Dave Etherington took the trophy in the 25/25 Series event at the Grosvenor Casino in Huddersfield from 12-14 December after a three-way chop that saw Matt Wood take the biggest slice of the prize pool. Wood pocketed £7,100, with Etherington and Rob Knights taking £4,350 each. The players then played on for the trophy, Etherington…
Mark Evans walked away from the Genting Club Sheffield £54,060 richer after beating Tom Langley heads-up to become GPS Grand Final champion. Just 14 players from the 255-runner field returned for the final day’s play with Dahe Liu leading the way on 1,086,000 and Yucel “Mad Turk” Eminoglu in second place on 993,000. And that…
Leg 7 of the Bristol Masters at the Rainbow Casino from 6-7 December saw Nicholas Blake take the title after a heads-up deal with Richard Swatton that saw the players split the £18,490 for the top two places. Robert Astle finished in third place for ££4,060, with Angelos Goulianos fourth, Sebastian Parsons fifth, Aaron Wilson…
The £200 + £20 WSOP Christmas Cracker at the Rendezvous Casino in Brighton from 5-7 December attracted 113 entries, with 31 players returning on Day 2 to battle it out for a share of the £22,600 prize pool. The lion’s share of the loot went to Siamak Siamak, who beat Shah Athar heads-up to take…
The Nottingham leg of the 25/25 Series at the G Casino produced an enormous £9,000 overlay and one man not complaining about that is Liam Batey, who took down his second 25/25 title in the space of two months to pocket £7,875 after beating Steve Brown heads-up. Following on from his great win in Sheffield…
Britain’s Alex Goulder claimed the WPT Prague title and €105,000 after a gruelling 115-hand heads-up battle with Sweden’s Niclas Adolfsson. A total of 19 players returned for Day 3 at the King’s Casino in Prague, with World Series of Poker bracelet-winner Simeon Naydenov the chip leader on 821,000 and Goulder with just over half his…
Paul McTaggart claimed the 25/25 Series crown in Edinburgh after agreeing a three-handed deal with Chun Lee and Tommy Noble at the Maybury Casino. The deal saw McTaggart take the title and £10,400, with Lee the runner-up for £9,160 and Noble third for £8,900. Joyce Fleming picked up £3,660 for fourth place after shoving all-in…
Martynas Valkyunas has won leg 12 of the 888 Super Stack Series event at the Genting Cromwell Mint in London from 28-30 November, scooping a £5,750 first prize. A total of 118 entries generated a £18,450 prizepool, with 39 players making it through to Day 2. Valkyunas started the day as one of the shorter…
Ben Elms became the fourth Welsh Poker Series champion of 2014, when he took down the year’s second final in Swansea on 30 November. Elms amassed a stack of 197,150 on Day 1A in Cardiff on Friday to head into Day 2 at the Grosvenor Casino third in chips, behind John Cann and Leslie Tucker,…
Iaron Lightbourne has walked away with the 2014 Unibet Open London main event and £70,000 for his efforts at the Aspers Westfield Stratford City. Lightbourne was 14th of the 16 players who returned for the final day on 477,000 chips, about a third of the stack of chip leader John Yadgar at the start of…
The €25,000 guaranteed Boylepoker Masters attracted 226 entries, with Adrian Tracey scooping €6,040 as champion at the Maldron Hotel in Dublin on 30 November. The €130 + €20 one-day event generated a total prize pool of €29,380, with Tracey doing a deal with John Weafer heads-up to take the title. When the nine-handed final table…
Colourful Irishman Charlie Carrel is the new GUKPT Grand Final champion after surviving a field of of 212 entrants at The Poker Room at the Victoria Casino to earn himself a £108,625 payday. The final nine included 2010 GUKPT Bolton winner Priyan De Mel, 2013 World Series of Poker Europe winner Adrian Mateos, 2013 GUKPT…