Tuesday, 28 April 2015
The Sunday Times published its annual UK Rich List earlier this week and there were a couple of names in it that will be very familiar to poker fans.
Chief among them is hedge fund manager Talal Shakerchi. The 51-year-old is a regular in High Roller events around the globe and has career earnings of over $2m. He was ranked =968th on the list with an estimated fortune of around £100m.Most impressive though was Shakerchi's appearance in the list of charitable donors. The 2013 EPT London High Roller was the 25th largest charitable donor in the country having given away an estimated £5m to good causes.Also appearing on the Sunday Times list is another high roller regular, Paul Newey. The slot-machine king was 415th with an estimated fortune of £235m.Shakerchi of course isn't the only poker player who does his bit for charity. Liv Boeree, Igor Kurganov and Philipp Gruissem founded Raising for Effective Giving (REG) which tries to get poker players to donate 2 percent of their gross winnings per quarter. Since launching in 2014, the organisation has raised over $500,000.
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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