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Leader in the world of online poker, PokerStars do not forget to reward its subscribers by various very attractive events. The "Road to 100 Billion" is part of it. It is an operation that is celebrated every five billionth hands played in cash games on the poker room by giving to players impressive prizes. On the sidelines of the celebration, the site organizes the event Mega Milestone. The principle of the game is to sit on regular cash game tables of the website and play to win a milestone hand. Note that the poker room will soon celebrate its 90 billionth hand. Thus, players interested in this event can participate in hands 89,700,000,000 to 90,000,000,000. Its kickoff is scheduled for this Saturday. The last hand, that is to say, the 90 billionth will therefore be played six days later.

The framework of online poker market in Belgium is the subject of many criticism from several operators. According to reports, they seized the European Commission which decided to seek clarification from the Belgian State concerning this matter. It announced that an infringement procedure will be launched against Belgium because the country does not comply with the clause of the Treaties. Note that twelve operators, including William Hill, Sportingbet and Bwin.party, decided to denounce fervently the irregularities committed by the Belgian State in the field of online poker market legislation on last November 19.

While some people spent their time following football game on Canal + on Sunday, others remained nailed face to their computer screen while listening to Radio Multiplex to discover the name of the new member of the Winamax poker room Team Pro. Indeed, there was a great suspense till the announcing of the name of the French rap icon Bruno Lopes called Kool Shen. This recruitment is of course the result of the great performances of the rapper in poker during these last months. In fact, this year, Kool Shen shook the table of the Euro Finals of Poker, the World Poker Tour National Series in Cannes. In addition to these victories, he was fourth at the European Poker Tour Madrid, seventh at the Word Poker Tour National Series Mauritius and managed also to reach several other cashes, if we only mention his many beautiful performance in online poker.

Each year, the charity and poker organization of Rennes organize a charity poker tournament entitled “Pokerthon à Rennes”. It is an event created on the initiative of Damien, a poker enthusiast of 26 years suffering from myopathy. Profits from the event will be paid in all for the telethon and will be used to help patients in the purchase of medications and improve their quality of life. This year's tournament will be held at the Cercle de Poker of Rennes on December 8 and 9. Note that this is the sixth edition of the event and last year, the organizers registered a great success because 311 players responded to their invitation, generating a profit of several thousand Euro.

Barrière Poker wants to pass on its deficit of € 30 million of last year. For this, the poker room does not skimp on ways to attract more players. Recently, Barrière Poker requested the service of Estelle Denis and other brand ambassadors for its promotion. This time, the room offers to its members and new players a new promotion called "Boost It" which will allows them to enter more easily in its loyalty program. By joining Cash Game tables, tournaments and Sit & Go, players increase their Status Points and Shop Points. Status Points define the status of each player in the program while the Shop Points offer them prizes in the Barrière Poker shop.

Because of competition, online poker websites on the French market continues to prepare various attractive promotions. Since November 18, Everest Poker invites poker enthusiasts to enjoy its exceptional offer Cash Game Hero. It is an event that will certainly please regulars of cash game tables with real money. The idea is to play as many raked hands as possible. A large reward amounting € 30,000 is at stake and it should be noted that this online poker room decided to create four categories of games corresponding to the software auction categories. There is the Micro that has a buy-in of € 0.01 / € 0.02 to € 0.05 / € 0.10, the category Low accessible for a buy-in of € 0.10 / 0.20 € to € 0.50 / € 1, the category Average € 1 / € 2 to € 3 / € 6 and the High grade of 5 € / 10 € to 10 € / 20 €.

The High Roller of the France Poker Series held at the Cercle Cadet kept its promises: a nice poker tournament which brought together many players, the stars of French poker and lesser known players. In all, there were 51 players who registered for the tournament of € 3,000 buy-in, with big names such as Alain Roy, Antonin Teisseire, Bertrand Grospellier, Eugene Katchalov, Jean Pierre Petroli and Roger Hairabedian, thus generating a prize pool of € 138,067. So in the end, it was Ilan Boujenah who won the title of the tournament allowing him to pocket at the same time the first prize of € 49,400 after a head's up against Omar Lakdhari.

Since July 2012, the former world champion, Greg Raymer, continues to expand his achievements in the poker circuit Heartland Poker Tour (HPT). As a reminder, he won three HPT titles; the first was acquired in July during the HPT Mexico, the second in September at HPT River City and the third in October at the stage Prairie Meadows in Iowa. This week, he continued to win at the HPT Open Championship held at Belterra Casino Resort in Indiana, a victory that let him pocket a reward of $ 106,030. Thanks to his performance in the HPT circuit, the poker pro of 48 years has a total gain of $ 371,967 for this year.

