26 July 2011
Full Tilt hearing latest - updated
The legal team representing Full Tilt Poker at today's Alderney Gambling Control Commission hearing have made an application to have the current session adjourned.
Full Tilt hearing today
Full Tilt Poker should find out later today if it will have its licences restored by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC).
It's a Lock for Chris Moorman
Chris Moorman may not have won a bracelet at this year's World Series but he did just about everything else, finishing in the money five times, reaching two final tables and bagging over $1m in prize money.
UKIPT launches poker's equivalent of The X Factor
Can you sing? Tell a joke? Do a magic trick perhaps? If so the UKIPT would like to know.
25 July 2011
WSOP 2011 - Five reasons why this year's World Series was a great one [Editorial]
Not only does it seem that the WSOP comes around quicker every year (because it’s now June/July/September/November instead of just yearly) but this time it seemed to finish really quickly. No sooner had we begun proceedings with the Casino Employees’ event than we were on Event #38. Just when that finished, the Main Event starts and all of a sudden we’re fifty-eight tournaments down and done until next summer.
Microstakes PokerStars player from NZ wins 65 billionth hand
Unless you’ve been living under a rock – or not playing on PokerStars – you’ll be aware that they were building up to the milestone 65,000,000,000th hand dealt at the site. It was dealt yesterday at a $0.1/$0.25 NL table like thousands of others on PokerStars with the lucky winner of the milestone hand being yllams from New Zealand.
Alex Goulder wins DTD Monte Carlo
Many of the big hitters on the UK tournament circuit were in Nottingham over the weekend for the latest £250,000 guaranteed Monte Carlo event at Dusk Till Dawn, which for the first time was a re-entry tournament.
Jamie Hurst wins Sky Poker Tour Cardiff
A prize pool of £16,100 was up for grabs in the penultimate leg of the Sky Poker Tour which took place at Les Croupiers in Cardiff over the weekend.
Craig Thompson wins Poker in the Pub Las Vegas finale
We now know the identity of the nine lucky players who will be battling it for the World Series of Poker Main Event and the small matter of $8.7m but the winning November Niner won't be the first player to claim a title at the Rio's TV table this year. Yorkshireman Craig Thompson has beaten Eoghan O'Dea, Ben Lamb, Sam Holden and co to the punch after winning the UK Poker in the Pub season finale in Las Vegas.
23 July 2011
Extra skill game action at Poker in the Park
There are plenty strong links between poker and chess and those links will be boosted still further at this year's Poker in the Park which will feature an exhibition from International Master Malcolm Pein.