Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Online players dominate the pros at the Full Tilt Heads-Up World Championship
A buy in of $25K usually ensures a high calibre field and so it proved at the Full Tilt Heads Up World Championship over the weekend. A 63 runner field including the likes of Phil Ivey, Andy Bloch, Gavin Smith, Erick Lindgren and Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan couldn’t match Ashton "theASHMAN103" Griffin though who took down the 1st prize of $551,250.Griffin, who reached the final of last year’s LAPT San Jose, beat GrindMode, Isaac "luvtheWNBA" Haxton, David Singer, and Past on day one before seeing off Blair "yogiblair" Anderson in the semi to set up a meeting with David Benefield in the final.Griffin dominated the final, quickly building up at 6 to 1 lead. All the chips eventually went in with Griffin holding trips to Benefield’s top pair with an open ended straight draw. The 20-year-old’s three of a kind held up to give him the win. Benefield picked up $315,000 as runner up. Rob “VAGA_LION” Akery was the top UK finisher, picking up $94,500 for his quarter final finish.
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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