Living the Dream: April 2017

Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Players Look Back at European Poker Championship 2016

A group of online poker players that won satellite tournaments at Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes Poker got a once-in-a-lifetime chance to play in a massive European poker tournament last summer.

Tim O’Keefe from Texas, USA finished in the money, 22nd for a €6,490 pay day. Here he talks about free schnitzel and other Austrianisms he enjoyed in Velden as well as the first of two key hands in the tournament.

Juicy Stakes online qualifier Mark Dufner recalls two key hands in the tournament.

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European Poker ChampionshipsVelden, Austria -- July 2018This isn't the first time that Hungarian Peter Gall has qualified for a big-money tournament by winning an online satellite at Intertops Poker. This time he came closer than ever!
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Tim and Chris are back with three more online poker players including Elena Stover who'd just placed second at the Borgata Million in Antlantic City. This time our poker adventure took us back to the Caribbean.
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Three online poker players won their way Austria to compete in the Main Event at CAPT Seefeld in February. The two American players learned a lot about playing with Europeans -- and developed a taste for schnitzel!

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Living the Dream followed five online poker players that competed in the CPT Punta Cana Main Event last fall. Two are poker pros and three are recreational players but they all won their way to the Caribbean in online satellite tournaments.

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from the Hard Rock Casino Punta Cana.

At the Punta Cana Poker Classic in October, we met some professional players like Faraz Jaka, the Homeless Millionaire, but mostly we talked to online players that had won their way to the Caribbean and were living the dream at their first big live tournament.

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