Monday, 27 July 2009
While much of the poker community will be cheering on Phil Ivey when the November Nine resume their battle for the Main Event, a couple of top pros will have decidedly mixed feelings.
Phil Gordon revealed on the Full Tilt podcast this week that both he and Andy Bloch have large prop bets with Phil Ivey riding on the outcome of the Main Event. With 2,400 players left and holding just 1/600th of the chips in play, Ivey was given odds of 100/1 on winning the event. Now nine handed, those odds look extremely generous.Gordon didn’t divulge the exact figures but said that the numbers were “so big that my wife was upset with me that I took the bet. We’re quaking in our boots but Andy is quaking about 20 times more than I am”. The Little Green Book of Poker author added “I’d love to see him (Ivey) win. He’s clearly the best player in the game. Obviously the cheque that I would have to write would hurt…My wife and Andy Bloch are the only two people rooting against Phil Ivey at the final table.”Visit Full Tilt Poker to listen to the podcast or download it from itunes.
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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