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The Weekly Turbo: PokerStars, GPL, Ivey and Gift Guide: Hello, Holidays
- Updated: December 4, 2016
Hello, December. fancy meeting you here. The holidays are now in full swing, with Black Friday and Cyber Monday emails still making their way into the inboxes of millions. With this bombardment of emails and family gatherings, you can miss a lot.
No fear, the Weekly Turbo is here to get you in the holiday spirit and to give you some gift ideas of your own!
The Winner’s Circle
Montreal Nationals win the first GPL Championship for $100,000. The Nationals beat the Berlin Bears in 11 games to claim the inaugural GPL Championship title. Looking back, consider these river decisions from the match.
Patrick Mahoney won Rock ‘N Roll Poker Open at Seminole Hard Rock for $564,227 in a field over 700.
Travis Hartshorn won the $2,700 Borgata Fall Poker Open Championship for $302,978, defeating a field of 489 entries after an approximately six-hour heads-up battle with David Johnston.
Daniel “centrfieldr” Lupo snagged the $13,500 first-place prize of the $50,000 Ultimate Warrior! This and more in the New Jersey Online Poker Briefing.
Marc Wright won the 2016 GUKPT Grand Final, turning £2,125 into £132,380.
“josef_shvejk” won the fifth anniversary edition of the $500,000 guaranteed Mega Deep tournament at 888poker this weekend for $95,333.55.
Ole “wizowizo” Schemion was one of online poker’s big winners Nov. 27. Here’s the rest of the Sunday Briefing.
The Game Changers
PokerStars raked in the news this week. David Baazov secures an alternative investor to fund his bid to purchase and privatize Amaya, former PokerStars employee Paul Tate avoids prison in Black Friday case by forfeiting $119,000, and PokerStars collected its third ‘Poker Operator of the Year’ award at the EGR Operator Awards 2016.
The world’s largest online poker room PokerStars, under an Amaya Inc. subsidiary REEL Europe Limited, was recently granted the first gaming license by the Portuguese gaming regulator Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos (SRIJ) to offer online poker games in Portugal.
Alibaba Sports Group announced its new International Poker Tour, promising over $7 million in prize money.
You don’t know gifting until you’ve seen our 2016 PokerNews Holiday Gift Guide.
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