The France Poker Series has found its latest winner, and she is Veronika Pavlikova. On Sunday, Pavlikova, an 18-year-old, finished atop the 296-player field. Her take? The FPS trophy and €70,000.

The PokerStars qualifier scored her first major victory in an event featured many seasoned players, including Guillaume Darcourt, Thibaud Guenegou, and Team PokerStars Pro Matthias de Meulder.

Here are the final results from this year's FPS Snowfest final table.

FPS Snowfest Final Table

1. Veronika Pavlikova: €70,000
2. Ludovic Marguerat: €43,500
3. Serge Didisheim: €27,500
4. Guillaume Darcourt: €21,160
5. Gregory Raffalli: €16,000
6. Damien Denis: €12,000
7. Gilles Mellet: €8,500
8. Morgan Franz: €6,000

Congratulations once again to Veronika Pavlikova for her amazing win in Evian.

More than 100 people started Day 1A of the France Poker Series, and at the end of the day, only 42 remained. Today, those people are enjoying the skiing and atmosphere around Lake Geneva in Evian, France as Day 1B play gets underway.

The second day 1 flight of the €1,100 main event drew the famed Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Arnaud Mattern, and Eugene Katchalov to the felt today. They're joined by celebrities Marion Nedellec, Cathy Serrat, Nicolas Lambert, and Celine Bastian.

Nicolas Beker from Switzerland finished Day 1 A with the chip lead and 196,400 in his stack. Team PokerStars Pro Matthias de Meulder is close behind with 186,800. Paul Testud completes the top three with 129,100 chips. Team Pro Julien Brécard has finished Day 1A with 85,000 and is also in the top 10.

Sponsored by PokerStars, the France Poker Series continues through this weekend. The main event highlights a week-longseries of events, including rhe €3,000 High Roller on March 24.

To learn more about FPS Snowfest, visit the official website of France Poker Series.

Follow the event as if you were there, live on PokerStars Live.

Today, the France Poker Series kicked off its third event of Season 2 in the beautiful town of Evian. The 13-stop PokerStars-sponsored series opened its Snowfest party today on the shores of Lake Geneva.

Day 1A began with 103 players, among them Team PokerStars Pros Julien Brécard and Belgian twins Matthias and Christophe De Meulder.

In total more than 80 players qualified for the event on PokerStars.fr. Day 1B expected French standouts Arnaud Mattern and ElkY to sit down. The FPS is also expects Ukrainian Eugene Katchalov and the Marion Nedellec TV Stars, Celine Bastian, Cathy Serrat, Gaëlle, and Nicolas Acerbis Lambert to attend.

If you'd like to watch the event live as it happens, visit the French-language side of PokerStars Live.

For more information on the tour, visit the France Poker Series web site.

Of the 305 players who made ​​up the original field of the France Poker Series Mazagan Sunfest, only 106 made it back for Day 2. Play then continued for ten hours before the field was slashed down to just 11 survivors, who will play to a winner later today.

The total prize pool of is 3,579,785 dirhams (€320,045) and 48 players are being paid. Spare a thought for Helen Riahi, who was the last woman standing but went out on the bubble. Of the big name Team PokerStars Pros who entered, Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier went out in the first few orbits of yesterday.

Here are the 11 survivors who will come back to play to a winner and €80,463 first prize in Morocco today:

1 Anas Tadini, 1,450,000
2 Sebastian Winkler, 1,371,000
3 Jeremie Sarda, 1,161,000
4 Alain Dery, 908,000
5 Richard Amsellem, 815,000
6 Otto Richard, 697,000
7 Daniel Hogstrom, 389,000
8 Rachid Arbaoui, 375,000
9 Jonathan Godou, 280,000
10 Pierre Drochon, 230,000
11 Mohamed Ebrd 206,000

Live updates of the final action can be found on our sister French PokerStars Blog, while you can also watch a stream here.

by Henri Frey
How much live poker can you handle? The LAPT Grand Final started in Argentina on Thursday, as did the Nova Gorica stop of the Italian Poker Tour. Completing the hat-trick run yesterday was the second leg of the PokerStars France Poker Series in Divonne-les-Bains.

A bumper field of 399 players from around the world made their way to eastern France for Day 1, with 201 of those qualifying online with PokerStars. The field at the Casino Partouche means the event is looking at a tidy €421,344 prize pool, of which €108,894 will wing its way into the wallet of the champion. In total, 48 players will be paid.

Yesterday saw Aldo Lisi from Italy finish as Day 1 chip leader with 347 000 chips, followed by Mickaël Furlan with 309 000. The average stack is 113 350.

Some 87 players will return for today's final day, rushing first towards the money, then a final table - and eventually a champion.

Follow the action as it happens over on the French version of the PokerStars Blog.

If you like things to go quick, then you'll love the PokerStars France Poker Series. The second leg of the tour's debut season begins in the eastern town of Divonne tomorrow (Saturday) - and will be done and dusted by Sunday night!

The €1,200 buy-in, two-day event at the Casino Partouche begins at 2pm local time and is expected to attract more than 300 players. Of that lot, 187 will be PokerStars qualifiers. Also playing is Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso and Julien Brecard.

The tour's first event back in May in Beaulieu-sur-Mer was a great success, with Team PokerStars Pro Jose 'Nacho' Barbero taking top spot for more than €40,000. He won't be back for Divonne, though - he's currently battling it out at LAPT Argentina.

You can keep up with the action from tomorrow over on our sister French blog, where Henri Frey is recording events. If reading French is not your thing - shame on you - then pop along to Google Translate for assistance. C'est très bonne.