ALIQUIDIFANZINE

This Sunday, April 10, 2011 on Winamax.fr , the winner of Sunday Surprise win a weeklong stay in Las Vegas during the World Series of Poker in the company of the Pro Team where he will play Winamax event # 54 No Limit Hold em $ 1,000 benefiting from coaching a pro. Sunday Surprise guaranteed prize pool of 50.000 € for € 10 buy-in will begin at 20:30. As always, the surprise is provided by the room and added to the gains of the winners.
Sunday Surprise: In the shoes of a player from Team Pro

Surprise winner of Sunday, this Sunday, April 10, will have the opportunity to live in the shoes of a player of Team Pro Winamax for a week in Las Vegas. He will receive a ticket to play event # 54 World Series of Poker $ 1,000 buy-ins and three for a session of live cash games, all being coached by players from the team.

Details:
Departure by plane from Paris to Las Vegas Thursday, June 30, returning Friday, July 8.
Stay 7 nights (including breakfast) at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where several members of the team will stay Winamax.
Participation in the Event 54 ($ 1,000) World Championships; coaching a pro team Winamax before and during the tournament.
A session of live cash games in a casino * Las Vegas, with coaching a pro team
Involvement with Team in all sports training sessions organized by Stephane Matheu, Team Manager.
An evening “off” with the players of Team.
A day to explore Vegas with Benjo, the reporter Winamax major international tournaments.
A show at the “Cirque du Soleil, the most prestigious show in Las Vegas.

* ($ 1 No Limit Hold’em $ -2, 3 cellars of $ 200 available, the player will walk away with his net gains, losses are borne by Winamax)

Winamax Pro Team is composed by: Almira Skripchenko, Antony Lellouche, Aurélien Guiglini, Davidi Kitai, Ludovic Lacay Manuel Bevand Marc Inizan, Michel Abecassis, Nicolas Levi, Patrick Bruel, Tristan Clémençon and Vikash Dhorasoo.
Qualifying Tournaments

Sunday Surprise at 50,000 € is guaranteed every Sunday at 20:30 on Winamax.fr for a buy-in from 10 €. The room also offers qualifying tournaments to qualify for less.

Multi-table tournaments are available in the “Tournaments” software, under “Qualifying”. Tournaments “Qualifying € 10″ to 1 € buy-in rebuy or 2 € freezeout taking place repeatedly every day. The number of tickets guaranteed in each tournament varies by time of day.

Of Sit’n'Gos to 18 players (3 tables of six players) 2 € buy-in distributing tickets at 10 € for finishing top three players.

Surprise results from Sunday April 3, 2011

Sunday 03 April, Sunday Surprise of Winamax.fr gathered 5319 participants, not enough to reach the guaranteed prize pool of 50.000 €. The players then enjoyed an overlay (money added by the room to complete the warranty) for € 2,129.
549 players are “in the money”, including “jimmysfindus” in the first place, pocketing a gain of € 8,960.04 plus a trip to Belize (Central America)

On April 9, 2011 was given the start of the PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour Mohegan Sun. The $ 5,000 tournament buy-in was concentrated 387 players who generated a prize pool of $ 1,746,330 which will hold a first prize of $ 450,000 to the eventual winner. After 8 levels of play, Chris Tryba has mounted a carpet of 173.400 to win as chip leader.
Tryba summit

Tryba is yet stuck in the middle of the table for most of the day 1 and then won a sudden wrench at the end of 8th level that allowed him to seize the chip lead. On a flop , Tryba was confronted with the member of Team PokerStars Pro and Eugene Kachalov Mehrdad Yousefzadeh one temporary day 1 chip leaders. The three players found themselves on the flop. Yousefzadeh favorite found himself with a set of jacks, Kachalov had about him a set of 7 and Tryba was about him on a flush draw with . A brick fell on the turn but fell on the river Tryba propelled the top of the leaderboard.
Vanessa Rousso on fire

The member of Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso finished the day 1 with a carpet of 125.300. The player has made ??a real harvest of tokens at level 7 which defines itself as the level of a tournament the craziest it has known in his day carrière.Le 1 was also auspicious for Victor Ramdin (123.000) Adam Junglen (117.600), Mike “Little Man” Sica (112.700), John D’Agostino (112.500) and Carlos Mortensen (107.400).
Vanessa Selbst to a double?

