers made some changes in hopes of attracting more participants. Indeed, a slight increase of the buy-in has been agreed for the Red Dragon tournament to satisfy players looking for a tournament with a much better structure. In this way too, the prize pool of the tournament should also increase.

The year 2010 was marked by great performances of French poker players in many major tournaments. Indeed, some famous players graced their prize list with new trophies while amateur players were able to start a promising career. First, it is essential to cite the unbelievable success of Vanessa Hellebuyck at the Ladies Event of the World Series of Poker 2010. The young mother stood out in front of 1,053 poker players. She won the 5th WSOP bracelet for France. Gauillaume Darcourt also excelled in winning the World Poker Tour Bucharest not to mention his performance in the WSOP Event 51. The Partouche Poker Tour was also marked by the presence of Cyril André, Raphaël Kroll and Fabrice Soulier on the final table. Despite missing a title for Raphaël Kroll, ousted by Vanessa Selbst at the final heads'up, he accomplished a real feat and became an outstanding player.

Poker enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting the summer 2011 to join Las Vegas to participate in the biggest poker festival in the world which is the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Next year, the tournament will receive its 42nd edition. For the record, the WSOP is held annually in Las Vegas since 1970. The tournament brings together poker enthusiasts and renowned players on a unique platform. Several events are scheduled during the WSOP and all variants of poker are played. Each event have a beautiful reward without forgetting the famous bracelet and the honor of having won a trophy in the world. The main event winner receives the honorary title of world champion of poker.

The Spanish live tournament circuit ended at the Gran Casino Costa Brava in Lloret del Mar on last December 17th, 2010. The three-day tournament Poker Masters Series has seen the participation of 32 players, half of them were competitors qualified online and they faced the top 16 professionals of Poker Masters Series España including Raul Paez, Ruben Velasco, Barny Boatman, Santi Terrazas and Leo Margets. This latter has once again excelled by winning the sum of € 100,000 at the expense of the Director of Card Player Italy, Massimiliano Luppi. Before this latest victory, this woman Spanish professional player has already seized the title of the same tournament played on last November 26 that allowed her to win € 48,000.

Besides the usual and prestigious European events, the month of January 2011 will also be made of cascades of poker tournaments taking place around the world. Four destinations as attractive as each other will be offered to professionals and amateurs of the discipline among which two of them will be held on the African continent, which begin to become more and more famous. The European Poker Tour Poker Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas will open the show with a new annual edition which will take place during a week from January 8 to 14, at the Atlantis Resort & Casino. A huge prize of more than $ 15 million will be shared throughout the competition at this famous festival of poker with a buy-in of $ 10,300 for the Main Event. Oceania will not be outdone by the famous Australian tournament, Aussie Millions in Melbourne. The competition will run from January 13 to 31 and will still be held at the prestigious Crown Casino. It will be composed of 20 tournaments including the $ 10,600 Main Event.

Many films about poker was produced since the 1990s, but only one attracted the attention of fans of the discipline, "The Rounders". Poker enthusiasts have even asked the question if a new sequence of this excellent achievement, directed by David Levien and Brian Koppelman is expected or not. Currently, there is no doubt, the following of this famous film excellently played by Edward Nottorn, Matt Damon and John Malkowitch is planned out to be released under two years, probably in 2012.

The new year 2011 won't be a quiet year for poker players according to the program of the first month whether in Europe or elsewhere. For the particular case of European poker pro circuit, the month of January will first an appointment with the Partouche Poker Tour (PPT) and France Poker Tour (FPT). In addition, there will be events of the Italian Poker Tour in Italy and the European Masters of Poker (EMOP) in the Canary Islands. The first Super Satellite of the Partouche Poker Tour in the city of Lyon will begin the festival on January 8 and 9, 2011. The Main Event of € 1,500 buy-in will be played at Lyon Vert Casino with other programs as many other tournaments scheduled. Only 10% of participating players will be invited to the Cannes Grand Final in September 2011.

Senegal, an African country where the temperature is 30 ° C in the shade during the winter in the northern hemisphere also has its poker tournament that begins to be famous. The Dakar Poker Tour, which was in its infancy two years ago took now the commitment to continue. Next year, the circuit enters its third edition, the festival will be held at the Terrou-Bi Resort from January 11 to 17, 2011. It is therefore an excellent opportunity for poker enthusiasts to escape th cold e winter and participate in a circuit crowned with great success during the first two editions. Indeed, internationally acclaimed players as Roger Hairabadian, Guillaume Savary, Jean Paul Pasqualini and Alain Roy made the trip to participate in the edition of last year.

Known for his enormous talent for poker, the many feats he accomplished with 11 titles in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, Phil Hellmuth alias 'Poker Brat' will be this time under the spotlight doing some dance steps to win the title of champion of “Dancing with the Stars”. This is a dance competition broadcast on ABC in which American celebrities danced alongside some professionals. Couples must make dance styles and will be judged by a jury. Note that this is the 12th season of this show and it really captured the American public.

Each year, the ranking Live Poker shows the most remarkable French poker players. The method of selecting had a slight difference this year. Indeed, players were judged on the results they accumulated during major live tournaments throughout the year. However, despite this change, the title of Best Player of the Year once again returned to Roger Hairabedian. With 1572 points in his account, he once again ousted the Corsican Jean Paul Pasqualini. Through their performance and their regularity, these two players who defended well the color of France at international level, found themselves in the lead. However, the title of French number 1 was again assigned to Big Roger.

Because it is mostly young poker enthusiasts who flood live tournaments, seniors who have a passion for poker are eclipsed in anonymity, except great players like Doyle Brunson. Thus, organizers of major tournaments offer a special event for senior to honor their presence but also to give them a chance to compete among players of similar class, and success is in the appointment. For example, the WSOP Seniors Event brought together 3,000 competitors aged between 52 and 90 years. Next year, the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles will also host in the sideline of the Los Angeles Poker Classic (LAPC) tournament a special event for seniors. The LAPC is scheduled to take place from January 19, 2011 to March 3, 53 events are scheduled. This is a great poker festival of 43 days.

