Friday, 4 December 2015
Blackjack ace turned professional poker player Andy Bloch has put his Las Vegas mansion up for sale with an asking price just shy of $9 million.
Custom built for the former Full Tilt-sponsored pro in 2011 and offering unobstructed views of the Strip, the three-storey home comes complete with six bedrooms and six bathrooms alongside its own elevator, cinema suite and tennis court.According to a report from Realtor.com, the house additionally features an extensive games room offering a high-end poker table alongside other ‘man cave’ goodies.Bloch has career tournament earnings of $5.3 million and finished in second spot behind Chip Reese at the $50,000 buy-in HORSE event of the 2011 World Series Of Poker (WSOP) to win $1.029 million. More recently, he claimed $561,738 from the WSOP after finishing third at The Poker Players Championship in 2012 before closing that year out by earning $26,835 courtesy of the World Poker Tour (WPT)’s $10,300 buy-in Championship Event, which was held as part of the Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio.Image courtesy of Realtor.com
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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