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UKIPT Series 2: Day 2, level 25-29 updates (blinds 60,000-120,000 ante 20,000)
11.25pm: Gabriel Dragomir wins UKIPT Series 2 (£16,480); Paul Zimbler second (£8,000) On the final hand Paul Zimbler raised to 250,000 on the button, Gabriel Dragomir moved all-in and Zimbler made the...
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UKIPT Series2: Gabriel Dragomir claims victory and £16,480
The decision of start of final table chip leader Gabriel Dragomir to lock up £10,000 as part of a nine way chop seemed a smart one given that by the time play was six handed he was the second shortest...
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My British poker trip: UKIPT, shopping, and Stapes
Besides playing a lot online lately (I love playing the Women's Tuesday and Sunday), I still enjoy feeling real poker chips and cards in my hands. It was time for some live poker again. Luckily, a few...
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UKIPT Galway starts tomorrow, Saturday 27 July
The largest ever festival to touch down on Irish soil begins tomorrow. Get there. Be there. It's going to be a massive 17 days of poker with the €1,000,000 guaranteed UKIPT Galway Main Event topping a...
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UKIPT Galway Main Event underway
The UK & Ireland Poker Tour Galway Main Event is underway in Ireland, and some of the best poker players in the region have made their way to the Emerald Isle to see if they can take home the...
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Alan Gold wins UKIPT Galway
The UK & Ireland Poker Tour event in Galway this weekend marked a lot of firsts: a full poker village, a Full Tilt Poker sponsorship, and Alan Gold's first major poker title. Gold has put up a...
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PokerStars' real and virtual bodyguards
PokerStars' headquarters is a warm, open place. Nearly every employee from nearly every department sits out in the middle of the room. They can see each other's faces. They can talk and share what's...
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UKIPT4 Isle of Man: Level 13-16 updates (2,500/5,000, ante 500)
8.50pm: Done for the day There are 30 players left in the UKIPT4 Isle of Man Main Event and they're currently bagging and tagging their chips. We'll be bringing you a full re-cap of the days play...
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Poker evangelist, Lee Jones
Even before I discovered she was one of the most beautiful people I'd seen in recent memory, it was the fiddle player who drew me to the lobby of the Villa Marina theater. Less than 50 yards away, the...
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Duncan McLellan leads final 30 at UKIPT Isle of Man
Duncan McLellan tonight bagged up an enormous 870,000 stack, close to twice as much as his closest rival, PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo. It's almost a final table average stack. McLellan...
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When the stars come out in Douglas
Strand Street runs north to south along a cobblestone walk just a few steps from the Irish Sea. It's where you go if you need a cup of coffee, some Chinese take-away, or a new plan for your cell phone....
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UKIPT4 Isle of Man: Level 17-20 updates (6,000/12,000, ante 2,000)
For continued coverage of the UKIPT4 Isle of Man Main Event please click here. 4.35pm: Break Join us in a new post shortly. We'll get a full chip count to you shortly. 4.30pm: Jonat on the rise Chris...
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Helping Hands at PokerStars
Fatima Moreira de Melo stood up, raised her hands, and accepted the applause from the assembled crowd. "Yes, look at me," she said ruefully. "I lost." She's a woman who accepts irony well. Everyone was...
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UKIPT4 Isle of Man: Level 21-23 updates (12,000/24,000, ante 3,000)
7.25pm: Overnight chip counts Here are the chip counts of the eight remaining players. 1. Adam Topping, United Kingdom PokerStars Qualifier, 676,000 2. Chris Jonat, United Kingdom Rational Group Staff,...
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How (not) to play a UKIPT poker tournament
For the first time in their history, PokerStars and the Rational Group allowed its people to play in one of their Main Events. So, this UKIPT stop in the Isle of Man was a monumental moment and...
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Jamie O'Connor leads UKIPT Isle of Man, Moreira de Melo final tables
Tomorrow is going to be a great day of poker. Not only have we got a fantastic mix of players fighting it out for the £94,090 first place prize and the first ever UKIPT Isle of Man title, but there's...
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Matthew Robins, PokerStars' watchdog
In the farthest corner of the PokerStars office building on the Isle of Man sits a nondescript room with a heavily-marked whiteboard on the wall. In the farthest corner of that room, sitting under the...
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UKIPT 4 Isle of Man: Level 23-26 updates (25,000/50,000, ante 5,000)
4.25pm: Fatima Moreira eliminated in second place (£59,660) Fatima Moreira de Melo waved her hand to indicate she was all-in, her shove was for 905,000 and Duncan McLellan didn't take too long to call....
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Isle of Man: Old friends teach me a lesson
I have an admission I must make: I was wrong about the Isle of Man. I've had a long association with PokerStars, and when people have asked me what's on the island, my response has always been the...
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Duncan McLellan wins UKIPT Isle of Man and £94,090
Duncan McLellan today won the UKIPT Isle of Man Main Event beating international hockey legend and PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo to claim the title and £94,090. It took four days for the...
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