Partouche Poker Tour
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The Partouche Poker Tour (PPT) is a series of poker tournament
s held at casino
s owned and operated by the Partouche group in France
. The tour operates on a three-tiered structure, with two levels of satellites eventually feeding into the Main Event held at the Palm Beach casino in Cannes
.
Satellites with a €125 buy-in are held every Tuesday and Thursday from November to July, with winners earning a place in the next round of Super Satellites. Players may also enter a Super Satellite directly for a €1,075 buy-in. Each of the six Super Satellites, held at a different Partouche casino, is limited to 500 entrants, with the top 50 finishers at each event earning entry to the Main Event.
The Main Event consists of the 300 Super Satellite ticket winners, plus other players who pay the €8,500 buy-in. As of 2010, the Main Event is held in September, with the competitors playing until the nine-player final table is reached, at which point the tournament adjourns. In a format similar to that of the World Series of Poker Main Event
, the final nine players return in November to play until a champion is crowned.
One of the players who had made the final table, German player Ali Tekintamgac, was disqualified from the tournament for cheating. This was not the first time he had been caught cheating; earlier in 2010 at the European Poker Tour
stop in Tallinn
, he was found to have used colleagues posing as bloggers and journalists to signal his opponents' hole cards.
The 2010 main event also sparked a controversy, after the tournament staff was accused of making dubious rulings in favor of local players. Danish poker pro Mickey "mement mori" Petersen and American poker pro Michael Binger
reported a hand featuring a French and an Italian pro player Mustapha Kanit, whereupon the floorman ruled in favor of the French player even though he had thrown his hand into the muck.
Poker tournament
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s held at casino
Casino
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s owned and operated by the Partouche group in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. The tour operates on a three-tiered structure, with two levels of satellites eventually feeding into the Main Event held at the Palm Beach casino in Cannes
Cannes
Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
.
Satellites with a €125 buy-in are held every Tuesday and Thursday from November to July, with winners earning a place in the next round of Super Satellites. Players may also enter a Super Satellite directly for a €1,075 buy-in. Each of the six Super Satellites, held at a different Partouche casino, is limited to 500 entrants, with the top 50 finishers at each event earning entry to the Main Event.
The Main Event consists of the 300 Super Satellite ticket winners, plus other players who pay the €8,500 buy-in. As of 2010, the Main Event is held in September, with the competitors playing until the nine-player final table is reached, at which point the tournament adjourns. In a format similar to that of the World Series of Poker Main Event
November Nine
The November Nine is the name used to refer to the final nine contestants, or final table, at the Main Event of the World Series of Poker since 2008. The winner of the WSOP Main Event is considered to be the World Champion of Poker....
, the final nine players return in November to play until a champion is crowned.
2008
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st |  Alain Roy |
€1,000,000 |
| 2nd | Claudio Rinaldi | €511,100 |
| 3rd | Antonin Teisseire |
€335,000 |
| 4th | Stephane Bazin |
€225,500 |
| 5th | Philippe Narboni |
€156,500 |
| 6th | Jean-Philippe Rohr | €123,000 |
| 7th | Brice Cournut |
€100,500 |
| 8th | Michel Abécassis |
€78,500 |
| 9th |  Gus HansenGus Hansen Gustav "Gus" Hansen is a professional Danish poker player who lives in Monaco. In his poker career, Hansen has won three World Poker Tour open titles, the 2007 Aussie Millions main event and was the season one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament... |
€58,000 |
2009
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Jean-Paul Pasqualini |
€1,000,000 |
| 2nd | Cédric Rossi |
€606,700 |
| 3rd |  Gianni Giaroni |
€357,200 |
| 4th | Michel Janvier |
€262,400 |
| 5th |  Wesley Pantling |
€211,800 |
| 6th | Hassan Fares |
€155,800 |
| 7th |  Michael Tureniec |
€133,600 |
| 8th |  Mika Puumalainen |
€118,700 |
| 9th | Henri Kettunen |
€102,300 |
2010
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st |  Vanessa SelbstVanessa Selbst Vanessa Selbst is an American professional poker player who has made five final tables, including two heads-up semi-finals, at the World Series of Poker and won the 2008 World Series of Poker $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event. Selbst also won the main event of the 2010 and 2011 PokerStars.net North... |
€1,300,000 |
| 2nd | Raphael Kroll |
€800,000 |
| 3rd | Fabrice Soulier Fabrice Soulier Fabrice Soulier is a professional poker player with over $3.2 Million in live poker tournament winnings and won his first bracelet in the 2011 World Series of Poker $10,000 H.O.R.S.E... |
€500,000 |
| 4th | Tommi Etelapera |
€360,000 |
| 5th |  Ibrahim Raouf |
€300,000 |
| 6th | Soren Konsgaard |
€240,000 |
| 7th | Cyril André |
€187,500 |
| 8th |  Tobias Reinkemeier |
€130,700 |
One of the players who had made the final table, German player Ali Tekintamgac, was disqualified from the tournament for cheating. This was not the first time he had been caught cheating; earlier in 2010 at the European Poker Tour
European Poker Tour season 7 results
- EPT 7 Tallinn:* Venue: Swissôtel Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia* Buy-in: €4,000 + €250* 6-Day Event: August 11, 2010 to August 16, 2010* Number of buy-ins: 420* Total Prize Pool: €1,596,000* Number of Payouts: 56...
stop in Tallinn
Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list...
, he was found to have used colleagues posing as bloggers and journalists to signal his opponents' hole cards.
The 2010 main event also sparked a controversy, after the tournament staff was accused of making dubious rulings in favor of local players. Danish poker pro Mickey "mement mori" Petersen and American poker pro Michael Binger
Michael Binger
Michael W. Binger is a part-time professional poker player, based in Atherton, California. He has a brother, Nick Binger, who also has several high-profile tournament cashes....
reported a hand featuring a French and an Italian pro player Mustapha Kanit, whereupon the floorman ruled in favor of the French player even though he had thrown his hand into the muck.
2011
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st |  Samuel Trickett |
€1,000,000 |
| 2nd |  Salman Behbehani |
€600,000 |
| 3rd |  Oleksii Kovalchuk |
€379,760 |
| 4th |  Ilan Boujenah |
€300,000 |
| 5th | Roger Hairabédian |
€230,000 |
| 6th | Mustapha Kanit |
€190,000 |
| 7th | Aleksander Dovzhenko |
€160,000 |
| 8th | Alexandre Coussy |
€130,000 |
| 9th | Mads Wissing |
€100,000 |