Friday, 18 July 2014
Poker's super high rollers will be returning to the capital later this year after the World Poker Tour announced details of an Alpha 8 event in London.
The Palm Beach Casino in Mayfair will host the £60,000 buy-in tournament on 6 and 7 October. Germany's Philipp Gruissem won last year's maiden WPT Alpha 8 event, pocketing £862,400 after topping a 20 entrant field.The Alpha 8 will also be making its first trip to Las Vegas later in the year. The Bellagio will host the $100,000 buy-in tournament which has been scheduled to coincide with the $10,300 buy-in WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic.“We are truly honored to announce WPT Alpha8 London and WPT Alpha8 Las Vegas as our first events of WPT Alpha8 Season 2,” said WPT President Adam Pliska. “Not only are we returning to one of the most prestigious locations in the world at the Palm Beach Casino in Mayfair, but we are also bringing WPT Alpha8 to the home of high-stakes poker at Bellagio in Las Vegas, where we are already expecting to draw one of the largest fields in WPT Alpha8 history.”Super high roller events proved a big hit in Vegas during the summer with Ole Schemion and Dan Smith scooping massive scores.
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.
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“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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