Saturday, 9 March 2013
The record-breaking field of 1,099 runners at UKIPT London is down to just 49 with Spain's Sergio Aido Espina leading the charge for the almost £157k first prize.
Espina will start the penultimate day at The Vic with a stack of 946,000 giving him a healthy lead over Georgios Zisimopoulos from Greece who sits in second and Canadian pro Olivier Busquet who returns in third on 741,000. Jonathan Prested leads the home challenge in fourth on 660,000 with another Canadian, Jason Duval rounding out the top five on 624,000.Other notables still in contention for the six-figure score include last year's GUKPT Coventry runner up Richard Trigg (473,000), Tom Hall (345,000), Dara O'Kearney (232,000), UKIPT Brighton winner Jamie Burland (223,000) and Sky Poker TV regular Ryan Spittles (129,000).Start of day chip leader Wojtek Barzantny's quest for a third UKIPT title ended yesterday with the German busting in 138th for a min-cash of £1,200. Joining him on the rail were the likes of Mathew Frankland, Kevin MacPhee, Paul Zimbler, Willie Tann, Patryk Slusarek, David Vamplew and Ben Jackson.The action resumes at noon today when the remaining 49 runners will play down to a final table of eight.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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