This Week in Poker: June 16 – 22

This Week in Poker: June 16th - June 22nd
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  • PG News June 23, 2013
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In the PokerGuru feature ‘This Week in Poker’ we bring to you the weekly round up of the biggest online scores by Indian MTT players along with the top stories from both the live and online poker circuit.

Here are this week`s top stories

 

Online Railbird Report

Mumbai based Amit ‘bblacklegend’Jain is the “PokerGuru Star of the Week” after winning 2 PokerStars events in short succession. Amit has been in superb form this week and amassed a total of $ 4,854 in cashes by winning the PokerStars $8.80 NL Hold’em [Turbo], $8K Gtd and the PokerStars $109 NL Hold’em [Turbo], $12K Gtd events.

Delhi based ‘aniceboy’, has also been in good form and the wining spree continued this week with deep finishes in 2 big events i.e. 4th place finish in the PokerStars $109 NL Hold’em [Turbo], $17.5K Gtd for $ 2,371 and a 3rd place finish in the PokerStars $55 NL Hold’em [Turbo,1R1A, $5K Gtd] for $ 1,414.

Other big scorers of the week include Sahil ‘Antilog’ Agarwal who won $2,940.00 for his 2nd place in the PokerStars $54 NL Hold’em [Turbo, Knockout], $16K Gtd, Danish Shaikh won $1,844.70 for 1st place in the 888 Poker The $5,000 Breeze and Romit ‘full_83_tilt’ Advani won $1,211.60 for 2nd place in the PokerStars $10.20 NL Hold’em [Heads-Up, Hyper-Turbo], $3K Gtd.

Full Tilt Poker to Launch Rush Poker Tournament, MTOPS Finale on Sunday

Full Tilt Poker is offering an exclusive and innovative poker format known as Rush Poker, an ultimate high-speed poker experience. Designed to minimize the wait time between hands, the format will bring fast pace poker action for the players. The players can now experience the world’s fastest poker game on FTP and earn up to $250 in cash and win free entry to an exclusive $25K Rush Week Freeroll.

Running from Monday, June 24th to Sunday, June 30th, rush poker is also the fastest way to accumulate Full Tilt Points by playing Rush Poker ring games, Sit & Gos and tournaments during Rush Week and earn up to $250 in cash. In addition, all players who make the final table of a Rush poker Tournament or Sit & Go will receive entry into the exclusive $25K Rush Week Freeroll at 14:15 ET on Sunday, July 7th.

Full Tilt Poker’s MTOPS – Micro Turbo Online Poker Series, comes to an exciting conclusion with the MTOPS Main Event at 16:00 ET today (Sunday), June 23rd. The 15 days of poker action featured 75 micro and low stakes events with a combined prizepool of at least $2,000,000. For those who have not yet entered the exciting tournament, still have a chance to win a share of $1,000,000 guaranteed prizepool in the main event. With starting stacks of 10,000 and a buy-in of just 15$, the main event (No-Limit Hold’em Turbo tournament) gives the players a chance to register up to eight times.

Join the MTOPS on Full Tilt Poker now!

PokerStars $1 Million GTD Zoom Tonight

The Zoom 100 is a new $1,000,000 guaranteed tournament making its debut during the PokerStars 100 Billion Hands Celebration. It’s a Zoom format tourney, taking place on Sunday (today), June 23, at 13:00 ET. Members can buy-in for $100+$9 and there will be a first prize of at least $100,000.

The speed of the format means, you can see more hands in less time, meaning you’ll be in the money much faster than the regular speed tournaments.

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