Monday, 9 August 2010
It’s hard to keep up with all the poker tours going on constantly in various areas of the globe – thanks for being so popular, PokerStars.
Hopefully, we can guide you though them all though; the latest of which concluded late last night in Florianopolis, Brazil, for the Latin American Poker Tour.It took Austrian online player Matthias Habernig less than five hours to despatch the final table and take home a $247,441 first prize, which was unsurprising considering that he began the eight-handed final table with around half the chips in play.However, despite getting heads-up with Dayan Vandanega holding a monstrous 4:1 chip lead, it wasn’t smooth sailing for the eventual winner in the one-on-one confrontation. Halfway through their duel, Vandanega stole the chip lead before a break. But, after some advice from PokerStars pro Victor Ramdin, Habernig was back on the attack.Shortly after this, a cold deck set him up with a dominating two pair versus two pair hand – the Austrian bet 650,000 chips on the turn before calling his opponent’s check-raise all-in on a As-7d-Th-Qd board, a near lock to win with Ac-Tc against Ah-7s. Vandanega had outs to split or win but had to settle for second place with a rivered Jd ending the tournament.The full final table places and payouts were as follows:1 Matthias Habernig $247,4412 Dayan Vardanega $143,1743 Alexandre Richard Martins $87,6004 Miguel Velasco $64,6765 Robson Vinicious Kozan $46,2466 Andre Luiz Scaff $36,9747 Rodrigo M Scartezini $27,7028 Rudy Blondeau $18,476Keep 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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