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If you win money, you are successful. If you lose money, you are not. As the old Luxembourg saying goes: 'If it costs nothing, it is nothing.' Well, this poker festival at the Wynn is amazing in that case because the prize tag is huge. I was going to chose 'A Beautiful Failure' as a title for this post but it's not a failure. It's actually a great success. Just like money cannot buy happiness, reached prize pool guarantees are in no relationship at all with the quality of the event. Yes, this memorable party cost a lot. The World Poker Tour (WPT) has to add 2,417,000 USD to the 40,000,000 USD prize money guarantee in the 10,400 USD WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas. A glorious setup in one of the elite resorts on the Strip, excellent feedback from all visitors and partners and only about 6% of the guarantee was missing after the end of registration in the Main Event. The problem with very ambitious plans is that even a close miss quickly gets very expensive. The good old risk/reward ratio is also a thing for promoters. The event is still being celebrated by the players and by the whole community for the quality provided by the WPT and Wynn/Encore teams. A prize of 5,678,000 USD awaits the winner but that's not what people who attended will keep in mind, nor will it be the amount of the overlay.
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After weeks of anticipation, the last poker trip of the year takes us back to Las Vegas for the third time this year. In the spotlight: the World Poker Tour and its fantastic World Championship Festival at the exquisite Wynn/Encore.
Daily poker updates are online on pokerfirma.com. You can use the WPT World Championship tag for specific updates from the Wynn. Daily photo galleries are available on the PokerFirma Facebook page. Visit the WPT website for more info and coverage details.
Another trip to Las Vegas is coming up for all poker lovers with a big heart before the end of the year. The World Poker Tour is ending 2023 with a bang at the Wynn/Encore, one of the most elite casino complexes on the Strip. The event is part of a collaboration with the One Drop Foundation and will feature a 1-million-dollar buy-in event besides the 40-million-prize pool put in place for the 10k main event.
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The World Series of Poker Circuit will be back in Morocco in late January. Discover the Es Saadi Casino Resort through their website and get in touch for travel bookings.
The Circus Poker Series were the last major event at the Circus Casino Resort and many photos came together in the archive. All useful links with coverages and results are available via a recent post in the BLOG and a photo archive is online and available via the link below.
After an intense year of successful poker festivals in the renovated poker room of Namur, the poker staff of the Circus Resort showed up with a huge event to crown the year 2023.
Need assistance? BOOK YOUR TRIP with THE-ROUNDER.net and follow the NAMUR tag in the blog for more info. Les Circus Poker Series sont en cours depuis une semaine et nous fournissons des mises à jour quotidiennes dans notre rubrique de news. A côté des photos archivées et du coverage, de nombreux streamings sont prévues dont voici le plan pour les jours à venir.
Namur is my last stop in Europe before concluding 2023 in Las Vegas from December to January. In the meanwhile, I am shooting every day in Namur for the Circus Resort and PokerFirma.com. An archive is online with more than 300 shots for the first week and there is a lot more to come.
Every year, the Admiral Casino in Seville kicks off the new year with the grand final event of the previous year. It's a great way to kick off the year with a bang. Conchi is one of the major poker promoters in Andalusia, collaborates with the other existing Spanish poker circuits, and her latest own project is called Queen Poker Series with a 100k guarantee put in place for January.
Since early 2023 after the completion of the renovations of the historic casino, I have resumed adding Namur to my personal poker circuit. Multiple posts have been added to the BLOG and the POKER TRIPS section over the last months and all is archived under the NAMUR tag.
The following is one of my recent interventions on PokerFirma.com presenting the growing poker hotspot with photos.
Une documentation photo de Sin City pendant presque tout le mois de décembre et jusqu’à début janvier se prépare. Cerise sur le gâteau: le WPT World Championship au Wynn Las Vegas avec 40 millions USD garantis ainsi que le Big One for One Drop à 1 million USD de buy-in.
It's been roughly one year since Zusammenland took over the Mare*GO for civil sea rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea and what a year it's been!
At this stage, we would like to thank everybody who got involved in one way or the other. Great things have been accomplished. Even greater things are yet to be taken care of and our old yellow sea lady needs constant care and upgrades to keep up with the tough missions we assign it to. The last deployment of the year is starting these days. Fancy some live poker?
We got you! The POKER TRIPS section is full of travel suggestions with special offers and POKERFIRMA.COM releases weekly weekend poker reminders in their news section. The mother of all our poker tournament databases though, is the POKERTURNIERE.LIVE portal with dozens and dozens of poker happenings listed for the German-speaking regions of Europe and their neighboring countries. At Banco Casino Bratislava, many things have changed over 2023 with the intensified poker schedule and the completion of the brand-new non-smoking poker room but straights will probably still beat bluffs with the runner runner nut flush blocker next year, the river will keep bringing nasty surprises, and the old grumpy reg, who plays every day and who always complains, will still not do his poker homework and he will keep running bad also in the new year :-)
What will also probably not change is the amount of poker action to come and yes ... Scandinavians should still be good drinking buddies in 2024 and Bratislava is likely keep its status of one of our favourite European cities in the poker landscape. Let's go find out in early January. Hi folks,
some might already have spotted these tests with short YouTube videos about some of my poker trip highlights featured on www.the-rounder.net. The project is called POKER RADAR CHECK and is an add-on to monthly editorial interventions published on www.pokerfirma.com. Welcome to this new episode of POKER RADAR CHECK for November and December 2023.
The poker year has been hectic and it looks like it will conclude in spectacular fashion. This is a selection of poker trips with deals for traveling poker players. In this video, we are going to browse through some of our late 2023 poker highlights. Pack your bag, we're off to great places.
One of Banco Casino's biggest partnerships in terms of numbers of moved players will be back in the Slovak capital in November. Forced to export most of their decent poker events because of politics and regulations, many Polish Championships and Polish Cups are running outside the borders of Poland with Slovakia being one of the main spots over recent years.
The Hendon Mob are expanding their THM CHAMPIONSHIP circuit with a stop in South Africa inn late 2023. Time to book a trip, flag hunters! Who wants a South Africa flag in his Hendon Mob result listing?
Hello and welcome to our November 2023 POKER RADAR CHECK. This is an English version of information we promote in German on POKERFIRMA.COM. We also recently started testing releases of our POKER RADAR CHECK recaps as videos on YouTube. The editorial contribution should remain monthly interventions. Regarding videos, we might increase the frequency depending on demand. Feedback is welcome if someone wants to help us do things better.
We hope you have seamlessly transitioned into the fall season and that you are all enjoying the occasionally temperamental weather out there. The weather is cooling down where the poker action however continues to heat up as we head into the winter weeks. The Namur casino has been given a serious facelift over the last two years and is now known as the Circus Casino Resort, one of Europe's relevant poker spots featuring a 4-star hotel with fitness and wellness offers on the shores of the Maas river. After a successful series of 2023 events, the crown event of the year is coming up: the CIRCUS POKER SERIES.
OFFICIAL CIRCUS RESULTS & COVERAGES:
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coverage in Dutch
Welcome back to Madrid! This is an English version of a recent contribution on Pokerfirma.com.
The end of the year is coming in fast and the amazing amount of poker action that is been thrown at us, players and media keeps us all running. Sometimes in circles… :-)
Back to Sin City in September and October. This post will regularly be updated with details and pics.
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