Thursday, 2 August 2012
The online action at PokerStars is roaring back to life after the WSOP lull and its an old online favourite who has enjoyed the best of it in recent days.
Ilari FIN aka Ilari Sahmies booked himself a $403k profit at the $200/$400 PLO tables against high stakes luminaries Jeans89, Ben86 and Theo J. This despite dropping a massive $153k pot when his top full house was rivered by Jeans89's quads.The big loser of the day was Ben 'Ben86' Tollerene whose disastrous run continued. Tollerene, who won over $1m in April, dropped a massive $352k on the day. He is now up just $50k on the year which is round about the same as Sahamies figures for 2012. Eire Abu retains top place in the HighStakesDB.com 2012 standings, up $3,431,641 on the year followed by Sauce123 who is up $2,188,588. Zypherin, down $2,840,746 and Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom down $1,557,038 are 2012's biggest losers to date.
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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