Tuesday, 10 April 2012
280-students gave up the revision and coursework, for a couple of days at least, as the Betfred UK Student Poker Championship hit the Ricoh Arena Casino in Coventry.
In the end it was Lewis Hield who took the honours, turning his £35 buy-in into a very impressive £2,190 (plus a seat in the Dublin Deepstack Event). The Sussex University student beat Exeter University's Villus Semenas heads up, the key hand coming on a 2-6-7-J-5 board with Semenas holding 4-3 for the bottom end of the straight crushed by Hield's 9-8 for the top end.The final table positions and payouts were as follows: 1st Lewis Hield (Sussex) £2,190 and a Dublin DeepStack Package2nd Villus Semenas (Exeter) £1,4603rd Nick Birkett (Manchester) £9604th Sam Keltie (Southampton) £7405th Damon Wilson (Surrey) £4556th George Wright (Exeter) £3707th Will Fasano (Exeter) £2858th Matt Johnson (Leicester) £2259th Mark Etchels (Gloucestershire) £160Keep 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.”
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