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October was packed with plenty of live poker events all over the place. In Las Vegas, where I am spending the beginning of the colder season, the Wynn Autumn Classic festival is coming to an end as the next major event is about to start on the Strip.
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The VPT 2024 is looking back at a great season with stops all over Europe. The conclusion of the season will be celebrated in Portugal with a Vamos Poker Tour stop in Estoril and a 500k Eur guarantee. VPT Estoril will take place from 22nd November to 2nd December 2024. 
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.
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...
The March 2024 POKER RADAR CHECK is online on PokerFirma.com with a preview of what is coming up over the next weeks. Portugal, Nevada, and Belgium are on the menu until 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.
 The second leg of the Queen Poker Series tour will take place in the awwwwwwesome Troia nature reserve! Get ready for some serious pre-summer poker vibes! Details are available on the official QPS website and on Instagram. 
The VAMOS POKER TOUR is back for an exciting 2024 season filled with old and new poker destinations featuring a 20-thousand-Euro guaranteed ranking package for Vegas.
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… :-)
In the jungle of cash game events flourishing a bit everywhere in the poker scene, a group of European promoters have come together to offer a series of stops under the name of POKER ON TOUR. The idea is straight forward: offer cash game festivals in cool places. The upcoming stops are in Sofia, Bulgaria and in Troia, 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.  
Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and back to Slovakia.
These will be my Poker stops during the fourth month of this year. Details are always up to date under POKER TRIPS. 
Another contribution on the go for PokerFirma.com and I have added an English text version below. Photos and info links can be found in the German article.
 It took the Solverde group some time to restart relevant Poker action in their casinos after the Covid months. They are back for good now it seems.
I'm thinking of visiting the Vilamoura stop in Algarve in April 2023. 
After my visit of Seville for the first CNP of the year (photos HERE), I briefly stopped in Faro in the far southern part of Portugal to catch some amazing Algarve light. Spring is coming!
For those who did not know, there's a mountain range with peaks at just below 2000m in the north of Portugal. It is called 'Serra da Estrela' (the mountains of the stars) I crossed parts of the region by car during summer 2022 on my way to a Poker festival in Vigo on the Spanish side in Galicia.
Further down in this post, there is a series of aerial shots to be found. These were taken during a recent flight from Lisbon to a home game in Luxembourg. 
After spending almost three months in Las Vegas during the late spring and early summer months of 2022, I spent the rest of summer in Portugal and Spain. I did not make my way back since then and I captured amazing light again when I did so in late January. An album is available further down in this post.
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. Since it is built on a series of hills, Lisbon has numerous viewpoints to offer for great time outs. There is for instance a huge public park in the heart of Lisbon. It occupies an area of 26 hectares to the north of Avenida da Liberdade and Marquis of Pombal square. It is named after King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom, of Great Britain, Ireland, and Emperor of India from 1901 until his death in 1910. After he visited the Portuguese capital in 1903 in an effort to strengthen relations between the two countries and reaffirm the Anglo-Portuguese aalliance. Up until this specific visit, the park was called 'Parque da Liberdade' (Liberty Park). The name would have made very little sense anyway under the Salazar dictatorship between 1933 and 1974. The park's current configuration and design date back to an intervention of Portuguese Modernist architect Francisco Keil do Amaral.  |
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