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After New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware, California could be the next State to take a step further in online poker market. California is actually favorable for online poker expansion with its population of about 38 million. From 2009 to 2010, nearly 178,000 State residents have played poker online on different unregulated e-poker rooms. These players generated revenue of $ 155 million, a sum which equals 16% of the State’s online poker revenue. According to a recent study conducted by “Academicon” and “PokerScout”, online poker industry in California would be able to generate significant revenue during the first two years of regulation, from $263 million in its first year to $ 384 million by the end of year ten. The market could even benefit from a growing pace if the Californian’s player pool is expanded to federal or international scale where e-poker regulation is firmly set up.

The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open is back this summer with more than 40 poker events to run, including the $ 10 million guaranteed championship. From August 14 to September 3, Hollywood‘s Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Florida, will host a series of poker tournament, the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. For nearly 20 days, poker enthusiasts in the region will benefit from a 100% poker adventure thanks to this poker festival. The most anticipated event remains the $ 5,300 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship which guarantees a prize pool of $ 10 million. Alongside this great event will be organized over 40 tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $ 150 to $ 100,000. The Main Event will be held in three starting flights, from August 28 to September 3. Participants will enter the ring with a stack of 30,000 chips in 40 to 90 minutes’ levels following the progress of the tournament. Re-entry is allowed before level 10 of each starting flight.

It took 5 hours of play to know the winner of the € 1,100 Main Event of the “Italian Poker Tour Saint Vincent”. Indeed, the final table of this poker event was running fast. Massimo Nicola Pellegrino toppled a field of 363 players after a tough battle in the eight-man final table. He crushed Gianni Paolo Bussolino in the heads-up to claim the IPT title. Pellegrino pocketed € 65,000 for his this win while the runner-up Bussolino earned a much deserved prize of € 48,000. Dario Nittolo also pocketed € 48,000 for his 3rd place. Earnings were distributed as such after a deal reached between the three players. Actually the distribution of prizes for the first three places in the Main Event should be as follows: 80.000 € (1st place) € 50,000 (2nd place) and € 31,000 (3rd).

The Czech Republic is one of the favorite destinations of poker enthusiasts in Europe. For some years, the prestigious King’s Casino has been animated with lots of live poker tournaments. This summer, the King's Casino will host a new edition of the “Deutsche Poker Tour”. Scheduled from July 30 to August 3, several events have been introduced into the program of this DPT Summer Edition. As usual, the most anticipated event among them is the Main Event that guarantees a prize pool of € 100,000. It is accessible for only € 195 of buy-in. Players will begin the play with a stack of 40,000 chips on 30 minute levels. The Main Event will be run in three days during which re-entries are allowed (in case of premature elimination). The final table of the Deutsche Poker Tour’ Main Event will be held in the afternoon of Sunday, August 3rd, in the largest poker room in Europe, King’s Casino. Three satellite tournaments with 25 seats at stake for the Main Event will be held until the beginning of Day 1C for a buy-in of € 40.

Poker enthusiasts in Italy have swum in a pleasure-filled poker event since last Wednesday with the holding of the Italian Poker Tour Saint Vincent (IPT). This is the second time that Saint Vincent hosts the IPT this ongoing season. In February, the IPT run its second stage/ season 6 in Saint Vincent in which Walter Treccarichi emerged victorious of the Main Event. The winner of the Main Event of “Italian Poker Tour Saint Vincent 2” will be known in the evening of Monday, July 28. 363 players participated in this event, but only 8 of them managed to qualify to the final table. Massimo Nicola Pellegrino leads the chip counts with 2,577,000 chips. He is well ahead of his opponents: Dario Nittolo (1,094,000), Gianni Paolo Bussolino (1,027,000), Federico Piroddi (948,000), Francesco Cordua (641,000), Massimiliano Forti (554,000), Marcello Re (257,000) and Thomas Valand (162,000).

The 5th stage of the Genting Poker Series (season 2014) was played at Genting Casino Newcastle since Wednesday. 297 players travelled to Newcastle to take part in the Main Event of £ 440. And after three days of poker battle, the field was dropped to 87, all of whom were qualified for Day 2. As for Day 3, it only saw 12 survivors including Tim Chung, Keith Hawkins, Rob Yong, Jonathan Beck, Colin Turnbull, Brett Angell, George Harle, John Stirling, Tom Brady, Willie Tann, Matt Davenport and Jamie Dale. The elimination of Jonathan Beck and Jamie Dale paved the way for the remaining (10) players to reach the final table. Leading the chip counts early on Day 3 flight, Tim Chung secured chipleader to win this poker tournament.

