Sunday, 8 April 2012
Just 49 players are still in contention for the €420,000 first prize at the paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open and there are a number of very notable names amongst that number.
The biggest of those names is Phil Hellmuth who returns to the Burlington Hotel nestled in the middle of the leader board on 134,500, just 1,000 chips behind home favourite Andrew Black. James Dempsey, fresh from his iSeries LIVE victory, is also in the hunt on 275,000 as are Julian Gardner 257,500, Kevin Vandermissen 186,600 and PKR pro Scott Shelley 122,500.The man to beat though is London based German Manig Loeser who eliminated Victor Ramdin and Matt Perrins en route to building a stack of 846,000. Loeser, who has cashed at a number of WSOP events and has a Euro Masters of Poker title to his name, earned his biggest score with a runner up finish at last year's GUKPT London. He'll have his eye on something even bigger by tomorrow eventing though.The action resumes at noon today.
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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