Ellie Biessek, winner of the Newcastle leg of last year’s Genting Poker Series, will have a £100 bounty on her head on Friday, 7 March 2014, when day 1A of the Genting Club Reading’s March Megastack gets underway at 7.30pm. The Megastack is a £100+£10 tournament with multiple re-entries and a £10,000 guarantee. Day 1B…
Aspers Casino Stratford City is set for a big two months, with March and April 2014 bringing plenty of top-quality poker action to the venue. After last weekend’s highly-successful WPT National at the casino, which crowned Laurence Houghton as its champion, next up is the Coral 30/30 from 15-16 March. The previous instalment brought a…
Win your Way into the £250+25 Spring Classic at the Hippodrome Casino from 7-9 March 2014 in the live satellite at the casino on 6 March. Entry is £35+£5 with a 7pm start, 5k starting stack, 20-minute clock and one rebuy permitted Online satellites are also running on PokerStars. See the website for more details.
Ireland’s Kevin Killeen won the Dublin leg of the UK and Ireland Poker Tour at the historic Round Room at the Mansion House in the heart of the city centre from 27 February-3 March 2014. Killeen’s heads-up battle with Max Silver, looking for his second UKIPT title, lasted around two-and-a-half hours but it was almost…
Laurence Houghton has won the WPT National London over the first weekend in March 2014 at Aspers Stratford City. Houghton collected £29,500, winning a terrific heads-up battle with Arvin Ravindran. In the decisive hand Ravindran, who had just 1.6 million chips (10 big blinds after the blinds popped up before the last deal) shoved all-in…
UK professional poker player and co-founder of Black Belt Poker, Neil Channing has announced the online poker room will shut from midnight on 28 February. Channing assures players that their funds are safe, held by parent skin Boylepoker “in a ring-fenced bank account”. Players are recommended to log in to their accounts by 28 February…
Cathal Shine emerged victorious in the €500+50 European Deepstack Poker Championship main event at the Regency Hotel in Dublin from 17-23 February, after defeating start-of-the-day chipleader Joost Schippers heads-up and winning €38,375 for his efforts. Down to three players a deal was struck that also included Jonas van Bogaert from Belgium, with €4,800 and the…
Alex Spencer, a 21-year-old from Doncaster, has won the the 2014 Sky Poker UK Poker Championship (UKPC) main event. Spencer went into the televised nine-handed final table with over two million more chips than his nearest rival Danny Blair, who he eventually had to battle heads-up for the £125,000 first-place prize. Going into the final…
Tony Martin has won the 2014 Amateur Championships of Poker main event at the Regency Airport Hotel, Dublin, from 15-16 February 2014. Martin beat Germany’s Henrik Christiansen to the title, collecting €10,400 for his efforts, with the German pocketing €7,400 and England’s Luke Daly taking €6,500 for third. Tadas Navickas won the €100 side event…
Sotirios Koutoupas became Greece’s first EPT champion when he outlasted 670 players to take the title in Deauville from 26 January to 1 February 2014. After six exits from the final table at Casino Barriere, Koutoupas faced Eugene Katchalov heads-up for the title. In the end, it was Katchalov who came up short, unable to…
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has an uncanny habit of unearthing new talents. Each of the former champions John Gale, Ryan Daut, Steve Paul-Ambrose, Poorya Nazari, Harrison Gimbel, Galen Hall and John Dibella recorded the first major score of their careers in Paradise Island. Polish player Dominik Panka is the latest to join that list after…
Adam Davies battled his way though a field of 269 to win the Salford leg of the 25/25 Series from 14-16 February 2014 after a six-way deal. Davies shared the top prize of £8,000 with Gerald David, the former taking the title the latter a GUKPT seat. Lee Collins, Graeme Crozier, Hussain Patel and Alan…