Monday, 24 July 2006
Topping an enormous field of 2,126 players, Mats Rahmn, a 26-year-old professional poker player from Stockholm, has won the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em championship at the 2006 WSOP.
Topping an enormous field of 2,126 players, Mats Rahmn, a 26-year-old professional poker player from Stockholm, has won the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em championship at the 2006 WSOP. After 2,117 players had been eliminated from Event #27 over two long days, nine players took the final table on the Rio stage. Of the nine finalists, none had previously won a WSOP bracelet. Six were American but they all went bust, leaving an Irishman, a Hungarian, and a Swede to compete for what would be their first gold bracelet. Padriag Parkinson, who finished third in the WSOP main event back in 1999 again had to settle for third place collecting $203,139. Remaining players Toth and Rahmn battled back and forth for nearly an hour before Rahmn won the decisive final hand of the tournament when he was dealt pocket kings versus Toth’s jack-eight. Toth called a pre-flop raise. After the flop came J-10-9, Rahmn bet out 150,000 and Toth moved all in for 500,000 more. Rahmn called and showed his overpair. Toth had top pair with an outside straight draw. However, two blanks hit the turn and the river, securing the victory, $655,141 and a first WSOP bracelet for Rahmn.
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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