Another busy day at the 2010 World Series of Poker is in the books, and the action is really starting to heat up. Yesterday saw two Champions crowned: English poker pro Praz Bansi captured the $1,500 NLHE title, while a Canadian amateur poker player, Aadam Daya, who moonlights as a business analyst, won the $1k NLHE tournament. In other action two more final table lineups were set, with David Chiu leading the final 8 competitors in the $1,500 2-7 TripleRead Full Article

Praz Bansi joined a very exclusive with his win in the $1,500 No Limit Holdem at the 2010 World Series of Poker, becoming just the third Brit with two WSOP gold bracelets –Chris Bjorin and John-Paul Kelly are the other two. In addition to the coveted bracelet Bansi will walk away with $515,500 in prize-money. When asked what the victory meant to him compared to other tournaments Bansi said, “The EPT’s and the other tournaments are important, but to meRead Full Article

With six of the eight members of the final table hailing from the UK –and a seventh from Ireland– it was a pretty safe bet someone from the British Isles would walk away with UK Irish Poker Tour Nottingham event. In the end it was a 44 year-old plumber who took down the championship along with the £80,000 first place prize-money. Andrew Couldridge went into the final table in the middle of the pack in terms of chips, but wasRead Full Article

The PokerStars UKIPT schedule has been released by Pokerstars and it looks like it’s going to be an absolute cracker. There are 8 events currently penciled in with a ninth event expected to be added soon which will take place in Scotland. The UKIPT schedule currently includes events in both England and Ireland including the Irish Poker Championship as well as EPT London. The UKIPT is expected to take over as the UK and Irelands premier poker tour and allRead Full Article

The PokerStars UKIPT (UK Ireland Poker Tour) is due to kick off on the 11th of December in Galway, starting with the Irish Poker Chanmpionship. This tournament is expecting to pull in some of the biggest poker players from around the UK and Ireland, and will probably attract a few of the bigger names from further a field due to PokerStars being involved with the event. The UKIPT Galway, which is expected to start on the 11th of december andRead Full Article

GSN’s recent poker reality-show ’2 Months 2 Million’ featured four top online poker pro’s trying to earn $2 million collectively over two-months. From November 17th -19th in London, England we’ll witness ‘2 Men 1Million’: When Full Tilt Poker pro Tom ‘durrrr” Dwan will pit his skills against poker’s biggest high-rollers in a series of heads-up challenge matches with $1 million on the line in each match! The match stipulations are very few, and easy to understand: Each player will buy-inRead Full Article

PokerStars are about to announced that Irish online Poker sensation, j.thaddeus, has just been signed up as one of their UK and Ireland pro’s. Information on the details are scarce at the minute as PokerStars have yet to announce it. However, PokerNewsBoy.com have an inside source that can confirm that j.thaddeus, or Jude Ainsworth which he goes by when he is not online, will be confirmed later this week. j.thaddeus Jude Ainsworth ‘j.thaddeus‘ is a well known name in theRead Full Article

The sixth and final event of this years British Masters Poker Tour has concluded and it was John Gardner who took down the tournament in great fashion winning himself a nice little £13.500. The number of entrants has been down on what the organizers’ would have hoped for but the events all saw a fair amount of entrants turning out for each leg of the tour. 150 players paid the £500 main event buy in which lead to a £76,000Read Full Article

Wow what a year for British Pro and Hit Squad Member James Akenhead, first off he is one on the November 9 elite, made the WSOPE final table finishing a respectable 9th and has now made his third final table in sucession by reaching the final of the FULL TILT Poker Million, sending Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and the Magician Antonio Esfandiari to the rail along the way. The final table will be no easy run either though as the everRead Full Article

Last week the place to be for poker was Ireland. With Dublin hosting the biggest tournament outside of the US. The Boyle Poker IPO came and left Dublin with great success. This years IPO featured 1440 poker players from over 19 different countries. However, this week all the news will be coming again from Ireland, but this time it will be all about Paddy Poker’s Irish Winter Festival. Paddy Poker’s Irish Winter Festival This week action moves from Boyle PokersRead Full Article