The handball world championships begin Friday, January 14th in Sweden and France, which is obviously one of the favorites, faces at 18h Tunisia in his first match in Group A.

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The shape of Experts

Olympic champion, World and Europe, France handball rules over the planet these last three years, and experts are a fourth consecutive coronation in Sweden. The formation of Claude Onesta played four preparatory meetings, which all resulted in victories. The first two front end of October, exactly, Tunisia (31-20 and 28-18) and two at the Bercy tournament last week against Argentina (30-27 success winded) and Croatia (reference victory 28-27).
1.75 or 1.95 odds for success of France

Daniel Narcisse and Guillaume Gille, injured, are the absences of brands to mourn for the World Cup but the Blues could always count on is that Taulier Jerome Fernandez, Nikola Karabatic Thierry Omeyer or Luc Abalo. For its entry into the competition, France, except huge surprise, should win against Tunisia, but the question is by how many goals apart. Eurosport bet, the odds for the Expert win with 9 goals or more in advance is 1.95. It is 1.75 for a win with a goal difference of 8 or less.
Tunisia has nothing to lose

But beware, the France team should not be taken lightly Tunisia, best African team. The majority of the Tunisian workforce is composed of players playing in the Championship of France D1 and the main asset of Tunisia named Wissam Hmam, formidable left rear of Montpellier. The Tunisians, who have nothing to lose, try to impose their physical density and the odds to win or they make a draw is 9!

The $ 5,250 Bounty Shootout event of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 2011 started Thursday, January 13 with 216 players at 36 tables. At the end of the day, each table has crowned a single winner who advances to the second round (Round 2). Among the notable players who came out victorious, Team PokerStars Pro is well represented with Dario Minieri (Italy), Greg Debora (Canada), Barry Greenstein (USA), George Lind III (Online), Ville Wahlbeck (Finland), and Jude Ainsworth (Ireland).
The show Minieri

The most impressive performance of the day came from Minieri at the table 22. The Italian style of play very loose and aggressive, rapidly eliminated Chad Brown and Peter Gould, prompting Matt Affleck, also on the table, declaring: “Dario is the show to the table 22. And Minieri has continued collecting another bounty shortly after leaving Affleck. The bounty is set at $ 1,000 bonus given to a player when he removes another. Henrik Tollefsen once dominated heads-up, the table was completely cleaned and Minieri the first player to advance to the second round.
Barry Greenstein also passes

PokerStars has seen another of its pros continue the tournament when Barry Greenstein has dominated a table composed by Randy Lew, Nikita Nikolaev, Ankush Mandavia Stephen O’Dwyer and Scott Seiver. The head-to-head was held against him and both players have sent their preflop with Seiver and for to Greenstein. Table not come to save Seiver.

For the second day of the tournament shootout Friday, we also find Faraz Jaka, Nick Binger Michael Binger, Brandon Adams, David “ODB” Baker, Jeff Madsen, Shaun Deeb, and Amnon Filippi.
A long list of eliminated

But everyone has not had a chance to dominate his table. Five out of six players have joined the public for a total of 180 deletions. Jason Somerville, Sorel Mizzi, Andrew Lichtenberger, Jason Mercier, Eric Baldwin, Dwyte Pilgrim, French Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom, Joe Hachem, Greg Raymer, World Champion Jonathan Duhamel and Daniel Negreanu, just to name a few, have been released. Kid Poker (Negreanu), went all in with and he was paid by Amichai Barer with Tzvi . The flop did pass with a pair of fives. “oh oh, tiles,” said Negreanu when the dealer returned the the turn. And of course, the was released to the river giving Tzvi Barer color.
Final table of the PCA Objective Bounty Shootout

The 36 remaining players will return Friday for a fight. Tables 1-3 will play at noon and tables 4-6 to 19h. At the end of Day 2, only six players (one per table) will still have chips and the final table of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Bounty Shootout will be known.

Groupe Lucien Barriere (GLB) has found a new partner. For several months, the hotel giant Accor made ??no secret of his intention to pull out of the casinos Barrier, an activity considered ‘non-strategic’ by CEO Gilles Pelisson. Thursday, January 13, Accor has sold its 49% stake in Fimalac (up to 34%) and GLB (up to 15%) for 268 million euros.
Desseigne Barrier strengthens his grip on the capital

Until now, the family Desseigne Barrier held 51% of the shares of Casino. A capital reduction, which must still be approved by the Competition Authority, will stabilize the new balance of power at 60% for the family, against 40% for Fimalac.
The disengagement of ACCOR

The 268 million euros earned by ACCOR fall in the lower range of the estimated value of Groupe Lucien Barriere at its proposed IPO, canceled last September for lack of sufficient interest from investors.

