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The late September and early October CNP Estoril is a great gathering for the Portuguese poker community and souvenir photos are online in one of our drives under the link below.
The official Portuguese coverage is provided by the PokerPT colleagues and we are publishing updates in German on PokerFirma.com as well as photo albums on the Facebook page.
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The poker winds are taking us to Portugal, Belgium and Nevada over the coming weeks. All poker events we promote are listed in the POKER TRIPS. We also prepare at least one POKER RADAR CHECK travel preview published by PokerFirma.
In our recent forecast of the upcoming CNP events for late 2024, we pointed out an upcoming stop in Estoril.
This is an English version of an article originally published in German for PokerFirma.com.
From Rozvadov via the Spanish Mediterranean coast to Portugal and over to Panama before the Grand Final in Madrid with 888poker - CNP is busy working on exciting live poker projects for the second half of 2024.
The CNP poker brand and the Laroush Events organisation behind it have a great European schedule to come for the rest of 2024 and there are news about a new Latin American project for November.
The news had been in the air for weeks. First as a rumor since autumn of 2023 until I was actually sitting in a Casino Estoril office last February to officially discuss options to promote the comeback of poker festivals to Estoril.
Alex Rotenberg is shooting in Estoril these days for the return of MTTs with the initial stop of the EU Poker Masters.
There have been a few attempts to bring back Estoril on the live poker tournament map over the last months and it seems like things are picking up a bit of momentum. MTTs seem to come back on the poker menu from April...
Off to lovely Estoril for a bunch of cash game session in the late winter weeks! I'll visit Casino Estoril on the Atlantic coast between Lisbon and Cascais from 10th to 15th March. The plan is to meet old cash game and casino employee buddies. I was based in the area for almost 3 years between 2019 and 2022 and I still have great souvenirs of the people and places that were shaping my daily routines back then when I was not traveling around and resting or grinding in Portugal.
After my stop in Namur, I made a short stop in Luxembourg before moving on to Estoril and Vilamoura in Portugal for the Solverde Poker Season Etapa #3 covered by PokerPT.
Some of the photos of this trip will be published in a PokerFirma.com Facebook album and all of them will be archived in the photo section of this site. Following this, I will be in Bratislava for 10-15 days. More POKER TRIPS here.   After my Namur visit in Belgium and a short stop in Luxembourg, I'm off to some Portugal Poker and photo grind with Alexandre Brutally Honest Rotenberg. Drones, cameras, stacks of cash for the Estoril and Vilamoura games... We are all set for a few days of cash games in Estoril followed by the Solverde Poker Series Main Event in Vilamoura! From the very south of Portugal, I will then beam myself to Central Europe for a photo mission during the Vamos Poker Tour stop in the Slovak capital.  
Sure, there are all the great guided tours of Lisbon, the epic bar crawls the Portuguese capital has to offer, culinary explorations reminiscent of the country's rich colonial past, foodie tours by Segway, hop-on-hop-off city tours by boat or bus ... The Lisbon Bay is full of beautiful surprises, the food and life in general are good, while it all unfolds with 10 to 11 months of sunshine a year.
There is a new article of mine online on PokerFirma with loads of cool archive pics and an English text version is available below on this page. 
Sao Pedro do Estoril
We're in the process of preparing quite a bit of new Poker content with PokerFirma ... but we're not intending to talk too much about the game itself :-) Because there's a life beside Poker. We swear! We've seen it!! :-p
PokerFirma have ordered a series of Portugal photos of mine and I have compiled this short article about the state of things when it comes to playing live Poker in one of my favourite places in Europe.
An English version of my text is available below and you can visit the original article in German to view all the awesome photo selection HERE.  One of the very nice things about Portugal, is that, despite its modern infrastructure and great international connections, it does not take more than a 60-minute drive to disappear into the wild.
Watching waves and sunsets while eating local pastries. Easy life! Guess where I will be spending some time from next Tuesday ... ;-)  My favourite coast on planet Earth.  Seven months into 2021 and some Portuguese have been confined or living with Covid restrictions for almost 5 of them until now. Having my base in Cascais since last September, I am one of them. The latest lockdowns were enforced in January and it took authorities until May 1st to reopen Casino Estoril. The action was great in May but I had to leave Portugal for 2-3 weeks in early June for film shootings abroad. Unfortunately, while I was away, Covid numbers started rising rapidly again and, in a total despair move, the Portuguese decided to confine large parts of the Lisbon area again. The casino has been closed since early June again with no sign of any reopening to come. Trusted sources and contacts of mine amongst the casino management staff are confident they will be able to open again during August but there is no sign for that coming from authorities and they have no idea about the playing conditions they will be able to offer to players.   My POKER TRIPS section got an update!
