Monday, 6 October 2014
The World Poker Tour visited the Netherlands for the first time over the weekend and the home rail went away happy as Dutchman Niels Van Leeuwen took the honours.
Van Leeuwen pocketed a first prize of €40,000 after outlasting a field of 224 runners in Valkenburg. The Dutchman's sternest challenge came from poker's favourite crooner, Marcel Luske.The godfather of Dutch poker's hyper-aggressive style took him into the chip lead for a time but his challenge would stall in third in unfortunate fashion. All in with aces against jacks, Luske looked well place for a massive double up. Instead Pim van Wieringen rivered a flush to cripple the former PokerStars pro, who hit the rail soon after with €18,990 to his name.Van Leeuwen eventually prevailed after a lengthy heads up battle, sealing his place in the Dutch poker record books after winning a flip with pocket fives against van Wieringen's A9.The win in Valkenburg is the latest in a string of impressive results for van Leeuwen this year. The Dutch pro pocketed €175,000 after winning the France Poker Series Main Event in January and has also enjoyed deep runs at EPT Vienna and the Valkenburg Series of Poker.The WPT National Valkenburg Results were as follows:1 Niels van Leeuwen €40,0002 Pim van Wieringen €28,8563 Marcel Luske €18,9904 Ronald Keijzer €13,8435 Joep van den Bijgaart €10,2366 Thomas Brader €8,1897 Van Tran €6,8248 Danny op t Hof €5,4599 Timo Hendricks €4,083
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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