The hotel group has a dual-strategy of refocusing on its original business and improving its balance sheet, with a plan to dispose of assets of 2 billion euros by 2013. This is to support its share price and improve its access to credit score.
Bizarre, bizarre …

At the ‘gender confusion’, it is interesting to note that the financial holding company Fimalac Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere, to whom Accor has sold its shares in Barriere, also owns the credit rating agency Fitch.

Thus, one of the operators responsible for setting the access to credit rating of the ACCOR directed to continue its program of debt relief and aid him in buying the same assets! According to a Reuters report, Fitch believes that this Thursday, January 13 session could enable Accor to find a “stable” outlook (at “BBB-”), against “negative” today …
The contribution of FIMALAC

As for Lucien Barriere, he inherits a new partner, Fimalac, which owns Vega, the French leader in organizing shows. This could be interesting for the group Desseigne Dominica, which seeks to diversify its revenue streams by expanding its range of leisure activities ‘offside’ in order to increase the time spent by customers in its casinos.

The already legendary Norwegian poker player Annette Obrestad aka ‘Annette15′ , which has only 22 years is considered one of the most formidable players in the world, is back in the lands of his exploits for the series of live tournaments Aussie Millions 2011 which has start at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia.

Prodigy impresses by his coolness on the internet where she chained exploits as live where she won more than three million dollars ‘Annette_15′ intends to reprint his mark in a series of tournaments that he has always successful.
Annette return conquered land

Annette Obrestad, finalist 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event

Last year at this time and between these walls, Annette Obrestad was a prominent figure in the Aussie Millions 2010 with a victory in a side-event (tournament schedule) Pot Limit Omaha (for $ 33,528) but above a 7th place in the Main Event final table ($ 146,687).

Since his first WSOP in Las Vegas in 2010 which followed its sponsorship by Full Tilt Poker , Annette Obrestad had been scarce on the circuit which did not prevent him from winning a new side-event, this time in London where she won the WSOP Europe in 2007 to € 1,438,000.

“I stayed in Las Vegas a good time,” said Obrestad, “I did not want to travel to play EPTS, I do not know why. I preferred to stay home, I stayed at home while the month of December. ”
Annette_15 “a break from the poker before a busy year”

Always running two tournaments on the planet, she does not remember “not even the last time I could stay home for a full month. It was like a vacation for me.” Already familiar with the requirements of his job, Annette has opted to “take a break from poker” until one year “will still be busy.”

His past successes in Australia do not seem in any case not go to his head because when the logs of Australia Lynn Gilmartin informed him that his editor Matthew Parvis was chosen as the favorite for the main event during a recorded podcast PokerNews for, she replied laughing “Well I do not think so!”.

“We must think positive” encourages Lynn but she knows too well the vagaries of tournaments to get carried away: “If you do, you’ll be disappointed in every tournament you play, that would be silly!”.
Annette does not ignite

Annette Obrestad

Known for his hyper-aggressiveness to tables, Annette Obrestad admits to not wanting to “make nonsense” in the inaugural tournament Event # 1 No Limit Hold’em (Triple Chance) she was playing this Friday, January 14.

“I took some chips early in the game, (…) if I can get to Day 2 with 100 big blinds, I will not take fire” we “she confided.

But the small Norwegian will not have that chance, seeing his pocket kings cracked by Charles Chua which left him a carpet than ten big blinds. She then sent his last 6000 chips with but fell Towards the exit without further ado.

Maybe she has more luck in the tournament following what he wanted Gilmarton Lynn before taking off. “I will do my best,” concluded humbly Annette Obrestad you can follow through reports at PokerNews Throughout these Aussie Millions 2010 Live Crown Casino in Melbourne.

Monday 24 to Sunday, January 30th, Full Tilt Poker.fr will double the amount of the prize pools of all its guaranteed tournaments in a week involving more than one million euros at stake
The daily tournaments to double guarantee

Among the most attractive tournaments this week’s online poker at Full Tilt, several present a guaranteed prize pool of over 10,000 including € “€ 20,000 guaranteed” (150 € + 15 €, Monday, January 24th, 20:30) propose that the double money is € 40,000 guaranteed.

Another tournament at 150 € + 15 € well endowed, the 10,000 € (Tuesday to Sunday 20:30) offer six opportunities to reap the largest share of € 20,000 guaranteed.

