Friday, 24 December 2010
The nine teams that will compete for this year's World Cup of Poker have been decided with the UK in with a shot of global glory and the $100,000 first prize.
The nine teams that will compete for this years World Cup of Poker have been decided with the UK in with a shot of global glory and the $100,000 first prize.Joining the UK side in The Bahamas at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure will be teams from Argentina, Philippines, Spain, Slovakia, Italy, France, Ukraine and the USA. A host of top names will be captaining each nation with Liv Boeree leading the UK line up. Newly created Team PokerStars pro Dag Palovic will head the Slovakia team with Jose 'Nacho' Barbero skippering Argentina. Team PokerStars Pro Juan Manuel Pastor will lead Spain, Luca Pagano Italy and Arnaud Mattern will take the helm for France. Partouche Poker Main Event winner Vanessa Selbst will be hoping to get 2011 off to a flying start by leading the US team with EPT Kiev runner up Alexander Dovzhenko named Ukraine captain.The World Cup action will get under way on 14th January with a series of SNG and heads up events that will determine the starting stack for each country. The tag team style final will take place a day later until one country is crowned the new World Cup of Poker champion.Chinese Taipei, led by Raymond Wu, beat Croatia to win last year's PokerStars World Cup of Poker.Keep 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.”
$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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