The Partouche Poker Tour (PPT) was a series of poker tournaments held at casinos owned and operated by the Partouche group in France. The tour operated on a three-tiered structure, with two levels of satellites eventually feeding into the Main Event held at the Palm Beach casino in Cannes.
Satellites with a €125 buy-in were held every Tuesday and Thursday from November to July, with winners earning a place in the next round of Super Satellites. Players could also have entered a Super Satellite directly for a €1,075 buy-in. Each of the six Super Satellites, held at a different Partouche casino, was limited to 500 entrants, with the top 50 finishers at each event earning entry to the Main Event.
The Main Event consisted of the 300 Super Satellite ticket winners, plus other players who pay the €8,500 buy-in. As of 2010, the Main Event was held in September, with the competitors playing until the nine-player final table is reached, at which point the tournament adjourns. In a format similar to that of the World Series of Poker Main Event, the final nine players returned in November to play until a champion was crowned.
In 2012, Patrick Partouche, CEO of the Partouche group, announced that the tour would not return in 2013.Chad Halloway, "Patrick Partouche Announces End of Partouche Poker Tour Amid Controversy", PokerNews, September 6, 2012
Main Event results 2008 + Final Table Place Name Prize 1st Alain Roy €1,000,000 2nd Claudio Rinaldi €511,100 3rd Antonin Teisseire €335,000 4th Stephane Bazin €225,500 5th Philippe Narboni €156,500 6th Jean-Philippe Rohr €123,000 7th Brice Cournut €100,500 8th Michel Abécassis €78,500 9th Gus Hansen €58,000
2009 + Final Table Place Name Prize1st Jean-Paul Pasqualini €1,000,000 2nd Cédric Rossi €606,700 3rd Gianni Giaroni €357,2004th Michel Janvier €262,4005th Wesley Pantling €211,8006th Hassan Fares €155,8007th Michael Tureniec €133,6008th Mika Puumalainen €118,7009th Henri Kettunen €102,300
2010 + Final Table Place Name Prize1st Vanessa Selbst €1,300,0002nd Raphael Kroll €800,0003rd Fabrice Soulier €500,0004th Tommi Etelapera €360,0005th Ibrahim Raouf €300,0006th Soren Konsgaard €240,0007th Cyril André €187,5008th Tobias Reinkemeier €130,700
One of the players who had made the final table, German player Ali Tekintamgac, was disqualified from the tournament for cheating. This was not the first time he had been caught cheating; earlier in 2010 at the European Poker Tour stop in Tallinn, he was found to have used colleagues posing as bloggers and journalists to signal his opponents' hole cards.
The 2010 main event also sparked a controversy, after the tournament staff was accused of making dubious rulings in favor of local players. Danish poker pro Mickey "mement_mori" Petersen and American poker pro Michael Binger reported a hand featuring a French and an Italian pro player Mustapha Kanit, whereupon the floorman ruled in favor of the French player even though he had thrown his hand into the muck.
2011 + Final Table Place Name Prize1st Samuel Trickett €1,000,0002nd Salman Behbehani €600,0003rd Oleksii Kovalchuk €379,7604th Ilan Boujenah €300,0005th Roger Hairabedian €230,0006th Mustapha Kanit €190,0007th Aleksander Dovzhenko €160,0008th Alexandre Coussy €130,0009th Mads Wissing €100,000
2012 + Final Table Place Name Prize1st Ole Schemion €1,172,8502nd Karen Sarkisyan €693,4943rd Aaron Lim €417,4994th Dan O'Brien €341,9915th Marcello Marigliano €267,4926th Fabrice Touil €223,4987th Dan Smith €178,4968th Tomeu Gomila €139,4999th Tom Alner €105,404
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