In recent years, the game of poker has gained popularity among enthusiasts in the country of chocolate and watch, Switzerland. It has several casinos that run local poker tournaments, including the “Poker Circle Swiss Open” (PCSO). The Grand Casino Lucerne is, once again, hosting the PCSO four months after the holding of the previous edition. In May, the Swiss Circle Poker Open had attracted 294 participants. The top prize of the CHF680 Main Event was hit by Marek Andrzejewski. He crushed Günter Ruhlander, Perparim Demaj and Sinisa Bodrozic to claim the 27,011CHF. Each one of them also pocketed the same sum. From August 6 to 10, the Grand Casino Lucerne is running its third edition of the PCSO. The highlight of the poker event will be the Main Event of CHF680 of buy-in. In addition to the main event, other events are also included on the menu.

Pending the November Nine event which will be held from November 10 to 11 in the sumptuous poker room Rio, Las Vegas, we can say that the 45th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) has been a great success. 82,360 players travelled to Las Vegas to participate in the 7 week-long competition, generating a record prizepool of $ 225,584,873. Back in 2012, the prizepool was $ 222 million. 107 countries were represented at this world championship of poker. Actually, the WSOP 2014 is nicely adorned with the flow of poker enthusiasts from various countries where the game of poker is not popular: Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Gabon, Senegal and Azerbaijan. North America dominated the competition both in terms of participation and wins.

By the end of the WSOP 2014’s November Nine event, names of the new members who will make up the “Poker Hall of Fame” will be known. Last year, Tom McEvoy and Scotty Nguyen joined the 44 members of the famous Poker Hall of Fame”, a group of professional poker players such as Erik Seidel exception, Mike Sexton, Linda Johnson, Bobby Baldwin, Johnny Chan, Chip Reese, Doyle Brunson, Blondie Forbes, Johnny Moss, Joe Bernstein, Dewey Tomko, Phil Hellmuth and more. These players have met a few criteria that govern the induction into the Poker Hall Of Fame. Eligible players must therefore satisfy the following conditions: aged 40 years-old or more, played for high stakes, must have played poker in a major competition, earned the respect of other players... Poker players from the public are also eligible for the Poker Hall of Fame if they have contributed in recent years to the overall growth of the game of poker. Among them are Mike Matusow, Jennifer Harman, David Chiu, Huck Seed, Humberto Brenes, Thor Hansen, Carlos Mortensen and Chris Bjorin.

As usual, the Global Poker Index (GPI) releases a weekly update of the top 300 poker tournament players in the world. The top 3 in the July 21-standings remains unchanged while the rest of the classification has undergone significant changes. Dan Smith finishes atop (No.1) the 300 best poker players in the world. This American poker player is ahead of the German Ole Schemion with his 4,015.56 against 4,014.71 for Schemion. Daniel Negreanu secures third place with 3,765.82 points, followed by Byron Kaverman and his 3,547.07 points. Paul Volpe jumped up to fifth place before Erik Seidel and pushed Alex Bilokur to the seventh place (-2). Jason Mercier, Jacob Schindler (19) and Scott Seiver (-1) complete the three last seats of the Top 10.

France’s online gambling regulatory authority (ARJEL) released its quarterly market report on online gambling market in France for the second quarter of this year. Officials figures published by the ARJEL (Autorité de Régulation des Jeux En Ligne) in the first quarter report are rather similar compared to this second quarter’. The market shows certain regularity despite an overall decreasing trend as experienced by some gaming sectors, including online poker. Decline in cash game is, for its part, offset by the increase of entrance fees. In the second quarter of 2014, 238,000 active players’ accounts were recorded each week in poker sector. Compared to the same period in 2013, this activity is suffering from a drop of 13%.

