PokerNews is broadcasting a live interactive streaming PartyPoker Big Game V which begins Friday, April 15, 2011. The live coverage of the cash games for 48 hours non-stop will be with cameras to see the cards of players and, for the first time, viewers can vote to eliminate the players of the show.
The PartyPoker Big Game V: 48 cash game

The PartyPoker Big Game V will take place at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham (England) Friday 15 April at 21h00 (France) Sunday, April 17 until 21:00. Among the players present at the cash game 48 hours, there is Tony G, Annette Obrestad, Sam Trickett, Luke Schwartz, Dusty Schmidt, Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott and David “VIFF” Peat.

PokerNews reporting live up a notch higher this weekend, allowing players to watch and interact with the show. For the first time in poker history, viewers will have the opportunity to vote to eliminate the players of the show while they are watching the live streaming. The interface will allow viewers to live chat about the show, talking with players and, more importantly, eliminate the show the players they like the least.
A historic first in the story live

One of the spokespersons of PartyPoker said: “The introduction of streaming and vote against the players is an innovation that will allow the viewer to be engaged. This is not a regular broadcast, you can see Cards of players, charts and have the comments of Jesse May and several other commentators during the 48 hours of play – it will be like watching the event on television. Who is a nit? Who do you dislike? You can have an influence on the game! The only exception is that the most active player will not be statistically eliminated and players qualified through the “PartyPoker.com Wildcard” are sure to play at least four hours. You can watch the show be involved in the action and vote on the pages of the world from PokerNews.

Eddie Hearn, Managing Director of Matchroom Sport said: “The atmosphere of the PartyPoker.com Big Game will be like no other. The players play with their own money, the action is wild and hilarious banter, so that players will be delirious during those 48 hours of play I am delighted that poker players can watch the action when it takes place and I think that streaming will be one of the most popular ever published. ”

You’ll have your say this weekend and will talk with our reporters and professionals involved in the game. In addition, Laura Cornelius takes you behind the scenes of the event as it unfolds.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011, Leo Laslandes’ Gastounet has won the tournament live to 500 € buy-in circle games Aviation Club de France (ACF) . PokerNews has gathered his thoughts for the pro player after this first victory live, he who was in pursuit of conclusive result to confirm in his recent final table at the Marrakesh Poker Open XIX .

94 players attended this tournament to 500 € entry that offered nine cashes (players were finally ten in money) and a first prize of € 13,555.

Hello Leo, congratulations on this achievement. First victory live, so .. … happy?

Of course! This is a win a tournament we call “super turbo”, but a victory nonetheless! After many disappointing results live from the DFO casino Es Saadi I find that my live playing really improved. And it’s something that I finally managed to achieve.

What is most fun? The money, the victory? Achieve its objectives?

This victory brought me a nice sum of money even if it’s far from a perf ‘madness. I am especially pleased to have really gained confidence in my game live, reaching forward and reap a little recognition from other players.

There was a particular trigger? Your performance in Marrakech, perhaps?

Yes, I clearly changed my style of play, I play more tightly, especially with less than 20 blinds to avoid losing stupidly large parts of my carpet. I know better when to press the accelerator at key moments like bubble or during the final table, when levels of money are quite large.

I also noticed a little click at the corner flips too (laughs).

The course of my tournament is close to a Hollywood movie! I quickly lost 50% of my stack on suckout pretty terrible, then I did the lift between 5000 and 15000 chips.

I remember a 60/40 win against Lucien Cohen , with King-7 vs. Queen-Jack, so that I have more than four blinds! The flop brings Dame 4-5. Turn: 7. River: 7!

After a succession of corner-flips and moves to 60/40 passing, the average stack of fifteen who was blind too didn’t helped develop a very interesting game, suddenly I get enough ‘shortstack’ final table with 66,000 blinds to 3.000/6.000. At this moment I am 7th out of 10 remaining players.

At the table, a Swede and David Jaoui I think the two players most likely to be many ‘moves’ light but I won 7-5 against Ace-Jack and cons pair of 5 pocket aces preflop to eliminate two players in one go!

