It has its groupies of the “Bruelmania and admirers of the” pokermania. Introducing the World Poker Tour Canal + since 2005, Patrick Bruel is the great ambassador of Texas Hold’em in France. The star of the popular variety has the card game and hit a great shot on the market for online games, becoming the owner of the site Winamax.

In 1998, Zinédine Zidane was world champion, not Patrick Bruel. Presented in the media as the first French world champion of poker, the famous singer has “only” won a tournament of 98 World Series, the 5 000 Limit Hold’em dollars. If he has acquired a priceless bracelet of the WSOP, Bruel no feat to be crowned king of the planet in the main tournament (Main Event) of the major annual Vegas. Breaking The interpreter’s voice remains a formidable poker player, finishing on numerous occasions to places of honor (and thus paid for) major tournament.

Return each year in the capital of Nevada, Patrick Bruel dream of asking his carpet of chips at a final table of the WSOP. His last act of a weapon dating back to 2005. Since then, its performance was only finished 8th of EFA Barcelona in 2007. It must be said that since 4 years, a native of Algeria was entirely devoted to the explosion of poker. Bruel is the foundation of the transformation of the playing cards in a game show. The deal was simple with Canal +: retrieve the television rights of the World Poker Tour, the most beautiful series of tournaments to make it a showcase of the new game mode.

Scheduled from 2005, the WPT broadcasts are successful breaking. The eccentric Denis Balbir, the smoother Lionel Rousso and now the joyful Valérie Amarou endorse a simple role for presentation of free space to the explanation and analysis by Patrick Bruel. The first teacher of all poker players in France … “A Las Vegas, we do not know that he is a great singer and an actor confirmed in France. It is just considered a great player, now in a very long time,” sums up the current leader of poker on the encrypted channel . “Patrick was the big star who has made poker. He has done fantastically. Today is the flagship poker french,” admits his friend Michel Abécassis.