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As many of you know, this week has effectively launched in France the new regulations on online gambling poker affecting and has led on Thursday July 1 at the start of the activity for real money in licensed rooms. The first few hours and have sown doubts and controversy.

Following the recommendations of the European Union enacted the French state Online Gambling Law May 12, 2010.

The “Autorité de Régulation des Jeux En Ligne ‘(Algiers), the State agency claimed that the jurisdiction of the regulation of the sector (which includes poker, sports betting and horse betting) has granted licenses to operate in France for the moment, the following poker rooms: BarrierePoker, BetClick, bwin, Chilipoker, EuroSportBet, Everest Poker, PMU, Partouche, PartyPoker, PokerStars, Sajo and Winamax .

The French players, in principle, could play only in licensed facilities.

According to Article 47 of the Act specifies that in games of circles will impositva rate of 1.8% . This, in theory, is supposed to be the rake of the state.

On Wednesday June 30 was published in the Official Gazette of the French state’s decree poker, a brief three-page document in which, as we read on the web French ClubPoker specifies:

Operators licensed under the law of May 21 can legally operate Texas Hold’em (Limit, Pot Limit and No Limit) and Omaha (Pot Limit ).

• The rules of poker
• The obligation for operators to put systems in place anti-Collusion and anti-bots
• The obligation for operators to develop information appliances for the players, the history of hands played, amount of gain / loss, results of tournaments.

Article 6 specifies that even in the hands in which there was no preflop action should be mandatory withholding rate .

Thursday July 1, these operators could begin providing the service of gambling and the mystery began. Can they keep playing the French in international sites? What about the French deposits in these sites? Can foreigners playing in the sites. Fr? What the French are not resident in France? But above all, and this is what most worries the non-recreational players … What rake will retain?

In the early hours of Thursday morning, when you start the real money cash games, I warned that Jotaele en PokerStars.fr commissions contained in Hand histories were not much sense .

Removing hands from the NL1000 NL100 very strange as there were situations in NL1000 (the broadest level offered) seemed to be a cap on the rake of € 2 , but then you were in the hands of NL200 with a jackpot of 36 the withdrawal of a rake € 3 € (* see the records of these hands at the end of text). In other words, crazy.

On the website of PokerStars.fr not appear for the moment no information on the rake.

At 14:00 hours, appeared on the French web forum Warm-Poker a thread where one of the members of the web team had collected the rakes for MTT and S

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Seems to get to the river and witness a curious thing becomes the norm.

I just saw Mike “The Mouth” Matusow Chinese mega tilt poker playing for $ 100 item. It is “singing” songs of the Beatles, interspersed with plugs in the letter, while black pieces delivered to their rivals. We see that the celebration of their good position in the ToC is due to have left hands.

Where we left things? Ah! PL8 had played at the Venetian.

The next morning I met at the Rio Manuel Labandeira Indeed, in the last column misspelled his name out. It’s a proven fact that I am dyslexic (and a fish, a singer and a metepatas, but those are other stories).

Several have been the players that I have changed names and / or last names in my reports. We take this opportunity to apologize in advance to those who suffer my dyslexia in the Main Event, but in the case of Manuel I want to clarify that the blame for writing Manuel “Laundry” is fucking automatic correction Word, it makes many poker articles speak of seeing the “flower” instead of “flop.” I hate to pass to Manuel, which is not only a great player but who is also a further example for a poker pro poker still in its infancy like ours. (Editor’s Note: corrected error )

Finally, Manuel was playing cash in high stakes tables in the form of Stud Hi-Lo. To his right was playing a man of 85 years with his cigar in his mouth seemed to show that the adrenaline will keep us young poker.

Labandeira When he finished his meeting, we went for a coffee kitchen poker. Always a pleasure talking poker with him. I write war stories about legendary players, but he has played with them.

We talked about various topics and tells me he has interviewed Mike Laing. Those who leyerais my articles on Andy Beal, can you to remember the player who gambled $ 16,000 heads or tails and then offered to banking billionaire behind him have a detail of class. I have a great desire to read that interview.

Every day we see more Spanish players playing for the Rio in diverse tournaments. A moment ago I just cross the ‘Skinny’ e Isma coming from the delivery ceremony in a bracelet of a player of Everest.

Back two days ago, I started the PLO has $ 5,000, so I decide to use the press pass to see the table eg Ivey and ‘ElkY’ when to my surprise I find Armando Muñoz at stake.

I walk and talk a bit when one of his tablemates asked me “Have you seen ‘The Hangover’?’”. “Sure,” I answer, and almost immediately I realize that in his beard and wears the same glasses is clavadito the brother Armando.

The pity is that Armando has not seen the film. Thereafter, every time I approach the table starting with the movie … pussy! “At the table not Carlos!” What bunch of bastards;)

Leo’s Twitter account Durrrr who have gambled that his opponent does not dare to stand up and give it a tuff in the ear of a stranger. Said and done … a player finds himself instead of a poker tournament in the school yard, with hot ears and seeing as the “funny” gives you a tab of $ 100 for the inconvenience. Needless to say, not amused. Anyway … these Romans are crazy.

I decide to return to the Venetian to try this time PL8 8 / 16 … If the 4 / 8 was as fun as this is the same.

Unfortunately as the day and night. Palaeolithic rock table, zero deliveries. Some people even read a book while waiting (I say) AA23 double suited. As if this were not enough, the player to my left (I had never seen a bad hair graft fact, it seemed the hair of a Barbie) can not stop talking.

