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Julian Cohen won the ANZPT (Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Queenstown) title by defeating his competitors at the last table.

Although Bryan Huang was at the same table and he is considered a more experienced player he didn’t had a chance against Julian Cohen and neither did the ANZPT Canberra champ Jason Gray or John Maklouf who advanced the third timed in a row at the final table in ANZPT final.

Despite those impressive players Julian Cohen won the tournament and went home with just AUD$73,630 while Maklouf finished just the 8^th position.

Winning the ANZPT Queenstown Title Cohen came just 10 points behind Tony Hachem, who is the World Tournament Leader.

The next ANZPT competition will be held at Gold Coast two weeks from now.

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Frank Kassel success for the second time in the 2010 WSOP by winning Event # 40 ! ( $ 214,085 )

Last year was one of several champions won WSOP bracelets in the same – this year but had to wait 47 events to find out who will be the first player to repeat victory in the race for bracelet . Who would have thought that would be just Frank Kassel, a simple player with five children , treating tournaments as a “Everyday Job ” – has become the ultimate champion for the second time , defeating a total of 365 participants earning more doritp Razz bracelet . Kassel is therefore champion in Event # 40 , and with this win $ 2,500 Razz is enriched with the 250 000 dollars!

In the final day of WSOP Frank Kassela had the chip lead and that gave him an advantage big enough to win the tournament. Along with the WSOP bracelet he also won “just” $447,446.

From the 18 players that entered the final day two of them went home in just an hour: Alexander Dovzhenko and Toto Leonidas.

The best battle although was between Allen Kessler and Frank Kassela and it was eventually lost by Kessler who took the second place and $276,485.

The official results:

1. Frank Kassela — $447,446
2. Allen Kessler — $276,485
3. Jennifer Harman — $173,159
4. Steve Zolotow — $125,379
5. John Juanda — $97,989
6. Kirill Rabtsov — $78,142
7. Vladimir Schmelev — $63,456
8. Dario Minieri — $52,366

There were 247 players in the WPT Grand Prix held in Paris and only one won the tournament and the big prize. Since the prize was “only” €633,902 it is obvious that all the players wanted to win. In the end only 8 of them got in the final: Nourredine Aitaleb, Theo Jorgensen, Arnaud Mattern, Mickael Guenni, Per Linde, Antoine Amourette,Jimmy Ostensson and Fabrice Touil.

Jorgensen was clearly the favorite with chips worth 2.7 million followed by Fabrice Touil with 1.2 million in chips. After a few hours of playing Jorgensen was in the lead with 6 million in chips while Amourette had only a bit over 600K in chips.  Shortly after this Jorgensen  won the big prize of €633,902 and took it home.

WPT, PartyPoker and The Palm Beach Casino will hold together a new tour this season of World Poker Tour. The city chosen was London, because there no WPT tournament was organized.

The tournament will be held in May Fair Hotel between August 30 and September 10, 2010. Buy-in will be the Main Event 5,000 + 300 pounds and will be two days of qualification. The total capacity is 400 people.

The winner will receive a great deal of prize pool, a WPT title, a bracelet and a WPT Champions 2011 held at the WPT Championship in Las Vegas.

PartyPoker qualified to hold satellite and in this tournament, but will be held on satellite casinos in London.