Friday, 3 August 2012
The Mediterranean resort of San Remo played host to the latest leg of the PokerStars Italian Poker Tour earlier this week with home favourite Alessandro Meoni taking the honours.
Meoni pocketed an impressive first prize of €166,000 after outlasting a field of 375-runners at in the €2,000+€200 buy-in event. The PokerStars Supernova Elite faced Rafaelle Bertolucci, who had bought in using FPPs, heads up for the title and sealed victory when his AK held up against his fellow Italian's 10-9. The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1 Alessandro Meoni €166,0002 Raffaele Bertolucci €129,0003 Julien Norbert Dolay €71,5004 Nicolo Allisiardi €53,5005 Andrea Dato €36,0006 Omar Rodriguez €29,0007 Johnatan Maisonneuve €21,0008 Giuseppe Zarbo €14,0009 Davide Bonometti €10,710 Campione is the venue for the next leg on the Italian Poker Tour from 30 August to 3 September. Try and win a seat at PokerStars with a first deposit bonus of up to £400. 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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