Thursday, 9 April 2009
A Bad Beat Jackpot payout of $81,222.17 was ample consolation for Ladbrokes Poker player Tjv1964 after seeing his quad queens run into quad aces.
The big hand started with Tjv1964 holding pocket queens and carrotkid pocket aces. The flop brought both a queen and an ace which guaranteed action. The turn was another queen giving Tjv1964 quad queens but an amazing ace on the river gave carrotkid four of a kind aces and the $100 pot. Despite losing the pot Tjv1964 picked up a delightful consolation prize of $81,222.17. Carrotkid's quad aces brought him a bonus of $40,611.08 with the two other players involved in the hand, zul and k-tre, each picking up $5,801.58.The Ladbrokes Bad Beat Jackpot currently stands at $52,000 and will be paid out once a hand of quad 8s or better is beaten.
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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