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Carbon Poker offers Saturday, September 20, 2008, the tournament of 250 $ + 25 $ for the qualification of the two international Australian tournaments: the Aussie Millions and the PokerNews Cup.
This tournament allows the players to win two packages with a total value of 15.000 $ for the Aussie Millions 2009 and a guaranteed package for the PokerNews Cup Australia with a value of 6.000 $. The number of packages for PokerNews Cup Australia depends on the importance of the prize pool at the end of the registration.
By registering to Carbon Poker, one can also benefit from recent exclusives of PokerNews: 200 % bonus up to 1000 $, nineteen Bwin Poker Free tournaments including 14 freeroll of 500 $ (during the 14 days following the first depot ) and five freerolls for 5.000 $ for the PokerNews Cup 2009 in Australia.
The Aussi Millions is the largest poker tournament of the entire southern hemisphere, and will take place at this edition in 2009, in January, at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. On this occasion, carbon Poker offers the chance to win packages for the Aussie |Millions 2009 with a total value of 15.000 $, which include: an entry to the main event (10.000 $), 8 nights of hotel accommodation to the Crown Hotel,a player pack Carbon Poker, tickets return to Melbourne, an exclusive dinner Carbon Poker, tickets for the Australian Open, the entry fee at Melbourne Zoo and the entrance fee to the festival Aussie Millions.
The PokerNews Cup Australia is really fast approaching. it will take place from 12 to 20 October, 2008 at Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. Each package for the PokweNews Cup, worthy of 6000 $ and distributed by Carbon Poker, includes: an entry to the Main Event of 2.200 Au$, 6 nights accommodation to the Crown Hotel, an invitation to the official party PokerNews Cup Australia, a pack of PokerNews products, 2.500 $ for miscellaneous expenses, a pack of Carbon Poker products, an exclusive dinner Carbon Poker and the entrance fee to Melbourne Zoo.
These packages offer not only the opportunity to play the best poker games, but they also offer the opportunity to live the “Australian dream” in one of the most exciting cities of Australia.

In October 2008, for a second season, RTL9 Poker Tour - Bwin Poker RTL9 Poker Tour will return to the screens. The online poker site Bwin Poker offers the chance to qualify online for broadcast via tournaments including free dailies.
How to qualify for the free RTL8 Poker Tour? Well..for the season 2 of this tournament, the online poker room puts in place all day free tournaments and “Binside” tournaments (1 point players “Binside”), which enables players to qualify. The first 30 will go to the finals, a tournament held every Sunday. In matters of the finals, five players will compete in front of the television screens.
To participate in these free satellite tournaments, one must download Bwin Poker, open an account and make an initial minimum deposit of 50 $. One can then participate in all tournaments as you want. The tournaments are available online. By downloading the program, one can also enjoy free exclusive poker tournaments, like freeroll 500 $ or freeroll Pokernews Cup Australia).
For its second season, the televised tournaments RTL9 Poker Tour will be held every week on RTL9 in France and AB3 in Belgium for nine emissions. A celebrity will be present on each issue and will play against the winning player in a face to face game.
A grand finale will bring together the winners of the nine emissions and the winner will receive a VIP package allowing him to attend the Main WSOP tournament in 2009. The “Main Event” of WSOP is a tournament having the entry fee of 10.000 $. Mostly qualified on the websites of online poker, there are more than 5.000 players who meet themselves in the same tournament to reach the final table whose players are assured of returning with more than one million dollars for their pockets.
The RTL9 Poker Tour is led by Bruno Fitoussi, one of the best french players. Fitoussi is particularly known by his poker fans for his performance in 2007 during the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. He finished second in the 50.000 $ HORSE, a tournament that brings together several variations reserved for the elite of the professional circuit.

