25/25 Huddersfield

Trophy for Tillotson, money for Moate

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…

Oleksii Khoroshenin

Khoroshenin strikes a first for Ukraine

Oleksii Khoroshenin became the Ukraine’s first ever European Poker Tour main event champion after taking down the Vienna leg from 19-29 March 2014. A total of 910 players anted up for the main event but it was Khoroshenin who scooped the €578,392 top prize after beating Anthony Ghamrawi heads-up at Vienna’s Hofburg Palace. The final…

Jeff Kimber

Kimber wins the PKR Mixed Max

Jeff Kimber won the inaugural PKR Mixed Max event at Aspers Westfield Stratford from 28-30 March 2014. Kimber was one of 178 players who turned out for the event, which began with nine-handed tables on day one, progressed to six-handed tables on day two, before settling the tournament with a series of heads-up battles. The…

DTD 8 Max

Dusk Till Dawn 8 Max this weekend

It’s day 1C of Dusk Till Dawn’s 8-Max today, with play starting at 5pm and late registration until 9.35pm. The £250 + £25 tournament kicked off online on Thursday, 27 March 2014, with flight 1A and flight 1B took place in Nottingham last night. There’s a £50,000 guarantee for the tournament, including 10 seats into…

Scott Shelley

PKR Mixed Max at Aspers Stratford

Follow the action Tweets by @ It’s day two of the PKR Live Mixed Max event at the Aspers Casino Stratford in London today, with 79 players remaining from yesterday’s nine-handed tables. The ninth PKR Live series sees a format change for the first time for the $450+$50 tournament, which runs from 28-30 March 2014,…

G Casino Cardiff

Welsh Poker Series concludes in Cardiff

The first Welsh Poker Series event of 2014 comes to a conclusion at the G Casino in Cardiff on Sunday, 30 March 2014. Day 1A at Swansea on Friday put £8,700 into the prize pool and day 1B in Cardiff saw the money swell to a massive £23,800, more than £8,000 above the £15,000 guarantee.…

Genting Cromwell Mint

Super Stack Stack returns to Cromwell Mint

The Super Stack Stack series returns to the Genting Cromwell Mint casino in London for leg six this weekend, 28-30 March 2014. There are two flights today, the second of which gets underway at 8pm, and two on Saturday, with day two of the £150 + £15 buy-in event on Sunday. Day 1b registration tomorrow…

Grosvenor Huddersfield

25/25 Series, Yorkshire: Leg 3, Huddersfield

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…

Ali Mallu

Mallu the man at Manchester 25/25

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…

Mohammed Istakhar Sadiq

Sadiq the six-max king at DTD

Mohammed Istakhar Sadiq walked away with £11,300 and the title after winning the £50,000 guaranteed Six Max tournament at Dusk Till Dawn from 20-23 March 2014. Among the 192 runners were some of the country’s top poker talent including Matt Perrins, Willie Tann and Paul Jackson, but it was Sadiq who took top honours. Mike…

Adrian Sorianoaleman

Soriano Aleman wins Vic 25/25 event

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

Fate and Lyall potent force in Glasgow

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…