Poker Lifestyle

With October right behind the corner now, all poker fans in the UK and Ireland should be prepared for a lot of entertainment and fun over the month, thanks to the great number of live poker tournaments that are to be held. Various live poker events, festivals and tournaments offering different rules, buy-ins and prize pools are scheduled to kick off over the upcoming month, so that players with different preferences and bankrolls will be able to find the ones that suit them best. Here are the upcoming live poker…

On Wednesday night, two online poker legends – Viktor Blom and Ben Tollerene – faced each other in a heads-up battle for winning partypoker’s Powerfest #254: Championship Event: $3M Gtd Super High Roller. The Super High Roller tournament of the partypoker’s online Powerfest series started on Tuesday, to end with a spectacular heads-up clash between two of the best contemporary online poker players, with Ben Tollerene winning the event. The Super High Roller event of the online Powerfest series of partypoker gathered a total players field of 127 entries who…

The beginning of the week saw the WPT Korea kick off at Grand Jeju Paradise Casino. Apart from the Main Event which is traditionally the centrepiece of the series, WPT Korea offers a number of side tournaments, including Head Hunter, High Roller, Monster Stack, NLH, PLO, etc. The tournaments included in the WPT Korea schedule are to qualify players for the Season XVI of the WPT Asia-Pacific Player of the Year competition. A number of events have already come to an end, such as the WPT Korea High Roller tournament…

Bill Donnelly managed to overcome a total players field of 241 entries and defeated his opponents at a five-hour long final table to emerge as the champion of the WPTDeepStacks Oklahoma $1,100 Main Event. The tournament, which featured three game days and two starting flights, kicked off on September 22nd at the Downstream Casino Resort. As mentioned above, the $1,100 buy-in Main Event gathered a players field of 241 entrants and offered a guaranteed prize pool estimated to $200,000, which was exceeded by the participants and reached a total of…

This year’s edition of Winamax Poker Open Dublin Main Event has already seen its third and final day ending, with Otto Richard emerging as winner from the competition. The 2017 Main Event also accumulated the second-largest players field in the Winamax Poker Open history. This year, a total of 1,069 entrants entered the competition for the first-place prize of €92,000 as well as the special tournament trophy. This year’s edition of 2017 Winamax Poker Open kicked a few days ago at the Citywest luxury resort in Ireland. This is the…

At the time when the second day of the Poker Masters Event #5 $100,000 NLHE ended, all eyes were set on young Fedor Holz who emerged as the chip leader of the final table. The attention towards him, however, was quickly distracted by what ended up as a verbal war between Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth on Twitter. The fifth event of the inaugural Poker Masters series gathered a total players field of 36 entrants. Only 15 of these players returned to action on the second day of the…

Monday saw the ending of the second starting flight of Season XVI WPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Championship, with Guy Smith emerging as chip leader of the pack, with a chip stack estimated to 210,800. Day 1B of the WPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Championship gathered an overall players field of 682 entries, of whom it was Smith who managed to get the biggest chip stack at the end of the day. Still, he did not even get near the stack of 327,300 in chips that the chip leader of…

The game of poker, and more specifically live poker tournaments, have always been associated with glamorous atmosphere, high stakes and of course, massive cash prizes. Most of 2017 is already behind our backs, with hundreds of live poker tournaments and events being held and massive amount of cash prizes being distributed on a global scale. And still, who have been the UK’s most profitable poker players over the first eight and half months of the current year? You can check below: John Hesp Beyond any doubt, John Hesp has been…

The first event of the inaugural high-stakes poker tournament series Poker Masters came to an end only a few hours ago, seeing the American poker pro Nick Schulman as the crowned winner. The Poker Masters series, which is held for the first time ever, kicked off at the ARIA Resort and Casino on September 13th and is to be held until until September 20th. The poker series is to feature four $50,000 buy-in two-day events, as well as a $100,000 buy-in three-day event. All tournaments of the high-stakes poker series…

The first-ever high-stakes poker tournament series Poker Masters already started at the ARIA Resort and Casino this Wednesday, with the first of the four No-Limit Hold’em events featuring a buy-in of $50,000. The inaugural Poker Masters series is to be held from September 13th to September 20th at the ARIA Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Apart from the four 50,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em events, all of which take place in two game days, there will also be a single $100,000 NL Hold’em event that is to feature a…