France Poker Series

France Poker Series

Sport	poker
Founded	2010
Ceased	2024
Replaced by	PokerStars Open
Country	France  Morocco  Monaco  Belgium
Last champion(s)	Zine Benrebai (2024)
Most titles	Yury Nesterenko (2014/2014) Anthony Apicella (2014/2022)
Sponsor(s)	PokerStars
Tournament format	Texas Hold'em
Official website	pokerstarslive.com

The France Poker Series (FPS) started in May 2010, is a major regional poker tour in France and French speaking countries. The tour is sponsored by PokerStars.com, like its counterparts, the European Poker Tour (2004), Asia Pacific Poker Tour (2007), Latin American Poker Tour (2008) and North American Poker Tour (2010).^[1]

History

The FPS is a series of poker tournaments that ran for 6 seasons from 2010 to 2016 and 29 stops in France, Morocco and Monaco, where the best poker players from the region and the world competed for the title of champion of FPS.
In 2017, the series was discontinued, as well as other poker series around the world sponsored by PokerStars.net, rebranding to the PokerStars Festival for country tours and PokerStars Championship for major regional tours, which brought together all other regional tours such as LAPT (Latin American Poker Tour), EKA (Eureka Poker Tour), IPT (Italian Poker Tour), ESPT (Estrellas Poker Tour) UKIPT (UK and Ireland Poker Tour), among others. In 2018 the PokerStars Festival was discontinued.^[2]
In 2022, PokerStars.net announces the return of the France Poker Series in events that took place in France and Monaco.^[3][4]
Discontinued: In 2024, PokerStars announced the new PokerStars Open that replaces the following tours: EKA (Eureka Poker Tour), UKIPT (UK and Ireland Poker Tour), FPS (France Poker Series) and ESPT (Estrellas Poker Tour), startng in march 2025.^[5]

Results

Season 1

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
1-2 May 2010	FPS Beaulieu €1,200 Casino de Beaulieu	149	€157,345	Jose Ignacio Barbero[6]	€40,123	[1]
25-26 September 2010	FPS Divonne €1,200 Casino de Divonne-les-Bains	399	€421,344	Serge Didisheim[7]	€108,894	[2]
16-17 October 2010	FPS Saint-Amand €1,200 Casino de Saint-Amand-les-Eaux	228	€235,488	David Jaoui[8]	€42,175	[3]
13-14 November 2010	FPS Lyon €1,200 Casino Le Lyon Vert	228	€342,144	Christophe Monnin[9]	€88,444	[4]
18-19 December 2010	FPS Forges-les-Eaux €1,200 Grand Casino de Forges-les-Eaux	265	€279,440	Mathieu Thiry[10]	€75,000	[5]
9-14 February 2011	FPS Paris FINAL €2,000 Cercle Haussmann Paris	567	€979,776	Marvin Rettenmaier[11]	€244,036	[6]

Season 2

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
30 November-4 December 2011	FPS Mazagan Dhs 13,200 (~€1,180) Mazagan Beach Resort, El Jadida	305	Dhs 3,579,785 (~€320,045)	Anas Tadini[12]	Dhs 900,000 (~€80,463)	[7]
31 January-6 February 2012	EPT/FPS Deauville €1,200 Casino Barrière de Deauville	329	€315,840	Ludovic Sultan[13]	€82,000	[8]
21-25 March 2012	FPS Snowfest Evian €1,200 Casino d'Evian	296	€284,160	Veronika Pavlikova[14]	€70,000	[9]
10-13 May 2012	FPS Amnéville €1,100 Casino Tranchant Seven, Amnéville	317	€304,320	Ben Dobson[15]	€70,000	[10]
27 June-1 July 2012	FPS Gujan-Mestras €1,100 Casino du Lac de la Magdeleine, Gujan-Mestras	172	€165,120	Florian Desgouttes[16]	€43,000	[11]
11-14 October 2012	FPS Mazagan Dhs 12,000 (~€1,050) Mazagan Beach Resort, El Jadida	208	Dhs 2,219,360 (~€194,302)	Karim Rharbaoui[17]	Dhs 505,000 (~€44,212)	[12]
13-19 November 2012	FPS Paris €1,100 Cercle Cadet, Paris	715	€709,738	Mateusz Rypulak[18]	€150,000	[13]
30 January-3 February 2013	FPS Deauville FINAL €1,200 Casino Barrière de Deauville	828	€794,880	Patrick Braga[19]	€165,000	[14]

Season 3

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
21-24 March 2013	FPS Snowfest Evian €1,100 Casino d'Evian	280	€268,800	Neil Raine[20]	€60,000	[15]
30 May-2 June 2013	FPS Amnéville €1,100 Casino Tranchant Seven, Amnéville	417	€400,320	Ibrahim Feliani[21]	€92,000	[16]
23-29 September 2013	FPS Sunfest Cannes €1,100 JOA Royal Casino Cannes-Mandelieu	559	€536,640	Giedrius Gradeckas[22]	€92,000	[17]
16-23 November 2013	FPS Paris €1,100 Cercle Cadet, Paris	818	€811,980	Rodolphe Dethiere[23]	€153,000	[18]
22-26 January 2014	FPS Deauville FINAL €1,100 Casino Barrière de Deauville	1,095	€1,051,200	Niels van Leeuwen[24]	€175,000	[19]

