Side tournaments, offers PokerXtrem.fr Event € 20,000 guaranteed every Monday and a tournament “Big Friday” guaranteed € 10,000 each Friday for which you can qualify from € 1 through the PokerNews private cheaproll [B] Thursday, April 7 to 21 pm [/ B
€ 5 Free Welcome Freeroll

PokerXtrem.fr room is born after the legalization of poker on the French market, using the software of Microgaming Network. To encourage players to discover its tables, the room offers a free bonus without deposit of 5 €, awarded to players who have sent their documents (ID and RIB) within 7 days of account creation .
New players who have validated their accounts will also receive three tickets for the freeroll welcome with lots including a Ipad 2 for the winner and a game console Xbox 360.
Tournaments prize pools guaranteed PokerXtrem.fr

The “Big Friday”, takes place every Friday at 9:00 p.m. for a buy-in from 50 €. It provides a structure deepstack with 5,000 chips and blind levels of 15 minutes. Daily qualifying tournaments at 5 € and 10 € you can win a ticket.
Thursday, April 7 at 9:01 p.m. Private Tournament PokerNews € 1.1 unlimited rebuy and add-on guarantees 10 tickets 50 €. To retrieve the password needed to register, visit the dedicated topic on our forum .
Monday at 20:30 PokerXtrem.fr proposes a tournament with a prize pool of € 20,000 guaranteed to a buy-in from 30 € deepstack with a structure identical to that of Big Friday.

The radius changes, you’ll notice, however, a slight increase in the buy-in at 125 € instead of 100 previously. Consequence: if the tournament is successful in attracting at least as many players as last February 26 (159), the total prize pool is expected to approach € 20,000.

And if the expected increase in prize pool is not reason enough to jump up to the Place Clichy, so stop playing the selfish and think about the wounded pride of the forum PokerNews, who let slip the title in February . Neither Bksinn, winner of the first edition nor Mr Sneeze, a time chip leader of the second (just after the bubble) was nothing they could do to prevent Haddouche Ahmed, a regular on the CCM, to lay hands on the trophy. Azedine Boussekine winner on the stroke of 3.30am, he was left with 2,700 € and a package at 600 € to go participate in Stars On Fire Marrakech in the company of 11 other top finishers of the tournament.

This time, the entire prize pool should be distributed in cash. We made the same announcement for the second edition and finally changed his mind, which should make you not take for granted everything we can to tell you … Nobody had yet thought to complain about two months ago, a trip to Marrakech does not refuse PokerNews and have taken care to offer three packages that had just introduced.
How to pre-register?

As always in Clichy, the removal of the tournament will be particularly sweet (only 2%!) And contribution 2011 of the circle open to all forum members having pre-registered at least 24 hours before kickoff.

All PokerNews players interested can pre-register by sending an email to grimault.sebastien @ yahoo.fr with copy france@pokernews.com. To make life easier, do not forget to put the title ‘Tournament April 30 PokerNews’ in the title of your email. The tournament is open to all forum members PokerNews or not.
Cercle Clichy Montmartre in brief

Cercle Clichy Montmartre is one of the oldest clubs playing in the capital still active. Founded in the aftermath of the Second World War on the ashes of Bouillon Duval, a popular pub dating from the turn of the century, he kept the Belle Epoque decor and a deliciously old-fashioned charm. With its ceiling rising to 6m with a magnificent glass roof designed by Jean Giroux and surrounded by multicolored tiers,

In Clichy-Montmartre, Hold’em has made its appearance in 2008 and the last tables were delivered a few weeks ago: Many of its members therefore have the poker still limited experience and reluctant to ‘burn’ for sums too large, which should please gamers with low buy-in and all those in search of an opposition a bit ‘soft’ in Paris.
The cash game

Cercle Clichy Montmartre offers two types of games:
1 € / 2 € (cellar least 50 €)
€ 2 / 4 € (cellar least 100 €)

Absent from the table during the entire month of March, “cadillac1944″ returns with the line of sight will wipe the slate clean of $ 939,000 shows that since the beginning of the year. How did his reconnection at Full Tilt? Not very well. These days, it has sunk even further into the red for the benefit of Scott “URnotINdanger2″ Palmer mainly.
Palmer takes his $ 300k

At a table of pot-limit Omaha High-’6 ‘$ 300 / $ 600,’ raibirds were unable to attend the first pot of more than $ 300,000 in April.

