Wednesday, 4 May 2011
The monthly Palm Beach Big Game is turning into one of the highlights of the London live poker scene with a who's who of UK tournament talent buying into the latest event this week.
Over 90 players including the likes of James Akenhead, John Duthie, Victor Ilyukin, Priyan de Mel, Jeff Kimber, Tom Macdonald, Karl Mahrenholz, Michael Greco, Jon Kalmar took their seat on Monday but none could match Praz Bansi.The Hit Squadee outlasted a final table that included former Big Game winner James Mitchell and our own Paul Jackson to pocket a first prize of £32,900 as well as Las Vegas package worth $5,000. World Heads Up champion Nik Persaud also bagged a $5,000 Vegas package after knocking out bounty Gary Oakes.The final table positions and payouts were as follows: 1st Praz Bansi £32,900 2nd Dipsy Maker £18,800 3rd Faud Serhan £13,160 4th Tom Partridge £9,400 5th Sunil Mistri £6,580 6th Chris Kyriacou £4,700 7th Marinos Mina £3,760 8th Paul Jackson £2,820 9th James Mitchell £1,880 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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