2.1%, this is the drop of gross gaming recorded between November 2009 and October 2010 for the French casinos, according to the three unions of professionals. This fairly stable fall attendance at gambling houses is attributed to the assets of the discipline that attracts every day many amateur players, poker. Even negative, the turnover of the 196 establishments for 2010 are not alarming, said the report that representatives of trade unions of casinos which which are the Casino de France, the Syndicat des Casinos modernes de France and the Association of Independent French casinos.

The final of OM Poker Cup, the first ever live poker tournament "Made in Marseille" dedicated to fans of the club was held Sunday, December 19, 2010 in the VIP lounges of the stadium Stade Velodrome. This event was held on the sidelines of the clash meeting of the Ligue 1 between Olympique de Marseille and Olympique Lyonnais. This final meeting is a logical extension of the online qualifying series, which attracted some 30,000 players at first, but only 25 of them reached the finals of the first edition of this tournament in Marseille. The countdown has begun for the 25 football fans but also finalists of the OM Poker Cup after the end of the match between the two Olympics. All eyes were riveted in the VIP lounges of the Stade Velodrome to follow this final, but especially to know who will be the three amateur players who will compose the team of supporters of OM for the next European Poker Tour Deauville.

Poker enthusiasts get wasted to offer themselves a nice price and a title to close in beauty the year 2010. Thus, most poker tournaments held in this period recorded a lot of success. The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOP-C) Regional Championship are taking place at Harrah's Atlantic City. With a buy-in rather high of $ 10,000, the tournament attracted 1,366 participants. A large delegation of top players joined Harrah's Atlantic City to attend the event. At the end of Day 1, it stayed only 93 competitors vying for the rest of the competition. Indeed, most of stars of the game came there and already in the top rankings, a proof of their excellent fit. After amassing 126,375 chips, Vanessa Selbst took the place of chip leader. She is in the way to a new exploit that could improve her prize list for the year 2010.

Another step of the France Poker Series has just been completed this week-end, the stop in Forges-les-Eaux managed to assemble a field of 266 players. This tournament has been particularly marked by the low performance of major players like Willy Korchia, Vanessa Hellebuyck, Julien Brécard, Moundir, Christophe Pereira, David Jaoui, Hervé David of the Dutch Constant Rijkenberg who was back on the circuit with a modest 17th place. Luck was not at the rendezvous for Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier for whom, the only title that lacks to him is one of France Poker Series. This time, Elky was ranked 5th in the final table. Moreover, the side event of € 600 was won by Guilhem Delaporte with a gain of € 6,200, who is anyone else than the winner of the Maison du Bluff.

The Welshman Roberto Romanello is the last player champion of an European Poker Tour (EPT) event for the year 2010. By beating the Italian Emiliano Bono during the final heads'up, Romanello won the title of the EPT Prague 2010. He succeeds the Czech Jan Skampa, champion of the EPT Prague 2009. The Welshman who managed to win against a large field of 563 players from 47 different countries achieve then a unique success and he showed real emotions during the award trophy ceremony. This beautiful course also earned him a gain of € 640,000. Note that the Main Event of € 5300 buy-in of the EPT Prague 2010 generated a prize pool of € 2,730,550 shared between the 80 best players of the tournament, including a dozen French players.

The two days of last week-end saw the organization at Cercle Wagram, in Paris of a kind of poker tournament that has more and more followers. Indeed, with its more slowly structure, deepstack is a little bit different from what is usually played in major poker tournaments. Because of this particularity certainly, the special tournament 500 Christmas of this Parisian circle assembled a field of 185 players who, at the end named Vincent Londez as the winner. The long awaited final battle in this slow structure tournament didn't happen, however, because of a deal negotiated between 5, which facilitated the task of Vincent Londez who dominated the tournament runner-up, Serge Martel de la Chesnay.

The first three seasons of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) circuit had the expected success to ensure the continuation of its course. At this end of the year, the LAPT is preparing to launch its 4th season with almost all of its program has already been revealed. From February 16 to 20, 2011, the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil will once again host a stage of the tournament. Note that the LAPT already stopped in the country, but it was in the city of Florianopolis in the first season. The main event of $ 2,700 attracted at that time more than 360 competitors and crowned as champion Matthias Habernig. Chile will also be part of the adventure from March 17 to 20. Despite the terrible earthquake that ravaged the country during the past year, its casino operators will be able to provide quality facilities for the next season of the LAPT. The event will be held in the city of Vina del Mar. From April 12 to 17, it will be the turn of Lima, the capital of Peru, to receive the tournament.

The bubble burst in Prague during the third day of competition of the European Poker Tour tournament (EPT). Among the 93 qualified players for the start of Day 3, there are only 23 to play the following of the event. While most of the French delegation present in the starting field of this poker tournament were eliminated, Manuel Bévand for his part made a great run and was qualified in the 8th place to defend the honor of France. 11 French players have also done a good course in this tournament by finishing in the money to name Alain Roy and Hugo Lemaire who each received € 8,000, Ronan Monfort has just pocketed his first cash of an amount of € 10.000, Guillaume Darcourt, Nicolas Babel and Fabrice Soulier.

Despite the recent robbery occurred at the Bellagio, the famous casino in Las Vegas is still ready to welcome a new poker tournament of high magnitude. Indeed, the filming of Season 7 of the show High Stakes Poker will start next week in the casino. This is a big show of televised poker with a buy-in of at least $ 200,000, narrated by Gabe Kaplan and Kara Scott, during which the public has the opportunity to attend a battle of big names in parties of No Limit Hold'em. Since its launch, the show broadcast on GSN acquired a huge success given the quality and reputation of the participants. However, rumors circulated recently about the absence of many stars on the backstage of the show for its seventh season.

