Day two of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Brighton main event gets underway on 3 May 2014 with last month’s Sussex Masters runner-up Ethan Davey leading the way with 150,000 chips. Fresh from his fifth place finish in the Genting Poker Series Southend main event in April, Ben Winsor returns with a stack of 124,800…
Britain’s Jack Salter goes into today’s final table of the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo as the chip leader with 5,170,000 chips after a remarkable turnaround over the past 48 hours. Salter went into day four as one of the shortest stacks but overtook Mayu Roca in the last hour of play on day…
The weekend of 25-27 April 2014 saw the Grosvenor 25/25 Series hit casinos in Reading and Liverpool. In the Reading leg David Gallagher (pictured above) dealt his way to an £11,370 payout, with his heads-up opponent Ashley Cleaver receiving a cheque for £10,000. Chen Wenbin’s exit in third left Gallagher with 2.9m chips and Cleaver…
Liam Batey won the 8-Max event at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham from 24-27 April 2014. A total of 133 players bought into the £250 buy-in event, leaving the DTD management nursing a near £7,000 overlay on their £40,000 guarantee. In the heads-up battle Batey brushed aside the legendary Willie Tann, leaving the veteran with…
The Grand Finals of season 10 of the European Poker Tour are taking place in Monte Carlo until 2 May 2014 but preliminary details of season 11 have been announced, with this summer’s edition of the travelling tournament shuffling up in Barcelona on August 16. After kicking things off in Catalonia, the eleventh running of…
First organised in 1981 by Irish bookmaker Terry Rogers, the Irish Open is the longest running no-limit Texas hold’em poker tournament in Europe and the second longest in the world after the World Series of Poker. The PaddyPower-sponsored event has been won by the likes of Noel Furlong, Liam Flood, Joe Beevers, Neil Channing and…
Sky Poker will arrive at Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham, in August for the inaugural Sky Poker 6-Max UK Poker Championships, with £1 million in prizes guaranteed across its six events. Kicking off on Thursday, 7 August, and running through to Sunday, 17 August, the 11-day festival will feature six six-max events that have a combined…
The APAT 2014 World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP) was held at the Aspers Casino Westfield, London, from 15-21 April 2014, with Tristan Chaplin the WCOAP Main Event champion. When the nine-handed final table was reached Guy Taylor had 280,000 chips, Anthony Gale 1.2m, Stephen Howell 565,000, Claire MacGregor 900,000, Levente Varga 920,000, Rob Quinn…
Since the Barcelona Open in 2004, the EPT had crowned 97 champions before the main event in San Remo from 14-20 April 2014. Of those 97 champions only three were women, Victoria Coren at London in September 2006, Sandra Naujoks in Dortmund in March 2009 and Live Boeree at San Remo in April 2010. So…
Four Irishmen were amongst those who made up the final table at the JP Masters on 12 April 2014 at Dublin’s City West Hotel, but it was Norway’s Johannes Dang Ngo who took the title and €35,500 winner’s cheque. Played out during the Norwegian Festival at the City West Hotel, the JP Masters attracted 364…
Robert McAdam has walked away with £33,730 after winning the 2014 Genting Poker Series Southend main event from 9-13 April 2014. McAdam was one of the shorter stacks at the final table with 409,000 chips, with all eyes on Ben Winsor (1,761,000), Leon Campbell (1,041,000) and Dean Clay (1,040,000). Defending champion Danny Tran took 380,000…
Day 1A chip leader Eric Ramkeesoon has taken down the IPO London for the biggest win of his poker career, a healthy €12,108. Ramkeesoon went into heads-up play at the Aspers Casino in Stratford, London, a 4.2-1.8 underdog after Aziz Kara sent Gavin Markham to the rail in third place for €5,231, but it was…