Monday, 30 May 2011
The World Poker Tour crowned its youngest ever champion last night after 18-year-old Lukas Berglund took the honours at the WPT Spanish Championship in Barcelona.
The Swedish high school student started the last day fourth in the chip counts but then proceeded to eliminate all seven final table opponents en route to a €206,000 pay day. Berglund got a big slice of luck early on though. All in with his pocket sevens he came from behind to eliminate Markus Ristola who held AK and long time chip leader Artur Koren who had pocket queens. The 18-year-old continued his hot streak eliminating Alexander Sidorin in 6th with pocket queens against A5. The Swede rivered a straight to knock out Guillem Usero in fifth before winning a race with AK against pocket tens to send Jorge Duffour to the rail. After eliminating Frederic Bussot's K9 with pocket queens only Romain Matteoli was standing in the way of a Berglund clean sweep.After 15 minutes of heads up play all the chips hit the middle on a 7-8-4-5 board. Matteoli showed 8-3 for top pair and an inside straight draw. Needless to say Berglund showed the six for the made straight. The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1.Lukas Berglund - €260,000 2.Romain Matteoli - €118,000 3.Frederic Bussot - €64,000 4.Jorge Duffour - €47,000 5.Guillem Usero - €40,000 6.Alexander Sidorin- €33,500 7.Artur Koren - €27,000 8.Markus Ristola - €20,200 Qualify for future World Poker Tour events with a $500 bonus at PartyPoker. Sign up here.
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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