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Jamie O’Connor Wins a £12K GUKPT Package and GCOOP Player of the Series
Jamie O’Connor Wins a £12K GUKPT Package and GCOOP Player of the Series December 04 2018 Matthew Pitt Leeds’s Jamie O’Connor has secured a £12,000 package for the upcoming 2019 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour after being crowned Player of the Series at the recent GCOOP III held online at Grosvenor Poker. Grosvenor Poker offered the package to the winner of the GCOOP III series leaderboard and it was O’Connor, “Boz” to his friends, who finished on top after excelling in four of the scheduled events.
Nominate Your Favourite Irish Player to Win a $30K PSPC Platinum Pass
Nominate Your Favourite Irish Player to Win a $30K PSPC Platinum Pass November 28 2018 Matthew Pitt The PokerStars Players Championship (PSPC) is right around the corner with the tournament director uttering those immortal word “shuffle up and deal” on Jan. 6, 2019 at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in The Bahamas. There are currently 11 Platinum Pass winners who hail from the Emerald Isle who will make up Team Ireland during the PSPC.
UK & Ireland Online Poker Rankings: Combes Climbs, Jones and Holman Return
It was a relatively quiet week for online poker tournament players calling the United Kingdom and Ireland home, partly due to the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK festival running and the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe grabbing the attention of our elite grinders, but there was still plenty to shout about. Charlie “chaz_man_chaz” Combes has climbed to 12th in the UK standings, provided by PocketFives.com, after a string of impressive results.
Heads-Up on the River With a Straight on the Board
This week I have another hand to share with you from that small field, $2,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament from which I've been reviewing hands recently. It's an interesting hand in which I get to the river versus one opponent and there is a straight on the board, meaning I have to decide whether or not to bet and try to claim the whole pot or just check.
Daniel Edler Wins the partypoker LIVE DTD Grand Prix
Daniel Edler secured the largest live poker tournament score of his career this weekend after triumphing in the £250,000 guaranteed partypoker LIVE DTD Grand Prix at Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham. Some 1,598 entrants exchanged £165 for 100,000 chips and the chance to become a Grand Prix champion. The final 167 players received prize money for their efforts, with the final 10 players also getting their hands on a £5,300 seat to the upcoming MILLIONS UK Main Event.
Man Wins Poker Tournament
Fear not, UK & Ireland PokerNews has not published an article with a yet-to-be-decided title, a man really did win a poker tournament over the weekend. The 2018 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Reading Main Event took place at the Grosvenor G Casino in Reading and attracted a field of 245 entrants who helped created a guarantee-busting £122,500 prize pool. This sum was divided up among the top 23 finishers with the £35,100 top prize going to a gentleman who requested to remain anonymous.
UK & Ireland Sunday Briefing: Dean “DeanoSupremo” Lyall Wins $111K
Dean “DeanoSupremo” Lyall secured the largest online poker tournament cash of his career on May 20 when he took down the SCOOP-54-H: $2,100 NLHE 4-Max event for $111,443. Lyall’s previous largest cash weighed in at $59,348, which he collected for finishing second in a TCOOP event in 2015. Now he has a largest prize of almost double that sum after overcoming a stellar field in this SCOOP event at PokerStars.
UK & Ireland Online Poker Rankings: Zhang Returns to the UK Top 20
Michael Chi “mczhang” Zhang has returned to the United Kingdom online poker rankings top 20 following a brace of impressive results at PokerStars and partypoker. Zhang recently smashed through the $1 million in online poker tournament winnings barrier and is well on his way to surpassing $1.1 million.
UK & Ireland Sunday Briefing: “trickyone14” Secures $115K Score
Sunday 13th May was a huge day in online poker circles thanks to the PokerStars Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP), the partypoker POWERFEST and 888poker XL Inferno all running massive events. Dozens of players who call the United Kingdom and Ireland home enjoyed big scores, let’s find out who there were. “Trickyone14,” which is not Sam Trickett, helped themselves to a $114,891 score by finishing third in the SCOOP-31-H: $530 NLHE Sunday Million SE.
