This past weekend at the PokerStars United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour, the record books had to be rewritten in what turned out to be a marathon event. The eventual winner was a 27 year old amateur player from Plymouth, Matthew McDerra, who beat another amateur player in Mateusz Warowiec who is from Poland. The pair both qualified online for their place in theRead Full Article

This past week the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club in Nottingham, England announced it had its eyes set on the UK poker record for the largest field ever in its upcoming Grand Prix tournament –a record the club set and then lost last year. Now the Dusk Till Dawn Grand Prix will have to pull in even more players as the PokerStars UKIPT NottinghamRead Full Article

Following a winning performance within the European Poker Tour London Main Event after seeing off four times World Series of Poker bracelet winner John Juanda and adding a first place payout of £900,000 to his bankroll, the Scot has managed to repeat his fine form to win another tournament, the UKIPT Champion of Champions tournament. The tournament which was made up of eight UKIPTRead 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 wentRead Full Article

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 aRead Full Article

We have all had to work a job at some point or another in life where we feel that we are working for nothing other than to cover the bills and a dad of three who lives in Nottingham, United Kingdom has managed to break that routine through his decision to play professional poker. Julian Thew used to work as a decorator and deliveryRead Full Article

Action returns to Ireland in a few weeks with PokerStars sponsoring the 1st leg of the UKIPT (UK and Ireland Poker Tour) to be held in Galway’s Radisson Hotel. The event will start on the 11th of December and will finish on the 14th. With many top poker players expected to turn up for the Galway leg of the Pokerstars UKIPT, it is expectedRead 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. TheRead 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 withRead Full Article