The World Poker Tour National Brussels concluded with Mohamed El Bakkouri winning the top prize. This French poker player has delivered impressive performance in recent months following his win in the final table of the ACF Poker Tour (second edition) in November 2013. Mohamed El Bakkouri won the Main Event of the WPT National Brussels after a tough heads-up against Djamel Boutaleb. He entered the heads-up clash with a comfortable chip-count lead over Djamel Boutaleb: 6,500,000 against 1,500,000 chips for Djamel. He collected € 47,000 of cash for his first place while the runner-up Djamel Boutaleb settled with € 32,000. Christophe Savary finished 3rd and pocketed € 20,900. The other participants who made up the final table field are Joseph Mazig (finishing 4th place for € 15,400), Pierre Neuville (5th, € 11,600), Jeremiah Tapia (6th, € 9,300), Cordier Maxime (7th, € 7,700) and Gabriel Ergen (8th, € 6,200). It is worth repeating that this WPT National Brussels was held in the poker room of Grand Casino Brussels- Viage over six days.

Online gambling market in the UK is one of the largest in the world. It occupies 8% of the global market against 37% for European countries (excluding UK) and 10% for the United States. In 2013, the total UK market for online gambling was valued at 2.5 billion pounds. In this figure, online poker itself generated 329 million euros ($ 559 million). In recent months, the gambling commission UKGC has actively worked on awarding poker licenses in the UK. In fact, the commission is gradually stepping to regulate UK poker industry by identifying white and grey/black markets.

The Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) is the most popular poker circuit in South America. From July 23, the Veneto Wyndham Grand Hotel & Casino in Panama City will host the LAPT for its fourth stop of the season 7 in this region. The “Latin American Poker Tour” offers several tournaments for Panamas poker enthusiasts to actively participate in the event. Veneto Hotel & Casino’s poker room will run 8 events from July 23 to 26, including a Main Event of $ 1,700 of buy-in. the said main event is kicking off on Wednesday, July 23 (afternoon) and will run until Sunday for the final table. Besides, the tournament offers unlimited re-entries that allow prematurely eliminated players to re-enroll on Day 1A and Day 1B flights. Veneto Hotel & Casino’s agenda also includes a $ 200 super Satellite event, the participation in which will allow players to qualify for the Main Event without paying the $ 1,700 required fee.

After the World Series of Poker, it is time for national poker championships. The World Poker Tour National Valencia is among them. It now reaches the final day of its Main Event in the poker room of Valencia Casino. Isaac Chapí is ahead of the 13 survivors of Day 2 with a stack of 990,000 chips in front of José Vicente Besalduch (823,000), Antonio Lazo (680,000) and Antoni Ros (542,000). Some great players also secure comfortable seats in this World Poker Tour Valencia’s Main Event with more than 200,000 chips. They are: Miguel Ángel García (423,000), Juan Mecho (373,000) Álex Kalfa (364,000), Antonio Moreno (270,000) and Marco Della Tomasina (260,000). Among the 13 qualified players battling this day, Toni Dieguez (199,000) Kuljinder Sidhu (155,000), Georgi Kostalevski (138,000) and Alberto Ortiz (109,000) are well placed too.

The poker schedule 2013-2014 in Tasmania will be closed in August with the launching of the Tasmanian Poker Championship. This last tournament of the year will be held in Hobart’s Wrest Point Casino, Tasmania, from August 1st to 3. As a reminder, the last event Wrest Point Casino housed was the Tasmanian 3 Diamond Challenge. Josh Waterhouse beat local poker pro Will Jones to win the event for $ 15,000 of prize. Indeed, Tasmanian Poker Championship is nicely distinguishable by its lower and affordable buy-in, a great opportunity for all poker enthusiasts in the region to actively participate in the tournament. As a proof, the Main Event of this poker tournament is accessible for only $ 290 of buy-in. This event will run over two flights: the first is on Friday, August 1, the second flight on Saturday August 2. Players will enter the battle with a stack of 10,000 chips. Blind level is to increase every 30 minutes of play.

As usual, the Global Poker Index (GPI) releases each week an up-to-date list of the top 300 poker tournament players in the world. Two major tournaments were held in Las Vegas in recent weeks, namely the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the Bellagio Cup X. Accordingly the GPI top 300 rankings have undergone a change. Few weeks before the 2014 WSOP’s Main Event in which he finished 20th place for a prize of $ 289,900, Dan Smith won the $ 100,000 Super High Roller at Bellagio Cup X by outlasting Jason Mercier, Tom Marchese and Jason Somerville. This American poker player collected over $ 2 million for his victory and now secures “number one” in the Global Poker Index rankings. He was 4th last week. This time, Dan Smith is well ahead of Ole Schemion, Daniel Negreanu, Byron Kaverman and Alex Bilokur. The latter is among the big movers (11spots) in this GPI race following his win in the $ 10,000 Pot Limit Holdem WSOP poker tournament.

