Friday, 26 March 2010
Over 140 players gathered at London's Victoria Casino yesterday for the opening day of the latest GUKPT Main Event and by the close of play just 38 remained.
Leading the way at bagging up time was Lawrie Inman who had managed to accumulate a stack of 106,900. Joining him in six figures was Marc Wright on 102,900. Looming large is the presence of multiple GUKPT winner Priyan de Mel. The GUKPT Bolton and Blackpool winner is very handily positioned in 6th place with a stack of 86,200.There are plenty of other familiar faces scattered amongst the remaining members of the field including Steve Jelinek, Tony Cascarino, Mick McCool and Vicky Coren. Jeff Kimber will be able to concentrate full on this Sunday's Bluff Europe Poker Academy though after busting out. Other high profile casualties who hit the rail yesterday include Ram Vaswani, Mickey Wernick, Michael Greco and Walsall Main Event winner Colin McTaggart.Another big field is expected today for the second opening flight. Join us for updates over the next few days.
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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