The champion of the 2010 NAPT Mohegan Sun, Vanessa Selbst, is also still in the race with a carpet of 87.600 and remains a favorite of the competition. Other notable players have qualified for Day 2 at the image Faraz Jaka (54.500), Jason Mercier (30.800), Amnon Filippi (29,000), Jeff Madsen (26.200), or Matt Glantz (12,200).

Other stars have not, however, shone in this stage of NAPT and rejoin the rail early on Day 1. This was the case of Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negreanu and David Williams, trios eliminated in the first fruits of the day, like Bryn Kenney, Kathy Liebert, Melanie Weisner, Dan Heimiller, Chau Giang, and Erick Lindgren.

Sunday, April 10, Canadian player Ben Wilinofsky became the new champion of EFA 2011 Berlin after a final table that has dominated from start to finish.

Ben Wilinofsky alias ‘NeverScaredB’ professional poker player online PokerStars qualifier will steadily increase his lead throughout the final table, coming into possession of half the chips in play when he was still five players in contention.
Ben Wilinofsky unstoppable on the final sprint

Neither the Swedish pro Martin Jacobson, who played his third EPT final here, nor the German Max Heinzelmann local hero who has done what he could, have managed to block the road to the new champion of the second EFA Berlin history A year after the victory of Kevin MacPhee after a hectic tournament interrupted by a dramatic turning Spielbank Casino.
Joep van den Bijgaart rapidly eliminated

Joep van den Bijgaart

Jonas Gutteck (8th, 66,000 €) was the first to go out with carpet against the Max Heinzelmann.

Joep van den Bijgaart, fell to just 540,000 (5.4 bb) tried his luck with Wilinofsky and found his path with The table Van den Bijgaart sending to the output (7th, 100,000 €).

Then came the turn of Darren Kramer (6th, 140,000 €) to re-raise all in with
but upon reflection decided to follow Kursevich and won the coin flip.

This was the moment chosen by Wilinofsky to accelerate and win the pot on pot up to 11,505,000 own carpet or half of the chips from the table. Armin Mette would be undergoing headlong rush of the Canadian who like Jesus walking on water at this key moment of the tournament. Both players were leaving carpet and the rest speaks for itself:

Mette:
Wilinofsky:

Table .
Martin Jacobson eliminated fourth (230,000 €)

Martin Jacobson

Released by Four Aces in 5th place for 180,000 €, Armin Mette was joined on the rail shortly after by one of the favorites in the final, the Swedish pro Martin Jacobson. Max Heinzelmann button raise but Jacobson reraised from the small blind and Heinzelmann announcement carpet! Jacobson soon followed for his last 3 million chips.

Jacobson:
Heinzelmann:

Table:

Martin Jacobson loses coinflip and dreams of victory, leaving the fourth for € 230,000.
Vadzim Kursevich out in 3rd place (300,000 €)

It remains now only three players. Wilinofsky Kursevich and find themselves on a flop Kursevich 450,000 and put that Wilinovsky reraised to 1,125,000. Kursevich checks his cards before making carpets with Followed immediately by Wilinovsky with the fifth and in hand, the rest of the table changing nothing and sending Wilinofsky heads up Heinzelmann cons.
Max Heinzelmann muffled heads-up (2nd, 500,000 €)

Max Heinzelmann

Sailing constantly with an advantage against a minimum of two chips, let Wilinofsky suffocate his opponent to 4 million (cons over 17 million). On a flop , Heinzelmann will bet 225,000 and go all over-after recovery Wilinofsky. The latter will reflect and pay virtually heart-cons for what will be the last pot of the tournament:

Heinzelmann:
Wilinofsky:

The turn will surely give nightmares to Germany for a few nights in this case a assassin who has the straight and the victory to his opponent Canada, the changing nothing! For his fine performance, Max Heinzelmann receives € 500,000 a priori plenty to console themselves.
Ben Wilinofsky wins EPT Berlin € 825,000

About the bracelet and the trophy EFA Berlin, they will go in the window of Ben Wilinofsky a pro online play that proves his qualities now live for it and won € 825,000. “I could not imagine that there are three or four days at the beginning of the tournament. It was worth the wait! “Wilinofsky notably declared all its joy.

