Homecoming on the Isle of Man
When I qualified for UKIPT IOM, I looked forward to the idea of my first UKIPT. I knew it would be another good tournament and an great opportunity to visit PokerStars headquarters. I did not imagine...
View ArticleUKIPT report: When good hands go bad
Being a local girl living a stone's throw from the venue hosting the first ever PokerStars Isle of Man UKIPT and harbouring a newly discovered passion for Texas Hold'em, I was, to say the least,...
View ArticlePlay the huge £500,000 UKIPT Nottingham six-max, starts tomorrow!
I can tell you that a lot of people are very excited about this (inside and outside of the company). The much anticipated UKIPT Nottingham six-max Main Event starts tomorrow with the first of three...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham six-max: Level 1-4 updates (100/200 ante 25)
4.17pm: Break time We've reached the halfway point of today's play and the participants are now on a 15 minute break. It's time to give this blog page a well earned rest too, you'll find level five...
View ArticleFatima de Melo: Second place at UKIPT was a winner
"In poker, you can still win while losing," Fatima told us after her second place finish at the UKIPT Isle of Man Main Event. "All in all, I felt like a winner, just not THE winner." That, ladies and...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham six-max: Level 5-8 updates (400/800 ante 100)
9pm: Done for the day It looks as if 24 players have made it through to Day 2 from the 61 who started today. That means the average stack is 50,900, a man with way more than that is local cash game...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham 6-max: Mitch Johnson snatches lead at the bell after Day 1A...
Dusk Till Dawn was designed and built specifically for poker players, and events like the 6-max UKIPT Main Event today made it clear why. It may not have been rammed, with just nine tables in action on...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham 6-Max: Day 1B level 1-4 updates (100/200 ante 25)
4.15pm: Break time That's the end of level four, you'll find level five updates in a new post. -- NW 4pm: Chip counts A scooch round the room reveals the following stacks are in front of the names and...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham 6-Max: Day 1B level 5-8 updates (400/800 ante 100)
9.10pm: Jon Spinks wins UKIPT4 Nottingham High Roller The High Roller finished slightly before the Main Event wrapped up for the day and Jon Spinks defeated Chris Brammer heads-up to win his second...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham 6-max: David Price leads at the end of Day 1B
Opening days have a habit of looking the same. Just like yesterday, Day 1B started this afternoon with a generic crowd of poker players, converging on a familiar poker room, to slog it out for eight...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham 6-max: Day 1C level 1-3 updates (75/150)
3.15pm: Five betting Joe Grech opened on the button for 300, which would be his last positive act in the hand. Next to him in the small blind was Robert Sherwood who immediately raised to 900. This had...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham 6-max: Day 1C level 5-8 updates (400/800, 100 ante)
9.01pm: Done for the day Players have bagged and tagged their chips, a full wrap is on the way and we'll also upload chip counts to the blog in the next hour or so. Day 2 starts at noon and we'll be...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham 6-max: Benjamin Rivera tops Day 1C, but Mitch Johnson leads...
So that's that. The opening day of the UKIPT Nottingham 6-max Main Event is finally at an end. It took three days, 24 levels, and processed 458 players. Now the surviving 191 players will unite as one...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham 6-max: Day 2 level 13 updates( 1,200/2,400, 300 ante)
5.25pm: Hand for hand continues Dara O'Kearney doubled-up twice to deny the rest of the field a guaranteed cash finish. His first double-up came with 74 players left with a pair of sixes against the...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham 6-max: Chris Brammer bursts into the lead with 31 remaining
We expected Day 2 to sort things out. It didn't fail. After the end of eight levels, we slashed the field by 164, burst the bubble, and found ourselves a well known chip leader, setting us up nicely...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham 6-max: Day 3 level 17-20 updates (6,000/12,000, 1,000 ante)
4.35pm: Break time The players are now on a 15 minute break. You'll find level 21 updates in a new post. -- NW 4.30pm: Sykes wins a big one from Clifton-Burraway I only caught the action from the turn,...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham 6-max: Day 3 level 21-22 updates (10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante)
6.25pm: Salmon gets some juice A big pot has just gone the way of Tony Salmon and he's claimed the chip lead as a result. Salmon opened to 50,000 from under-the-gun, Richie Lawlor three-bet to 128,000...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham 6-max: David Clifton-Burraway takes narrow lead into Main...
It was a day full of surprises, but the final table of the UKIPT Nottingham 6-max now has a final table in place. The field was reduced from 31 to just six in a little more than eight-and-a-half hours,...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham 6-max: Final table level 24-26 updates (25,000/50,000,...
4.40pm: Approximate Chip counts Tim Wong -- 400,000 Ben Vinson -- 800,000 David Clifton-Burraway -- 2,850,000 Tony Salmon -- 1,900,000 Ben Mayhew -- 2,700,000 4.35pm: Won hanging on Tim Wong is the...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Nottingham 6-max: An emotional Ben Mayhew triumphs in final table...
There were four reports that could have been written tonight, each detailing how a talented player took top honours in the UKIPT4 Nottingham 6-max Main Event. All the finalists coming back to Dusk Till...
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