Tuesday, 13 March 2007
We all need an underdog to cheer, and new players keep the game fresh. Two kinds of poker tournament are best at bringing us new heros; celebrity vs. pro, and online poker freerolls.
We all need an underdog to cheer, and new players keep the game fresh. Two kinds of poker tournament are best at bringing us new heros; celebrity vs. pro, and online poker freerolls. Winner of the 5th World Poker Tour Invitational Pros. V. Celebs tournament Adam Weinraub may have had some help from the NBC heads-up championship: the two were double booked and many pros preferred the heads-up event. Most celebrities were knocked out on day one, including Paris Hilton (shrug) and Don Cheadle (gasp!). An aggressive blind structure cut the field to 70 on day two, but modest, film director Weinraub was chip leader. When asked about playing with poker pros and A-listers he said, “I’m just a peon!” The peon took the prize from “Miami” John Cernuto. Unknown Mark Carroll, winner of the Absolute Dream Package has just been guaranteed entry to 10 of the biggest poker tournaments in the world, including the WSOP and WPT events and one-to-one training from Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi. 'Being a professional poker player has always been my dream. For practically no money at all, someone will get to experience touring the poker circuit.” Said Carroll, who called it “Hitting the poker lottery”. Let’s hope we see more of both of them.
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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