The first two stops for season two of the WPT Alpha8 tour will be the Palm Beach Casino in London and the Bellagio in Las Vegas. From 6-7 October 2014, the Palm Beach Casino in Mayfair will host its second WPT Alpha8 event — a £60,000 buy-in non-televised tournament — after welcoming the second stop…
The £250+£25 Hippodrome Summer Classic from 11-13 July attracted 166 entries and a total prize pool of £40,255, with satellite-winner Mike Lee turning his £40 entry fee into a win with the ladies. Lee pocketed £6,800 after a three-hour heads-up battle when his pocket queens held against Paul Romain’s AJ. Lee overturning a 2.5m to…
Season eight of the Amateur Poker Association and Tour got underway from 5-6 July at the Rainbow Casino in Bristol with the £75 Welsh Amateur Poker Championship, supported by a hold’em side event on Saturday and PLO on Sunday. The main event, which attracted a field of 154, went the way of Jake Dursley, who…
Gabriel Tuna was the big fish at the WPT National London from 3-6 July, swimming away with the prize catch of £22,000 and the title. In the heads-up battle at the Aspers Casino Westfield in Stratford, Tuna – who had been the chip leader when 26 players returned for the final day – went into…
The GUKPT made a triumphant return to the Welsh capital from 30 June-6 July 2014 after a four year break. 177 players entered the £550 buy-in main event in Cardiff, including a strong team of qualifiers from the local Grosvenor G Casino. Despite the strong Welsh contingent, nearly half of the £100,000 guaranteed prizepool made…
Briton Simon Deadman scooped the biggest win of his career by topping a 692-runner field to win the $2,500 Hollywood Poker Open main event at the M Resort Casino Spa in Las Vegas from 27-29 June. The first half of 2014 has been a frustrating time for Deadman who has had no-fewer than six runner-up…
There were 52 players who returned to the G Casino in Walsall for day two of the 25/25 Series from 27-29 June, with only Michael Corrigan surviving until the end of it… £7,250 richer and the proud recipient of the 25/25 Walsall trophy. A total of 179 entries contributed to a healthy £35,980 prize pool,…
Tadhg Ryan pocketed a cool €18,250 after winning the Boylepoker IPO Killarney main event from 19-23 June 2014. The final day’s play began with eight players in the hunt for the title but after an hour of play with no eliminations, the players agreed to flatten the payout structure. Two hours later the tournament was…
Leg three of the Scottish element of the Grosvenor 25/25 Series at the Merchant City Casino in Glasgow from 20-22 July attracted 190 entries and a prize pool of £38,000, with Craig Smith taking the title and £11,010 first-place loot. At the start of heads-up play Smith enjoyed a 3.1m to 1.65m chip advantage over…
Spain’s Rodrigo Espinosa emerged the champion from the eight-handed UKIPT Marbella final table after beating Germany’s Christian Bauer to win the €136,000 first prize. The final table started with Norway’s Katja Svendsen looking to become the first-ever female UKIPT champion but she had Britain’s Jake Cody and six other testosterone-fuelled guys standing in her way.…
Despite the distraction of the World Cup, the three flights of the Stockton leg in the Yorkshire section of the 25/25 Series saw a total number of 126 entries to creep above the guarantee by one runner and the major beneficiary of the £25,200 prize pool was Lauren Render, who took home £5,450 and the…
Leg three of the north-west section of the Grosvenor 25/25 Series from 6-8 June produced a £52,800 prize pool after 264 entries signed up for the three opening flights. But after 16 hours of play on day two only Rob Swindells remained from the 59 who returned to the G Casino in Didsbury after his…