Season 2 of the very popular PokerStars United Kingdom Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) has come to a close and it was British poker pro Sam Razavi who captured one of the tour’s top honors, being named the Player of the Season for Season 2 of the UKIPT. Razavi, a sponsored pro at Black Belt Poker, will receive an entry into every Main Event tournamentRead Full Article

On Wednesday Paddy Power Poker released the details for their 2012 Irish Open tournament, one of the most popular and longest-running tournaments in poker. The tournament will be held at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin from April 6th to the 9th, 2012 with a buy-in of €3,200 + €300 for the Main Event –the complete preliminary tournament schedule is still in the works. TheRead Full Article

Sam Razavi is the latest winner on the PokerStars United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour as he took down the title last evening in Cork. He beat 601 other players to the first prize of €71,000, and Razavi adds his name to the growing list of British players who have won a big UK Title. Razavi is a professional player at Black Belt Poker,Read Full Article

The latest stop on the PokerStars UKIPT is already underway at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork, Southern Ireland. This is the fourth leg of this seasons tour and the second visit to Ireland, and organisers hope that up to 600 people will be attending the main event which starts today. The main event is a €500 + €60 NLHE and it will comeRead Full Article

Niall Smyth won an enthralling battle to claim the PaddyPower Irish Open, at the Burlington Hotel at 3.48am this morning. The final table started at 2.00pm on Monday afternoon with nine players and eventually came to an end some 14 hours later in the early hours of Tuesday morning when Smyth finally beat Surinder Sunar in a great heads-up duel. Niall McCann was theRead Full Article

The PaddyPower Irish Open has reached the final stages and Niall Smyth is a strong favourite to claim the title later on today. Smyth is the 9/4 favourite and starts the final table today, at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, with 2,038,000 in chips, and has a decent lead over John Eames in second. Eames has been attracting a lot of attention over theRead Full Article

The venue for the Irish Open has been named as the Burlington Hotel in Dublin. The Irish Open is highly regarded and is seen as one of the best events in the European Poker Calendar. This great event takes place from the 21st of April until the 25th of April and it is set to be five days of fantastic live poker action. TheRead Full Article

At the beginning of March D-Day Poker announced plans to host a Live Linked Poker Tournament across Ireland, well it all kicks-off tomorrow night Friday 1st April. Events will be running all across Ireland in poker clubs, pubs and bars, and there will also be two events in London, with the Rounder’s Card Club and the Big Bluff at Lea Valley participating. The tournamentRead Full Article

Ladbrokes have today announced the dates for this years Irish Poker Festival, which will be held at the Irish National Events Centre, in Killarney. Ladbrokes will be looking to build on the success from last year when a record number of people were in attendance, which saw a massive 633 players taking part in the main event. They hope and expect that this yearsRead Full Article

The Irish Poker Open is the longest running European Poker Tournament in history, and there is only one tournament in the world which has ran for longer, the WSOP of course. This years event will be held over the Easter weekend, in Dublin, at the Burlington Hotel. PaddyPower has today announced a series of live satellite events across Great Britain and Ireland. The firstRead Full Article