Thursday, 8 December 2011
The massive starting field of 722 runners at EPT Prague has been whittled down just 136 with Russia's Garri Tevosov leading the way.
The Russian Poker Series champ will start day 3 with a stack of 764,000, much of it coming from one hand which saw his pocket queens beat Kevin MacPhee's pocket kings. The wonderfully named Martin Finger from Germany is next on 612,600 followed by Denmark's Mads Wissing 565,200.Rupert Elder heads the British challenge on 313,700 with Chris Moorman 281,000, Max Silver 248,700, Liv Boeree 193,600 and Martins Adeniya 100,000 also flying the flag for Blighty. Other notables still in the hunt for the €775,000 first prize include Kent Lundmark 323,900, Jude Ainsworth 313,000, 256,600, Vitaly Lunkin 138,200, Anton WiggMarty Smyth 90,300 and Johnny Lodden 74,500. 21 players will go away disappointed later today with the money bubble set to hit at position 104. A total prize pool of just over €3.5m is up for grabs with the min cash set at €7,500.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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