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From May 8th to 13th, the World Poker Tour (WPT) will return to the Aviation Club for the Grand Prix de Paris. The €10,000 buy-in tournament will be filmed for television and beamed around the world.

The Aviation Club opened back in 1907 and makes its home on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, the city’s famous boulevard. The cozy club’s poker consultant, Bruno Fitoussi, commented in a press release distributed by the WPT, “The Aviation Club de France is delighted to welcome back a WPT event in Paris. The WPT Grand Prix de Paris is guaranteed to be a high-class tournament in the highlights of the international poker scene and will, for sure, attract players from all around the world.”

The 2010 visit to the Aviation Club marks the first WPT event in Paris since 2006. That year, Christian Grundtvig defeated Finnish poker player Jani Sointula to take home the Grand Prix de Paris title and its corresponding €712,500 first place prize. Sointula earned a €356,250 consolation prize and others at the final table included Thomas Wahlroos (third place for €243,750), Henrik Witt (fourth place for €168,750), Phil Yeh (fifth place for €131,250), and Pat Schuhl (sixth place for €93,750). A total of 232 players entered and the top 27 finished in the money.

Land-based satellites for the 2010 WPT Grand Prix de Paris will kick off on May 1st at the Aviation Club. Adam Pliska, President of the WPT, told Poker News Daily, “France is an important part of WPT’s world and will continue to be key for WPT as it expands across Europe and beyond. While WPT’s television shows continue to expand their global reach, the introduction of non-televised events will also provide WPT and its partners with even more opportunities to connect with its consumers.” Earlier this year, the WPT was sold to Party Gaming, the parent company of the popular site PartyPoker.

In 2005, Roland de Wolfe bested Juha Helppi in the Grand Prix de Paris, outlasting a field of 160 players. That year, Alan Goehring also made the final table, taking sixth place for €74,950. The 2004 installment was perhaps the most memorable, as it featured runner-up Tony G lambasting eventual winner Surinder Sunar. The Club’s layout was unique in that the assembled audience watched the action from the final table in an adjacent area via television monitors.

Lyndsay Lagree, Senior Public Relations Manager for the WPT, added, “We’re thrilled to be back in France for the WPT Grand Prix de Paris. WPT looks forward to building on its longstanding relationship with Aviation Club de France and to welcoming many poker fans through its doors.” The first WPT Grand Prix de Paris took place in 2003 and saw David Benyamine best Jan Boubli for the title. Also at the final table was Full Tilt Poker pro Erick Lindgren, then a relative unknown. Lindgren recorded his second WPT cash at the Paris poker tournament, earning €53,600 during the Season 2 stop.

World Poker Tour. S10:E17 - WPT Venice Grand Prix - Part 2. Six players battle in the City of Light for the more than $720,000 first-place prize and the WPT Grand Prix de Paris title. American Byron Kaverman leads the final table, and is joined by fellow professionals Martin Jacobson and Matthew Waxman.

The Grand Prix de Paris comes one month after the WPT Championship at the Bellagio, the $25,000 buy-in end-of-season event, and the French feature tournament includes two starting days. In March, WPT staff will head to Bucharest for an event at the Regent Casino. The WPT Bucharest Main Event boasts a €3,300 buy-in and begins on March 27th.

Also to be held during the Grand Prix de Paris is a €20,000 buy-in High Roller event that begins on May 15th and runs for three days. WPT representatives noted that French gaming regulations were to blame for the tournament series’ absence from the Aviation Club for the last three years.

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This Sunday, December 20 at 5:00 p.m., the Grand Prix Poker Tour's third leg — the first to take place online — will play on at partypoker, and the tournament is set to offer incredible value thanks to the relatively low buy-in and large guaranteed prize pool.

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With just a $109 buy-in, the online leg of the Grand Prix Poker Tour is affordable for many players, who will receive a generous helping of 30,000 tournament chips and 16-minutes blind levels starting at 50/100. Should anyone dust their stack off before the end of the 12th level, they can reenter once and take another bite at the money-stuffed cherry.

Despite the relatively low buy-in, partypoker is offering a hefty $250,000 guaranteed prize pool, which makes it the largest guaranteed $109 buy-in event anywhere online on Sunday. This means the tournament needs a total of 2,500 entries to meet the guarantee, which seems extremely ambitious considering its $109 buy-in, $150,000 guarantee usually attracts in the region of 1,600 players. Also, only 140 players have registered for the $250,000 guaranteed event at the time of writing, meaning there could be an overlay.

Mega Sats Running During the Weekend

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Although a $109 buy-in for a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool is affordable, partypoker wants to give as many players as possible the chance to play and has created what it is calling 'Mega Sats'. There are two such Mega Sats running on Friday, December 18 at 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. GMT that cost $22 to enter and have 50 x $109 seats guaranteed.

Keep your eyes peeled in the partypoker lobby on Saturday and Sunday for even more Mega Sats, with the latter day offering the chance to win one of 200 seats.

In addition to the Mega Sats, players can win their way to the $250,000 guaranteed event via the many satellite tournaments running throughout the day. Players can use the $109 ticket they win to enter and it is possible to enter partypoker ticket tournaments at the $0.01 level.

Buy Yourself a Gift in the partypoker Loyalty Store

It is possible to exchange partypoker points for a $109 ticket via the Loyalty Store. The higher up the loyalty scheme a player is, the cheaper the tickets become. For example, silver VIPs can exchange 3,000 points for a $109 ticket, with Gold VIPs having to pay only 1,500 points. The Palladium VIPs among you can swap 1,000 points for a $109 ticket, which works out at around 22% value back.

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As mentioned, this Sunday’s online leg is the third stop on the tour run by Dusk Till Dawn and partypoker. The inaugural leg took place at Dusk Till Dawn’s casino in Nottingham and saw players enjoy an overlay of around £42,000.

The main beneficiary of this cash injection was eventual champion Benjamin Preece, who walked away with £35,000 for his £60+£10 investment, defeating Paul 'The Rock' Romain heads-up for the title.

Leg number two saw the tour head to the home of Chelsea FC, Stamford Bridge, the first time the tour had stopped off at a football stadium. Again, the tournament had money added to it – almost £60,000 – with Sunny Mistri walking away with top honours, £35,000.

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