Friday, 16 November 2007
Jerry Yang, the winner of the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event, will join almost 200 online qualifiers from Pokerstars at the first ever live poker tournament to be held in China.
Jerry Yang, the winner of the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event, will join almost 200 online qualifiers from Pokerstars at the first ever live poker tournament to be held in China. Yang will be a Pokerstars sponsored player in the Pokerstars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau: Asian Poker Open, which takes place between 22nd and 27th November. The 2007 Main Event Champion burst onto the seen this year with his aggressive brand of poker which propelled him to the title, $8 million cash and into the top ten all-time tournament money winners. Pokerstars have also announced that a huge number of players from around the world will be heading out to join Yang at the APPT Macau. 179 players from the United States, Europe, Australia, Korea and Japan have qualified for the tournament via online satellites, thus demonstrating that poker really has become a global phenomenon. “The level of interest in the APPT Macau has been incredible, in less than 3 weeks we have 'satellited' in almost 200 of the thousands trying to qualify from across the world,” said Sarne Lightman, Director of Marketing for PokerStars Asia Pacific. “With Jerry Yang now confirmed to play, alongside Scotty Nguyen and Team PokerStars players including Joe Hachem, Daniel Negreanu and Barry Greenstein, the APPT Macau will be the perfect showcase to introduce the sport of poker to a whole new audience in China.”
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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