Wednesday, 2 December 2015
The European Poker Tour (EPT) will be bidding farewell to 2015 in style by hosting its biggest ever festival in Prague later this week.
The twelve-day poker extravaganza at the Hilton Hotel Prague will feature 97 tournaments beginning with the €1,100 ($1,164) buy-in main event of the co-located Eureka Poker Tour from December 5.The €5,300 ($5,610) buy-in EPT Prague main event is then to follow from December 10 to 16 while other highlights will include a €50,000 ($52,925) buy-in high-roller from December 8 to 10 followed the next day by the €25,500 ($26,990) buy-in single-day high-roller tournament.As the EPT is owned by Canadian gaming firm Amaya Gaming, several members of the Team PokerStars Pro squad will be taking part including the likes of Bertrand Grospellier, Chris Moneymaker, Jason Mercier, Liv Boeree and Vanessa Selbst as well as recent Shark Cage star Faraz Jaka and the winner of the franchise's Malta main event in October, Niall Farrell.The Prague festival will additionally feature the unique Skydive For Charity event, which is to be open to all EPT and Eureka Poker Tour qualifiers and with all proceeds going to the Right To Play organisation. This special €10 ($10.58) buy-in online charity shoot-out on December 3 will see the top 30 finishers invited to join Team PokerStars Pro member Jake Cody for an indoor skydiving experience.Railbirds can follow all of the action from the big events via EPT Live with coverage beginning from the second day of the main event and continuing until a winner is crowned on December 16.American poker player Stephen Graner took the main event title at last year’s Prague stop of the EPT after topping a field of 1,107 to bank €969,000 ($1.026 million) in cash.
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.
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“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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