Saturday, 14 September 2013
As expected the day 1b field at Genting Poker Series Stoke was much bigger than the opening flight with a total of 272 entries taking to the the tables.
88 of them were still there at the close of play with Dan Trett building the biggest stack. Last year's UKIPT Newcastle High Roller winner returns 251,200 with Ricky Wong 225,000, Tom Seaman 210,400 and Paul Whyman 202,400 also cracking the 200,000 barrier. Other notables to survive the Day 1B action included Fox Poker Club Main Event winner Gabriel Tuna 132,100, WSOP Main Event fifth place finisher Jon Kalmar 114,200 and Bluff regular Ben Jackson 91,700 (check out Ben's latest strategy column here). A total of 131 players will be battling out for a share of a prize pool of £169,000 when the action resumes at 1pm today. The overall chip leaders are as follows:Dan Trett 251200Josh Venman 227700Ricky Wong 225000Tom Seaman 210400Paul Whyman 202400Richard Shiels 190100Jonathan Gill 190000Ray Power 185600Kyle Hendry 184700Richard Horton 175500
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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