UK professional poker player and co-founder of Black Belt Poker, Neil Channing has announced the online poker room will shut from midnight on 28 February. Channing assures players that their funds are safe, held by parent skin Boylepoker “in a ring-fenced bank account”. Players are recommended to log in to their accounts by 28 February…
Cathal Shine emerged victorious in the €500+50 European Deepstack Poker Championship main event at the Regency Hotel in Dublin from 17-23 February, after defeating start-of-the-day chipleader Joost Schippers heads-up and winning €38,375 for his efforts. Down to three players a deal was struck that also included Jonas van Bogaert from Belgium, with €4,800 and the…
Alex Spencer, a 21-year-old from Doncaster, has won the the 2014 Sky Poker UK Poker Championship (UKPC) main event. Spencer went into the televised nine-handed final table with over two million more chips than his nearest rival Danny Blair, who he eventually had to battle heads-up for the £125,000 first-place prize. Going into the final…
Tony Martin has won the 2014 Amateur Championships of Poker main event at the Regency Airport Hotel, Dublin, from 15-16 February 2014. Martin beat Germany’s Henrik Christiansen to the title, collecting €10,400 for his efforts, with the German pocketing €7,400 and England’s Luke Daly taking €6,500 for third. Tadas Navickas won the €100 side event…
Sotirios Koutoupas became Greece’s first EPT champion when he outlasted 670 players to take the title in Deauville from 26 January to 1 February 2014. After six exits from the final table at Casino Barriere, Koutoupas faced Eugene Katchalov heads-up for the title. In the end, it was Katchalov who came up short, unable to…
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has an uncanny habit of unearthing new talents. Each of the former champions John Gale, Ryan Daut, Steve Paul-Ambrose, Poorya Nazari, Harrison Gimbel, Galen Hall and John Dibella recorded the first major score of their careers in Paradise Island. Polish player Dominik Panka is the latest to join that list after…
Adam Davies battled his way though a field of 269 to win the Salford leg of the 25/25 Series from 14-16 February 2014 after a six-way deal. Davies shared the top prize of £8,000 with Gerald David, the former taking the title the latter a GUKPT seat. Lee Collins, Graeme Crozier, Hussain Patel and Alan…
Sam Razavi has won the Portsmouth leg of the Grosvenor 25/25 Series. Razavi outlasted a field of 264 runners at the city’s G Casino from 21-23 February 2014 to take top honours. With the clock just past 3am Razavi sealed the win, hitting his flopped open-ended straight draw on the turn to beat Manuel Bardon’s…
Birmingham’s Faisal Shabbir won the opening leg of the Genting Poker Series at Star City from 12-16 February 2014. But, with a top prize of £40,215 on the line, there was no room for brotherly love as the final-day action got underway, with both Chaz and Sunny Chattha amongst the 17 starters. However, neither would make it as…
There was a home win in the opening International Poker Open event of 2014 with John O’Shea taking the honours in Galway. Between 6-10 February the Boylepoke-sponsored pro battled his way through a 606-runner field at the city’s Radisson Blu Hotel and pocketed €21,780 for his efforts. O’Shea started the final table with almost half the…
Oliver Price became the first champion of the GUKPT’s eighth season after taking down leg one at the Victoria Casino in London from 7-9 February. Some of the UK’s best players turned out, together with GUKPT and Vic regulars to create a prizepool of £323,000. Smashing the £200,000 guarantee. The final day’s play in the…
Blackbelt Poker won the APAT UK Team Championship at the Genting Club, Stoke, from 1-2 February 2014. Blackbelt saw off competition from 29 other teams to take the crown in the 240-player, two-day deepstack event. Individual honours went to the Gambling Network Forum’s Rob Hallworth, who triumphed in his heads-up battle with Nick Mazur (Blackbelt…