Passionate of online poker and having received the title of champion of the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker 2006, Dale Philip aka "Daleroxxu" is preparing a great adventure. Indeed, from January 1, 2011, Dale Philip will cross the world as part of a trip called "Tour Cards". Throughout this adventure, he will participate in many live and online poker tournaments. It will take him 52 weeks to complete this world tour of poker and visit one country per week. His first stop is Prague, the Czech capital, where a stage of the European Poker Tour (EPT) is currently underway.

Poker enthusiasts are certainly eager to join the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia to attend the poker festival Aussie Millions 2011. A very rich program awaits fans of the game that will begin with the opening of Aussie Millions Poker Championship 2011 from January 13, 2011 starting with the Aussie Millions Welcome Party on January 21. But the most awaited event of all is the Main Event of $ AUD 10,600 where players will compete on tables of No-Limit Hold'em for another title in Australian soil. At the Aussie Millions 2010 Main Event, organizers reported a great success by gathering 746 players. For the year 2011, the tournament will start on January 23 and the name of the person who will succeed to Tyron Krost, the 2010 champion who won a huge gain of $ AUD 2 million will be announced on Jan. 29.

The year 2010 was a very good times for poker enthusiasts. Many tournaments have been held for amateurs and professionals. This year, two players are at the top of the list for the qualification for the title of French most regular poker player in live tournaments. This is Roger Hairabedian, the godfather of Moroccan poker and the Corsican Jean Paul Pasqualini. Both, aged 60 and 50 years, they started in online tournaments before taking the way for live tournaments. Since a few time, their reputation continue to rise and the lot of experience they acquired have given them enough advantage to earn success in several major tournaments.

The year 2010 is not yet closed for poker tournaments even though all the major circuits have almost completed their schedules. This week-end, fans of poker have another chance to play because the Parisian game circle Wagram invites all fans of poker in a deepstack tournament of € 500. The organizers of this event offer an attractive play structure with 30,000 starting chips and a level of play of 40 minutes. As forecast, the Club hopes to bring 180 players at its "Christmas deepstack." During two consecutive days then, players will compete in a beautiful meeting before the feast of the Nativity. Note that the start of the tournament is scheduled for Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.

Known for its capacity to host major poker tournaments like the World Poker Tour, the casino Bellagio in Las Vegas also attracts criminals. In fact, on Tuesday morning, Bellagio was the victim of a robbery. At around 3:50 am, a gunman arrived on board of a black motorcycle and entered in the famous casino. He filled his bag of chips between $ 100 and $ 25,000. In total, the grand theater of poker lost a total of around $ 1.5 million in chips during the theft. The robber did his operation within 2 to 3 minutes and then fled, taking the road to Flamingo in a westerly direction. Fortunately, the incident didn't made any victim.

Atlantic City has always been an exceptional meeting place for enthusiasts of gambling even before the fact that the poker industry know such enthusiasm. With the passage of the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOP-C), Atlantic City is once again under the spotlight. 352 players made up of several pros play of the East Coast as Matt Glantz, Josh Briki or the holder of two titles WSOP-C Chris Klodnicki joined Harrah's Atlantic City to attend the Main Event of $ 1,600 buy-in of this round of the WSOP-C. Unfortunately, none of them could not qualify to the final table. Brandon Croft, Jesus Cabrera, Chris Bonita, Mike Summers, Manish Patel, Tam Ly, Dave Cubeta, Mark Sykes and Matt Waxman have been most fortunate to have acceded to the final table of the tournament.

In partnership with Charity Case Foundation, a charitable organization bringing together generous winemaker from California, the Bellagio Hotel Casino Las Vegas will host on January 28 to 30, 2011 a great event called “Poker's Ultimate Bottle Tournament”. Once again, poker became an important ally to raise funds to support charities. Indeed, the Bellagio poker tournament that will feature an entrance fee of $ 2,800 will be used to collect money to be given to charities in Napa County and southern Nevada including the Nevada Cancer Institute and the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.

To the delight of the organizers, 372 players attended and participated in Day 1B of the EPT Prague. In total therefore, the tournament attracted a field of 563 participants. Admittedly, a slight decrease in attendance compared to last year is recorded but the success of the event is still guaranteed. Thus, the organizers have booked a prize pool of € 2,730,550 which will be shared between the 80 best players in the game. The champion will receive a grand prize of € 640,000, enough to give competitors a desire to fight back to earn the trophy. As expected, a significant number of good poker players joined the Czech capital to attend the second qualifying day among whom are Luca Pagano, James Akenhead, Bertrand Grospellier, Liv Boeree, Thomas Bichon, Bruno Fitoussi, Marcel Luske and Johnny Lodden.

Major poker tournament finals continue to crown their winners. Two other players come to win new victories to close in beaty this year 2010. Indeed, the Irishman John O'Shea had just won the title of champion of the European Masters of Poker Top Cruise (EMOP). This is a poker tournament that was held aboard the ship The Mexican Riviera crossing the west coast of the United States and held from December 5 to 12, 2010. The EMOP Top Cruise has clashed the 16 top players of the season and by grabbing the victory, the Irishman pocketed $ 12,500.

Named as French best poker player in tournament in 2008, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is a true poker pro. He repeatedly defended the honor of the Hexagon in major tournaments. This honorary title have been given to him after his success in the Caribbean Adventure and the World Poker Tour Festa Al Lago 2008. He pocketed a gain of $ 3.4 million with these two big wins. And during his 5 years career, he recorded $ 6 million in winnings. This year, Bertrand Grospellier has also made great achievements. Indeed, after winning the title of Lille Barrière Poker Tour which earned him a bonus of € 45,400, he was also the best at the tournament Trophées Haussmann and for the occasion pocketed the price of € 110,200.

With a buy-in of € 5,300 and a magnificent structure of 30,000 starting chips with a level of play of 60 minutes, the main event of the last stage of the European Poker Tour (EPT) 2010 has just started in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic. Last year, the EPT Prague has been very successful with 586 players registered for the main tournament. But this year, the event had a less glorious departure because for Day 1A, the organizers assembled a field of 191 participants. To replicate the success of the EPT Prague 2009, the organizers should receive a field of 395 players for Day 1B.

