Plymouth’s Michael Dorman is the 2014 UK Student Poker Champion after taking down the £35 main event at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on 13 April 2014. Dorman was chip leader with a 2,021,000 stack as 16 runners from a field of 544 returned to the G Casino on Sunday for the final day’s play.…
Thomas Postlethwaite returned to the Hippodrome Casino in London’s Leicester Square on 13 April 2014 along with 90 other players who nursed ambitions of being the latest UKIPT Series champion, but it was the man from Cambridge who lifted the trophy and took the plaudits at the end of the day. In total 312 runners…
It took only seven hands of heads-up play before Vaidas Siriunas was crowned champion of the 25/25 Series Midlands leg in Leicester on 13 April 2014. Following the elimination of Eleanor Gudger in third place it came down to a battle between Siriunas and Mike Brown for the title, with the outcome decided after Brown…
Jason Duke (232,000) heads the list of 59 players returning to the Grosvenor Casino in Leicester on 13 April 2014 for day two of leg three of the Midlands 25/25 Series. Duke has 60k more than his nearest rival Danish Gandhi on 176,100. Of the 59 who return only 17 will get paid, with Duke…
From a field of 313 players, 91 will return to the Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square, London, for the UKIPT Series 4 final day on 13 April 2014. Victor Ilyukhin heads the list of qualifiers with 189,800 chips, 35k ahead of Richard Paul on 154,100, with day 1A chip leader Rafal Gizinski third on 149,500.…
It’s down to the final day at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, where the UK Student Poker Championships are taking place at the G Casino on 13 April 2014. From a field of 544 we’re down to 16 in the main event with Michael Dorman sitting on a 2,021,000 stack the chip leader, with Ryan…
Day two at the Genting Poker Series in Southend on Saturday, 12 April 2014, started with 81 players, with Wenbin Chen the chip leader but he was one of the 72 players not to make it through to day three, going out on the bubble in 29th place. In a three-way all-in Chen held Q-10…
The Poker Room, above the Grosvenor Victoria Casino on London’s Edgware Road, is staging a special tournament as part of the venue’s 50th anniversary celebrations. The £100+£10 Golden Five-O! tournament will have five day ones, running from 14-18 April 2014 from 7.45pm, with an extra day one at 12pm on the Friday. Days two and…
It was the final table of the 10th UK Student Poker Championships high-roller event at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on 10 April 2014 and for the second year running Simon Priddis (Southampton) took the title. With three players remaining Priddis, Sam Wain (Glasgow) and Jack Averty (Aberystwyth) agreed an ICM chop with Wain pocketing…
Day 1B of leg three of the 2014 Genting Poker Series gets underway on Friday, 11 April 2014, at the Genting Club Westcliff in Southend. Day 1a started with just 40 players and after nine levels of late registration it finished with 77 entries, of whom 25 made it through to day two tomorrow. Finishing…
The Boylepoker IPO London got underway on 10 April 2014, with 15 hopefuls making it through to day two on Sunday at the Aspers Poker Room in east London. Day 1b starts on Friday at 3pm and day 1c is on Saturday from noon. Chip leader after day 1A is Eric Ramkeesoon with 195,400, closely…
Organisers of the DeepStacks Poker Tour have decided to host a stop in London for the first time later this year. Having established itself in the United States as a mid-stakes poker festival focusing on value and world-class structures, the DeepStacks Poker Tour feels the time is right to increase its global footprint with a…