In the category daily tournaments, the “Midnight Madness”, which is aptly named with its turbo structure, will offer € 4000 guaranteed every day at midnight until 30 January.

For lovers of good poker, we can only advise SuperStack tournaments at 10 € + 1 € and € 24.50 + 2.50 € which regularly offer guarantees of 1,000 € to 3,000 €, which will therefore be guaranteed doubled during one week.

Finally, for beginners and small bankrolls MTT, one of the most fun tournaments to play is the “Daily Euro” (daily at 20:10) that will win a share of 2,000 € to 1.15 € for guaranteed buy- in.
Rush Poker, Multi-Input: 300.000 € at stake Sunday, January 30

Feel free to test the new mode of tournaments with multiple entries, a new revolution in online poker after Rush Poker launched just invented by Full Tilt last year. These tournaments allow you to play several tables at once (4 or 6 maximum) and amalgamate its carpets as soon as two of your avatars are on a table.

Of course the big Sunday tournaments offer the most coveted prize, with a total of 300,000 € guaranteed at stake this Sunday, January 30 only.

Among the tournaments with the best, the 10,000 guaranteed € 15.00 (doubled to 20,000 €), the Crazy 8s’ 16h08 (€ 17,776 guaranteed), and finally the highly anticipated € 100,000 Guaranteed € 200 € 18 prize pool which will be guaranteed up to 200,000 €. A bargain when you consider that this tournament offers a regular nice prize pool of excess not covered by the buy-ins.

To access guaranteed prize pool tournaments lined, just select the tabs ‘Tournaments’ and then ‘Guaranteed’ in the software Full Tilt Poker , the tournament is indicated by a pink color.

The chain of events at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 2011. Friday, January 14, while the $ 5,000 Bounty Shootout NAPT table saw its final form, Day 1 of $ 25,000 High Roller took place. The Main Event final table which will be played Saturday at 16h (midnight in France), made him a break.
NAPT $ 5,000 Bounty Shootout

In the $ 5,000 Bounty Shootout NAPT, 36 players on six tables had the ambition to reach the final table. Andrew Chen, Shaun Deeb, Michael Binger, Marko Neumann, and William Scott Baumstein Pilossop emerged victorious from their table and six Players will compete for the title Sunday.

Several notable players were hoisted on Day 2 with Amnon Filippi, David Baker, Darren Elias, Jeff Madsen, Brandon Adams, Faraz Jaka and Nick Binger. Team PokerStars was well represented with Greg Debora, Barry Greenstein, Dario Minieri, Ville Wahlbeck and George Lind III. None of them has been able to go further. The Finn Wahlbeck was the closest, finishing second in his table when Pilossop cracked his aces.

For the record, Nick and Michael Binger sat next to one another, and Michael has even eliminated when his brother Nick went with carpet . With Michael paid and held his hand on the table .
The bad beat of the day

The bad beat of the day belongs to Chris Klodnicki. The American, with Button, the flop a full house on board . His opponent, Neuman, touch him with a set . The spell at the turn, the river brings the … More than 90,000 chips went in the middle on this one and came out Klodnicki dying with only 1,500. He was eliminated a few hands later.

The final table will begin Sunday at 12am (local time). The six remaining players are guaranteed to win $ 40,000 and they will fight for the top prize of $ 200,000. The $ 25,000 awarded to the player who eliminated the more opponents in the tournament will also be involved
$ 25,000 High Roller

The ballroom of the beautiful Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas has hosted 151 participants for Day 1 Tournament High Roller $ 25,000 entry. After eight levels, Ryan “toetagU Fair has collected 217,200 in chips and will begin in the Day 2 chip lead. Fair is known for winning in May 2010 Main Event PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker for a gain of $ 1,162,350. In all, he has won more than $ 2M on the web.

The defending champion, William Reynolds, has begun the defense of his property. He ended the day with the fourth carpets and 170,800 in chips. Ty Reiman (205.400) and Kyle Julius (173.500) are interposed between Fair and Reynolds atop the standings and Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez completed the top five with 167,600.

Many big names including Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Viktor Blom, Jonathan Duhamel, John Duthie, Justin Bonomo, Sorel Mizzi, Shaun Deeb and returned to the beach quicker than expected. But among the 97 survivors there is more beautiful world. John Racener (139,700), Vice-world champion of poker 2010, Tom Marchese (144,000), named player of the year 2010 by CardPlayer magazine, Vanessa Rousso (70,000), Erik Seidel (62,000), eight times titled the World Series of Poker, David Benyamine French (34,000), the 2009 world champion Joe Cada (22,300) or Daniel ‘jungleman12′ Cates (22,000) will all be back for the Day 2.