After a successful season, the Belgian Poker Challenge (BPC) will be back from September. This Belgian poker festival will only launch two stopovers this year (three in 2013). Indeed, Spa Casino will house the Belgian Poker Challenge from September 3 to 7 before joining Namur’s casino from November 28. In this BPC second season, Spa Casino will organize six poker tournaments including the Main Event. In addition to a € 800 buy-in event, the agenda of this gambling establishment will include other Side Events, ranging from the € 220 NLH Turbo Bounty to the € 330NLH Freezeout, the € 110 NLH Turbo "Win The Button ' and the € 220 NLH 6 -Max as well as the € 110 NLH Deuces Wild, the very first of its kind in Belgium.

A recent study conducted by Harvard Medical School´s Division on Addiction has proven that the development of online poker does not promote gambling addiction despite the fact that online poker rooms are available 24/7. The report is based on an analysis of the betting actions of millions of poker players, online casino gamblers and sports betting fans over a period of two years. They were 4,000 casino gamblers and 40,000 sports bettors on Bwin to participate in the survey. On average, the study suggests that online casino gamblers play online once every two weeks and lose about 5.5 % of their bankroll. In sports betting, players go online every four days and place an average bet of $ 5.50.

The 45th edition of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has just closed its doors earlier this week with the definition of the Main Event’s November Niners. After this poker tournament held in Rio-Las Vegas for almost two months, all poker pro and enthusiasts’ eyes are on the 2014 Card Player Player of the Year race. Admittedly the WSOP 2014 has brought a significant change in the rankings, including the points of November 10 and 11 finals have earned. In addition to the $ 10 million first-place prize, the WSOP Main Event winner will be given 3,300 points. As for the Mustapha Kanit, he is well ahead of his opponents with 4,514 points heading to POY race.

For some years now, Belgium has become a must-see poker destination. Numerous poker tournaments are held regularly in “Casino of Namur”. A great number of players, both local and from neighboring countries including France get to Namur and participate in the events. Besides, the city offers them a pleasant setting to enjoy an exciting weekend. In September, a casino in Namur will host a poker tournament organized by the Amateur Poker Association and Tour (APAT). The said event is scheduled from September 19 to 21 in which poker enthusiasts and amateurs will be spoilt with various tournaments that the association will offer throughout these three days.

The first part of the World Series of Poker 2014 Main Event concluded with the definition of the nine players heading to the November Nine battle. 6,683 players took part in this $ 10,000 buy-in poker tournament, but only 27 survived for the Day 7, which is a penultimate stage to the final table. In fact, this 45th edition is no exception to the rule as it will defer its televised final table “November Nine” on Monday 10 to November 11 at Rio casino, Las Vegas. At the end of the Day 7, Jorryt Van Hoof leads the 9 finalists of this poker event in terms of chip counts, all are targeting a bracelet in this WSOP event. This time, the final table is composed of nine players from six different nationalities, with a large number of US representatives.

The European Commission has just released important recommendations to its State Members about online gambling regulation. In this statement, the said commission highlights important measures that all State Members have to adopt in order to ensure effective protection of players in online gambling services sector, and eventually inform consumers about the risks that sport betting, online casino, online poker game and lotteries might harm them (gambling addiction, debt, etc). Each country member of the EU has their own view about this question along with the legislation that rules the regulation of online gambling. For that reason, the commission announced the recommendation in the communication entitled “Towards a comprehensive European framework of online gambling”, dated back in October 23, 2012.

Only 27 players survived during the Day 6 battle and will join the Day 7 of the 45th edition of the World Series of Poker 2014 held in Rio-Las Vegas. Actually 79 participants played on Day 6 and after 14 hours of game, the Swedish professional poker player “Martin Jacobson” emerged chipleader with a huge stack of 22,335,000 chips. He is well ahead of his rivals in this $ 10,000 buy-in poker tournament. Luis Velador secures the second place by the end of the Day 6 with 16.6 million chips. He is followed by Dan Sindelar (16,345,000), Andoni Larrabe (15,280,000), William Pappaconstantinou (14,640,000), Bruno Politano (11,625,000) and Dan Smith (10,335,000). Craig McCorkell (8th, 8.7 million), Felix Stephensen (9th, 7.7 million) and Andrey Zaichenko (10th, 7.3 million) complete the Top 10 chip counts heading to the Day 7.The remaining 21 players possess less than 10 million chips each. As for Brian Roberts and Scott Mahin, both players will enter the Day 7 as short stacks with 1,365,000 and 1,460,000 chips respectively.

