The European Poker Tour Barcelona tournament saw a quiet event as several poker players were either in Spain or trying to recover from their exploits. However, there were 20 champions in the UK & Ireland Online Poker Rankings who successfully managed to achieve some great scores.
The NFL Super Bowl of 2018 is going to held in Minneapolis on the 4th of Feb. This is the same time when football event is also going to take place in the country. So, while the city will be busy and focused on activities of football, the World Poker Tour (WPT) is hoping to share the accomplishments of the excitement with the charity event of WPT Foundation NVRFLD. In combination with Latitude, the Foundation will host the nearly $5,000 buy-in event on Feb 2 that Friday.
The NVRFLD event of WPT Foundation boasts the tagline, “Raise the stakes. Elevate the world.” The brand design agency Latitude which is a Minneapolis-based is joining the team to raise money for all the charities, including MATTER, the Starkey Hearing Foundation and Healing Haiti.
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High Five tournament series would be on at the Americas Cardroom from November 22nd to 26th. The site is a popular one and this tournament has been held before when it met with grand success. This time there are five tournaments that would be held in this series and continuing for five days. All the tournaments will add up to $1.4 million, which is part of the guaranteed prize pool in total. There would be popular games like the pot limit Omaha and no limit hold’em events in this tournament series.
Those who are familiar with the games that are hosted at this series can expect to find their popular game structures like a knockout, mega, for max, regular, re-buy and others like hyper turbo. The guaranteed main event will have $420,000 as the grand prize. It would be kicking off on November 26th. There would be several satellite games launched to help people win their way into the events. For those who win in the main event, they are not only promised a lot of money, but also a sterling silver bracelet with engravings. It will help one to showcase their win for everyone.
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When you aspire of playing a game, you can never forget the game knowable as poker, as it’s the process of managing the cards where you need to hone the skills to perform it positively. You may wish to play this game, as it’s easy for some players who are really professional to handle it so. Bertrand is one such player who holds the bracelet.
Bertrand Grospellier is the poker player known much for his winning of bracelet in WSOP, a title WPT as well as an EPT title too. The poker is born in Melun, and is the only poker player from the place France who has won all these. The player now does reside in the place England. The player is referred by the nickname called ElkY. The poker has been nominated as the top most Star craft players available in the universe. The player placed the 2nd place in a game knowable as world cyber games by 2001. And the poker has also placed the 4th place too in a star league. By the year 2002, the player did pick War craft III and turned making it as a success in his history by making the 2nd place too.
Achieved supernova status:
The player has made 5 final tables in WSOP, and also 2 final tables in WPT and also 2 final tables in EPT. The poker has started paying his focus on the act of playing of Poker in very recent years. Also, the poker is the member too in team Poker stars. Also, the player has turned earning the titles of both Supernova status as well as Supernova Elite status, which he marked by earning 100, 000 points and also 1, 000, 000 points in a time span of 2 weeks and also the latter in a time span of 4 ½ months respectively.
Annie Duke is one of the poker players she won the one bracelet at World Series of poker (WSOP). Her current age is 48, and she was married but she has taken divorce. Till now she earned the total cost of winning is 2, 157, 246 dollars considering the all poker tournaments. She is very fond of the poker game therefore, she started the poker playing at the age of 22. She likes the Omaha 8 or better as her famous game. She likes many movies to watch, but her favorite is ‘All that jazz’. She gives the respect to many poker players named Howard Leaderer, Erik seidel, Ted Forrest and the last one is Ferguson.
After completing of high school, she went to Columbia University for completing the Psychology and English. As she is fond of poker game, she was attracted to poker game and those days she is becoming the perfect poker player. In the year of 1994, she took one decision that, she will go to Las Vegas. After playing the poker game in Vegas she won the 70,000 dollar in her first career in poker game which was organized by the World series of poker (WSOP). She got more confidence than she decided that she had to prove that she is excellent poker player in female. Poker is such a game in this woman can earn more money like men. Annie Duke missed the 2000 event which is very crucial due to some problem.
In 2004, she participated in the World Series of poker (WSOP) event. She won the 137, 860 dollars in the tournament, and this is the biggest win for female poker player. Annie Duke kept playing the poker game and in 2004, she took part in World Series of poker (WSOP) and she scored the 21st rank I poker championship.
Pokerstars.com organizes tournaments, formidable online events and satellites to live tournaments. It boasts the greatest number of players, with cash poker tables and sit and go provided with different stake probabilities incessantly. However, it hosts the WCOOP event and has recently incepted the spring’s Championship of Online-Poker with tripartite buy-ins for each event that facilitates play for low stakes. The popularity of these events has attracted various players who are keen in horning skills and versatility for both live events and online games. Masaaki Kagawa who hails from Japan leveraged the virtual poker platforms to go a notch higher in the global poker industry.
At the Pokerstars European Poker Tour (Monaco Grand Final NLHE), he placed third and got $336,523 on January 27, 2013. In the same event, Season 8 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Maximum, he was 5th and took home $508,535. Earlier on January 2011 at the PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure Season-eight EPT he placed 69th getting $33,000 for his wallet. He had also played in the same event in 2009 and 2010. In the 2010 Pokerstars European Poker Tour (London NLHE Championship), he was 22nd and brought in $34,202 while he was 18th in the WPT LA Poker Classic NLHE Championship that saw him get $52,920. However, upon trawling his array of wins, his best position was when he emerged third in the Aussie-Millions NLHE $100,000 and Bellagio Poker Cup 8 NLHE, winning $336,523 and $40,607.
He also managed to place fifth in the EPT NHLE 8 Maximum High-Roller and the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza 3 NLHE where he got $508,535 and $28,111. With his vibrant presence in internet tournaments, concluding that he will get more wins would not be a specious inference. Although you may not make final tables or first prize winning, online platforms give players advantage compared to live events. Thus, Kagawa’s resume is beyond reproach on the anvil of excellence.