A nice finishing touches that I remember is with As-6 in the bubble of cashes. We are 11 to 10 paid to the blinds 2.000/4.000. I have 29,000 in the big blind, and the cutoff raises to 11,000. I push my stack, it returns Dame-7 and it is!

Regarding the heads-up play, so you got your online experience served?

My opponent is short, the plan was to send all my carpet buttons. There was not enough depth to develop a game very technical reality.

Speaking of heads-up, where is thy chalenge on Sajoo?

I played about a hundred heads up to big buy-in, and for now I ‘break even’ so it is some satisfaction in terms of technical progress. In terms of distribution, I played about 65% of HUS at 50 €, 30 € to 100% and 5% to 200 €. Players who want to rub me are always welcome elsewhere, whatever the buy-in.

What is the next big deadline live?

I will be this weekend at the € 100,000 guaranteed tournament Cadet Circle . I can not wait to play it because it looks like a very nice meeting you in a room and against players that I know better and better! Especially since I’d rather warn you now, I intend to win it too!

Leo thank you and good luck this weekend at Cadet, we will be there for the photo of the winner!

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The Regulatory Authority for Online Games , better known by the acronym ARJEL, released Monday, April 11 its report “Quarterly Monitoring” summarizes the activities of online gaming that is responsible monitored since the opening of the French market in 2010.
Poker Online France: Key figures

The important point of this report, it is mainly a few figures and confirmed a trend: the French passion for poker online more than for Paris via the internet.

These last are the same in free fall with 147 million € wagered in the first quarter 2011 (excluding horse paris) against € 200 million in the fourth quarter 2010 (-26.5%). By contrast, poker has generated € 1.9 billion of housing, more than fourteen times the amount wagered in paris sportifs.

The other numbers tell us that young people including sports bettors are far more numerous in proportion than their counterparts online poker (although often be the same!). 41% of bettors are under 25 years against 25% of poker fans. Side differentiation by sex, poker still attracts as little women with 9% of them in this area, much less than for example the area where a horse put in five (19%) is a challenge to the feminine.
2.6 million accounts, and me and me ….

Although brief, the statistics indicate that ARJEL 3.5 million “active player accounts” were opened on game sites and / or online paris receiving authorization to operate in the market. “En” .

Evolution accounts active players ARJEL

Opening an account is now linked to the provision of identity documents and a valid bank account, you can generally assume that each account is a player for each of the sites concerned. However, a player can open nearly fifty accounts if it fits on all sites available. So we can draw any conclusion on the number of real players in France, especially since this statistic combines online poker, sports and paris paris horse.

The raw numbers are:
The number of accounts active players since the opening of the market is 2.6 million
The number of accounts active players on the first quarter 2011 is 1.3 million
The number of player accounts opened on the sites. Com stands at 3.5 million

One might also note the difference between “active accounts” and “accounts” which reveals that 900,000 accounts have been opened and closed since the introduction of the market.
Online poker stable in 2011

After a great start which saw the number of accounts of players spend a hundred and twenty thousand (June 2010) to 210,000 in three months (September 2010), online poker activity remained on an upward curve until January 2011 ( 325,000 active players).

But this growth has been slowed in 2011 and the sector is even a small decline, with 312,853 active players accounts at April 3, 2011 a slight decrease of 4% over 4 months old. We can estimate that the industry of online poker has been a relative stability, with growth of 4% for online poker tournaments between this and the last quarter of 2010 (€ 271 million, or 10 M €).
The cash game lifeblood of online poker. Fr

Distribution CG-MTT

By nature, the cash game where you bet real money at least twice in each round (blinds required) generates much more bets tournaments where you pay an entrance fee usually only play with chips whose amount is purely symbolic. The cash game is almost 90% of the stakes involved in poker (€ 5526 million) since opening the market while the tournaments have brought “only” € 683 million.

