Monday, 14 July 2014
While the attention of the poker world has been focussed on Las Vegas and the business end of the WSOP Main Event, there was also decent tournament action on offer in Europe.
The pick of the das Euro bunch was the €500 CAPT Velden Showdown that attracted 471 runners who built an impressive €211,950 prize pool.After a busy weekend of action in the Austrian resort, it was David Urban who took the title and with it a €50,000 score. The Slovakian-based player has enjoyed a string of decent results on the European circuit this season including a third place finish in the GCOP Main Event in the Czech Republic in February that saw him pocket almost €45k. He secured his best ever live score at Velden after beating Lukas Fritz heads up.The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1 David Urban SVK €50,0002 Lukas Fritz AUT €30,6203 Christian Koslowski GER €20,1404 Gerald Schneiber AUT €13,9905 Andreas Gabriel AUT €10,3906 Georg Gsell AUT €8,0507 Christopher Frank GER €6,9708 Manfred Hochegger AUT €5,7209 Mario Prodinger AUT €4,450
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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