Monday, 25 February 2013
While Serbia’s Vladimir Bozinovic was breaking new ground with his first WPT title in Baden, a collection of familiar faces were carving their way through the masses at in Los Angeles.
Kicking off on Saturday, the WPT’s L.A. Poker Classic welcomed a healthy field of 517 runners, including some of the game’s top pros. Indeed, while many are now watching from the sidelines, there remains a selection of former champions within the remaining 164 players. Breaking into the top five chip counts towards the end of Day 2 was Scott Seiver. The American pro bagged 244,100 chips to finish just under 40,000 away from chip leader Peter Neff (284,700).Also still in contention when the players return for Day 3 inside the Commerce Casino is: Toby Lewis (79,300), Sam Razavi (58,700), Joe Hachem (73,200) and Jennifer Harman (197,500).Thanks to another healthy field in L.A. the prizepool topped $4.8 million, which means the eventual winner will walk away with $1,004,090.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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