By finishing runner-up tournament of the World Series of Poker 2010 in Las Vegas, the American poker player John Racener embellished his image and his career. This excellent ranking also earned him a large fortune of $ 5,545,955 and a certain notoriety in the poker world. Racener has also made a good run at the World Poker Tour Bellagio Five Diamond Classic held on last December 8 by finishing the tournament at the 4th place. For this performance, he pocketed $ 232,271. At 24 years old so, John Racener became a very good poker player with a total earnings in live tournament of about $ 6 million for the year 2010 and has a great future in the poker world.

Poker became a source of inspiration for designers and producers in the media world. Movies, series and cartoons based on the theme of poker highlighting the daily adventures of poker professionals emerged in recent times, not to mention magazines and books. A new a program called "Young Guns" will be added in the list of televised poker shows very soon. The show has the same concept as the "Two Months Two Million" but a slight innovation has been made. Note that 2 Months 2 million was a failure and was stopped after the first season. Thus, Chris Sparks, Chris Jackson, Seth Otterstad and Jarran Joshu will share with fans of the game and the public the realities of the lives of young poker pros who live strictly with their winnings in tournament.

Proponents of online poker in the U.S., despite the ban, continue to play on well-known sites, even if they have no agreement. And even if online gambling industry could be a big financial windfall for the fund of the state, there are still many politicians and public authorities who continue to oppose such legalization. But the hope of online poker enthusiasts in the U.S. is being reborn because the State of New Jersey voted for the bill of Senator Robert Lesniak allowing city residents to play online games offered by local casinos. Before the end of the year so, residents of New Jersey will be able to play these online games legally. Other states are also about to follow the example of New Jersey.

Eagerly awaited by regulars of the Parisian circle Cercle Haussmann and poker enthusiasts, the second edition of the tournament Trophées Haussmann took place on December 9 to 11, 2010. The 105 players registered composed of poker superstars such as Barbara Martinez, Ilan Boujenah, Eric Qu, Thumy Clement, David Miara or Suat Uyanik acquitted the buy-in of € 3,000 for the tournament. Three days of fearless fighting take then place at the Cercle Haussmann and on last Saturday, December 11, the 10 best players started the final table. Ultimately, the famous Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier captured the coveted trophy with a prize of € 110,200.

This last month of the year 2010 is a good period for poker enthusiasts. Indeed, several Grand Final of poker events take place all around the world. Last week-end, the 3 Länder Poker Tour (3LT) circuit had just crowned the winner of its Grand Final at Montesino Pokertainment Center in Vienna, Austria. After steps in Germany and Switzerland, the 3LT tournament let to 261 poker players to compete and try to win a trophy and more. Note that the organizers headed by Thomas Kreser and Alen Babic decided to reward the top 24 players in the game with the prize pool of € 522,000 among which € 132,680 was reserved to the champion. This reward thus returned to Joris Springael after his success in the final duel against the Romanian Cristea Opri.

For the last stage of this season 4, the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), which made a stopover in Sydney recorded a field of 289 players during the main event of $ 6,300 buy-in. Australia has therefore attended a grand festival of poker that saw the participation of a multitude of stars of poker at the international level with players like Tony G, Lee Nelson, Chris Moneymaker, the local poker pro Joe Hachem and also Casey Kastle. As usual, renowned players showed great competitiveness in order to capture the title and after a week of battle, the 9 qualified for the final table stood out. The hosts did their best to defend the honor of their country, which explains the presence of five Australian players on the final table. But Daniel Negreanu, Roland de Wolfe, Eddy Sabat and the French Antoine Amourette have also done an excellent course and were part of the final race for the trophy.

Throughout the competition World Poker Tour Five Diamonds (WPT) which was held at the poker room of the Casino Bellagio in Las Vegas, Antonio Esfandiari made talk about him by being the most often in place of chip leader. Thus, at the finish, he won logically the tournament despite some difficulties with the approach of the final table facing a field full of well known players. Indeed, the final table of the WPT Five Diamonds attracted major players such as Vanessa Rousso, Ted Lawson, Kirk Morrison, Andrew Roble, John Racener and Antonio Esfandiari. And the only woman who survived to the final was yet found in the head at the start of the day. But it was with brilliance and competence that 'The Magician' won the trophy. After having eliminated Rousso in the third place, Esfandiari show at the final head's up which opposed him to Andrew Robl that he was still a very good player, which earned him this beautiful second victory.

Apart from the Casino Es Saadi Marrakesh, Morocco is now a discovering a new poker destination with the Mazagan Beach Resort. This large hotel complex with 500 rooms, a golf course and a lavish casino is located at one hour from Casablanca. It is a real palace, which attracts tourists. But the Mazagan Beach resort is also a prominent place in the poker world. It's also a preferred meeting point by poker enthusiasts with its monthly poker tournament even if until now, the complex has not yet hosted major tournaments like the World Poker Tour. Furthermore, with the Mazagan Poker Million tournament which just crowned Roger Hairabedian as a champion of the 10 th edition, the Mazagan Beach Resort attracted many famous poker players like the French Fabrice Soulier and Antoine Saout.

The tournament European Poker Tour (EPT) which will take place in the middle of this last month of the year will probably be the last major event for amateur and professional of poker for 2010. A great meeting which will be hosted by the capital of the Czech Republic. Is it a coincidence or is it deliberately from organizers but for the seventh season of the EPT, Prague will host for the fourth consecutive time during this moth of December the tournament. Compared to the organization of last year, there's no change to report. This Czech stage of six days, from December 13 to 18, 2010 is in the mid-way of the program provided by the European Poker Tour.