The reign of great players who know so well how to control their emotions at a party and who always succeed at major tournaments may approach or otherwise, more players could reach their levels. A great revolution that could perhaps allow showing less his emotions in poker was appearing. Indeed, to get rid of all facial expressions that can communicate unintended information (tells) in a poker game, the Manhattan plastic surgeon, Dr. Jack Berdy, created a new product called "Pokertox." If any player can hide his cards to his opponents, it is virtually impossible to avoid the manifestation of the "tells", that frown and wrinkle of the forehead.

In 2013, the islands of the Indian Ocean will be honored for the inaugural tour of the Mascarene Poker Series. In its first season, the MPS will stop in the most prestigious and idyllic locations in the Indian Ocean that become a reference destination during holiday periods. From January 17 to October 22, 2013, the Mascarene Poker Series will crisscross the Indian Ocean through Nosy Be (Madagascar), Seychelles, Reunion and Mauritius. Each stage of the MPS season I will have mega deepstack tournaments and satellite without forgetting tournaments with theme that will be available in Omaha Hi, Split Format or Mix-Games. The Mega Deepstack tournament will consist of a € 550 buy-in Main Event based on a structure of 50,000 starting chips with levels of 60 minutes, a € 250 buy-in Side Event (25,000 chips, 30 min levels) and a Mini-High Roller of € 1,200 buy-in (50,000 chips, 90 min levels).

In addition to the tax control here and there on the majority of professional poker players and online poker operators, the tax administration in France could go further and this time, the deputy of the majority, Yann Galut wants to go further and wishes to pass a new draft tax on exceptional gains, taxing gambling and poker. The project consists of a 15% tax on all earnings over € 30,000. This tax should include both professional players and amateur in tournaments. Nevertheless, we still do not know the details of the project especially the taking procedure, will it be made in the income statement or directly taken by the poker room?

In France, the online poker room PokerStars has just offered to all poker enthusiasts a private tournament entitled "ElkY Wanted." As its name suggests, the room invites all of its members for a free and very attractive tournament with its Team Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, a tournament with a guaranteed prizepool of € 10,000. The principle is simple and quite nice! Just play better than ElkY to be in the money. PokerStars gives appointment to all players and members on November 28 at 8:00 pm. To participate in the tournament, players must go through a qualification. For this, two options are available to participants, by participating in the tournament on Tuesday night or by participating in cash games throughout the week.

The Cercle Cadet hosted last Sunday the Day 3 of the Main Event of the France Poker Series Paris. 148 players returned to the poker room Cercle Cadet but after ten levels of 60 minutes, there were only 16 players who could continue the competition. The challenge of the day was of course to qualify for the next rounds, but there was also the battle for the money list. 81 players were in the money and the first eliminated "In The Money" took home € 1,900 while the winner of the FPS Paris will pocket € 150,000. The bubble burst when Jean Marie Peyron fell at the 82nd place, at one place of the ITM. Moritz Naber occupied then the head of the 16 survivors of the day with a stack of 2,230,000 chips against 2,050,000 chips for Julien Sitbon.

While whole France was about to congratulate their fellow who was near a triumph in Latin America, it was finally the American Scott Jordan who managed to win this poker tournament. Chipleader at the start of the final table, Maxence Debar had all the chance to win the trophy. In addition, he contributed to the elimination of several finalists as Roberto Vahilis who was awarded the 8th place, the Argentines Aramis Salvadori and Jose Barbero who occupy respectively the 7 th and 8 th place, Brent Sheirbon (5th) and Jorge Gonzalez Pirela (4th). Note that the local player Oscar Barriga help him in some of these operations. Despite his performance, he was also eliminated. He settled then for the third place with $ 81,370 prize.

The results of the Asian Championship of Poker and the Masters Classic brought a lot of change in the Global Poker Index (GPI) ranking. As for the top 4, Dan Smith, Jason Mercier, Bertrand Grospellier and Marvin Rettenmaier kept their place. But, Andrew Lichtenberger lost two places and is now in the 7 th position. The player who now completes the top 5 is Stephen O'Dwyer. Philipp Gruissem still remains at the 6 th position. Runner-up of the ACOP, Mike Watson also won two places and is now in the 8th position. Jonathan Karamilikis was also propeled at the 107 th place ranking by winning the High Roller trophy of the same tournament. His ability to play poker was awarded.

