Wednesday, 29 March 2006
If anyone thought that the poker boom was in for a slowdown after a record haul in 2005, then they had better take a look at the cold, hard figures for the first two months of 2006.
If anyone thought that the poker boom was in for a slowdown after a record haul in 2005, then they had better take a look at the cold, hard figures for the first two months of 2006. With global buy-ins totalling an obscene $376 million in 2005, February of this year was the biggest ever with $25.8 million taken. January saw $38 million, with punters clearly not taking any notice of the fact that Christmas had sapped their bank balances of anything worth talking about. That was a whacking 38% increase on January 2005. The average buy-in currently sits at over $1,400 while the number of new players willing to try their luck has gone up too. Couple this with yet more stock market speculation and takeovers and it seems that there is absolutely no chance of the bubble bursting yet. In fact it’s only going to get bigger. The advice has to be get in now before things start getting shaky. But then it seems that most have already done that anyway.
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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