Following the success of the inaugural WPT500 at the Aria in Las Vegas, online qualifiers are now available for the follow-up event at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham from 11-16 November. With a $500 buy-in, the Aria WPT500 attracted 3,599 runners and shattered its $1m guarantee, with eventual winner Sean Yu, who will be at…
Olivier Busquet, who has accumulated tournament earnings of more than $4.5m in an outstanding poker career, had never before won a major tournament outside his native United States until he took down the EPT Barcelona Super High Roller from 18-20 August 2104. Suddenly his three runner-up finishes – in the Campione Main Event in Season…
The advent of Late Night Poker on Channel 4 in 1999 did much to popularise poker in the UK and appropriately the first person the British public saw taking down a heat was Liam Flood, who booked his place in the first series final in the very first episode. Sadly Flood passed away on Saturday,…
Two opening flights brought a combined field of 582 players to the Boylepoker Summer Series at the Maldron Hotel, Tallaght, in Dublin and generated a prize pool of €75,660. The final table saw John Howlett from Galway out in front with 2.6m chips, followed by John Lyons on 2m and Paul McCaffrey on 1.5m. Peter…
After seven days of play, 26 homininae converged on the Ricoh Arena in Coventry hoping to be crowned king of the jungle. And that honour eventually went to Ryan Foster, who was the sole survivor from a record-breaking tribe of 3,394 who took part in the GUKPT Goliath main event from 10-17 August 2014. With…
Europe’s largest organisation for recreational poker players has a membership of more than 20,000 players and the vast majority of them… no, all of them, especially those from Wales… will have had a huge smile on their faces this morning with the news that Leigh Wiltshire has won the Sky Poker UK 6-Max Poker Championships…
The Sunday Surprise on Winamax on 17 August 2014 has the added bonus of a VIP invite to the WPO Dublin from 23-29 September 2014. The prize covers a round trip from Paris to Dublin for two people, plus accommodation at the Regency Hotel with breakfast. The winner of the Sunday Surprise tournament will also…
Leg four of the Scottish element of the Grosvenor 25/25 Series played out from 8-10 August in Dundee, where Dany Coll was the sole survivor from a field of 170 entries to take the title and £9,000. The tournament reached the heads-up stage just before midnight when Ian Wright opened to 80k with pocket fours…
Leg one of the Midlands region’s latest edition of the 25/25 Series saw a total of 164 entries at the G Casino, Hill Street, from 8-10 August 2014. With a £200 + £20 buy-in that generated a prize pool of £62,600, with the lion’s share going to winner Paul Wilshaw, who collected £5,690 after a…
Leg 23 of the Super Stack Series at the Cromwell Mint on 10 August was the £500 + £50 High Roller. Attracting 21 entries for a total prize pool of £10,500, it was won by James Mitchell, who bagged £4,000 for his efforts. Scotland’s Jenny Sherman received £2,500 as runner-up, with Ireland’s Gerald Crone taking…
Series five of the £200+£20 Rainbow Bristol Masters from 2-3 August 2014 attracted a field of 124, plus 11 rebuys, for a total prize pool of £27,000… a third of which went to champion David Newman. Newman defeated Antonio Pietragalla heads-up to take home £8,260, with runner-up Pietragalla scooping £5,000 along with third-place finisher Aaron…