The events of last Spring Championship of Online Poke r, a series of 30 tournaments over 15 days PokerStars.fr , started Sunday, April 10 and ends on a high SCOOP with two ‘Main Event’: a buy-in high of 500 € which broke a record and the other low entry price of 50 €. A point after Day 1.
The biggest online poker tournament French

Back in the tournament, 1426 players paid or earned their ticket and the prize pool, originally from 500,000 €, has finally reached € 660,238 making the 2011 Main Event SCOOP biggest poker tournament ever staged online since the opening of the gaming market in France. If no deal is past, the winner of this event will win Monday night € 110,293.58, a record.
Several sharks have survived in the Main Event Top

After Day 1, they are more than 89 to be eligible to become the biggest winner in the era of poker. Com and among them are several solid players MTT (Multi Table Tournaments) in which the chip leader ‘krumbeal’ which ended the evening with a stack of 1,706,512. Behind him, there are in seventh place Lawrence ‘AceOfSpade11, Nov. i (1117294), the recent winner of the Sunday Special’ YesItsMeTy ‘(11th with 902,160),’ foolishly ‘(26th with a carpet of 595 612) or’ l3awed ‘which occupies the 77th place with a small stack of 115,072. Everything is fine people will be back Monday at 20:00 for the outcome of the tournament.
’7 KONY7 huge chip leader of the Main Event Down SCOOP

In the event the Netherlands, the 5,684 registered players in this tournament buy-in from 50 € also blew the guarantee of 200,000 € for the pass at € 255,780. Survivors are the number of 118 and the huge chip leader, with a carpet of 7,539,230, is nicknamed KONY7 ’7 ‘. The player has 2 million ahead of its nearest rival, Misa 92 ‘(5368090).

With a field as important, 720 players cashed and 602 have already been rewarded for their efforts. Among these two professionals PokerStars Arnaud ‘Frenchkiss’ Mattern (330th for € 112.54) and a member of Team Online Raphael ‘DJ Manuel 13′ Vines (372nd for € 107.42). The 118 survivors also will return 20h Monday to compete for first place at € 40,015.35.

MyPok , the new online poker room’s French Microgaming network, offers every Monday at 8:30 p.m. tournament guaranteed to 20,000 € and 27 € 3 entry. It is time for one of the most profitable freezeout tournaments anywhere in France with an overlay of nearly 50%. In other words, the winners pocketing more than twice the price than other tournaments.
MyPok guaranteed tournament Monday 20h30

The tournament guaranteed MyPok Monday proposed a structure with 5,000 fast chips and blinds starting at 10/20. Levels last 15 minutes. The weekly competition is fueled by low cost tournaments everyday mode Super Turbo, and Turbo Freeze Out which the input varies between 1 € and 5 €.
Overlay MyPok: prize pool doubled

Monday, April 4, the guaranteed € 20,000 will be met on MyPok a total of 358 players for a prize pool of € 9,666. MyPok will have doubled the price of the tournament by adding the sum of € 10,334. The winner pocketed the price of 5,000 €, twice more than the price normally assigned.
MyPok Poker Bonus free 16 €

To participate in the tournament, download MyPok Poker on PokerNews, register a real money player and validate the heels your account by sending a scan of your passport and your bank details. The validation of your account allows you to collect your winnings immediately. The validation of your account will result in the payment of a bonus of 16 € for free including free attendance to the satellites of the tournament.
Cedric Carasso MyPok freerolls and Joey Starr

MyPok freeroll Poker also offers a welcome to new players to 10.000 € of prize gifts (PAD2 WIFI 16GB, Xbox 360 250gb Console + 3 games) every Wednesday evening. The cash game players are offered a free daily tournament. Notably, more than 100 hands of cash game in the day gives entitlement to a free tournament freeroll of 250 € each night at 20:15. Finally, MyPok implements regular tournaments with the participation of free football Cedric Carasso and Hip Hop star Joey Starr.

The Regulatory Authority of online games (ARJEL) recently published the results of the first quarter of 2011 online games. If poker and horse paris are doing well, the dunce cap goes to paris sportsmen who have seen the amount bet to fall by 26.5% over last quarter.
The calendar guilty?

