On Wednesday night at the Aviation Club in Paris, France the 2011 European Poker Awards were handed out. Among the winners of the coveted awards were Sam Trickett (Poker Player of the Year) and Pius Heinz (Best Tournament Performance) with longtime poker insider Jesse May heading home with the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award. Overall there were very few surprises/upsets on the evening with allRead Full Article

On January 25th, 2012 the European Poker community will descend on the Aviation Club in Paris, France to hand out 10 European Poker Awards (EPA’s) to the biggest stars on the European poker scene. This will mark the 11th consecutive year that the European Poker Awards have been handed out, and it seems that the prestige and exposure of the awards ceremony has grownRead Full Article

Sam Holden may not have been able to win poker’s biggest prize at the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event, but the UK native did add to the $782k he won for his 8th place finish in poker’s biggest tournament by winning the latest installment of the popular UK television show Late Night Poker. 32 players took part in theRead Full Article

Yesterday Genting Poker announced the creation of a new live tournament series that will take place across the UK, the Genting Poker Series. The Genting Poker Series will feature seven stops in its inaugural season, culminating with a stop in London for a £1,500 buy-in Main Event in December 2012. The first six stops on the 2012 Genting Poker Series schedule will all featureRead Full Article

Chalk up yet another $1 million score for Titan Poker pro Sam Trickett, as the young poker star increased his 2011 tournament earnings to a mind-boggling $4.5 million this past weekend by winning the 2011 Partouche Poker Tour Main Event. After a mammoth field turned out for last year’s PPT Main Event (which was eventually won by Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst) the tournament titleRead Full Article

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

The PokerStars EPT was expecting a record-setting turnout for the 2011 EPT PokerStars London Main Event, but hopes were quickly dashed when Day 1a of the tournament attracted a less than overwhelming 280 entrants –in 2010 Day 1a attendance was 339. On Day 1b the tournament would need to have a huge turnout to surpass the 2010 attendance record of 848 players. Unfortunately, attendanceRead Full Article

With the Epic Poker League, WPT Grand Prix de Paris, and PokerStars WCOOP going on sometimes the smaller poker tours can slip through the cracks, but fear not, we are here to make sure you get ALL the results from the tournaments taking place around the world! Season 3 of the Sky Poker Tour comes to a close The UK based Sky Poker TourRead Full Article

Event organizers for the GUKPT Goliath tournament –a £100 buy-in NLHE tournament with three starting days, and a multi-entry format—were hoping to surpass the record set at the 2009 Boyle Poker IPO where 1,440 players registered for the event, making it the largest tournament in European and UK poker history. Well, the organizers achieved their goal as an impressive 1,765 runners registered over theRead Full Article

Earlier this week we detailed the nominees for the 2011 British Poker Awards, and now it’s time to put on our prognostication hats and make our selections in the thirteen separate categories that make up the 2011 BPA’s. For a complete list of the nominees, or for more details on the awards ceremony, you can head on over to the British Poker Awards website.Read Full Article