Marcel Bjerkmann was the dominant player on Day 2 of the WPT at the Casino di Venezia. Directly behind the young Norwegian Neumann is ranked second on the chip table.

The two big stacks will now go out of the way first, because they were drawn to two from now or three tables. Only 27 players reached the third day, with 155 players and because of the relatively low number of participants and only 18 players make the money.

One third of the remaining field must therefore resign or until the first player to $ 9,497 can be sure.

At the tournament winner, wait a little over $ 300,000.

Marcel Bjerkmann numbers yesterday and took players from the table and dominated at will.
Neumann, and Scott Akenhead reached Day 3

Born in Recklinghausen Marko Neumann was already several times in front of a big triumph. In 2009 he reached the SCOOP Main Event 10th place in the 2008 WCOOP, he even sat at the final table. He eventually finished fourth, just as two weeks in Paris in the € 10,000 High Roller event at the Euro finals. Neumann holds 384 400 chips.

James Akenhead made ​​headlines in 2009 when he reached not only the November Nine, but also made ​​the final table of the WSOPE Main Event. At the end he was a little disappointing ninth place in both tournaments.

He begins Day 3 fourth in chips with 336 000, slightly less than Jason Wheeler at the place that holds 348 200 chips.

Rather in the basement table located, but still in the race is Kara Scott , the face of PartyPoker.

Scott has already achieved several major events during the subsequent days, and others in the WSOP Main Event and at the Irish Open, where she placed second in 2009. Now it stands at 60 100 chips, and thus to place 21
Big names, no prices

It would have been a resonant (in every sense of the word) are the final table: Tony G., Filippo Candio, Roberto Romanello, Max Pescatori, Marvin Rettenmaier and Mike Sexton would have delivered a couple of fierce verbal duels. However, it should not be. None of them reached the third round.

Candio was eliminated with a flopped set against Jason Wheeler, who hit his flush on the river.

Today, in the money and played the final table. When sitting at the WPT final table traditionally only six players, so the day could be quite long.

The market leader in the party games on social networking moves for an entry into the technology blog All Things Digital closer to the opening of a platform for real-money online gaming.

In the last published Post by Tricia Duryee it is announced that “a spokesperson for Zynga ‘to the question on his company plans to enter into the real-money gaming, I responded as follows:

“We develop games and offer experiences that our players want and love them. Zynga Poker is the largest online poker operator in the world. Every day, seven million people play with us, a month there are about 30 million.

“We listen to our players and just know that they are interested also in the real money sector to be active. We are currently in discussions with potential partners in order to elicit our possibilities in more detail. ”

The speaker’s name was not mentioned, and of course the statement can be interpreted in different ways. However, rumors circulate about that Zynga is looking for business partners in touch with live casinos in the U.S. for months.

While the American players are waiting impatiently for the online poker market is regulated and legalized in the states so that, there is growing interest in the potential of the vast pool players, playing for play money at Zynga.

With an estimated exchange rate of 10-20% it would lead to an explosive growth of real money player account, as it has not been seen since 2003.

The founder and CEO of Zynga’s Mark Pincus, announced recently told the press that his company was preparing to open a casino Zynga. The first game that is offered should be bingo.

One of the most elite online poker sites, PokerRoom, made a big splash with its return to the poker world. Many wonder if the site will survive in this day and age, but after seeing what the new PokerRoom has to offer, the answer is a definite yes.

One of the main reasons why PokerRoom will do wonderfully in today’s marketplace is because of their user-friendly interface. It is recognized as one the best interfaces in the industry because there isn’t a need to go searching for in-depth instructions or getting extended filters simply to figure out how to use the site. The games are labeled and players can sit back and enjoy playing as PokerRoom’s philosophy is to keep everything simple.

PokerRoom became widely known because of the advanced game spread. Not only did they offer the popular Texas Hold’em and Omaha games, but gave players the chance to play Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven Card Stud, Stud 8 or better and Five Card Draw. Many players frequent PokerRoom to perfect their poker playing because of the variety of games that are offered because there is more to learn than just playing Hold’em all the time.

The tournaments offered on PokerRoom have always considered to be some of the best poker tournaments online, but PokerRoom has made them even better by adding expanded offerings. Players are still given the traditional multi-table games and Sit and Go’s, but PokerRoom has now given players the chance to play in turbo tournaments, deep stack events, heads-up tournaments and the ever so popular six-handed events. PokerRoom proves that even though the online poker world is forever evolving, they can keep up with the pace.

One of the biggest concerns with PokerRoom coming back to the online poker industry was whether or not there would be enough traffic to populate the site’s many games. Well, they covered it by joining with one of the largest poker networks on the internet. During the day, anywhere from 4,500 cash game players are online and as many as 35,000 players are in tournaments, so rest assured that whenever you want to play, you’ll find a game with ease.  Unfortunately, the site is still not a US poker room, but if US laws permit, that may change in the future.

