20-year-old Brit Toby Lewis won PokerStars EPT Vilamoura main event Thursday.
“I’m pretty happy at the moment” he said. “This title means a lot to me.”
Banking the €467,836 first-place prize was no easy feat for the Southampton native, who overcame a final table that included EPT Season 1 Grand Final champion Rob Hollink, English football legend Teddy Sheringham and 2010 Aussie Millions runner-up Frederik Jensen.
Lewis, whose largest previous live cash was a final table appearance at PokerStars IPT Venice, actually moved into the lead taking a rather large pot off rising Swedish star Martin Jacobson on the tournament’s penultimate day, then beat the Swede heads-up to take the title.
“I was disappointed not to win IPT Venice, but this means even more,” he said. “It was
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Day 3 has come to a close at the European Poker Tour Vilamoura €5,000 no-limit hold’em main event and there are just 24 players remaining from the original 384 players that entered the event. Today was especially tough on the professionals, particularly day 2 chip leader Brandon Cantu. He came into the day with 557,400 but he eventually fell in 36th place.
The remaining players will return tomorrow and play down to the final table of eight. You can watch all of the action live on the EPT Live video feed, which will bring you every minute of the tournament. Yo
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Have you been playing at RPM Poker this month? If you have, then you are in the race to share $1 Million, and if you haven’t – you still have time to jump in! When you play in RPM Poker’s Mega Millions, you have a shot at over 12,500 individual prizes, totaling over $1,000,000 in cash!
How it works is simple: RPM Poker will track your total number of VIP points earned during the month and when you earn the required number of points for a level, you will win a FREE cash reward, which will be deposited straight into your poker account! And if you play hard and play often to clear all the levels, you’ll win $25,000 which will be paid to you immediately! The Read full
August 18th is the first day of the new UBOC. The Ultimate Bet Online Championship will run for the 5th time. The Main Event will be hosted by Phil Hellmuth and will end the series on August 29th. There will be an assortment of poker games and $4 million in guaranteed prize money over the course of 20 events. Players who cash in multiple events will get rewarded from the Bubble Buster promo, which will pay cash to players who cash in UBOC events. If a player knocks out a UB pro they get a T-Shirt and $200 tournament dollars
The $2,500 AUD no-limit hold’em main event at the PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour stop at the Gold Coast in Australia crowned a champion on Sunday, August 15. The tournament drew a strong field of 287 players, which represented growth from the field of 249 players that attended last year. The champion was Nauv Kashyap, who walked away with $182,965 from the total prize pool of $717,250.
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Are you an avid online poker player who has a bunch of poker playing buddies? If you are, you need to scope out Titan Poker where playing poker with your buddies can pay off big!
The more poker buddies you have, the more money you can make when they sign-up for a new player account at Titan Poker! Just have them join, make a minimum deposit of only $20 and play in their favorite cash game to earn 100 Titan Poker Points – and you get paid! For every friend you can get to do that – you will pocket $100! And if you invite five or more friends and they all take you up on your offer, you can get $150 for each of them! Read full
The PokerStars European Poker Tour’s seventh season kicked off in Tallin, Estonia this week and is already breaking records.
With 182 players entering on EPT Tallin’s Day 1a Wednesday and another 238 on Day 1b Thursday, a total of 420 players ponied up the €4,000+€250 buy-in, smashing all records for a tournament in Estonia.
The total prize pool is a whopping €1,596,000 with €400,000 earmarked for first.
Coming off a final table at IPT Venice last month and a win in the WPT Spanish Championship right before the 2010 WSOP, German Ali Tekintamgac rushed out to the chip lead on Day 1a Wednesday.
A total of 89 Day 1a players made it through to Friday’s Day 2 with Italian Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano, the record holder for EPT final tables (6) and overall cashes (14) hot on Tekintamgac’s heels.
Players from a total of 41 different countries are competing in Tallin.
The EPT is Europe’s richest and most popular poker tour.
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The Full Tilt Online Poker Series XVII (FTOPS) has nearly reached its halfway point, and a number of notables have put in solid performances. Of the 34 events in the series, 16 have been completed, and only one tournament has failed to make its guarantee.
The series started with a no-limit hold’em tournament, which Brent “Broberts85” Roberts took down for $164,357. This was Roberts’ second FTOPS win and the fourth final-table appearance of his career.
Team Full Tilt Poker pro Chris Ferguson made a strong showing for his site in event No.
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Time is quickly running out for your chance to become a winner in Manila and leave the tables with your share of the massive prize pool to be won! The Asian Poker Tour is just around the corner and will kick off on August 23rd and last until August 29th, 2010.
Why would you miss out on this fabulous opportunity when you can win your way to Asia for as little as $0.33? There are plenty of available satellites designed to accommodate any budget or bankroll that feed into the Super Satellite tournament. Just check the schedule in the Titan Poker Lobby to find the satellite that fits your schedule and budget to start playing your way to Manila now!
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PartyPoker is offering its players one last chance to qualify for the inaugural World Poker Tour London Poker Classic Main Event this weekend.
The site is running a series of online satellites until Sunday Aug. 8 starting at just $1, with a number of $12,000 packages on the line.
The package includes $2,000 in spending money, seven night’s luxury five-star accommodation and the $8,000 buy-in for the event, set to take place at the Palm Beach Casino, Mayfair between Aug. 30 and Sept. 4.
One final $600+$40 online satellite will go off Aug. 8 on PartyPoker at 2:15 p.m.
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