Monday, 19 April 2010
Rather like TV gameshow Catchphrase's Ready Money Round the action was fast and furious at Day 3 of EPT San Remo with 128 eliminations in just 8 hours of play.
When the dust settled (no volcanic pun intended) it was Sweden's Jakob Karlsson with 1.8m chips who had the largest stack. Joining him at the top of the leader board were Turkey's Kadir Karabulut on 1,5770,000 and EPT Snowfest winner Allan Baekke on 1,485,000. Dmitry Stelmak ended the day on 1,443,000 with Swedish pair Jens Thorson and Per Albin Linde on 1,300,000 and 1,193,000 respectively.British qualifier Michael Piper, sporting an impressive Merv Hughes style moustache, was next on 1,182,000 with APPT Macau winner Dermot Blain rounding out the chip millionaires on 1,032,000.Liv Boeree is still in the hunt for the €1,250,000 first prize as is PokerStars Caribbean Adventure winner Harrison Gimbel and EPT Baden winner Thang Duc Nguyen.Bertrand Grospellier's challenge ended yesterday, as did that of fellow Frenchmen Thomas Bichon and Arnaud Mattern. They all made the money, as did Jude Ainsworth, Jason Mercier and UK players Andrew Teng, James Williams and James Dempsey.The action on the Italian Riviera resumes at noon today.
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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