Monday, 20 January 2014
The Grosvenor 25/25 Series has crowned its first midland winner with Tai Hoang taking the honours in Birmingham over the weekend.
A bumper field of 318 entries at the city's G Casino created an impressive prize pool of £63,600 with Hoang taking the biggest chunk of it after three highly competitive days of action.Hoang turned his buy-in of just £200 into £14,000 after beating David Halliday heads up sealing victory after turning a five high straight to beat his opponent's jack high bluff.The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1st - £14,000 - Tai Hoang2nd - £11,777 - David Halliday3rd - £10,000 - Mahmoud Abdelkader4th - £4,452 - Graham Pound5th - £3,370 - Tan Le6th - £2,734 - James Clossick7th - £2,098 - Ivan Scott8th - £1,590 - Adam Topping9th - £1,208 - Jason Holland10th - £890 - Oliver JonesThe Grosvenor 25/25 Series heads north to Sheffield next weekend with another guanatee busting field expected. Online qualifiers for the 25/25 Series are up and running at Grosvenor Poker.Image and information courtesy of AWorldOfPoker.com and Grosvenor Poker.
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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