South African James Parker took down the second leg of the Genting Poker Series in Sheffield from 12-16 March 2014. Parker outlasted the 21 hopefuls who returned for Sunday’s final day and picked up £22,120 and the trophy to take home to SA after a heads-up battle with Richard Kellett. When it got to heads-up…
Andrea Dato made it third time lucky at the WPT Venice Carnival 2014 main event, defeating Britain’s Sam Trickett heads-up for the title and €105,000, after having made the final table twice before in 2011 and 2012. Trickett, who signed a sponsorship deal with Everest Poker earlier this week, held an almost 3:1 chip lead…
Just two weeks left to win a place in the first Welsh Poker Series event of 2014. The Grosvenor Casinos-organised tournament runs from 28-30 March 2014, with two day ones at Swansea and Cardiff respectively, followed by day two in Cardiff on 30 March. Satellites are running on Monday in Swansea and on a Wednesday…
Sam Trickett heads the cast going into today’s final day of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Venice Carnival. The new face of Everest Poker and Britain’s biggest live tournament earner is second in chips as he pursues his maiden WPT title. But the man leading the way is Andrea Dato, who will be hoping it’s…
Aspers Casino was the venue for Apat’s Newcastle ‘Lite’ festival from 1-2 March 2014. The two-day mini-festival included four events. First up on the Saturday was a £50+£5 hold’em deepstack; followed by a £25+£5 hold’em tournament. On Sunday there was a repeat of the opening event, followed by a £25+£5 PLO competition. Mark Robinson took…
The Sussex Masters will take place at the Rendezvous Casino in Brighton from Monday, 31 March, to Sunday, 6 April 2014. See the poster for details.
Juan Benito won £6,240 after taking down the second leg of the Super Stack Series at the Mint Casino in London from 21-23 February 2014. Benito was the only survivor from a starting field of 158 entries, which put £23,700 in the prize pool for the £150 (plus £15) tournament. Benjamin Garcia (£5,600) finished runner-up…
Allan Pike has taken down the Spring Classic at London’s Hippodrome Casino from 7-9 March 2014. Pike, who picked up the £10,959 top prize, trophy and a seat to the Hippodrome’s Summer Classic, went into his heads-up duel with Jeraint Hazan a 1:3 dog but took a huge bite out of Hazan’s stack early on…
Rhys Jones has been crowned champion of the second leg of the 2014 GUKPT in Manchester from 2-9 March. Jones wins £42,000 for his exploits, which included leaving Simon Deadman as the bridesmaid once again. Deadman was runner-up in the opening leg of the 2014 Genting Poker Series in Birmingham last month, runner-up in the…
The next Bristol Masters main event at the Rainbow Casino is scheduled for 5 April 2014. Satellites to the £220 buy-in event are running every Monday and Thursday at the casino, with a 7.30pm start. The satellites are free to enter (3000 chips), with optional £10 rebuys (3000 chips); plus an optional £10 add-on (6000…
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.…