31 August 2011
24 left at EPT Barcelona – Gomila leads
Just 24 of the 811 starters are still in contention for the €850,000 first prize at EPT Barcelona with Tomeu Gomila leading the chip counts.
Georges Tohme wins London Calling main event
The Fox Poker Club on Shaftesbury Avenue was the venue for the London Calling Poker Festival which culminated over the bank holiday weekend. Top of the bill was the £500 Main Event which was won by Londoner Georges Tohme.
30 August 2011
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Xavier Carruggi leads EPT Barcelona into Day 3
The past Bank Holiday weekend saw mixed weather, Reading festival and Matt Perry’s birthday but the show was stolen by the record-breaking PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Barcelona event, which attracted 407 players for the largest poker tournament held in Spain.
Viktor “Isildur1” Blom wins over $1m in less than a day
Poor old Artist Formerly Known As Ziigmund, eh? Just last week we reported that he had had an amazing time of it at the Omaha tables on PokerStars, not only digging himself out of the $880k hole his “Ilari_FIN” PokerStars account was in but also going some way to eradicate his Full Tilt deficit.
Paul Vas Nunes wins Unibet Open Dublin
Paul Vas NunesPaul Vas Nunes has enjoyed plenty of online success including winning the PokerStars Sunday Million but now the Brentwood man has taken his internet form into the live arena with a maiden major victory in the Unibet Open in Dublin.
Rawson slays Grosvenor Goliath
Professional player Lee Rawson defeated a record-breaking field of 1,765 runners to take home the inaugural Grosvenor Goliath event at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry over the weekend.
26 August 2011
PokerStars to sponsor main stage at Poker In The Park V
With Poker In The Park V just one week away, we’re very pleased to announce that PokerStars.co.uk has signed on to sponsor the main stage, which is set to feature poker and chess masterclasses alongside live music and stand-up comedy.
The perfect poker livestream – impossible? [Editorial]
I’m really surprised at how well live streaming of poker tournaments has been going; from the PokerStars EPT to the GUKPT Goliath (available on this very website here) all the way up the granddaddy of poker tournaments, the World Series Of Poker $10,000 buy-in main event.
GUKPT Goliath breaks European tournament attendance record
Day 1c of the GUKPT Goliath, which is a £120 buy-in event with a £100,000 guarantee, hasn’t even begun at the time of writing and yet the tournament at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena has attracted over 1,600 players so far with more likely to enter before the final tally.