This year, the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) made its first stop in Auckland. After four years of organizing, the ANZPT which is the largest live poker tournament in Oceania was held since last week in Auckland, at Skycity Casino and will not end until November 25. Since Saturday, poker was honored at this gambling room with the satellites for the Main Event, the Event 1 ($ 550 NLH Turbo) and the Event 2 ($ 330 NLH 10 to 6-Handed). The Main Event of $ 2,200 buy-in will be held from November 21 to 25. In all, the ANZPT Auckland / Skycity Festival of Poker will have seven events apart from the Main Event. In addition to the above two Events, Skycity Casino will receive the $ 550 PLO 8-Handed (Event 3), the $ 550 NLH Turbo (Event 4), the $ 220 Ladies Event (Event 5), the $ 550 Teams Event (Event 6 ) and the $ 330 Deep Stack (Event 7).

A few days ago, Emil Olsson was just a poker enthusiast. Currently, he is one great player as he won the prestigious title of the World Poker Tour Copenhagen (WPT). Chipleader at the start of the final table, the young Swede had nevertheless his share of suffering before acceding in the top of the ranking in the poker room of Casino Copenhagen. Indeed, while there were only four players competing, Philip Jacobsen took the status of leader from Olsson. However, the Dane proved till the beginning of the final table that he is the favorite of the party. For example, he contributed to the elimination of Jan Djerberg at the 6 th position. He was followed by Robin Ylitalo.

The trophy, is the goal of poker players when participating in a tournament. For professionals, getting a large number of major titles is also part of their ambitions. However, the path to success is very complex especially for some tournaments. In fact, there are five events that have a reputation for being particularly difficult to play. At the fifth position is the European Poker Tour Copenhagen (EPT). This event is often marked by the presence of a field bringing together the best online poker players. At the fourth position is the $ 25,000 World Poker Tour Championship taking place at Bellagio in May. This tournament also attracts many poker pros in the world, most of whom already won a victory in the WPT.

Several big names in poker registered good results during their participation in the various major tournaments organized these days. Some were able to improve their position in the standings Player of The Year 2012 (POY). In this context, we can mention the performance of Noah Schwartz at the World Poker Tour Jacksonville (WPT) which allowed him to earn 1,080 points and climb at the 17 th place in the POY. Note that this player from Florida won the trophy in the no-limit hold'em tournament of $ 3,500 buy-in and pocketed the sum of $ 402,970. Currently, he has a total gain of $ 1,076,035. The closing of the Asia Championship of Poker Macau High Roller of HKD$ 250,000 marked also this week. As a reminder, this event trophy was awarded to the Australian Jonathan Karamilikis. Runner-up at this event, Jeff Rossiter managed to climb at the 48 th place of the POY.

The famous European Masters of Poker tournament (EMOP) made a stop in Dublin for the fourth step of the season. It may be that this is the last edition of the tournament because, with the closure of IGT Network, the future of the tournament is in the dark. Note that this online poker room is the partner and principal sponsor of the EMOP. Pending more information about this, fans of the circuit can still enjoy this visit in Dublin. This Friday, November 16 so, they are expected at Clontarf Castle Dublin to participate in the main event of € 1,100 buy-in of the EMOP IV. Last year, the same event was attended by 303 players at the Emerald Isle and ended with the victory of the Danes Soren Larsen who ousted the Irish Dara O'Kearney in the final duel, which allowed him pocketing a prize of € 71,210. Until here, Dublin has always been a great destination of poker and organizers hope to save such a great success for this new edition.

The final table of the World Poker Tour Jacksonville 2012 was held as scheduled on Tuesday. The day did not really reserved surprise because the chipleader at the start of the final, Noah Schwartz, kept his lead till the final head's up with Byron Kaverman. At the beginning of the day, six of the 477 registered players entered in the final table, and they were Byron Kaverman, Hans Winzeler, Lee Markholt, Noah Schwartz, Brian Senie and Ryan Hartmann. Noah Schwartz started the day with 44% of the chips in play and qualified rapidly in a more than favorable position for his first WPT title, well before the final.

Deepstack tournaments attract more and more poker enthusiasts. Indeed, this type of tournament gives to the best players more chance to win the trophy. Among the most popular Deepstack events inside players, there is the Deepstack Open (DSO). The tour made stops in Vienna, the largest city in Austria and it was a great success. They were 328 participants who were present at the poker room of Montesino Casino to compete for the title of the main event of € 550 buy-in. After three days of intense competition, the winner stood out and it was the Danish Martin Stausholm. He managed to dominate the local player Benjamin Spiehs during final duel. With this victory, the Danish pocketed then the first prize amounting € 34,850. His runner-up is left for his part with a sum of € 20,970.