The action starts when Tom “durrrr” Dwan reraised to $ 1,600 under the gun. Next to speak, cadillac1944 reraised to $ 3,950. Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond calle the cutoff, “LokoIsBack” button at the imte and “FinnishNightmre” makes even the small blind. Palmer, the big blind decides to attempt a ’4-bet to $ 22,250, which grows out of Dwan once. But all the other players pay and cause the arrival of a flop .

Palmer $ 91,500 to attack but not discouraged person Cadillac1944 pays $ 28,431 for carpet, Galfond raised to $ 183,000, LokoIsBack simply add the $ 766 he had left behind and Palmer also put his stack remaining ($ 32,000). Voius follow? Good. Let’s see now what are the cards that have caused all this action.

Palmer: – (Top three of a kind) – 63.07%
cadillac1944: – (Two pair, Kings + middle pair) – .38%
Galfond: – (Overpair Kings, flush draw and straight draw) – 35.61%
LokoIsBack: – (Pair of Jacks or Five) – .38%

Palmer is in the best configuration to win this huge pot, which only need to avoid prints Galfond. The that falls on the turn fulfills this objective but gives Galfond several more outs for a new straight draw. Finally, the River does not change the balance of forces and the account Full Tilt Palmer grows therefore $ 369,000.
Revenge of Galfond

Galfond had not yet said its last word and managed to win another large pot. At a table reduced to five players, cadillac1944 limped UTG, and the cutoff LokoIsBack calle Galfond raised to $ 3,000 from the button. Dwan departs again from the small blind way, Palmer decides to defend his big blind and limper both choose to go see the flop anyway: .

Palmer, first to speak, decided this time to check and leaves control operations cadillac1944. This latest advance in the mid $ 12,800. LokoIsBack calle, as Galfond and Palmer. The which appears in turn causes a new ‘check’ on the part of Palmer. Cadillac1944 continues its assault $ 64,000, pays LokoIsBack carpet for $ 30,896, whereupon Galfond up a raise to $ 170,000. Palmer, the biggest stack at the table, decided to drop but not cadillac1944, which invests in the $ 38,000 his last shot. This is a pot that has just reached $ 298,000. Hands?

Galfond: – (Top three of a kind king-high flush draw +) – 72.22%
cadillac1944: – (Second pair, straight draw and flush draw down) – 8.33%
LokoIsBack: – (Straight draw and flush draw) – 19.44%

With many hearts and two outs prints fifths in the hands of players, Galfond is well positioned to capture the shot. The river also displays a brick, And Galfond is therefore virtually rebuilt $ 300,000.

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Sander Berndsen chip leader

After nine levels played, Berndsen Sander is the chip leader with a massive carpet of 242,900 in chips. The Dutchman, a specialist high-stakes cash game, won several big pots against former champion Jens Kyllönen EFA and he also managed to get a “six-bet” (5th preflop) bluff Robert Flink cons. A hand that enabled him to win the blinds 400/800/75 39,000 without a map.

Flink ended the day in third place ranking with 203,400. This first day of competition has also gone well for the players in shape. Vladimir Geshkenbein, victorious in EFA Snowfest, finished with 180,000 while Roberto Romanello, recent winner of the WPT Bratislava, will begin Day 2 with a carpet of 152,400.
Aurélien Guiglini in the Top 5 Day 1b

Many French have distinguished themselves in this day 1b Aurélien Guiglini which started like a rocket, reaching two trips and each time being paid to wait for 95,000 on the second level. A member of Team Winamax then mounted his stack bit by bit to finish the day with the 5th carpets and 182,600 in chips. Among the 202 survivors, Thomas Bichon (156 200), and Alain Roy (147,600) are in the Top 20. The French contingent for Day 2 will be provided as well Clémençon Tristan (117 200), Ilan Boujenah (113,800), Christophe Benzimra (56,200), Jean-Philippe Rohr (42,000) or Hugo Lemaire (26,100) have survived.
Sharing a miraculous

The hand of the day occurred when the rush Guiglini. Mark Bolliger and Nicolas Yunis to go preflop with and and the flop fate. The in turn gives a color but Yunis leads to the river a straight flush on the board for sharing more unexpected.
The pellet Kevin MacPhee

With a field as important, notable players were present en masse, but many of them have broken teeth on Day 1b. Tennis legend Boris Becker has done away with cons . The winner of the 2010 Kevin MacPhee, is also among the victims of the day. The American had misread his hand and thinking have two pairs, he went all-in. It turned out he had only one. Kevin Vandersmissen has paid the same pair but with a better kicker, eliminating MacPhee. The former EPT champions Liv Boeree, Jake Cody, David Vamplew and French Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier suffered the same fate. Like Luca Pagano, James and Annette Obrestad Keys.

