Tuesday, 14 August 2012
The PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) is mingling with the Estrellas Poker Tour in Barcelona this week to initiate a new season of high-profile and big-spending tournaments.
The Casino De Barcelona is set to play host to all of the competitive and other activities from August 13 to 25 while a €165 super satellite for seats into the main event of the Estrellas Poker Tour is scheduled for Wednesday from 7pm local time.The main event for the PokerStars EPT featuring a €5,300 buy-in is to be played from August 19 to 25. German Martin Schleich was the best of last year's record field of 811 starters in Spain and walked away with €850,000 created by a €4.055 million prize pool.Amid a two-week festival of poker and various side events, this season's first high-roller tournament with a $50,000 buy-in, will run from August 17 to 19. The play will be eight-handed while its price has seen it classified as a Super High Roller tournament and eligible for television coverage.The PokerStars EPT's two-day, €10,300 buy-in, single reload, high-roller event will also be eight-handed and open for action from August 23. Of interest to players of that ilk will also be a heads-up championship with a €10,000 buy-in from the 22 August in addition to a €2,100 buy-in turbo no-limit hold’em event.The sister Estrellas Poker Tour is due to provide its very own €2,000 buy-in high-roller event on August 18 lasting for two days.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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