Thursday, 16 July 2009
Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, as the two most successful online poker sites in the world, have a lot of rivalry. It’s just business.
Full Tilt have recently announced that, on Sunday, they will attempt to break the record for the World’s Largest Poker Tournament. The record is currently held by long-time rival PokerStars who attracted 35,000 online poker players in a tournament last December.Full Tilt's Record Breaker tournament has been unveiled as the finale to FIVE, a week of events and promotions honouring the fifth birthday of the company. The tournament is scheduled to take place at 15:05 (Eastern Time) on Sunday July 19th, with Full Tilt hoping to attract more than 35,000 online poker players to the table.The tournament will feature pros such as Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey and Chris Ferguson and have a super-low $5 buy-in. The prize pool will be a guaranteed $250,000 with $250,000 added.Click here to be part of the Guinness World Record attempt
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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