Poker News

Poker Hall of Fame nominees announced

The list of potential candidates to enter the Poker Hall of Fame has been announced with ten players in with a chance this year.

New, two day deep stack tournaments at Bluff Europe at Mint

Players who like their tournaments to run a bit deeper than normal with bigger starting stacks and a longer than usual clock should head down to Bluff Europe at Mint over the next couple of weeks.

Poker in the Park begins at 4pm today!

Are you excited? You should be. In a few hours the beautiful EPT San Remo winner and friend of Bluff Europe Liv Boeree will be opening the events in Leicester Square today.

Sheringham in British invasion of EPT Vilamoura final

The odds of a British EPT champion in Portugal look strong as three Britons have managed to conquer the final eight players of the PokerStars EPT Vilamoura; Toby Lewis, Sam Trickett and footballing legend Teddy Sheringham occupy the top three spots and hold well over three-quarters of the chips in play with Lewis leading Trickett by just two antes.

World Poker Tour London Classic Day 2 completed

Today the 39 remaining players in the World Poker Tour London Classic will reconvene to play down to a final table. In total, 171 players entered to create a prize pool of over £800,000 and a first place prize of nearly a quarter of a million pounds.

GUKPT seat on offer at auction site Bidibot.com

New penny auction site Bidibot.com is giving bidders the opportunity to win a seat to a GUKPT event for a bargain price in a special auction that will take place this Sunday. Players could end up paying just pennies for a seat worth hundreds of pounds.

WSOPE Main Event seats to be won at UB.com

The World Series of Poker Europe promises to be one of the highlights of the London Poker Festival and you could be there courtesy of UB.com.

Phil Ivey wins $2,000,000 at Full Tilt Poker in August

It's the end of the month and that means payday. For some of us it's a modest wage but for the regular players online at Full Tilt Poker's nosebleed stakes it means six or seven figures – won or lost.

Poker in the Park lecture schedule confirmed

The lecture marquee is the place to be if you want to listen to the wit and wisdom of some of the biggest names in the game at this week's Poker in the Park.

Suited connectors

Dear Dr Tom


I know that it is usually correct to call before the flop with any small pair, if stacks are deep enough, in the hope of flopping a set, but what about other implied odds hands like 5-6 suited? Should I play them like small pairs or take advantage of my deception and 3-bet
bluff?


Matt, London

High Stakes Adventures - Greed on the river

By Sami "LarsLuzak" Kelopuro


Early this year I played a heads up session with URnotINDanger2 on Full Tilt Poker. We were 4-tabling $100/$200 NLHE. The session lasted for a few hours and it was really bad for me, I lost approximately $130,000. As my opponent told me in the chat, he was running extremely well. Setups, suckouts, as sometimes happens. Here I will talk about the biggest pot in the session, one that I could have played better.

My Main Event

My first table at this year’s Main Event was a little more difficult than one could reasonably expect. It included Vanessa Rousso, who may not always play optimally in marginal spots, but is never going to throw her chips away, and also Brian Hastings, who is very good player and very good reader of the game, but fortunately for me was running bad, and no matter how good you are, if you’re running bad you’re not going to win any race you enter.

Road Gambler - The Hughes Strategy

By Johnny Hughes


When I entered the United States Army in 1962 at age 22, I listed my occupation as “card player: poker, gin rummy and bridge tournaments”. They made my speciality code-breaking and cryptography. Several expert poker and bridge players, including game book authors Herbert O. Yardley, Harry Fishbein, and Oswald Jacoby had been code breakers during World War II.

World Poker Tour London Classic Day 1B complete

The second opening flight of the inaugural World Poker Tour London Classic concluded late last night with a total of 94 entrants; 54 players will return and attempt to overtake the monster chip stack of eight-time WSOP bracelet-winner Erik Seidel this afternoon. In total, 90 players will sit down at the felt for Day 2 with late registration available for the first level of play today.

