London’s Royal Courts of Justice has ruled against the Gibraltar Betting and Gaming Association (GBGA) legal challenge to the United Kingdom’s Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act. Last week Lord Justice Green handed down a judgement supporting the United Kingdom Gambling Commission’s introduction of the gaming law’s new licensing system, a 15 per cent point of…
The ‘craic’ in Dublin has made The Irish Open one of the most popular poker festivals in Europe and now sponsor Paddy Power is aiming to replicate that atmosphere in a three-day event across the Irish Sea in Manchester. Paddy Power has teamed up with the Manchester235 casino to host the MADchester Poker Open from…
UKIPT season four Edinburgh winner Dean Hucthison can justifiably claim to be the best poker player in the UK and Ireland after being crowned Champion of Champions and winning entry to all UKIPT season five events in 2015. With 17 players eligible to take part in the Champion of Champions event only 10 were seated…
APAT’s first visit to Leeds for the UK Amateur Poker Championship attracted 123 players, with Carl Norris the sole survivor after two gruelling days at the felt to take home a gold medal and £2,815, plus a seat into the APAT World Championship of Amateur Poker next year. Norris defeated APAT legend Rob Swindells heads-up…
Michael Crawford, not aka Frank Spencer, did find The Knack for success like his more famous theatrical namesake though when he took down the 25/25 Series in Edinburgh from 9-12 October. With 232 runners over the three opening flights producing a £46,400 prize pool at the Maybury Casino, it was Crawford who bagged the biggest…
Start-of-day chip leader David Corbin was crowned PokerPlayer Tour Cardiff champion after 10 players came back for Day 2 at the G Casino on 12 October. The final 10 returned with only eight set to get paid but before any cards had been dealt a deal was done to see all players picking up some…
Brett Angell topped a field of 1,089 runners at UKIPT London to net the biggest live score of his career, securing a bumper £115,083 payout after beating Switzerland’s Fabrizio Fuchs heads-up. With both players holding deep stacks at the start of heads-up play they agreed a chop that saw £10,000 left to play for with…
Dan Colman, who took down the WSOP Big One For One Drop event in Las Vegas in the summer, is on a winning streak at the moment having emerged triumphant in the WPT Alpha8 at the Palm Beach casino to extend his earnings to almost $22 million in 2014 – and there are still two…
The only Welshman at the table, Vasos Petrou, took the title in series six of the Rainbow Bristol Masters from 4-5 October after a four-way deal saw the remaining £20,000 in the prize pool evenly split with Jake Dursley, Neil Whitby and Yadi Ahmadi. A total field of 136 players, plus 19 rebuys, put £31,000…
The man to emerge as champion at the Villa Marina in Douglas, Isle of Man, was 24-year old poker pro Josh Hart, who collected £57,484 and a coveted UKIPT trophy as his reward. Englishman Hart beat Irishman Ciaran Heaney heads-up after the pair had agreed a deal that left £5,000 and the trophy to play…
Stephen Allan was the sole survivor from a field of 168 entries, pocketing £8,920 after beating Jason Barton heads-up to win the Salford 25/25 from 3-5 October and also collecting a GUKPT seat from the last-man standing pot. After the players had agreed a deal with £8,920 going to first place and £7,500 for second,…
Poker players from 30 countries have been informed they no longer have the opportunity to play at real-money tables on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. The decision to end PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker operations in so many countries from 1 October comes as part of a new policy adopted by Amaya Gaming, which has…