Poker Lifestyle

May is just around the corner now, offering a great variety of live poker options for all fans of the game in England and Ireland. The upcoming month is to offer a whole plethora of poker events, tournaments and festivals, all of the offering different buy-in options and attractive prize pools. There are various poker tournaments and events scheduled to kick off in May, so poker lovers should look up the schedule below and choose their favourite events to join this May. The first event to start at the beginning…

One of the leading international online poker brands, partypoker, has come back to Ireland with its Grand Prix Dublin event, which features a massive €150,000 guarantee prize. The event, which is expected to gather some of the most popular and successful British and Irish poker players, is to be hosted at Dublin’s Clayton Hotel. This is the second stop of the Grand Prix Poker Tour for 2017, with Ireland set to become a gathering place of everyone who loves poker. After the Online Day 1s end on April 27th, it…

With the end of the 2016/2017 season of the WSOP Circuit coming closer, it is time for the last two events of the series. The Horseshoe Baltimore is to host the first one of these two events, and the WSOP Circuit is to get back to Maryland. The upcoming event of the WSOP Circuit schedule is to kick off on April 27th to May 8th at Horseshoe Baltimore. The latter is currently considered as one of the newest and most modern casino venues that have ever hosted the series. The…

US poker player Jose Montes managed to add another trophy to his collection, after he was crowned as a winner of the $1,500 WPTDeepStacks Main Event. Montes emerged victorious from the event which took place at Maryland Live! Casino and took home a cash portion of $95,032. The cash prize also included a $3,000 package to the Season 4 WPTDeepStacks Championship event. In order to get to the first place in the competition and win the largest share of the guaranteed prize pool which amounted to a total of $439,780,…

As Casino Guardian has reported several weeks ago, PokerStars Championship headed to the French Riviera, with the Championship set to kick off at Monte-Carlo Casino on April 25th. The tournament is to be hosted in one of the oldest and most popular gaming venues worldwide. To date, the Monte-Carlo Casino has hosted a large variety of glorious poker tournaments from the ones sponsored by the PokerStars brand, including the Grand Final of the European Poker Tour (EPT). That tradition is to be continued over 2017, with the Monte-Carlo casino becoming…

PokerStars, the poker brand of the Canadian gaming and online gambling company Amaya Inc., officially announced that its new MEGASTACK series had not only made a pretty successful debut in the UK, but will also be hosted in poker venues across Europe to be more accessible for players in Ireland, France and Belgium. As revealed by PokerStars, the live tournament series MEGASTACK which was hosted at The Hippodrome Casino London this month, had great success after it managed to gather more than 520 entries. Now, it is planned to get…

The partypokerLIVE Nottingham £10,300 buy-in High Roller Tournament kicked off on yesterday and is set to return for its second day of play today. The event, which takes place at the Dusk Till Dawn Casino in Nottingham has brought together a total of 100 entries, eight of which were re-entries. A total of 56 players of these 100 managed to outlast their opponents and survived until the end of Day 1 to get back to the game on April 18th and fight for the £10,300 High Roller’s guaranteed prize of…

Player Andrej Desset was pronounced champion at partypoker’s Grand Prix Austria Main Event. Desset defeated opponent Dan Semenescu from Romania in a heads-up battle for the champion trophy and the sum of €92,530 in first-place prize money. The first ever Grand Prix Austria event attracted a field of 2,594 entries and offered a guaranteed prize pool of €500,000, with a buy-in of €225. The minimum cash amount to be won was set to €400. Poker fans were enabled to qualify and compete in eight different casinos throughout Austria. As many…

American poker pro Daniel Weinman was proclaimed winner at the second annual WPT Tournament of Champions. Weissman succeeded in prevailing over opponent Michael Mizrachi in an intense head-to-head battle which secured him the prestigious champion title and earned him $381,500 in first-place prize money. This year’s WPT Tournament of Champions attracted a field of 66 champions who contributed to the accumulation of a huge $1,090,000 prize pool. Winners from this seat were not required to pay their way into the event while previous seasons champions were allowed to buy-in rake…

Canadian player Elliot Smith prevailed over Chinese local Tianyuan Tang to claim the champion title at the first ever PokerStars Championship Macau tournament series. The 29-year old Canadian went home with the top prize of HK$2,877,5000 after agreeing on a heads-up deal with Tang. Smith joined Kenneth Smaron and Christian Harder to become the third champion in the new PokerStars tournament series. The HK$42,400 PokerStars Championship Macau Main Event attracted a field of 536 hopefuls and took place in the PokerStars LIVE card-room at the City of Dreams, the branded…