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The Magician Awards
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07 Sep 2010
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The British Poker Awards will be co-compered by celebrity poker player Antonio ‘The Magician’ Esfandiari and Michael Caselli on Monday September 13th at London's Kensington Close Hotel.
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Toby Lewis Wins EPT Vilamoura
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03 Sep 2010
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For the youngster, it was the biggest result of his short career as he was cheered on by a loud and vociferous British rail that included Team PokerStars Pro JP Kelly, WSOP bracelet winner James Dempsey and later, his final table rival Trickett.
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Tony G - Peace envoy
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30 Aug 2010
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As everyone is gearing up for WPT London Tony shows his sensitive side by mediating the Duke/Negreanu feud.
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Change of venue for the BPA
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27 Aug 2010
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The British Poker Awards has moved venue to the Kensington Close Hotel and the number of spaces available for attendees has increased substantially.
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No Risk for Nic at the UKIPT
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23 Aug 2010
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Nicholas Abou Risk has won the main event at the UKIPT in Edinburgh. 25 year old Abou Risk, originally from Canada but currently living in Dublin, won his seat through an online qualifier.
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Kevin Stani wins EPT Tallinn
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17 Aug 2010
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Norwegian Kevin “KevBoyStar” Stani has won €400,000 after besting a field of 420 players at the €4,250 PokerStars.com EPT Tallinn, the biggest poker tournament ever held in Estonia.
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Bad Beat Jackpot
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16 Aug 2010
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Top honours GUKPT Luton went to a familiar face on the tournament circuit, Neil ‘Bad Beat’ Channing, who won £64,050 and his first GUKPT Main Event title.
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Poker at Stringfellows
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05 Aug 2010
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The 6th leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour begins this weekend at G Casino Luton, bringing back a full set of side events to this very popular stop on the tour.
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Lam Trinh wins GALA Nottingham
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02 Aug 2010
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Not a massive field in Nottingham for the Coral British Masters Poker Tour main event. With 61 players it only paid down to 7 with Lam Trinh besting Tom Feidling heads up for the title.
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Norman Conquest and Tough Fields at Summer Series
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27 Jul 2010
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The penultimate pair of GUKPT Summer Series festivals ran in tandem this week with action taking place in both Sheffield and Dundee’s G Casinos. Sheffield hosted four side events leading up to the £500 Main Event, while Dundee ran three around its own £300 tournament.
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Burland wins Brighton UKIPT
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19 Jul 2010
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While history was being made in Las Vegas headlines were also being made on this side of the pond as Pokerstars celebrated another successful outing on the UK circuit.
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Theo tops the lot
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16 Jul 2010
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The Main Event remains on track as the field of 205 players has been reduced to the magical number of 78 by the close of play. There were big movers and shakers, in both directions, with perhaps none greater than the fall of the legendary Johnny Chan.
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Theo in the top 10
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14 Jul 2010
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1,203 players made their way through through the doors of the Amazon Room to begin their quest to make the money.
450 of those hopefuls would be leaving with nothing at all
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Europeans battling it out
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02 Jul 2010
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Sam Trickett and Martins Adeniya are still very much in the fray in Event #52: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed. Carlos Mortensen and Mikael Thuritz are in with a European shout too as the final table draws nigh.
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Rutter raising it up in Razz
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23 Jun 2010
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Stuart Rutter has been specialising in mixed games recently in the hopes it would yield a WSOP bracelet .. he makes his second final table of the year.
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Dempsey leading player of the year race
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16 Jun 2010
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UK Bracelet winner James ‘Flushy’ Dempsey put on a heroic display but narrowly missed out on his second World Series of Poker Bracelet in 9 days, in Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship.
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British Masters Leeds win for Ross
By Barry Carter
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15 Jun 2010
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Despite the World Series of Poker and the World Cup taking a lot of players out of the equation last weekend there was still plenty of poker up and down the UK. One of the biggest events was the second leg of the Coral British Masters Poker Tour in Leeds.
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Trickett 2nd in $5,000 NL Hold'em
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11 Jun 2010
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One thing that is really emerging from this WSOP that you can see reflected in just about every report and live update, is how strong the British rails are. Nobody has been singing louder than the UK crowds.
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Second place for Channing's shootout
By Adam "Snoopy" Goulding
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04 Jun 2010
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Neil Channing finished second in Event #6's $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout at the 2010 World Series of Poker. On the final table, he was joined by fellow Brit Stuart Rutter and London based Frenchman Nicolas Levi.
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Praz Bansi Wins Second Bracelet
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03 Jun 2010
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Last year was without doubt the Year of the Brits at the World Series of Poker and 2010 is looking to pick up right where that left off, as Praz Bansi wins event number #5, the $1500 No Limit Hold’em.
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21st European Poker Championship
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03 Jun 2010
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This year again Casinos Austria will award two European championship titles. In addition to the Texas Hold’em No Limit Tournament (buy-in € 4000), a European Poker Championship title in the Omaha Pot Limit (buy-in € 3000) will also be played for for the first time.
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Jake Cody now on for the triple crown of poker after taking down the first ever WPT London at the weekend.
Former APAT champion Daniel Phillips won the monthly deepstack tournament at Dusk Til Dawn this weekend.
The full Irish Winter Festival 2010 tournament schedule was announced today, headlined by the €1,500 + €150 Irish Masters main event.
Germany’s Moritz Kranich was the ultimate victor in the World Poker Tour’s Bellagio Cup VI last weekend.
McCluskey is a former BlackBelt Poker Grader and he took down £9,430 for the first prize as well as a seat in the Coral Sponsorship playoff at the end of the year.
Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham was heaving as usual for the £300 monthly deepstack main event. 243 runners in total creating a £72,900 prize pool.
Watched on the rail by his Fiance and son, he defeated fellow Irishman Aonghus Farrell in a swingy heads up match to take down the first prize.
World Series of Poker 2010: Steve Jelinek Wins Brit Bracelet 5 in Event #41: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better.
The British invasion continues at the 2010 WSOP, as England added another bracelet to its total Friday night.
Richard ‘Chufty’ Ashby has bagged Britain yet another bracelet and $140,467 at the WSOP 2010 in event #21, a $1,500 Buy-in Seven Card Stud tournament.