The game resumed on Saturday at noon (18h) with the ambition to know the eight members of the final table but with 97 players still in the race, not sure that the program can be met.

Face Almira “ChessBaby” Skripchenko, player of the Team Pro Winamax, to qualify for the final challenge “Russian Dolls” to be held January 23, 2011 to 21 hours with a prize pool of € 2,000 will be added by Winamax.fr in more buy-ins qualifying stages 1A and 1B. The principle is as follows: during each tournament, finishing ahead Almira players qualified for the next stage.
The Pro Team Challenges Winamax

The members of Team Pro Winamax love challenges. Manual “Manuba” Bevand managed to transform his starting bankroll of 50 € in € 1,410 in just 28 days. Marc “LocSta” Inizan handed his winnings in the game after completing winner of a multi-table tournament against 509 workers.

Today is Almira “ChessBaby” Skripchenko comes compete with players Winamax.fr. Grandmaster chess champion of France for the fourth time in 2010, it is also a formidable poker player, including a third place in France Poker Tour 2010 for a gain of € 59,100.
The Russian Dolls Almira

Ante with a series of tournaments to reward players who finish in the Almira before qualifying for a final in which Winamax.fr add € 2,000. Monday 17 and Tuesday, January 18, 2011 to 21 hours will be held at 2 € a tournament buy-in. All players finishing in a better position Alma qualify for the following stages until the final on January 23 to 21 hours.

Bounty ChessBaby
- Players who remove Almira during Stages 1 and 2 are directly qualified for the final.
- The player who removes Almira during STAGE 3 receives a cash premium of 50 €.
- The player who removes the final Almira receives a bonus of 100 € cash.
Calendar Challenge

Stages 2 and 3 and the finals are free but by ticket only available to qualified players. The buy-ins stages 1A and 1B will be redistributed in the final.

STAGE 1A & 1B: 17 and 18 January at 21h (2 chances to qualify)
Buy-in: 2 €
All players who finish in the standings before Almira qualified for the STAGE 2
The last 9 in the race are directly qualified for the finals (if they finish before Almira)
The player who removes Almira is automatically qualified for the final
The prize pool is not redistributed, but will grow the endowment of the final.

STAGE 2: January 19 to 21h
All players who finish before Almira qualified for the STAGE 3
The final table is directly qualified for the finals (if they finish before Almira)
The player who removes Almira goes straight in the final.

STAGE 3: January 20 to 21h
All players who finish in the standings before Almira are qualified for the final
The player who removes Almira receives a premium of 50 €.

FINAL: January 23 to 21h
€ 2,000 plus the price of buy-ins from both STAGE 1
The allocation is divided equally among the players who finish before Almira
The player who removes Almira receives a bonus of 100 €.

This is usually the action on the cash game tables online at Full Tilt Poker that attracts attention but this time it was delivered on Pokerstars.com that one of the biggest fight of the week. If Patrick Antonius has actually leached player “Kagome Kagome”, formerly known by the nickname “IHateJuice” of $ 411,000 on the night of Monday to Tuesday, the biggest pot in the purse went to Jared “Harrington10″ which Bleznick has earned $ 330.310 gains of over 2.790 hands on PokerStars. On the other side of the spectrum are David Benefield in the role of the biggest loser of this midweek with accumulated losses of $ 329.546 of 656 hands played at Full Tilt Poker.

The biggest pot of the week is a flip

On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, “BRAZZMONKEY” was going to cross swords with “urubu111″ as part of a session Heads-Up NLHE $ 50 / $ 100 on Pokerstars. Both players wanted to play by common agreement a coin flip for $ 100,000. “BRAZZMONKEY” sitting on the button with $ 99.997, pushing its chips with and paid with Urubu111 .

Both players were paired on the flop BRAZZMONKEY but kept the advantage with his pair of top 8. The fell on the turn allowing urubu111 to iron front with two pair. The balance of power would change, however, again with the fell on the river giving BRAZZMONKEY top two pair and the victory of a pot of $ 199.994.

“Refaelamit” steals a pot of $ 112K to the detriment of the river Bleznick

The second largest pot of the mid-week was played on a table 5 handed PLO $ 100 / $ 200 Pokerstars. “Urnotindanger ($ 23.144) was conducting a raise to $ 900 UTG. “Refaelamit” ($ 136.121) was conducting a call button and Jared “Harrington10″ Bleznick ($ 53.960) was on a squeeze from the big blind at $ 3.900. His two opponents decide to pay to see a flop .

