Monday, 16 July 2007
A university student who raised his entry fee by playing other students and borrowing the rest walked away from Las Vegas’ World Series Of Poker (WSOP) with $58,570 in prize money.
A university student who raised his entry fee by playing other students and borrowing the rest walked away from Las Vegas’ World Series Of Poker (WSOP) with $58,570 in prize money. Michigan native Alan Keating made it into the money at the WSOP after raising half of the $10,000 buy-in playing fellow Michigan State University students and having a friend loan him the rest. He finished 102nd out of 6,358 players and was eliminated by 24-year-old poker pro Maria Ho, the last woman remaining in the field. 'I'm disappointed as I really thought I could win but I feel good about how far I came,' said Keating. 'I play a tight-aggressive style and I pick a spot and when I go in, I go all-in. I never limp into a hand,” said Keating. The no-limit Texas Hold’em main event was Keating's first big splash on poker's biggest stage. The 21-year-old said that he has been playing the game since high school but said that he had hoped to take the $8.25 million grand prize so he could finish university and ‘pay for college for the entire next generation of my family’. Keating is a marketing major at Michigan State and although a rookie, sat at the same table as some of poker’s biggest names including former champions Carlos Mortensen and Huckleberry Seed.
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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