Saturday, 11 January 2014
The three opening flights of the Genting Poker Series Nottingham Main Event are in the book with a mammoth field of 935 runners taking to the live and virtual tables.
Day 1c at Dusk Till Dawn was always set to be the biggest of the three and so it proved with 536 entries hitting the tables yesterday! The upshot is that the prize pool is a cool £374,000 with the eventual winner set to turn their £400 buy-in into £90,000.Leading the charge for that new year bonus on Day 1c was Tim Slater who amassed an impressive stack of 277,700. Notables well placed for a deep run when the action resumes this lunchtime include Julian Thew (157,000), Yucel 'Mad Turk' Eminoglu (137,400) and Jamie Burland (102,900).The 268 survivors will start their quest for the £90,000 at 1pm.The overall chip leaders heading into day 2 are as follows:Tony Housden 326600Simon Deadman 301200Tim Slater 277700Alan Lambert 244300Sam Grafton 242,649Umar Khan 241800Phillip Corion 226500Kevin Whelan 225700John Conroy 195,810Cosimo Dellisola 197500
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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