A new #spfpoker flyer was uploaded with the new date for SPF SUMMER at King's and you'll find info for the March festivals I am planning to attend in Spain. For the rest, there should be some surfing and cash game action going on in Portugal and maybe some more cash games in Brussels later during the month.  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?  Cat 8/10 day in Nazaré. 5-8m waves. The biggest ones get up to 4-5 times bigger here!
Not a lot of action at the Poker lately for me. I have hardly played since the days before Christmas. Just a bit of online mtting and some live cash games and, so far, I am up this year :D
I'm back in Spa at the PROS for a bit this month and might hop around here for a while between in the BeNeLux area. Still have to make up my mind about SPF Rozvadov and the Dublin Poker Festival for later this month and February. 
Every few weeks, the Casino Estoril Poker department comes up with a special Poker event besides the regular weekly tournaments but you might strike gold the December if you are considering Estoril as one of your Poker stops. The Golden Poker Series are stopping in Portugal and here are all the details!
All Casino Estoril events are listed in the online agenda and you stay up to date via the Casino Estoril Poker Facebook Page.
It's time to #punishthespanish again!! :D
I left Spa this morning after some photo reporting over the Roller Coaster Festival weekend days and I stayed one extra day to attend the Poker Room of Spa Monday Cash Game Night yesterday. I was able to book a positive session but my highlight of the weekend was my second place finish in the Chill Out event while I was still posting updates and shooting pictures of the final stages of the Main Event final table. Poker an easy game :) The CNP Estoril is come to an end last night with the last three win in the MAIN EVENT, the LIGA DO POQUER NACIONAL and the WIN THE BUTTON. All recaps are online on the Casino Estoril Poker Facebook page where I have published daily notes and photo albums. I only arrived on Thursday but PokerPT was on the spot for the whole week providing a proper and extensive coverage including more photos and video content. Big up to Pedro for winning the Main Event!! He is clearly one of the ones on the good side of the Poker Force :) I met him in the 45°C heat of a caliente summer festival in Madrid during the summer of 2017. Since then, it's always a pleasure to cross his path. He bested a field of 149 entries with more than €14.5k on top! I have uploaded a photo archive of my stay at Casino Estoril last week for those who care. It can be found on my Flickr account.  
The Poker Belgique Monster 2018 is over with a Main Event that gathered 835 entries and unstoppable champion, Sébastien Hetzel, who is just having an incredible end of 2018 at Poker Belgique since a few weeks.
My photo archive (+200 photos) is available on my Flickr account and you can view Jonathan Koszulap's coverage under www.pokerbelgique.be. 
Sébastien's Poker year 2018 before last week
After a pleasant week in the Netherlands hopping from Holland Casino to Holland Casino in Breda, Amsterdam and Zandvoort where I enjoyed an almost 10-km on the autumn beaches [photos on my Flickr] on Wednesday, I made my way to Namur in Belgium for the PokerBelgique Monster Tournament finals over the weekend.
Last minute changes for this week! Although I decided to stop working as a #pokernamur reporter after the Namur MegaStack in September, I still intended to come over for the Oktoberfest this week to play cash games and shoot some photography for the Namur Poker room but the board took the bizarre last minute decision not to let me shoot at the casino anymore at all since I am not reporting officially for them. As a result, I decided to enjoy my time on the BeNeLux roads this weekend starting with the Friday event at the Poker Room of Spa before moving on to the Breda Small Ball Series for the weekend. Off to Amsterdam from Sunday night or Monday morning after that before the Monster Tournament finals for PokerBelgique in Namur before a few days of family time in Luxembourg and I will be back in Belgium later in November as well for the #PROS Roller Coaster Festival after a short hop to Portugal for the CNP Estoril.     
Beside the daily cash games 1/2 NLHE > 5/10 PLO and the weekly MTTs, Casino Estoril regularly teams up with external partners like the Spanish Poker Festival in September and there are two more major Poker rendez-vous to come for this winter!
The CNP Estoril 6>11 Nov & the GPS Estoril 3>9 Dec. ​#estorilpoker info can be found on their online agenda or on their Poker Facebook page. 
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