Tuesday, 5 March 2013
The World Poker Tour’s most active and fan orientated tournament kicked off yesterday as 270 players lined up for the $7,500 Bay 101 Shooting Star event.
The annual tournament places a $2,500 bounties on a selection of pros and this year the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Jonathan Duhamel and Vanessa Selbst all had targets on their backs.On top of the bounty bonuses, any player who finishes at the top of the chip counts at the close of each day wins $10,000.Scooping yesterday’s jackpot after a storming last level was Andrew Lichtenberger. The American pro managed to claim Antonio Esfandiari’s bounty, before eliminating Jerry Yang and Matt O’Donnell in a double coup. Those pots helped push his stack to 341,000 and leave him comfortably ahead of Stephen Bokor (274,200), Andy Hwang (242,000) and Phaly Nou (232,800).Of the Shooting Stars on display yesterday, Negreanu, Hellmuth, Selbst, Duhamel, Esfandiari, JC Tran and Shannon Shorr all hit the rail. Today’s second starting session will welcome a new batch of hopefuls all looking to bag some fresh bounties on their way to winning the title.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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