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WSOP Europe Ready for 1,000 Players in Main Event

The 2012 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) schedule has been released and organizers are expecting the event to be bigger and better than ever.

Published: 29 February 2012 18:03 CET
WSOP Europe Ready for 1,000 Players in Main Event

The WSOPE is one of the biggest yearly poker events in Europe and this year it will be played at Hôtel Majestic Barrière in Cannes, France from September 21-October 4.

The WSOPE has been around since 2007 (the original World Series of Poker started in Las Vegas in 1970) and for the first four years was held in London, but in 2011 it was moved to Cannes and that will be the venue once again.

WSOP vice president Ty Stewart has high hopes for the 2012 WSOPE:

“We can’t wait to return to the Cote D’Azur in 2012,” said Stewart. “We have moved up the schedule a couple of weeks to take better advantage of the great weather and all Cannes has to offer.”

“Ask anyone who attended last year. This tournament is now a certified major championship and the experience is second to none.”

Due to French gaming law only Texas Hold’em and Omaha tournaments are allowed, but there will still be seven coveted gold bracelets up for grabs.

The most prestigious tournament is of course the €10,000 buy-in Main Event. In 2011 it attracted 592 players and was won by American Elio Fox, but an even bigger starting field is expected this year.

“The media is already speculating on 1,000 players for the Main Event and we will be ready for them,” said Stewart.

No Swedish player has ever won a tournament at the WSOPE. The best Swedish result in the WSOPE Main Event came in 2009 when Bengt Sonnert from Linköping finished in 4th place.

There has been great Scandinavian success in the WSOPE, however. In the opening year, 18-year-old Norwegian Annette Obrestad won the Main Event and took home the massive first prize of £1,000,000.

Here is the 2012 WSOP Europe schedule:

September 21 – €2,500 + €200 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em (3 Day Event)

September 22 – €1,000 + €100 No-Limit Hold’em (5 Day Event)

September 24 – €5,000 + €300 Pot-Limit Omaha (3 Day Event)

September 25 – €3,000 + €250 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout (3 Day Event)

September 26 – €10,000 + €450 Mixed-Max (4 Day Event)

September 27 – €1,500 + €150 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha (3 Day Event)

September 29 – €10,000 + €450 Main Event (5 Day Event)

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Suck-outs and failed bluffs

Two German poker players had a really bad week in online poker and lost more than $500,000.

Published: 16 May 2012 09:59 CEST
Suck-outs and failed bluffs

High Stakes Players are the most fascinating to watch for the average amateur player. While you might be sitting at home grinding away at 1c/2c tables, these guys play for money you would never dare to risk (partly because you don’t have it). The highest games running online these days have Blinds of $200/$400.

A single pot can easily amount to the value of a middle class car, and within a week, some players win or lose as much as a house.

The two Germans who fared badly last week are called Tsubasa Manabe and Benny Spindler. Manabe, who plays under the nick Tsubi87, has been a regular online player since 2007. He is sponsored by German poker school PokerStrategy, where he became a Black Member in early 2011.

His family originates from Japan, but he grew up in Bensheim, Hessen, and speaks fluent German. Over his whole career, he has made around $500,000 profit with online poker, but last week that dwindled to a mere $180,000 within only a couple of days. Manabe lost $313,000 and was thus the biggest loser in online poker last week.

A lot better known, mainly because of his formidable success in live poker tournaments, is “Psycho”Benny Spindler. Spindler emerged on the live poker stage with a 3rd place in the $9700 PCA main event 2009, where he reached third place and won over a million dollars.

His nickname is no accident, as he is infamous for his hyper-aggressive, forward playing style.

He went on to make several final tables in large international events, and went on to win the English leg of this year’s EPT season for another $1,2 million. On the whole, he has over three million dollars in live poker winnings.

Online though, where he is better known under his nick toweliestar, nothing seems to go his way this year. Last week alone, he lost $220k playing his favourite game No Limit Hold’em. Over the course of 2012, his losses now amount to more than $700k.

It’s the worst run the German MTT specialist has ever had in his career. Although the presence seems to look bleak for Spindler, if he can’t turn things around online, there is some light at the end of the tunnel.

It’s only two weeks until the World Series of Poker begins, and that means a series of almost 60 live MTTs. More than enough chances for “Psycho”-Benny to make up for his online downswing of the last couple of months.

The World Series of Poker takes place every year in Las Vegas. The main attraction always is the $10.000 main event, but this year it will also feature the Poker Players Championship with $50.000 Byu-in as well as the biggest buy-in tournament ever: “The Big One”, as it’s called, will cost you a cool million to play in. That’s real dollars, not Facebook chips.

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