Monday, 11 October 2010
One day he's manning the customer support lines at PKR.com the next he's winning a WSOPE bracelet and becoming a sponsored pro.
The Londoner won a winner takes all sit and go satellite amongst his colleagues at PKR for the right to take part in the WSOPE £1k event then bested a field of 582 including the likes of Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan. Shelley, roared on by a raucous rail, eventually beat defending champion JP Kelly to take his first major title and with it a score of £133,857. That's quite some ROI for a £100 investment.Shelley had this to say about his amazing run, “The last two weeks have been life changing and joining Team PKR Pro has been the icing on the cake. It is a privilege and an honour to join the likes of the current team members and I can’t wait to start representing PKR at future events!”Shelley will make his live debut at the forthcoming PKR.com presents London Calling festival and will then join fellow members of PKR Team Pro at PKR Live V in November. “I’m looking forward to showing PKR and its community what I can do. I aim for some more big wins, and most importantly increasing my bracelet collection.” PKR.com will be celebrating Shelley's addition to the pro team by hosting a Scott Shelley themed week. Starting from 18th October players will get the chance to compete for a PKR Live package worth $1,200, plus buy ins for the London Calling series as well as the $500 Heads Up Championship.Join Scott at the PKR tables and take advantage of 100% sign up bonuses of up to $800 by visiting PKR.com.Keep up to date with all the news from the poker world by following us on Twitter and Facebook.
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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.
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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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