The World Series of Poker 2014’s Main Event (Day 4) saw a field dropped to 79 players on Day 5. Held in Amazon poker room in Rio-Las Vegas, 291 players took part in the Day 5 flight but many were those who saw themselves knocked out after 14 hours of play. Mike Sowers, John Monnette, Farzad Bonyadi, Jared Bleznick, Kevin Eyster, Jeff Madsen, Brian Townsend, Byron Kaverman, Jonathan Aguiar, Mukul Pahuja and Griffin Benger were among them. Other notable poker players including Paul Tedeschi, Maxence Dupont, Jean-Jacques Zeitoun, Hicham Hilmi, Arnaud Mattern and Pierre Canali were also eliminated but secured places in the payout list. 2013 November Nine winner Mark Newhouse (9th) secures the chip lead with 7.5 million chips. This American poker player is placed ahead of his two compatriots with approximately 1 million chips: Kyle Keranen (2nd, 6.67 million) and Scott Palmer (3rd, 6,595,000).

Maracana Stadium was excitingly animated for nearly two hours during the World Cup 2014 final game between Argentina and Germany. Both teams played a truly exceptional match despite the fact that supporters and sports betting fans were kept by their hunger for “Albiceleste Vs Nationalmannschaft clash” was filled with numbers of missed opportunities. Their respective defense accomplished such remarkable job to neutralize many dreaded scoring opportunities. As a reminder, this is the third time Argentina and Germany meet in the final game of the World Cup. This time, German players Boateng, Lahm, Hummels gave Messi and Co a hard time. The German attack led by Klose, Özil, Müller and Schweinsteiger successfully scored one and unique goal that eventually secure them the fourth title in World Cup.

The Main Event of the World Series of Poker 2014 (WSOP) will begin its fifth day after the Day 2C which was largely dominated by the star Phil Ivey. Tiger Woods of poker is the chipleader of the day with a stack of 505,000 chips. This stack propels him at the head of the survivors of the Day 2 before the Day 2A / B chipleader, Stansifer Tim who had a stack of 481,500 chips yesterday. 6,683 players took part in this poker tournament with $ 10,000 buy-in but only 1,864 survived at the end of Day 2 A / B and C. The Day 3 will be played over five levels of play and the survivors of that day will compete the ITM on Day 4. As usual, the final table of the "November Nine" Main Event will be postponed on November 10 and 11 at Penn & Teller theater Rio casino in Las Vegas.

The World Cup 2014 final between Argentina and Germany is the flagship event of sport of this weekend. But fans of football and online betting can have a foretaste of this meeting with the match for the 3rd place between Brazil and the Netherlands. This meeting will be held in Brasilia on Saturday at the National Stadium of Brasilia. The match will be very tight as both teams want to finish on the podium after the surprising semifinals especially for Brazil which was beaten by the Nationalmannschaft in a heavy score of 7 to 1, a first in the history of world cup at this level of the competition. If the Selecao is obliged to ensure a good match this Saturday for the honor, the Netherlands are also under pressure after having been eliminated by Argentina on penalties.

The Day 2A/B of the World Series of Poker 2014 Main Event saw the Floridian poker player “Tim Stansifer” as a chipleader. 1,933 players returned to Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino- Las Vegas for the Day 2 flight of this $ 10,000 buy-in event. The Day 2 reunited qualified players from the three starting days of the event. The Day 2 A/B brought together the 505 survivors from Day 1A and the 1,428 players from Day 1B. In addition to Day 1C’s survivors, a total of 2,571 players will take part in the battle on Day 2C to earn seats for Day 3. 1,933 players have secured seats in Amazon poker room and Brasilia. By the end of the day, 1,115 players were eliminated including reigning champion Greg Merson. And 822 players have received their ticket for Thursday’s Day 3.

