I arrived in Belgium yesterday following a blitz 20-hour stop in Luxembourg after I made my way up North from Portugal on Wednesday. After the #pbmasters Opening Event in the middle of the week, the Main Event of the series kicked off yesterday with a 72-entry Day 1A and less than 20 survivors. You'll find chip counts and results all over the weekend on the P.R.O.S. website and I will randomly post photos in my Flickr archive as I am jumping into Day 1B myself today. As usual, the less photos you see, the better I will be doing :)

Greetings from Portugal <3

Sure, I came to play cash games at Casino Estoril but something is distracting me ...

You'll find out what in my Flickr photo archive ;)

>> my Instagram shots

>> Random Estoril shots

>> Beaver Moon

>> Nazaré

I am staying here until late November before a quick hop to Belgium to play the PB Masters Main Event in Spa. My plans for later this year are still blurry but it looks like I will be heading East. Slovakia and Czech Rupublic for the first half of December, Luxembourg at some point soon ... Rozvadov maybe again after Christmas or maybe some more Portugal.

What about you?

The SPANISH POKER FESTIVAL have announced the dates for their Rozvadov Winter edition. While the two King's rendez-vous are always a nice success, there is also quite a lot happening around the SPF crew back in Spain. Go have a look on their website!

I'll soon be making my way to Europe over Germany and Luxembourg to end up in Spa, Belgium.

All Poker info about Poker Belgique's Monster Tournament are online under www.pokerroomofspa.com.

A few weeks ago, Ronald van de Linde announced the dates for an upcoming BENELUX Festival at King's Rozvadov for next spring but before that, something really big is coming back to heat up the winter days in the Czech countryside...

The Dutch Classics will be back at King's in January!

I've spent last weekend in Spa for the POKER ONE Festival. My Main Event was experience was a complete joke ... but a bad one :p I busted late in Level 7 of 1B after losing or having to fold holding AA, AA, KK, QQ, JJ & JJ again... the force has been strong with the drawing hands and pairing boards!

The cash game action was fun though with PLO6 Triple Board being added to the Dealer's Choice games. I hope to play more of them soon. Why not next weekend for the M.E.C. Open? The field should easily reach 400+ entries as 1C is apparently already sold out so I am considering to return to Spa to fire a bullet at the Main Event and maybe find some new 6-carded friends. Details under pokerroomofspa.com.

I've posted photos of my POKER ONE weekend in the photo section for those who care.

A tantôt!

I am stuck in Metz after the Beer Fest :) I guess I needed some rest after this crazy weekend of beer tasting, partying and shooting photos. Apart from randomly resting after a tough mission, there are actually good reasons for me to be stuck here :p

My Metz Beer Fest hosts are some of my all-time best buddies that I used to spend a lot of time with during my studies here so it's a pleasure to meet all those people again over these last days. What is more, I was on the go with Ady last night who had a screening and a Q&A for our film project, SAWAH. We have published photos and info in his blog today. You'll also find a link to all the photos in the photo section.

Greetings from the first Metz Beer Fest in France where I'll spend a big part of my weekend as it seems. View my photos on their Facebook page and in my photo section here.

Initially, I was intended to travel with Ady to Denmark to promote Sawah at the Aarhus Film Fest but the Gods of logistics were against us on this one. We nevertheless managed to bring home a new award!! Read more about it on adolfelassal.net. These coming days, we are going to screen a Luxembourg premiere of a Balkan coproduction of ours at CinEast Film Festival and we'll then be off to France again for screenings of Sawah competing in the Fameck Arab Film Fest.

With all this going on, I am skipping a bunch of online Poker sessions these days but I'll be back in action for the Poker One Festival in Spa. I have posted info about this in a recent post. Go check it out and see you soon on the road!

I am still lost a little bit everywhere in Europe for the promotion of two films by Adolf El Assal who I am currently working with for his upcoming cinema releases.

In terms of Poker, I am still hesitating about where to relocate. Getting back a bit to Luxembourg is an option to be closer to the Ady crew but we don't really know where we're going there for now ... there are some rough rides ahead in terms of financing those enormous cinema projects.

Happy Dublin to all the buddies and degens out there for this crazy September weekend! It's the first time in years I skip this one. Check out my photos of last year's edition by clicking on the photo below and see you next year hopefully ;)

More of my photos in the PHOTOS & COVERAGES section. Enjoy!

Cash Game Weekend is on again these days on the shores of the Black Sea. Too busy to make it this time but this place is so amazing I gotta go back.

View the photos of my last stay at Cash Game Weekend Batumi last July.

Another big success for Roland Van de Linde's crew with the Dutch Classics in Rozvadov gathering more than 600 Dutchies and Belgians from 18th to 23rd September and there is more to come.

As a matter of fact, Pokerreis will be back at it at King's Resort with the 8th leg of the Dutch Classics in late January (from 22nd to 27th) and an even larger BENELUX CLASSICS is coming up for May 2020.

Save the dates for this festival from 20th to 25th May featuring a Main Event of €220.

In the meanwhile, as a Luxembourg-based player, I will be gathering interested players and Poker clubs from the Grand-Duchy through THE-ROUNDERdotnet.

I can help you:
- to organise your group trip
- to promote a ranking competition with your club
- to promote Pokerreis through your club and provide your members with a cool Poker trip opportunity

Room rates and more news to come soon in this blog!

For info and conditions, you are welcome to get in touch!

Who said that no administration is getting anything done over the summer months? :) It might have taken them since spring to come over and check the servers of the Belgian Poker app developer Days of Poker but the Belgian Gambling Commission finally dropped by and everybody is now waiting for final validations to come.

