From Busto to Robusto: Episode One (3/3)

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ACF SUMMER SERIES

June is going to be a much waited time for the French and its neighboring nation’s poker fans. ACF Summer Series will be received by Paris from 8th June to 24th June. The event is hosted by the Aviation Club de France. During the poker celebration, the host has thought for several programs to the poker fan’s delight of Paris and nearby areas.

The main event named Summer Deepstack will start from 21st June and will continue for 4 days for a € 1000 buy-in. In addition to it, the Aviation Club de France provide side events that will be available to all. Previous year, Benitez Ortega finished as a champion to a field of 191 players and got a sum of € 49280.

Among all he side events thought for this ACF meet, we can say the Ladies’ championship having the class of a € 100 buy-in freezeout, the Texas Hold’Em No Limit with a buy-in of € 250, the Pot Limit Omaha with a buy-in of € 500 and several more. In all, the naming will have eleven events that will allow poker players to enjoy the game for about a week.

Several satellites are in the program adding one that is to take place on Sunday, 24th June which will allow access to the World poker Tour National Series Mazagan. This is going to be a huge scope for French poker players to groom for the World Championships which is called World Series of Poker which will take place in Las Vegas in July.

National Heads Up Poker Championship 2011 – Episode 12 [Part 1/3] HD

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W TECH OFFERS ONLINE POKER

W Technologies Inc, an online social media and gaming company based in Nevada aims to offer online poker through internet. Wayne Allyn Root, CEO of W Technologies Inc said the company is planning to come up with an online poker site which will offer players to play poker online as well as hand over prizes to them.

He further added that the development of the first of the site may take around 4-6 months and along with development of the software, WTCG also intends to apply for Nevada gaming license. If WTCG meets the requirements to of Nevada to get a license, then it also plans to allow residents of the state of Nevada and outside the US to play games for cash. Mr Root also said that they are quite upbeat about the bright future of online poker in Nevada and in other states in the country.

WTCG aims to use a social gaming advertising agency to help it with its market strategy. The company has access to many databases of known gamblers and Mr Root also enjoys good relationship with well-known professional poker players and celebrities who love poker. Root is well known in Las Vegas for his business, gaming and political background.

He is a ex- Libertarian Party VP candidate and author of 7 books out of which two are Amazon best-sellers. He is also a regular guest of Fox News Channel and a media star. He is also known to be a distinguished business speaker and makes several appearances in media. He is also a Senior Economic Advisor to an international financial services company and serves as a Director of multiple boards.

Erik Seidel Wins NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship

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ONE TO WATCH

PCA or the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure drew over 148 poker players for the NLH 8-Max High Roller Event of $ 25000 buyin. Several popular poker pros took part at the championship but at the end, it is Leonid Bilokur who emerged as a champion.

For the 9 long hours of play, 6 players from the 8 finalist players went out one by one the final table only giving the Canadian Jonathan Duhamel and the Ukrainian Leonid Bilokur in the head’s up. Leonid Bilokur has taken on his opponent and seizes the award and gained over a million dollars. Behind Bilokur and the Ukrainian $ 1134930, there are Isaac Haxton with his $ 380730 and Jonathan Duhamel with $ 634550 followed by.

The last 5 positions are taken by Randy Lew with $ 108780, Michael Telkes with his$ 145040, Govert Metaal ($ 181300), Nicolas Fierro ($ 217560) and Jason Koon ($ 271950).

But the tough man of this visit to the Bahamas of the European Poker Tour is Jonathan Duhamel, the Canadian poker pro who was gave four cashes at the final tables of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 2012. Indeed, the Canadian bagged $ 1205970 in just a week after he made his 4th position in the $ 100000 Super High Roller NLH ($ 313600), a 5th position in the $ 5000 NLH 8 Max Turbo ($ 17990), a 1st position in the $ 5000 NLH 8 Max ($ 239830) and a 2nd position in the $ 25000 NLH 8 Max High Roller ($ 634550).

With this brilliant functioning, the Canadian champ of the WSOP Main Event  of the year 2010 noted his return in poker championships after a tough season in which Duhamel lost some money and his WSOP bracelet as a effect of the home-jacking of his mansion in Boucherville.