The World Series of Poker 2012 has been a great success. And to support the reputation of those mythical tournaments, organizers are obliged to increase the level and the quality of the organization. This year, 61 bracelets were distributed during the long days of the World Series of Poker. Las Vegas hosted 74,766 players and the prize pool at stake reached $ 222 million. In 43 editions, never the WSOP reached these figures. For next year, the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas promises to reproduce even grander festivities. The 44th edition of the World Series of Poker will begin on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 and will only end on Tuesday, July 16, 2013, which means 49 days of non-stop tournament.

The winner of the prestigious trophy Asia Player of The Year is the Japanese Yosuke Sekiya. After having finished 2nd in the Macau Poker Cup Championship, the Japanese already inscribed his name in the top of this ranking list of the best player in the continent. Despite the presence of contenders for the title who also deserve this prize, there was among others Nicky Tao Jin, Celina Lin, Tony Chang, Justin Chan or Jay Tan, and despite their good performance, Sekiya has not been dethroned. Note that throughout this year, the Japanese recorded a nice prize-list : a fifth place at the Red Dragon deepstack of HKD $ 1,350, a third place in the Red Dragon HKD $ 3,600 NLHE, a victory at the Red Dragon Bounty NLHE of HKD $ 2,250, a sixth place at the Red Dragon Bounty HKD $ 2,250, a 12 th place at the Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) NLHE Deepstack of HKD $ 9,200 and a 9 th place in the ACOP NLHE Turbo of HKD$ 2,250.

While Denmark welcomes the first day of the WPT Copenhagen, the WPT Jacksonville reached its final table on the other side of the Atlantic. This step on the American soil of the WPT assembled a field of 477 players but only 28 players were selected at the start of the Day 3. After 14 hours of play, there were only six players for the final table. Noah Schwartz is the chipleader of the final table and is already on track for his first poker title with his well stocked stack representing nearly the half of the chips in this final. In fact, Schwartz has 6,255,000 chips while his pursuer has less than 2 million chips. Hans Winzeler who occupies the second place in the chip count has 1,965,000 chips and the rest of the field is just behind like Brian Senie (1,865,000), Lee Markholt (1.72 million), Ryan Hartmann (1,400,000) and Byron Kaverman (1,075,000).

Winner during the live final of the United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour Online (UKIPT), the young German Wojtek Barzantny is again under the spotlight by winning the £ 770 main event of the UKIPT Bristol. This is the second time in his career that he rides on the top of the podium in the poker room of Gala Harbourside Casino. Chipleader at the start of the final table of eight, Barzantny has still had his ups and downs before earning his place for the final duel with the cash game specialist James Greenwood. Indeed, after the departure of Jonathan Price, Niali Murray and Craig Goddard for the 8th, 7th and 6 th place, Barzantny had a lot of difficulty. But he recovered his loss when Sidark, Forrest and Robert Bull surrendered, the German found himself again in the lead. He therefore had an advantage in chips at the start of the final heads'up. And the logic of his domination was observed until the end.

For its first stopover in the Languedoc Roussillon region, the World Poker Tour National Gruissan was a real success. Admittedly, it was not as busy as some steps of the WPT played in major European cities but a field of 268 participants generating a prizepool of € 346,420 has still been recorded during the main event of € 1,650 buy-in. And the main event ended with the victory of Christophe Palmeri, that enabled him thus to pocket € 91,000. With him, 35 other players received a portion of the prizepool. And many of the well known poker players in France were present at the casino Le Phoebus to play this title of the WPT National Gruissan. Jean-Christophe Deville, Isabel Baltazar, Claude Marbleu, Mikael Azoylay, Yannick Bonnet, Philippe Ktorza and Stephan Gerin were among those who reached the paid listing, ranking respectively in the 8th, 10th, 12th, 19th, 21th, 29th and 36th.

The 21st edition of the tournament Masters Classics of Poker (MCOP) was held in the poker room of beautiful Holland Casino Amsterdam. Despite the holding of various major tournaments in different cities of the world, the event had a lot of success because it drew 212 players during its main event of € 5,250 buy-in. A lot of top players have been part of this field if we only name Dominik Nitsche, Marvin Rettenmaier, Ilan Boujenah and Juha Helppi. But it's the German pro Ole Schemion who triumphed. Author of a great victory at the Partouche Poker Tour 2012, the German continues to shine and had just embellished his record with a new title. By beginning the final table as chipleader, he kept his place until the end.