The first nominee is Luca Pagano. The member of Team PokerStars entered in the money competition three times during the last season of the European Poker Tour, where his best ranking was a sixth place at the Grand Finale in Monte Carlo, April 2008. Pagano will count successfully an amount of 337.000 Euro as a final bouquet of a well completed season.In addition, he will attend the final three tables at the two other events. Indeed, at the EPT Copenhagen in February 2008 finished the 27th with 16.610 $.
Trond Erik Eidsvig came from the north, Norway more exactly. He did not stop in increasing the paid places during the fourth season of EPT, finishing five times on the paid places, but also among the three finalists. The ascent of Eidsvin Bagen in 2007 at the EPT Barcelona where he finished the fifth with 250.800 Euro. His second final table took place at the EPT Dublin, one month later, where he was placed at the excellent fourth position for 127.630 Euro.The third time was in EPT Poland where he has raised until the sixth place with 86.448 Euro. Add to that a paid place to the EPT Scandinavia (the 37th with 12.457 Euro) and a 80th place with 17.000 Euro in the final bouquet of the season, the Grand Finale in Monte Carlo.
Johannes Strassman, the German player that has scored minds during the fourth season of EPT, with three paid places to his credit, including the final table. His first major performance occurred at the stage of Prague in December 2007, where he completed a non-negligible 9th place for 39.200 Euro. Four weeks later, he was even better on its own hand, by taking the sixth place for a gain of 152.000 Euro at EPT Germany. his third final table of the season took place at the EPT San Remo, where he finished the ninth place with a total amount of 46.300 Euro.
Jan Heitmann, another German player, who climbed fairly late in the season 4 of EPT. He opened first hostilities wit a 19th place at the EPT Dortmund in January 2008, where he collected no less than 17.400 Euro. In April, he succeeded twice in the last tables, the first in San Remo, with 17.600 Euro, and the second one at EPT Monte Carlo, where he finished the 67th with a total amount of 21.000 Euro.
Finally, but not the least, Thierry Van Den Berg, the star issued by Netherlands, who showed his face and his talents as a player throughout the season 4. Van Der Berg got a first hand with two final tables, finishing the 5th at EPT Baden, with a sum of 132.900 Euro and the 8th at the EPT Dublin, for 47.650 Euro. What might seem enormous for most players of the circuit, represented only the half of his gaining during the season 4. Indeed he continued his momentum in January 2008 with a 28th place and a sum of 48.000 Euro during the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and a 29th place in March at the EPT Poland, finishing with an amount of 12.350 Euro.

On September 10, 2008 took place the launch of the fifth season of the European Poker Tour, taking advantage of the opening tournament of Everest Poker Tour Barcelona. The inaugural tournament which will be held from 10 to 14 September 2008 at Grand Casino of Barcelona, will be the starting point for a new season that promises to be even more exciting than the previous editions.
The ETP Barcelona will be on PokerNews France. With the occasion of the first stage of the European circuit of European Poker Tour, the team of live reporters from PokerNews will be in the heart of the action to allow you to follow a story live, in real time and in french language.
Among the personalities announced to the event, we can count on the presence of a large part of the Team PokerStars, including Isabelle Mercier, Noah Boeken, William Thorson, Vicky Coren, Dario Minieri, Elky, Luca Pagano or former world champion Greg Raymer. Despite the maximum capacity of 600 players, the event still looks like and event sold out.
In the preamble to the Main Event, will be held the first EPT Awards ceremony which will reward the best players of the fourth season of EPT, held the day before the Main Event, on September 9, 2008, at the Opium Bar in Barcelona. It was intended to reward the individual performance of the fourth season of EPT, led by a convener who is no other than Daniel Negreanu. The awards were divided into five distinct categories: Best revelation, Best Performance, Best Foreign Player, Best qualified PokerStars and Best player of the year.One should stay connected to hear the results of this unique ceremony.
From all categories mentioned above, we can analyse one better, and that is: “Best Player of the Year”. The nominees in the category are five players who have demonstrated by the strength of their talent that they were constantly at the highest level, picking paid places and final tables throughout the fourth season of EPT.

The Swiss Federation of casinos has failed in obtaining the temporary interdiction for the poker tournaments “Texas Hold’em”. The Federal Court refused to give its vote until the dispute is not solved correctly.
Opposed to the green light given by the Federal Commission of Game Houses in organizing tournaments inside the casinos perimeters, the Federation has filed no less than sixty appeals to the Federal Administrative Court.
A first setback was already suffered last March, when the Federal Administrative Court denied a provisory interdiction. In their opinion, the risk of slippage, especially as regards the protection of young people, remains limited. Ultimately, the Federal Court does not want to look for a veto as long as the trial is still pending. They recalled that members of the Federation of casinos remain free to organize themselves poker tournaments.
The outcome of this case remains open. Any gaps in the legislation at the cantonal level do not justify a provisional interdiction of the tournaments, concludes Mon Repos.
In Switzerland, the canton of Vaud was the first, last month, to regulate these tournaments. The conditions of participation are inspired by those in casinos. All players must be 18 years at least. In order to be legal, the tournaments must meet a number of criteria which can be seen as “games of skill” and not “gambling”. The amounts wagered and redistributed, in particular, should be clarified.