Tuesday, 3 August 2004
The world’s largest online poker tournament got underway this week at PokerStars.com, with the announcement that this year there is a record $4 million in prize money up for grabs.
The world’s largest online poker tournament got underway this week at PokerStars.com, with the announcement that this year there is a record $4 million in prize money up for grabs. The World Championship of online poker will run until August 8th with twelve events, culminating in the final big money No Limit Hold’ em tournament. 'Poker is one of the hottest trends in the world right now. Poker players from anywhere in the world can try their hand in PokerStars' World Championship of Online Poker and leave with the largest cash prizes ever won online,' said Lee Jones, PokerStars Poker Room Manager, and best selling poker author. 'And since we offer satellites for these events for as little as $3, anyone has a chance to win. In fact, through our Frequent Player Point program, we're giving away more than half a million dollars in free entries, so the next huge winner could get there for free.' Those who aren’t lucky enough to qualify for free can expect buy-ins of $200 for the early events, right through to $2,500 for the main Hold ’em event. Guaranteed prize pools range from $100,000 to $1.2 million.
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.”
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