Yet these figures are to be taken lightly when considered in terms of actual turnover for online poker rooms (or, consequently, taxes for the state). The samples vary in effect depending on the amount of bets and rotate around 5% of the pots wagered in cash game, roughly half the average rake in tournament (just under 10%). Therefore, 1 € bet tournament reports twice a priori that cash games and tournaments represent at least 20% of the activity poker in terms of gross revenues.
Online games. Com, a market for small players?

Another stat trompe l’oeil, the fact that “the activities of sports and games paris circle (a cash game and tournaments), 1% of players generate 51% of total housing. The non-differentiation between sports bettors on the one hand, poker players in cash games and tournaments of the other, removes virtually all meaning that this figure can be interpreted in multiple ways.

However the fact that 65% of players of poker tournaments bet less than 33 € a month (100 € per quarter) and 100 € per month for cash-game players, is it could not be more revealing. The vast majority of poker players only spend a limited budget to online poker, whatever the discipline practiced, but just take a look at any poker software to find out. The most attractive tournaments to 10 € struggling to collect more than a few hundreds of players while the least free tournament attracts three or four more players.

French online poker remains essentially a recreation, a hobby, not a way to earn real money significantly, at least for most players. The restrictive measures imposed by the ARJEL one hand, the ads very targeted at the general public on the other hand, there are certainly no strangers, and the market is far from reaching any maturity.
Poker is a game young and male

Players ages ARJEL

In terms of statistics, ARJEL tells us that “women represent 11% of the total population of accounts active players, including 8% in paris sports, 9% and 19% in poker paris horse.” Poker, and online gambling in general, remains the prerogative of the male although all amateur clubs have seen more and more women swell their ranks.

Regarding the age, the youngest (under 25) are especially fond of sports paris (half for football and tennis for one quarter), but the fact remains that more than two players in three (68 %) of online poker players are 34 years or less. The revolution of seniors in online poker is apparently not right away.
The area of ??paris is burning there?

With 26.5% decline in housing just three months, the sector is experiencing a real collapsed paris and this time it is not the unpopularity of the World Cup football (and the utter failure of the Equipe de France) is involved. While no major event has occupied the land but it remains that the annual sports competitions (League 1 and League Champions in football, in rugby’s Six Nations Grand Slam in tennis) seem scarcely able to support a market never really took off.

The industry paris online seems doomed to experience peak activity at major world events (Olympics, World Cups and Rugby football, Roland Garros …) and to vegetate in the interval . ‘This is down significantly, but that does not mean that athletes will put Paris down more than 20% this year, “said Jean-Francois and Vilotte, president of the ARJEL, Le Figaro.

Villotte cons concerned by this lack of punch recurring sector is also the result of excessive taxation, price of legalizing the market. “We are attentive,” he added, “should not be that legal tender, for lack of attractiveness, the lead players trying to reconnect with the illegal sites. ”

To recall, the end of 2010 had broadcast ARJEL statistics that € 1 deposited on an account generates an average player:

- 4 € sports betting in paris
- 3.2 € horse betting in paris
- 23 € betting in poker cash game
- 8 € entrance fee in poker tournaments

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Like the Main Event won for the second consecutive year by Vanessa Selbst , the High Roller Tournament Bounty Shootout PokerStars.net the North American Poker Tour Mohegan Sun in 2011 ended Thursday, April 14 on an air of deja vu with victory Jason Mercier. Winner of this event in 2010, the Team PokerStars Pro has also managed the feat of retaining his title.
High Roller Bounty Shootout for Dummies

For the uninitiated, a High Roller event is a tournament high entry price (ie $ 10,300 here). A bounty tournament means that for every player out, the person causing the removal receives a premium. Finally, a structure corresponds to a shootout tournament in the form of Sit and Go Only the winner of the table goes to the next round. The event at NAPT Mahegan Sun has attracted 78 players and generated a prize pool of $ 780,000.

