Partouche Poker Tour

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The Partouche Poker Tour (PPT) was a series of poker tournaments held at casinos owned and operated by the Partouche group in France. The tour operated on a three-tiered structure, with two levels of satellites eventually feeding into the Main Event held at the Palm Beach casino in Cannes.

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Satellites with a €125 buy-in were held every Tuesday and Thursday from November to July, with winners earning a place in the next round of Super Satellites. Players could also have entered a Super Satellite directly for a €1,075 buy-in. Each of the six Super Satellites, held at a different Partouche casino, was limited to 500 entrants, with the top 50 finishers at each event earning entry to the Main Event.

The Main Event consisted of the 300 Super Satellite ticket winners, plus other players who pay the €8,500 buy-in. As of 2010, the Main Event was 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 returned in November to play until a champion was crowned.

In 2012, Patrick Partouche, CEO of the Partouche group, announced that the tour would not return in 2013. [1]

Main Event results

2008

Final Table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Flag of France.svg Alain Roy€1,000,000
2nd Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Claudio Rinaldi€511,100
3rd Flag of France.svg Antonin Teisseire€335,000
4th Flag of France.svg Stephane Bazin€225,500
5th Flag of France.svg Philippe Narboni€156,500
6th Flag of France.svg Jean-Philippe Rohr€123,000
7th Flag of France.svg Brice Cournut€100,500
8th Flag of France.svg Michel Abécassis€78,500
9th Flag of Denmark.svg Gus Hansen €58,000

2009

Final Table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Flag of France.svg Jean-Paul Pasqualini€1,000,000
2nd Flag of France.svg Cédric Rossi€606,700
3rd Flag of Italy.svg Gianni Giaroni€357,200
4th Flag of France.svg Michel Janvier€262,400
5th Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Wesley Pantling€211,800
6th Flag of France.svg Hassan Fares€155,800
7th Flag of Sweden.svg Michael Tureniec€133,600
8th Flag of Finland.svg Mika Puumalainen€118,700
9th Flag of Finland.svg Henri Kettunen€102,300

2010

Final Table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Flag of the United States.svg Vanessa Selbst €1,300,000
2nd Flag of France.svg Raphael Kroll€800,000
3rd Flag of France.svg Fabrice Soulier €500,000
4th Flag of Finland.svg Tommi Etelapera€360,000
5th Flag of Egypt.svg Ibrahim Raouf€300,000
6th Flag of Denmark.svg Soren Konsgaard€240,000
7th Flag of France.svg Cyril André€187,500
8th Flag of Germany.svg 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 stop in Tallinn, he was found to have used colleagues posing as bloggers and journalists to signal his opponents' hole cards. [2]

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. [3] [4] [5]

2011

Final Table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Samuel Trickett €1,000,000
2nd Flag of Kuwait.svg Salman Behbehani€600,000
3rd Flag of Ukraine.svg Oleksii Kovalchuk €379,760
4th Flag of Israel.svg Ilan Boujenah€300,000
5th Flag of France.svg Roger Hairabedian€230,000
6th Flag of Italy.svg Mustapha Kanit€190,000
7th Flag of Ukraine.svg Aleksander Dovzhenko€160,000
8th Flag of France.svg Alexandre Coussy€130,000
9th Flag of Denmark.svg Mads Wissing€100,000

2012

Final Table
PlaceNamePrize
1st Flag of Germany.svg Ole Schemion €1,172,850
2nd Flag of Russia.svg Karen Sarkisyan€693,494
3rd Flag of Australia (converted).svg Aaron Lim€417,499
4th Flag of the United States.svg Dan O'Brien€341,991
5th Flag of Italy.svg Marcello Marigliano€267,492
6th Flag of France.svg Fabrice Touil€223,498
7th Flag of the United States.svg Dan Smith€178,496
8th Flag of Spain.svg Tomeu Gomila€139,499
9th Flag of England.svg Tom Alner€105,404

Notes and references

  1. Chad Halloway, "Patrick Partouche Announces End of Partouche Poker Tour Amid Controversy", PokerNews, September 6, 2012
  2. "Teemu" (2010-11-06). "Partouche Poker Tour: Ali Tekintamgac disqualified from today's final table". HighStakesDB.com. Archived from the original on November 9, 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  3. Barnwell, David Michael (2010-09-07). "Cheating scandal strikes at Partouche Poker Tour Cannes". Poker.org. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
  4. Newell, Jennifer (2010-09-10). "Poker News Nuggets 09/08: Raymer on LNCC Board, Good and Bad from Partouche". Pokerworks.com. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
  5. "Michael Binger revient sur l'incident au Partouche Poker Tour" (in French). PokerActu.fr. 2010-09-07. Retrieved 2011-08-02.