A huge turnout for the UK Ireland Poker Tour tournament in Nottingham England has dwindled down to the final 8 players who will take to the poker tables later today to fight it out for the championship. The £500 buy-in tournament will go down as the second largest poker tournament in the UK, with 650 total entrants –the only major poker tournament with a larger field was this past year’s EPT London event. Going into the final table the homeRead Full Article

Barack Obama has made it clear which WSOP bracelet winner he will be voting for to be included in the upcoming WSOP Tournament of Champions. Ireland’s own Marty Smyth. Voting for the upcoming tournament has already began and Poker News Boy are hoping that all his loyal readers and poker fans vote for the Inclusion of Irish Poker hero, Marty Smyth, into the WSOP Tournament of Champions. The WSOP are allowing poker fans to vote for upto

With one of the biggest Poker Tournaments in Europe due to start this Friday, we though we would give you a quick preview, as our own Gerry Poltorak and part owner Stevie “Allinstevie” Devlin will be going to the event. The likely outcome will be that Gerry will be blogging about the Irish Open and Stevie will be playing. Although with two

2010 will see the return of the Tournament of Champions at the World Series of Poker and this time around poker fans will have a direct impact on the lineup. Fans can vote for their favorite poker players on the WSOP website, and the top 20 vote-getters will get their ticket punched for the 2010 Tournament of Champions. At this point over 180,000 votes have been cast, and there will likely be a huge push as we approach the votingRead Full Article

The Granddaddy of poker Doyle Brunson is rumoured to be attending the Irish Open this year. Doyle Brunson is a very high profile celeb and also endorses the popular poker room Doyles Room. Doyle has been playing the game for over 50 years now and is no stranger to big money tournaments with 10 World Series of Poker bracelets. Doyle has been seen on many of the highest profile poker television shows such as High Stakes

The results from the first ever Pokerstars UKIPT event are in and it’s Padraig Parkinson who has taken down the 125,000 euro first place prize money. The tournament started with a field of 259 runners which made the total prize pool 471,400 euros. A assize 116 of the total field qualified online at Pokerstars via the many UKIPT satellites they have been running. Padraig bought straight into the event for 2,000 euros and we’re pretty sure he’s pleased he did.Read Full Article

We are now down to 5 and below you will see chip counts and who left… Paul Marrow United Kingdom 1650000 Ben Lefew USA PokerStars qualifier 1590000 Michael McFadgen Canada PokerStars player 788000 Padraig Parkinson Ireland 534000 Michael Graydon Ireland PokerStars qualifier 500000

The final day, and the final table, has just started at the Galway UKIPT. By the end of the day there will be a new Irish Poker Champion crowned, and all Irish fans are hoping that Padriag Parkinson can claim the title. The biggest threat to the Irish Poker Championship moving away from Ireland is English born Paul Marrow. However, if you talk to Paul Marrow he will tell you he is as much Irish as he is English, andRead Full Article

Day 3 of the PokerStars UKIPT Galway has came to an end and the final table has been decided. After a day that seen many players drop, the remaining players are: Padraig Parkinson Michael Graydon Cat O’Neill Paul Marrow Ben Lefew Vincent Cosgrove Michael McFadgen Paul Dooley Trevor Bulless Once the chip counts have been confirmed, I will get them posted….

Padraig Parkinson Ireland 735000 Michael Graydon Ireland 665000 Javed Abrahams United Kingdom 618000 Paul Marrow United Kingdom 490000 Ben Lefew USA 470000 Christopher Brammer United Kingdom 377500 Vincent Cosgrove Ireland 301000 Michael McFadgen Canada 243500 Dermot Blain Ireland 236000 Paul Dooley Ireland 204000 Reggie Corrigan Ireland 203000 Benoit Mouret France 187000 Trevor Bulless United Kingdom 170000 Jurgen Hermann Austria 137000 Cat O’Neill 135000