FIFA World Cup Gets Better With Poker

To celebrate the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa, Poker News Headline’s friends Betfair Poker are offering some great football based promos. Back of the net!

The World Cup kicks off on 10 June and to celebrate Betfair are holding a $10k guaranteed Opening Ceremony MTT. For only £11 buy-in you get great value and on top of that, the winner will receive a Man Utd v Barcelona package worth $2,000! And if England don’t win the cup, don’t worry. There’s a closing ceremony tournament on 12th July.

Sit ‘n’ Go Five-a-Side Special: Win five S’n'Gs in a 24 hour period between now and 10 June on Betfair and you can win a share of $10,000 in their 5-a-side special. The final takes place on Monday 14 June at 19:15 (BST).

Dusk Till Dawn WSOP Satellites

With the World Series Of Poker getting under way in Las Vegas tomorrow, Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham are offering a great last chance package to get out there and get a piece of the action.

Their £500+50 Live Club Satellite takes place on Bank Holiday Monday at 3pm, with 10 guaranteed packages worth £8,300 up for grabs. Each package includes seven nights at the 5* MGM Grand from 5th-12th July, $10,000 cash, £1,000 flight expenses with airport pick-up, VIP check-in and VIP access.

There’s still a chance to qualify for the Live Club Satellite through a last chance Live Super Satellite taking place at DTD on Sunday at 3pm.

GUKPT Summer Series Begins

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour’s (GUKPT) Summer Series has kicked off in Blackpool today.

The Summer Series sees GUKPT bring poker action to venues across Britain during the summer break of the main tour.

Here’s a list of tournaments taking place in Blackpool over the next few days:

Full GUKPT Coventry Results

Six days of poker at Leg 5 of the GUKPT in Coventry have wound up with some players feeling the heat more than others.

Here’s a list of the payouts:

Stuart Rutter Rules In Coventry

Stuart Rutter of Birmingham has defeated a field of 142 at the GUKPT Coventry Leg 5 main event.

The Oxford mathematics graduate, 27, wins the first prize of £41,910 and qualifies for the end of season £150,000 Champion of Champions trophy.

Now a professional player for GCasino.com, Rutter won his record equalling fourth GUKPT final table.

After knocking out Darren Grosvenor in third place, Rutter went into heads up against Danny Toffel with a 6-1 chip lead. Toffel made it hard work for the Oxford grad cum poker pro, providing two hours of competition before the final hand was settled with Rutter’s pocket nines defeating Toffel’s pocket fours.

GUKPT Summer Series On Its Way

The months of endless cold, rain and snow have finally given way for some sunshine. And just in time. Grosvenor’s GUKPT Summer Series is about to kick off.

The Summer Series sees the GUKPT visiting more venues than ever with each leg taking place at two places across the UK.

Confused much?

Here’s how the events next week in Blackpool and Thanet line up. Should make perfect sense: there’s a shed load of poker going on!

GUKPT Coventry and UKIPT Goes To Edinburgh

Leg 5 of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour is under way at the G Casino at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.

The seven day festival kicked off yesterday and there are six events that you can buy into. They are:

Weds 19th – £300 + £30 NL Hold’em Freezeout – 7.30pm – 2 days
Thurs 20th – £250 + £25 PL Omaha Double Chance Freezeout – 6pm – 1 day
Thurs 20th – £150 + £15 NL Hold’em Freezeout Super Satellite to Main Event – 8.30pm – 1 day
Fri 21st – £1,000 + £70 NL Hold’em Main Event – 2pm – 3 days
Fri 21st – £100 + £10 NL Hold’em Freezeout – 7.30pm – 1 day
Sat 22nd – £250 + £25 NL Hold’em Freezeout – 7.30pm – 2 days
Sun 23rd – £100 + £10 NL Hold’em Bounty Tournament – 5pm – 1 day

Andrew Couldridge Wins UKIPT Nottingham

Andrew Couldridge has defeated the second biggest field in live UK poker history to win the PokerStars.com UK and Ireland Poker Tour at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham to win £80,000 and a £5,300 ticket to the EPT in London.

As the final table assembled this afternoon, Couldridge was fourth in chips out of the final eight. Play started off cagey for the first hour, with overnight leader Owen Robinson extending his chip lead. Graham Giles was the first to go all-in, but wasn’t called. The next hand saw Piotr Majewski all-in under the gun, again no one called.

UKIPT Nottingham – Day 2 Round Up

Play finished on Day 2 with the bursting of the bubble. Cong Bo Lee being the unlucky soul to not continue to Day 3 where the money finishes will start paying out. With the second highest field in UK poker history, there will be a prize pool of £325,000 to play for with an £80,000 first prize.

At the other end of fortunes are Aman Atwal on 386,500, who continued to dominate from chip lead from Day 1a, Paul Ephremsen and Oliver Schaffman. Parminder Kadowa and Nicholas Gavriel make up the top five, who all have more than double the average stack.

‘Mad’ Marty Wilson kept good cheer at the table despite nursing a shortstack, coming up with this cracker: ‘What’s the difference between an Aussie gambler and a kangaroo?’