24 September 2010
IPN Bad Beat Jackpot €500k and rising
There will be a very substantial silver lining for one luckless loser on the GTECH International Poker Network (IPN) in the near future. The network's Bad Beat Jackpot has topped the €500,000 mark and will continue to rise until a player loses a hand with quad tens or better.
WCOOP Main Event this weekend
The latest incarnation of the PokerStars WCOOP signs off in style this Sunday with at least $10m in guaranteed prize money on offer in event 62, the No Limit Hold'em Main Event.
Hansen 1, Collopy 1 in Heads Up High Roller final table.
The suspense is killing us – when Gus Hansen easily despatched Jim Collopy in the first round of the WSOPE Heads Up High Roller final, it seemed as though the bracelet was all but his.
WSOPE £10,300 Main Event Day 1a completed
Despite holding a chip lead for several hours, Arnaud Mattern took a hit against Huck Seed in a 65,000 chip pot where Mattern mucked to Seed’s AJ on a J-9-2-J-Q board, losing him a chunk of his stack but not by any means crushing him. He still has just over 100,000 as we approach the end of level six.
£1,700 GUKPT Freeroll this Sunday
The GUKPT heads to Brighton next month (8th to 10th October) and you could be there too thanks to our fantastic freeroll this Sunday.
Dwyte Pilgrim wins World Poker Tour Borgata Open
Dwyte Pilgrim has almost doubled his $815,000 in career winnings after taking down the record-breaking field at the World Poker Tour Borgata Open, pocketing $733,000 and WPT bracelet to go with his WSOP Circuit rings.
Alan Trueick takes European Shorthanded title
It's not only London that's been hosting top quality tournament action this week. A bumper crowd of 312 players gathered in Dublin for the European Shorthanded Poker Championship.
23 September 2010
Josh Tyler becomes first ever Baller Strip Poker Champion
The champagne flowed endlessly as Devilfish, Jeff Madsen, James Mitchell, Sam Trickett, John Tabatabai and Keith Gipson were among the notable contestants in the first ever Baller Strip Poker Championship.
Gus Hansen, Ram Vaswani in £10,000 heads-up final four
The strong turnout for the £10,300 High Roller heads-up event at the World Series of Poker Europe has been diminished considerably, though no normal player would want to compete against any of the semi-finalists who are all guaranteed £96,212 with a top prize of £288,409 for the bracelet winner.
BLOG – Follow our live reporting for the 2010 WSOPE Main Event
Today is the day – the Main Event of the World Series of Poker Europe kicks off and here I sit on my third cup of coffee at 9.11am before finishing up this blog and heading my tired ass down to Leicester Square. For you. Because I care.