Titan Poker is one of the leading online poker websites and they are delighted to be able to announce that two of their players did really well in the opening event of the fifth series of the European Championship of Online Poker (ECCOP) and they took home a combined total of $80,000.  This is great news for Titan Poker and I’m sure the two players are thrilled with what they took home too.

The fifth series of the European Championship of Online Poker kicked off last Monday with a $250,000 guaranteed no limit hold’em freeze out tournament.  The buy in for this tournament was set at $215 and the Titan Poker player known as thanasis1982 who is from Greece took first place and bagged himself a whopping $52,500.  In second place was another Titan Poker player known as avalika from France.  He took home $27,500 for his part in this tournament.

Titan Poker which is an Antigua licensed online poker website stated that thanasis1982 won after beating 1,240 other people who started in this online tournament.  It took over nine hours of play to complete and this lucky winner will also receive a prestigious Tag Heuer automatic chronograph series Carrera watch that is to engraved with his nickname.

Second place winner avalika said that this was one of his best moments on the net after seeing so many passionate players compete and his is absolutely thrilled with his win.

The European Championship of Online Poker is a two week event and it continues nightly on the Titan Poker website offering a wide variety of online poker games including Texas no limit hold’em, limit hold’em, seven card stud, pot limit Omaha and Omaha high love.  The Championship will end with a $1,500,000 guaranteed main event on the 6^th of December and online qualifiers are still running for this main event with buy ins starting from as low as $1.10.

For all the details on this great event all you have to do is visit the Titan Poker website.  If you are an online poker enthusiast and you would like to get in on all the action and maybe take home some of the prize money that is on offer then you need to go to the Titan Poker website and see how you can join in on the action.

Until next time,

Gamble Wisely

Tags: ECCOP, Titan Poker

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