Antoine Bernheim won leg 10 of the 2014 Super Stack Series at the Genting Cromwell Mint from 26-28 September. Bernheim won the heads-up duel with Terry Mitford to take home the £4,000 top prize, runner-up Mitford heading home £3,000 richer. A total of 115 entries generated a £17,250 prize pool for the £150+£15 event, with…
Samuel Brennan took the 25/25 Leeds title and £10,385 after agreeing a deal with Dominic Mahoney at the G Casino, Leeds Westgate. The opening leg of the second Yorkshire series of the 25/25 this year, the Leeds 25/25 attracted 219 entries and produced a prize pool of £43,800, with 23 making the money from the…
WPT National London champion Gabriel Tuna bagged another title at the weekend, taking down the 25/25 Brighton event at the Grosvenor Casino. Tuna outlasted a field of 171 to take the biggest portion of the £34,200 prize pool in the £200+£20 tournament. Tuna beat Nathan Burfoot heads-up to pocket £6,146 after going in with 9-5…
Ireland’s Tom Kitt ensured the Winamax Poker Open trophy stayed on home soil by surviving a 994-strong field in the European short-handed championships in Dublin to walk away with €75,000. Despite the predominance of Frenchmen in the lineup, only five of the 25 players returning for the final day were not from France, it was…
Former Aberystwyth student Bruce Jones beat James Baker heads-up to take leg three of the Welsh Poker Series at the G Casino in Cardiff. Jones was the sole survivor from a field of 155 players, who generated a total prize pool of £21,750 for the third event of this year’s WPS, scooping a top prize…
Day 2 Cardiff Robert Cowen is the chip leader going into Day 2 of the third leg of the Welsh Poker Series at the G Casino in Cardiff today. Cowan brings 197,200 chips to the tables from Day 1A in Swansea, with fellow Swansea qualifier Josh Veasey on 164,100 and Robert Quinn in third place…
Britain’s Daniel Smith didn’t have to cross the channel to get to Cannes but the Monaco resident arrived at the Casino Barriere Le Croisette full of hope for a good run at the 2014 Unibet Open, which surpassed even his wildest dreams as he made his first major final table and emerged as the champion……
Ali Ayub took down the Nottingham leg of the Genting Poker Series at Dusk Till Dawn, topping a huge field of 632 to pocket £40,255, but Ellie Biessek scooped the biggest share of the loot after a three-handed deal which also included Mark Elliot. With Biessek holding more than half the chips in play she…
Brazilian footballing legend Ronaldo and multiple tennis Grand Slam-winner Rafa Nadal have scheduled a special heads-up match in London on 6 November. The Duel, won’t be the first time the two PokerStars ambassadors have met on the felt, with Nadal winning in the European Poker Tour Prague Charity Challenge sit-and-go, which also featured Daniel Negreanu.…
The second leg in the of the Grosvenor 25/25 Series in the Midlands region has been won by Andrew Cowley, who beat Michael Brown heads-up to take the title and £7,620. With a field of 116 taking part in the event at the G Casino Coventry from 12-14 September, 36 returned for Day 2 on…
It took 17 levels on the final day, but Help for Heroes ambassador Paul Findlay didn’t mind after he emerged as champion of the UKIPT Series 6 event at London’s Hippodrome Casino from 11-14 September. From the 105 players who started the day it came down to Findlay and Mario Trattou heads-up, with Findlay picking…