Monday, 14 March 2011
Luton's G Casino was the venue for the latest leg of the popular Sky Poker Tour live series. In all 172 played in the qualification only event generating a prize pool of over £17,000.
It proved to be a case of “I'm all right Jack” as Southend's Simon Jack took the honours, defeating a final table that included Vince Calenti, George Devine and Ashley Taylor. Jack sealed the win by beating Jonathan Titcombe heads up, winning a race with K10 against his opponent's pocket eights. The King on the flop gave Jack the title as well as the £5,000 first prize.The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1st Simon Jack PSymon7s £5,0002nd Jonathan Titcombe 5toneface £3,4603rd Ellis Croome 4KingPoker £2,1904th Ashley Taylor ChirpyChip £1,3305th George Devine GlencoeLad £1,0306th Vince Calenti Vinnybhoy £8207th Geoff Melton M4verick £6408th Graham Smith TempusFuge £4709th Barry Moody Monkey123 £340The next leg of the Sky Poker Tour is at the Grosvenor Casino in Leeds on 7 May. Qualify for the event at SkyPoker.com.Keep 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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