Freeroll League Date Change

The Freeroll League starting date has been changed to June 1st 2009. Freeroll 1 will take place on that date at 19:30 GMT.

To take part in The Freeroll League simply follow the instructions on our special Freeroll League Page and get ready to play in our six part league, worth $3000, from June 1st.

We need 30 players for the freeroll league to start, so tell your friends to join today. There are no wagering requirements and alongside the $3000 in free cash you could win a seat to the 2010 Aussie Millions!

Big hearted Casinos donate to charity

The Victoria Casino in London has announced a 24 hour pokerthon, in aid of St Johns Hospice in May’

   All the registration fees from the thursday and friday events will be donated,  along with the rake from the new 24hr VIP poker room.

  6 events will take place over the 2 day period ( may 7th and 8th), with the winners of each event going through to a 6 seater final table, where the winner will receive a seat in the £100,000  GUKPT Champion of Champions event.

   Also on saturday the 2nd of may , the Grosvenor Casino Stoke On Trent will be holding a Birthday Bash for regular and much respected player Dale Leighton, with all the registration fees going to the charity of Dale`s choice.

   8pm  will be start time for this a £28  freeze-out game, with £5 going to the chosen charity, £3 going towards a meal at the interval, and the remaining£20 going into the prize pool. Lots of raffle prizes will also be on offer, along with an auction of 1 or 2 interesting items that have been donated by various people in the poker world.

Moorman wins GUKPT leg 4 in Manchester

Simon Moorman won the GUKPT leg 4 in Manchester yesterday, after seeing off a fantastic final table.  Surinder Sunar was the 1st to depart the final table, after being short stacked for some time he finally lost his battle and walked away with £5,960. This was Sunars 3rd final table in GUKPT events.

  The play went on deep into the night, and when there were 5 players remaining a deal was struck, although £15,000 was left in the pot to play for , and of course the all important seat in the champion of champions event, to  be held later on in the year.

  Simon Moorman, who only got into the event after his son paid his entry for his birthday was by far chip leader, and considering he had only played 1 live game prior to this event he was doing really well, and it was agreed that he would take £59,000. 2nd in chips Harri Isomaki from Finland actually qualified for the event in an online freeroll , so he was actually freerolling all the way to £47,000. 

  So  the final standings after deals were done were:-

1st Simon Moorman- £74,000

2nd Harri Isomaki- £47,000

3rd Eddie Lundon- £30,000

4th Kenny Burke -£30,000

5th Andy Booth- £35,000

6th Kev Holdstock- £14,300

7th Dave Maudlin – £11,320

8th Edward Roger – £8,340

9th Surinder Sunar – £5,960

Rory roaring at GUKPT Leg 4

Rory Campbell is still in the mix at the Manchester leg of the GUKPT.Not many would have heard of  Rory , as its only his 2nd live game! the other being a £10 freeze-out. Rory`s son decided to buy him a seat in the comp for his birthday, and out of 298 runners he is still there in the final 50 with 60,000 chips.

  Swampy is our chip leader at the moment with 162,000. Earlier in the day we saw Andy Bradshaw depart after his pocket 7s were called by A-K , nothing on the flop or turn , but an ace on the river sealed Andy`s fate.

Bradshaw has cashed almost £100,000 in the last few months , with wins at the Broadway Festival, and a creditable performance in the Irish open, manchester however just wasnt meant to be.

paddypower.com Dial-a-Bet sponsors charity poker tournament in aid of Erskine Hospital

paddypower.com Dial-a-Bet today announces details of the Paddy Power Charity Poker Open, Scotland’s largest ever poker tournament, which will raise money for Erskine Hospital. The tournament will be made up for four heats of up to 500 players and one grand final of 40 players, to be held on Saturday 30th May.

The Erskine hospital has provided nursing and medical care for more than 70,000 patients since 1916 and it is hoped that the Paddy Power Charity Poker Open will raise thousands of pounds to help re-build shattered lives.

The prizes on offer include an all expenses paid trip to Dublin for the paddypowerpoker.com Irish Poker Open in 2010, with tournament entry included. Other prizes include a trip for 2 to Las Vegas, VIP packages to the Paddy Power Gold Cup in 2009 at Cheltenham, and VIP packages to the Ayr Gold Cup in September 2009.