The pot was checked by “urnotindanger”, “refaelamit” opened at $ 11.995 Bleznick and then proceeded to check-raise to $ 47.980. “Refaelamit” retorted a Bleznick on recovery and followed up to his last $ 2.040.

Bleznick:
Refaelamit:

The two players each had flopped a flush draw and Bleznick found himself with pocket 7. The fell on the turn and did not alter the balance of power. However, “refaelamit” touched a high 9 on the color fell on the river and cashed a pot of $ 112.035
Double win for pair Nutsinho

The only other pot over $ 100,000 that was held midweek in the morning of Tuesday on a five-handed table OLP Pokerstars $ 200 / $ 400.

Jared “Harrington10″ Bleznick ($ 50.176) was conducting a revival at $ 1,200 from the cutoff, “nutsinho” ($ 108.599) retaliated on a $ 4,000 raise to the small blind. Bleznick was on a call to see the flop fall. “Nutsinho” opened at $ 6.200. Bleznick retorted with a raise to $ 26.995, prompting “nutsinho” to make carpets for $ 89.380. Bleznick followed up to his last $ 19.181.

The fell on the turn, followed by on the River. “Nutsinho” slaughtered for a flopped two pair. Bleznick muck his hand and conceded a pot of $ 100.747. Despite its two major defeats, Bleznick would chain the big pots for a profit of $ 330.310 and become the biggest winner of the week.
Winners of January 10 to 13:

Jared “Harrington10″ Bleznick (+ $ 330.310)
Gus Hansen ($ 279.266 +)
“Ilvdnfl” (+ $ 168.004), “BRAZZMONKEY” (+ $ 124.994)
“Im2tight” (+ $ 100.675)

The biggest losers from January 10 to 13:

David Benefield (- $ 329.546)
Ben “Sauce123″ Sulsky (- $ 187.574)
“LooneyGerbil (- $ 140.086)
The winners since the beginning of the year 2011:

Di “Urindanger” Dang (+ $ 1,099,819)
Scott “URnotINdanger2″ Palmer (+ $ 890.168)
Jared “harrington25″ Bleznick (+ $ 488.665)
Patrik Antonius ($ 356.556 +)
The losers from the beginning of the year 2011:

“Kagome Kagome” (- $ 619.198)
“Kpederson (- $ 545.705)
“Cadillac1944 (- $ 478.669)
“DrugsOrMe (- $ 406.472)
“Sauce123 (- $ 388.458)

For this 20th day of Ligue 1, which starts at 21h, PokerNews has focused on numbers, specifically the statistical percentage of home wins.

Since the beginning of the fiscal year 2010/2011, the percentage of home wins is 39%. There were 37% draws and 24% success on the outside. Over the past five years the percentages were respectively 45%, 30% and 25%.

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Paris (somewhat) safe

For the resumption of league football in France this Saturday, some predictions are similar to paris pretty safe. But who said “paris safe” also says low ratings. This is the case of Lyon, 4th in Ligue 1 and the third best team at home, which hosts Lorient. The odds of winning the OL is 1.40. PSG, who is currently 2nd in the league and fourth in the standings at home is also listed on the receipt of 1.40 for Sochaux. Finally, the debates seem even more unbalanced between Rennes, 3rd in the league and a defeat at home, and the red lantern Arles-Avignon. The odds for success of the Britons is 1.28.
Interesting Quotes

For this 20th day of Ligue 1, several clubs that receive ratings lie between 1.75 and 1.85 on Eurosport Bet. Brest (score 1.76), 7th of L1 and unbeaten at home (3 wins 6 draws) , which receives Caen (18th), Montpellier (score 1.81), 10th in the standings, which hosts Valenciennes, Toulouse (rated 1.85) that confronts Nancy and Auxerre (score 1.75) which is opposite to Monaco are in this case.
The risky paris

Finally, two teams that play in their stadium tonight have larger dimensions than 2. Lens, 19th and 18th in the championship rankings at home (2 wins, 3 draws, 4 losses) receives Saint-Etienne, 6, and the odds for the Sang et Or take the three points Bollaert is 2.25. The big score of the day belongs to Nice, 15, who faces the leader Lille. The total Nice home 4 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses and the rating that they prevail against the best external training (3 wins, 5 draws, 1 defeat) is 3.50.