It was a busy week at Intertops Poker from the 27^th to the 30^th of May as its Wipeout Series kicked off. The Wipeout Series at Intertops Poker is a rather exciting poker tournament that last week featured awesome guaranteed prize pools that this time has been boosted even more for more cash in the game. The Intertops Poker Wipeout XL poker tournament series has been rather popular with poker players around the globe participating in hopes to see bigger guaranteed prize pools.

When it comes to its Wipeout Series which kicked off last week, Intertops Poker offered an impressive prize pool of $32,000. From the 27^th to the 30^th of May, poker players saw the event’s impressive guaranteed prize pool growing with every day starting from $3,000 guaranteed on Wednesday and going to a staggering $12,000 the next day. When it comes to the buy-ins for the event, they were a tiny bit higher, but there were many satellite tournaments offered that attracted interested poker players.

Speaking of satellites for the Intertops Poker Wipeout Series, the $9,000 poker event started at only $0.75 while the $12,000 event started at $5. The action kicked off on Wednesday with hundreds of poker players testing their skills and luck in satellite events as well as in other extra options which were also offered at Intertops Poker.

Loads of Exciting Online Gaming Action

Before the Wipeout Series at Intertops Poker started, the organizers of the event revealed that all of the poker tournaments in the series will be No-Limit Texas Hold’em with initial stacks of 2,000 chips in the game. It was also revealed that blinds will increase regularly every ten minutes. Besides its super popular Wipeout Series, Intertops Poker also offers loads of online casino gaming actions at its casino gaming department which is accessible from the same site.

Running from the 25^th to the 31^st of May, Intertops Poker offered its Extra Spins Week promo at its online casino section. With this exciting promo, registered players at Intertops Poker who deposited at least $30 of more earned 40 free spins playable on the Total Overdrive slot release. For the promotion, players used the TOTAL40 bonus code. Besides, players who deposited $60 or more were rewarded with 70 free spins on the Super Sweets slot release.

Intertops Online Poker Tournaments

Intertops Poker is home to many exciting online poker tournaments with several of them being highly anticipated. Scheduled for the 6^th of June, Saturday, Intertops Poker is hosting its Wanderlust XL poker tournament in Texas Hold’em No Limit starting at 5:15 pm EST. The event comes with a buy-in of $44 + $4 with blinds every eight minutes. As expected, the starting stack is 2,000 chips.

Besides this Wanderlust XL tournament, Intertops Poker is also hosting its Lucky Three poker tournament which is played Monday to Sunday with a buy-in of buy-in: $3 + $0.33. One of the most popular online poker tournaments at Intertops Poker is its Sunday Sundowner Special with $10K guaranteed prize pool offered up for grabs.

Satellites for the event run from Monday to Sunday while the event comes with a buy-in of $100 + $10 with blind levels every fifteen minutes and 10,000 starting stacks. Poker players looking for more online poker actions should also check Intertops Poker Resurrection, The Sunday Six May, Aussie Tournament Series, Honolulu Brunch, Stockholm Sundowner, and Los Angeles Sundowner poker tournaments.

The ninth edition of the highly popular Black Diamond Poker Open finally kicked off on the 28^th of February. Before the poker tournament started, participants have been vying for their spot here by taking part in multiple qualifying events. The ninth edition of the Black Diamond Poker Open offers over $6.3 million in prize money which is guaranteed. The event also features one hundred and fifty events that take place over the course of four weeks until the 31^st of March.

Like every other year, the Black Diamond Poker Open is held at Ignition Poker which is the prominent poker arm of a company that was founded back in September 2016 as Ignition Casino. At the time, the poker site was established by the purchase of the already exiting player base of an American poker product Bovada poker which was owned and operated by the Bodog Group.

All of Bovada’s assets related to its poker product were sold to a Hong Kong-headquartered company Pai Wang Luo. In the beginning, Ignition poker was solely focused on providing poker games to players from the United States. Nonetheless, in July of 2017, the company responsible for the poker site started accepting players from Australia as well.

The Pai Wang Luo Network

Ignition poker is part of a prominent network of sites which was previously known as the Bodog Poker Network before being rebranded as the Pai Want Luo network. The poker players registered at Ignition Poker commonly play against players who are registered at Bodog sites such as Bodog88 and Bodog that operate in several other countries other than Australia and the United States.

