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UKIPT Cork: Day 1B, level 5 - 8 updates (Blinds 300-600, ante 75)
8.55pm: Day 1B is done At that's a wrap for Day 1B of UKIPT Cork, roughly 101 of the 244 players have made it through. We think Fintan Gavin may well be the chip leader, confirmation of that and the...
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$7,000,000 seventh anniversary for the Sunday Million
$7,000,000 guaranteed Sunday Million to celebrate seven years of the biggest and best tournament around on 3 March. Take your shot at the $1,000,000 held up top for the winner. Can you believe that the...
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UKIPT Cork: Fintan Gavin tops Day 1B field
We were expecting a bigger field today and we got what we wished for as 244 players - 101 more than Day 1A - paid their money and took their shot at the €770 main event here in Cork. This meant when...
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UKIPT Cork: Day 2, level 9-12 updates (Blinds 800-1,600 ante 200)
4.20pm: Break time The remaining 73 players are off on a 15-minute break. Updates of level 13 and beyond can be found here. -- MC 4.15pm: O'Kearney the pre flop master Dara O'Kearney is having a great...
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UKIPT Cork: Day 2, level 13-16 updates (Blinds 2,000-4,000 ante 400)
8.50pm: Nealon down to dust It's been an up and down day for Fergal Nealon, he's secured his first UKIPT main event cash but it looks like ultimately ending on a downer as he's got just seven big...
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UKIPT Cork: Finneran leads field heading into penultimate day
You don't get many more action-packed days on the UKIPT than a Day 2. Cork had it all: a glut of eliminations, swingy stacks, huge suck outs and a famous bubble boy. We returned today with 158 players...
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UKIPT Cork: Day 3, level 17-20 updates (Blinds 5,000-10,000 ante 1,000)
4.26pm: Break time How time flies. Two more frantic levels have passed and a 15-minute break is needed to catch breath. You'll find level 21 updates in a new post here. -- MC 4.25pm: Kevin Callebaut...
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UKIPT Cork: Day 3, level 21-22 updates (Blinds 8,000-16,000 ante 2,000)
6.10pm: Dylan Roberts eliminated in ninth place (€4,270) The final table of eight has now been set as a short stacked Dylan Roberts couldn't recover from his earlier set back. From under-the-gun he...
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UKIPT3 Cork: Keller in Pole position going to the final table
Much like the Foxtrot today was a day that went slowly, then quickly, then slowly again before a turbo burst at the end meant that in a little over five levels the field was reduced from 33 players to...
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Kg7xKg8 denies kry19kry a second Women's Sunday title
As we approach the second half of February, some of the action from the live tournaments has calmed a bit with the end of EPT Deauville and the wind-down of UKIPT Cork. Players can focus more on their...
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Sunday Warm-Up: Moves like Jordan, PlayaPlz wins $98K
Six-time NBA champion and known as the greatest basketball player who has ever lived, Michael Jordan celebrated his 50th birthday tonight. PlayaPlz happened to have an avatar of the Chicago Bulls star...
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Zábry zeroes in on Sunday Million win; Carsandi claims $195K after six-way deal
This week's Sunday Million saw another huge turnout with the first 8,000-plus player field of 2013 creating a huge prize pool of more than $1.6 million -- as usual crushing the tourney's $1 million...
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UKIPT Cork: Day 4, level 22 - 25 updates (Blinds 15,000-30,000 ante 3,000)
4.23pm: Break time The players are on their second 15-minute break of the day. Updates from here on in will be in a new post. -- MC 4.20pm: McGrath moves up in chips A series of small pot wins have...
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UKIPT Cork: Day 4. Meet the finalists
Seat 1: Fridjon Thordarson, Iceland (PokerStars Qualifier) - 336,000 Fridjon Thordarson was meant to be "partying in London" this weekend but reckons his friends might have extended this period to...
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PokerStars weekend review (2-18-13)
There are many things you need to know about what happened in this weekend's PokerStars action, but before you sink your head into any of those, you need to remember this: PokerStars is about to...
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What does it take to become a poker pro? More than you think.
Probably the most common question I get asked -- other than "Is Moneymaker your real name?" -- is "What does it take to become a poker pro?" In some ways it's an easy question to answer. What does it...
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UKIPT Cork: Day 4, level 26 & 27 updates (Blinds 25,000-50,000 ante 5,000)
7.15pm: Adios Cork, hola London Stay tuned for the wrap of today's final table, which will be on it's way shortly. There's not long to wait for the next stop of the UKIPT, which takes place in London...
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Estrellas Valencia making way for big crowds
Make way, Valencia, because the crowds are coming. Season of 4 of the Estrellas Poker Tour got underway in Madrid just a few weeks ago, but now the tour has eyes eyes on Valencia. Running April 1-7,...
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And NOW he's back: Rafa earns first title since return
It's been seven months in the shadows. Seven months of waiting. Seven months of "will Rafa ever return?" Finally, the tennis world has its answer to the question "Can Rafa still win?" The answer is...
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UKIPT3 Cork: Fantastic Finneran defeats all-comers to claim title
A clinical final table performance by Thomas Finneran means the UKIPT Cork title will return to Emerald Isle. A fun-filled week of poker climaxed when he defeated nearly man Stephen McGrath in a very...
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