Justin Adkins Wins First Gold Ring by Conquering 2018/19 WSOP Circuit Choctaw Durant $250 NLHE Multi-Flight Event

Justin Adkins Wins First Gold Ring by Conquering 2018/19 WSOP Circuit Choctaw Durant $250 NLHE Multi-Flight Event

Another WSOP Circuit gold ring winner has emerged mere hours ago. American Justin Adkins took down the fourth event in the 2018/19 WSOP Circuit Choctaw Durant schedule, the $250 NLHE Multi-Flight, and took home the lion’s share of the $215,400 prize pool and his first-ever gold ring. Adkins conquered the title by emerging on top of the 1,077 entry list and seized a cash portion amounting to $39,853. The money prize is far bigger than the American poker player’s so-far best live cash of $3,148 and helped Adkins boost his…

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World Poker Tour 2019 Comes in the UK with a £1.5 Million GTD Main Event

World Poker Tour 2019 Comes in the UK with a £1.5 Million GTD Main Event

Two of the largest poker brands today, World Poker Tour and partypokerLIVE have prepared fantastic news for all British poker pros – the World Poker Tour (WPT) returns to Dusk Till Dawn Poker & Casino Nottingham in 2019. The festival will run for two weeks and its biggest highlight will be the £1.5 Million GTD Main Event. The World Poker Tour has recently revealed some of the dates for the upcoming season and the partypokerLIVE website has now published the schedule for WPT UK 2019. The festival will be hosted…

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Paul Michaelis Takes Down EPT Prague €5,300 Main Event for €840,000

Paul Michaelis Takes Down EPT Prague €5,300 Main Event for €840,000

The exciting €5,300 Main Event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague crowned its champion, with Paul Michaelis emerging victorious from the competition. The German poker player climbed on top of a 1,174-entry field, taking home a monetary prize of €840,000 along with the trophy, as well as a Platinum Pass to the PokerStars Players Championship which is set to kick off in the Bahamas in January 2019. The victory was not an easy one for Michaelis, but the young poker player did wonderfully, starting his march to the victory…

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Paul Michaelis Returns as Chip Leader for PokerStars EPT Prague €5,300 Main Event Day 5

Paul Michaelis Returns as Chip Leader for PokerStars EPT Prague €5,300 Main Event Day 5

The most important tournament of this year’s PokerStars EPT Prague continues today with only 16 players who survived several days of tough poker action at the Casino Atrium Prague. German poker pro Paul Michaelis bagged the biggest stack Sunday night and is returning as the chip leader for Day 5 of PokerStars EPT Prague €5,300 Main Event on Monday. Michaelis has previously appeared in EPT Prague tournaments but has not, until now, reached the top 20 players. In fact, the young German has taken part in live events all over…

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John Saralis Emerges as PokerStars EPT Prague €5,300 Main Event Day 1A Chip Leader

John Saralis Emerges as PokerStars EPT Prague €5,300 Main Event Day 1A Chip Leader

The most exciting tournament of this year’s PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague kicked off on Wednesday and managed to draw in a strong entry field of 371 players. Collecting a massive stack of nearly 300,000 in chips, Greek poker pro John Saralis emerged as Main Event Day 1A chip leader and will return as one of the favourites for the title on Friday. As cards for Day 1B of the PokerStars EPT Prague €5,300 Main Event went into the air at noon today, the first 170 survivors from the first…

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Live Poker Tournaments Set to Start in the UK and Ireland in December 2018

Live Poker Tournaments Set to Start in the UK and Ireland in December 2018

The last month of 2018 has started only recently, with a lot of excitement and variety at the live poker tournaments arena. In December, all poker enthusiasts in the UK and Ireland will be able to enjoy a number of live poker events, featuring different buy-ins, structures and prize pools. A number of iconic locations across the UK, including The Poker Room, which was formerly known as The Vic, are to host the events and provide all players with excellent gaming experience. Grosvenor 25/25 Series After the Grosvenor 25/25 Series…

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Frenchman Jerome L’Hostis Conquers 2018 GUKPT Grand Final £2,140 Main Event’s Title

Frenchman Jerome L’Hostis Conquers 2018 GUKPT Grand Final £2,140 Main Event’s Title

The last tournament of the 2018 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Grand Final – the Main Event of the series – has been brought to an end, with three players getting six-figure cash prizes. In the late hours of November 25th, Frenchman Jerome L’Hostis took down the GUKPT Grand Final Main Event after emerging on the first place in the ranking from a total entry field of 325 poker enthusiasts. #GUKPT Grand Final Champion 2018 Jerome Lhostis, taking home £140,445. pic.twitter.com/bBAby6rNzT — Grosvenor Poker (@GrosvenorPoker) November 25, 2018 The French…

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Manuel Bardon Leads 2018 GUKPT Grand Final Main Event Day 1A

Manuel Bardon Leads 2018 GUKPT Grand Final Main Event Day 1A

One of the most exciting and long-awaited poker tournaments in the United Kingdom is already in action. Cards for the 2018 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final £2,140 Main Event went in the air Thursday afternoon at the famous The Poker Room above Grosvenor Casino Victoria and Manuel Bardon led the 40 players who survived Day 1A. Bardon bagged the most chips at the end of the first starting flight of the tournament and will return to the poker tables for Day 2 this Saturday. With a massive stack of…

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2018 GUKPT Grand Final £2,140 Main Event Kicks Off in The Poker Room on November 22nd

2018 GUKPT Grand Final £2,140 Main Event Kicks Off in The Poker Room on November 22nd

One of the most loved and expected live poker tournaments in the UK kicked off on Sunday, November 18th. London’s iconic venue The Poker Room, which is situated above the Grosvenor Casino Victoria, hosted all the enthusiasts which gathered to participate in the Grand Final of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT). All of the 2018 GUKPT stops have seen their Main Events literally smash their guaranteed prize pools so far, so the organisers are now hoping that players will demonstrate the same interest towards the Grand Final, too. London…

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Yiannis Liperis Takes Down 2018 GUKPT Leg 8 Blackpool £1,100 Main Event for £84,250

Yiannis Liperis Takes Down 2018 GUKPT Leg 8 Blackpool £1,100 Main Event for £84,250

One of the iconic stops of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) – Blackpool – saw the £1,100 Main Event come to an end mere hours ago, with Yiannis Liperis emerging victorious from the competition. Leg 8 of the 2018 GUKPT kicked off on November 4th at the Grosvenor G Casino Blackpool, offering a number of live poker tournaments, all-day cash games and various side events featuring different buy-ins and prize pools. Of course, as Casino Guardian reported earlier, the Main Event at the Blackpool stop has been the most…

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