Friday, 26 October 2012
The final table at WPT South Africa has been set with last year’s Middle East Poker Champion Dominick Nitsche leading the way.
The man with the most unorthodox celebration in poker returns with a huge stack of 2,915,000, over 1.7m ahead of nearest rivals William Ross and Jason Strauss who return with 1,285,000 and 1,270,000 respectively.British hopes rest with Jerome Bradpiece who returns in fifth place with 900,000. The alliterative duo of Wesley Weigand 455,000 and Andrew Anthony 365,000 round out the final table. The final six are guaranteed a pay day of at least $32,394 with the winner set to walk away with a first prize of $206,153. The action resumes tomorrow lunchtime with the blinds at 15,000/30,000 and a 5,000 ante. Keep up to date with all the news from the poker world by following us on Twitter and Facebook.
Bluff meets Isildur1.
Starting out last week with 520 hopefuls, this year’s EPT Grand Final Main Event certainly lived up to expectations after a final table that contained some of the toughest players in the world. At the start of yesterday’s finale Steve O’Dwyer led arguably the toughest final table the festival has ever seen.
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Full Tilt Poker will be heading to Ireland for its first live festival since relaunch. The Full Tilt Galway Poker Festival will take place in a custom built Full Tilt poker village in the centre the city from 29 July until 12 August.
Chino extends massive chip lead.
Stephen Chidwick also wins his first title.
Six left in $100k Super High Roller.
Two-week series will feature seven bracelet events.
Jay Rosenkrantz on the making of the film
Shaun Deeb picks his underrated favourites.
Bluff explores the dubious morals of the angle-shooter
Stephen Bartley rounds up the action from the Vic.
They say the best players know all the games, which makes 29-year old Stuart Rutter one of the unsung talents of UK poker.
Off to Newcastle upon Tyne for leg 2 of this year’s Genting Poker Series.
Sometimes bizarre things happen at the poker table and only the smartest will prevail, says Jeff Kimber.
I had quite a tough opening table at the recent GPS in Birmingham, which is unusual so early in the tournament. There were a couple of decent players to my right and also Paul McTaggart (who beat me heads up in last year’s Edinburgh GPS) and another decent player to my left.
I’ve noticed an increased tendency recently among players on forums and in tournaments towards the bubble. They seem to be taking ICM too literally. They seem to be forgetting that the “M” in ICM stands for “model”. Your true equity in bubble situations is not exactly as ICM predicts. I’d like to recap the known shortcomings of the model, and consider some rules of thumb to help with decision making in the heat of battle.
By Johnny Hughes.
I watched Rounders this week. I mean, I’ve watched it before but only about 23 times so it was due a revisit. I heartily recommend it.
Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding snoops around the world of online poker.
With Neil "Bad Beat" Channing