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FIRST FEM LE WINNER OF APPT


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Rookie Young-shin Im takes APPT title...


Young-shin Im from Korea became the fi rst female winner of a


PokerStars.net APPT event when she took down the Cebu Season 4 Main Event winning PHP 5,810,000 (approx. USD $132,500). She qualifi ed playing a $22 tournament on PokerStars. This marked Young-shin Im's


fi fth cash on the APPT in the last eighteen months and she's only been playing poker for two years!


ERSTER WEIBLICHER SIEG BEI DER APPT


Young-shin Im aus Korea wurde mit ihrem Sieg im Main Event der 4. Cebu-Season zur ersten Dame, die bei einem Event der PokerStars.net APPT das oberste Treppchen auf


dem Podest erreichte. Ihre Siegprämie belief sich auf PHP 5.810.000 (etwa $132.500). Qualifi ziert hatte sie sich in einem Turnier mit $22 Buy-in auf PokerStars. Für Young-shin Im war es bereits der fünfte Cash bei der APPT in den letzten 18 Monaten – und dabei spielt sie erst seit zwei Jahren Poker!


It's all about the girls... Helena Brett takes care of business at the Betfred Ladies Grand Final


£10,000 ADDED MONEY PULLS THEM IN


competition, the Players’ Championship, showed it was on the right track.


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get the car badge mate... VW? Dominic Kay on track at the Genting Players Championship


Although the buy-in of £165 was small by present day standards players came from all over the country to the Circus Casino, Birmingham. The magnet was the fact that Genting had added £10,000 to the prize pool which ended up at £55,000 plus.


The organisers were clearly in a generous mood as a further £1,300, a seat in their London Palm Beach Casino “Big Game” event, was added while the fi nal table was in progress.


Main benefi ciary was 33-year-old Dominic Kay, an English Literature graduate turned poker pro from London who defeated veteran John Exley at the heads up stage. The pair had done a deal, £12,000 to Kay and £10,900 to Exley and played on for the trophy and the seat. The casino group’s initiative was rewarded with a fi eld of 302 participants for the two day event. Although it was played with 30 minute levels it ran for around ten hours on the fi rst day and a further six hours on day two.


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The Genting group is the latest UK casino chain to start developing its tournament poker market and its fi rst major


BETFRED LADIES GRND FINAL


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Helena Brett secured a £20,000 sponsorship package for 2011 after winning the Grand Final of the Betfred


Ladies’ Poker Tour. The 31-year-old from Staffordshire, who works as the head of commercial activity for a charity, beat Raine Hilson heads-up at London’s Western Club. One of 10 players to contest the Grand


Final, Helena had qualifi ed in July by winning the Northampton leg of the tour, the third of seven live heats.


She said: “It felt a bit surreal to win because I


never expected to, but I’m absolutely buzzing.” “I’d really like to play in the Irish Open and


the Women’s World Open, in which Helen Firth, my predecessor as champion, fi nished second this year,” said Helena. Betfred boss Fred Done hailed Helena as a


worthy winner and a player who will be an excellent representative of his brand during 2011. He said: “I’m delighted for Helena because


she proved throughout this year’s Betfred Ladies’ Poker Tour that she is an extremely talented player with lots of potential.”


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