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Poker-related painting sells for £158.4m

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

It's not often that the world of fine art reaches the pages of Bluff Europe but one painting in particular has certainly piqued our interest.

Genting $10k Bounty survives again

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Players at Genting Poker once again missed out on a $10,000 bonus after this week's bounty, Daiva Barauskaite, aka the BalticBlonde, avoided elimination by one of the site's players in Sunday's iPoker $200k Bounty Tournament.

Ruslan Vlasov wins Genting Poker Series opener

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:44:37 GMT

Ruslan Vlasov is the first ever Genting Poker Series champion. The former Dusk Till Dawn dealer outlasted a 355-runner field (including re-entries) at Star City in Birmingham over the weekend to walk away with a first prize of £16,600 and a seat in the Genting Grand Final worth a further £1,600.

Gus Hansen, Sam Trickett back in the Macau big game

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:03:05 GMT

The big cash game in Macau is going again with Gus Hansen and Sam Trickett getting involved with John Juanda, Andrew Robl and the Asian businessmen. According to Gus Hansen’s blog, he lost a US$1.8m million pot.

Robbie Williams to launch online poker site

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:39:39 GMT

Celebrities in the online poker world isn’t unheard of, as EPT final tabling Teddy Sheringham and GUKPT winning Michael Greco will tell you. Robbie Williams has become the latest star to lend his name to poker, launching the Robbie Williams Poker Community.

Luca Pagano makes seventh EPT final table in Deauville

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:32:24 GMT

The PokerStars EPT Deauville field has been whittled down to 8 players from a starting field of nearly 900, with each player guaranteed €67,200. Leading the way is Paul Guichard, but all eyes are on Luca Pagano.

Luca Pagano on top at EPT Deauville

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:17:20 GMT

Luca Pagano is no stranger to making the money on the PokerStars European Poker Tour. The Italian holds the record for the most EPT cashes but he has, as yet, never managed to actually seal a title. That could be about to change though with Pagano holding the chip lead going into the penultimate day.

L'Honore and Boatman headline Genting final 16

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:49:15 GMT

Just 16 players are still in the hunt for the £31k top prize at the first ever Genting Poker Series event in Birmingham. David L'Honore holds the chip lead going into the final day with a stack of 1,471,000 but most eyes will be on the man who lies in second place.

126 left at Star City heading into Day 2

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:34:13 GMT

A total of 126 players will be heading back to Birmingham for Day 2 of the Genting Poker Series at Star City later today. Plenty of big names were on hand for yesterday's second opening flight with the likes of Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding, Ben Jackson and Karl Mahrenholz surviving the day.

Brammer and Adeniya amongst EPT Deauville leaders

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Just 54 players are still chasing the €875,000 first prize at PokerStars EPT Deauville after a rapid fire day at the French resort. Samphane Phomveha is the man leading the way after winning a huge pot just before the close.

Alan Fox heads Genting Poker Series Day 1A

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:09:46 GMT

The Genting Poker Series got off to a fine start in yesterday with a total of 118 players buying into the first of two opening day flights at Star City in Birmingham.

Brit Martins Adeniya leads EPT Deauville after Day 2

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:51:36 GMT

Over the course of Day 2 of the PokerStars EPT Deauville, the Day 1a and 1b survivors were narrowed down further with 178 players making it through the six 75-minute levels. Leading the way into Day 3 is Martins Adeniya with 512,200.

Tapie group says Lindgren, Ivey, Matusow owe Full Tilt money

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:21:42 GMT

Behn Dayanim, a lawyer representing Group Bernard Tapie, has claimed that several poker pros owing Full Tilt Poker money could stand in the way of a potential deal regarding the Tapie group buying Full Tilt Poker.

2012 WSOP schedule confirmed

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:58:54 GMT

Organiser's of this year's World Series of Poker have announced the full schedule for this year's event with a total of 61 bracelets up for grabs between 27 May and 12 July 2012.

Laurent Tapie: “Full Tilt deal… by end of February.”

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:34:22 GMT

In an interview with iGaming France, son of GBT founder, Laurent Tapie, stated that the deal with Full Tilt was progressing nicely and that he expects the deal to be finalised by the end of next month.

EPT Deauville attracts 889 players; €870,000 for first place

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:23:01 GMT

The second day of the PokerStars EPT Deauville Main Event saw a field of 550 players compete in Day 1b, which in addition to Day 1a gives us a total field of 889. This is just two entries less than the record field of 2011.

Canadian Police recover half of Duhamel's stolen cash

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Police in Quebec have confirmed that they have recovered around half of the cash stolen during the robbery at Jonathan Duhamel's home in December.

Wife of Purple Lounge Director to face trial over sex act

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Mary Gorman, the wife of Purple Lounge Group Director Chris Gorman, faces trial over allegations that she assaulted a police officer who was trying to eject her from an Orlando nightclub close to Disney World.

Genting Poker Series

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:35:52 GMT

The new Genting Poker Series is about to commence, with Leg 1 starting tomorrow at Genting Club Star City, Birmingham. Its early days for the fledgling tour, but already it looks like it is going to grow big wings.

WSOP 2012 schedule announced today: no November 9

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:28:13 GMT

The schedule for the World Series of Poker 2012 will be released later today but organisers have already confirmed via Twitter that there will be at least one big change. Namely, no November Nine.