Sunday, 5 June 2011
We can scrub another name from the “best player never to have won a World Series bracelet” list after Eugene Katchalov won the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event last night.
The Ukrainian-born pro outlasted a 357 runner field that included the likes of Tom Dwan, Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier and Sorel Mizzi to walk away with a first prize of $122,909. That figure may be small potatoes compared to his $1.5m score at the High Roller event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, but the kudos of the bracelet will certainly make up for it.The Team PokerStars pro overcame a 5 to 1 chip deficit to beat WPT Venice winner Alessio Isaia heads up, hitting consecutive cards on sixth and seventh street to hit a better two pair than his Italian rival to seal the title.The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1 Eugene Katchalov $122,909 2 Alessio Isaia $75,911 3 Eric Buchman $48,961 4 Jonathan Spinks $35,476 5 Dennis Parker $26,083 6 Kai Landry $19,456 7 Ali Eslami $14,723 8 Vasili Lazarou $11,301 9 Jeremy Ausmus $8,800
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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