Wednesday, 16 January 2013
The latest stop on the World Poker Tour's series of National events hit Paris over the weekend with 229 players on hand at the Aviation Club for the €1,500 Main Event.
After four days of action it was Frenchman Laurent Polito who took the title. Polito, who pocketed over €270,000 after winning the High Roller event at EPT Barcelona last year, added a further €74,500 to his bankroll after outlasting a final table that included England's Kuljinder Sidhu and WSOP Main Event finalist Antoine Saout.The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1 Laurent Polito - €82,000 2 Stéphane Benadiba - €52,000 3 Omar Lakhdari - €33,400 4 Antoine Saout - €24,750 5 Paul Fayngersh - €18,6006: Yossi Iffergan - €14,850 7: Florent Estegassy € 12,340 8: Damien Lhommeau € 9,900 The action at the Aviation Club continues until 28 January with a host of events comprising the Euro Finals of Poker taking place at the Parisian venue. The complete tournament schedule is available here.Image courtesy of Holdempix.com.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.”
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