Monday, 28 May 2012
The APAT Championship series hit the G Casino in Cardiff over the weekend for the William Hill Welsh Amateur Poker Championship.
In the end it was Andrew Jones who took the honours, defeating a 122 runner field that included former APAT Player of the Year Warren Jones and a former Welsh Championship winner in the form of Warren Johns.Jones sealed the victory after a blink and you'll miss it heads up battle with long time chip leader JP Round that lasted just two hands. The chips were always going to hit the middle with Jones holding AK against Round's pocket tens with Jones spiking a king to win the race and with it the title, a shiny new trophy, a seat in the Genting Poker Series and a non-too shabby £2,750.The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1 Andrew Jones £2,750 2 JP Round £1,940 3 Kevin O'Driscoll £1,210 4 Warren Jones £750 5 Jason Stephens £590 6 Jason Kemp £460 7 Dan Carpenter £370 8 Garry Wilden £270 9 David Jackson £210The APAT caravan crosses the Irish Sea for the APAT Irish Amateur Poker Championship which takes place at Cork's Macau Club on 7th-8th July 2012. Qualify online at William Hill Poker with a first deposit bonus of up to £1250. Sign up here.Image courtesy of APAT Forum.Keep up to date with all the news from the poker world by following us on Twitter and Facebook.
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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.
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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.”
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