For the first time in Las Vegas, mp3 shot to pass the time. Curiously, the meeting was very good at, but I do not get caught in another table as well. The thing is to enjoy living. To embitter and online gaming. By the way, allowing me as curious that you put some pictures of the cash Pizzarro del Rio

The next day was the Spain – Portugal. We met almost all the Spanish in the Palazzo sportbook. A ambientazo to enjoy the victory, and particularly the Villa goal that made us win the bet of who would mark the first (big tip of Quinti).

Before going to the Palazzo I pass by a store of last-minute tickets for all events of the day. You can save yourself a pick.

The show ‘0 ‘at the Bellagio is closed, but the Aria the’ Viva Elvis’ Cirque du Soleil seems appropriate. Few things are more Vegas than Elvis. He commented after the match and five of us decided to go see him, but even that begins in July decided to “pass” the time playing cash at Aria.

After catching the tickets and put on the list of interest 200 PLO (which had little chance to start) and NL third under the nickname “Torres”, lie to the manager to show me the Ivey’s room inside.

He tells me that the room is taking action from time to time mainly mixed games with the “usual suspects” (Hansen, Harman, Elezra, and obviously Ivey). It is seen that the two rooms of ultra high stakes action is being distributed equally. The day before Hansen, Sammy Farha and a Nordic player that has never been fixed were shaved in Bobby’s room dale hit you.

When I finally am, nivelillo on the table but good atmosphere. The aim of the rest of the table seems to be the man to my right, which is good (to put the fish together, not taking a position on it;).

I make friends with the player to my left, which is making baseball betting, I ask you a tip (which cost me $ 100! Fucking !!).

New York Mets

I do not like having bad beats, but I will tell you this pair of hands very typical of my “runneo.

I limp from UTG with AK, the player on my left up to 40, to sum up over 200 on board lost AQxKx JToff obviously against making a raise in UTG.

Next hand look hot as a monkey will go 33 and my $ 80 for inside after seeing the same player and raise reraise the “cousin” (or now second cousin after underwriting) as the player to my left I get a kick under the table. Fold to the detail of the tipster who teaches KK, but of course the first card on the flop is 3. Overload and a couple of colors I lost the box back.

Of cash to show for Elvis, that’s fine. Here I put a picture in which, incidentally, almost get me out of theater ready.

After the show, top it off dinner at a nice restaurant. My first burger of Kobe beef … cattle are supposed to live better than most of us. Only in the USA they can happen to a hamburger with the meat (very rich indeed).

Finish off the evening with some old school gambling. I still have no idea how to play dice, but apparently not throw me wrong, (the “craps” paid
for the dinner …;)

The icing was a session of blackjack in the Imperial Palace. The grace of this casino is that the dealers are imitators of famous singers. I have no idea who was supposed to be the dealer, but the truth is I did not care for obvious reasons.

Peel to the bench and we had a pipe, before going to celebrate the Rock House (”disco / hole” in the broad approval of the navy). The truth is that as the song of the planets can say it was ‘one day’.

Anyway, now to the salt mines, to see if Liam Negreanu at the break of the tournament of 6 max of 25,000 to let us interview one of these days.

Forgive if the chronicles are too brick.

A hug from Las Vegas

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Event # 51 of the WSOP, a NL Holdem Triple Chance of $ 3,000 dollars , was the scene in which Javier Etayo scored his third box in Las Vegas . Javier finished the tournament in 87th place, shortly after breaking the bubble, and took $ 5992 dollars, almost doubling its investment .

In this same event also participated Paul Ubierna , but unfortunately was eliminated a few places to go in prizes. Shortly before the official start hand-for-hand , Javier played all his chips with A-9 and another player was paid with AK. The community cards could not be more exciting: J-6-9-K-9. Etayo himself could not believe it and so was in their Twitter :

The bad beat before was legendary! I pull the 9 on the flop, a king on the turn and the river is another nine !!!

A few minutes later announced that he was in the prizes and all looking forward to the final table. However, a bad beat , A-9 against A-5 into a pot of 90,000 points left him out of the tournament.

Congratulations, Javier !

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Once again it is time to do a review of the players who were the stars of June in the high stakes tables online . However, with the WSOP up action has shifted largely to the casinos of Las Vegas and the session at Full Tilt Poker and other rooms were, to say the least rickety .

The player who won more money this month is Patrik Antonius, who added to his bankroll $ 345,000 dollars in just four sessions and 780 hands , an amount that normally is one or two hours of play. The following players on the list also have very few hands: ‘Vaga_Lion’ got a profit of $ 314,000 in 1,900 hands and Tom Dwan pocketed just under a quarter of a million dollars in 3400 hands.

Whom it had its normal rate was ‘Urnotindanger2′ , who played 20 000 hands and won $ 111,000 dollars.

On the side of the losers,

the top of the list of the red is ‘ginette22′, a previously unknown player for . In 2800 hands, ‘ginette22′ lost $ 266,000 dollars.

Behind him two well-known Swedes also had a good month:

‘Odonkor1′ e ‘Isildur1′ lost $ 234,000 and $ 206,000 dollars, respectively. ‘Isildur1′ was, as has become usual, did most hands played this month, no less than 28,000.

In the annual global,

Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey and ‘jungleman12′ are the three players with more profit over the six months , where ‘durrr’ the only one in more than three million dollars of profits. On the other hand, Brian Townsend continues to reap the greatest losses in the year with $ 2.5 million in the red. No doubt the June results were not as impressive, very different from what we are accustomed to high stakes professionals.

We’ll see if this month with the completion of the WSOP action shifts to the virtual tables of Full Tilt Poker .

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