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Many poker pros, especially in the US, have either lost their sponsorships or have been unable to acquire one. Many feel that the current trend could have dire consequences for live poker tournaments as a whole. So, here is a look at what you can expect to happen to poker tournaments in a world without online sponsors.

Larger Buy-In Events Could Suffer

As was made evident at the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP), the affect of Black Friday coupled with the reduction of online poker sponsorship, resulted in dropoffs across the board for most of the events, including the main event.

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Carlos Chang of Taiwan has won the HKD25,000 (€3,222) buy in Asian Poker Tour Macau main event after beating 267 opponents to win the HKD1,913,100 (€200,835) top prize.

Chang knocked out the start-of-day chip leader Richard Zhu in third place to give himself a commanding 7:1 advantage over his heads up opponent Winfred Yu who he dispensed is short order to lift the title and top prize at the Starworld Hotel in the former Portuguese colony.

The final table payouts were:

1: Carlos Chang (Taiwan) — HKD 1,913,100 (€200,835)
2: Winfred Yu (Canada) — HKD 1,016,400 (€106,700)
3: Richard Yueqi Zhu (China) — HKD 478,300 (€50,211)
4: Aaron Lim (Australia) — HKD 358,700 (€37,656)
5: Tom Alner(England) — HKD 299,000 (€31,389)
6: Zhang Ai Min (China) — HKD 239,200 (25111)
7: Yue Qing Zhou (Singapore) — HKD 179,400 (€18,833)
8: Yi-Po Lee (Taiwan) — HKD 122,600 (€12,870)
9: Samad Razavi (England) — HKD 110,600 (€11,610)

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What would Benny Binion think?

The legendary downtown Las Vegas casino owner enticed some the best poker players to his family's Horseshoe Casino on Fremont Street in 1970 for several days of high-stakes cash games inside the property's dark and smoky poker room.

That idea evolved into the World Series of Poker.

Binion, who died in 1988, might not recognize today what he created.

The World Series of Poker is now a year-round poker extravaganza, not just the annual seven-week tournament at the off-Strip Rio that has grown from its humble beginnings to a multi-million-dollar event.

The World Series of Poker Circuit Tournament, now in its ninth season, will make 20 stops through next May, starting this week at the IP Casino in Biloxi, Miss. Almost one-third of the events will take place at casinos not owned by Caesars Entertainment Corp., whose subsidiary, Montreal-based Caesars Interactive Entertainment, operates the World Series of Poker.

The World Series of Poker Circuit concludes with its National Championship event at Harrah's New Orleans in May. The conclusion comes just in time for the start of the 44th World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.

Meanwhile, the World Series of Poker Europe is in its sixth season and will host a series of events at the Casino Barrière de Cannes Croisette and the Hôtel Majestic Barrière in Cannes, France, for two weeks from the end of September through the beginning of October.

In April, the inaugural World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific event will take place at the Crown Entertainment Complex in Melbourne, Australia.

Which brings us back to the original World Series of Poker.

"It's really hard to call this a poker tournament anymore," said Ty Stewart, the World Series of Poker executive director and a vice president with Caesars Interactive.

Stewart joined the tournament in 2006 after spending seven years in the marketing department of the National Football League in New York City.

He is never understated in his opinions on the World Series of Poker and its place in the landscape of the gaming industry.

"This is all about the viability of poker and the interest from poker players 365 days a year," Stewart said. "I really don't think there is any end in sight on how much we can grow."

TIMES HAVE CHANGED

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The 2012 PokerStars World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP), kicks off on Sept. 2 with the first of 62 high stakes poker tournaments over 22 days. Winning a WCOOP event is a fantastic experience but words are not enough to express what it must feel like to win the $5,200 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event that guarantees at least $1,000,000 to the eventual winner.

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Read More: Time Is Running Out To Qualify For $20,000 Worth Of WCOOP Freerolls | PokerNetwork-com

Fresh off the opening tournament of their Season XI schedule on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, the World Poker Tour is wasting little time in getting back to action with their inaugural Season XI tournament on American soil.

The entirety of the WPT staff arrived at the Parx Casino in Bensalem, PA, for the first televised event of the Season XI schedule yesterday, featuring the first of two Day Ones. The $3500 buy in tournament is offering one of the unique twists to the WPT schedule from last year – the re-entry option – meaning that any player eliminated on Day 1A has the option of returning for Saturday’s play. That didn’t keep the crème of the poker world from turning out on Day 1A, however.