After a very tight semifinal against the Netherlands, which ended up with the fateful shout-out, Argentina eventually emerged victorious to join Germany in the ultimate clash of the World Cup 2014. Previously, football enthusiasts along with gamblers who wagered on the “Brazil Vs Germany” game on Tuesday via online betting sites had seen a real humiliation show. Germany literally devastated the whole Seleçao at their own party with a 7-1 scoreline. As for the Germany Vs the Netherlands game, it was less intense than the first semis game but both teams have held the public breathless especially during penalty session. The Albiceleste won over the Netherlands’ Oranje 4-2. Indeed, Holland held Argentina in a scoreless draw during 120 minutes of play. Both teams had some goal opportunities in the regular time but their respective defense was hard enough to crush. After all, both teams are considered among the most formidable squads in this competition.

The Main Event of the edition 2014 of the World Series Of Poker (WSOP) attracts 6,683 players at the end of its third and final Day 1. This massive turnout can be described as a great success compared to this same poker tournament edition of last year though the record 2010 of participation (7,319 players) is far from beaten. By Day 1C, the field of this $ 10,000 buy-in event reached 3,768, all of whom are running for the WSOP 2014 title in Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The Day 1C was particularly highlighted by the presence of some professional athletes-poker enthusiasts such as footballer Gerard Piqué, NFL player Richard Seymour, cricketer Shane Warne and NBA players Paul Pierce and Earl Barron Jr.

Brazil waves goodbye to its sixth title in pain after losing face to the Nationamannschaft. Brazil supporters and fans of online betting followed the live “massacre” of the Seleçao at Estádio Mineirão- Belo Horizonte yesterday. Brazil is actually beaten by a robust Germany in a shameful score of 1-7 in the absence of Neymar and Thiago Silva. We must recognize that the presence of the two Seleçao key players could have changed the course of the game; but it would not have affected the result given the impressive performance of the Mannschaft both in attack and defense. Brazil put the German defense under pressure from the first period but Thomas Müller’s goal in the 11th minute seemed to fully devastate the whole Seleçao as they were losing control of the game to the entire disappointment of fans. After Thomas Müller’s goal, the massacre continued till the 79th minute of play with André Shcürrle’s beautiful finish.

While the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) is trying to beat the attendance record of 2013 with its 2,915 registered players on Day 1A - Day 1B, the Little One Drop event has just ended with the victory of Igor Dubinskyy. 4,496 players have paid $ 1,111 of buy-in to participate in this non-profit poker tournament, the benefit of which is granted to One Drop Foundation. After a nine-player final table, the Ukrainian Igor Dubinskyy won his first WSOP bracelet along with $ $ 637,539 of prize for his first place in the WSOP 2014 Event # 62. As a reminder, the final table reunited notable names such as Eric Baldwin, ShaiZurr Matthew Lapossie, Theodore Driscoll, JackduyphDuong, Bao Nguyen, Brandon Eisen, Igor Dubinskyy and Vimy Ha.

Brazil is meeting Germany tonight in the World Cup 2014’s semifinal clash. Both football fans and sports betting enthusiasts’ eyes are on this meeting between the host country and one of the most formidable teams of Europe. For the Seleçao, prices at stake are high since the 200 million Brazilians expect a great win of their national team in this game. But the battle is far from won for Luiz Felipe Scolari’s men who will have to play without Neymar and Thiago Silva. Actually Neymar is ruled out for forty days following a serious back injury in their game against Colombia while central defender and captain Thiago Silva won’t be there due to a suspension he earned against the Cafeteros the same day. He would only be allowed to join the Seleçao if Brazil wins over Germany tonight.

The edition 2014 of the World Series Of Poker (WSOP) has just registered a significant influence thanks to the $ 10,000 Main Event though we are still far from the record 2012 of 8,773 players. Last year, this poker event attracted 943 participants on Day 1A. This time, the said event has three starting days and registers 2,144 entrants on Day 1A and Day 1B (including 771 on Day 1A). In fact 505 of them are qualified for Day 2 race. Swede Martin Jacobson is the chipleader with 200,100 chips. And among the Top 10 of the chipcount at the end of Day 1A, we have respectively Aaron Wilt in second place with 157,650 chips, followed by Seamus Cahill (150,775), Ben Gold (148,875), Naoya Kihara (124,225), Ken Einiger (120,400 ) Yung Hwang (118,875), Kenny Tran (115,400), Mukul Pahuja (114,800) and Aleksandr Simic (110,675).

