May 15th, 2008 -- Posted in Uncategorized |
The International Swiss Youth Chambre from La Côte organizes for social causes,the Charity Poker Tour. The main prize will be up to 12,000 dollars. Saturday, 24 May 2008, at Cannes, six poker stars will participate at a special charity poker tournament. In stake: 1 million dollars given to the social help organizations. A week later, at Gland, the participants gather in a larger number (maximum 200), but less prestigious and with less impressive stakes. The principle yet remains the same: playing for a good cause.
“Each player will give an entry fee of 300 dollars, explains Grégoire Villard-organizer of the main event. The third party is splited in gains for the tournament, the rest being shared between Bistrots du Coeur and a sustain project of micro credits in Inde, launched by Caritas organization.”
If the tournament announces to be complete, 15,000 dollars will be designated to Caritas and other 5,000 dollars to a local association initiated by the International Swiss Youth Chambre-organizer of the Charity Poker Tour.
“We have given free snack breaks last December. The aim being to develop, to give more, we are always searching for new resources. This tournament takes part of our development plan.”, says the organizer.
As for the players, the first twenty-seven will be distributed at least with their stakes, as long as the limit of 150 participants will be overcast.” The computing depends evidently on the number of competitors. In the best case, the winner will leave with 12,000 dollars.” The others will , themselves, take advantage of the adrenaline rides that can cause the competition to launch “from 10 o’clock Saturday morning, to dawn.”
Concerning the entrance fee, Grégoire Villard justifies the costs without any difficulty.” We must see this manifestation as a support dinner. As long as we take part at this kind of events, we can easily give 200 dollars for eating, without any gaining afterwards.” And the worst is that, one week later, another tournament is held at Chavannes-de-Bogis. For 100 dollars as stake, but without any humanitarian goals.
May 9th, 2008 -- Posted in Uncategorized |
After Partouche and Barrière, the Tranchant Casinos have announced Tuesday, 4 March 2008 the opening of their own poker tournament in France, “Tranchant Poker Tour “. A series of tournaments drives the winners to the finals at Bâle in Switzerland on the 5th and 6th of July 2008.
The six satellites for the Swiss finals, with a capacity of 200 players maximum, are held from April 12 until June 14 2008 for a buy-in of 250+50 €. Each “qualification stage” will be held in France and will have a prize pool of 48.000 € (200 participants) and 7 tickets for the final stage of Tranchant Poker Tour.
The final tournament, for which the television rights are still negotiating, is scheduled for Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th of July 2008 at the “Swiss Las Vegas Resort” casino, in Bâle. Located in Switzerland, on Rhin, Bâle is one of the towns having German origins with 660.000 inhabitants, known for its carnival and contemporary art fair (Art Basel).
The price of the cup final tickets will be around 800+100 €, for an endowment of 160.000€ (prize pool for 200 players), which will be divided between the 18 best runners-up. Besides the announced prize, the first four finalists arriving at the cup final table will receive for the 1st position an entry to World Poker Tour, for the 2nd – an entry to European PokerStars Poker Tour, for the 3rd – an entry to World Series of Poker and for the 4th - a ticket to a “Swiss Las Vegas Resort” tournament.
Tranchant Group is the third big casinos group to propose poker Texas Hold’em tournaments after the game authorization in France casinos in May 2007. Between these three groups, Barrière- Accor suggests its series of tournaments since November 2007. The initial conditions for the players of high stakes tournaments, inside the 35 casinos of the group were not agreed at all. The entrance tickets for the main tournaments did not stop decreasing in value, passing progressively from 5.000€ to 1.500€ recently at Dinard casino.
Barrière-Accor group apparently has over-estimated the number of high limits players in France. This is equally generated by the refund taxes of tickets obtained from the satellite qualification tournaments for the finals. The French rate-setting binds an effect towards the casinos over the possibility of refunding tickets money obtained from a satellite tournament.
The Partouche group and its “Patrouche Poker Tour” has a certain success over the low budget players. It seems equally better to manage the rules touching the refunding of the qualification tickets or to take back the satellite torunaments.
The “Partouche Poker Tour” proposes six tournaments “super satellites” of 1075€ until June 2008 and also twice a week satellites of 125€ (10 players) in 41 of their casinos. These qualifications lead to a final tournament predicted to have the opening in September 2008 at the Palm Beach casino in Cannes. This cup final will have a prize pool of 2 million €, from which 1 million € for the final winner.