Between January and March, bettors still have 147 million wagered on the 16 sites de paris sportifs authorized in France. But this figure is in sharp decline and the loss of popularity due to a fairly hollow period in terms of major sporting events. Last July, the World Cup football had the effect of significantly boosting bets.
Operators have degraded their ratings

Interviewed by Le Figaro, Jean-François Vilotte, the president of the Arjel, also points the finger at the operators: “To reconstruct a portion of their margins and respect the average rate of return to players imposed by law, they (the operators) have degraded their ratings, making Paris less interesting for the players. ”
The activity of the poker tournaments has increased

The poor performance of sport paris contrast with those of Paris and the horse poker, always very good. In the last three months, 241 million have been wagered on races and 1.9 billion on poker tables. Numbers unchanged from late 2010. Like the success of the SCOOP on PokerStars , the activity of tournaments has increased by 4% to EUR 271 million was paid in fees. Overall, the market for online games is doing so quite well.

Thomas Bichon is now a familiar face on the international circuit. Player of high stakes cash game specialist from Omaha, it has media explosion after winning the WPT Cyprus in 2009 and won the sponsorship ‘Job2Stars’ Pokerstars few months later.

Currently in Salzburg, where he prepares to play a few games of cash with very high stakes in the wake of the caravan Casino Austrian Poker Tour, Thomas answered questions from PokerNews.
EFA Berlin

- PokerNews: Hello Thomas, you were in Berlin a few days ago to attend the local stage of the European Poker Tour. You finished in the money (90th for 10,000 €). Tell us your tournament in a few words.

- Thomas Bichon: My Day 1 was magnificently past, I have completed more than five times the starting stack. Day 2 promises to be as auspicious, with a circulation of table rather lenient. Unfortunately, I have not seen a map of the day and almost did not win a post-flop shot. Aside from a guy who committed suicide against me with two jacks and 50 blinds. I had aces but it was not enough to get me out of trouble and I ended the day slightly below-average in chips. When you end up with a score of blinds, there is no recipe. Not until the good spots for ‘squeeze’ or ‘resteal’, everything has already been said on this subject. Early in the Day 3, I had the carpet enough to keep the pressure on my opponents. This is particularly infuriating to the bubble, when some are likely to play ‘scared money’. In short, I finally extinguish me of my beautiful death, on a squeeze attempt with AQ is not passed. The ladies and kings in front. This kind of scenario is repeated too often for my liking last year: I make ‘runs deep’, I go in the money once but four passes over the blows that might allow me to once again become huge and attack the home straight in a strong position.
An edge, really?

- PN: So you are in Salzburg to compete in a very beautiful part of OLP (blinds € 20 / 40 €), against some of the best specialists German, Swiss and Austrian discipline: Anton Allemann, Ronnie Kaiser, Markus and Gloser company, who have gathered there to participate in the Main Event CAPT. What is the point of going against the best? Can we consider to have an edge on what kind of players?

- TB: We all have an unwavering confidence in our game and we approach all such appointments have an edge thinking. Not necessarily on each player individually, but the dynamics of the table. In this kind of game it is very important not to take a bad start to control the pot size and to manage its bad cycles. Otherwise, it is very easy to get a rolling boil. Another important point to face the fact these players rather than live on the Internet. Live, you only play 25 hands per hour (as against 80 online) and we play with carpets very deep, up to 500 armored; This may lead some to commit errors of micro, as too open its range of starting hands, too defend their blinds or, in general, too much play out of position. Now, with 500 blinds deep reverse implied odds are huge and can cost small fortunes to players too adventurous. I plan on mistakes like that and will try not to commit on my side.
His debut tournament

- PN: Originally, you’re a player then cash. How does one pass the cash in the tournament?

- TB: I had just lost to San Remo in 2006 and enrolled myself by chance in a 200 € Championships in Italy, where I finished 10th. It was my first tournament ‘Live’ and I have excellent memories. I returned to the tournament two years later but only by selecting Events ‘Major’. Because, as otherwise, the yield is unattractive compared to the money I earn in-game cash. Besides, I’m still not convinced of the profitability of the tournaments in the long term. Taking my stats Hendon Mob, I’m already over a million dollars in tournament winnings, but if we subtract the buy-ins, air tickets, hotel rooms and all other fees, my net gains must not exceed 20% of this amount. To lead a life of professional tournament player, there is no salvation outside sponsorship in my opinion.

