Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Another day, another new poker tour, this time in Riga. The Latvian capital played host to the opening leg of the GSOP Tour and attracted 283 players creating a prize pool of over $500,000.
Perhaps unsurprisingly it was a Scandinavian dominated affair with Sweden's Martin Emanuelsson defeating Denmark's Morten Mortensen heads up to take the title. With play three handed Emanuelsson got the crucial bit of luck he needed with his tournament life on the line spiking a 10 when he was all in with 10-9 against Tomi-Ville Hytti's AK.Ace King proved unlucky for Hytti again shortly afterwards. The long time chip leader's A9 couldn't outrun Emanuelsson's big slick and he hit the rail in third place leaving the Dane and the Swede to battle it out for the title.After a few cagey pots the action soon came to a conclusion with Mortensen's A8 shove called by Emanuelsson's AJ. An AK3 flop brought a few split pot possibilities but a 3 on the turn and jack on the river game the Swede the maiden GSOP title and with it a first prize of €63,154.The Portomaso Casino in Malta will play host to the next leg of the GSOP tour starting from 25th November 2010. The buy-in is $1,500 with qualifiers up and running on the On Game network starting at just $2.
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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