Thursday, 29 October 2015
As preparation for the upcoming main event final of the World Series Of Poker (WSOP), you can't do much better than winning another pretty big tournament.
This is exactly what finalist Joe McKeehen has managed to do after topping 267 others in Las Vegas and taking down the $1,600 buy-in Wynn Fall Classic this week and pocketing $90,125.The Pennsylvania native will start next month's WSOP main event final from the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino with more than double the chips of his nearest rivals including Dennis Phillips, who finished fourth in the $300,000 guaranteed no-limit hold'em affair on Monday.Phillips started the first-ever WSOP main event November final in 2008 with the lead before going on to finish in third for a pay-day of over $4.5 million. McKeehen is well placed to go even better and will be returning with 158 big blinds, which equates to 32.8 percent of the chips in play.Wynn Fall Classic Result:1 Joe McKeehen - $90,1252 Seth Berger - $60,9923 Jeffrey Roberson - $38,8494 Dennis Phillips - $27,1945 David Levi - $19,8136 Hani Awad - $15,5397 Sean Burson - $13,4048 Giuseppe Pantaleo - $11,4609 Joey Weissman - $9,712
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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