Ben Winsor finally took home a trophy after winning the GUKPT Walsall main event from 25 May-1 June 2014. Winsor, who finished fifth in the Genting Poker Series Southend main event in April and fourth in the GUKPT Brighton main event, also collected a cheque for £24,500 after a two-way chop with Simon Deadman. Only…
Leg four of the 25/25 Series South region took place at the Grosvenor Casino, Bournemouth, from 23-25 May 2014, with 178 entries making a total prize pool of £35,600… of which £7,250 went to Leicester winner Vaidas Siriunas. Siriunas bagged his second 25/25 title after agreeing a three-way split of the remaining prize money with…
Iwan Jones staged a fantastic comeback to scoop the 2014 Genting Poker Series Stoke title and its £32,030 first-place prize The final day’s play saw 18 players return to the Genting Club Stoke but Graham Carter, Wayne Rogers, Willie Tann, Guy Taylor, Fareed Hussain, Leon Campbell, Andy Wright, Aziz Miah and Gerald David fell by…
Full Tilt Poker ambassador Martins Adeniya was last of the 29 remaining players from a starting field of 72 when day two of the UKIPT Series £250 + 25 pot-limit omaha event got under way at London’s Hippodrome Casino. Adeniya had fewer than nine big blinds to start the day, but 45 minutes later he…
Andrew White took down the £200+£20 Aberdeen leg of the Grosvenor 25/25 Series from 16-18 May 2014. The 187 entries over three opening flights created a £37,400 prize pool, with £10,850 going the way of champion White. White overcame Grant Cooper heads-up after check-raising his opponent’s river bet of 260k to 760k on a QD-9D-6C-3C-KS…
Aarun Bernard outlasted a field of 112 entries, 13 players short of the £25,000 guarantee, to win the Nottingham leg of the Grosvenor 25/25 Series from 16-18 May 2014 and take away the trophy and £6,100. Going one better than his third-place finish at the Leeds Merrion 25/25 the week before, Matt Eardley finished runner-up…
Duncan McLellan, a humble bricklayer by trade, showed what he’s made of by taking down his second UKIPT event in the space of eight months when he won the main event in Nottingham from 7-12 May 2014. The eight-handed final table at Dusk Till Dawn began at 2pm and was done and dusted with its…
Leg 4 of the Grosvenor 25/25 Series at Merrion Way in Leeds from 8-10 May 2014 produced a whopping 226 entries for a £45,200 prize pool shared between 23 players, with Greg Hunt taking the title, trophy and £10,700. Ali Mallu and Andy Bradshaw led the field of 72 who returned for day two but…
The WPT National UK tour arrived in Newcastle for the first time from 1-4 May 2014. Held at Aspers Casino, the tournament was won by Wolverhampton-lad Darren Mapley, who beat 411 players to the £17,500 first prize. The final day began with 16 players who were quickly whittled down to the final table of nine,…
Chris Cousins went into the third and final day’s play of leg four of the GUKPT in Reading from 30 April-4 May with 345,500 chips to his name, enough to see him start fourth of the 14 remaining players. Otto Richard, Babis Lappas, Callum Smith, start-of-the-day chip leader Fraser Bellamy and Sven Tiesmeyer each lost…
In preparation for the PokerStars UKIPT, Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham hosted a £250 buy-in deepstack from 30 April-4 May. With two online flights and two live flights the £150,000 guarantee for the event was smashed by more than £60,000, with Jiri Sladkovsky taking the lion’s share of the prize pool. With a total of…
It was a case of close but no cigar for England’s Jack Salter, whose fantastic run at the EPT Grand Final in Monte-Carlo from 26 April-2 May faltered at the final hurdle. It took more than 300 hands, nearly 18 hours of play, and seven eliminations on the final day before the 2014 PokerStars €10,600…