Galway’s Fintan Gavin secured his biggest score since becoming UKIPT Edinburgh champion in 2011 when he won the Macau Sporting Club’s Irish Poker Classic in Cork from 12-14 September. Gavin entered the final table as one of the short stacks on 133,500 of the nine competing for the top prize of €20,000. Ronan Gilligan was…
Jonathan ‘Nolte’ Evans – a novice at the poker tables having played some home and online games but who’d never hit the tournament tables in a casino before – scooped a whopping US$337,801 after beating WSOP finalist and recent Heartland Poker Tour winner Aaron Massey heads-up to take down the $500+$60 NLHE Big Stack Re-entry…
The Amateur Poker Association and Tour (APAT) crowned its second female national main event winner when the tour stopped off in Luton for the English Amateur Poker Championship from 6-7 September. Shirley Cole followed in the footsteps of Marie Sherwood, who won the European Amateur Poker Championship at Brighton in 2012, to become only the…
Harry Law became the first ever GUKPT main event champion in Leeds, taking down the eighth leg of the 2014 tour at the Grosvenor Casino Leeds Westgate from 4-7 September. Law outlasted the 16 hopefuls who returned for Day 3 from a field of 228 to claim the £32,500 first-place prize. The day started slowly,…
Phil Laak and Antonio Esfandiari are set to star in a new Discovery Channel show called Underground Poker. Part of the channel’s All-In, All-Night series of card-themed shows, Underground Poker will follow the two poker pros as they travel to New Orleans in search of underground poker games. According to the blurb for the show…
The Unibet Open comes to Aspers Casino Stratford in November and in anticipation of the big event the casino is running warm-up events starting on Saturday, September 6. The events will incorporate all the benefits of the Unibet Open itself, but at a much more manageable £165 buy-in (registration fee included). The first event gets…
Mansion Poker has officially decided to close its doors to its UK customers from 15 September 2014, according to an e-mail sent out by the poker room. Customers playing from the UK, or anyone who has found this message in their inbox, should cash out immediately, with Mansion recommending Titanbet Poker as an alternative. Mansion…
The United Kindgom Gambling Commission (UKGC) has suspended the gambling licence held by Silverline Interactiv Technologies, the company that runs the independent poker room PokerCent. According to the regulator, the suspension came after the commission ordered a review of the operator’s activities following a complaint by a player who claimed he had not been able…
The sixth edition of the PokerNews Cup is scheduled to run from 9-12 October at the Montesino Pokertainment Centre in Vienna, Austria. The 2014 version of PokerNews’ own live poker series aims to repeat the success of past years and will feature a €75,000 guaranteed main event (€250 buy-in), an €8,000 guaranteed second-chance tournament (€75),…
There were 66 players who returned for day two of the 25/25 Series event at the G Casino in Reading from 29-31 August, with Sean Williams winning the heads-up battle with Mark McCloughlan for the title and £3,030 after a four-handed deal was reached that saw them both pocket £7,000 along with Kelly Saxby and…
After three opening flights bringing 273 entries, 78 players returned to the G Casino in Bolton for day two of the 25/25 Series, with a five-handed deal seeing Justin Astley take the title and £11,000. Down to the final five after John Cullen’s exit in sixth place, the players decided to do a spilt roughly…