Friday, 24 April 2015
The opening flight of the £550 GUKPT Edinburgh Main Event is in the book with Colin Wu taking an early lead.
A total of 71 entrants took to the tables at the Maybury Casino on Thursday with 22 making it through to the close of play.Wu was the dominant player, turning a starting stack of 20,000 chips into 207,400 by bagging up time. Gary Bertram (140,700), Alastair Patrick (130,600) and Stephen Wood (101,100) were the only other day 1a starters to crack the 100,000 chip barrier.A couple of very familiar faces will also be back for day 2 on Saturday. Scotland's biggest tournament money winner David Vamplew finished the opening flight with 50,000. Not far behind was defending champion Andrew Teng on 35,400.The second opening flights in the £100,000 guaranteed Main Event is off at 1pm today. There's also a £100 bounty tournament off at 9pm.Follow all of today's day 1b action via the GUKPT Live Stream.GUKPT Edinburgh Main Event Day 1a SurvivorsColin Wu 207400Gary Bertram 140700Alastair Patrick 130600Stephen Wood 101000Allan Peers 87200Richard Lapwood 85500Richard Blacklock 75800Stuart White 70400William Runciman 68800Graham Williams 68500Gary Swan 52900Bob Cummings 52200David Vamplew 50000Lee Taylor 43100Paul Tulloch 40000Andrew Teng 35400Alastair Cessford 25900Kevin Wood 21900Shaun Bennett 17700Ross Loggie 13400Stevie Bingham 13200Stuart Matthews 13100
Andrew Teng and Lee Taylor #gukpt A photo posted by GUKPT (@gukpt) on Apr 23, 2015 at 4:53pm PDT
Andrew Teng and Lee Taylor #gukpt
A photo posted by GUKPT (@gukpt) on Apr 23, 2015 at 4:53pm PDT
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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