Andrew Teng

Teng doubles up with second GUKPT title

Andrew Teng became a double Grosvenor UK Poker Tour winner when he added the title of GUKPT Edinburgh champion to his GUKPT Thanet victory from 2008. Taking place from 2-6 April 2014 at the Grosvenor Maybury casino in Edinburgh, Teng went into Sunday’s final day second in chips, his 586,000 stack trailing only that of…

Jon Kalmer

Jon’s Kalmer after DTD Deepstack success

Former World Series of Poker main event finalist Jonathan Kalmar took down the latest £150,000 guaranteed Deepstack at the Dusk Till Dawn casino in Nottingham from 3-6 April 2014. There were 280 players who signed up for the £500+£50 buy-in, with 91 making it through to Sunday’s day two and of those only 34 were…

Ross Logie

Loggie and Kimber gunning for Nitsche

WSOP bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche holds the chip lead going into the final day of the GUKPT Edinburgh main event but Scotland’s Ross Loggie, who has been among the chip leaders since the opening flight on Thursday, and Grosvenor-sponsored pro Jeff Kimber are among those ready to take those chips away. The unfortunate bubble boy…

Kyrgiakos Dionysiou

Queen offers big reward for Greek Jack

Kyriacos Dionysiou, more commonly known as Greek Jack, took down his second Dusk Till Dawn Deepstack from 6-9 March 2014, winning £32,500 and a UKIPT Nottingham seat in the process. In all 260 players took advantage of the £150,000 guarantee, with 53 of those playing the online day one, and 73 making it through to…

Poker Player Tour

Poker Player Tour in Edinburgh

The second leg of the Poker Player Tour takes place at the Grosvenor Casino in Edinburgh on Sunday, 6 April 2014, having opened up in London last month at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino when Ben Mammo picked up nearly £3,000 and the trophy. It’s the first of two one-day events and promises to be a…

Citywest Hotel

JP Masters returns to City West Hotel

The JP Poker Masters returns to the City West Hotel in Dublin from 11-12 April 2014 as part of the Norwegian Championships festival, which runs from 4-13 April. More than 2000 players are expected to attend the festival, which includes 56 tournaments with buy-ins ranging from €60 to €2000. Now in it’s seventh year, the…

Mal books seat for Cardiff return

Welsh Poker Series Swansea satellite qualifier Malcolm Linton will be returning to the G Casino, Cardiff, in July to take part in leg six of the GUKPT having won his seat as the longest-lasting satellite qualifier on the final day of the opening WPS event of 2014, which took place at the G on 30…

25/25 Huddersfield

Trophy for Tillotson, money for Moate

Anne Tillotson was crowned 25/25 Series Huddersfield champion, but the win was as much down to her negotiating skills as it was her excellent efforts at the felt from 28-30 March 2014 at the Grosvenor in Huddersfield. With five players remaining the action at the table took a backseat as the wrangling over a deal…

Oleksii Khoroshenin

Khoroshenin strikes a first for Ukraine

Oleksii Khoroshenin became the Ukraine’s first ever European Poker Tour main event champion after taking down the Vienna leg from 19-29 March 2014. A total of 910 players anted up for the main event but it was Khoroshenin who scooped the €578,392 top prize after beating Anthony Ghamrawi heads-up at Vienna’s Hofburg Palace. The final…

Jeff Kimber

Kimber wins the PKR Mixed Max

Jeff Kimber won the inaugural PKR Mixed Max event at Aspers Westfield Stratford from 28-30 March 2014. Kimber was one of 178 players who turned out for the event, which began with nine-handed tables on day one, progressed to six-handed tables on day two, before settling the tournament with a series of heads-up battles. The…

DTD 8 Max

Dusk Till Dawn 8 Max this weekend

It’s day 1C of Dusk Till Dawn’s 8-Max today, with play starting at 5pm and late registration until 9.35pm. The £250 + £25 tournament kicked off online on Thursday, 27 March 2014, with flight 1A and flight 1B took place in Nottingham last night. There’s a £50,000 guarantee for the tournament, including 10 seats into…

Scott Shelley

PKR Mixed Max at Aspers Stratford

Follow the action Tweets by @ It’s day two of the PKR Live Mixed Max event at the Aspers Casino Stratford in London today, with 79 players remaining from yesterday’s nine-handed tables. The ninth PKR Live series sees a format change for the first time for the $450+$50 tournament, which runs from 28-30 March 2014,…