Tuesday, 9 December 2014
After double triumphs for Alessio Isaia in Italy and Keith Brennan in Ireland, Liam Batey has repeated the trick in England, becoming the first player to win two GUKPT 25/25 events.
Batey bagged the first half of his brace in Sheffield in October and completed it after topping an 80-runner field at the Grosvenor Casino in Nottingham over the weekend.The latest effort netted the Nottingham native a first prize of £7,875 after he defeated Steve Brown to the title.Grosvenor 25/25 Nottingham Results1st - Liam Batey. - £78752nd - Steve Brown - £51753rd - John O'Reilly - £33754th - Renee Xei - £23755th - Mark Hester £17506th - AbbaS Ladak. - £13007th - TaI Hoang - £10008th - Paul Reast - £8009th - Tina Ainsworth - £70010th - Robert Douras - £650McTaggart's Edinburgh TriumphAs impressive as Batey's performance was in Nottingham, he wasn't the biggest winner on the Grosvenor 25/25 circuit this weekend.That accolade went to Paul McTaggart who got the better of a 241-runner field in Edinburgh. The 2012 Genting Poker Series Edinburgh winner took the lion's share of the £48,200 prize pool after agreeing a three-way chop with Tommy Noble and Chun Lee. GUKPT 25/25 Edinburgh1st Paul McTaggart - £13,800 (£10400 **)2nd Chun Lee - £9,020 (£9160 **)3rd - Tommy Noble - £5,640 ( £8900 **)4th Joyce Fleming - £3,6605th Willie Cheung - £2,5106th Ian Swan - £1,8807th Paddy Dolan - £1,4908th James McLean - £1,2009th Gavin McGuire - £1,020
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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.
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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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