Monday, 23 September 2013
There was a home win in the latest leg of the Unibet Open series as Quentin Lecomte took the honours in this weekend's stop in Cannes.
The Frenchman is a member of Unibet Poker's pro team and boosted his bankroll by €100,000 after outlasting a field of 313 runners in the Riviera resort. Lecomte secured his best ever live score after working his way through a final table that included Paul Valkenburg, Paul Tedeschi and Thierry Morel before beating Sweden's Linus Hjulstrom heads up. Two-handed play was something of an epic with Lecomte taking three hours to finally grind his opponent down. After overturning a chip deficit that reached 5 to 1 at one stage he eventually sealed victory and the six-figure score when his pocket 77s held against Hjulstrom's ace king. The final table positions and payouts were as follows: 1 Quentin Lecomte (€100,000)2 Linus Hjulstrom (€69,800)3 Linas Laurinenas (€44,900)4 Paul Tedeschi (€33,250)5 Thierry Morel (€24,950)6 Joni Salo (€19,950)7 Paul Valkenburg (€16,550)8 Joao Silva (€13,270)9 Dmitry Varlamov (€10,000) The Unibet Open heads to Latvia for its next stop with Riga the venue for the €1,500+€150 event from 5-8 December. Qualify online at Unibet Poker.
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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