Final table, the “bounty”, initially $ 2,000 per capita in the first tables are mounted to $ 10,000. A bonus of $ 20,000 and an NAPT entry for the next Bounty Shootout were also at stake for the player who eliminated the more opponents. Finally, $ 142,600 would be given to the winner of the final table.
The first eliminated from the final table

The first to leave the final table was Joe Sweeney, starting with carpet on the flop but crashing on the color of Eugene Kachalov ( ). Sweeney did not find the expected miracle ended in 9th place. Micah Raskin then joined when his pocket tens fell on the pair of ladies Jonathan Jaffe. Scott Blackman jumped in 7th place after losing a pot Three players with cons with Jimmie Guinther and with Michael Pesek . Table is released allowing Pesek copiously from cutting the carpet and remove Guinther Blackman. Short stack after this sudden Guinther left the tournament a few hands later in 6th place with cons of the pair of two Pesek.
The miracle Kachalov

The most cruel hand of final table is reached when Taylor von Kriegenbergh with tried to eliminate and Eugene Kachalov . The flop was harmless but in turn gave a set to von Kriegenbergh before the the river gives no advantage to Kachalov. Mourant, von Kriegenbergh has busted shortly after Michael Pesek cons. Jonathan Jaffe was the next to take the way out after a confrontation against Jason Mercier vs. . The table has maintained the hand in front of Mercier and Jaffe ranked 4th.
The doubling of Jason Mercier

In third place we find Michael Pesek, disposed cons with Eugene Kachalov on a board . Heads-up, it did not take all the chips that are at the center. On the flop Mercier is for top pair and straight draw at both ends while Kachalov returns for two pairs. The turn brings the but the river delivers the Mercier to give two pairs above and the final victory. For his second place wins $ 66,000 Kachalov. As for Jason Mercier, between the “bounty”, the bonus and the title, he has collected $ 246,600 and a seat for the next NAPT Bounty Shootout.

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LAS VEGAS, April 14, 2011 / PRNewswire / – Gaming Partners International Corporation (Nasdaq: GPIC) (“IPG” or the “Company”) today announced the takeover by its French subsidiary, Gaming Partners International SAS of the business of manufacturing plastic injection molds society WTO Sarl operated by its subsidiary Industries WTO (WTO).

This transaction, although financially insignificant, part of the acquisition strategy of the Group IPA made possible by its strong financial position and to acquire companies, products or technologies enabling it to diversify and expand its product offerings and service.

Allowing it to achieve high precision molds needed to manufacture casino chips, this acquisition gives GPI greater control of its manufacturing process and enhances the security procedures necessary for the production of “money> > casinos. In addition, this acquisition will enable GPI to improve its delivery times and offer customers worldwide a wider choice of options for customizing their chips. This transaction also allows GPI to expand its production capacity to other areas by providing WTO means of its development.

“We are very pleased to gain the goodwill of WTO whose reputation is second to none for making high quality molds for various industries”, said Mr Gregory S. Gronau, President of IPA. “WTO provides GPI for over twenty years, and direct access to the production of high precision molds will improve our current process of manufacturing chips>>.

M. Gronau added: “This transaction is another important step to diversify our production capabilities and product development. Coupled with the recent acquisition transaction and licensing relating to RFID technologies, this acquisition allows us to increase our more direct control over the production of our major high-end>>.

Ms. Fabienne Pialat, Manager of WTO, said: “On behalf of the employees of WTO, we are particularly pleased to conclude this transaction with GPI. Our long-standing trade relationship makes this purchase a logical and mutually beneficial. We have confidence in the ability of GPI to continue to fully satisfy our customer’s existing injection molds>>.

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Organizers and poker players arrested in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.
Gambling: a reminder of the rules.

1 March 2011, the BRB sounds the reminder of the rules: 3 organizers of illegal poker games and 13 players were arrested in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. At home organizers, serving home games, 4 table games, 5 suitcases full of poker and around 2,000 euros were seized. Among the players, 4 had multiple winners a total gain of nearly 3,800 euros.

The organizers of illegal parties, but also the players, face a sentence of six months imprisonment and 7,500 euro fine.

In France, the Penal Code forbids gambling, except as permitted by the authorities. Within the prefecture of police, the brigade is the suppression of banditry (BRB) which is in charge of investigations related to violations of legislation on gambling. Are considered as most games that we find in the casinos: the rooms games (ball, roller, etc.). And card games and slot machines.