The world of poker has seen a great revolution since the time when Chris Moneymaker was crowned world champion in 2003. Indeed, the new generation has taken a prominent place in major poker tournaments and they were judged by their success in these events. By drawing up a classification of players who experienced great success in their poker pro career, Phil Hellmuth is ahead. He holds the record number of bracelets of the WSOP because he has 13. He is also the only player to have won a WSOP and a WSOPE title. In the second position is Doyle Brunson who has 10 WSOP bracelets, two were won successively. Phil Ivey throne in the third position. At the top of the All-Time Money List just before Esfandiari's victory at the Big One For One Frop, he holds 8 WSOP bracelets and has more than $ 17 million in earnings. The Canadian Daniel Negreanu is in the 4 th position. He has four WSOP titles and more than $ 16 million in prize money.

The France Poker Series Paris 2012 began on Monday with the first day which was attended by 82 players. This field generated a provisional prizepool of € 75,440 which will be added to that of the Day 1B, a day that should bring more participation. After nine levels of 45 minutes, half of the field already left the Cercle Cadet and they are only 47 players who were qualified for the Day 2. At the end of the day, Junior Aderonmu occupies the first place in the chip count with 126,500 chips but players like Florian Collard (105,200), Jérémy Dubois (104,200) or Tigrine Sofiane (100,900) are behind with stacks exceeding 100,000 chips.

Last weekend was also an opportunity for the Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex to host the High Rollers of the Asia Championship of Poker. This event was particularly interesting because the buy-in was HK $ 250,000 and, of course, many professional players on the international level were present at this appointment. These include among others the presence of Joseph Cheong, John Juanda, Phil Ivey and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. The ACOP High Roller of this new edition of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau brought together a total of 39 players generating a prizepool of HK $ 9,266,400 and the last player of the ITM received then HK $ 740,400.

It was at the Phoebus casino of Gruissan that the 68 poker enthusiasts gathered to compete for the title of the first stage of the ACF Poker Tour season 2, last week-end. A prize pool of € 46,000 has been met in this competition of € 750 buy-in and the largest share of an amount of € 13,000 was awarded to the winner, who is none other than the native of Paris, Michel Leibgorin. It should however be noted that big names in the poker world were in the list of competitors for this event. There were among others Jean Jacques Mars, Jean Paul Pasqualini and Marc Marty who ranked respectively 4th, 6th and 9th.

The final table of the tournament Asia Championship began on Sunday, November 11 in the poker room of the Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex. Nine players took part but in the end, it's Xing Zhou who was awarded the victory, however, he was the closest competitor threatened by elimination. He indeed managed to win and was awarded the position of chipleader in a few hands. Henry Wang was the first to leave the table. He was followed by Tom Alner, Andrew Hinirichsen, Tsugunari Toma, Alan Sass and Jacques Zaicik who are classified respectively in the 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th and 4th place.

Now, the full calendar of the season XI of the poker circuit World Poker Tour (WPT) has just been unveiled. Many steps will take place in the largest cities of America and Europe. The main step of the season will be that of Las Vegas. This is the WPT World Championship at Bellagio that will be held from May 18 to 24, 2013. Two major tournament will be in the program at this stage which are the final of $ 25,000 buy-in and the $ 100,000 High-Roller. The tournament that will inaugurat the year 2013 will be that of Atlantic City. Fans of the circuit will therefore meet at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa from 27 January 2013.

The Day 2 of the Main Event of the Asia Championship of Poker, part of the APPT Macau 2012 was held on Thursday with the 140 survivors of the first day. The Day 2 was marked by the elimination of 84 players which lead to a field of 56 players for the Day 3. At the end of the day of Thursday, Andrew Gaw is at the top of the chip counts with a stack of 329,200 chips while the chipleader of the Day 1, Yue Lam Hin occupies the second place with 303,900 chips. For the Day 3, we find among others Xing Zhou, Tsugunari Toma, Edmund Lee, Henry Wang, Michael Kanaan, Robert Schneider, Paolo Compagno, Rahul Byrraju, Victorino Torres, Raymond Wu, Raiden Kan, Aaron Lim, Chen Rui, Mike Watson, Nicky Jin, Andrew Hinrichsen, Andrew Scott, Jay Tan, Vivian Im, Celina Lin and Angel Guillen.

