Friday, 10 October 2008
Poker fever is set to hit Scotland when the third leg of Sky Poker UK Tour (SPUKT) comes to Edinburgh on Saturday 31st January 2009.
The tour has already seen huge success with its Nottingham and Birmingham legs selling out fast (the latter in record time, a month prior to the event) and the same level of interest is expected for the Scottish leg.Leg three of the SPUKT will be held at the Gala Casino in Maybury, Edinburgh. 130 players will compete for the £5000 guaranteed prize pool. As with the previous legs, players can qualify from as little as £2.65 via Sky Poker online satellites only, which will start running daily from Thursday October 9, 2008 at www.skypoker.com. Semi Finals will run every day at 8:30pm.In addition to the £5000 GTD prize pool, Sky Poker are also giving the top 10 players a seat into the £25,000 GTD SPUKT Grand Finale, worth £220 each, which will be held at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham in June 2009. The event provides the opportunity for players to also meet and play some of their favourite Sky Poker personalities too! To qualify for one of the 130 seats for the only Scottish leg of the SPUKT log onto ww.skypoker.com and go to the poker lobby.
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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