Author: Harry Evans

Day 1A of the 2018 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Blackpool Main Event has been brought to an end, with David Gee topping the competitors as a chip leader. As Casino Guardian has previously reported, Leg 8 of the GUKPT started on November 4th at the Grosvenor G Casino Blackpool, with a variety of live poker tournaments included in its schedule. Of course, the £1,110 Main Event has been the most-expected event, with a guaranteed prize pool of £200,000 and a starting stack of 20,000. With late registration open for…

British and Irish poker lovers are probably eager for the new month’s beginning, as they will face new challenges and exciting live poker events. November is right behind the corner now, with plenty of live poker events for all enthusiasts who would like to try both their skills and luck. A great variety of poker tournaments will be held in the upcoming month, with them offering various buy-in options and prizes, and a number of the most-loved poker series set to be hosted at some of the iconic casino venues…

Another bracelet winner has been crowned at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov mere hours ago, as Michael Addamo managed to emerge victorious from the 133-entry field in the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) €25,500 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller. After returning to the second day of the High Roller event as a chip leader, the Australian poker player managed to keep his pace in order to be crowned as the event’s winner and take home the first-place prize of €848,702 ($965,750). Apart from the lion’s share of the €25,500…

This year’s edition of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) has already seen its first high-roller event kick off. The eighth event in the 2018 WSOPE Schedule, which is the €25,500 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller, took some of the stars of the international live poker arena to the King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, with the Australian Michael Addamo emerging as the chip leader after 14 levels of play. Last year, the Scotsman Niall Farrell managed to conquer a 113-strong field to win the first-place prize worth €745,287 and…

The two-day $1,125 No-Limit Hold’em Single Re-Entry event which kicked off under number nine in the 2018/2019 WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Hammond schedule, was brought to an end mere hours ago, with the American Tyler Payne emerging as a winner. The victory on Thursday night brought the young poker player not only the lion’s share of the event’s prize pool but also his first career World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) ring. Apart from the WSOPC ring, Payne, who is from Fayetteville NC, also brought home a monetary prize amounting to…

The most-expected event over the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK festival – the £5,300 NLHE Main Event – was brought to an end after five days of tough competition. The champion’s title was conquered by the Greek poker player Ioannis Angelou-Konstas after him defeating Alex Foxen in an intense heads-up play to take home the lion’s share of the overall prize pool amount. Apart from being granted the Main Event’s trophy, Angelou-Konstas scooped a massive first-place prize amounting to £940,000 ($1,224,228) following a heads-up deal between him and his last standing…

This year’s edition of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK is already halfway gone, with a number of events having been brought to an end at the iconic Dusk Till Dawn Casino in Nottingham. The live poker festival has already hosted two high-stakes cash games, with the £25,000 Super High Roller having only recently ended with Steve O’Dwyer emerging as the winner. The last few weeks have been on lucky drive for the American poker pro, as he managed to take down the $2,100 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker event…

With October just around the corner now, it is high time we think about the live poker tournaments the new month is set to bring us. All poker lovers in the UK and Ireland will be able to join a great variety of events in order to test not only their knowledge of the game but their luck and skills at the same time, too. October brings us a number of much loved live poker tournaments across the UK and Ireland. Players will be able to choose from a variety…

Sam Trickett, one of the greatest contemporary British poker players, has revealed that he once had arguments with his family over his gambling after he went broke. The 32-year-old player’s fortune has now been estimated at about £30 million. Trickett, who has been playing poker professionally for 12 years now, has been acknowledged for his great skills and has been praised as one of the best poker pros in the world. The Brit started playing poker in 2005 following a knee injury which put an end to his career as…

The US poker pro Ali Imsirovic remains among the players with the best odds of winning the 2018 Poker Masters iconic purple jacket, after two consecutive victories in the fifth and sixth events of this year’s edition of the series. On September 11th, Imsirovic took down the $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em event, taking home the lion’s share of the prizepool. But the $462,000 was just not enough for Imsirovic, who was crowned as the $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em event’s champion on the next day, September 12th, scooping $799,000 in prize money. Back-to-back…