Leg 4 of the Grosvenor 25/25 Series at Merrion Way in Leeds from 8-10 May 2014 produced a whopping 226 entries for a £45,200 prize pool shared between 23 players, with Greg Hunt taking the title, trophy and £10,700. Ali Mallu and Andy Bradshaw led the field of 72 who returned for day two but…
The WPT National UK tour arrived in Newcastle for the first time from 1-4 May 2014. Held at Aspers Casino, the tournament was won by Wolverhampton-lad Darren Mapley, who beat 411 players to the £17,500 first prize. The final day began with 16 players who were quickly whittled down to the final table of nine,…
Chris Cousins went into the third and final day’s play of leg four of the GUKPT in Reading from 30 April-4 May with 345,500 chips to his name, enough to see him start fourth of the 14 remaining players. Otto Richard, Babis Lappas, Callum Smith, start-of-the-day chip leader Fraser Bellamy and Sven Tiesmeyer each lost…
In preparation for the PokerStars UKIPT, Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham hosted a £250 buy-in deepstack from 30 April-4 May. With two online flights and two live flights the £150,000 guarantee for the event was smashed by more than £60,000, with Jiri Sladkovsky taking the lion’s share of the prize pool. With a total of…
It was a case of close but no cigar for England’s Jack Salter, whose fantastic run at the EPT Grand Final in Monte-Carlo from 26 April-2 May faltered at the final hurdle. It took more than 300 hands, nearly 18 hours of play, and seven eliminations on the final day before the 2014 PokerStars €10,600…
Day two of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Brighton main event gets underway on 3 May 2014 with last month’s Sussex Masters runner-up Ethan Davey leading the way with 150,000 chips. Fresh from his fifth place finish in the Genting Poker Series Southend main event in April, Ben Winsor returns with a stack of 124,800…
Britain’s Jack Salter goes into today’s final table of the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo as the chip leader with 5,170,000 chips after a remarkable turnaround over the past 48 hours. Salter went into day four as one of the shortest stacks but overtook Mayu Roca in the last hour of play on day…
The weekend of 25-27 April 2014 saw the Grosvenor 25/25 Series hit casinos in Reading and Liverpool. In the Reading leg David Gallagher (pictured above) dealt his way to an £11,370 payout, with his heads-up opponent Ashley Cleaver receiving a cheque for £10,000. Chen Wenbin’s exit in third left Gallagher with 2.9m chips and Cleaver…
Liam Batey won the 8-Max event at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham from 24-27 April 2014. A total of 133 players bought into the £250 buy-in event, leaving the DTD management nursing a near £7,000 overlay on their £40,000 guarantee. In the heads-up battle Batey brushed aside the legendary Willie Tann, leaving the veteran with…
The Grand Finals of season 10 of the European Poker Tour are taking place in Monte Carlo until 2 May 2014 but preliminary details of season 11 have been announced, with this summer’s edition of the travelling tournament shuffling up in Barcelona on August 16. After kicking things off in Catalonia, the eleventh running of…
First organised in 1981 by Irish bookmaker Terry Rogers, the Irish Open is the longest running no-limit Texas hold’em poker tournament in Europe and the second longest in the world after the World Series of Poker. The PaddyPower-sponsored event has been won by the likes of Noel Furlong, Liam Flood, Joe Beevers, Neil Channing and…
Sky Poker will arrive at Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham, in August for the inaugural Sky Poker 6-Max UK Poker Championships, with £1 million in prizes guaranteed across its six events. Kicking off on Thursday, 7 August, and running through to Sunday, 17 August, the 11-day festival will feature six six-max events that have a combined…