Monday, 26 September 2011
Matt Giannetti has shown that his appearance at this year's WSOP Main Event final table is no fluke after taking down the inaugural World Poker Tour event in Malta over the weekend.
The November Niner was near the top of the chip counts at the end of the opening day flight and stayed near the head of the leader board throughout to book himself an appearance at the final table. It looked like the WPT would be crowning its maiden female winner though after Cecilia Pescaglini continued her amazing run. The momentum seemed to be with the Italian who went into heads up play with a slight chip lead and then went on to win the first five hands of heads up play.Giannetti worked his way back in front though and pushed all his chips in the middle on a 10c8h2c board holding 9c7d for an open ended straight draw. Pescaglini, holding Qs10d, made the call, needing to dodge plenty of outs. Unfortunately for the Italian, the jack of spades hit on the river to give Giannetti the win and the $273,000 first prize. The $159,412 runner up prize offered some consolation for the teary Pescaglini.Props to to Simon Trumper who showed that he's not just a fantastic card room manager. The Dusk Till Dawn chief finished in fourth place pocketing $72,985.The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1 Matt Giannetti $273,200 2 Cecilia Pescaglini $159,412 3 Filippo Bianchini $104,936 4 Simon Trumper $72,985 5 Tristan Clemencon $54,381 6 Fabien Sartoris $41,977Keep 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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