Players can book their spot at any one of the four heats by paying for their seat online at: www.paddypowercharityopen.com. Live registration for the heats takes place between 10:00am and 11:30am on the day of the events, with play starting at 12 noon. Entry costs just £12 per person.

Heat 1 – Saturday, 16th May
Heat 2 – Sunday, 17th May
Heat 3 – Saturday, 23rd May
Heat 4 – Sunday, 24th May
Grand Final – Saturday, 30th May

Paddy Power said “We are delighted to sponsor this tournament and look forward to not only hosting Scotland’s biggest ever poker event but also to raising much needed funds for this incredibly worthwhile organisation”

Join Paddy Power Poker now and recieve a $600 Bonus!

Martin marches on in Manchester

After winning the main event of the GUKPT leg 3 at the Vic in London, Martin Silke arrived at the G Casino in Manchester on monday to take part in the £200 event as the build up to leg 4 continued.

With 174 runners for the event, Martin had no trouble in dispatching 173 of them to take the top spot, and a prize of £10,860, beating Soleman Masud Janjuna into 2nd place who took £6960 for a very fine performance, with Peter Charalambous  in 3rd.

The £300 Double Chance freeze-out on tuesday saw 131 players taking their seats , making a prize pool for this tournament of over £39,000.

Iqbal Patal took the win with a very nice £12,480 , beating Peter Kvisthammer into 2nd place  £8060, with Christopher McNicholls taking 3rd place and £5500 .

Emily Curzon wins Leeds stop on the Betfred.com Ladies Poker Tour.

Twenty-five-year-old Emily Curzon won the first leg of the Betfred Ladies Poker Tour at the weekend, topping a field of 85 players in the £100 buy in tournament at the Alea Casino, Leeds, England.

Betfred added £1,500 to the prize pool to bring the total to £10,000. Curzon got heads up with Angela Evis and the final hand saw her go all in after a raise from her opponent. Evis called and showed 9-9 while Curzon turned up Jh-8h. The flop brought 10-5-3 and two hearts to give Curzon a flush draw but Evis was still ahead.

That all changed on the turn, which came a jack and Evis was now drawing to just the two remaining nines in the deck. The river was an innocent six and Curzon was crowned champion and as well as the £3,000 top prize she receives a seat in the Grand Final in November where she will be playing for a £20,000 sponsorship package.

The final table seating positions and chip counts before play started on the final table:

The final payouts for the event were:

This year sees eight stops on the Betfred Ladies Poker Tour taking in the UK and Spain between April and November with Betfred adding £1,500 to each £110 buy in event and the winner of each stop qualify for the grand final on November 21.

The next stop on the tour is The Opera House, Scarborough, England on May 9, 2009.

Party Poker forced to withdraw Ad campaign

One of the UK`s  leading online gaming sites PartyPoker, has been forced to withdraw its advertising campaign for their $2 million prize game pool   after Advertising Standards Agency stepped in and deemed that it was “misleading”

    The advertisment said that players win more at PartyPoker, and when just one person complained, the ASA stepped in. 

    Their findings said that in May 2008 an opinion poll had been taken and was completed by 10,000 players , but only of PartyPoker, and  therefore was not a fair reflection of the general public. In addition it inferred that you could win more money at PartyPoker than any other gaming site on the internet.

    A statement from the ASA said that readers were likely to interpet the claim as subjective.

The PartyPoker advertisement is just the latest online gaming site to have come under scrutiny from the ASA , as just  a few weeks ago ladbrokes had their TV advertisement banned for encouraging reckless behaviour.

    As of yet PartyPoker have no comment to make as to the decision taken by the ASA.

Fold, says pokeroom.com

Pokeroom.com has finally pulled the plug and turned the lights off. Reputed to have been one of the fore-runners to todays modern online game, the announcement came yesterday that the site had closed.

   The pokeroom was set up in 1999, with minimal competition at that time the site quickly became popular all over europe. In 2003 the site was purchased by Austrian firm Bwin and continued to grow. After various set backs they decided to pull out of the American market, and with the loss of many of their American faithful the decision was made to fold the site.

 The majority of players have transferred their accounts to the Bwin site, and continue to enjoy the game. So after 10 years of serving the poker community Pokeroom.com has finally folded.