Saturday, 26 March 2011
Daniel Cates resumed battle with Tom Dwan in the Durrrr Challenge yesterday and stretched his lead by just over $270,000.
The pair squared off in a session of $200/$400 NL hold'em spread across four tables and after 780-hands Jungleman12 had extended his overall advantage past the $1.2m mark. The biggest pot of the night saw Dwan's 5h6h get outdrawn twice by Cates's 8s7s on a 6c7h5s flop. The first running saw running Jacks counterfeit Durrrr's pair with Jungleman12 hitting his straight draw the second time round to takes the all of the $127,989 pot.Durrrr was on the wrong end of a $106,000 coin flip after his AK couldn't beat Jungleman12's pocket queens on either of the two runnings.18,235 of the scheduled 50,000 hands have now been completed with Cates firmly in control. Against all opponents, Cates he is up around $2m for the year. 2011 hasn't been as kind to Dwan though. Durrrr has dropped the best part of $1.5m in the first three months of the year.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.
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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.”
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