BPT Deauville

#BPTDeauville s'est achevé cette nuit après avoir atteint un record de 443 joueurs et 558 entrées totales pour le Main Event.

Vous pouvez des maintenant consulter les résultats et saluer les vainqueurs sur RKH!

@Mohamed Aissani  a remporté le plus grand gain de sa carrière en terminant premier pour 48,000€!

Félicitations aussi à nos deux membres classés deuxième et troisième, @Laurent HADOT (28,000€) et @Brian Benhamou  (19,300€)!

EPT Grand Final Monte-Carlo 2014 - un seul français encore en course

EPT Grand Final Monte-Carlo 2014 - un seul Français parmi les 17 derniers survivants: @Miroslav Alilovic, avec $253,668 en gains depuis 2009!

Il est assuré de remporter au minimum 55 850€ et débutera le Day5 avec 500,000 jetons (14eme), en compagnie du second en chipcount entre autres (@Martins Seilis, avec 1.767.000 jetons):

Imaginez les pros du poker dans Game of Thrones

F5 poker ont eu l'idée géniale de refaire le casting de Game of Thrones avec des pros du poker; voici quelques-unes de leurs suggestions (http://f5poker.com/poker-news/2014/4/30/poker-game-thrones-book-1-if-poker-pros-populated-westeros/ ) :

Samwell Tarly - @David Tuthill

Brienne of Tarth - @William Reynolds 

Khal Drogo - @Dan Bilzerian 

Les idées casting de RankingHero:

Jaime - @Phil Laak 

Joffrey - @Viktor "isildur1" Blom 

A vous, maintenant :) Dans quel rôle voyez-vous notre ambassadeur VegasHero de cette semaine, @Fabrice Soulier dans Game of Thrones?.. Un petit rôle pour @Nicolas Levi peut-être?.. Attention, nous n'avons pas de tickets à offrir - la récompense ne sera qu'en 'likes' et 'shares' :)

Bravo à  @Patrick Bruel  qui se classe 3ème du tournoi à 5300€ #EPTGrandFinal Monte-Carlo!!!  

The Monte-Carlo EPT Super High Roller - a Clash of Cultures, Generations, and Poker Styles

The livestreamed #EPTGrandFinal €100,000 buy-in #SuperHighRoller in Monaco this year offered poker fans all over the world three days of fantastic entertainment, bringing together the top pros on the planet and a sizeable group of the mythical #Macao Big Game players. The mainstream stars busted early and in the end it was a match between the Asian group and the online kids (who are by no means new kids on the poker block).

The Super High Roller EPT albums with Neil Stoddard photos could be published without further editing as a “Who’s Who in Top of the Tops Poker”:

It was extremely interesting to observe the different styles of playing, of table manners and even dress and body language. And so refreshing not to see any hoodies or headphones, hardly any sunglasses and phones, and to actually hear the players laugh and talk, just like in the good old Full Tilt Poker TV days…

In fact there were three distinct groups at the Super High Roller event - the Macau players (@Paul Phua @Richard Yong @Lo Shing Fung, the older-generation stars (@Phil Ivey @Daniel Negreanu), and the twenty-something online wizards (@Daniel Colman @Daniel Cates). 

It was a little sad to see the best-known and possibly best-liked players of an older generation drop out first but the more exotic Asian group that made it to the final table offered a fascinating opportunity to compare two very different demographic sets of characteristics and behavior models at the poker table. It was a clash between the young guys and the old folks, between patiently betting on the probable and constantly daring the odds, between millionaires in hard-earned real cash and another type of millionaires with a more abstract idea of money as a points system. 

The 'kids' won by a landslide as Paul Phua, Richard Yong, and Lo Shing Fung left the final table one by one. The chop deal made immediately after the departure of the last Asian player reinforced the impression of a community of sorts, of shared identity, background, and attitudes. We will soon bring you another article taking a closer look at the profiles and similarities between the winner and runner-up in the 2014 EPT Super High Roller - Daniel Cates and Daniel Coleman. Meanwhile, here’s the strikingly similar chart of their live winnings:

Related reading on RankingHero:

The Macau Big Game

Macau Cash Game Stories and Pics by First-Hand Participants

Out of the Online Jungle - Daniel Cates Bursts Onto the Live Poker Scene

Newey Busts the EPT Super High Roller

As expected, the Super High Roller drew a record-breaking field with the total number of Euro 100,000 entries at 62 (36 players left as we write). The prizepool and payouts will be announced any minute now and will be in the range of Euro 6 million!

There was some great preflop all-in action in the third hand after play resumed on Day 2 of  #EPTGrandFinal  #SuperHighRoller:  

@Mike McDonald  K♥ K♦ 

@Paul Newey (GB) A♠ K♠ 

@Ole Schemion Q♣ Q♠ 

"So in any tournament, the deeper you go the more emotionally invested you become..."

http://www.rankinghero.com/en/tournaments/880/event-57%3A-10000-nlhe-championship.html

The Toughest Hand I Ever Played

Adam Levy on Rankinghero

It happened during the 2010 WSOP Main Event on Day 8. Yes, there was a day 8 that wasn’t the final table! It was by far the most intense hand I have ever played and very well could’ve shaped my...

If we are not eligible to take part in the amazing VegasHero promotion , we can only watch with longing as one fun contest succeeds another... This week entrants are asked to submit Vegas-themed photomontages and all RankingHero members can vote by liking and sharing!

Ambassador of the week, @Lucille Cailly , offers practical tips in her article So, you're going to Vegas Baby? and she is doing a Q&A session tonight starting at 19h00 on www.rankinghero.com/everest 

If you can't read her articles in French, here's a link to a strategy piece by Lucille in English:

Basic differences between cash game and tournament play

It's been a fantastic week for #womenINpoker with @Victoria Coren Mitchell 's sensational second EPT main event title at #EPTSanremo: The Women Who Have Made EPT History, Victoria Coren in the Run for a Second EPT Title at Sanremo

Our birthday boy this week: Fabrice Soulier!

Featured festivals and hashtags:  #EPTGrandFinal , #SuperHighRoller , #WPTWorldChamps #WPTChampionship 

Warm welcome to  @Ercan Olgun @Arsen Minasov @Tal Sardal @Sylvain Ribes  @Sebastien Lebaron @Pierre Daw to mention only some of our latest members.

Her $4,119 in live earnings may seem modest to some, but another new member - @Angelina Rich - played her very first EPT in Sanremo and achieved THREE ITM and one win, GG!

Special thanks to some of our active members - @BernyBooboo (who has been helping us improve site functionalities by posting on the #FeelLikeHomepage ), to @cissou13120 (great entry in the photomontage contest!) and @ProofOfLove as well as @Rémi Marette "NIGHTMARE8" @Paloma and @Manu Mars !

Keep posting and making Rankinghero a fun place to be and don't forget to spread the word and like us on Facebook ;)

Yours truly,

@Annie RKH 

 #RKHweekly