The movie "That's poker," a bestseller autobiography " Profession bluffeuse", a luxury clothing brand, DVD production, presentations and media entertainment are already at her credit. And then the professional player Isabelle Mercier alias 'No Mercy' adds to her record a documentary film dedicated to her. 12 months were needed to produce the documentary film entitled "No Mercy - A destiny in hand" which tells the story of an exceptional player known by the nickname No Mercy. During an entire year, the team of Carron Films spent all necessary means to zoom in detail the life of this player from Quebec. Another dream that come true for the one who won more than $ 1 million in tournaments.

The die is cast, the city of Lille has been designated to host the next edition of the Championship final by National Team Clubs. After weighing the pros and cons of both quality records submitted to accommodate the new meeting's final poker than what the CNEC 2011, the Club Club has selected the project of a well known poker club Lille . This competition, which marked three years since the lives of poker clubs and associations in France is a great event to successfully initiated by the CDC. This time, a score of clubs scattered throughout the national territory will go to the city of Lille in February next year to compete for the national title team.

The 2010 season of the Unibet Open closed its door in the city of London. A poker tournament that was played this weekend in the snow. Reason that explains that a few participants honored this appointment in London. Thus, they were finally 273 players to make the trip in the British capital to compete. Only nine of them joined the finals including three players from Bulgaria. Is classified chipleader of this provisional standings Simeon Naydenov who had 1,061,000 chips in his possession, which was the fourth of the chips in play and double the second ranking, Spaniard Jose Vicente Besalduch Traigueros. Moreover, the final duel saw the face-to-face meeting between the Dutchman Paul Valkenburg who held the moment is 2.9 million chips and the Bulgarian Yordan Mitrentzov expected to 900,000 coins.

100% poker for women, the prestigious Cercle Haussmann in Paris has just witnessed it. Indeed, the 36 poker players that have completed the qualification that took place during a few months participated in the final of the ladies tournament Queens of Poker on last Sunday, December 5. Note that celebrities and poker professional filled the field to offer the public a very professional battle. The champion of the first edition, Estelle Denis, was supposed to defend her title but Alana Parienté crossed her road to the coronation.

Charities taking the form of poker tournaments are increasing as these events are great ways to raise money to support charities. In January of the year 2011, the tournament Ante for Autism will be held for the third consecutive year in Las Vegas. This is a charity tournament organized to benefit the Autism Speaks organization which mission is to ensure public awareness campaigns about autism, to support research and help families of autistic children. Doug Krinsky, director of sales of Restonic and parent of an autistic child, will chair once again the tournament to be held on January 25, 2011 at 7:00 p.m at Binion's in downtown Las Vegas.

Deemed to be the destinations of skiing, the French mountain summits change their marketing policy for the New Year 2011. Original events are scheduled in the calendar of French ski resorts including ice sculpting competition and diving but mainly poker tournaments that take place respectively on the 2 Alpes and Montgenèvre ski resorts. Two poker appointments will take place over a period of at least 5 days in these places and it will be opportunities to promote the discipline even if poker tour organized in the Hautes-Alpes promises exciting rewards.

Poker in Asia is booming such as around the world. The famous circuit Asian Poker Tour (APT) has always knew a lot of success since its launch. The tournament organizers are targeting international players and offer a buy-in quite high. To allow local and regional poker enthusiasts who cannot perform such a buy-in to participate in an international event, the organizers of the APT decided to create a new circuit named “APT Asian Series” which particularity is a moderate buy-ins. The event will take place in several cities in Asia and for its launch, the city of Cebu in the Philippines was chosen as host of the first stage of this series of tournament.

After the German and Swiss tournaments, the 3 Lander Poker Tour (3LPT) of countries speaking German is back in Austria to close in beauty the inaugural season of the largest Germanic circuit. The Montesino Pokertainment Center in Vienna will host for a period of 6 days, from December 7 to 12, 2010 the grand finale of the 3 LPT. Another prestigious appointment which, after the previous success of other stops in Germany and Switzerland, will surely attract many players in terms of participation. A beautifully deepstack will be in the program and will mark thus this final phase.

Since its launch, the World Poker Tour Five Diamonds (WPT) always presented an exceptional final table and this edition 2010 follow this same idea. Indeed, six professional poker players will fill the final table and it is certain that the public will see an battle of exception during the final day. Moreover, the first 5 days of competition of this WPT Bellagio did not miss action. On Day 5, there were only 15 survivors among the 438 registered for the championship. Early in the day, Esfandiari alias "The Magician" has always been ahead in search of a new WPT title. But throughout the qualification for the finals, his path has been tough face to opponents of size as Vanessa Rousso. Rousso eventually take over and raised the big pile of 5,830,000 chips.

For the latest and 10th edition of the tournament Magazan Poker Million, a multitude of poker stars invaded the Magazan Beach Resort in Morocco. All battled hard to win a share of the huge great prize pool of dirhams 1,060,000. Note that the buy-in of the Main Event amounted Dirhams 22,000 equivalent to € 2,000 and 53 players registered to participate. The godfather of Moroccan poker, Roger Hairabedian thus imposed on his land of predilection by beating great players of the final field as Alain Roy, Antoine Saout, Sarah Herzali, Marion Medellec, Antonin Teissere or Fabrice Soulier and closed in beauty the event by winning the victory. By eliminating Jeremy Palvini during the final duel, Big Roger joined the ranks of Mylène Cogan, and Daniel Elkeslassy and Bennani Smires, previous winners of the tournament and was awarded of the title and the first prize of € 33,000. Note that the top 10 players were part of the paid list.

The final confrontation of the Regional Committees of Poker in the West of France, was held in Angers this Sunday, December 5, 2010. A last round which took place in an excellent ambiance. For this ultimate appointment, five associations of the Pays de la Loire region answered and meet each other in order to participate in the grand final of the National Championship for club teams of CNDC. During this last Sunday, the final round was played twice, first in the morning and one in the afternoon. By 5 players, each of them represent his clubs in tables, the number of points accumulated by team was based on the ranking of each participant. After the final competition of CRPO, the Poker Club de l’Ouest proved to be the cleverest and will defend the honor of the region at the grand finale of the CNDC in February 2011 which will be played at Lille or La Rochelle.

