UKIPT announces 2014 stops
UK & Ireland's biggest and best live poker tour confirmed the final stops of the season 4 tour in six major cities today. Each event aims to be a spectacular can't-miss festival of poker with a...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh Day 1A: Level 1-4 updates (100/200, 25 ante)
4.25pm: Straight flushes and great calls just before the break UKIPT Edinburgh Day 1A had reached the halfway point with four levels in the past. Just before the break a rare sight was seen as Ronni...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh Day 1A: Level 5-8 updates (400/800, 100 ante)
8:55pm: Leon Louis leads Day 1A field Leon Louis bagged up 122,700 to lead the 55 remaining players from the 116 starters on Day 1A. A full wrap of the day's play coming up on the blog shortly. -- MC...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh: Leon "Flippetyflop" Louis leads after Day 1A
If the PCA is the traditional start to the year on the EPT then Edinburgh is the traditional* start to the year on the UKIPT. Whilst the PCA might have cleared up once and for all that which starting...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh Day 1B: Level 1-4 updates (100/200, 25 ante)
4:23pm: End of the level That's the end of level four, you'll find level five updates in a new post shortly. -- NW 4:20pm: Easy come. easy go for Antony Hallam On the river of a [3d][5d][8d][9s][Jd]...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh Day 1B: Level 5-8 updates (400/800, 100 ante)
9.10pm: Day 1B is in the books The players are slowly filing out of the tournament room and into the Edinburgh night. Roughly 150 of them made it through to Day 2 and they'll join the 55 survivors from...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh: Magic finish sees David Vamplew lead Day1B field
So much fun was had in the Assembly Rooms yesterday, that it was decided to do the same thing all over again. A bunch of players were gathered together in a room, given 20,000 chips and a time limit of...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh Day 2: Level 9-12 updates (1,000/2,000, 300 ante)
4.20pm: End of the level That's the end of the fourth level of the day, you'll find level 13 updates in a new post shortly. -- NW 4.10pm: Painful exit for Campbell Down to just 21,000 Paul Campbell...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh Day 2: Level 13-16 updates (2,500/5,000, 500 ante)
9:10pm: Play ends for the day No more players busted through the last four hands. A full wrap of the day's play will be up on the blog shortly. 9:03: Last four hands The last four hands will be played...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh: Jon Lundy leads the final 36 into Day 3
The second day of a UKIPT is always the one that shapes the tournament as around 80% of the players who navigate their way through Day 1 fail to make Day 3. By the end of play a stack that would've...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh Day 3: Level 17 Updates (3,000/6,000 1,000 ante
12:50pm: Flips cost Sasek and Teng They say you have to win flips to win tournaments. Milan Sasek and Andrew Teng tried that but it didn't work out well for them. Sasek didn't even have a sweat post...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh Day 3: Level 21-24 Updates (15,000-30,000, 4,000 ante)
8.50pm: Overnight chip counts Here are the overnight chip counts, Jason Beazley has a narrow lead from Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree. The final table starts at noon local time tomorrow and it should...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh: Beazley pips Boeree to lead final eight
UKIPT Edinburgh started with nearly 50 tables across both day ones, and by Sunday evening, just one table remains. Eight players are still in with a chance of being the fourth ever champion north of...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh: Level 24-25 updates (20,000/40,000, 5,000 ante)
1:20pm: A couple of bumps in Boeree's road Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree has lost a couple of pots that went to showdown... In the first she limped form the small blind and Eldon Orr checked his...
View ArticleUKIPT 4 Edinburgh: Dean Hutchison denies Liv Boeree second major title; wins...
When Max Silver demolished the UKIPT Dublin final table in just four hours it was a record that we didn't think we'd see broken. But today Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boere was just one card away from...
View ArticleMore Main Events, more Rational players
We are poker. It's not only our business, it's a passion too. But those of us who work at PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker are in a bit of a netherworld. We provide the most online poker games of any...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh Day 1A: Level 1-4 updates (100/200, 25 ante)
4.25pm: Straight flushes and great calls just before the break UKIPT Edinburgh Day 1A had reached the halfway point with four levels in the past. Just before the break a rare sight was seen as Ronni...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh Day 1A: Level 5-8 updates (400/800, 100 ante)
8:55pm: Leon Louis leads Day 1A field Leon Louis bagged up 122,700 to lead the 55 remaining players from the 116 starters on Day 1A. A full wrap of the day's play coming up on the blog shortly. -- MC...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh: Leon "Flippetyflop" Louis leads after Day 1A
If the PCA is the traditional start to the year on the EPT then Edinburgh is the traditional* start to the year on the UKIPT. Whilst the PCA might have cleared up once and for all that which starting...
View ArticleUKIPT4 Edinburgh Day 1B: Level 1-4 updates (100/200, 25 ante)
4:23pm: End of the level That's the end of level four, you'll find level five updates in a new post shortly. -- NW 4:20pm: Easy come. easy go for Antony Hallam On the river of a [3d][5d][8d][9s][Jd]...
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