Friday, 9 May 2014
The World Poker Tour made its first visit to the North East over the Bank Holiday weekend with 411 players taking to the tables for the WPT National Newcastle.
Amongst the hopefuls at Aspers were some top pros including Surinder Sunar, Jack Elwood and Irish Open winner Ian Simpson, not to mention a sprinkling of local celebrity in the form of boxing champ Stu Hall and Geordie Shore star Jay Gardner.After a busy few days of action it was midlander Darren Mapley who was the big winner though. The man from Wolverhampton claimed the leg four title and with it a first prize of £17,500 after beating Mark Gray heads up.The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1 Darren Mapley £17,500.002 Mark Gray £12,245.003 Hazel Birchnall £7,875.004 Gary Copeland £5,825.005 Andrew Hetherington £4,375.006 Alexander Walton £3,500.007 Mark Harding £2,905.008 James Arthur Brady £2,325.009 Robert Patrick £1,740.00 The next stop on the WPT UK Tour is London with Aspers Casino in Stratford doing the honours from 3-6 July 2014. The format will once again be an acumulator with the buy-in for each level standing at £200+£20. Full details are available on the Aspers website.
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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