Quebec 1/8/2010 1:26:30 AM
2009: A very good year for French Poker
If we look back and analyze the year 2009 has been a good year for the French Poker players.
If we look back and analyze the year 2009 has been a good year for the French Poker players. The startling result of Hexagon as well as the result of English poker was exceptionally encouraging.
England has been producing great poker players like James Akenhead or Chris Moorman which presents great impetus to the poker industry. For example, James Akenhead, who is just 27 year old, has shown some great performance in 2009. In 2008, Akenhead he qualified for two final tables. These two tables were in two of the most important poker tournaments -- the Main Event of the WSOP or World Series of Poker and WSOPE or the World Series of Poker Europe. In these two this young poker player earned $1,373,289. He was the runner up of 2008 World Series of Poker and was bitten up by Grant Hinkle in the event No Limit Texas hold 'em tournament.
Chris Moorma reached the final table of Sunday Million. It had the largest stack. He managed eighth place in this tournament that is the largest online contest. He won $18,788.80 and an added $4,000,000 from the online and live tournaments.
In this context we should also talk about John-Paul Kelly. Kelly qualified for both WSOP and WSOPE. WSOP was in Las Vegas and it was a $1,500-Pot Limit Hold' Em. WSOPE was in England which was a part of the WSOP European inaugural tournament with £1,000. Kelly was the first English player of 2009 and also the first Briton to win WSOP gold bracelet after Ram Vaswani, who won a match in 2007.
In 2009 performance of John Eames however was quite discrete though he managed some success. His final table in major tournaments like Deepstack Poker Championships or English Poker Open was quite good. Chris Moorman in 2009 also managed a good performance in spite of some errors in the matches. However, his performance in the online matches was very good.
