The APAT 2014 World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP) was held at the Aspers Casino Westfield, London, from 15-21 April 2014, with Tristan Chaplin the WCOAP Main Event champion. When the nine-handed final table was reached Guy Taylor had 280,000 chips, Anthony Gale 1.2m, Stephen Howell 565,000, Claire MacGregor 900,000, Levente Varga 920,000, Rob Quinn…
Since the Barcelona Open in 2004, the EPT had crowned 97 champions before the main event in San Remo from 14-20 April 2014. Of those 97 champions only three were women, Victoria Coren at London in September 2006, Sandra Naujoks in Dortmund in March 2009 and Live Boeree at San Remo in April 2010. So…
Four Irishmen were amongst those who made up the final table at the JP Masters on 12 April 2014 at Dublin’s City West Hotel, but it was Norway’s Johannes Dang Ngo who took the title and €35,500 winner’s cheque. Played out during the Norwegian Festival at the City West Hotel, the JP Masters attracted 364…
Robert McAdam has walked away with £33,730 after winning the 2014 Genting Poker Series Southend main event from 9-13 April 2014. McAdam was one of the shorter stacks at the final table with 409,000 chips, with all eyes on Ben Winsor (1,761,000), Leon Campbell (1,041,000) and Dean Clay (1,040,000). Defending champion Danny Tran took 380,000…
Day 1A chip leader Eric Ramkeesoon has taken down the IPO London for the biggest win of his poker career, a healthy €12,108. Ramkeesoon went into heads-up play at the Aspers Casino in Stratford, London, a 4.2-1.8 underdog after Aziz Kara sent Gavin Markham to the rail in third place for €5,231, but it was…
Plymouth’s Michael Dorman is the 2014 UK Student Poker Champion after taking down the £35 main event at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on 13 April 2014. Dorman was chip leader with a 2,021,000 stack as 16 runners from a field of 544 returned to the G Casino on Sunday for the final day’s play.…
Thomas Postlethwaite returned to the Hippodrome Casino in London’s Leicester Square on 13 April 2014 along with 90 other players who nursed ambitions of being the latest UKIPT Series champion, but it was the man from Cambridge who lifted the trophy and took the plaudits at the end of the day. In total 312 runners…
It took only seven hands of heads-up play before Vaidas Siriunas was crowned champion of the 25/25 Series Midlands leg in Leicester on 13 April 2014. Following the elimination of Eleanor Gudger in third place it came down to a battle between Siriunas and Mike Brown for the title, with the outcome decided after Brown…
Jason Duke (232,000) heads the list of 59 players returning to the Grosvenor Casino in Leicester on 13 April 2014 for day two of leg three of the Midlands 25/25 Series. Duke has 60k more than his nearest rival Danish Gandhi on 176,100. Of the 59 who return only 17 will get paid, with Duke…
From a field of 313 players, 91 will return to the Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square, London, for the UKIPT Series 4 final day on 13 April 2014. Victor Ilyukhin heads the list of qualifiers with 189,800 chips, 35k ahead of Richard Paul on 154,100, with day 1A chip leader Rafal Gizinski third on 149,500.…
It’s down to the final day at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, where the UK Student Poker Championships are taking place at the G Casino on 13 April 2014. From a field of 544 we’re down to 16 in the main event with Michael Dorman sitting on a 2,021,000 stack the chip leader, with Ryan…
Day two at the Genting Poker Series in Southend on Saturday, 12 April 2014, started with 81 players, with Wenbin Chen the chip leader but he was one of the 72 players not to make it through to day three, going out on the bubble in 29th place. In a three-way all-in Chen held Q-10…