PokerRoom is also recognized for their phenomenal customer support, which remains with their comeback. Support is available 24/7 and the site offers players support through chat, email and telephone. The PokerRoom Community is still highly visited and is a great place to connect with other players and learn helpful strategy methods through the useful hand discussions and articles.

PokerRoom was the leader in cash poker games for a decade and many speculated whether or not the site would ever come back after its two year absence, but eventually the site did come back and now it’s better than ever. Visit the website today to sign up for your free account and you’ll soon learn why one of the oldest players in the online poker world is still considered to be the best.

The first public appearance of Phil Ivey After the soap opera Full Tilt Poker occurred two days ago in the APPT MacauThe third stop on the Asian Pacific Poker Tour. This tour, organized by the largest competitor in the room who sponsored the considered the best player in the world and which part is supposed to have Phil Ivey himself, comes to Hong Kong after passing through Australia and New Zealand.

At this very moment is being held on day 2 of the tournament. According to Live updates PokerStars Blog, the beginning of the day was something unusual. Six of the tables would wait for the other players in the tournaments played the first 20 minutes of the day with the intention of making site, with rest below.

This is because participation in the tournament has broken all expectations. The official website of the APPT indicates that the number of players is limited to 500. The final number of applicants rose to 575, breaking all records of the circuit.

Many players have decided to skip this process and gain an hour of sleep, Ivey and Johnny Chan among them. Because if the day as the tournament comeinza APPT marks the night the live cash.

Macao’s hot. His tables offer cash the highest stakes on the planet. Asian millionaires face stick by professionals who are playing poker on TV.

I commented these days Macao presence of Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan, Peter Chan “GARFIELD25″ and the imminent arrival of Guy Laliberte.

Specialists in cash are still flying en masse to the former British protectorate,

Sam Trickett announced in its Twitter.

“At home for a few days, then go to Macao to immerse myself in the juicy cash games …”

Andrew RoblFor its part, told us gambleo stories in 140 charactersEnough to make your hair stand on end.

“I’ve been playing very strong in Macao. Donated U.S. $ 2 million pull and was greatly appreciated. Now I lose two million Flip and I’m thankful for other things. ”

With regard to the development of day 2 of the APPT, Ivey began slightly below the average and has not moved too much, other than to change tables when they broke in the beginning on day. Won a 10,000 chips to get in 61,000.

As a curious note, these were the ten players with more chips at the start on day 2 in Macao. Stresses in the fourth pro- PokerStarsBryan Huang. Who knows whether the qualifications of the WSOP not look well in a few years old.

1, Shih Chieh Su (China Taipei) 171 800
2 nd Sha Jun (China) 169 400
3 º Daniel Francis (New Zealand) 154 100
4 º Bryan Huang (Singapore) 154 100
5 º Carlos Chang (China Taipei) 148 900
6 th Andrew Ong (Malaysia) 145 900
7 º Daniel Chua (Singapore) 145 900
8 º Spiedelmann Fabian (Germany) 142 800
9 th Erdenebold Begzjav (Mongolia) 142 100
10 ° Zheng Tai Tan (Singapore) 141 000

The reglamento poker of gaming law appears on Thursday November 17 published in the Official Gazette.

From that disastrous first draft of July that directly precluded poker and following complaints from across the sector (operators, players, schools, affiliates …) that from Poker-Red trying to promote with the joint presentation of this observations document the rules, We finally second draft of September that will at least develop a market and that has finally become official rules published today.

We remind the general lines of the Order EHA/3089/2011 of 8 November, approving the game’s basic rules of poker.

• The ceiling on the cash tables will NL1000 (blinds € 5 / € 10).
• The maximum buy-in tournament will be 250 €.
• The maximum buy-in cash tables will be 100 blinds.
• Las reglamentadas modalities are: Texas Holdem, Omaha, Stud and Draw.

Now you just need to convene the Licensing contest (Expected to be made Friday morning) and that these are granted (possibly in the second half of December) to the regulated market of poker in Spain start working.

Shortly before Christmas in Prague is the center of the poker world. The best tournaments are held during Advent in the Czech capital.

Live Tournaments
WPT Prague

That the EPT Prague would run in December was quite a while known, but now has the WPT announced to want to align itself an event in the “City of Golden Roofs”, precisely in the five days before the start of the competition events. A rogue who thinks evil of it.

Party Poker / WPT Bwin against PokerStars EPT, this duel will we see in the future probably even more often. Bwin is the official main sponsor of the Prague event, but is known Bwin and PartyPoker have now received a close relationship.

Satellites run according to the PartyPoker and Bwin Poker. First-round daily freerolls and qualifiers start at $ 2.20 for the bargain hunters, then direct satellites for $ 320 each Monday, Wednesday and Sunday evening. In each of these final weeks are guaranteed a place.

The Prague WPT Main Event will run from 1st to 5th December at the Corinthia Hotel. The prize packages are worth whopping $ 7500, and contained therein are in addition to buy-in, flight and hotel also has a nice pocket money.

