Author: Harry Evans

Richard Lawlor emerged victorious from the €1,100 Buy-in Main Event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) National Ireland, winning the competition’s trophy as well as the top prize of €65,000. The Main Event took place at Killarney, Ireland over the weekend and gathered a great number of players and spectators from the UK and Ireland. The player became the latest champion in the tournament, after he managed to outlast 259 other players in order to reach the top of the field of 260 participants and took home the shiny trophy…

The second biggest online poker network on a global scale – 888poker – is currently offering a large number of poker tournaments, along with excellent service quality, customer support and promotional offers. The large number of tournaments and events that are available to date have helped the provider accumulate many players to its poker brand. Currently, a vast range of tournaments featuring low, mid and high stakes can be accessed on the 888poker website on a weekly basis. The low-stakes tournaments have always been considered to be primarily aimed at…

Although the UK poker player Charlie Carrel is relatively considered as a newcomer to the online poker world, he took down the Event 31 of the 2016 World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP). The young player known also under the nickname “Epiphany77” managed to get his first WCOOP title and consolidated the beliefs that a great career is expecting him. Currently, Carrel is known as one of the most promising young players in the poker world. He usually prefers playing with small deposit, but still managed to accumulate a bankroll…

The Super XL Series with a combined prize of $4 million is to start at 888poker on September 17th. The players who would like to enter the qualifiers for the tournament are required to have registered an account at 888poker, where an event that features a guaranteed prize pool of $1,500,000 is hosted. The poker tournament will take place from September 17th and will end of September 25th. A total of forty events will be included in the Super XL tournament’s schedule which would accumulate an overall guaranteed prize estimated…

The professional Spanish poker pro Adrian Mateos, who currently resides in London, UK and is known for his preference to High Roller poker events has managed to move up as high as the 10th position over the latest Global Poker Index (GPI) Ranking update. The all-time winnings generated by the young player amount to $5,527,258, while his largest cash bounty to date is estimated to $1,351,661. This year, the 22-year-old Mateos has taken part in a series of poker tournaments and events. He entered in a total of three events…

The 65-year-old Humberto Brenes, who is also widely known under the nickname “The Shark”, has been announced as one of the ten finalists for the Poker Hall of Fame. Brenes is a professional poker player who originates from Costa Rica, but his current place of residence is in Florida. The Costa Rican started his gambling career at the baccarat table, and realised his liking to poker later. He started to appear at some tournaments in 1974, but it was not until 1988 he became a regular player in poker tournaments.…

The American professional poker player Tommy Le emerged victorious from this year’s edition of the £550 Buy-in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Edinburgh Main Event, after he managed to outlast a total of 183 rivals to win the first-place prize estimated to £25,000. This was the six leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour series. The next stop of the tournament is to be in Luton and will take place in the period between October 2nd and 9th. Players can qualify for the £1,100 Buy-in Main Event with a guaranteed prize…

Matt Savage has been revealed as one of the ten nominees for the 2016 edition of the Poker Hall of Fame. The list with the finalists’ names was officially announced on the World Series of Poker (WSOP) website after all of them have been approved by the Governing Council of PHOF. This is not the first nomination for Savage to enter the Poker Hall of Fame, as he was inducted as a finalist back in 2003, too. The 47-year-old Savage is known as an American tournament director of poker events…

Bryn Kenney, who has once reached the second position at the GPI Ranking, has occupied the ninth place in the Ranking over its latest update. The 30-year-old professional poker player’s best cash generated in live events amount to $1,687,800, while his all-time winnings are estimated to $10,461,972. He played his first live poker tournament almost a decade ago and is known to getting to 8 final tables over the first five years of his career. At that time, he also played online, generating earnings of more than $2.4 million. This…

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has finally determined the ten nominees who are eligible for induction into the 2016 Poker Hall of Fame (PHOF). The finalists list was published on the official WSOP website after a public nomination process and approval of the PHOF Governing Council. The Poker Hall of Fame was officially established in 1979. Although it is not a physical poker club, an addition there has turned into one of the most prestigious acknowledgements in every poker player’s career. A total of 50 players have been honoured…