Poker Lifestyle

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) is heading to Luton where the seventh leg of the tournament’s 2016 edition is expected to take place in the period from October 2nd to October 9th. Although Luton is not a particularly large city in the UK, it is known as one of the places where poker has been flourishing lately. It is exactly the Main Event of GUKPT in Luton where some of the most popular and gifted poker players in the UK have had glamorous performances. This season’s GUKPT Festival in…

As reported by Casino Guardian earlier this month, 888poker is to launch the 888Live Festival at the Aspers Casino in London from October 13th to October 23rd. The brand has planned to launch the Festival in order to complement the 888Live Events series on one hand and to provide poker players with exclusive live poker experience. The 888Live Festival is to last for eleven days and includes seventeen tournaments plus a number of satellites which provide players with the chance to make their choice among various events featuring different buy-ins.…

PokerStars made some amendments in the European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona payouts after some players made some pretty negative responses on this matter. In August 2016 the brand officially announced its intentions to revise the payout structure of the events of its European Poker Tour. The Chief of Live Poker Operations at PokerStars Neil Johnson revealed that the entire team of the online poker brand was fully devoted to the idea of providing the players with the best poker experience ever and improve their already existing events in order to…

Players who would like to try their luck in an attempt to become a millionaire will be given such a chance in April 2017, when partypoker is to release its MILLIONS tournament. The latter is a no-limit hold’em poker tournament and offers an enormous overall prize of £5 million, with £1 million guaranteed for the player who gets to the first place. Every player who wants to join the exclusive partypoker MILLIONS tournament is given the chance to do that in return to a £550 buy-in. The tournament is to…

After a total of three Cash Game Festival events have been hosted in 2014 and 2015, the organisers of the events decided to start an international tour. In 2016, the Cash Game Festival took place in several cities in Europe, starting from London’s Aspers Casino in March. Then, in June, the organisers scheduled an event in Malta. The third stop of the festival was Platinum Casino at Sunny Beach, Bulgaria in August 2016. Now it is time for the fourth stop of the tour, which will see it return to…

The 56-year-old Erik Seidel from the US occupied the 11th position of the Global Poker Index Ranking after its latest update. The professional poker player, who is also a member of the Poker Hall of Fame, has all-time winnings of $29,547,515. his live best cash amounts to $2,472,555. The first live event cash of Seidel was in 1988. Since then, the player is known for cashing almost 200 times, making it to 133 final tables and winning 27 events and 8 gold bracelets. He also has one World Poker Tour…

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…