$10 Million Guaranteed KO Series Heads to partypoker from June 3
$10 million is guaranteed to be won across 226 Progressive Knockout tournaments at partypoker between Jun. 3-10 thanks to the latest edition of the KO Series. Progressive Knockout, or PKO, tournaments have grown in popularity in online poker circles because they give players the opportunity to win cash without the need to navigate their way to the money places. Everyone starts with a bounty on their heads in a PKO tournament.
PokerStars Warned Over “Irresponsible” TV Advertisement
PokerStars has had to remove a television advertisement from British TV screens after the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) deemed the advertisement to be socially irresponsible. The advertisement had been running since Oct. 26, 2017 and it depicts an amateur player playing poker with friends in a home game. The main character in the advertisement apparently has no way of winning the pot apart from making an all-in bluff.
partypoker LIVE launches partypoker LIVE $$$
partypoker LIVE has launched a brand new satellite system for it tour that award players partypoker LIVE $$$ (PPL$$$) currency instead of traditional seats and tickets to major live poker tournaments. PPL$$$ can be used to enter any tournaments under the partypoker LIVE umbrella, including its MILLIONS and Grand Prix festivals plus World Series of Poker events that partypoker LIVE sponsors.
UK & Ireland Online Poker Rankings: Sean Prendiville Leads in Ireland
Ireland has a new number one ranked online poker tournament player after Sean “monkeybudgie” Prendiville leapfrogged Dan “NukeTheFish!” Wilson to claim the top spot, according to the PocketFives.com rankings. Prendiville has been in solid form of late and has been collecting four-figure scores for fun, including a $5,524 addition to his bankroll from finishing ninth in the PokerStars High Rollers $1,050 NLHE 6-Max PKO event.
$2.7 Million Monster Series is Heading to partypoker
In a time when online poker sites seem almost obsessed with offering high stakes tournaments to their customers, partypoker is bucking the trend with the launch of the second edition of its Monster Series. The Monster Series is partypoker’s online poker festival created with micro and mid-stakes players in mind. Featuring 41 numbered events and a total of 123 different tournaments over eight days from Apr.
Paul “The Rock” Romain Crowned Unibet UK Poker Tour Brighton Champion
Paul Romain made the trip from Croydon to the Rendezvous Casino in Brighton at the weekend, put down his £220 and prepared to go to battle for the title of 2018 Unibet UK Poker Tour Brighton champion. Romain was joined by 288 opponents who created a guarantee-busting £57,800 prize pool that was distributed among the top 27 finishers; a min-cash was worth £480 and first-place awarded £14,470 and a €2,000 Unibet Open package.
Only Five WPT500 Day 1s Remain, Don’t Miss Out
The $1 million guaranteed 888poker WPT500 London Main Event only has five starting flights remaining, which means time really is running out if you want to become a World Poker Tour champion on home soil and get your hands on what will be a six-figure prize. All five of the remaining Day 1s take place at the Aspers Casino in Stratford Westfield, London and they all cost £420 to buy into. For that princely sum, you receive 15,000 chips and play to a 30-minute clock.
UK & Ireland Sunday Briefing: Patrick Leonard Wins the $100K Whale
Patrick Leonard enjoyed a profitable Sunday session thanks to winning a major tournament online at 888poker and reaching the final table of one at PokerStars. Leonard emerged victorious in the 888poker $100,000 Whale by outlasting 123 opponents in the $1,050 buy-in event.
Massive 2018 Irish Poker Open Schedule Starts March 12
Great news for those of you who have been itching to play in the 2018 Irish Poker Open because the wait it almost over; the first of 20 scheduled events commences on Mar. 12. The 2018 Irish Open takes place at the Citywest Hotel from Mar. 12-19 and includes a Main Event featuring a huge €1 million guaranteed prize pool. Day 1a of the 2018 Irish Open Main Event shuffles up at 2:00 p.m. on Mar. 14 with Day 1b starting at the same time on Mar. 15.
