The Paddypower-sponsored Halloween Spooktacular Poker Festival at The Red Cow Hotel in Dublin proved to be a happy hunting ground for Billy McCombe. First McCombe pocketed £2,000 for third place in the €100 + €20 side event on 24 October, then he took down the €500 + €60 main event for €18,310 after a two-handed…
After four online flights and eight live flights, the Grand Prix at Dusk Till Dawn attracted 2,013 entrants but there was only one winner… an honour that went to Nicholas Gott, who picked up £35,000 and a WPT500 seat for his efforts. Gott beat Phil Steer heads-up, with Steer winning £21,000 as runner-up. Gott outlasted…
Barry Sweeney won the London leg of the 25/25 Series after a five-handed deal at The Poker Room at the Victoria Casino in London. A total of 387 entries generated a prize pool of £77,400, with Sweeney taking the biggest slice after pocketing £13,340. There were 101 players who made it through to day two…
It’s been a quiet few months for former professional BMX rider Liam Batey since he won the 8-Max event at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham for £8,250 in April, but he was back on top in the Sheffield leg of the 25/25 Series at the weekend, collecting £7,800 after a two-handed deal with Thomas Somerville.…
This weekend’s 25/25 Series events in Sheffield and London come to a close today and there are still another seven events on the 2014 calendar to look forward to before the series returns in 2015 even bigger and better, with casinos in Wales joining the lineup for the first time. The remaining events in 2014…
Just two more dates in the 2014 GUKPT calendar, with leg 10 taking place in Blackpool from 9-16 November and then the Grand Final at The Poker Room at the Victoria Casino on London’s Edgware Road from 23-30 November. But there’s just two months to wait after that for the 2015 series to shuffle up,…
Chris Pyke outlasted the largest field in the history of the long-running IPO Dublin tournament to claim the title and €46,211. The €200+€30 event attracted 1,656 entrants at the Regency Hotel and generated a prize-pool of €331,200, with 619 players making it through to Day 2 and nine returning for the final table on Day…
Adam Reynolds picked up a cool £53,500 after winning leg nine of the GUKPT at the G Casino in Luton from 16-19 October. As heads-up play started Reynolds and Phil Corion were locked together on chips, just four big blinds separating them, so a deal was agreed that saw both bag £50,000, with £3,500 and…
Andrew Chen, who finished second to Davidi Kitai at EPT Berlin back in 2012, battled back from a short stack several times to win the £10,300 EPT London High Roller event for £394,200, after beating Fady Kamar heads-up. With 10 players returning at the start of the final day, Johnny Lodden was the first to…
Sebastian Pauli has won the London leg of the 11th season of the European Poker Tour, with the 25-year-old management and economics student at Ruhr-University in Bochum never surrendering the chip lead from the moment eight players sat down for the final table at the Grand Connaught Rooms. The German was the absolute measure of…
Britain’s Jack Salter narrowly missed out on another big title in Australia, finishing runner-up to Canada’s Scott Davies in the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific main event at the Crown Melbourne resort. Salter, who took down the Aussie Millions Six-Max in February for A$114,000, managed to top that haul at the Crown Melbourne, pocketing A$516,960…