A very specific rules concerning gambling: the law of July 12, 1983 (No. 83-628) prohibits, on pain of criminal penalties, both holding a gambling house where the public is freely admitted that the establishment and maintenance of the highway or any place open to the public of all games of chance authorized by law where the issue is money.

This applies particularly to poker because of the union of the three elements that constitute the offense: the existence of a game of chance, the provision of these games to the public and an issue of money.

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The famous Hong Kong billionaire, who made ??his fortune in casinos, also the heart. Moved by the disaster chain suffered by Japan, he signed a check for 3.8 million Hong Kong dollars to help the archipelago to overcome this ordeal. Last month, our Baron has certainly been more difficult to advance on his inheritance and ownership of his empire …

At a meeting with the Consul General of Japan in Hong Kong, Stanley Ho has presented a check for HK $ 3.8 million (just under one million dollars) in Japan, in recognition of his emotion-related Earthquake, Tsunami and the nuclear disaster that befell the Archipelago. “I offer my deepest condolences and sincere wishes for quick recovery in Japan. With the determination and efforts of the Japanese people, as well as assistance by the entire planet, I know that Japan will overcome this tragedy and rebuild quickly, “he said.

At the end of March, the empire of Stanley Ho has also undergone some minor re-keys. The fourth wife of Stanley Ho, Angela Leong, has indeed increased its stake in the casino group of her husband, SJM Holdings, nearly 11% (more than 1 billion), against 5% previously. It seems to have benefited from the downsizing of the participation of the second and third wife of Stanley Ho, respectively Lucina Laam and Ina Chan.

Stanley Ho has accused the past two and 5 of its 17 (!) Children, of having tried to abuse his great age to steal some of his fortune, estimated at 3.1 billion. He did not hesitate to sue. Two weeks ago, a balance has been found, with unknown details, but everything seemed resolved. It is true that with such a line, assumed the greed of his four wives and the advanced age of our Baron, everything came together for a great poker game!

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PARIS – The Agency for Safety of Health Products (AFSSAPS) provides an information leaflet on risk-drowsiness, hypotension, abnormal behavior such as pathological gambling, associated with dopaminergic drugs used to treat Parkinson’s disease.

This pamphlet, developed with neurologists and patients’ associations, aims to encourage patients or their surroundings to tell their doctor about these effects, generally reversible upon dose reduction or change in treatment, says Afssaps Monday in a statement.

According to the neurologist Pierre Pollak, 15% of PD patients taking dopaminergic drugs develop behavioral problems, including 5% with pathological gambling.

Some of these drugs are also used to treat restless legs syndrome or certain endocrine (hyperprolactinemia).

These disorders can manifest as a tendency to carelessly play games, including money (casino, shopping, “scratch cards”, Internet gaming …) but also by buying unnecessary, expensive and repetitive by absorption compulsive including sweets or a “hypersexuality” sometimes leading to inappropriate behavior.

These disorders are mainly reported by Parkinsonian treated with high doses or several dopaminergic drugs, the agency said.

The leaflet, published to mark the World Day of Parkinson’s disease, will be distributed throughout the year by the associations and can be ordered from pharmacies. It is also available on the site Afssap

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Patrick Partouche was much needed and now it is done! As announced in February, the investor Walter Butler flew to the aid of Patrick Partouche in serious financial trouble and has strengthened the Group’s equity Partouche .

With a net loss of 58 million for fiscal 2010 (three times more than in 2009), Groupe Partouche , led by Patrick Partouche , was absolutely and quickly find a partner able to inject several million euros . Walter Butler is the man for the job.

The CEO of the French investment group Butler Capital and Patrick Partouche and have said they found an agreement for the entry of the first in the group’s capital of gambling and money. Walter Butler is poised to take 12.5% ??to 15.5% of the casino operator.

