Monday, 24 May 2010
Not much happened in the high stakes games on Full Tilt Poker this weekend, a lull of inactivity that law Di “Urindanger” Dang shoot to the top of the leaderboard after winning $150,000.
He played mostly in the CAP PLO game as has been the trend over the past weeks, winning a series of $16,000 pots to take his winnings over six figures in just 507 hands. Nicki Jedlicka, Brian Townsend and Gus Hansen all lost a small clip.David Benyamine was the second-biggest winner of the weekend after making a shade under $100,000 playing mostly $100/$200 PLO. In the largest pot of the day he raised the button and was 3-bet to $2,000 by Brian Townsend. Calling, they saw a Tc-Qd-6c flop and checked it through, swelling the pot to $12,600 on the 2d turn and then getting most of the money in on the Td river for a $44,000 pot. Townsend held 8473 with clubs for a busted draw whereas Benyamine had rivered a diamond flush with almost the same hand – 8764.Watch the action live at Full Tilt 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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