martes, 7 octubre 2008
Micheal Martin ha ganado el EPT Londres 2008 y el millón de libras del primer premio suman a un total de 2.5 millones de dólares con sus otras ganancias de esta temporada.
Martin, el joven norteamericano llegaba después de asegurar el segundo lugar en el Poker Master Classic en Amsterdam y un muy respetable cuarto lugar en el EPT Montecarlo. ¡Para quedarse en el torneo, Martin tuvo que doblar, triplicar y luego redoblar desde sus 95 fichas en cuando todavía se quedaban cinco jugadores y el blind grande fue de 80.000!El perdedor del heads-up fue el sueco Michael Tureniec, de 23 años, quien se clasificó para el EPT solo 3 días antes de que empezará el evento, ganó £500.000 libras.Resultado de Evento Principal del EPT Londres 2008.1. Michael Martin (£1.000.000)2. Michael Tureniec (£500.000)3. Marcin Horecki (£303.000)4. Eric Liu (£234.000)5. Philippe D'auteuil (£195.000)6. Alan Smurift (£153.000)7. Johannes Strassman (£120.000)8. Anthony Lellouche (£81.000)Según las cifras del operador organizador, PokerStars.com, “Un total de 596 jugadores … pagaron una entrada de £5.200 para jugar el EPT London Open, conformando un bote de premios de £3.349.200”.
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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