UK & Ireland Online Poker Rankings: Conor Beresford Reclaims UK Number One Spot
Conor “1_conor_b_1” Beresford has reclaimed the number one spot in the United Kingdom Online Poker Rankings, provided by our friends over at PocketFives.com. Beresford has nudged partypoker ambassador Patrick “pleno1” Leonard down one place into second after a five-figure score in the PokerStars Sunday 500. Beresford finished third in that particular tournament and banked $19,837. He also finished fourth in one of partypoker’s KO Series events and won $5,007.
UK & Ireland Online Poker Rankings: Three New Names in UK Top 20
The United Kingdom online poker tournament rankings, provided by PocketFives.com, has three new names in its top 20 this week, although one of them will be familiar to the UK online community. Billy “BillyChat” Chattaway returns to the UK top 20 after the weekend’s update. Chattaway is a shade over $2,000 away from $4.2 million in winnings and has been ranked as highly as 14th in the world back in 2015.
Set Mining and Sizing Bets for Value
Here's another hand from that same $3,000 buy-in no-limit hold'em World Series of Poker event we've been drawing hands from lately, this one allowing us to talk about set mining and bet sizing. The blinds were 600/1,200 with a 200 ante, and it folded around to me in the small blind where I had about 50,000 behind and had been dealt . If you recall, last week's hand also saw me limping in from the small blind with the lowly jack-four offsuit.
UK & Ireland Sunday Briefing: panda713 Wins the Sunday Million
“panda713” of the United Kingdom is a recreational poker player who until this weekend had approximately $15,000 in cashes at PokerStars. This morning, however, panda713 has a six-figure bankroll after he won the Sunday Million for almost $109,000. A field of 5,870 entrants created a $1,174,000 prize pool and was was set to be a $158,511 first-place prize. It was $337 for a min-cash and $9,324 for a final table appearance.
UK & Ireland Sunday Briefing: Big Win for Sean Prendiville
Every poker player wants to start the year in good form, start as they mean to go on you may say. Ireland’s Sean Prendiville has done exactly that after he triumphed in one of the PokerStars Winter Series events and banked a cool $52,828 on Jan. 7. Prendiville plays at PokerStars under the alias “MonkeyBudg” and it was this moniker that finished on top of the list of 5,583 entrants in Winter Series 38 – Medium: $109 NLHE [8-Max, Turbo Progressive KO].
UK & Ireland Online Poker Rankings: Ireland Has a New Number One
The United Kingdom and Ireland online poker rankings, provided by PocketFives.com, have been updated and both the UK and irish standings have a different name at their summit than they did last week. In the UK, Conor “1_conor_b_1” Beresford has returned to the top of pile thanks to some excellent results at partypoker and PokerStars.
Chris Moorman Wins 26th Online Triple Crown
888poker ambassador Chris “Moorman1” Moorman secured his 26th PocketFives.com Triple Crown this week after winning a qualifying tournament on his sponsor’s site. PocketFives.com award a Triple Crown to any player who manages to win three poker tournaments on three different sites within a seven-day period. For the victories to be considered, each tournament must meet the following criteria: On Oct.
#1 Reason Why You Can’t Crush Bad Players -- Click Here To Discover More
The worst feeling in poker is getting a bad beat…. Even worse, even more frustrating is when the player getting lucky against you is a bad player… a weak player… a fish! It feels sick making when their exact perfect card comes down to make their bad hand magically good…. Blueerrggghhhhh. Too many losses where bad players get lucky can ruin your sessions or bust you from a tournament. If this is happening to you and you’re struggling with it, it really sucks… Here’s the thing….
Sick of Going Card Dead in Tournaments? Click Here to Discover How to Fix It
Don't you hate the feeling in a middle of a tournament when suddenly the good cards dry up? You've started okay, built a bit of a stack, then the poker gods give you -offsuit six times in a row and you don't see a decent hand for ages. You can feel so helpless just waiting for hands as the blinds go up and your stack goes away. You know how the story ends…. You get something half-decent, have to go all in with it and end up getting busted. If that's happening to you, it's not your fault.
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