Saturday, 10 July 2010
2,412 players returned for Day 2A of the Main Event yesterday and after eight levels of action around half of them hit the rail.
Leading the way at the close of play was Boulos Estafanous with a stack of 344,100 but there are a host of big names near the top of the chip counts. Jesper Hougaard, Cole South and Johnny Chan were all in the top ten by the close of play with stacks of over 300,000.Following closely behind were Robert Mizrachi 267,000, Dragan Galic 263,600, Patrik Antonius 258,600, Yevgeniy Timoshenko 240,000 and Jason Somerville 230,000. Praz Bansi leads the British challenge on 210,000 with Devilfish, Barny Boatman, John Shipley and JP Kelly also in the hunt. There will be no November Nine repeat for James Akenhead though who busted out yesterday. Other big names to hit the rail included Carlos Mortensen, Dutch Boyd, Marcel Luske and Luca Pagano.Day 2B resumes at noon today Las Vegas time (8pm in the UK). Join us for updates.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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