- PN: That does not prevent you from playing the big tournaments, even now that your sponsorship deal with PokerStars has completed …

- TB: Yes. Some EPT and WPT, the WSOP too. What I call the Grand Slams. There are also some classics that interest me: Masters Classic in Amsterdam, Irish Open and Aussie Millions. Not to mention the Partouche Poker Tour.

Among all these tournaments, I still have a soft spot for those in the World Poker Tour. And not just because I won in Cyprus! On this tour, the structures are always beautiful, you really seem to have time to develop his game in Cyprus, for example, was entitled to six days of the tournament! It has many weapons to get by.

The downside is that with the increased supply of tournaments, the WPT fields become less consistent but more statements; It becomes both more difficult and less rewarding. Before, the European stages of the WPT did not attract the pros too, but since then players have realized that the buy-in WPT moderate (between 2,000 € and 3,000 €) represent a sesame as well as financial openness unexpected sponsorship if they win. As a result, many excellent ‘grinders’ online pass directly wholesale regular tournaments on the Internet at these Events ‘live’, allowing them to gain media exposure without too much endanger their bankroll. In short, it becomes less and less a pleasure …
Sponsorship or cash game, you must choose

- PN: And it’s not too hard to reconcile cash game and tournament, especially now that you’re not sponsored?

- TB: Money is not the main problem is time. This is the reason I did not pursue the offer of PokerStars who offered me to extend my contract. Financially, it was less interesting, which is hardly surprising given the conditions of dream that I could benefit with ‘Job2Stars’ (Editor’s note: An initial contract was $ 300,000 over one year). But suddenly, the game was worth the candle over. It took me 40 weeks in the year, given the various commitments coupled with the contract (French tournaments, online tournaments, media requests, articles and blog, etc. …). For a player who only tournaments, and even that’s interesting – I’ve said – crucial. But when you play in cash to upper limits, it must make its calculations and choose what is most profitable. All these obligations schedules, they are less cash in hours ….

Sponsorship side, I had two proposals since very consistent but I had to decline. Difficult to be sponsored when we pretend to play also in cash game. A share can be Full Tilt , which is heavily loaded with cash game players.

- PN: It is an appeal of the foot?

- TB: (laughs) Not really. Say, for future sponsorships, my decision will be at least as much motivated by the financial side than the commitment required in return. Right now, I have a one-time deal with PartyPoker , the site WPT.fr. I have no problem doing the pub at the World Poker Tour is really my favorite track.
His program at the WSOP

In the meantime I’ll enjoy my freedom to prepare for renewed under the best conditions the one-month stay as I am about to perform in Vegas at the WSOP. Last year, I had arrived on the kneecaps. This year, I’ll zap San Remo and, perhaps, the EPT Grand Final in Madrid. I will charge a ten days with my girlfriend back with the WPT Barcelona and tear while the WSOP! I have really high hopes in 2011, I can not believe it will happen like last year. where I had the cash to make two 13 tournaments played. I had yet seen many technical fouls on events in Omaha, which is why I will register for five events at the Omaha program. Otherwise, I’ll ignore the ‘donks’ to $ 1,000 or $ 1,500 and focus on the big classes, $ 5,000 and $ 10,000 in NLHE and Pot-Limit Hold’em. In all, I intend to compete in ten events in Vegas. I’ll be there from 1 June to 1 July, which means I’ll also skip the main event. A month in Vegas, all right, six weeks would be difficult …

- PN: What are the hopes of French bracelet this summer in your opinion?

- TB: The fields are so huge that I think our best chances lie in the somewhat exotic variants, where there are 120 or 150 players max. Stud, Razz, this kind of thing. And the best French specialists on the subject called Sabic, Luneau, Lellouche or Soulier. It is on them that I would put a ball this summer …
The parties ‘High Stakes’ in France

- PN: Last question: You are now in Salzburg, Cyprus or Australia tomorrow. Does this mean that no more big parties in France today?