Season 4

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
23-26 April 2014	EPT/FPS Monte Carlo €1,200 Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort	837	€811,890	Yury Nesterenko[25]	€150,000	[20]
2-5 October 2014	FPS Sunfest Cannes €1,200 JOA Royal Casino Cannes-Mandelieu	582	€558,720	Yury Nesterenko[26]	€91,000	[21]
21 November 2014	FPS Paris €1,200 Cercle Cadet Paris	CANCELLED by PokerStars[27] due French authorities decided to close down Cercle Cadet for an "undetermined amount of time" after an operation carried out by the French Judicial Police (DCPJ) on Oct. 14.[28]
20 December 2014	STUDENT FRANCE POKER SERIES €150 Guaranteed Prize Pool €10,000 Casino Barrière de Deauville	164	€21,254	Patrick Miangu	€5,000	[22]
28 January-1 February 2015	EPT/FPS Deauville €1,200 Casino Barrière de Deauville	1,355	€1,300,800	Anthony Apicella[29]	€197,000	[23]

Season 5

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
28 April-2 May 2015	EPT/FPS Monte Carlo €1,200 Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort	993	€963,210	Sebastian Supper[30]	€177,000	[24]
21-26 July 2015	FPS Lille €1,100 Hotel Casino Barrière de Lille	745	€715,200	Bart Lybaert[31]	€122,000	[25]
15-20 December 2015	FPS ENGHIEN €1,100 Casino Barrière de d'Enghien	940	€902,400	Arnaud Desbrosse[32]	€147,000	[26]

Season 6

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
25 April-6 May 2016	EPT/FPS Monte Carlo €1,200 Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort	1,261	€1,223,170	Stephane Dossetto[33]	€218,000	[27]
19-24 July 2016	FPS/UKIPT Lille €1,100 Hotel Casino Barrière de Lille	726	€696,960	Fabrice Casano[34]	€121,000	[28]
20-25 September 2016	FPS Deauville €1,100 Casino Barrière de Deauville	615	€590,400	Gabriel Nassif[35]	€113,030	[29]

Season 2022

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
28 April-7 May	EPT/FPS Monte Carlo €1,100 Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort	1,918	€1,841,280	Lucas Scafini[36]	€250,000	[30]
4-9 October	FPS Divonne €1,100 Casino de Divonne-les-Bains	628	€603,020	Nicolas Hamouni[37]	€113,670	[31][32]
18-27 November	FPS Aix-en-Provence €1,100 Pasino Grand Aix-en-Provence	779	€747,840	Anthony Apicella[38]	€141,200	[33]

Season 2023

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
15-26 February	EPT/FPS Paris €1,100 Hyatt Regency Paris Étoile	2,071	€1,988,160	Alan Goasdoue[39]	€287,830	[34]
26 April-6 May	EPT/FPS Monte Carlo €1,100 Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort	2,138	€2,052,480	Daisuke Ogita[40]	€307,160	[35]
15-23 July	FPS Stade Jean-Bouin Paris €1,100 Stade Jean-Bouin (Paris)	1,384	€1,328,640	Lorenzo Arduini[41]	€211,000	[36]
3-8 October	FPS Aix-les-Bains €1,100 Casino Grand Cercle Aix-les-Bains	475	€456,000	Alban Juen[42]	€90,070	[37]
10-19 November	FPS Aix-en-Provence €1,100 Pasino Grand Aix-en-Provence	611	€586,560	Sahil Chutani[43]	€110,400	[38]

Season 2024

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
14-25 February	EPT/FPS Paris €1,100 Palais des congrès de Paris	4,149	€3,983,040	Mateusz Moolhuizen[44]	€470,830	[39]
24-28 April	EPT/FPS Monte Carlo €1,100 Sporting Monte Carlo, Larvotto, Monaco	2,096	€2,012,160	Atanas Malinov[45]	€303,190	[40]
30 September-6 October	FPS Aix-les-Bains €1,100 Casino Grand Cercle Aix-les-Bains	660	€633,600	Zine Benrebai[46]	€122,150	[41]
Sponsored Events
8-20 May	BPC Namur €1,100 Guarantted Prizepool €1,000,000 Circus Casino Resort, Namur, Belgium	1,259	€1,266,388	Rayane Benounnane[47]	€200,000	[42]

Winners by country

Place	Country	Times
1st	France	19
2nd	England	2
	Germany	2
	Morocco	2
	Netherlands	2
	Ukraine	2
7th	Argentina	1
	Belgium	1
	Brazil	1
	Bulgary	1
	Canada	1
	Czech Republic	1
	India	1
	Italy	1
	Japan	1
	Lithuania	1
	Poland	1
	Switzerland	1
		41

Up to Season 2024 - FPS Aix-les-Bains

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