24 May 2010
BLOG – Pretty ladies!
Women, eh? That’s what I’m talking about, even getting flustered in a blog just talking about them as a general species rather than face-to-face.
That's the way to Stu it – Rutter wins GUKPT Coventry
It was a case of fourth time lucky for Stuart Rutter who has won the latest leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT). The Brummie pro had reached the final table in three previous GUKPT events but had never quite managed to seal the deal. He put that right in Coventry over the weekend though, outrunning 141 other players to take a first prize of £41,910.
Ali Tekintamgac wins WPT Barcelona
German Ali Tekintamgac has been crowned the World Poker Tour Spanish Open Champion after outlasting a 326-runner field in Barcelona of the weekend.
Victorino Torres wins PokerStars APPT Macau
The PokerStars Asian Pacific Poker Tour has left Macau after a record field played down to one man, who wound up richer to the tune of over three million Hong Kong dollars.
The Ivey Room opens at the Aria hotel and casino
The opening day of The Ivey Room at the Aria was marked with a million-dollar VIP freeroll over the past weekend, which is appropriate enough since million-dollar craps games and prop bets probably wouldn’t have worked as well.
23 May 2010
BLOG – Let’s pray for a European poker boom
PokerStars have announced that Italian goalkeeper and football legend Gianluigi Buffon has become the latest addition to the Team PokerStars Pro club, joining the site’s International Ambassadors.
22 May 2010
Per Linde leads WPT Barcelona
144 players returned for Day 2 of the WPT Bracelona yesterday and by the close of play just 45 were still in contention for the €315,000 first prize.
Still chances to qualify for PokerStars £100k freeroll
The massive PokerStars Summer Festival Of Free Poker comes to a conclusion in just over a week and there is still time to secure a seat in the £100k Grand Final Freeroll.
21 May 2010
Day 1b of World Poker Tour Barcelona sets record
Day 1b of the World Poker Tour Spanish Championship in Barcelona took the total field to 326, smashing records for the tournament and creating a seven-figure prize pool for the final table on Sunday.