Alex Meira, the well known French/Portuguese floor and tournament director, who is very active in Belgium, goes by 'Sharky' for those who did not know. He is the master shark brain behind this project and has decided to team up with the historic Casino de Spa for this launch event.
The feast will take place from 30th April to 5th May 2024.
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Hundreds of photos are piling up online during the Winter Festival in Namur. All useful links are available in the dedicated post of the POKER TRIPS section. Photos are added daily to the PokerFirma.com Facebook page and to our photo archive.
I met Alexandre Rotenberg in Portugal at Casino Estoril a few years ago. We both play poker, we are both wanderers, we both love photography, we both fly drones. We were meant to build this long-lasting friendship made of occasional common trips and frequently being thousands of miles apart. He was in Europe when I left to the US last autumn and, now that I'm back in Europe, he is enjoying South America.
We're checking in regularly via the Great Interwebs and we keep each other posted about what's going on. Alex is in Brazil at the moment and he is sending in photos of some poker games in Rio de Janeiro. Welcome to the Rio Poker Clube!
Historically, the Namur Winter Festival has always been one of the highlights of the poker year. It has been one of the first events of the room to feature a main event with more than 1k entries and it has reached more than 2.5k entries in 2023.
The Winter Festival is the first major poker gathering in Namur for 2024. Fun in the snow combined with action on the felt with a majestic scenery. How about some winter poker in Liechtenstein in late January and early February?
Another 10 days of packed poker action are coming up in Namur during late March and early April.
Along some innovations in the Namur poker schedule of 2024, the poker room has taken good care of some of its classics like the yearly Carnival Festival from 25th February to the 3rd March.
Save the dates for this poker trip. Info links are available below. After the recent 2023 season grand final in glorious Seville, the first stop of the 2024 QPS tour is scheduled for mid-February in Bilbao, Spain.
The Fontainebleau is the latest addition to the modern multi-billion-dollar constructions on the Las Vegas Strip. I did a photo (and cocktail) tour of the casino area in December just before the new year and roughly two weeks after the official opening on December 13th, 2023.
One of Sin City's most well-known poker series is coming back to the Venetian poker room from late January.
It's been a long while since we have not returned to Slovakia. The last poker stop in Bratislava for THE-ROUNDER.net was the Winamax Poker Open in September 2023. Since then, Banco Casino have been offering constant poker action throughout late 2023 and the tone is not changing in 2024. One of the first poker festivals of the year, is the Eurasian Poker Tour stopping in town in late January.
The Venetian Deepstack Showdown will be back to the Las Vegas Strip between 8th and 28th January.
I've been coming to Vegas more and more since my first visit in 2015 or maybe 2016. I'm not a Sin City veteran or expert at all but I am starting to feel fairly good in this city that is not mine. The initial thrill of documenting a place usually fades away pretty quickly but what is nice here for me, is that the interest of shooting photos of all aspects of Las Vegas is not boring me yet. Quite the contrary is happening actually.
Merry Christmas and Feliz Navidad from the Caridad Hebron community in Las Vegas.
Caridad calls it 'The Refuge in the Desert' - HEBRON is a low-income housing complex for war veterans, people experiencing transitional or long-term homelessness, and seniors. Some of the roughly two dozen volunteers have been preparing and cooking since 4am to be ready for the 130 guests' Christmas eve meal in the sun.
There might be some sort of a taste of too much when it comes to the quantity of high-end media content that is being generated around me at the WPT World Championship. We all release so much stuff for our media services, back offices, and marketing colleagues that much of what we shoot, curate, edit, upload, and archive probably never properly gets published or only gets viewed for a brief moment between two distracted scrolls in a random social media feed.
The fabulous WPT World Championship is slowly entering its final stages after a fabulous festival that has been going on since the 29th of November. The photo archive is packed with thrilling views of Sin City and poker legends at thee tables. Big prizes have been won already but it's now about time to focus on the real big money. The final table setup has been revealed and it's now time for the remaining finalists of the WPT Prime, of the 40-million Dollar heavy Main Event, and of the prestigious Big One for One Drop. All broadcasted games are accessible via the WPT YT channel.
I've been visiting Las Vegas since 2016. I stayed one month the first time I came. It was awesome :-D I obviously came to play and shoot poker. I did relatively well over the years. I won some money playing overall and I established myself as some sort of a relevant poker reporter in the poker capital of the world. Over time though, I've learned that Las Vegas is indeed that figurative mirage in the desert but the Strip is a mirage within the mirage. Those who want to get to know what the city really has to offer, need to get off that overrated tiny part of Las Vegas Boulevard and meet the real people of Las Vegas: its workers, its inhabitants, its rejects, and also its caretakers.
How to measure success in business?
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.
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.
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