But the thing that will make this championship unparalleled is the holding of the Champion of Champions competition. The event with a prize money of € 100000 will bring the previous EPT champions like Vicky Coren, Jake Cody, Patrick Antonius, Roland de Wolfe, Roberto Romanello, Glen Dhorny, Sandra Naujocks, Mike McDonald and Liv Boeree that will deliver a nice show to the spectators.

Six French Poker players that are Pascal Perrault, European Poker Tour 2005 Vienna champion, Bertrand Grospellier, the PCA winner 2008, EPT Deauville champion Lucien Cohen, Jan Boubli, Arnaud Mattern, who won the 2007 EPT Prague trophy and the 2009 ETP Warsaw champion Christophe Benzimra will also show that they are also brilliant poker player and they can defend the honor of France in this championship that is scheduled to happen from 1st May, 2012.

Therefore, as a whole, the players for the Champion of Champions will be of minimum sixty players. The challenge will be very interesting as 6 best poker players will get packaged that will allow them take part freely in steps of the 9th season. The 1st prize will be an EPT passport worth Rs. € 35000.

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There are only 180 spaces available in the event and therefore it is expected that the best players from New Zealand will be travelling to Auckland to grab a chance to take home the trophy and the title of 2012 Skycity Deep Stack Series Main Event Winner.

Satellite entry fees of the even starts from $ 20 and satellite tournaments allows players to win their way into the main event through mini tournaments which will be held on weekdays. The main event will run as a repechage event which will ensure that players who buy into Day 1a and do not make the cut into Day 1b or Day 1c get another shot. The buy-in for the major occasion of SkyCity Deep Stack Series is NZ $550. For more details of the tournament see skycityauckland.co.nz/poker.

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Trickett won $ 100K High Roller at 2011 Aussie Millions and was ranked second in the $ 250K Super High Roller at the same event. He also won the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event held in November and these win gave him an edge over Cody. Meanwhile Grospellier bagged the Rob Gardner Memorial Poker Personality of the Year award while Heinz earned the award for the Best Tournament Performance of 2011 for his victory over Trickett, Cody, Fabrice Soulier and Benny Spindler in the World Series of Poker Championship Event.

Andrey Pateychuk bagged the Rookie of the year award. Natalya Nikitina was awarded as Europe’s Leading Lady for her winning performance at WTP Russia in 2011.

Nikitina competed with Liv Boeree, Victoria Coren, Celilia Pescaglini, Barbara Martinez and Nesrine Kourdourli for the award. Jesse May, the legendary poker announcer was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. There were no other nominees for this award. An 8 member panel chose May for this award for his capability to host poker events (including seminal poker program Late Night Poker) and writings. Among other winners were Warren Lush who was honored as Staff Person of the Year while Ilari Sahamies was awarded as Internet Player Of The Year.

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His fame grew especially at the end of the 80’s, when he took home the title of champion at the World Series, by winning the main event two years in a row, in 1987 and in 1988. He was also runner up for the tile in 1989 but Phil Hellmuth managed to take the title instead. Johnny is the last poker player that managed to win the main events at the WSOP two years in a row. Since there are so many players taking part in the World Series these days, there is a very good chance that he will retain this record for quite a bit of time.

Johnny Chan keeps an orange on his table when he plays, which he says that he likes how it smells. Because smoking was allowed in most tournaments in the past, he used an orange to have a better smell nearby.

Johnny Chan managed to win his tenth title at the World Series in 2005, by defeating Laak Phil. These days the highest number of bracelets belongs to Phil Hellmuth, which has 11, while Chan and Doyle Brunson are tied for second place with 10 each. He became part of the Hall of Fame of Poker in 2002.

It took him quite a bit of time, but after 16 years, in 2008, Chan managed to cash in again at the World Series main event, taking home $32,166 for the 329^th place.

Two years later, he cashed in again at the World Series main event, placing on the 156^th place and taking home a prize of $57,102.

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