PNH Review: Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club

The first, fully licensed, poker club in the UK has been open for several years now. Dusk Till Dawn, situated on an retail park near Nottingham, offers British poker players a dedicated poker experience which is void of the usual casino table game trappings.

From the outside the club is an impressive sight. As big as, or bigger than, most of the UK’s casinos. Inside, beyond the small reception area, sits an impressive number of poker tables set over three “layers”.

The club has recently introduced some slots machines and electronic roulette machines, due to highly publicised financial difficulties. They don’t detract from the main reason you’re at DTD, though. Poker!

WSOP $50,000 Players Championship: Michael Mizrachi Leads after Day 3

Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi is currently chip leader with an impressive 1.48 million in chips going into Day 4 of the Player’s Championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker. There are just 21 players left in the event which continues tomorrow at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Vladimir Schmelev isn’t far behind Mizrachi taking 1.43 million chips into the next day of the event.

Notables such as Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, Barry Greenstein, Scotty Nguyen, Scott Clements, Scott Siever, Jeffrey Lisandro and the defending HORSE champion David Bach were eliminated during the six levels of poker played during Day 3 of the event.

Personalised Bracelets to be awarded to WSOP winners

For the first time ever, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) will be awarding unique personalised bracelets to the winner of each of the 57 official WSOP tournaments to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the WSOP.

On Tilt Designs Pty. Ltd will be creating branded apparel, headwear and accessories to cover players from “head to wrist”. The centrepiece of marketing the collection is the sponsorship of WSOP bracelets for the Las Vegas and European events, for which On Tilt selected Master Artisan and jewellery designer Steve Soffa.

“It’s a tremendous honor to be tasked with creating the foremost trophy for poker players worldwide,” said Soffa.

‘midjat’ wins SCOOP Low Buy-in Main Event

The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) $100 Low Buy-in main event tempted an enormous field of 19,188 players but it was online player ‘midjat’ who outlasted them all to become the winner, receiving over $191,000 for his first place victory.

Team PokerStars Pro, Andre Akkari, made it to the final table but busted in 5th place earning $57,564. He had the best finish of any Team PokerStars Pro in all 3 of the SCOOP main events. Angel Guillen, another Team PokerStars Pro, managed a 15th place finish in the High Buy-in main event. Team PokerStars Pro, George ‘Jorj95’ Lind, earned the title of SCOOP Player of the Series just ahead of Francis ‘teacuppoker’ Cagney.

Ryan Fair wins SCOOP High Buy-in Main Event

Ryan ‘toetagU’ Fair, an online player known for his deep run in the 2009 WSOP main event, has won the 2010 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) earning himself a massive $1,162,350 in prize money. The event attracted 130,746 unique players from 174 countries during the 38-event stretch. Amazingly, over $63 million was awarded in prize money throughout the series.

The $10,000 buy-in 2-day main event tempted 615 runners to part with their cash for a chance to win a chunk of the enormous $6,150,000 prizepool. Just 27 players returned for Day 2 with it taking just a couple of hours to reach the final.

Mr.M.M0ney wins SCOOP Medium Buy-in Main Event

Mr.M.M0ney survived a 3,675-strong field of poker players to win the $1,000 Medium Buy-in Main Event of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) for an impressive $443,137.50 in prize money.

His victory in this event means that he becomes one of three SCOOP main event champions of 2010. Ryan ‘toetagU’ Fair won the High Buy-in event for more than $1.1 million and ‘midjat’ won the Low Buy-in event for $191,892.

Second place finisher, ‘cooperz0311’, actually had the biggest payout from the event thanks to a 3-way chop which entitled him to $448,500 and 3rd place finisher ‘Athanasios 9’ to $418,500.

WSOP For Life? The Player’s Dream

Players from all over the world are experiencing and living their poker dreams through what’s on offer playing poker online and participating in promotions. These fortunate players are able to enter Multi table tournaments, satellites, leader boards to mention a few ways with small buy-ins, winning their way to dreams becoming reality that they can afford.

The current promotion at Party Poker will give you an insight to what these players have the opportunity to win, with other sites also holding major promotions for example one of Titan Poker’s current promotions is ECOOP worth an astonishing $5,100,000 in prizes and Poker Stars Battle of the Planets giving away $3,000,000 a year

Antoine Amourette Leads WPT Paris into Day 3

The World Poker Tour continues to struggle on in the face of plenty of seemingly very popular tours, both in Europe and the United States. The latest leg of the WPT is at the Aviation Club de France in Paris and we’re already down to 48 players as Antoine Amourette tops the chip counts.

127 players went to the famous Parisian club yesterday with dreams of WPT glory. When the chips were bagged up for the night only 48 remained. Play continues today down to 27 players. With the bubble approaching and €633,902 on the line for first place it seems set to be tense day in the French capital.

WSOP Alternative at Binions

The World Series of Poker is fast approaching in Las Vegas and, if you miss out on a seat in one of the lucrative events, Binion’s could the place for you this summer.

The fourth annual Binion’s Poker Classic starts on May 26th and offers a variety of tournaments to appeal to the smaller bank rolled tournament player.

Binion’s Gambling Hall in downtown Las Vegas was the original venue for the WSOP and the Binion’s Poker Classic is fast becoming one of the most popular “alternative WSOP” poker festivals each year.