Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Macau is best known for its stratospheric cash games but it was tournament action that has dominated proceedings in the Asian territory these past few days.
Carlos Chang was the big winner, taking down the Main Event of the Asian Poker Tour Macau. Chang walked away with a first prize of HKD$1,913,100 (around £157k) after outlasting a field of 268 runners.There were strong performances from the UK contingent too with BlackBeltPoker.com's Sam Razavi finishing in ninth for HKD$110,600 (£9,118) and 2012 WSOP $1.5k NLHE fourth place finisher Tom Alner taking HKD$299,000 (£24,651) for fifth.1 Carlos Chang Taiwan HKD 1,913,100 2 Winfred Yu Canada HKD 1,016,400 3 Richard Yueqi Zhu China HKD 478,300 4 Aaron Lim Australia HKD 358,700 5 Tom Alner England HKD 299,000 6 Zhang Ai Min China HKD 239,200 7 Yue Qing Zhou Singapore HKD 179,400 8 Yi-Po Lee Taiwan HKD 122,600 9 Samad Razavi England HKD 110,600
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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