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7stol21 wins the $1M Ultimate Freeroll, konn999 takes top dollar
The Road to 100 Billion hands took over eleven years and tonight marked the final leg of our massive celebration. Nothing says celebration like free money and to keep the party going, PokerStars gave...
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DaWarsaw's Thai surprise
It's been almost 24 hours since I have arrived in Thailand, where I will be for the next nine months. Together with two of my poker friends, also from Poland, we will be renting a house in Phuket and,...
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UKIPT4 London Day 1A: Richard Trigg, claimeer of the chip lead
There's a consistency about PokerStars events that continues to attract players in their droves. Even when something seemingly major changes, such as a tournament venue, even more stays exactly the...
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UKIPT4 London Day 1B: Dario Sammartino leads star-studded field
Any lingering doubts as to whether UKIPT4 London was going to attract an appropriately star-studded field were dispelled at around 11.45am today when Barry Greenstein wandered into the Royal Connaught...
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UKIPT4 London Day 2: Life's a breeze for Daniel 'Malibu' Stacey, leader of...
The UKIPT tournament staff were all a-fluster this morning as they tried to decide how many levels to play. Players originally learnt that they'd be looking at ten levels, but it was later reduced to...
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EPT10 London: Dhru Patel emerges from nowhere, heads stack London field
The prosperity of the European Poker Tour depends on the success of two type of players. We need our big names to keep winning and keep smiling and keep featuring on the front of magazines, but still...
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EPT10 London: Tudor Purice takes over at the top as money approaches
People who think that poker has nothing to do with the money will have no interest at all to know that the winner of EPT London this week will take home £560,980. They won't care that the top 87...
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Get your hand analysed by Tyler "frosty012" Frost!
Playing ring game tables can be a scary place for a beginner starting out on their poker journey, but as you clock up table hours and experience these tables can become the most lucrative for a...
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UKIPT Series 5 Day 2: Level 9-17 updates (blinds 3,000/6,000)
4:35pm: Break time The 14 remaining players are now on a 15 minute break. You'll find level 18 updates in a new post shortly. 4:25pm: Like London buses We waited 75 minutes for an elimination and then...
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UKIPT Series 5 Day 2: Level 18-24 updates (blinds 15,000/30,000)
8.45pm: Martins Adeniya wins UKIPT Series 5 (£4,800); Samuel Welbourne second (£3,415) It's all over and Full Tilt Poker Ambassador has pulled off a magnificent Day 2 comeback to win the title. He was...
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Martins Adeniya wins pot-limit Omaha UKIPT Series 5 and £4,810.
Experts in the field of pot-limit Omaha will tell you it's a game that has far bigger swings than no limit Hold'em and it's a sentiment that Martins Adeniya will no doubt agree with this evening. The...
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All-Star Showdown: Phil "mrsweets28" Galfond edges out Ben "Ben86" Tollerene...
Ben "Ben86" Tollerene and Phil "mrsweets28" Galfond are hardly rivals. They live in the same apartment building in their newly adopted home base of Vancouver, have huge respect for one another's poker...
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All-Star Showdown: Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky slays Ike Haxton in 19-hour...
It took more than 4,200 hands and nearly 19 hours, but the All-Star Showdown has its first finalist. After a grueling match that saw more than a dozen lead changes and both players climb out of...
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EPT9 Prague: A night on the ales ends in the ring for Ainsworth and O'Shea
If anyone without an Irish lilt to their voice had said the following, they would be justly condemned for some terrible regional stereotyping. But the words actually came from the mouth of John O'Shea...
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UKIPT Edinburgh: From worst to first, Nicolau Villa-Lobos wins UKIPT...
At 12pm today Nicolau Villa-Lobos started the final table as the short stack with just 313,000 of the 9,140,000 in play. Less than five hours later he had them all, a trophy and a six-figure boost to...
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EPT9 Berlin Day 2: Aku Joentausta ends in front as fortunes differ for other...
We have spent the best part of this season trying to downplay the importance of an early chip-lead. Day one leaders almost never make the money and even less frequently reach the final table. Don't get...
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EPT9 Berlin Day 4: A new Roman empire as Herold slices stars down to size
Neil Stoddart took one of the defining photographs from day four of EPT Berlin before the first level of the day was even done. It showed Boris Becker and Sandra Naujoks loitering by the exit door,...
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Win a freeroll seat & chance at $200,000 in prize money
Everyone likes a freeroll, right? Get a free ticket, sit down for a tournament, and walk away with real money. It's a pretty good deal when you think about it. Well, starting today, you have a shot to...
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Win a freeroll seat & chance at $200,000 in prize money
Everyone likes a freeroll, right? Get a free ticket, sit down for a tournament, and walk away with real money. It's a pretty good deal when you think about it. Well, starting today, you have a shot to...
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EPT11 Malta: Italy win Global Poker Masters
Phil Hellmuth once famously said, "If there weren't luck involved, I would win every time," and it's a throwaway comment worth remembering as we look back at the inaugural Global Poker Masters which...
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