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$200,000 Guaranteed For $33 in the partypoker Power Series Special Edition
Hot off the heels of a successful POWERFEST festival that saw them pay out more than $69 million, partypoker continues to offer its customers plenty of value with the launch of the Power Series Special Edition tournaments. Power Series is the name partypoker gives to its multi-table tournament schedule. Several million dollars are guaranteed weekly from tournament with buy-ins starting as low as $0.22 and increasing up to $2,600.
UK & Ireland Online Poker Rankings: Chattaway and Charlton Return
Billy “BillyChat” Chattaway and Daniel “judgedredd13” Charlton have returned to the PocketFives.com UK Online Poker Rankings Top 20 this week on the back of several substantial scores. Chattaway, formerly 14th in the world, comes in at 19th in the latest UK standings.
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.
Tommy Angelo Presents: On the EV of Mouse Smashing
I just got off the phone with a mouse smasher. Or you could call him a mouse masher. (It sounds the same either way, whether you are saying it, or doing it.) I'm going to call him Humphrey. The topic was poker coaching. During the conversation, Humphrey asked some questions I had heard before: Q: Did you really fold pocket aces before the flop just for the hell of it? A: Yes. Can you think of a better reason? Q: I tilt. Can you straighten me out? A: No. But you can.
Stephen Chidwick becomes First British Player to Top the GPI
Stephen Chidwick has become the first British poker player to reach the pinnacle of live tournament poker and have his name sit proudly atop the Global Poker Index rankings. Chidwick, known online by his alias “stevie444”, has long been the number one ranked live poker tournament players in the United Kingdom, yet the top spot in the worldwide rankings had eluded him until this week.
$40 Million Guaranteed partypoker POWERFEST Announced
Keep your diaries free from tasks from May 6-20, 2018 because those are the dates the partypoker’s biggest-ever POWERFEST series takes place. The second POWERFEST of 2018 sees a total of 366 events scheduled, including 17 Championship tournaments and 13 events that have guaranteed prize pools of at least $1 million. As with previous editions of POWERFEST, events will be divided up into different buy-in levels known as Micro, Low, Medium, High and High Rollers.
UK & Ireland Sunday Briefing: Patrick Leonard Wins Bounty Builder High Roller
Patrick “pads1161” Leonard ensured he enjoyed a profitable Sunday session after he won the PokerStars $530 Bounty Builder High Roller. Leonard was one of 817 entrants (577 entries and 240 re-entries) in the $400,000 guaranteed High Roller and was the last man standing after 14 hours of play. The partypoker ambassador walked away with a cool $62,702, which included $28,180 in bounty payments.
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.
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: 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.
Kalidou Sow wins PokerStars Festival London Main Event
France’s Kalidou Sow is in the form of his life. Sow won the €5,300 PokerStars Championship Prague Main Event in December for €675,000 and on Jan. 28 Sow took down the PokerStars Festival London Main Event for an additional £121,803 and a $30,000 Platinum Pass. A bumper crowd of 852 entrants participated in the £990 buy-in event at the Hippodrome Casino in London.
Dragos Trofimov wins the PokerStars Festival London High Roller
Moldova’s Dragos Trofimov helped himself to the largest live poker tournament cash of his career by taking down the 2018 PokerStars Festival London High Roller at the Hippodrome Casino on Jan. 25. Trofimov, a 24-year-old chemistry student, finished second in a €330 No-Limit Hold’em event in July 2017 for €16,850 and a couple of days later banked €3,240 by finishing fourth in a €200 buy-in event, also at the PokerStars Festival Lille.
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