Monday, 1 December 2014
The 2014 GUKPT season bowed out in style over the weekend with colourful Irishman Charlie 'Epiphany77' Carrel taking down a guarantee-busting Grand Final.
A top notch field of 212 entrants took to the tables at the Vic creating a bumper £424,000 prize pool. Carrel took the bulk of it after working his way through one of highest quality final tables the GUKPT has ever seen.The final nine included Tour winner Priyan De Mel, 2013 World Series of Poker Europe winner Adrian Mateos, 2013 GUKPT Grand Finalist Will Kassouf, recent WPT Nottingham third place finisher Tamer Kamel and 2009 Irish Open finalist Ben Vinson.After that murderers' row of talent had hit the rail there was the still the challenge of recent GUKPT Reading winner, Paul Vas Nunes for Carrel to overcome.The pair battled back and forth for over an hour before the young Irishman sealed victory. The chips hit the middle on a 3s9s6c8h10d board with Vas Nunes tabling 7c3d for a straight. Unfortunately for him, Carrel revealed Jc7h for the higher straight which was enough to give him the title and by far the biggest live score in his fledgling career.Prior to the win, Carrel's previous live best was an €8,500 score for a 189th place finish at this year's EPT Barcelona.GUKPT Grand Final Payouts1st – £108,625 – Charlie Carrel 2nd – £94,775 – Paul Vas Nunes3rd – £50,500 – Ben Vinson4th – £33,100 – Tamer Kamel5th – £22,900 – Will Kassouf6th – £16,500 – Martyn Fuller7th – £13,600 – Priyan Demel8th – £11,400 – Adrian Mateos9th – £9,800 – Walid Sawaya
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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