The World Cup 2014 reaches now its semifinals stage after truly impressive quarterfinals that have surprised supporters and gamblers via online sports betting sites. Brazil will meet Germany tomorrow July 8 at Belo Horizonte while Argentina is playing the Netherlands on Wednesday July 9 at Sao Paulo. These two games will offer a maximum pleasure to sports betting fans because the four competing teams are all regular participants in this stage of the world cup. The host country, Germany and Argentina have already at least one title in their respective record while the Netherlands are fighting for their first one following their 0-1 score defeat in South Africa against Spain. Brazil has five titles (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002) while Germany possesses three (1954, 1974 and 1990) and two for Argentina (1978 and 1986). “The Oranje” team is still running for their first world title after three lost finals (1974, 1978 and 2010).

The edition 2014 of the World Series Of Poker (WSOP) has just ended with the Event # 61. After three days of competition in Rio-Las Vegas, the $ 10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship sees the victory of Matt Grapenthien. 122 players made up the field in this tournament, the majority of whom were all poker stars. And only eight of them entered the final table. Todd Brunson, son of the living poker legend Doyle Brunson, entered the final table with huge stake of 980,000 chips while his rivals were trailing far behind him: Steve Landfish (550,000), Phil Hellmuth (404,000), Matt Grapenthien (390,000), Ben Yu (247,000), James Obst (169,000) and Jesse Martin (156,000).

After two days break, the World Cup 2014 is back again tonight with the first day of the quarterfinals. Two games are to be played this day to the entire excitement of football fans and sports betting enthusiasts who have been impatiently waiting for the event. The first clash sees France facing Germany while the second one provides a must-be-exciting game between Brazil and Columbia. 32 years after the unfortunate history of Seville in which Harald Schumacher had exited Patrick Battiston out by a stretcher, and “Les Bleus” fell in front the Federal Republic of Germany. France and Germany meet once again this evening for a qualification place in the semifinals. The battle will be truly exceptional since both teams have hyper talented young players with an average age of 26; but Germany may get ahead of “Les Bleus” with its astonishingly mature players. Actually the Mannschaft wins in terms of experience and maturity of its players because its 23 warriors have 1,027 selections played as opposed to 546 for France. However, France can count on new talented players such as Raphael Varane, Paul Pogba and Antoine Griezmann.

Daniel Colman won the second edition of the Big One For One Drop. For some months, the American registered successive unprecedented victories in the middle of live poker tournament. Daniel Colman is a specialist of sit'n'go heads-up on online poker sites under the nickname "mrgr33n13". He began to talk about him by winning last April the Super High Roller of the EPT Grand Final in front of Daniel Cates, a victory that allowed him to pocket $ 2.1 million. This summer, Colman continued to surprise the poker community, finishing in the 3rd place in the $ 10,000 Heads Up Championship for $ 112,000, the Event # 40 of the 45th edition of the World Series of Poker (WSOP).

Since Wednesday, football fans and the sports betting community are impatient until the next match of the World Cup 2014. Competition will resume this Friday night with matches between France and Germany at Maracana in Rio, and Brazil vs Colombia at Estádio Castelão of Fortaleza. If the match between France and Germany awakens on some purists the painful memories of Seville in 1982, the match Brazil-Colombia also looks much disputed. The pressure is at its peak towards the Brazilian team as evidenced by the new intervention of the psychologist Regina Brandão. Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has indeed called her service to correct the "emotional imbalance" of some players following the victory in extremis against Chile on last Saturday.

The Big One For One Drop (BOFOD) is a non-profit poker event whose benefits will directly go to Guy Laliberté’s “One Drop Foundation”. Introduced in 2012 on the World Series Of Poker (WSOP) circuit, the $ 1 million buy-in Big One For One Drop tournament had attracted nearly forty players in which the Iranian poker player Antonio Esfandiari emerged victorious and won $ 18,346,673 of prize. This summer, the Big One For One Drop is back at Rio-Las Vegas as Event #57 in the WSOP 2014. 56 players were expected to compose the field but only 42 responded to the call, generating a prizepool of over $ 40 million. Many poker enthusiast-businessmen like Tom Hall, Rick Salomon and Guy Laliberté himself took part in this second edition of the Big One For One Drop tournament. Top players like the defending BOFOD champion Antonio Esfandiari, Sam Trickett, Phil Ivey, David Sands, Daniel Negreanu, Erik Seidel, Isaac Haxton, John Juanda, Daniel Cates and Scott Seiver also participated in the race.

