Saturday, 7 December 2013
The tournament with the world's longest title, the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic, is back, with 322 players taking to the tables on yesterday's opening day at the Bellagio.
After five levels of action Allen Pock was the man out in front, turning his starting stack of 30,000 chips into 155,925 by the close of play. Joining him in the upper reaches of the leader board were plenty of notables including Jeff Madsen (125,300), Brock Parker (96,000), Jordan Christos (96,000) and this month's Bluff Europe cover star Daniel Negrean (89,000). (Check out the full Negreanu interview here). A $10,500 buy-in and the prospect of a huge score for the winner attracted a plethora of big names with Andy Frankenberger, Tony Dunst, Sorel Mizzi, Jean -Robert Bellande, Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari , Leo Wolpert, James Dempsey, Jeff Gross, Eli Elezra, Mohsin Charania and Chino Rheem all taking to the tables. Precise details of the prize pool are yet to be confirmed as players have until the end of level 8 to make their entrance. Re-entry is also allowed so expect plenty of early bustouts to fire a second bullet. The chip leaders are as follows:1. Allen Pock 155,925 (389 bb)2. Danny Hannawa 130,075 (325 bb)3. Jeff Madsen 125,300 (313 bb)4. Don Nguyen 124,900 (312 bb)5. Ralph Thomas 115,600 (289 bb)6. Rick Lowe 112,525 (281 bb)
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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