Tuesday, 28 September 2010
As the WSOPE action at Empire draws to a close, attention shifts across London to the Hilton Metropole for the PokerStars EPT London festival which starts today.
Kicking things off is the £5,000 NL Hold'em heads up Championship at noon followed by the £2,000 European 8 Game Championship at 2pm. A £1,000 NL Hold'em event takes place at 4pm with a £300 Turbo hold'em tournament rounding off the opening day at 8pm.A total 37 events are scheduled between now and Tuesday October 5th with millions of pounds up for grabs. Top billing of course goes to the £5,000 EPT London Main Event. The first of two opening flights starts tomorrow at noon with the second pencilled in a day later, also at noon. The new champion will be crowned on Monday evening.There are plenty of other events to keep the railbirds happy, most notably the four-day High Roller tournament that kicks off on Saturday with the hefty buy in of £20,000. The full schedule can be seen at EPT London Schedule.Aaron Gustavson outlasted a British record field of 730 runners to claim last year's EPT London title beating former World Champion Peter Eastgate to claim the £850,000 first prize. Join us over the next eight days for all the news, views and gossip from what promises to be another enthralling week of poker.
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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