Two games were played on Tuesday evening during the final day of the World cup 2014’s final eight. Both Argentina and Belgium emerged victorious in their respective game against Switzerland and the United States. The two games did meet the expectations of sports betting fans; in fact, extra-time was needed to differ the four teams from the scoreboard. The first match saw the clash between Argentina and Switzerland. On paper, the Albiceleste is likely to win the game without much of a difficulty. But once on the ground, the Nati held Lionel Messi’s Argentina to a scoreless draw. Swiss defense was poor enough but Diego Benaglio successfully watched over his net despite a massive attack of the opposing team. But the South American team finally took the lead at the end of the extension with Angel di Maria’s left foot shot in the 118th minute (1-0).

Phil Ivey proved to the gambling community last weekend that he remains a top poker player in the world. The “Tiger Woods-like poker player” actually won his tenth WSOP bracelet of his career along with the bet on which he and Daniel Negreanu were wagered to grab a bracelet this summer. Negreanu almost won the bet in early June but he was dropped to the second place in the $ 10,000 No Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw Lowball (Event # 13). In this 45th edition of the World Series Of Poker, Phil wins the bet by emerging victorious in this $ 5,000 of minimum buy-in poker tournament. With this new bracelet, Phil Ivey joins the close circle of players with 10 or more WSOP bracelets. His overall earnings are now estimated at $ 21.5 million. Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson and Phil Ivey actually have 10 bracelets while Phil Hellmuth is well ahead of the group with 13 bracelets.

Algeria played its first World Cup final 8 game at Estadio Beira-Rio in Porto Alegre on Monday. The Fennecs broke apart in the extra-time after holding Germany to a scoreless draw in regular period. Their dream to qualify for the final 4 is actually stopped by their 2-1 score defeat over André Schürrle and Co. The match has surprised fans and lovers of sports betting with an aggressively talented Algeria, the style of play of whom frightened Germany coach Joachim Löw and the whole Mannschaft. In fact, Algeria had loads of opportunity to score in the first period with Slimani (10th), Feghouli (15th), Ghulam (19th) and Mostefa (39th), but unfortunately none of them hit Germany net. For their part, Germany faced a well folded defense. The German offensive was kept unsuccessful facing a super talented goalkeeper, Rais M'Bolhi. It took extra-time for both teams to separate. Germany was ahead with a 1-0 lead since the beginning of the extension with André Schürrle (92nd); Mesut Özil scored one more in the 120th minute. Algeria waved goodbye to the World Cup despite an enticing goal signed by Abdelmoumene Djabou before the end of the game (120th +1), a fruitless goal which reduced in any case the scoreline.

Two bracelets were distributed last weekend at Rio in Las Vegas during the 45th World Series of Poker (WSOP). David Olson won the $ 10,000 Limit Hold'em (Event # 49) while David Miscikowski triumphed during the $ 5,000 No-Limit Hold'em (Event # 52). 112 players took the start of the Event # 49 on last Wednesday but after three days of competition in the poker room of Amazon, David Olson won the tournament and won the first WSOP bracelet of his career. The 27-year American pocketed $ 303,909 from the prize pool of $ 1,146,800. David Olson triumphed after a heads-up with Mikhail Tulchinskiy who settled with $ 187,811 for his second place. The final table was also composed of Greg DeBora (3rd, $ 136,056), Sam Golbuff (4th, $ 100,425), Paul Mannoni (5th, $ 75,470), Bill Chen (6th, $ 57,706), Brian Tate (7th, $ 44,874), Jan Sjåvik (8th, $ 35,481) and Gabriel Nassif (9th, $ 28,509).

After Brazil and Colombia, it’s the Netherlands and Costa Rica which were qualified for the quarterfinals of the World Cup 2014 at the end of the second day of the round of 16. To the delight of fans and amateur of sports betting, the Oranje won their ticket to the quarterfinals at the expense of Mexico (2-1). Mexicans fail a bit after having lead throughout the match. Indeed, Mexico opened the scoring in the 48th minute on a powerful quick of Dos Santos. And the Netherlands were only able to equalize at the 88th minute thanks to Sneidjer. The Oranje had many opportunities to equalize but the Mexican goalkeeper Ochoa played very well in front of the goal and this, since the beginning of the World Cup. While supporters were expecting overtime, the Dutch were awarded a penalty for a foul on Robben during the additional time (90 +4) and transformed by Huntelaar.
 
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