Thursday, 21 November 2013
The great and the good of the UK poker scene will be heading to the capital over the next few days as the 2013 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) season reaches its conclusion.
The Vic is the venue for £2,000+£125 Main Event the with the first of two opening flights in the £400,000 guaranteed contest starting at noon today. Players will receive starting stacks of 25,000 chips with the clock set at 60 minutes. A second day one follows at the same time on Friday with the eventual winner crowned on Sunday. The full schedule, complete with a busy side event line up can be found at the GUKPT Grand Final page. Players heading to the capital will no doubt be hoping to follow in the footsteps of popular UK pro Sam Grafton who took down last year's event. The Squid outlasted a high class field of 137 runners and a final table that included Chris Brammer, Jon Spinks, Viktor Ilyukhin and Peter Charalambos to walk away with a first prize of £101,700.
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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