Thursday, 21 April 2011
The 10 event Merit Middle East Poker Championship drew to a close over the weekend with Germany's Dominick Nitsche taking the $4,700 buy-in Main Event.
The 20-year-old outlasted a field of 141 runners in the northern Cypriot resort of Kyrenia to take home a first prize of $164,100. After an extremely late finish, a perhaps tired and emotional Nitsche wrote this on his Facebook wall in light of his success, “i just masturbated soooo hard i almost broke my arm....but im sooo happy... Im the new MIDDLE EAST CHAMPION!!!!!!! weeeeeee!!!! on your bikes!!!!!”. Some things are probably better left unsaid.It proved to be a great week for the youngster who also cashed in the $1,500 side event and the $1,000 heads up contest. The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1st Dominik Nitsche $164,100 2nd Ivan Starostin $112,151 3rd Taner Aydin $76,591 4th Kadir Karabulut $46,502 5th Necip Ferengizbilge $31,457 6th Amir Touma $23,251 7th Ramez Haddad $17,780 8th Chadi Ojelli $12,309 9th Sergey Rybachenko $8,780 The next big event on the island is the Mediterranean Poker Cup which runs from 29th April to 19th May and is expected to generate a prize pool of $500,000. For full details of the series visit Merit Poker.Keep up to date with all the news from the poker world by following us on Twitter and Facebook.
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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