- TB: I play the biggest parts that are in Europe. Even if they are cheaper and more sporadic than two years ago. The phenomenon is even more marked in France, where there are no large part due to 20 € / 40 €, which I regret a little. What happens is that when Benyamine and Lellouche is there, but the parties are organizing the auction quickly go awry and scare away most gamers. It takes a few nights and then it breaks for several weeks. It should not degenerate like that ca. In London or Australia, it plays a more linear but it takes longer.

With € 259,160 prize pool of distributed this Sunday, April 10, 2011, Winamax.fr must add € 9851 to achieve the guaranteed prize pool tournaments. Despite the announced figure of 1 million registered users , the room can not refuel in its major tournaments.

For the third consecutive week, the Sunday Surprise does not possess enough players to reach the 50,000 secured with € 5,319 registrants who have shared € 2,129 overlay. The winner “ttex35_x” pocketing € 8,960.04 and earns a one-week stay in Las Vegas in the company of the Team Pro Winamax.

Sign of a certain decline in attendance of the room, the Main Event € 100,000 did not meet its guaranteed prize pool, a first since its launch last October 24. Anthony “raver44″ Lorieu pass a hair of the feat . Twice winner of the Main Event, he finished this week in second place (13,900 €) against “pokman69″ who assumes the top spot for € 22,150.

The performance should be noted this week is the victory of Nazim “nAAzim” Guillaud in the tournament for € 8400.01 XTREM face two Local Hero Paul “proscoo” Pires Trigo, € 5,425 for second and Ugo “insulogie” Jaskula 3rd place for € 3,920.

The 229 survivors of Day 1 we found the way to Mohegan Sun to attend this Sunday, April 10, 2011 for a new day of the tournament PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour. Chris Tryba then held the chip lead, followed closely by a cohort of sharks including Victor Ramdin, Matt Glantz, and Jason Mercier.
Bad Day for Rousso

Another recognizable face nicely, that Vanessa Rousso, well established in the top 10 after one day a memorable one. Day 2 began under the auspices for the same asset charm Pokerstars who passed quickly to a stack of 150,000 when his turned into a nut straight on the river against an opponent with a double pair with . A few orbits later, the player maneuvers a carpet of 200,000 and walked cheerfully on the table before I knew the first incident. Rousso had to concede some of his chips on a board after paying a check-raise on the turn and he fell against an opponent holding .

The trend was quickly reversed to the Franco-American who found himself again in very bad shape against Aaron Overton. The opposing player raise the bet on the flop before “checker” in unison with his opponent on the fell on the turn. Rousso then paid up to half the pot on his opponent on the river and saw a monster return, by Overton. Rousso ended up sending his stack during the penultimate day of level 2 on a board and come face to and a full house which prompted him to prematurely reach the rail.

World champion Jonathan Duhamel was about to execute him by his predecessor, Joe Cada, which, unsurprisingly, did not keep his chips newly accumulated long to reach the rail in the wake as well as Pat Pezzin Jason Mercier, and George Lind III.

The American Airlines dropping like flies

At the end of the spectrum, Victor Ramdin and Vanessa Selbst has been a maddening day 2, Ramdin is now in the top of the leaderboard despite a style very volatile. Practice a broad style was aggressive Ramdin afford to crack the pocket aces Steve Happe, having shoved on a flop with and touched a color through fell on the river. A member of Team PokerStars Pro finished the day with a carpet of 296.100.

Selbst rode on it a carpet of 339.200 chips including snatching a huge hit after making a No. 5bet shove “with on the flop to crack it as a pair of aces served on a board .

At 74 players left, Adam Geyer survived the flush draw Bill Jennings’ to surpass the 200,000 and then took care of Jim “Mr_BigQueso” Collopy using cons to go to 300,000.
Day 3 course for final table

Among the 175 victims of Day 2, there were Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy, Tyson Marks, David Paredes, Tony Cousineau, Craig Bergeron, Allie Prescott, Faraz Jaka, John D’Agostino, Eric Buchman and Matthew Waxman, and Eric Froehlich in élimonés the last level of the day. None of the few European players in this NAPT Mohegan Sun is still in the tournament continues.

74 players will arrive at Day 3 and will play in the entry money is going to happen to 56th place. The tournament will continue until the final 8 are designated.