Despite other international circuits such as the WPT Five Diamond of Las Vegas, the Mazagan Poker Million in Morocco or the Unibet Poker Open in London of last weekend, the second edition of the Cannes Croisette Hold'em Series attracted a lot French players who came to try their luck in the south of France at the Casino Barrière of Cannes on December 3, 4 and 5, 2010. During three intense days, a main event of € 2,000 of buy-in was available to players. With a field of 115 players the majority used in Barrière tournaments such as Jean Jacques Mars, Tristan Clémençon, Cédric Demore, Giuseppe Zarbo, Jean Pierre Gleize, Vivian Anseline or Eric Haik and many poker pros at the start, the atmosphere was good for this appointment.

The survivors among the 438 players in the starting field of the World Poker Tour Five Diamonds (WPT) still fight to succeed to Daniel Alaei. The tournament is a success not only because the turnout was quite high but a large crowd of well-known players also were also noticed. Indeed, Bellagio is going through an exceptional poker event at the moment. In the lead at the starting of Day 3, Antonio Esfandiari continues to lead the main event and sits still as chip leader after the third day of competition. In addition, he gained a large advantage by being the only player holder of a million chips. He is therefore the most qualified among the 54 remaining players to win the sacred and the famous first prize of $ 870,124.

The first two days of competition at the World Poker Tour Five Diamonds (WPT) have indeed closed. In total, the tournament drew 438 poker enthusiasts with a great influx of renowned players including Doyle Brunson who registered late because effectively, organizers decided to extend the registration until the end of the first game levels of the Day 2. With an entry fee set at $ 10,300 for this phase, the WPT Five Diamonds recorded a huge prize pool of $ 4,380,000 which will allow the organizers to reward the champion with a price of $ 870,124.

The third edition of Poker Championship in Morocco in the 2010 season broke the record for participation. The attendance rate has increased 33% throughout the year in which hundreds of players have come to travel to take part in monthly tournaments in the Moroccan league. The competition consists of two tournaments including live at € 500 and € 900 buy-in with deepstack qualitative structures whose starting stack of 10,000 chips and levels of 30 minutes. The championship of the 2010 edition which was played at the casino Es Saadi has rewarded the top 10 players in the standings with a total prize pool with a sum of € 120,000.

For the third consecutive year, the actress Cheryl Hines of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and the champion of the World Series of Poker 2009 (WSOP), Joe Cada will organize once again the tournament All In For Cerebral Palsy, a charity poker tournament to the benefit of One Step Closer Foundation, this Saturday, December 11, 2010 in the prestigious poker room of the casino Venetian. One Step Closer Foundation works to provide a better quality of life for patients suffering from cerebral palsy. Jacob Zalewski who suffered of this disease and is currently designated as president of the foundation was the first organizer of the tournament in 2008. As a fan of poker, he played regularly in various tournaments that were held at the Rio and he also participated in the WSOP, which allowed him to rub celebrities of the game and most of them become his friends and support the Foundation by participating in tournaments.

The Mazagan Poker Million has already achieved a long way and this tournament attracts now a lot of professionals. A monthly meeting which is hosted by the prestigious Mazagan Beach Resort. This beautiful place that aims since its opening to receive great poker tournaments including the Mazagan Poker Million project. For the month of December and the last of this year 2010, a brave handful players numbering about sixty faced each other from the beginning to the end of the week as part of the main event with a buy- in fixed at € 2,000.

The three days Poker Night Fever of Monte Carlo will be one of the inescapable appointment for the last month of 2010. A new and ultimate edition will be held in the poker room of Sun Casino. Besides these three days of competition, the other five days are reserved to many satellites and the main event. More than a week of play to come that will attract a lot of famous players and fans installed on the Mediterranean coast and the followers from the four corners of France and even from all Europe. The city of Monte Carlo will be again the capital of poker with the coming of the next tournament which has its place in the annals of this December.

The second edition of the exclusively Ladies tournament, Queens of Poker will be held this Sunday in the French capital. A new meeting placed under the sign of a significant improvement in the organization. Karina Nogueira, the first responsible will make available to girls a touch typically feminine to attract more participants, at least fifty. Among the innovations added, lots of small gifts and extra attention wait for players. Besides the money involved, participants will receive vouchers for massages, jewelry and hair care.

Now, the calendar of the European Deepstack 2011 has just been unveiled. Furthermore, four tournaments will constitute this European poker deepstack championship to be as interesting as each other. To begin, the 2011 season will start with a come back in Ireland, more precisely at the Ballsbridge Inn, Dublin. This first annual meeting of the 4th edition will take place from February 1 to 6 of next year and will set a buy-in of € 550, 50,000 tokens will be offered for players to start with rounds of 90 minutes. There will also be two side events of € 200 and € 300. A field of 1,000 players is expected at that time after the success of the Irish tournament of 2010, which ambition is again another big crowds.

The last two steps of the program of the France Poker Series (FPS) will be played this month of December and in February 2011. After the first series produced respectively in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Divonne-les-Bains, Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, and Lyon, the next appointment of this French poker circuit will be played at Forges-les-Eaux on December 18 and 19, 2010 while the big final of FPS will take place at Cercle Haussmann, in the French capital on February9 to 13, 2011. Moreover, a France Poker Series ranking will be unveiled at the end of the first season and the winner will be entitled to a package for the European Poker Tour (EPT) and a sponsorship deal.

The World Cup of Poker will be back with its seventh edition. 56 nations will take part in the race to be among the first seven to compete in the grand final scheduled for the first months of next year. Previously, four players who will compose each nation should compete one to another in a series of tournaments for a buy-in of one dollar. Then, the four best players will represent their national team at various stages of the competition for that title. The seventh grand final of the World Cup of Poker will be part of the Caribbean Poker Adventure, which will be held from January 9 to 17, 2011 in which seven teams of the selection will play at Atlantis Resort and Casino, in the Bahamas.