Thursday, April 7 from 12, 353 players will return to the table for Day 2 of EPT Berlin 2011.

The first head-to-head will be taken to Chris Moneymaker Sammy Farha for a remake of the 2003 WSOP. Qualified via a $ 39 satellite on the Internet, the amateur Moneymaker had that year taken over the professional Sammy Farha to clinch the supreme title and $ 2.5 million. A win at the origin of the poker boom that will remain forever engraved in history. For revenge, the two men will compete to the best of three sets. The first with the correct number of chips they had in 2003 (5.490.000 2,900,000 for Moneymaker and Farha for), the second with the starting stack reversed, and the third, if necessary, with the same number of chips.

Johnny Chan Phil Hellmuth cons

The second battle between a stick and with the same starting stack Johnny Chan Phil Hellmuth. Back in 1989. Johnny Chan won in 1987 and 1988 is on track to achieve the unthinkable: win for the third consecutive Main Event World Series of Poker. The Chinese American finds himself heads up against a young man of 24 named Phil Hellmuth Jr. To everyone’s surprise, he takes on the best and Chan became the youngest world champion in history. Chan and Hellmuth total in 2011 respectively 10 and 11 WSOP bracelets. Both players are living legends of poker.

The third heads-up subject to public vote

The choice of the third hand, also in a match, returns to the public must give preference to a list of four heads-up:
1988 WSOP Main Event vs. Johnny Chan. Erik Seidel
2004 WSOP Main Event: Greg Raymer vs. David Williams
2006 WSOP Main Event vs. Jamie Gold. Paul Wasicka
2010 WSOP Main Event vs. Jonathan Duhamel. John Racener

The votes are made on the fan page on Facebook WSOP. PokerNews France is also present on Facebook , but also on Twitter , where you can actually follow EFA Berlin 2011. The passwords for the freerolls and satellites are available online PokerNews on these networks.

And the answer is as surprising qu’inédite: According to the Court, it may be one or the other, depending on the format played. A decision should greatly interest the Swedish tax authorities.
The court case

If the Supreme Court was asked to rule on this subject is due to an appeal made by the Swedish National Lottery, following a ruling by the Court of Appeal in May 2009. It concerned a case in which convicts were a year ago, the four organizers of a tournament poker for real money, organized in both ‘live’ and on the Internet.

On March 23, 2007, the company had Grebbestad Events, in cooperation with 24hPoker site, set up in the Swedish city of Grebbestad poker competition expected to last three days. She had been supendue authorities from day one and its organizers sentences ranging from fines to eight months in prison because competition – open to the public – returning in contravention of Swedish law on gambling.

But the Court of Appeals overturned this decision in 2009, distinguishing between the Main Event and Side Events. The Court of Appeal, the structure ‘deep’ Main Event gave the chance a minor role, while the addresses of players and their ability to analyze the game became predominant factors of success.

On Side Events, however, the Court felt that their structure rapidly causing players to compete for a sufficient number of hands and restored to the lucky star, which had led it to impose fines on four Organsation.
The position of the Swedish Supreme Court

The ruling Wednesday by the Supreme Court is different again. The judges believe that “Cash games are mostly games of chance while (…) (…) tournaments and Sit and Goes are not.”

In its reasoning, the Court draws a clear distinction between tournaments (lasting several hours or even days) and the cash games, players are free to join or leave at any time. Consequently, the only relevant scale is to decide, according to the Court, the single hand. And it is fortunate that predominates in the outcome of a single hand of poker.
What consequences for poker in Sweden?

This distinction between tournaments and cash games is unprecedented and opens up a new jurisprudence. Case law that is for once not completely devoid of logic, which may be explained by the fact that magistrates have requested a poker education before commenting. Again, this is a first.

But more generally, this decision is probably not good news for poker players of Sweden, hitherto relatively protected by the tax status of play chance of their hobby. In Sweden, the gains made in poker in the European Union are not taxable (and taxed at 30% if they are made elsewhere in the world). However, if the tax authority decides to rely on this decision of the Supreme Court, it can begin to tax the earnings of poker at the same rate as income tax is – ie until to 50%.

