Dave Collins

Collins takes Newcastle IPO crown

David Collins is the Boylepoker IPO Newcastle champion after beating Darren Knaggs heads-up to take the title after the pair had agreed a deal to share the remaining £1,410 prize-money, with £10 on top for the winner. With the demise of Marc Foggin in third place, Collins was ahead 2.1m to 1.6m after being the…

Ben Gallaway

Gallaway gallops to Portsmouth success

After six hours of final-table action, the Portsmouth leg of the 25/25 Series from 22-24 August concluded with a heads-up deal between chip leader Ben Gallaway and Colin Good, with Gallaway taking the title, the trophy and £9,800. Gallaway, ahead in the chip stakes by about 2.9m to 1.4m after eliminating Rob Udy to take…

Dusk Till Dawn

Qualify for WPT500 at Dusk Till Dawn

Following the success of the inaugural WPT500 at the Aria in Las Vegas, online qualifiers are now available for the follow-up event at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham from 11-16 November. With a $500 buy-in, the Aria WPT500 attracted 3,599 runners and shattered its $1m guarantee, with eventual winner Sean Yu, who will be at…

Olivier Busquet

Busquet a Super star in Barcelona

Olivier Busquet, who has accumulated tournament earnings of more than $4.5m in an outstanding poker career, had never before won a major tournament outside his native United States until he took down the EPT Barcelona Super High Roller from 18-20 August 2104. Suddenly his three runner-up finishes – in the Campione Main Event in Season…

Liam Flood: Gentleman and poker giant

The advent of Late Night Poker on Channel 4 in 1999 did much to popularise poker in the UK and appropriately the first person the British public saw taking down a heat was Liam Flood, who booked his place in the first series final in the very first episode. Sadly Flood passed away on Saturday,…

Maldron Hotel

Done deal at the Summer Series

Two opening flights brought a combined field of 582 players to the Boylepoker Summer Series at the Maldron Hotel, Tallaght, in Dublin and generated a prize pool of €75,660. The final table saw John Howlett from Galway out in front with 2.6m chips, followed by John Lyons on 2m and Paul McCaffrey on 1.5m. Peter…

Ryan Foster

Ryan’s top banana at the Goliath

After seven days of play, 26 homininae converged on the Ricoh Arena in Coventry hoping to be crowned king of the jungle. And that honour eventually went to Ryan Foster, who was the sole survivor from a record-breaking tribe of 3,394 who took part in the GUKPT Goliath main event from 10-17 August 2014. With…

Leigh Wiltshire

Leigh accrues a lot of chips and 110k

Europe’s largest organisation for recreational poker players has a membership of more than 20,000 players and the vast majority of them… no, all of them, especially those from Wales… will have had a huge smile on their faces this morning with the news that Leigh Wiltshire has won the Sky Poker UK 6-Max Poker Championships…

WPO

Winamax: Sunday Surprise

The Sunday Surprise on Winamax on 17 August 2014 has the added bonus of a VIP invite to the WPO Dublin from 23-29 September 2014. The prize covers a round trip from Paris to Dublin for two people, plus accommodation at the Regency Hotel with breakfast. The winner of the Sunday Surprise tournament will also…

Dany Coll

King Coll the champ in Dundee

Leg four of the Scottish element of the Grosvenor 25/25 Series played out from 8-10 August in Dundee, where Dany Coll was the sole survivor from a field of 170 entries to take the title and £9,000. The tournament reached the heads-up stage just before midnight when Ian Wright opened to 80k with pocket fours…

Paul Wilshaw

Wizard Wilshaw conjures up a boat

Leg one of the Midlands region’s latest edition of the 25/25 Series saw a total of 164 entries at the G Casino, Hill Street, from 8-10 August 2014. With a £200 + £20 buy-in that generated a prize pool of £62,600, with the lion’s share going to winner Paul Wilshaw, who collected £5,690 after a…

James Mitchell

Mitchell takes down Mint High-Roller

Leg 23 of the Super Stack Series at the Cromwell Mint on 10 August was the £500 + £50 High Roller. Attracting 21 entries for a total prize pool of £10,500, it was won by James Mitchell, who bagged £4,000 for his efforts. Scotland’s Jenny Sherman received £2,500 as runner-up, with Ireland’s Gerald Crone taking…