Brits Near Final Table Event #17: $5,000 NL Hold’em, Liv Boeree Plays For TOC Seat

British poker players Paul Foltyn and Samuel Trickett are close to making the final table of event #17 $5,000 No Limit Hold’em at the World Series Of Poker in Las Vegas.

With 12 players remaining (at time of this post) Foltyn currently sits in 7th and Trickett 9th, in a great opportunity to take a third title for Great Britain.

The British pair, who are both GUKPT champions, are guaranteed a payday of $49,024 in the worst case scenario of going out in 12th. But both players will have their eyes on the first prize of $818,959 and a coveted World Series bracelet.

In play chip count:

1. Jason DeWitt: 2,000,000
2. Amit Makhija: 1,300,000
3. Jeff Williams: 1,190,000
4. Peter Gilmore: 1,120,000
5. David Benefield: 1,090,000
6. James Carroll: 1,080,000
7. Paul Foltyn: 960,000
8. Antonio Esfandiari: 850,000
9. Samuel Trickett: 660,000
10. Perry Friedman: 540,000

Boeree Plays For TOC Seat

Dusk Till Dawn June Deepstack Chopped

In Nottingham at Dusk Till Dawn, the monthly deepstack tournament was chopped after the blinds reached crapshoot levels.

269 players turned out for the monthly £300 NL tournament meeting DTD’s guaranteed £80,000 prizepool. But as play went four handed with increasing blinds logic overruled ending the tournament in anticlimax.

Eventually the pot was split between Fan Cao, Ray Ryder, Andrew Ferguson and Mark Aldridge based on Independent Chip Model. Ryder made an awesome come back starting the final table as short stack with only four big blinds to finish in second place.

The final payout in Nottingham:

James Dempsey Wins WSOP Event #9 $1,500 PL Hold’em

James ‘Flushy’ Dempsey of Brighton has won the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold’em at the World Series Of Poker in Las Vegas, taking down $197,470 and winning Britain’s second bracelet of the 2010 WSOP.

Dempsey’s win means the $1,500 PLH has been won by a Briton two years in a row, after JP Kelly’s victory last year.

Despite arriving late on Day 1, Dempsey finished the day in chip lead. He held the lead until the end of Day 2 when his eventual heads up opponent Steve Chanthabouasy took control, going into the final table just 5000 in front of Dempsey.

As the final table formed, God Save The Queen was playing for Praz Bansi’s bracelet ceremony, an omen for what was to come.

Praz Bansi Wins WSOP Event #5: $1,500 No Limit Hold’em

British poker pro Praz Bansi has won event #5: $1,500 No Limit Hold’em at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Bansi defeated Canadian Vincent Jacques heads up to win his second WSOP bracelet, the first British bracelet this year, and $515,501 in prize money.

Bansi stayed in the lead pack throughout the tournament, consistently one step ahead of the majority of the field of 2092 players. On the final day of the tournament Bansi took the chip lead as the 23 remaining players were whittled down to a final nine. Bansi’s lead was diminished as he went into heads up against Jacques almost even on chips.

GUKPT Summer Series Blackpool & Thanet Results

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour has just completed its first Summer Series events taking place in Blackpool and Thanet.

The tour which takes place during the summer break of the main GUKPT tour is bringing lower stakes poker to players across the UK.

In Blackpool, the festival started off with a win for Waseem Shahid in the £150 No Limit Freezeout. That was followed by victories in side events for Reyaaz Mulla in the £100 NL Holdem Rebuy, Andrew Christopher in the £250 NL Hold’em freezeout, Stanley James (£100 PL Omaha rebuy) and Chaun Kim Ooi in the £100 NL Hold’em bounty freezeout.

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).

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:

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.