Thursday, 17 June 2010
It was a day of great comebacks at the WSOP yesterday as William Haydon emulated $1k NLHE winner Jeff Tebben by coming back from being the short stack to taking the bracelet.
Haydon's comeback wasn't quite as prodigious as Tebben's but was still impressive enough. The youngster was patient, picking his spots and slowly building up his stack. The Napoleon Dynamite lookalike, whose only previous cash at the WSOP was a $30k score in last year's Main Event, finally sealed the win against pro Jeff Papola. The chips went in with Haydon's AJ dominant over Papola's A6. The jack kicker gave Haydon a winning Broadway straight and with it his first bracelet and the small matter of $630,031.Martins Adeniya led the British challenge, eventually finishing in ninth for $40,547. Other notable to make the money were Daniel Negreanu, Erik Cajelais, Justin Smith, David Benefield, Sorel Mizzi, Chris Moorman and Irish Open winner James Mitchell. The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1st: Will Haydon - $630,0312nd: Jeff Papola - $391,0683rd: Joe Baldwin - $248,2654th: Eddy Scharf - $163,6495th: Jarred Solomon - $110,9036th: Steve Cowley - $77,228Keep 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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