Poker News

The British Poker Awards 2011 Part 1

The Second British Poker Awards take place at the Poker in the Park Festival on Saturday September 3rd. Readers of UK Poker Player can have a major influence who wins the coveted pieces of mantelpiece furniture by voting on their favourite poker player / personality / blogger / forum. However, before you ...

Kaiser is King of EPT Tallinn

Switzerland´s Ronny Kaiser finished off what he started on Friday, with a sensational victory in the PokerStars sponsored European Poker Tour in Tallinn, Estonia. Having lucked into a huge lead late on Friday evening with a runner, runner straight with busted the unfortunate Lithuanian, Liutauras Armanavicius, the Kaiser never relinquished ...

Jens Kerper wins GSOP Manchester

Jens Kerper´s aspirations came true at Manchester United´s Theatre of Dreams on Saturday, when the player from Berlin trounced an international final table to claim the Grand Series of Poker (GSOP) Manchester crown. Starting the day with a significant chip advantage, the twenty-one year old Bwin sponsored player did not ...

Final Table Set at Grand Series of Poker

The final table is set at the Grand Series of Poker (GSOP) Main Event currently being played at Manchester´s Old Trafford Football Stadium. After the late elimination of one-time chip leader – James Keys – the nine players who will take their seats in pursuit of the $82,237.50 first prize are:- Jens ...

Rosengard and Keys Head GSOP into Day 3

Karl Rosengard and James Keys fill the top two places as the final 32 players contest who is going to be the Manchester Grand Series of Poker Champion 2011.  All 32 players are assured a cash of at least $3,483 for their $1,650 buy-in (or online qualification), and many are ...

Nikolas Liakos Leads EPT Tallin 2011

Swedish poker player, Nikolas Liakos, aims to add to his recent success in the Greek Poker Open as he leads the field going into the final day of the PokerStars EPT Tallin. The young professional made early and late gains to his chip stack in a day which witnessed rapid-fire ...

Shahram Ariafar Leads Day One of the GSOP

Regular online Party Poker player Shahram Ariafar took control in Day One of the Grand Series of Poker (GSOP) Main Event at the Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester yesterday. In an internationally flavoured field of 258 entries and qualifiers, Shahram holds a narrow lead over UK poker player Tom Middleton ...

WPT Dublin News Not Greeted Well in Ireland

The news that the PKR-sponsored World Poker Tour was coming to Dublin in January 2012 was announced with great gusto through the regular poker PR channels, but met with muted disappointed in the Emerald Isle. The general consensus of opinion was that Dublin did not need another major poker tournament series ...

Dave Garden Digs Up Palm Beach Big Game

Dave “NoCash” Garden showed some of his wealthier poker compatriots how it is done at the Palm Beach Big Game on Monday night. Dave (29), who recently got engaged to long term girlfriend Kel, took the first prize of £30,100 after winning his seat by being the last “qualified” man ...

DtD Grand Prix Starts Next Week

The Dusk till Dawn Grand Prix is one of the most innovative and anticipated events of the summer. The format of the poker tournament, which has a €250,000.00 guarantee, enables players to enter (and re-enter) the event both online and at the club and, due to the unique event structure, ...