Anne Tillotson was crowned 25/25 Series Huddersfield champion, but the win was as much down to her negotiating skills as it was her excellent efforts at the felt from 28-30 March 2014 at the Grosvenor in Huddersfield. With five players remaining the action at the table took a backseat as the wrangling over a deal…
The 25/25 Series in Huddersfield kicks off tonight at the Grosvenor Casino. Leg three of the Yorkshire series takes place from 28-30 March 2014 and has a £200 + £20 buy-in with an unconditional £25,000 guarantee. The starting stack is 25,000 chips and there are three starting flights. Leg one which took place in Leeds…
Another deal and another fist full of dollars, well pounds actually, as Ali Mallu continued his amazing run of form at the G Casino in Manchester from 21-23 March 2014, when he took down the Grosvenor 25/25 Series event. With five remaining, the players cut a deal which saw Mallu add a further £15,260 to…
With just the trophy to play for after a three-handed deal was hatched in the Grosvenor 25/25 Series London leg at The Victoria casino from 14-16 March 2014, it was Adrian Soriano Aleman who got to take it home. Soriano Aleman had already scooped £15,000 after the deal was done, but it took a further…
Dean Lyall took down the Grosvenor 25/25 Series event at the Merchant City Casino from 14-16 March 2014, beating David Gillies heads-up to claim the title and £12,000. Of the 212 players who began the tournament, it came down to two, with heads-up play starting with Lyall enjoying a 2:1 chip advantage over Gillies. And…
George Westwood survived the longest final table ever in the 25/25 Series to take down the Coventry leg from 28 February-2 March 2014 at the Ricoh Arena. Westwood battled it out for 17 hours – from 12 noon on Sunday to 5am on Monday morning – before beating David Stephenson heads-up to claim the title.…
Adam Davies battled his way though a field of 269 to win the Salford leg of the 25/25 Series from 14-16 February 2014 after a six-way deal. Davies shared the top prize of £8,000 with Gerald David, the former taking the title the latter a GUKPT seat. Lee Collins, Graeme Crozier, Hussain Patel and Alan…
Sam Razavi has won the Portsmouth leg of the Grosvenor 25/25 Series. Razavi outlasted a field of 264 runners at the city’s G Casino from 21-23 February 2014 to take top honours. With the clock just past 3am Razavi sealed the win, hitting his flopped open-ended straight draw on the turn to beat Manuel Bardon’s…
Marc Leishman won the 25/25 Series event in Dundee from 31 January to 2 February. Leishman had to work hard for his £12,000 first prize after enduring an epic 16-hour final day to claim the money. The clock was approaching 4am when Leishman finally sealed the victory, establishing a crucial lead when his A7 held…
Maqbool Hashim beat Christopher Cooper heads-up to scoop the Luton leg of the 25/25 Series from 31 January to 2 February 2014. Champion Hashim took home a cheque for £12,030; with runner-up Cooper pocketing £8,180 and £5,260 going to third-place finisher Stephen O’Keefe.
Local-lad Alex Spencer won the Sheffield leg of the Grosvenor 25/25 Series from 24-26 January 2014 to claim a top prize of £13,150. Spencer beat Michael Kossov heads-up, with Spencer going into two-handed play with a 3.5m to 2.4m chip lead. But with blinds at 30k-60k there was still plenty of room for manoeuvre although…
The winner of the Birmingham leg of the 25/25 Series from 17-19 January 2014 was Tai Hoang, who turned his buy-in of just £200 into £14,000 after beating David Halliday heads-up. A field of 318 entries at the city’s G Casino created a prize pool of £63,600 with Hoang taking the biggest chunk of it…