Saturday, 7 July 2012
The opening flight of the 2012 WSOP Main Event gets under way later today and there's still a way to have an interest even if you're thousands of miles from Vegas.
A number of sites are running a selection of Main Event markets including outright winner, reaching the final table, making the money and best UK and Ireland finisher. If you fancy trying to pick the proverbial needle in the haystack and find an outright winner you'll find Phil Ivey heading the market at bet365 at 40/1. Allen Cunningham is at 50/1 alongside, unbelievably, Chris Ferguson. Phil Hellmuth is at 66/1 with Daniel Negreanu at 80/1. Of course the likelihood is that this year's Main Event will be someone we've never heard of.Perhaps picking a top name pro to cash is a more realistic proposition and Sportingbet is offering plenty of opportunities. One Drop winner Antonio Esfandiari is on offer at 4/1 to make the money as are Hellmuth and Michael Mizrachi. Phil Ivey is a skinny 14/5 to cash while Chris Moorman is 10/3. Viktor Blom is available at 9/2 to make the money in his first Main Event.SportingBet is also offering a best GB and Ireland finisher market which is headed by Chris Moorman, JP Kelly, Jake Cody and $10m man Sam Trickett at 9/1. James Akenhead and Praz Bansi are at 10/1, with John Eames, Richard Ashby and Toby Lewis at 11/1. And where will the Bluff tenner be going? We like Jason Mercier to cash at 16/5 and as a speculative punt we'll be backing Jack Ellwood in the outright at 1000/1.
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.”
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