Tuesday, 29 January 2013
The Euro Finals of Poker series at the Aviation Club has drawn to a close with Markus Ristola taking the honours in the Parisian club's showpiece Diamond event.
Numbers were substantially down in this year's Diamond tournament with 42 players buying in for €5,000 compared to the 109 who sat down in 2012. There was still plenty of class on view in that small field though with the Finn beating a final table that included Joni Joukimainen and 2011 EPT Loutraki runner up Hauke Hesding.The in the money finishers were as follows:1 Markus Ristola (Finland) €85,0002 Hauke Heseding (Germany) €62,3403 Michael Abecassis(France) €40,1854 Joni Joukimainen (Finland) €22,3255 Alexandre Amiel (France) €13,400 The other big winner during the Euro Finals of Poker Series were Laurent Polito who took home €82,000 after winning the WPT National Series and Basil Yaiche who beat a field of just five runners to take the €10,000 buy-in High Roller for €33,600.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.”
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