Shirley Cole

Cole second woman to win APAT national title

The Amateur Poker Association and Tour (APAT) crowned its second female national main event winner when the tour stopped off in Luton for the English Amateur Poker Championship from 6-7 September. Shirley Cole followed in the footsteps of Marie Sherwood, who won the European Amateur Poker Championship at Brighton in 2012, to become only the…

Harry Law

Harry lays down the Law in Leeds

Harry Law became the first ever GUKPT main event champion in Leeds, taking down the eighth leg of the 2014 tour at the Grosvenor Casino Leeds Westgate from 4-7 September. Law outlasted the 16 hopefuls who returned for Day 3 from a field of 228 to claim the £32,500 first-place prize. The day started slowly,…

Esfandiari Laak

Laak and Esfandiari on New Orleans Discovery tour

Phil Laak and Antonio Esfandiari are set to star in a new Discovery Channel show called Underground Poker. Part of the channel’s All-In, All-Night series of card-themed shows, Underground Poker will follow the two poker pros as they travel to New Orleans in search of underground poker games. According to the blurb for the show…

Unibet Open

Warm-up for the London Unibet Open

The Unibet Open comes to Aspers Casino Stratford in November and in anticipation of the big event the casino is running warm-up events starting on Saturday, September 6. The events will incorporate all the benefits of the Unibet Open itself, but at a much more manageable £165 buy-in (registration fee included). The first event gets…

Mansion Poker

Mansion Poker to pull out of UK market

Mansion Poker has officially decided to close its doors to its UK customers from 15 September 2014, according to an e-mail sent out by the poker room. Customers playing from the UK, or anyone who has found this message in their inbox, should cash out immediately, with Mansion recommending Titanbet Poker as an alternative. Mansion…

Pokercent

PokerCent operations suspended by regulator

The United Kindgom Gambling Commission (UKGC) has suspended the gambling licence held by Silverline Interactiv Technologies, the company that runs the independent poker room PokerCent. According to the regulator, the suspension came after the commission ordered a review of the operator’s activities following a complaint by a player who claimed he had not been able…

PokerNews Cup

Qualify for the PokerNews Cup in Vienna

The sixth edition of the PokerNews Cup is scheduled to run from 9-12 October at the Montesino Pokertainment Centre in Vienna, Austria. The 2014 version of PokerNews’ own live poker series aims to repeat the success of past years and will feature a €75,000 guaranteed main event (€250 buy-in), an €8,000 guaranteed second-chance tournament (€75),…

Williams scoops the loot in Reading 25/25

There were 66 players who returned for day two of the 25/25 Series event at the G Casino in Reading from 29-31 August, with Sean Williams winning the heads-up battle with Mark McCloughlan for the title and £3,030 after a four-handed deal was reached that saw them both pocket £7,000 along with Kelly Saxby and…

Justin Astley

Astley never gonna give up top spot

After three opening flights bringing 273 entries, 78 players returned to the G Casino in Bolton for day two of the 25/25 Series, with a five-handed deal seeing Justin Astley take the title and £11,000. Down to the final five after John Cullen’s exit in sixth place, the players decided to do a spilt roughly…

Carlo Hassan

Hassan the man at Cromwell Mint

A total of 46 players returned to the Genting Cromwell Mint in London for the final day of the August 888 Super Stack Series, with Carlo Hassan the last man standing to take the title and £4,470. At the start of the final day of leg 24 of the series, Hassan was fourth in chips…

Andre Lettau

Lettau lands landmark EPT title

EPT Barcelona drew the largest ever field for an EPT main event, a total of 1,496 players turning out for the 100th edition and creating a €7,480,000 prize pool, with German online poker pro Andre Lettau taking it down for his first live title and €794,058. The 27-year-old entered the final table in the middle…

Ihar Soika

Soika wins record-breaking high-roller

The European Poker Tour Barcelona €10,300 High Roller attracted a massive 393 entries, smashing all previous records for an EPT high-roller event and the man to benefit most from the huge field was Ihar Soika from Belarus who took the title and €747,200 first-place prize. With just three tables left on Day 3 and the…