Last Wednesday, the winner of the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) River Rock has been known. This is John Crncic. The first visit of the tournament in Canada was really successful. The organizers brought together 1,032 participants. It is also the largest poker tournament ever held in the country. Several well known players in the world took part in the event like David Sands, Gavin Smith, Laurence Grondin, Adam Levy, Scott Clements, Doug Lee, Matt Affleck and Jason Koon. They however, didn't went further than the Day 1. At the start of the second day, the field was already greatly reduced. Indeed, there were more than 246 players in the race. And a few times before the bubble burst, other professional players like Matt Jarvis and Greg Mueller were also forced to leave the party.

According to the latest quarterly report of the ARJEL, cash game activities register a major decline which continue to increase the extent of degradation of the French market of online poker. This downward trend affects all online poker rooms on French soil but attendance confirms that some rooms are able to hold their level of turnover. Among the operators which kept the cash game attendance despite this downward trend, we can place in the first three spots on the podium of this past week: Winamax, PokerStars and Partygaming network composed of PMU Poker, PartyPoker and ACFPoker. Thanks to the evolution of its software, the organizing of innovative tournaments and live events, the offering of interesting packages to the players, Winamax still maintain its 1st place with an average of 1,720 cash game players against 1,340 last year.

The APPT Macau began with the victory of Jeff Rossiter at the Asia Championship of Poker Warm-Up of HK $ 25,000. After this event, the tournament continued with the main event: the ACOP Main Event. The Day 1 began on Wednesday with the participation of 184 players who paid the buy-in of HK $ 100,000. The organizers expected 100 entries to reach HK $ 10 million in guaranteed prize pool but the Main Event attracted a field of 184 players at the Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex. Suddenly, the prize pool reached a record amount of HK $ 17,305,200 of which HK $ 4,240,000 for the winner, which is one of the largest in the history of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau.

Since November 1st, poker is featured on NRJ12. Caroline Boutier, former candidate for the House of Bluff 2, is the host of the sit & go called "Cash or Play." Following a selection by telephone and SMS, more than 254 players will compete each week and the winner will collect € 50,000 cash. To enable all poker enthusiasts to come on the board of Cash Play, organizers opted for a simple principle. Indeed, viewers participate in the first round limited to 192 players who have been selected by telephone and SMS. The first round will have 32 programs and two players per broadcast will pass in the second round. In addition to the first round, there will be four other rounds composed of the eliminates of the previous rounds and new players selected by telephone and SMS.

The 246 survivors of the Day 2 met at River Rock Theatre as part of the third day of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker Circuit River Rock. At the end of the day, there were only 30 players who competed the title and the WSOP bracelet to win. Sonny Sekhon is in the head of the 30 survivors of the Day 3 with a stack of 1,762,000 chips but five other players are just behind with over a million chips: Ryan Biermann (1,576,000), David Pecaski (1,455,000), Nick Halvorsun (1,271,000), Mark Potovsky (1,091,000) and Norman Overdijk (1,083,000).

The 6 th step of the United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) season 2012-2013 started at Gala Casino Bristol, England. Several very attractive events are in the program. But as opening tournament, the audience will enjoy the online UKIPT final. Many online poker players have been gifted with this event on October 14 and 15, and they are now only 8 to compete for the title. Rafael Haber, a native of Uruguay is in the lead with 1,530,528 chips in hand. He is followed closely by the German Wojtek Barzantny who has 1,524,837 chips. Chris Moorman is the favorite for the final and he is in the third position. We also note the presence of the Dutch Joep van den Bijgaart in the fourth position. The winner will walk away with a nice bonus of £ 77,126.03.

The tournament Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) Warm-Up of $ HKD 25,000 buy-in ended on Tuesday night and crowned Jeff Rossiter. Note that 358 players took place in the poker room of the Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex to compete for the title of the event, which allowed the organizers to bring together a fairly substantial prize pool totalling $ HKD 8,000,000. Many well-known players were part of the field. Many of them were eliminated early if we only name the champion of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Randy Lew, Celina Lin, Eugene Katchalov, Dominik Nitsche, Mike Watson, Bertrand Grospellier and Tom Marchese. Johnny Chan and Joseph Cheong in their side reached the final table.

