Friday, 21 December 2012
With just four days to go until Christmas, Phil Ivey has added another proverbial bauble to his festive tree of poker talent.
Having recently signed the likes of John Eames, Josh Brikis and Matt Gianetti, Phil has now drafted in tournament expert Mike “GoLeafsGoEh” Leah. Dividing his time equally between online and live tournaments, Leah has managed to bank $3 million in winnings with his largest outright win coming back in 2009 in Borgata.Hailing from Canada, the 37 year old has an impressive online CV that contains a 3rd place finish in 2011’s WCOOP Main Event for $663,816 and a total of more the $2.3 million in cashes.According to his bio on IveyPoker.com, Leah was a national wrestling champion before finding poker and his favourite games are “Limit Hold’em, Razz, any game you can only min raise is the shizzle”.After being announced as the latest member of the site’s pro team, Leah took to Twitter to address his fellow Ivey protégés and fans. @GoLeafsGoEh: “@philivey @JBrikis Thrilled to be part of such an awesome team! Can't wait for 2013; happy holidays everyone :) #TeamIvey”Keep up to date with all the news from the poker world by following us on Twitter and Facebook.
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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