Betfair Poker is offering its player the chance to earn a $100,000 sponsorship deal through the Grand Series of Poker.
The sixth edition of the GSOP begins Feb. 27 on the online poker site and scoring a GSOP Hat-trick is all it will take to win your way in to some of poker’s biggest live and online events.
$100,000 worth of buy-ins is up for grabs for the first player to finish in the top three of any three of 15 GSOP events on Betfair before the series wraps March 13.
Plus, a $15,000 package including entry into the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event is available for the first five who final table three GSOP VI events.
The first ten players to make the money in three events will also win a $1,500 package including entry into the Betfair Poker LIVE!
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Eugene Katchalov beat Daniel Negreanu heads-up to win the $100k buy-in Super High Roller event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure on Saturday.
Eugene Katchalov
Katchalov, a 29-year-old Ukrainian immigrant who now lives in Brooklyn, NY, took down $1.5 million for outlasting all 37 players in the elite event.
“I feel great about it because the competition was so tough,” said Katchalov. “It
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With the NFL season out of the way, The World Poker Tour’s revamped show takes center stage, premiering on Fox Sports this Sunday.
The WPT has spent the last year getting a facelift and the new, fresh, hip, and edgy version of the show that helped kick off the first poker boom will debut on FSN at 8 p.m. Feb.
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Austrian Octavian Voegele burst onto the live poker scene with three final tables in the series and a third-place finish in the main event at ANZPT Adelaide in 2010.
This year he came back and won it all.
Voegele came into the 2011 ANZPT Adelaide main event final table as the chip leader and kept his foot on the gas the whole way.
He lost his grip on the lead four-handed, but battled back to beat Jesse McKenzie heads-up and collect an AUD$148,900 first-place prize.
A total of 253 players entered the AUD$2,400 event setting a new record for poker in South Australia and creating an AUD$551,540 prize pool that paid 27 spots.
19 different countries were represented in the tournament.
Next up for the PokerStars ANZPT is a stop in Perth March 23-27.
Here’s how the Adelaide final table finished up:
1 Octavian Voegele $148,900
2 Jesse McKenzie $99,260
3 Ian Parnell $55,150
4 Andrew Dales $44,670
5 Charles Caris $35,850
6 John Apostolidis $27,570
7 Jeff Rossiter $19,300
8 Danny Chevalier $14,060
9 Oliver Grujic $11,040