As it started, 204 players were in their chairs when the cards hit the air on Friday. Some of the more notable names had some tough beats in the early going, with Jon “PearlJammer” Turner running pocket Kings into his opponent’s pocket Aces one of the big hands. Todd Terry also dropped a few chips when, on two occasions, he saw pocket Aces and pocket Kings out-flopped when Joseph Cheong hit sets against him. He only dropped slightly more than 5K in tournament chips, however, prompting Olivier Busquet to ask him over Twitter, “How do you have any chips left?”

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The World Poker Tour continued its first stop on American soil for its Season XI schedule yesterday in Pennsylvania with the second of two Day Ones at the Parx Casino in Bensalem.

The stunning surprise of the opening of Day 1B was the appearance of defending WPT World Champion Marvin Rettenmaier on the ground at the Parx Casino. Rettenmaier, who made history just prior to the Parx tournament by winning the inaugural Season XI stop at the WPT Merit Cyprus Classic to become the first player in WPT history to win back-to-back tournaments, apparently DID have a teleporter available to get to the U. S. before the start of the Day 1B festivities. At the start of the day’s action, he was joined by another 182 players, including such names as Matt Glantz, Allen Kessler, Tony Dunst, Amanda Musumeci, Joseph Cheong and Matt Stout, who all decided to fire a second bullet in this re-entry tournament.

With late registration open until late in the afternoon, the players wasted little time getting to the business at hand. Kathy Liebert, who was kept from being among the Day 1A players after a flight cancelation and a delayed flight, made her way to the tables while Cheong and Bernard Lee increased their stacks in the early going. Lee, in fact, made one of the bigger hands of the day when, on a Q-9-8 flop, he called a flop and turn bet to see two sevens complete the board. When it came to showdown, Lee “only” turned up pocket sevens for rivered quads to crush his opponent.

Read More: WPT Parx Open Poker Classic Day 1B: Henry Lu Storms To Overall Chip Lead

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The 2012 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is just around the corner and it promises to be bigger and better than ever. This year's WCOOP will feature 62 high-stakes tournaments over the course of 22 days, culminating in the $5,200 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event that guarantees at least $1,000,000 to the eventual champion.

Each WCOOP freeroll will pay out as follows:

Freeroll #1: $5,200 WCOOP Main Event Ticket to the winner plus $1,000 shared between places second through ninth as per PokerStars' regular payout structure
Freeroll #2: $5,200 WCOOP Main Event Ticket to the winner plus $1,500 shared between places second through ninth as per PokerStars' regular payout structure
Freeroll #3: $5,200 WCOOP Main Event Ticket to the winner plus $2,000 shared between places second through ninth as per PokerStars' regular payout structure



Read more: Qualify for our $20,000 WCOOP Freerolls on PokerStars Now; Qualification Ends Aug. 31 | PokerNews

A new hand history replayer and poker tracking application has been released into the online poker market called Tournament Poker Manager. This application currently supports the Bovada, Bodog, Merge, and Revolution networks.

This product is somewhat unique in that it markets itself not as a real-time database, but rather as a method for keeping track of your online tournament progress both financially and statistically. At the same time, it boasts a hand history replayer that is clean in layout with complete graphics.

The program, which is currently available for download in its beta version, has several key features including a compact database that enables easy tracking of tournament results without utilizing a large amount of your computer's resources. For example, results that a player receives after each event are automatically saved from the hand histories.

You can input the pertinent information you're looking to analyze in each tournament and there are no fields required in order to save your data. With Tournament Poker Manager, you can export your hand histories and other information to an Excel spreadsheet. Plus, there is a utility to import all hand history summaries directly. The Mass Import utility gathers data from CSV files, which makes loading tournament results from any poker site a simple process.


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Although they technically opened up a few days ago, the European Poker Tour will officially throw open the gates on its Season Nine schedule tomorrow as the first of its Main Event tournaments plays out in Barcelona, Spain, at the Casino de Barcelona.

The reason there’s a “technically” in that first paragraph is one of the changes that has come around for the Season Nine schedule of the EPT. In the past, the EPT has simply slid into town, run their Main Event tournament and then moved onto the next port of call. This year, the EPT streamlined their schedule to only eight tournaments (at this time), but each one will have more of a “poker festival” atmosphere than in years past, extending over nearly two weeks rather than just a few days.

