Monday, 15 September 2014
One of the famous tournaments on the US poker sircuit is up and running with 400 players heading to Atlantic City for Day 1a of the WPT Borgata Open.
Leading the way after Sunday's action was Ben Bianco, whose monster chip lead earned him a set of swanky Monster headphones. Bianco will return with 389,000 chips thanks largely to winning a three-way all-in just before the close.The chips hit the middle on a 7-3-3 board with Bianco's pocket kings in great shape against pocket nines and 7-6. The turn and river were bricks to give Bianco an enormous lead.Andrew Atkinon is Biancos's closest challenger, a distant 155,000 chips behind the leader on 234,900.Plenty of notables took to the Borgata tables yesterday with Travell Thomas (196,600), defending champion Anthony Zinno (146,900) and Darren Elias (126,100) all surviving the day.Jonathan Little, Jared Jaffee and Matt Salsberg were among the list of familiar faces who hit the rail. They'll get a chance to try their luck once again as re-entry is open until level sevn on the second opening flight.The action in New Jersey resumes at 11am local time (4pm UK time).
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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