EPT Prague

Was that it? Just hours after the WPT Main Event begins a few miles away the last EPT event of 2011. Date is the 5th-10th December

Last year, the players won with the typical Welsh name Roberto Romanello the main event and € 640,000. 563 players had generated over € 2.7 million prize pool, and one can assume that this year, similar conditions are achieved.

EPT means known PokerStars, And PokerStars qualifier means more than you can play. FPP, steps, and real money freeroll qualifiers to wait and buy-ins between 0 and $ 2000 can be any budget find the right tournament.

As usual, the market leader, no wishes remain unsatisfied. The prize packages include hotel, travel, buy-in and yet so much more.

GSOP Prague

$ 1,500 +150 buy-in, 20,000 starting stack, 60 minute blinds, these are the figures of the first event of the Grand Series of Poker GSOP in Prague. The game is played like the WPT at the Corinthia Hotel, are only in a small box and buy a number.

Seems to lie within the trend for expanding the GSOP live.

$ 3600 prize package is worth. Here too, travel expenses and accommodation are included.

If you want to qualify for the GSOP live in Prague, you can use with Bwin, Betfair and RedKings three of our partner poker rooms to choose from. Online qualifiers are already underway in all three poker rooms and cost from $ 1.05.

Juan Maceiras is left alone. No other Spanish has qualified for the main event Day 3 of the Partouche Poker Tour. To emphasize his loneliness, current leaderThe Ukrainian this summer winning a WSOP bracelet Kovalchuk Oleksii, Has gone to the 892,500 points, Almost double the Galician.

The only ones not seem to want to stay away from are the top ranked Maceiras the rest of the 101 players still had chips at the end of Day 2. Giuseppe Pantaleo is third with 438,600 points and the top 15 we can find the Italian Massimiliano Martinez, who had a very good performance at the EPT Barcelona Arnaud Mattern and winner of the WPT Legends of Poker 2011 Will ‘The Thrill’ Failla.

Among other big names gathered in Cannes at the Palms Beach carnage was historic. Jason Mercier, Daniel Cates ‘jungleman12′. Antonio Esfandiari and William Thorson only lasted a couple of levels.

France’s top television fans may recognize at a glance Freddy Deeb, Juha Helppi or Olivier Bousquet, But other players like James Bord, Sam Trickett, David Vamplew or Matt Gianetti November Nine are not regulars to the media. He is, yes, a significant local representation, now overwhelmingly.

The game will resume today and reach remaining prizes in 63 participants.

These are the top ten of the tournament:

1. Kovalchuk Oleksii 892,500
2. Juan Maceiras Jr. 452,000
3. Giuseppe Pantaleo 438,600
4. Alexander Dovzhenko 417,100
5. Frederik Brink Jensen 400,000
6. Massimiliano Martínez 380,000
7. Joel Robert Dodds 337,000
8. Giacomo Carlo Treu 336,400
9. Christophe Julien 334,900
10. Willy Korchia 320,600

In the second Main Event Poker League Fabrice Soulier the Epic is the only European. Rheem eliminated defending champion scandal.

At the top of the table is the Australian David Steicke. He is one of two players who have already broken through the million mark. The other players can even slow Anthropologists cast doubt on whether he is ever out of this world: Erik Seidel, who has thus also the second of two final tables of the Epic Poker League.

Besides Steicke Fabrice Soulier is the second non-American who will make the final table for a bit of international flair. With Nam Le and Sean Getzwiller two players have reached the finals achthändige who have qualified via the Pro / Am event for the Main Event.

Another short stack at the table is a player who was once the youngest poker talk retirees of all time by themselves. EPT Dortmund winner Mike “Timex” MacDonald wanted to say goodbye to poker even before he was even old enough to begin at the WSOP. Hard to believe, but despite his victory at the EPT in Dortmund was three years ago, MacDonald is still only 21 years old.

While the return of Mike MacDonald provides open joy, single player and organizer that elimination of Chino Rheem took note with some relief. Rheem finished 20th

The cashed but were reserved for the top twelve players. It almost would have caught Soulier, who with AQ against AK by Adam Levy was all in, but then got lucky, because the Board brought in two pairs.

In the end it was Allen Bari, who lost with pocket jacks against aces and missed the $ 46k prize for first place.

MacDonald won a big pot against Seidel, but were all back and more chips, as both he and Seidel Full House did gymnastics, Seidel was stronger but with aces full of tens than tens full of MacDonald’s careful.

Eleven and a half hours it lasted until the final eight were found. Tonight the winner will be played, and once again, Erik Seidel, the man to beat.
Chip stacks at the final table:
1st David Steicke, 1.059 million
second Erik Seidel, 1.031 million
third Isaac Baron, 876 000
4th Fabrice Soulier, 537 000
5th Dutch Boyd, 393 000
6th Nam Le, 362 000
7th Mike MacDonald, 357 000
8th Sean Getzwiller, 235,000