Since 3 November, the Holland Casino Amsterdam, the Netherlands hosts the 21th edition of the Masters Classic of Poker. This is one of the oldest poker festival organized on the European continent. A total of nine events are scheduled during the festival which will last eight days. The inaugural tournament which is a No Limit Texas Hold'em Freeze Out to € 1,590 buy-in took place on Saturday. Sunday, November 4, the followers of Omaha variant were honored as Pot Limit Omaha tournament Ind. Rebuys € 220 was held in the poker room. Monday 5 November, another very interesting event which is a No Limit Texas Hold'em Freeze Out € 880 Bounty awaits players.

The American Dan Smith is now number one in the world of poker. Indeed, he propelled in the head of the GPI 300 ranking. If Elky, Erik Seidel, Jason Merier and some players monopolized the top ranking for several months, now it has a new leader. Smith has 18 cashes and five victories in live poker tournaments. Among his greatest achievements appears three trophies in tournaments organized in the framework of the grand final of the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo 2012. He now has $ 3.6 million in prize money. Two of his victories have not yet been taken into account in this update. He still has the chance to confirm his status as leader next week so. Note that Dan Smith has 3,056.85 points and won five seats.

Last weekend, the Crown Casino of Melbourne, Australia hosted the Shane Warne Super Stack, a live poker tournament that brought together 332 players. Many top players like Shane Warne in person, Michael Guzzardi, Amanda De Cesare, Antonio Casale, Tony Hachem, Peter Aristidou, Daniel Botta, Leo Boxell or the defending champion Monica Huynh responded to the call but after three days meeting, the title went to Dean Schneider. After the first day, 72 players survived from the 332 registered of the day. These survivors began the Day 2 with the aim to reach the final table for some or finish in the money for others. After a few hours of play, the ITM was defined when Troy Laurens, bubble boy of the tournament, was eliminated by Jarrod Glennon.

The Montesino Casino in Vienna, Austria will again host a stage of the Deepstack Open (DSO) season three, the third of the season to be more precise and it will take place from November 8 to 11. With five times more than chips in the stack compared to a normal poker tournament, such appointment shall not be missed by those who love to play poker deepstack. Accessible to a moderate buy-in of € 550, the main event of this event is estimated to bring together 600 players. And probably gathering such a field is quite feasible because on average, each main tournament of each step drains up to 500 players. As usual, slow structure with 50,000 starting chips for levels of 60 minutes play will be applied.

In four years, fans of online poker and casino gambling in the Netherlands will be able to play freely and quietly from home, online. If local players can rely on the Holland Casino, known as the National Lottery and Lotto Staatsloterij in this sector, only entities allowed to offer gambling in the country, the choice could greatly extend shortly. Indeed, the country's new government decided to set up a procedure that will officially legalize online gambling market on its territory as part of a financial recovery in the Netherlands. Poker, sports betting and casino games can be part of this regulatory framework. According to studies, 500,000 to 800,000 Dutch are in fact playing illegally on the internet. The official opening of the market could reduce or even wipe out illegal gambling and also boost the country's economy.

Members of the October nine joined the poker room of Rio in Las Vegas on October 29 to compete for the title of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2012 (WSOP). At the end of a fierce battle, the winner was finally known. This is the American poker pro Greg Merson. This cash game player of 24 years managed to win face to the favorites of the final table. He eliminated Jesse Sylvia during the final duel. The runner-up will have to wait until next year to win the big trophy. However, he was entitled to a reward of $ 5,295,149. About Merson, who also won the prestigious title of world champion of poker 2012, he was also awarded the title of WSOP Player of The Year 2012 and pocketed the enormous sum of $ 8,531,853. With this new gain, Merson now has more than 9.6 million of gains.

For some time, the rumor concerning the creation of a new online poker site that belongs to Phil Ivey circulates. On October 29, the star of poker explained in an interview he gave to ESPN that IveyPoker. com is nothing other than a coaching site. Ivey expressed his desire to share his knowledge to the public and poker enthusiasts and to teach them how to play the game correctly. The site will be accessible to all and free of charge. Phil Ivey relies on the help of his friends Greg Merson, Patrick Antonius and Jennifer Harman to develop educational programs to make it available to the public on the site.

Since last weekend, Dublin was the scene of a major poker tournament that brought together many participants from all over Europe. Indeed, Dublin hosted the Irish Winter Festival in Burlington Hotel. The Main Event brought together a field of 385 players who paid the entrance fee of € 1,125. After the first two days of the Main Event, there were only 19 players vying for the title with Declan Wallace as chipleader with a stack of 877,000 chips. But at the end of the Day 3, the title was played between nine players: Julian Thew, Trevor Dinneen, Jay O'Tooler Ahmed Eydan, Mark McDonnell, Ronan Gilligan, Tim Hartmann and Patryk Pietnoczko. Tim Hartmann was the chipleader of the final table with a stack of 2,440,000, while his rival, Julian Thew has been a little over a million chips.