PokerStars EPT Vilamoura - Martin Jacobson leads last 24

It was an explosive day of poker in Portugal yesterday when the remaining 69 players of the PokerStars EPT Vilamoura whittled themselves down to just 24. Martin Jacobson is way out in front on 1,362,000 chips; he knocked out bubble boy Ayaz Sadrudin Manji before hand-for-hand play could even be announced to the room.

BLOG - Festivals of all shapes and sizes

Pinch, punch, first day of the month. I would apologise for my absence since last Tuesday but I'm sure none of you noticed or cared. I've been having a remarkably poker-free week, being too busy turning 21 (watch out, Vegas!) at Reading festival to be concerned with such trivialities.

Peetoon wins over $230,000 in PokerStars Sunday Million

The PokerStars Sunday Million, as per usual, smashed its $1.5m guarantee as 8,190 players put up the cash to create a $1,638,000 prize pool with over 1,100 players making a profit and each player at the final table guaranteed at least $12,695.

Online poker banned in South Africa

Courts in South Africa have ruled that any form of online gambling is illegal. The ruling mean that online casinos and poker rooms offering business in the country will be prosecuted.

Shropshire lad to face Evander Holyfield at Poker in the Park

An amateur poker player from Shropshire will go head to head with Heavyweight Champion of the World Evander Holyfield in what promises to be one of the highlights of this week's Poker in the Park.

Ben Young crowned APAT World Champion

The highlight of the Amateur Poker Association and Tour took place at Dusk Till Dawn over the weekend with the APAT World Amateur Poker Championship titles up for grabs.

PKR.com teams up with Fox Poker Club for month long festival

PKR.com recently announced a tie up with London's newest poker venue, the Fox Poker Club. It hasn't taken long for the partners to come up with what looks like an exciting new tournament series.

Full Tilt Poker Doubles Championship – second round begins

Over the weekend the second round of the Full Tilt Poker Doubles Championship began, with each of the 32 players buying in for $50,000 and having played on match already. The event airs each Saturday on GSN, the same US network that broadcasts High Stakes Poker.

Jungleman12 extends lead over durrrr to almost $700,000

As we predicted, this round of the Durrrr Challenge is progressing far faster than the anti-climax against Patrik Antonius. Bluff Europe writer Matt Perry returned, stinking and muddy, from Reading Festival only to be shocked that 6,820 hands had been played already.

Gus Hansen loses over $1.1m at $2k/$4k Limit Omaha 8

On Sunday night Phil Ivey and Cole South beat the crap out of Gus Hansen at the $2,000/$4,000 fixed limit Omaha 8 tables at Full Tilt Poker; the Great Dane lost a total of $1,114,500 between that game and the 7-game that he took to later.

Erik Seidel leads WPT London Classic

The London Poker Festival kicked off in fine style yesterday with a host of big names in attendance for the opening flight of the World Poker Tour London Classic. At the close of play it was Erik Seidel who boasted the biggest stack followed by Talal Shakerchi and Bruce Atkinson.

Brandon Cantu leads EPT Vilamoura

Brandon Cantu has had plenty of success on the live tournament circuit including a pair of WSOP bracelets and a WPT title. Amazingly though he has never cashed on the European Poker Tour but unless something incredible occurs that should happen later today.

Devilfish to launch autobiography at Poker in the Park

As if there wasn't enough to attract you to this year's Poker in the Poker, Bluff Europe is delighted to say that safe cracker turned poker champ David 'Devilfish' Ulliott will be launching his new autobiography at Europe's biggest poker festival in Leicester Square.

Poker player turns master brewer

Poker and beer aren't usually natural bedfellows (just ask Scotty Nguyen) but one Danish player has shown that combining both can sometimes be a profitable venture.

Leonid Bilokur leads EPT Vilamoura

After the two opening flights at the latest European Poker Tour event in Vilamoura it is Russia's Leonid Bilokur who is leading the way just ahead of Portuguese player Andre Coimbra.

Blog - London calling…

If a Martian was to land on earth this week and ask about some card game called poker instead of sending him to Las Vegas you'd be pointing the little green man in the direction of dear old Blighty as for the next month London will be the centre of the poker universe.