Monday, 7 November 2011
The showpiece tournament of the London Calling Festival at the Fox Poker Club took place over the weekend with Chris Gordon taking the honours in the £500 Main Event.
The 25-year-old stockbroker outlasted a field of 120 runners to take home a first prize of £17,000, beating a final table that included Alan Mansbridge, Willie Tann and Bruno Fernandes. Other winners during the week-long festival included Canadian Jeffrey Haas who took the £100 H.O.R.S.E event, Richard Hall who took the £150 NLHE for £5,275, Scot Kenyon in the £100 Heads Up, Tamer Kamel in the £150 PLO and Tom Drew who took down the £200 six-max.The Main Event positions and payouts were as follows:1st Chris Gordon £17,0002nd Bruno Fernandes £14,0003rd Simon Hemsworth £7,2004th David Gentry £6,0005th Terrence Mitford £4,7006th Chuck Clark £3,0007th Willie Tann £2,4008th Alan Mansbridge £1,8009th Simon Brooks £1,200Keep 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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