The PokerStars UKIPT Series returned to the Hippodrome Casino in London from 26-29 March, with Malaysian Chris Yong the dominant force with his hyper-aggressive style of play responsible for a string of eliminations and him winning the trophy and £10,986. A total of 160 players created a prize pool just short of £39,000 with Yong…
Three more names have been added to the 25/25 Series honour roll for 2015, with Zack Rosen winning in Plymouth from 5-8 March and Michael Ramsay and Alexander Peel taking the titles in Coventry and Bradford from 16-22 March. Rosen, who finished third in the Sky Poker UK Championship Turbo event just over a year…
The second leg of this season’s GUKPT took place at Manchester’s G Casino from 8-15 March, with Ali Mallu lifting the winner’s trophy. After battling his way through nearly 200 players, the GUKPT regular was one of 14 players who returned on Sunday for the final day’s play. As the action progressed and the final…
Legendary Manchester United football boss Alex Ferguson cut his teeth at Aberdeen and so did his poker-playing namesake, claiming his first big tournament in the same city. Alex Ferguson, the poker player, scored a healthy £10,800 bonus after taking down the Aberdeen 25/25 Series event at the Grosvenor G Casino from 26 February-1 March. The…
A cool £1m guarantee tempted over a thousand players to Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn casino for the Sky UK Poker Championships from 22 February-1 March. A tense final day of action saw 31 players return for a shot at glory, but there was only one person who’d walk away with a cheque for the £200,000…
The Live Local Series hit Dublin from 19-22 February, with Colm Hanlon the winner of the 888-sponsored event. The tour, which started life in London at the start of the month, attracted a field of 170 entries, generating a total prize pool of €32,980 for a €200, plus €20, buy-in event. The tournament attracted some…
Two more 25/25 Series champions have been crowned, with Dan Clark outlasting 195 runners in Cardiff from 12-15 February and Ravi Sharda the last man standing in Reading from 19-22 February. Clark took the honours in the first 25/25 event staged in Wales, topping an impressive field at the G Casino in Cardiff after a…
Christopher Gordon outlasted a field of 594 entrants at the WPT National London event at Aspers Casino in Stratford from 12-15 February to claim a first prize of £22,500. Just 24 players were still in contention for glory at the start of play on Sunday but it didn’t take long to reach the final table…
The Dublin Poker Festival took place at the Regency Airport Hotel from 30 January to 8 February, with the €200 Amateur Championship Of Poker (ACOP) main event opening the show. A field of 457 runners brought a prize pool of €77,690, with David O’Kelly beating Darren Millar heads-up for the top prize of €15,900, Millar…
The Grosvenor 25/25 Series continues to draw big fields producing hefty prize pools and the events in Thanet and Newcastle from 5-8 February proved no different. A field of 152 runners in Thanet created a £30,400 pot of prize money, with Uzzol Miah the major beneficiary after he pocketed a career-best score of £9,000 after…
The opening leg of the new Genting Poker Series season saw Chris Johnson become the first to join the 2015 roll of honour. Johnson, who took down the PokerStars Sunday Million in April last year for more than US$191k, topped a 404-runner field at Star City in Birmingham from 2-8 February. Johnson dominated the final…
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) was at The Poker Room at the Victoria Casino from 25 January to 1 February and crowned its first winner of 2015 when Victor Ilyukhin took the honours in the main event. The 63-year-old Russian topped a field of 289 entrants and pocketed a career-best score of £83,600. The…
