Marc Leishman won the 25/25 Series event in Dundee from 31 January to 2 February. Leishman had to work hard for his £12,000 first prize after enduring an epic 16-hour final day to claim the money. The clock was approaching 4am when Leishman finally sealed the victory, establishing a crucial lead when his A7 held…
Aleem Kanji won a first prize of £7,290 after winning the Rainbow Masters main event in Bristol from 31 January to 2 February 2014. Paul Chesser finished runner-up for £4,100 and Shabir Hussain third for £5,700. Dave Harris picked up £2,630 for winning the £100 side event on 2 February, with James Tierney second and…
Maqbool Hashim beat Christopher Cooper heads-up to scoop the Luton leg of the 25/25 Series from 31 January to 2 February 2014. Champion Hashim took home a cheque for £12,030; with runner-up Cooper pocketing £8,180 and £5,260 going to third-place finisher Stephen O’Keefe.
Alan Dean outlasted a field of 102 runners to earn £5,020 for taking down the WSOP.com Brighton Open main event at the Rendezvous Casino from 1-2 February 2014. Dean beat Oscar Tompsett heads-up for the title, with James Dempsey coming third. Ian turner collected £1,905 after winning the £100 side event on 30 January.
Albert Sapiano was declared the winner of the first leg of the 2014 Super Stack Series at the Mint Casino in London from 24-26 January after he agreed to share the spoils with Andy Middleton and Peter Djordjevic. Chip leader Sapiano claimed the trophy, with the three final players each taking home £4,030.
Local-lad Alex Spencer won the Sheffield leg of the Grosvenor 25/25 Series from 24-26 January 2014 to claim a top prize of £13,150. Spencer beat Michael Kossov heads-up, with Spencer going into two-handed play with a 3.5m to 2.4m chip lead. But with blinds at 30k-60k there was still plenty of room for manoeuvre although…
The winner of the Birmingham leg of the 25/25 Series from 17-19 January 2014 was Tai Hoang, who turned his buy-in of just £200 into £14,000 after beating David Halliday heads-up. A field of 318 entries at the city’s G Casino created a prize pool of £63,600 with Hoang taking the biggest chunk of it…
The winner of the Southampton 25/25 Series event at the Grosvenor Casino from 17-19 January was Stephen Bean. Bean got the better of a mammoth heads-up battle with Sanad Fellah, which lasted more than an hour, when his pair of queens held up after his opponent had shoved all-in for 1.8m chips with A-5 suited.…
Texas Hold’em is a shared card poker game. Each player is dealt two private cards and there are five face-up shared (or “community”) cards on the table that can be used by anyone. In the showdown the winner is the player who can make the best five-card poker hand from the seven cards available. A…
In Omaha, each player receives four private cards and there are five community cards on the table. In the showdown exactly two private cards together with three community cards must be used to make the player’s best hand. Omaha High A standard 52-card pack is used and from two to 10 players can take part.…
Razz is seven-card stud played for low only, using ace-to-five ranking. In the first betting round the compulsory bring-in bet is made by the owner of the highest card showing. In subsequent rounds, from fourth street onwards, the lowest hand showing bets first. Ace is low and king high throughout, and as usual the suit…
HORSE is probably the most popular of the mixed game poker varieties, where a round of Hold’em, Omaha, Razz, Stud and Eight or Better (seven-card stud high-low) are played. Normally these are all played as limit games. The two shared card games Hold’em and Omaha are played with blinds and the three Stud games with…