Friday, 30 October 2015
There’s a very familiar look to the upper echelons of the latest main event chip counts at the Malta stop of the European Poker Tour (EPT) from PokerStars.
Day-two leader Alexander Ivarsson from Sweden is now heading the field again with 2.4 million chips while yesterday’s foremost competitor, Pole Jaroslaw Sikora, is in second with 2.3 million.Hard on their tails with 1.9 million chips is Niall Farrell with the Scot in sparkling form over the past few weeks thanks to a deep run at the EPT’s high-roller event in Barcelona alongside a runner-up finish in the Edinburgh leg of the Genting Poker Series.Faraz Jaka led the list of high-profile exits on Thursday as the Californian departed in 19th after losing a classic flip with AK against Sikora's pocket queens. A king on the flop gave the American the lead but a queen on the river sent Jaka to the rail with a consolation prize of €23,960 ($26,379). This leaves Jaka just $8,000 short of topping the $5 million mark in live tournament earnings.Other familiar faces to go away disappointed included Mike McDonald, Shannon Shorr and Johnny Lodden while the final 16 competitors are now set to return this lunchtime for a guaranteed pay-day of at least €27,110 ($29,854) before playing down to a final table of eight.While the main event heads to its conclusion, the €10,000 ($11,013) buy-in high-roller competition in Malta is just getting started with a stellar field of 163 entrants. Of these, 99 survived the first day of play with former EPT Grand Final and World Series Of Poker Europe (WSOPE) main event champion Adrian Mateos in the lead with 340,400 chips.Also riding high on the first day of high-roller action are the likes of Jason Mercier, Dominik Nitsche and 2014 World Series Of Poker (WSOP) main event runner-up Felix Stephensen.Entry remains open for the first two hours of Friday's session so expect to see a number of new arrivals as well as plenty of players firing a second bullet.
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.”
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