Do not draw too much attention to this article around you. It might give some bad ideas ….

A key, bonuses, tournament tickets online, but most places for a grand finale to two days, on 9 and 10 July 2011 at the Cercle Wagram for a buy-in € 2,200.
Create a Team Team Poker Championship

A unique feature of this competition is that it takes place in teams of two players that can support and encourage each other. To create your team, you must initially find a teammate and be both account holders on Sajoo.fr .

Once your account is created Sajoo.fr, visit the site of the Team Poker Championship . Under the menu “TPC Online”, click “Register”. Click on the link “Create my team” and fill out the form with your username Sajoo, that of your teammate and the team name.

If you are looking for a teammate, place an ad in the issue dedicated to our forums .
The rules of the online competition TPC

The competition takes place in both cash games and tournaments. Just play as normal on real money tables to get points. We save you the mathematical formulas to calculate the points, but are available on the site TPC.fr . At the end of the month, an overall reward the best players in bonuses, tournament tickets and allow them to win tickets to the live grand final of € 2,200 buy-in in July.

Cash game online
In cash games, three divisions are available: Rookie (NL2, NL5 and NL10), Challenger (NL30, NL50 and NL100) and Elite (NL200, NL400 and NL1000). At the end of the month, the team is ranked in the division where it played the greatest number of hands.

In tournaments online
Calculate points in tournaments varies depending on whether or multi-table tournament sit’n'go. In MTT, the two tournaments giving the most points are taken into account. NSE, it is the 5 tournaments giving you the most points that are taken into account for classification.
The rules of the competition live from TPC

During the months of April and June, 10 free tournaments are organized in France (see schedule below). All information is available on the Facebook page of the TPC .

Each day of competition has a MTT and cash games in parallel. A member of the team taking part in the MTT and the other plays in cash games (they can swap at any time). Each team receives a bankroll of 1000 chips PWC. The goal is to win the MTT, each team must manage his bankroll to more gains in the cash game bankroll and allow fuel to rebuy into the tournament.

PokerTableRatings.com is a website that carries the “tracking” the biggest poker sites online. The company recorded since 2008 all data related to online cash games played on Pokerstars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, PartyPoker.com and also on the rooms and the iPoker network Cereus. She then pours its customers free of charge, in terms of basic facts, or for a fee, for the most sensitive data that could give players an advantage knowing the “edge” strategic adversaries.

By renting the services of “MarketZero team”, Zynga therefore recruits a college of computer experts who have added advantage as a thorough knowledge of the industry of online poker. The team also specializes in Internet security and has become a true supervisory authority in the industry by informing the community of players of the dangers arising from numerous security flaws discovered on some online poker rooms.

Through further investigation, PokerTableRatings unveiled in May 2010 a major security hole on UB.com rooms and Absolute Poker. The rooms of the Cereus network encryption system used a very unsatisfactory in relation to safety standards generally used in industry and porous to hacking attempts life wi-fi. The integrity of financial players no longer guaranteed and the integrity of the game, potential hackers can gain access to the cards of players.
Zynga, a future issue of online poker?

The recruitment of “MarketZero team” to carry out the technical improvement of the application Zynga Poker is far from trivial and could announce an arrival earlier than expected on the market Zynga poker for real money. With more than 7 million daily users and 37 million monthly users, Zynga could really easily seize market leadership, provided they have an excellent conversion rate of the players to play money players real money.

18 and March 19, 2011, Zynga had also organized its first ever live poker tournament with real money prize pool of $ 100,000. The event had occurred in the Mecca of the game in Las Vegas and had met many notable figures, professional players and industry stakeholders.

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Shoe over a million

‘Fabsoul has mounted this carpet thanks to a huge pot against Helder. When all the chips are in the middle, the table displays Soulier and returns for a straight. His opponent mucked and found himself short stacked. From there, Soulier will continue to increase his stack to finish the day at 1,079,400. His nearest rival, Alessandro Laubinger, is relegated to 742,400.
An intense bubble