“A minority partner and active” have reported the two individuals. However, the entrance to Butler Capital Partners has been subject to one condition: that the group Partouche refocuses on his heart craft: casinos and online gambling. The capital increase of Groupe Partouche should be at 30 million euros.

These capital increases will be subject to the approval of the shareholders’ meeting of Groupe Partouche April 29, 2011.

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In a national context bleak for the sector, the casino Blotzheim is growing dramatically. And he Ribeauvillé rebounds by relying on a wider range of leisure activities.

French casinos are living through difficult years, with a string of bad news. First there was the introduction of systematic identity checks at the entrances, including slot machines, in 2006, then the smoking ban in 2007, followed by the global economic crisis. Finally, the legalization of some gambling on internet poker in particular (but not other casino games), nearly a year ago, has raised fears the emergence of new competition.

In fact, the gross gaming revenue (GGR, difference between the players and put their earnings) of the 196 French casinos amounted to 2.29 billion euros in the October 31, 2010 (date of year end) a decrease of 2.1% after 9% in 2008 and -8.2% in 2009. Last summer, three casinos have been placed in receivership, and another was declared insolvent.

The three casinos in Alsace, which all belong to Groupe Barrière , they better take their game? If in the northern region, one of Niederbronn-les-Bains just to bounce back (see below), institutions of Upper Rhine, recently opened, continued to expand, with more or less splendor.

At Blotzheim, the PBJ has increased by over 20% last year to place the casino, from its 2nd year of existence, the 16th in the standings French. An outcome that benefits the finances of Commons partners (Blotzheim, but St. Louis and Mulhouse), even more spectacular than this casino is in direct competition with that of Basel. The latter accused the blow slightly in 2009 (-6%), but the two institutions co-exist today without harm, evidence that the offer remains below the local potential.

“We thought we recover market share in Basel, but we mostly succeeded in winning over customers who do not visit the casinos,” Analysis Jerome Colin, director of casino Blotzheim. The results are even better than expected. “We did a little more volume than expected, mainly on table games, thanks to its proximity to the border. Foreigners represent about 70% of our table games, against 40% in the slot machines. We became the 5th French for casino table games. ”

The strong Swiss franc Swiss undoubtedly amplifies the deal, although Romain Tranchant , general manager of the group founded by his father (which operates 17 casinos in France, and that of Basel), this impact into perspective, noting that “it Some Swiss, who will never play in France, and vice versa “…

Still, if current growth continues to Blotzheim, the casino will soon be saturated. “To optimize, we should offer more slot machines, is taking on the bar, is expanding,” says Jerome Colin.

A little further north, on the Wine Route, the results are more erratic for the casino Ribeauvillé, born in pain because of a legal mess. The PBJ grew 10% in 2008, then fell 15% in 2009 and 3% in 2010. “But in 2011, hopefully 6% growth, while the national average should stay down,” said Jacques Leveque, Director General, based on the results of the first month.

“When Blotzheim opened, there was an effect of curiosity at the expense of Ribeauvillé but equal service, proximity always ends up winning, says Gilles Meillet, Chief Operating in International Barrier Group , which Alsatian also oversees facilities. At Ribeauvillé, competition is less than Blotzheim and Niederbronn, and we have well developed communication for German customers pick up the side of Freiburg. ”

The activity should also be boosted by the opening at the end of the year, a four star hotel and a large area “wellness spa” that aims to compete with overseas offers Rhine. “The idea is to offer short breaks to customers, by offering to fix many things: gaming, spa, vineyard …” says Jacques Lévêque.

For Ribeauvillé like to Blotzheim, officials put forward a new conception of casinos, which goes beyond mere gaming establishment to become leisure complex. “Many clients come to us discover what a modern casino, with restaurants, bar, entertainment, lists Jerome Colin. 70% of the surface of the casino is open to any family, children can play on inflatable structures, there is a scenic, ponies … This range of choice is what differentiates us from the casino Basel, purely player. ”

“The image of casinos remains sulfur, combined with luxury, but it no longer corresponds to reality today,” concludes Jacques Leveque, who recalls that 80% of French people have never set foot in a casino.

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