2/7 E02-03 National Heads Up Poker Championship 2011 Episode 2-3

Gentlemen Nguyen Video clip Ranking: 5 / 5

BENAC WINS IN PARIS

Just after 7 days of vivid championship, the 2012 World Poker Tour Paris National Series finished with the win of Gregory Benac. All the 8 finalists played during 7 hours till only a single player stayed on the table. Yann Deychey was the very 1st player to have left the table and he got € 15245 for his 8th spot in this poker championship.

Later Philippe Abdul and Antoine Valantin, after a few hands, were also got out and went out of the final table with respective sum of € 25720 and € 20565. Franck Boyer after having ruled out, Abdul soon joins the rank of eliminated poker players and received a sum of € 30870 at the same time. Franck lost all the chips against Shinya Shimada. Jeremy Nock also gave up and let the 3 players competing for a win: Gregory Benac, Antoine Saout and Shinya Shimada. He received € 38565 for this achievement by reaching the 4th spot.

During the very last level, Gregory Benac, the chip leader loses most of his deal against the Japanese player who turned to be the chip leader by getting Antoine Saout out. Shinya Shimada dominated the game with more than 8.5 million chip confront to Gregory Benac with 2.3 million chips, but after playing the game in first few hands, Gregory catch up the dispute and reversed the course by snatching the 2012 World Poker Tour Paris National Series. Thanks to his achievement, he pockets € 92570. Shinya Shimada settled with € 66485 for his runner up place.

2/3 E09 National Heads Up Poker Championship 2011 Episode 9 HD

Men Nguyen Video Rating: 4 / five

BODOG BRING A NEW EXPERIENCE

An interesting feature has been added by Bodog Poker to enhance experience of playing poker online. The feature is known as “The Recreational Poker Model”. The definition is very much self explanatory and some of the online poker marketers are calling it very innovative and interesting. It has taken quite some time to implement the system and now each phase of the concept makes the model quite suitable in the competitive online poker world.

It is to be noted that last December, Bodog Poker Network had added a piece of their Recreational Poker Model puzzle to their system with a software update which made players completely anonymous. It removes all possible player identifiers and therefore when a player sits on a table, it is not possible for him to know his opponent.

This removes unfair advantage that a player can have over his opponent. The lead has proven to be a trend setting for other names in online poker circuit with many adding “no name” table. In order to allow even more transparency, Bodog Poker network has introduced another feature in the software.

In this new feature, after 24 hours, players can ask for not only about their own hand histories but also the hole card information about other players in the same hand. It will be interesting to note how many operators follow the suit.

2/3 E05 National Heads Up Poker Championship 2011 Episode 5 HD

Men Nguyen Video clip Score: five / five

PROTECTING ONLINE PLAYERS

The online poker scenery will shift over the forthcoming months of the year 2012. Many countries around the world have taken necessary steps that will grant people to play online poker in a transparent and safe environment. To help this, few countries are evolving rules and regulations on the foundation of which online poker websites’ procedures will be fulfilled. As an add-on, bodies committed to checking player protection are making arrangements that will keep the poker players’ cash safe.

Until recently, many nations stopped citizens to play online poker for cash to keep them safe from gambling related problems. Meanwhile, with the progress of technology, steps can be called for at the national and website operator stage to ensure the safety of the player.

At a national stage, nations like United States are evaluating whether online game comes under the horizon of laws which were passed years ago. Lately, United States had censored online poker game websites from conduction within the nation on the ground of the Wire Act (1961) that stopped some betting activities.

Last year In December, the Department of Justice told that the Wire Act does not express prohibition poker. A website expressed that no one amidst the industry has reached to a decision about whether online poker game is illegal or not. Instead, this has not discouraged some of the big poker website owners from entering the nation.

In the year 2011, many countries within European region aroused the demand for autonomous online poker game legislations. The motifs behind this were dissimilar. While some countries wanted to grant offshore poker websites to bid games to their poker players, others called for to limit online poker real cash games only to their residents.

In the forth-coming months in the year 2012, the European nations will declare their programs for online poker games.