Already assured to be qualified for the national final of the Club Championship, the Grand Chalon Poker is actively preparing to have a place for the individual national championship of next year in France. For the president of the club of Chalon, Dominique Saint-Gilles, he is pleased with the course of his club that reached its targets, because at the moment, the club remains in the first place for the East Inter Zone qualification. This team of Chalon composed of Benjamin Bossuet, Ludovic Berret, Dominique de Saint Gilles, Pascal Vilette, Jerome Carlet, Emmanuel Depessville, Maxime Laforest and David Antunes ranked three times second during the last meeting in Lons-le-Saunier, will still move in mid-December to Sanvignes to participate in the fifth and final interregional round.

The year 2010 will be like other years marked by the active participation of many associations and clubs of poker on the French territory in the telethon. This time, all funds collected will be donated to the credit of the French Association against Myopathies. To do this, two days of this week will be filled by various events including poker tournaments of all kinds. In general, the days of Friday 3 and Saturday, December 4, 2010 will be spent by the various clubs and associations to motivate French poker enthusiasts to raise money for charity. It is about giving a helping hand to people with Muscular Dystrophy.

309 players from 21 Breton clubs were present last weekend at Dinard, Britain, France to honor the fourth edition of the Brittany Championship of Poker. Each participant started the first day of Saturday, November 27 with 15,000 chips and blinds of 25/50 and rounds of 30 minutes. The day ended then with the qualifying of 76 players who gave appointments in the room Cosec next Sunday, November 28, 2010 to designate at the end of the day the winner of this new edition. As in 2009, the Gwened Poker Club of the city of Vannes took precedence over the other 20 clubs competing in this Brittany championship.

It took twelwe hours to find the winner of the poker tournament held last Saturday by the San Quentin Poker Club at the Palais de Fervaques. The field saw the gathering of 120 players around the twelve tables at the two floors of the palace. A good fun was at the rendezvous of the competition during which looks, devolution attempts, feelings of joy, sighs and tons of applause for those who were forced to leave the tournament follow each other during the successive long confrontation. Moreover, breaks were given after each session of 90 minutes.

The last two days of this current week is to mark in the calendar of French poker enthusiasts. Indeed, to please the passionate fans of the game, the Poker Club du Val d'Essonne will host a major tournament for amateur poker player this weekend from December 4 to 5, 2010. A title of the best amateur player of this year will be at key of this competition which will receive on this occasion some 585 competing players to try to win this prestigious award.

After various stops in seven British towns from Bolton, to Walsall, Coventry, Luton, Manchester, Brighton and Blackpool, London was the final stage of the Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour 2010 (GUKPT). A grand finale that brought together some 207 top p English layers such as the champion of Luton step Neil Channing, the champion of the European Poker Tour Vilamoura Toby Lewis, Vicky Coren or even James Akenhead, the November Nine 2009, but unfortunately, could not reach this ultimate final of GUKPT. This grand finale of the live tournament circuit the most expected in the United Kingdom smiled to Leon Bui who stole the top spot and a sum of £ 144,905.

Five French, two Germans, an Austrian and a Swede, they composed the final table of the World Poker Tour Marrakesh 2010 (WPT) which was played at the casino Es Saadi in Morocco. Another world tournament that ended on the night of Tuesday, November 30, 2010 with as new title holder the German Sebastian Homann, who was the chip leader since the first two days. Thus, he gave no chance to his eight other competitors during this final. By participating in seven major championships and qualified each time for the final table, this seventh final in Morocco proved to be good for this player from Hamburg. The new WPT champion in 2010 in Marrakech won the sum of € 244,508 as a bonus with a ticket for the Main Event of the WPT Bellagio in Las Vegas, in May 2011. This prize is the biggest gain in the career of Homann and it added to the $ 183,537 he accumulated since 2008.

The Montesquieu Hall will host for the third time the third edition of the Dainville poker tournament this Saturday, December 4, 2010. After the two previous editions of 2008 and 2009, which respectively saw the participation of 80 and 140 fans of this game, Bruno Leblanc and his friends of the association « Friends of poker » do not want to stop in so good way to give the necessary assets and offer to this card game and sport discipline its place in society. Breakthrough innovations will be considered for the third annual poker texas hold'em tournament of Dainville during the day of this coming Saturday, according to the president of « Friends of poker ».

Without doubt, players have a bit snubbed this second edition of the World Poker Tour Marrakesh (WPT). If last year's tournament attracted 416 competitors, the competition that took place at the casino Es Saadi met only 222 poker enthusiasts after a very low enrollment of 85 players on Day 1B. Despite this low number of participants, the public witnessed an unprecedented show during its first three days of competition because the field was filled with notable players. Most of major players have already packed up on Day 1B like Ludovic Lacay, Arnaud Mattern, Liz Lieu and David Benyamine while David Kitai, Roger Hairabedian, Valentin Messina, Petre Ionescu and Julien Leonard were able to resist and were in good position for the following of the tournament on Day 2.

The year 2011 will begin with a major poker festival in Los Angeles. Indeed, the program for the next Los Angeles Poker Classic (LAPC) has just been unveiled. From January 19 to March 3, 2011, therefore, the Commerce Casino will host the next edition of LAPC 2011 with 53 events with buy-in set between $ 125 and $ 10,000. Poker enthusiasts will once again have the chance to fight for the title of two key events including the LAPC Main Event $ 10,000 and the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational. Note that the tournament offers $ 20 million guaranteed prize pool. To attract more competitors and delight fans of the circuit, organizers concote a multitude of tournaments with modest buy-in allowing players to win attractive gains.

Some rare facts but could happen again and even spread to every international appointment stature come to tarnish the image of the prestigious poker tournaments that were held recently in Barcelona during the European Poker Tour (EPT). After that of Berlin earlier this year, the poker world indeed live another mishap. Incidents which at first glance, have repercussions on the morale of players who were there to take part in competitions. Indeed, players had the unpleasant surprise of being attacked in the streets of the Catalan capital. These acts targeted as victims American players in the Catalan street who were attacked by thugs. These poker enthusiasts who are Carter Phillips, Williams Reynolds and Kayvan Payman however bothered to travel to Spain to compete against other players in this discipline. They now feel insecure.

