PokerStars Marbella Festival: Day 1A, level 9 updates (500-1,000, ante 100)
Shubin heads field on Day 1a at the PokerStars Marbella Festival The ground-breaking conjunction of the UKIPT and ESPT tours was always likely to prove seismic and so it proved as a sell-out field of...
View ArticlePokerStars Marbella Festival: Day 1B Level 1-4 updates (100-200 ante 25)
4.15pm: End of level four - 15 minute break The booming baritone of the tournament director just announced the end of the level over the tannoy and the players needed little encouragement to bolt out...
View ArticlePokerStars Marbella Festival: Day 1B level 5-8 updates (blinds 400-800 ante 100)
9:40pm: Hundred Billion hits as DaWarsaw doubles Grzegorz "DaWarsaw" Mikielewicz moved all-in from the small blind with two black fives, and raced against the button's [Kd] [Qd]. The flop came a sweaty...
View ArticlePokerStars Marbella Festival: Day 1B level 9 & 10 updates (600-1200 ante 100)
11.42pm: Boehler leads Day 1b and the field at the PokerStars Marbella Festival Sell-out would be an understatement. The second day 1 flight at this joint UKIPT/ESPT stop was brimming with players...
View ArticlePokerStars Marbella Festival: Day 2, level 11-14 updates (1,500-3,000, ante 300)
4.28pm: End of level 14 The fourth level of the day has ended - the players are well drilled in the routine of streaming out into the sunshine every two hours and have just done so. We'll be back in 15...
View ArticlePokerStars Marbella Festival: Day 2 level 15-18 updates (blinds 4,000-8,000...
9.54pm: Derrick snatches Day 2 chip lead at the PokerStars Marbella Festival Day 2 of the PokerStars Marbella Festival saw the dual Day 1 flights combine to wage war at the felt in the sunny Casino...
View ArticlePokerStars Marbella Festival: Day 3, level 19- 22 updates (10,000-20,000,...
4.40pm: Level 22 complete; break Another two levels have passed and so a fifteen minute hiatus is due. See you shortly. -- RS 4.35pm: Abellan spikes McDonald With two minutes left on the tournament...
View ArticlePokerStars Marbella Festival: Day 3 level 23-25 updates(20,000-40,000, ante...
9.05pm: Geilich leads PokerStars Marbella Festival final table field Day 3 of the PokerStars Marbella Festival was always guaranteed to be a cracker and after a tough day's poker, it was Ludovic...
View ArticlePokerStars Marbella Festival: Day 4 level 26-29 updates(50,000-100,000, ante...
End of level 29 - Time for a pause We've scarcely been able to snatch a breath of fresh air, so blistering has been the start but the end of level 29 means the clock has been paused and the players,...
View ArticlePokerStars Marbella Festival: Final Table level 30-32 updates(100,000-200,000)
8.35pm: Ludovic Geilich (€130,000) wins the PokerStars Marbella Festival! It was four aggressive days of poker from our champion, who bested 763 runners, fueled by guts and favoured by fortune. The...
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I apologise if this is a bit hastily written, but you have to understand the more time I spend indoors writing this for you, the less time I'm out in the 29 degree sun drinking Pina Coladas. (Although...
View ArticleUKIPT Series 2 starts Friday, qualify today!
The streets of London town are paved with gold, you know. Maybe we can't promise gold, but we can deliver some great poker action in a top class card room in the heart of the capital (and the chance to...
View ArticleUKIPT Series 2: Day 1A, level 1-6 updates (200-400 ante 50)
5.25pm:Half a dozen down That's the end of level six, you'll find level seven updates in a new post. 5.15pm:Exits Some of the players who've exited in the opening six levels of play include: Edvinas...
View ArticleUKIPT Series 2: Day 1A, level 7-12 updates (1,000-2,000 ante 300)
9pm:Day 1A is done Play has come to an end here at The Hippodrome, players are bagging and tagging. A full wrap of the days play is on the way. 8.45pm:Floor! A little bit of controversy in a hand...
View ArticleUKIPT Series 2: James Thomson leads sold out UKIPT Series
After Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody won the first ever UKIPT Series event back in April it looked like, as a Series, it might have peaked two soon and the other two planned for 2013 would pale into...
View ArticleUKIPT Series 2: Day 1B, level 1-6 updates (200-400 ante 50)
5.25pm: Six down, six to go The players are now halfway through the day and like the first six levels this post is done. You'll find level seven updates in a new post 5.15pm: Hartigan's got heart if...
View ArticleUKIPT Series 2: Day 1B, level 7-12 updates (1,000-2,000 ante 300)
9.05pm: Play is over Day 1B of the UKIPT Series2 is over, roughly 75 players have made it through. They and the 62 players who advanced from Day 1A will be back tomorrow at noon as we play to a winner....
View ArticleUKIPT Series2: PokerStars qualifier Callum Palfrey powers to the top
Another Day one, another sell out here at The Hippodrome Casino in London. A massive 262 players took part today, for some context consider that only 343 players played in the first UKIPT Series back...
View ArticleUKIPT Series2: Day 2, level 13-18 updates (4,000-8,000 ante 1,000)
3.40pm: End of the level That's the end of level 18, you'll find level 19 updates in a new post. 3.35pm: Pang pings the river Another double up now for a player at risk... It was Callan Pang at risk,...
View ArticleUKIPT Series2: Day 2, level 19-24 updates (15,000-30,000 ante 4,000)
7.10pm: Break time The players are now on a 15 minute break. You'll find level 25 updates in a new post. 7pm: Dragomir and Mok both collect £1,305 Down to just a dozen now as Catalin Dragomir and Peter...
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