Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Season IV of the European Masters of Poker (EMOP) got under day in Prague over the weekend with Nils Jarefjall taking the honours after seeing off 230 opponents.
The Swede agreed a chop with Austria's Pim van Wieringen when play went heads up with the pair playing on for an extra €10,000. Jarefjall started heads up play facing a two to one chip deficit but ground his way into contention, eventually sealing victory after winning a race when his pocket 3s held up against the Austrian's AQ. The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1: Nils Jarefjall (Sweden) - EUR52,2772: Pim van Wieringen (Austria) - EUR41,9633: Martin Safarik (Czech Republic) -- EUR23,5604: Kevin Spillane (Ireland) -- EUR14,3205: Pavel Byma (Czech Republic) -- EUR11,0806: Roman Ondrusek (Czech Republic) -- EUR9,0007: Sven Bahnsen (Germany) -- EUR7,8508: Connie O'Sullivan (Ireland) -- EUR6,6909: Martin Dragun (Slovakia) -- EUR5,540Lisbon is the next stop for the EMOP tour starting on 29th March. Qualifiers for the €1,000+€100 Main Event start from just €2 or 200 VPPs. Try your luck at Devilfish Poker with a 100% first deposit bonus up to €1,000. Sign up here.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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