Friday, 7 February 2014
A guaranteed prize pool of £200,000 attracted many of UK poker's biggest hitters to the Vic yesterday for the opening flight of the GUKPT London Main Event.
By the time all the registrations had been tallied up a total of 149 £1,000 buy-ins had been received.A host of big names were amongst the 60 day 1a survivors with Neil Channing, Matt Frankland, Praz Bansi and Simon Deadman all in the top ten by bagging up time.Joining them on day 2 will be Leon Louis, PokerStars Pro Mickey Petersen, Dominik Nitsche, Nik Persaud, Sam Grafton, Jamie Burland and Karl Mahrenholz.Organisers are expecting a bigger field for the second opening flight which gets under way at 1pm today.The day 1a chip leaders are as follows:Alan Mansbridge 158700Andy Efstathiou 119400Neil Channing 115300Matt Frankland 97500Praz Bansi 90000Samir Tageldin 87400Raul Martinez 87200Iaran Lightbourne 86800Simon Deadman 77200Louise Duffy 70100
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.
Poker’s unassuming killer steps back into the limelight.
Meet one of UK poker's rising stars.
We talk to WSOP bracelet winner.
By Paul Oresteen.
Just keep smiling...
By Adam Slutsky
Pushing the envelope for a new poker generation.
Jeff KImber on fish.
So says Dara O'Kearney.
Dara O'Kearney looks at game thoery.
Dara O'K on bounty tournaments.
Rob Yong calls for competition.
A critical eye on the poker world.
Nick Wealthall on unconscious decision making.
Structure changes don't suit recreationals.