The EPT Barcelona actually kicked off on Monday with satellite tournaments for the Estrella Poker Tour, the regional tour sponsored by EPT sponsor PokerStars and another feature at each stop on this year’s EPT schedule (the teaming with the regional tour). The Estrella Poker Tour’s Main Event picked up on Wednesday, drawing in a monster field of 1036 players that built a prize pool of over €1 million and is working to a champion as we speak.

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The ox of Rome took down the Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event last night with more than a little help from the ladies.

Very few people will have previously heard of Lorenzo Sabato on the live poker circuit but, under the name of “bovediroma” (the ox of Rome”), Sabato has been storming the online tournaments on PokerStars.it.

Throughout the record-breaking Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event, Sabato has transferred his online skills to the tables of Barcelona – leading the tournament after two days and last night claiming the Estrellas Champion´s Plaque and first prize of €200,000.

As the final table started, many locals were hoping to cheer a Spanish victory. From an abysmal start to the Estrellas Main Event – where only four Spanish players featured in the top 24 positions – the “home team” had recovered to have four contenders among the final table of eight, including the two chip leaders:- Lorenzo Sabato is the Star of Estrellas Main Event

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The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is one of the most eagerly anticipated online poker festivals of the year. The 2012 edition will kicks off on Sept. 2 with the first of 62 high-stakes poker tournaments taking place over the course of 22 days. The highlight of the 2012 PokerStars-com WCOOP is the $5,200 Main Event, a tournament that guarantees a prize pool of at least $10,000,000 and a first place prize of no less than one million dollars!

Although $5,200 is outside of most poker player's bankroll constrains, you could be find yourself playing in online poker's biggest tournament for free thanks to our $20,000 WCOOP Freerolls. We have three PokerNews-exclusive freerolls available to you, each take place on Sept. 7 at 14:00 ET (19:00 BST) and you could be playing in all three of them for free.

Read More: Qualification For Our $20,000 WCOOP Freerolls Has To End Aug. 31 | PokerNetwork-com

This season of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) will see a couple of changes; the London stop has found a new home, and there has been a change of date for EPT Berlin.

Firstly, EPT London will take place next spring, Mar. 6-16, at The Landmark Hotel. Originally one of the nineteenth century’s great railway hotels, the new location will house players for the £5,250 main event (Mar. 10-16), while the Grosvenor Victoria Casino will act as host for a selection of the Tour’s side events and cash games.

The casino is in walking distance of the prestigious five-star hotel.

Secondly, the EPT has announced that it has changed the dates for its Berlin festival to facilitate players wanting to hop from stop to stop. Originally, Berlin was scheduled for Apr. 24 to May 4, but in order to squeeze in the Italian Poker Tour (IPT) San Remo between the EPT German leg and the final in Monte Carlo, the date has been pulled back to Apr. 17.

Read More: Changes Made To European Poker Tour London And Berlin - European Poker News

This week on the tournament trail saw two major events in action with the first stop of Season 9 on the European Poker Tour finishing up in Barcelona, and cards getting into the air at the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker in Los Angeles. At the EPT Mikalai Pobal topped the field of 1,082 runners to win the largest poker tournament in the history of Spain, and he took home €1,007,550. The WPT Legends event attracted 622 players and the winner will take home $500,000 next week. Each of these marquee Main Events had robust preliminary schedules running along with them and there were some fields and winners of note.

In Barcelona there were multiple preliminary events with six-figure prize pools last week, and one that reached a million. The Eight-Max High Roller No Limit Hold’em event featured a $12,564 buy-in and there were 101 players that entered. Laurent Polito took home the largest piece ($339,516) of the $1,366,734 prize pool. The most notable prelim winner in Barcelona was Bryn Kenney, who topped a field of 62 runners in a $6,257 Turbo Six-Max No Limit Hold’em preliminary event to take home $103,867.

The Legends of Poker featured a total of 37 events, including the World Poker Tour Main Event that started on Friday. The largest of the preliminary tournaments was a $1 Million Guaranteed No Limit Hold’em tournament with rebuys that ran for 14 days and attracted a massive field of 6,064 players, making it the second largest live poker tournament of the year after the 2012 Main Event. After 14 days of tournament play Shaun Abkarian topped the field to win $220,000.

