The Poker Room, above the Grosvenor Victoria Casino on London’s Edgware Road, is staging a special tournament as part of the venue’s 50th anniversary celebrations. The £100+£10 Golden Five-O! tournament will have five day ones, running from 14-18 April 2014 from 7.45pm, with an extra day one at 12pm on the Friday. Days two and…
It was the final table of the 10th UK Student Poker Championships high-roller event at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on 10 April 2014 and for the second year running Simon Priddis (Southampton) took the title. With three players remaining Priddis, Sam Wain (Glasgow) and Jack Averty (Aberystwyth) agreed an ICM chop with Wain pocketing…
Day 1B of leg three of the 2014 Genting Poker Series gets underway on Friday, 11 April 2014, at the Genting Club Westcliff in Southend. Day 1a started with just 40 players and after nine levels of late registration it finished with 77 entries, of whom 25 made it through to day two tomorrow. Finishing…
The Boylepoker IPO London got underway on 10 April 2014, with 15 hopefuls making it through to day two on Sunday at the Aspers Poker Room in east London. Day 1b starts on Friday at 3pm and day 1c is on Saturday from noon. Chip leader after day 1A is Eric Ramkeesoon with 195,400, closely…
Organisers of the DeepStacks Poker Tour have decided to host a stop in London for the first time later this year. Having established itself in the United States as a mid-stakes poker festival focusing on value and world-class structures, the DeepStacks Poker Tour feels the time is right to increase its global footprint with a…
Andrew Teng became a double Grosvenor UK Poker Tour winner when he added the title of GUKPT Edinburgh champion to his GUKPT Thanet victory from 2008. Taking place from 2-6 April 2014 at the Grosvenor Maybury casino in Edinburgh, Teng went into Sunday’s final day second in chips, his 586,000 stack trailing only that of…
Former World Series of Poker main event finalist Jonathan Kalmar took down the latest £150,000 guaranteed Deepstack at the Dusk Till Dawn casino in Nottingham from 3-6 April 2014. There were 280 players who signed up for the £500+£50 buy-in, with 91 making it through to Sunday’s day two and of those only 34 were…
WSOP bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche holds the chip lead going into the final day of the GUKPT Edinburgh main event but Scotland’s Ross Loggie, who has been among the chip leaders since the opening flight on Thursday, and Grosvenor-sponsored pro Jeff Kimber are among those ready to take those chips away. The unfortunate bubble boy…
Kyriacos Dionysiou, more commonly known as Greek Jack, took down his second Dusk Till Dawn Deepstack from 6-9 March 2014, winning £32,500 and a UKIPT Nottingham seat in the process. In all 260 players took advantage of the £150,000 guarantee, with 53 of those playing the online day one, and 73 making it through to…
The second leg of the Poker Player Tour takes place at the Grosvenor Casino in Edinburgh on Sunday, 6 April 2014, having opened up in London last month at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino when Ben Mammo picked up nearly £3,000 and the trophy. It’s the first of two one-day events and promises to be a…
The JP Poker Masters returns to the City West Hotel in Dublin from 11-12 April 2014 as part of the Norwegian Championships festival, which runs from 4-13 April. More than 2000 players are expected to attend the festival, which includes 56 tournaments with buy-ins ranging from €60 to €2000. Now in it’s seventh year, the…
Welsh Poker Series Swansea satellite qualifier Malcolm Linton will be returning to the G Casino, Cardiff, in July to take part in leg six of the GUKPT having won his seat as the longest-lasting satellite qualifier on the final day of the opening WPS event of 2014, which took place at the G on 30…