Legendary Manchester United football boss Alex Ferguson cut his teeth at Aberdeen and so did his poker-playing namesake, claiming his first big tournament in the same city. Alex Ferguson, the poker player, scored a healthy £10,800 bonus after taking down the Aberdeen 25/25 Series event at the Grosvenor G Casino from 26 February-1 March. The…
A cool £1m guarantee tempted over a thousand players to Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn casino for the Sky UK Poker Championships from 22 February-1 March. A tense final day of action saw 31 players return for a shot at glory, but there was only one person who’d walk away with a cheque for the £200,000…
The Live Local Series hit Dublin from 19-22 February, with Colm Hanlon the winner of the 888-sponsored event. The tour, which started life in London at the start of the month, attracted a field of 170 entries, generating a total prize pool of €32,980 for a €200, plus €20, buy-in event. The tournament attracted some…
Two more 25/25 Series champions have been crowned, with Dan Clark outlasting 195 runners in Cardiff from 12-15 February and Ravi Sharda the last man standing in Reading from 19-22 February. Clark took the honours in the first 25/25 event staged in Wales, topping an impressive field at the G Casino in Cardiff after a…
Christopher Gordon outlasted a field of 594 entrants at the WPT National London event at Aspers Casino in Stratford from 12-15 February to claim a first prize of £22,500. Just 24 players were still in contention for glory at the start of play on Sunday but it didn’t take long to reach the final table…
The Dublin Poker Festival took place at the Regency Airport Hotel from 30 January to 8 February, with the €200 Amateur Championship Of Poker (ACOP) main event opening the show. A field of 457 runners brought a prize pool of €77,690, with David O’Kelly beating Darren Millar heads-up for the top prize of €15,900, Millar…
The Grosvenor 25/25 Series continues to draw big fields producing hefty prize pools and the events in Thanet and Newcastle from 5-8 February proved no different. A field of 152 runners in Thanet created a £30,400 pot of prize money, with Uzzol Miah the major beneficiary after he pocketed a career-best score of £9,000 after…
The opening leg of the new Genting Poker Series season saw Chris Johnson become the first to join the 2015 roll of honour. Johnson, who took down the PokerStars Sunday Million in April last year for more than US$191k, topped a 404-runner field at Star City in Birmingham from 2-8 February. Johnson dominated the final…
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) was at The Poker Room at the Victoria Casino from 25 January to 1 February and crowned its first winner of 2015 when Victor Ilyukhin took the honours in the main event. The 63-year-old Russian topped a field of 289 entrants and pocketed a career-best score of £83,600. The…
The 2015 UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) season got off to a flying start with tournament novice Rapinder Cheema taking down the opening event in London for a cool £78,825. Cheema, whose only previous live score was £320, topped a field of 742 runners at the Hippodrome from 20-25 January to secure his bumper…
Daniel Corbett became January’s fifth Grosvenor 25/25 Series winner when he took down the Manchester leg at the Bury New Road venue from 22-25 January. A total of 282 entries and 14 re-entries produced a whopping £59,200 prize pool in Manchester and, following in the footsteps of previous January winners Ludovic Geilich, Neil Cartwright, Ian…
Hyper-aggressive Scotsman Ludovic Geilich started 2015 as he means to go on by becoming Grosvenor 25/25 Glasgow champion, walking away with the trophy and an £11,850 boost to his bankroll. A record-breaking 258 players packed into the Merchant City Glasgow casino from 15-18 January to create a £51,600 prize pool. And, having eliminated Kieran Woods…