The day was therefore concluded on the bubble burst and it was pretty intense since three players are gone and carpet have been paid. Panyak Maxim, all in with cons , Will finally see the Day 3 after a split pot. On the televised table, Karl Heinz Klose pushed his last chips with cons with Christian Knese and got eliminated but it is not the most unlucky. Meanwhile, Andrey Lobzhanidze is carpet with against the recent winner of the EPT Snowfest Geshkenbein with Vladimir and fails to pass. Given that Klose had more chips than Lobzhanidze before jumping, he left the tournament with € 7,500 for its 120th place. The unfortunate Lobzhanidze it is left empty-handed.
6 French money in the EFA 2011 Berlin

Among the 119 remaining players are formidable players. Peter Eastgate (301500) Roberto Romanello (149 500), Vladimir Geshkenbein (209 700) and Team PokerStars Pro Henrique Pinho (518 100), Sebastian Ruthenberg (278 800), George Danzer (310,500 ) and Joep van den Bijgaart (109,700) are included. Behind the chip leader Fabrice Soulier, five other French are cashed. This is Alexis Mortlet (383 400), Tristan Clémençon (379,400), of Hugo Lemaire (369 800), Thomas Bichon (170,000) and Aurelian Guiglini (127,800).
Arnaud Mattern eliminated

In contrast, Arnaud Mattern has not taken this Day 2. After doubling twice with cons nines and cons , Team PokerStars Pro has done away with cons Lemaire’s hand. James Mitchell, Sandra Naujoks, Ana Marquez, Marcin Horecki Fabrizio Ascari, Salvatore Bonavena Matt Affleck, Ramzi Jelassi and Dermot Blain have, as Mattern, took the way out on Day 2.

Friday, April 8, Day 3, which starts at noon, stop when the 24 survivors are known.

March 29, the hall has announced that it surpassed the one million users with 330,000 in real money. “A year ago, we were a small French start-up with the ambition to be the benchmark of poker in France, and we won our bet,” said Frichet Canel, Managing Director of Winamax, told AFP March 29, 2011. However, in early April 2011, according to two sources: PokerScout and SMX (site traffic statistics poker rooms), the room would not exceed the 1,500 active players and simultaneous cash games on an average of 7 days. This figure refers to only cash games, not tournaments. Certainly, one can sometimes hear criticisms about the update data by PokerScout, but the difference here is really important. Without doubt this ad seeks to create a form of self-fulfilling prophecy, whereby players are attracted to sites with high traffic.

Ranked second in volume of players in France, Winamax.fr is really able to play forward as equals with industry behemoths such as PokerStars , FullTilt , or the giant born of the recent merger between Bwin and PartyGaming ? It seems clear that “bankrolls” available cinemas developed internationally are not the same as that available Winamax.fr. The French Room 100% probably could not collect as many losses than its competitors, who can draw on their international position over time to recoup their investments to penetrate the French market.
Winamax.fr, reference to the online bug?

On 1 July 2010, when it was launched on the French market, Winamax.fr had left the Ongame network, gifts then developed its own software on Adobe Air filter leaving a few bugs. On Sunday, March 13, 2011, a general bug has forced the hall to cancel its biggest tournaments of the week. Almost a year after the first steps of the hall, some players, tired of recurring bugs, chose to leave the room despite an offer of tournaments developed. “The idea is not bad in my opinion. The problem is that the variance of crash site increases with the number of days. They should rather floor on the quality of their servers rather than on their offer of tournaments … Personally, 4 crashes in one month and a half, and a large galley to be indemnified, suddenly they can offer a few tournaments as they want, I already migrated elsewhere! ” One of the players react to the PokerNews Announces New deepstack tournaments over several days.
€ 10 million guaranteed in the pub …

Early 2011, also Winamax.fr angered some of his players by changing its VIP system and levies on the tables, making the room’s most expensive market for players in low limit cash game. Aurelian “_Guignol_” Guiglini player of Team Pro Winamax, was responding to criticism of the players: “It is true that these are the players and the high limit SNG / MTT winners coming out of this development .[...] But Winamax expenditure more money on TV to attract novice players, the general level is lower. ” The discontent of the players was not the basic priority of the room, realizing after the fact that they do not have specific advantages.

“We have already invested $ 10 million gross for television and sponsor football clubs PSG and St Etienne [...] Our model is totally viable. [...] But yes, taxes are very important and this prompted us to increase our harvest levels since 50% of our charges are levied by the state, “said Canel Frichet in an interview with the Journal du Net published on 1 October 2010.” Gamers will appreciate (or not) out Winamax.fr the new ad, which is perhaps a harbinger of a further increase in levies of the room or a new downward revision of its loyalty program.