15 September 2010
BLOG – Are PokerStars losing out on WCOOP overlays?
It’s routine to see some overlays in guaranteed prize pool poker tournaments. A $1,000 buy-in event may guarantee a $250,000 prize pool but if only 229 players register then the tournament hosts have to delve into their own pockets for that extra $21,000. And that means some nice +EV for the players who make the money.
APT set for City of Dreams
The Asian Poker Tour heads to Macau this November with the City of Dreams Casino playing host to the nine-day festival.
Online gaming is the fastest growing pastime in Britain
Like Mark Twain, reports of the death of online poker have been greatly exaggerated, in the UK at least. A new report from Nielsen Media Research has revealed a 40% increase in Internet gaming in Britain over the past year. To put that in perspective an extra 3.2m people visited online gaming sites compared to the extra 2.2m users who accessed Facebook.
14 September 2010
World Series of Poker Europe begins today
The third World Series of Poker Europe kicks off today at The Empire Casino in Leicester Square with new events on the roster and the Who’s Who of the poker world descending on London.
Win! £1.3k GUKPT package to be won in our next great freeroll
Bluff Europe has teamed up with GCasino.com for our next fantastic Card Gang freeroll and there are some fabulous prizes to be won.
English Poker Open final table set
In total the English Poker Open saw 194 players stump up the £3,500 to enter the tournament, generating a prize pool just short of £700,000 and a first place prize of more than £200,000. As the money bubble burst with the elimination of Philip Oehmke in 19th place, friends of Bluff Europe Liv Boeree and Phil Laak were still in the hunt.
The British Poker Awards – And the winners are...
The British Poker Awards promised to be one of the highlights of the London Poker Festival and last night's bash at the Kensington Close Hotel certainly didn't disappoint.
Rob Shiell wins Sky Poker Tour Grand Final
There are plenty of successful poker players who hail from Birmingham. Rob Shiell has a way to go to emulate the likes of Paul Jackson, Marc Goodwin, Stuart Rutter and Steve Jelinek but the 20-year-old from Sutton Coldfield showed his tournament mettle by winning the Sky Poker Tour Grand Final over the weekend.
PokerStars approaching 50,000,000,000th hand
Not only are PokerStars hosting the largest online poker tournament series of all time with the $50,000,000 guaranteed World Championship of Online Poker but they are also approaching the monumental milestone of dealing their fifty billionth hand of poker.
13 September 2010
English Poker Open Day 1a complete
London continues to be the poker capital of the world as hundreds of pros and amateurs compete once again at Mayfair’s Palm Beach casino. Last week the most expensive Monopoly square hosted the first ever World Poker Tour London event and now the £3,500 buy-in English Poker Open has begun.