Monday, 16 May 2011
At the end of Day 2 at Bellagio just 118 of the 220 starters at the $25k WPT Championship Event are still in contention with Abe Mosseri leading the chase for the $1,618,333 first prize.
The rest of the field is absolutely stacked though with the likes of Erik Seidel, WSOP November Niner Joseph Cheong, Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Laak, Allen Cunningham, Phil Galfond, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Kenny Tran, Barry Greenstein and defending champion David Williams all still very much in contention.Jake Cody heads a strong British challenge with Roberto Romanello and Sam Trickett also making it through to Day 3.Numbers were up by 25 on last year's WPT Championship meaning a whopping prize pool of $5,309,500 this time around which will be shared by the top 27 finishers.Keep up to date with all the news from the poker world by following us on Twitter and Facebook.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are each about to kick off a second three-stage online satellite tournament series promising to award winners with prize packages into the upcoming Velden stop of the European Poker Championship.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are each about to kick off three-stage online satellite tournament series promising to award winners with prize packages into the upcoming Velden stop of the European Poker Championship.
Fans of the Oh Hell trick-taking game will soon be able to enjoy real-money competitions online after Hell Club announced that it will be launching its new Oh Hell Stackpot innovation from Sunday.
Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes cASINO are giving online poker players another chance to win their way to the Caribbean.
Win your way to the Caribbean in online satellites at Intertops and Juicy Stakes.
“We run a lot of higher stakes tournaments for our more hard-core players,” said Intertops’ poker manager. “But since our network is generally pretty soft, we created this series to give less competitive players a shot at winning.”
$200 GTD ‘East of Eden’ Poker Tournament Monday night at Intertops Poker will be a freezeout tournament with no re-buys or add-ons.
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