When it comes to the Pai Wang Luo poker network’s services, with thousands of active members, it is international in size and scope. After the company responsible for Ignition poker purchased the player base of Bovada, it became the third biggest poker site globally following Bovada ceasing its poker operations. At its peak hours, Ignition poker commonly exceeds over two thousand and five hundred cash games.

The poker site’s main offering revolves around three main poker games including Omaha Hi-Lo, Omaha and Texas Hold’em which are offered in different formats including sit and go, tournament and cash games. Speaking of its tournaments, some of them are series offering multi-million prize polls including the Super Millions Poker Open, Twelve Days of Turbo and Black Diamond Poker Open.

Highlights of the Black Diamond Poker Open

The Black Diamond Poker Open tournament comes with multiple highlights that players do not want to miss. There is also a number of special events that have been added to the schedule including the Tune-Up events, like Special, High Roller, and the Super High Roller. These three special events offer a combined guaranteed prize pool of $384,000.

Then, the tournament’s traditional $100,000 High Roller and Sunday $150,000 events are replaced with $125,000 and $159,000 versions. These return on the 8^th, 15^th, 22^nd and finally 29^th of March with awesome guaranteed prize pools as expected.

There will also be the Mini Main Event which comes with a lower buy-in than the traditional Main Event. The tournament kicks off on the 29^th of March and it offers an awesome guaranteed prize pool of $125,000.

The biggest highlight of the entire event is definitely the Main Event which also kicks off on the 29^th of March and offers a great guaranteed prize pool of staggering $450,000. The Main Event features a buy-in of $425 + $25 and participants can re-enter two times.

he Poker Masters is a popular poker tournament which is played once a year since its inception in 2017. The events of the tournament are played at the luxurious Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Speaking of the events, each tournament included has a buy-in worth of at least $10,000. The Poker Masters almost exclusively features No-Limit Hold’em games which usually attract the world’s best professional poker players.

The most successful players of these events receive the Poker Masters Purple Jacket. The very first edition of the Poker Masters held in 2017 saw a professional German poker player Steffen Sontheimer securing the title. The next year, the tournament introduced a new points system that was used in the 2019 Poker Masters as well.

Structure of the Poker Masters

As previously mentioned, all tournaments at the Poker Masters have buy-ins worth at least $10,000 including the No-Limit Hold’em events. Speaking of the structure of the tournaments, it should be noted that every tournament with a thirty-second shot clock. In other words, every participating poker player has thirty seconds to finish his or her actions. What is even more, all Poker Masters events are broadcasted live on the PokerGo platform.

The very first winner of the Poker Masters Purple Jacket was Steffen Sontheimer while the second winner was Almedin Imširović. The 2019 Poker Masters has been running since the 4^th of November with several events already completed including the Event #6 tournament which included a buy-in of $25,000 and way played in a No-Limit Hold’em gaming format. The winner of this event was Kristen Bicknell who pocketed around $408K which is her biggest career cashout to date.

The 2019 Poker Masters

This field of the tournament consisted of fifty-one players and each game was live-streamed at the PokerGo platform. Thanks to the rather high buy-ins, this tournament doubtlessly attracted plenty of the leading, most successful professional poker players such as Manig Loeser, Bryon Kaverman and Erik Seidel among other prominent names.

In this extremely tough competition, it was Chance Kornuth and Kristen Bicknell who remained until the very end. The two came together in an extremely exciting heads-up game which determined the tournament winner and the winner of the major cash prize. The game saw the two battling back and forth with Chance Kornuth going all-in even two times. However, in the end, it was Kristen Bicknell who survived the game as the chip leaders with pocket eights against Chance Kornuth’s pocket nines.

Both went all-in following Kristen Bicknell taking the lead after earning the river straight which eventually made her the ultimate winner. What is surprising is that Kristen had no intention of playing this tournament and she even said that she just entered on a whim.

The 2019 Poker Masters Event #6 saw many other successful players in the top-ten including Ali Imširović as third-placed who won $178K, Andras Nemeth who pocketed $127K as fourth-placed, Ralph Wong who won $102K as fifth-placed, Ben Heath as sixth-placed who pocketed $76K, David Stamm who won $63K as seventh-placed and Elio Fox as eighth-placed who won $51K.

This year’s Poker Masters has several more tournaments lefts to be played including another super exciting No-Limit Hold’em event with a buy-in of $25,000. There is also another No-Limit Hold’em tournament with a buy-in of $50,000 as well as the $100K Main Event which will take place this week.