Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Brighton's Rendezvous Casino was the venue for the six event Summer Breeze Festival last week which saw 270 players compete for a total prize pool of over £56,000.
Martin Holmes took the honours in the biggest buy-in event of the week, the £500 NLHE, outrunning a field of 27 players to take the first prize of £4,500. Bruce Atkinson was second for £3,110 with Richard Pain third for £2,560, Will Kassouf fourth for £2,390 and Hoss Parhizkar rounding out the cashes in fifth for £940.The biggest field of the week gathered for the £100 NLHE event with Kevin Curtis beating 76 other players to the £2,000 first prize. Callum Smith took the £150 NLHE freezeout for £5,420 with Robert Prior taking the £200 NLHE event for £2,290.Darren Baxter took the £150 PLO event, outlasting a field of 34 to take £1,285 and J McBride is £1,110 better off after winning the £150 NLHE Headhunter event.The Rendezvous Casino plays host to the latest leg of the UK and Ireland Poker Tour this week, full details of which can be found by clicking here.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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