Friday, 5 November 2010
130 players started Day 2 at the World Poker Tour event in the northern French town of Amneville yesterday and by the close just 48 were still in contention for the title.
Leading the way was Nesrin Kourdourli who had amassed a stack of 957,000 chips by bagging up time, almost 200,000 ahead of closest rival Tyler Cornel. Ilan Boujenah is third on 743,000 followed by Day 1A chip leader Jean Paul Pasquilani who is on 708,000. John Eames with 298,000 and Paul Coughlan 260,000 head the challenge from this side of the Channel in 25th and 28th place respectively. Both have stacks just short of the average.All 48 remaining players are now in the money and are guaranteed at least a €7,000 pay day. The action resumes at 1pm UK time when the field will be whittled down to a final table of eight who will fight it out for the €433,000 first prize.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.
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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