In the meanwhile, we have been fine tuning the app's features and I have been working on additional translations as the real money feature will be available in numerous countries.

Find details and the app of course under daysofpoker.com.

Luxembourg, Spa, Paris & Metz over the last week. It's been an intense and busy September so far and it's far from over. I am still not planning any significant Poker coverage for this fall but I'll be around playing cash games here and there and I am still trying to become an online Poker world champ :p

What's more, we are planning big things with Wady Films that should keep me on the move for a while and I've decided to add more non-Poker content to this blog as I will still be on the move a lot for film and photo projects besides re-raising plans. I have updated the PHOTO SECTION this morning with links to my latest trips and samples of recent shootings so go have a look if you care.

There is still a lot going on around my film projects these weeks so I guess I'll keep skipping a lot of Poker coverages for while.

Because there is still a little bit of an MTT masochist in me, I am intending to make my way to Germany next week to spend some days with a real online shark who will help me find my way through the late WCOOP stages. Good luck us! :-D

First, I am heading to Spa this weekend after a few days in Luxembourg and Paris working on Wady Films projects. Read more about it under www.adolfelassal.com. For now, it's going to be essentially cash games for me in Spa but I'll be back in October for the Poker One Festival for more. I am also intending to fire a buy-in or two at the main event. Check out the full schedule on the P.R.O.S. calendar.

If you bust me soon enough, I'll shoot some photos too ... should be a nice Belgian Poker highlight with all the POKER ONE crew showing up and the cash games will for sure get juicy! Vamooooos!!

To be honest, I was intending to leave Spa after the summer. I am still into it but a couple of things have changed in my plans outside Poker and it looks like I am committed to spend at least a few more weeks (maybe months) not to far from the Luxembourg area where I am involved in the production and promotion of some films. There are good things happening and also bad things at the moment. The point is that there is a lot of shit going right now. Find out more about it under adolfelassal.net.

So yes, I might stick to my Spa base for a bit longer then planned. Time to look ahead then! The Winamax Series are almost over and WCOOP is still in full swing for the online sickos. I am firing bullets here and there but I still prefer a good old live game to clicking.

The weekend cash games are still my favourite games over there but the Poker Room of Spa has a bunch of interesting Poker festivals coming up in October and Novemeber while their September's Challenge is still ongoing until the end of the month. Poker Belgique is planning one of their Poker Belgique Masters soon (more info HERE) and Poker One, one of the most active Belgian Poker crews over the last 2 years, will have its own festival in Spa in a few weeks...

I am not intending to properly cover those events but I will show up to play if I am in the area and I will definitely have a camera with me ;)

More info in P.R.O.S. the calendar under www.pokerroomofspa.com!

That's it, folks! Summer is gone. At least in the BeNeLux area :p

I skipped the Cash Game Weekend Tbilisi in late August after the Spa's Poker Festje as I have been working on some film and photo projects throughout the summer. I am also looking forward to setting a foot in the cinema business this fall. More updates will follow up soon I guess.

More news will also follow regarding the next Cash Game Weekend set to be back in Batumi in late September.

From a Poker point of view, I am still on the low profile side of the Poker media action with a few shootings here and there but I keep playing myself quite a bit. Still cash games. Still PLO! Online, I have not been achieving much ...

I made my way to the Poker Belgique room in Soignies today after a meeting in Maastricht. A few drinks, a few photos and a few hours of sleep in the area before continuing to the Belgian coast tomorrow for Day 1B of the Unibet Belgium Poker Championship.

Info about the Unibet festival in one of my last posts.

Some photos of my stay in Soignies ara available below and the full album is online in my photo archive and on Facebook.

I did not get a chance to go back to Portugal since last March and I am genuinely missing it. The coffees in the morning by the ocean, the excellent food, the amazing bikinis ... :p

It's been a tough grind over the last months in the Belgian forests of Spa so I guess I deserve my beach time too! The UNIBET BELGIUM POKER CHAMPIONSHIP will soon be back on the Belgian Atlantic Coast with a €550 Main Event and a bunch of side events from the 29th of August to the 1st of September.

I will be playing the Main Event only and I'll probably be in for some terrasse side events with ocean view.

The Gran Casino Castellon will be the host of a massive SPF event very soon! Check out this insane schedule they just published on their Instagram profile!

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I will be at the Poker Room Of Spa next week during the Spa's Poker Feestje. I have repeatedly posed about it lately and you will find all information with useful links in my blogging section of this site. I will provide photo reports with daily recaps from the 14th to the end of the festival on the 18th. My production will include daily photo galleries of the Poker games and the casino surroundings with loads of Poker player portraits.

All my photography catalogue is available for this. Some exclusive shots will come in limited series but with almost 22.000 photos published and archived on my Flickr account, you should be fine :) For the vast majority of these photos, I still have an HD backup that we can work with for prints but I lost 2 very important backup drives in two photo bag thefts in Brussels (2014) and in Las Vegas (2016), so some photos might not be available ... Sorry in advance :/

For those who care, I will be available to talk about original prints of your favourite shots of mine during the Spa's Poker Feestje. The pictures can come in various styles and sizes.

I'll be back at the Poker Room of Spa next week for the SPA'S POKER FEESTJE with a Main Event of €250. In order to attract a maximum of players from the beginning of the Main Event, Day 1A will be offered at a buy-in price of only €200 besides other special offers that you can find out about in one of their latest publications.

Last weekend, I visited the Poker Room of Spa for a cash game session and I stopped by the tournament Poker room upstairs during the regular Friday event to shoot the trophies of the upcoming Spa's Poker Feestje in the middle of this month.

All festival details are online under www.pokerroomofspa.com.