21 March 2012
Professional MMA fight for Terrence Chan
The subtitle to Terrence Chan's blog is “Follow me as I play poker and look for new ways to get punched in the face”. We're used to doing the former via the Two Plus Two Pokercast and at a variety of high profile tournaments and will be able to do the latter later this month as Chan takes to the Mixed Martial Arts ring.
ElkY added to Premier League line up
The stacked line up at next month's PartyPoker Premier League just got even tougher with the news that French tournament legend Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier will be playing.
20 March 2012
New interactive live-betting poker tournament series
Dublin will be the venue for a completely new style of tournament next month. The iSeries LIVE event is a 10-runner, €10,000 buy-in, winner takes all event that will be broadcast live, with hole cards exposed, enabling punters to bet on the action as it happens.
Viktor “Isildur1” Blom wins SuperStar Showdown for $37.6k
The Superstar Showdown took place again on Sunday with Viktor “Isildur1” Blom taking on British grinder Alex “Kanu7” Millar over 2,5000 hands of $100/$200 No Limit. Blom began dominating and finished ahead by $37,687.
Chris Moorman wins his first live tournament in Madrid
Chris “Moorman1” Moorman, inarguably one of the best online tournament players in the world, had until last year failed to make his mark in the live arena. Despite a breakout year in 2011, he still had yet to secure a live tournament win.
More success for Badbeat backed players
Online mentoring is a great way to sharpen up your game and person who can testify to that effect is Edjis Grins. The Badbeat.com backed mentored player has bagged not one, not two but three big MTT scores in let than a week.
19 March 2012
PokerStars Zoom goes live for real money play
Over the weekend, PokerStars players zoomed chips across the tables as PokerStars’ fast-moving ring game hit the virtual tables for real money play. Once you fold hands, you are instantly dealt a new hand at a new table of players for up to 300 hands per hour single-tabling.
Frederik Jensen wins EPT Madrid for €495,000
Frederik Jensen is the last man standing from a field of 477 in the inaugural €5,300 EPT Madrid. He bested Fraser MacIntyre heads-up and finished him off with a dominating preflop all-in hand to secure the title.
Dan Haglund wins GUKPT Walsall
Dan Haglund has taken down the latest leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour yesterday evening. The Swede outlasted a 153 runner field in Walsall to pocket a first prize of £45,100.
Western Club's £15,000 Spring Guarantee starts today
There are 15,000 very good reasons to head to the Western Club in London over the next few days as that is the amount of cash up for grabs in the venue's Spring Guarantee event.