Tuesday, 26 October 2010
The APAT English Amateur Poker Championship took place at the G Casino in Luton over the weekend and in the end it was Todd Wood who had most reason to celebrate.
The Birmingham man outlasted a 176-runner field to pocket the first prize of £3,300. Woods went into the the final table with the chip lead and put his big stack to good use with a string of eliminations. He also got a little bit of luck when needed, spiking two pair with J8 to send Colin McCarthy and his pocket kings to the rail in 3rd place.The end, when it came, was a classic race with Woods' pocket Jacks winning a race against runner up Ian Burnett's KQ. The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1st Tod Wood £3,300 2nd Ian Burnett £2,100 3rd Colin McCarthy £1,200 4th James Edwards £600 5th Michael Martin £600 6th Joe Legge £600 7th Paul Petcher £600 8th Gary Haselgrove £600 9th Philip Mildon £600 10th Brett Pinder £600 The G Casino in Coventry will be the venue for the next APAT event. The APAT European Amateur Poker Championship starts on 27th November 2010 with qualifiers up and running at Betfair Poker.Keep up to date with all the news from the poker world by following us on Twitter and Facebook.
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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.
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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.
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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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