A new stage of the European Poker Tour has been reached. Barcelona, the Catalan capital hosted last week for a period of 6 days non-stop this prestigious tournament on the Old Continent. An encounter full of surprises from Day 3 during which the suspense spellbound the audience until the final phase of the competition. The chip counts at the final table that saw eight players fighting to designate the winner of the European race turned in favor of one that was ranked in fifth place, Kent Lundmark. For this stage of EPT that was held at the Hotel Arts Barcelona, the Main Event battle was very interesting from the Day 3 and was lead by the Italian Giuseppe Pantaleo.

Since November 27, 2010, the Casino Es Saadi Marrakesh hosted the second edition of the World Poker Tour Marrakesh (WPT). For the first qualifying day, the organizers have registered a small field of 137 players. However, competitors composed of a majority of French players and a few notable stars of poker circuit offered a unique show to the public who came there to assist at the event. After 11 hours of confrontation, the starting field has shrunk to 86 players. The battle continued unabated until it only left 51 survivors for Day 2. The German Sebastian Homann, the French Nicolas Levi and Andrei One of Romania were qualified in the lead. And the champion of Latin American Poker Tour of Mar Del Plata, Dominik Nitsche, the winner of the grand finale of the Spanish Poker Tour Lloret Del Mar, Tristan Clémençon, Benjamin Pollack and Paul Trigo Pires are among the well known players who are part of the field of Day2.

Because of his passion for photography and poker, Jules Pochy just released an album entitled « Made in Poker ». Jules Pochy, childhood friend of the French poker player Fabrice Soulier was with fans of the game throughout different major live tournaments to live with them the highlights of events like the war on gaming tables, the behavior of competitors during a difficult situation caused by the adrenaline rush and the moments of happiness during the awarding prize ceremony. Thus, major tournaments orgnized in famous casinos in Las Vegas, London, Paris, Macau, Los Angeles, Berlin, Barcelona, Atlantic City and Bahamas were summarized by the author in this book. Each photo has a caption describing the event. But in this book of 250 pages, Jules Pochy also wanted to reveal a different picture of the poker world.

The city of Frévent will be well animated this coming weekend with the telethon that will take place during the three days of the first week-end of December 2010. In addition, this event could attract more a lot of particpants thanks to the program rather original concocted by the secretary of the association Fish'n Shark of Sainte-Catherine-lès-Arras. Indeed, William Philippot propose in conjuction with this act of charity a poker tournament to be held for the benefit of the Telethon. With the success of Pokerthon at St. Catherine last year, the current secretary of the association Fish'n Shark rissue that with this first Pokerthon of Frevent. As this kind of animation can be done only once in the year and as poker is a game of chance prohibited to the public in France, the Pokerthon, which will be held this Sunday, December 5, 2010 at Frévent, will be a tournament that will accommodate up to 80 people divided in tables of eight players.

During these recent years, gambling industry in Florida and Pennsylvania boomed. The two States became a privileged meeting point for followers of the gambling because some poker players have been glimpsed at casinos in the city of Florida testing the competence and skill level of local players if we only quote players as Phil Ivey and Mike Matusow. In Pennsylvania, the city of New Jersey is becoming a real capital of gambling especially since lawmakers authorized the expansion of gaming tables in casinos. Thus, the city gets a big influx of poker enthusiasts. For the year 2010-2011, the World Series of Poker Tournament Circuit (WSOPC) will stop in the two States to the delight of local fans of poker.

The field of 758 participants of the European Poker Tour Barcelona was quickly narrowed at the end of Day 3. Indeed, after a hectic day of confrontation under the sunny skies of the Catalan city, there were only 24 survivors among the 112 poker players who invaded the poker room of the Gran Casino at the start of Day 3. Among the six representatives of the Hexagon who survived to Day 2, only Candido Gonçalves resisted and is in 12th place with 875,000 chips in hand. The famous French poker pro Bertrand Grospellier had a miserable defeat as Jan Boubli champion in 2005 and Gilles Michaud. Some notable players of the party were also éliminated without having reached the paid seats as Ruben Visser, the online poker pro Bryan Pellegrino, Surinder Sunar and Carlos Mortensen, but also the chip leader on Day 2 Bryn Kenney victim of Thor Stang attack.

Designed to accommodate 200 participants, the Cercle Cadet, a French poker circle, had finally contain some 234 poker players for the inaugural celebrities tournament « Stars on Fire ». A famous meeting but also a prestigious gathering during which too many amateurs and professionals were present. Thus, the Parisian circle succeeded in its objective of uniting is this poker tournament a lot of celebrities ready to pay for tickets earlier this week. The first tournament of « Stars on Fire » held this Monday, November 22, 2010 against a payment of € 150 has been attended by about thirty people, all poker enthusiasts like Michel Boujenah, Toifilou Maoulida, Alain Bouzigues, Pascal Sellem, the Castaldi father and son, Frederique Bel, Laurent Baffie, Tomer Sisley, Alexander Delperrier, Philippe Candeloro, Tex, Tunisiano, Samuel Le Bihan, Bruno Solo, Roschdy Zem and Moundir were each awarded of a bounty of €100.

For the 2011 version of Poker Caribbean Adventure (PCA), there's a very interesting news in the organization of this tournament. Besides the usual poker festival that make this circuit as famous as those of the North American Poker Tour, the Latin American Poker Tour and the European Poker Tour, this new edition of next year will bring a new ingredient in its program. For the ten days of competition in the Bahamas, a compulsory fishing competition will be part of the tournament. The organizers of the Poker Caribbean Adventure program with the festivities of January 7 to 16, 2011 the same number of tournaments as of January 2010. The change will be effected by cons in the quality of events offered to players who can choose between a wide range of buy-in from $ 300 to $ 100,000.
 
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