Thursday, 12 November 2015
The main event for the Blackpool stop of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) has begun today offering a guaranteed total prize pool of £200,000.
The first of two opening flights for the £1,090 ($1,655) buy-in tournament at the Grosvenor Casino Blackpool began at 1pm local time while a second is to follow at the same time on Friday. Players are receiving 20,000 chips with one re-entry allowed while those that want to take part for less can win the one guaranteed main event seat on offer via a £30 ($45) re-buy turbo satellite starting from 4pm today.Other GUKPT highlights taking place in Blackpool over the next few days include a £165 ($250) buy-in 4/5/6-card Omaha event at 6pm this evening alongside a £110 ($167) no-limit hold‘em event due to get underway from 4pm on Friday. There will additionally be a £75/£75 ($114) bounty contest at 9pm on Friday before the side action comes to a close on Saturday from 6pm with a £220 ($334) buy-in no-limit hold‘em tournament.The Blackpool main event hopefuls will be looking to follow in the footsteps of Justin Astley after the Englishman topped a field of 171 runners last year to pocket a first prize of £59,000 ($89,629).
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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