Wednesday, 8 July 2015
While the WSOP has understandably been hogging the headlines in recent days, the World Poker Tour has also been rewriting the record books.
A massive field of 5,113 entrants anted up in the WPT500 Aria event and after three days of action it was Craig Varnell who bagged the biggest share of $2,556,500 prize pool.Varnell turned his $500 buy-in into an enormous $330,000 after beating Brazil's Lucio Antunes heads up.“This feels surreal,” said a teary winner. “You have no idea how happy I am. I love poker; I love the game. I’m blessed to be here.”WPT President Adam Pliska added, “Thanks to the tremendous support of the players, partypoker, and Adam Altwies and his staff at ARIA, we once again shattered the record for the largest World Poker Tour event at the partypoker presents: WPT500 at ARIA Resort & Casino. This tournament drew thousands of players to ARIA to compete for a massive prize pool at an extremely accessible buy-in level, and we look forward to the next installment of the partypoker presents: WPT500 at Dusk Till Dawn in late October.” WPT500 Aria Final Table Payouts1st Craig Varnell – $330,0002nd Lucio Antunes – $223,0003rd Alexander Lakhov – $150,7004th Nick Binger – $100,0005th Chad Roudebush – $75,0006th Hunter Cichy – $60,0007th Bretty Mueller – $50,0008th Brent Berger – $41,0009th Milan Harper – $33,000
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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