Friday, 14 June 2013
Despite the obvious attractions on offer in Las Vegas a guarantee busting crowd has headed to the sun for the first joint venture between the UKIPT and Spain's Estrellas Poker Tour.
411 players took to the tables for Day 1B of the PokerStars UKIPT Marbella with Canada's Nick Boehler (231,700) leading the way by the close of play. Other notables to survive the second opening flight included the likes of Ireland's Mick Graydon (137,000), Spanish toreador Miguel Abellan (112,000), the Hit Squad's Chaz Chattha (79,000), Martins Adeniya (37,000) and Surinder Sunar (33,500). All told, 241 of the 763 starters will be back for today's day two action with 88 making the money. The min-cash is set at €2,015 with the eventual winner set to walk away with a first prize of €158,200. The overall chip leaders are as follows: Nick Boehler Canada 231700Andrey Vladimirovich Shubin Russian Federation 202500Robert Wybrew United Kingdom 181000Lorenzo Dedaj Albania 172400Asier Crespo Crespo Spain 171900Xavier Riera Tayeda Spain 168000Pawel Keller Poland 152700Konstantinos Nanos Germany 148000Chris Derrick United Kingdom 142500Mark Goodchild United Kingdom 142000
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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