Monday, 30 June 2014
It's not just the Rio that has been awarding huge prizes during the World Series of Poker.
The Bellagio upped the buy-in from its regular monthly deepstack from $25,000 to $100,000 with spectacular results. All told, 66 players bought in a total of 87 times to create a massive prize pool of over $8.6m.As the clock approached 7am on Saturday morning, Dan Smith was declared the winner after a chop that also saw Jason Mercier, Tom Marchese and Jason Somerville also walk away with seven-figure scores.The in the money finishers were as follows:1st Dan Smith $2,044,766 2nd Jason Mercier $1,622,181 3rd Tom Marchese $1,465,451 4th Jason Somerville $1,347,352 5th Doug Polk $602,910 6th Matthew Hyman $430,650 7th Adam Bilzerian $344,520 8th Gabe Kaplan $258,390 9th Chris Klodnicki $172,260 10th Pratyush Buddiga $172,260 11th David Sands $172,260
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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