I've been in the U.S. for a full month already. Nevada, Arizona, California. Life is good but my digital cameras are working hard in the desert heat. Hundreds of photos came together already and I have decided to do occasional photo recaps in the form of video dumps on my YouTube channel.
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I wrote a story of my encounter with JOHN STRONG for PokerFirma.com (in German) during my recent trip to California.
There is an English version below. Enjoy the ride/read!
Save the dates!
Apart from the regular cash game and tournament action at the Namur and Spa casinos, two major festivals are coming up in June. Spa: 7th-9th June Namur: 23rd-30th June The South Point poker room in Las Vegas is offering four daily tournaments per day over the summer and there will be a tournament of champions featuring all winners of these dailies.
Check out the South Point website for details.
SAVE THE DATE - Tyler Nals is back in the mix with fun meet-up games in Las Vegas this summer. The DONKEY POKER CRAWL date is set to 28th June 2024 and the games will take place at the Westgate and Sahara casinos.
DONKEY POKER CRAWL: WESTGATE: noon - 6pm SAHARA: 7pm - 1am All games start at 1/2 and will be played in NLH format. Everybody is welcome! When I shoot real estate photos in the Las Vegas region, it is usually to help Battle Born's Michelle Richey to interact with buyers and sellers but we are also able to provide great rental solutions for Poker Summer in Sin City.
All info links to reach out to her are available HERE.
One week in Vegas already.
All updates are online in the LAS VEGAS tab of this blog. In the meanwhile, it's photo time with this 1-minute photo dump we posted on our Facebook page!
The Slovak capital will be the next stop for this 2024 Vamos Poker Tour season after Romania and Portugal.
All info links are available in the BRATISLAVA TAB of this blog. Discover the city of Bratislava through the Casino City Guide dedicated section. The Orleans Summer Open schedule is online. The detailed schedule is online on PokerFirma.com.
MARE*GO is searching for a tech, who is able to drive RIBs as well! Interested? Write to moin@zusammenland.de or visit mare-go.de/einsatz.
Are you one of our followers? Use your power!A bunch of ladies event are coming up in Vegas during the LIPS Ladies Poker Summer Camp. LIPS stands for 'Ladies International Poker Series' and info can be found on the official website.
The Wynn Summer Classic will feature a bunch of mixed games this summer between May 22nd and July 18th. Stay tuned with full schedule on the the official page for details.
Below are the non-NLH events of this summer.
After an extended stay in Luxembourg for business meetings, dentist appointments, and online poker sessions instead of some poker boa vida in Portugal, I made my way to Amsterdam over Namur and Brussels in order to catch a flight back to Vegas.
Poker Summer begins early and will last for long this year since I'm planning to stay in the U.S. until late July.
More content will be available throughout summer via the links below.
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.
See you soon, Belgium! The Namur Classics are over and an archive of almost 500 photos came together for the souvenir albums. All pics are hosted on the POKERFIRMA.com Facebook page.
I'm in Belgium since late March for the latest Namur poker festival and we have reached the money ranks in the Main Events. My days are filled with work on ongoing projects during the day, funky PLO cash games at night, and some poker photography in between.
The Queen Poker Series moves on in Spain after a recent stop in Troia, Portugal.
Pics of my early March stop in Troia can be found online in my photo archive. Since last year, Vegetalicia provide healthy and fresh snacking and dining solutions during the poker festivals at the Namur Casino Resort. Danny is back to serve you every day during the Namur Classics.
The Warm Up is in the books and the first prize is going to Germany with Lukas with no deal. GG! Below are a list of info links to follow the rest of the festival until the end of next week.
PokerFirma.com updates are HERE.
The official coverage is available HERE. All photos are in an album on the PokerFirma.com Facebook page.
After 10 days in Las Vegas, I am back in Europe for a few weeks. My first poker stop is Namur in Belgium. Useful links are available in the POKER TRIPS section.
The Venetian recently got a lot of attention after announcing the transformation of its poker room in order to make it the biggest room for poker in all of Vegas. Plans to complete the transformations are set for summer 2024 but there is not going to be much idle waiting in the meanwhile...
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 Slovak capital used to be one of my main hubs for poker during few years. This is also where we were planning and debriefing some of our solidarity missions to Ukraine when the war started. Today, I don't spend a lot of time in Slovakia but the poker action goes on at Banco Casino in the heart of the city with its new poker area that opened in late summer of 2023.
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