2012 EPT Barcelona No Limit Hold’em Preliminary
Casino de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Buy-in: $2,495
Prize Pool: $631,594
Number of Entrants: 261

1. Ivaylo damyanov Peevski – $176,876
2. Roland Bachmann – $94,737
3. Scott Seiver – $56,917
4. Petar Kochev – $44,219
5. Ramin Hajiyev – $34,739
6. Peter Bosen – $28,415
7. Stephane Benadiba – $22,103
8. Walid Bou-habib – $15,792
9. Nikolaus Jedlicka – $12,623

2012 EPT Barcelona No Limit Hold’em Heads-Up Championship
Casino de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Buy-in: $12,457
Prize Pool: $378,825
Number of Entrants: 31

1. Terje Augdal – $158,041
2. Marc-Andre Ladouceur – $125,984
3. Justin Bonomo – $47,400
3. Dan Smith – $47,400

2012 EPT Barcelona No Limit Hold’em Eight-Max High Roller
Casino de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Buy-in: $12,564
Prize Pool: $1,366,734
Number of Entrants: 101

1. Laurent Polito – $339,516
2. Alex Bilokur – $371,205
3. Tobias Reinkemeier – $150,341
4. Stanislav Labutkin – $119,584
5. Carlos Mora – $92,257
6. Jean Noel Thorel – $68,336
7. Bertrand Grospellier – $54,671
8. Joao Vieira – $41,000

2012 EPT Barcelona Turbo Six Max No Limit Hold’em Preliminary
Casino de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Buy-in: $6,257
Prize Pool: $376,300
Number of Entrants: 62

1. Bryn Kenney – $103,867
2. Nikolaus Jedlicka – $110,625
3. Stephen O’Dwyer – $48,918
4. Daniel Stern – $35,753
5. Antonio Palma – $26,342
6. Edward Khebzou – $18,809

2012 Legends of Poker $1 Million Guaranteed No Limit Hold’em Preliminary
Bicycle Casino, Bell Gardens, CA

Buy-in: $125
Prize Pool: $1,229,664
Entrants: 6,064

1. Shaun Abkarian – $220,000
2. Matthew Weber – $140,000
3. Behzad (Sam) Teranie – $91,814
4. David Rosenbloom – $60,000
5. Richard Munro – $35,000
6. Dany Georges – $24,000
7. Steve Wilder – $17,000
8. Arutyun Demirchyan – $13,000
9. Antoine Norpetlian – $10,000



Tournament Tracker: EPT Barcelona and Legends of Poker Preliminaries | BLUFF Poker News

The final table of the 2012 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker is set, and the final six that will return to the Bicycle Casino to play for the prestigious title is littered with big names, including Jeff Madsen, Ali Eslami, Max Steinberg and Greg Mueller, who spoke to Card Player TV just after play ended.


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This Sunday the World Championshio of Online Poker (WCOOP) kicks off on PokerStars. The biggest online series of the year will once again be supplemented by PokerStars Radio. The daily WCOOP radio show, hosted by Joe Stapleton, Nick Wealthall and Matt Broughton will bring poker fans daily live coverage of the WCOOP, competitions and interviews with some of the biggest names in poker. ““We saw last year with the WCOOP radio show that poker players and fans love the format and really connect with the live interactive elements,” said Stapleton.“It provides a way for the growing poker community to share in the excitement of the most important festival in online poker.”

The show will be broadcast every night at 20.00 (BST) September 2-25 as players compete in 65 events for a guaranteed $30,000,000. Each show will be jam-packed with quizzes, competitions, interviews, live phone-in discussions, twitter posts and exclusive online tournaments for listeners, with more than $25,000 up for grabs. You can listen by clicking on this link Poker Radio - WCOOP Live News and Event Shows. A full list of the WCOOP schedule can be found here - WCOOP 2012 - World Championship of Online Poker Schedule and Satellites - it all culminates on September 23 with a $5,200 NL Hold’em Main Event – which guarantees $5 million and at least $1 million for first place.


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The year´s most highly anticipated online poker series starts this Sunday, with 65 events over the next three weeks guaranteeing $30 million in prize money.

The PokerStars sponsored World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) kicks off on Sunday 2nd September with two events which each guarantee a minimum of $1 million in prize money. Event #01 is a $215.00 buy-in 6-Max NL Hold´em tournament which starts at 11.00 ET (3.00pm GMT) followed later in the evening (14.30 ET / 6.30pm GMT) by the $215.00 buy-in NL Hold´em (Event #02) for those who like to play their poker on a big table.

Throughout the next 21 days, players will be put to the test in disciplines including Omaha, Razz, Badugi, Stud and Draw, with mixed poker tournaments, bounty tournaments and shoot-outs to add even more variety to the championship series – which culminates with a $5,200 buy-in NL Hold´em Main Event on 23rd September that offers a $5 million guaranteed prize fund with at least $1 million being paid to the winner!


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