The Asia Championship of Poker 2012 began last weekend with the Event # 1. During this event, which opened the ACOP 2012, the Grand Waldo Casino hosted 192 players for this deepstack tournament of HK $ 10,000 buy-in. The final table of ten players was marked by multi-national qualified players. Indeed, we have seen Americans, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Thai, Czech, Swiss or Iranians. Among the contenders for the first edition of the Asia Championship of Poker, we could see Roman Babela, Amir Hatefi, Iqannis Kontonatsios, Mansour Khorramshahi, Vladimir Geshkenbein, Bernard Vu, Raymond Wu, Vivian Im and Iqbal Ahmed. This latter was the chipleader at the start of the final table, while Vivian Im was part of the short stacks.

While Paris was hosting last weekend the Winamax Poker Tour’s inaugural step, which was attended by 2,000 players, it will be the turn of Brussels, on Thursday, November 1, to receive at The Event Lounge, the third edition of the Belgium Open Freeroll. The competition will take place over four days and will end on November 4 with the crowning of the winner, who will be awarded a package for the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. The 1,200 players whose participation is expected by the organizers of the competition, got their pass via live or online satellite tournaments. About its history, the Belgium Open Freeroll began as a small competition between lovers, today it became the most important poker tournament and the best known throughout Belgium.

The passage of the World Poker Tour (WPT) National Series in Barcelona, Spain was a real success. In fact, 267 players were present in the poker room at Gran Casino for the kick off of the tournament which was held on October 25, 2012. With such a crowd, the organizers managed to gather a tempting prize pool totaling € 400,500 which was distributed to the top 36 players in the game. The largest share worth € 88,500 was awarded to the winner of the day. It is the local player Sergio Aido. He won after 5 hours of confrontation. He beat Robert Zawadzki during the final head’s up. The runner-up was entitled to € 62,000.

The new season of the Winamax Poker Tour, one of the largest and most renowned French poker tournaments, started last weekend in the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris with massive participants (2,000 in all). The next step will be played in Plombières-lès-Dijon during the weekend of November 10 and 11. The appointment of the 240 players in the tournament will be expected at Domaine du Lac. After this step in Dijon, only four players will be qualified for the grand final of the Winamax Poker Tour to be held in March 2013 at Cercle Clichy Montmartre.

The Aviation Club de France, the Parisian gambling establishment that sits on the legendary Champs Elysées will receive the GPI European Poker Awards ceremony. It is an event during which, awards for the best players and professionals who contributed to the development of poker on the European continent will be awarded. For this twelfth edition, the ceremony changed its name thanks to a partnership between the organizers and the Global Poker Index (GPI), the best ranking at the international level in the poker world. Nine awards will be distributed during this event which will take place on January 23, 2013 which are the Player of The Year, the Best Tournament Performance, the Rookie of the Year, the Poker stadd person of the year, Europe's Leading Lady, the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Best Event of the Year, the Personality of the year or Rob Gardner Memorial Award and the Internet player of the year.

After three days of competition in the poker room of Crown Casino, the Main Event of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Melbourne (ANZPT) named its winner. It is New Zealand's Paul Hockin. Chipleader since the Day 1B, Hockin was the best of the field of 345 competitors including well-known poker players such as the world champion 2005, Joe Hachem, the Aussie Millions champion Oliver Speidel or the holder of a bracelet at the World Series of Poker Andy Hinrichsen. At the end of the second day, the field narrowed considerably, announcing the intensity of the tournament. On Day 3, we had to wait 16 hours before the final table stands. Ashner Warner accessed in the place of the biggest chip count during the final battle. But after eight hours of confrontation, it was Paul Hockin who was awarded the victory and the first prize of $ 101,275. As runner-up, Warner pocketed a prize of $ 130,000 due to a deal made by the three players in the race.

The World Series of Poker is one of the most legendary poker tournaments and the Big One For One Drop, an event which creation marked this year and which attract the attention of all poker enthusiast, promises to remake its reappearance in 2014, said Kara Scott. This year, the WSOP has been marked by this tournament of one million dollar buy-in that attracted many poker professionals, businessmen and billionaires from around the world. Organized by the founder of Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberté, the Big One For One Drop is a charity tournament which purpose is to promote access to safe drinking water. And the tournament was a great meeting because 48 players registered in its first edition held during the WSOP 2012.
 
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