Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Andy Murray might have fallen at the last hurdle in the tennis, but there was a British win this weekend as Shane Hellyer became the first Brit to win a WCOOP bracelet.
Hellyer who players under the name “Shane147” on PokerStars, became the first British poker player to secure a WCOOP bracelet, when he won the opening event of the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) this past weekend.Hellyer, a 27-year-old blade technician from the Isle of Wight, picked up $202,409 (£114,000) for his victory.The opening event of the 17 day PokerStars WCOOP festival was a $215 buy-in No Limit Hold'em tournament with 7,217 runners and a total prize pool of over $1.4million. As well as the prize money, Hellyer receives a gold WCOOP bracelet. Until yesterday, British players had quite an ugly record in WCOOP events, reaching 48 final tables without ever securing first place.After a 19 hour poker marathon, Shane Hellyer commented: “I tried not to think about the money when we got down to the final table, and that helped me be more aggressive than some of the other players. It was pretty easy for me to nick blinds, and when I got a good hand, I got called.”Hellyer, who has only been playing poker for two years, saw an early chiplead disappear midway through the final table, and he was briefly the short stack at the table when they were down to four players. His moment of luck came when he won a big pot after hitting an ache on the river. “I was really harrying the other players, and I don’t know if it was the right way to play, but I won in the end, didn’t I?”You can see how Hellyer won top prize on the WCOOP.tv highlight show, now available on PokerStars.tv:http://www.pokerstars.tv/pokerstars
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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