Monday, 18 February 2013
After four days of action and a slew of European talent shooting for success, it was a tournament virgin who finally took down GSOP Vienna this weekend.
Having welcomed 304 grinders to the felt late last week, the 1,000+100 event saw some familiar faces – such as Manig Loeser and Thomas Butzhammer – make it into the latter stages, but inexperience proved the key to success.While the likes of Bjorn Berner and Karel Kratochvil brought a wealth of live poker experience to the final table, Jouni Kallio had none.However, despite it being the Fin’s first live tournament, he put on a measured performance in the finale. Indeed, even when the blind levels were dropped to 15 minute intervals, he kept his nerve and managed to overcome Kratochvil in just a few hands.Kallio’s win has not only given him a perfect tournament record, but an extra 65,130 in his bankroll, plus the honour of being GSOP Vienna champion.GSOP Vienna Final Rankings:1st Jouni Kallio €65,1302nd Karel Kratochvil €41,9503rd Bjorn Berner €29,5404th Gabor Peteri €22,8705th Robert Gorodetsky €17,1606th Daniel Zhelev €13,340Keep 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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