Friday, 22 July 2011
Season ten of the World Poker Tour got off to a low key start with a largely unknown field (with apologies to Tony G, Toby Lewis, John Eames and Dominik Nitsche) hitting the tables in Slovenia.
A total of 141 players bought into the €3000 Main Event with Miha Travnik taking the honours. Travnik overturned a three to one chip deficit to defeat Italy's Vincenzo Natale heads up, sealing the title when his AJ held up against Natale's K8.Travnik pocketed $144,399 and a WPT Championship seat worth $25,000 for the win with Natale taking home $99,481 in second.The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1 Miha Travnik $144,399 2 Vincenzo Natale $99,481 3 Johanes Korsar $68,244 4 Ferdi Ciorabai $51,077 5 Gaetano Fortugno $40,524 6 Marcello Maligniano $32,926 The next stop on the World Poker Tour is the Legends of Poker event at the Bicycle Casino in California from 25-30 August. Closer to home is the WPT Grand Prix de Paris from the Aviation Club from 5-10 September. Qualify for both events with a 100% bonus up to $600 at PartyPoker.com. 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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