Friday, 2 May 2014
The latest national event from the World Poker Tour (WPT) landed in Newcastle yesterday and was a very busy affair thanks to the support of some local celebrities.
The partypoker WPT National UK held its snazzy Newcastle main event at Aspers At The Gate, which saw a total of 133 players pay the £200 ($337.47) buy-in in hopes of taking home the £50,000 ($84,360) top prize.An initial trickle of players to the registration desk soon turned into a flood with the field including the likes of Ian Simpson and Jack Ellwood while grinder Solinas Angelo had travelled from Canada in order to take part.The contenders also included some celebrity players in the form of Big Brother 12 runner-up Jay McKray (pictured above), Geordie Shore actor Jay Gardner and North East world boxing champion Stu Hall.The first day of action whittled the initial starting field down to 68 with Paul Castledene finishing with the largest chip stack while two additional sessions planned for later today could see the overall number of participants eventually top 500.
Online poker players looking to get more bang for their buck are being advised to check out Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes this weekend as the sites will be offering a matching reload bonus worth up to $100.
Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker will tomorrow launch a three-step satellite online poker tournament series that is set to award one player with a prize package into the main event at the upcoming St Maarten stop of the World Series Of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Caribbean.
Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker have announced that the winners of their recent three-stage online poker satellite tournament series have left for Austria in order to compete in the 2017 edition of the European Poker Championship.
Friday will see Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker kick off their special Aussie Tournament Series guaranteeing at least $5,000 in cash prizes via six events.
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