Vic 25-25

Sweeney bags the loot in Vic raid

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…

Liam Batey

BMX bandit Batey back to winning ways

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.…

G Casino Cardiff

Welsh events for 25/25 2015 programme

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…

Victoria Casino

GUKPT schedule for 2015 announced

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

Pyke hauls in cash of the day at IPO Dublin

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

Adam bags the apples at GUKPT Luton

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

Chen rocks in EPT London High Roller

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…

Seb Pauli

Student Pauli proves the master at EPT London

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…

Jack Salter

Salter nets another big Aussie haul

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…

Royal Courts of Justice

Gambling Act challenge shot down by courts

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…

Manchester365

Try the Irish ‘craic’ in MADchester

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…

Dean Hutchison

Hutchison best of the best on UKIPT tour

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…