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If you're going to to be the last man standing from a poker tournament of 650 players, you're going to have to hit a few cards. And if you had the choice of when to start hitting them, you'd probably choose "at the final table" when it matters most of...more

6.10pm: Andrew Couldridge wins UKIPT Nottingham and £80,000 Oliver Schaffmann out in second, winning £46,700 Oliver Schaffmann had won the first two hands of heads-up play but the third and decisive final hand did not go his way. Andrew Couldridge limped from the small blind and Schaffmann made it 350,000...more

3.55pm: Break time Players are now taking a sort-of dinner break. "Sort-of" meaning that they've only got 30 minutes, so good luck with dinner. We'll be back with their full counts in a moment. -- HS 3.35pm: Majewski moving on up The shortest stack at the table, Piotr Majewski moved...more

What a day. In just the second leg of the inaugural United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour we've had a final table that had it all. Penalties and blow-ups, suck outs and hero calls have flashed out throughout the day like forked lightning during a storm. And after the clouds...more

12.52am: Joeri Zandvliet is the UKIPT Champion (£63,200) It only took one hand of level twenty to find our champion and that man is Dutchman Joeri Zandvliet. All the chips went in pre-flop with Ellwood holding A♦Q♠ to Zandvliet's 9♥9♣. The flop saw the Brit take the lead when it...more

12.30am: BREAK TIME The two final protagonists have gone to break. 12.28am: Heads up for rolls Zandvliet goes into the heads up with a 5.6m lead over Ellwood's 2.3m stack. It's quite a comeback from the Dutchman and he's showing no sign of slowing down now. After a couple of...more

Three-handed, the result of the EPT London looked a hard one to predict. The remaining players were each sizably stacked, each had fire in their eyes, and with a dinner break on the horizon no one felt any need to be hasty. Then the earth suddenly moved, two hands collided,...more

10.55pm: David Vamplew wins EPT London for £900,000 After a marathon three hours and 14 minutes of heads-up play, in which the lead swung repeatedly from one to the other, David Vamplew finished off John Juanda to take the EPT London title and £900,000 first prize. In the end, it...more

5.04pm: Break That was the last action of the level. Players are now on a 15-minute break. -- SY 5.03pm: Back at you This was the role reversal of the hand below. This time David Vamplew made it 240,000 and John Juanda re-raised to 750,000. Now it was Vamplew's turn...more

Femi Fakinle has won the UKIPT Killarney for €63,400 keeping the second Irish tour date title on home soil beating a 253-strong field in the process. The Wexford man had led the final table from the front starting the day with 1m chips, some 400,000 more than Peter Barrable in...more

9.10pm: Femi Fakinle wins the UKIPT Killarney Farrell open shoves from the button and Fakinle makes the call. It's a race (unsurprisingly). Fakinle: J♠Q♦ Farrell: K♥8♥ It looked like a tournament saving double up for Farrell when he flopped K♦5♠6♣ but the running turn and river cards of Q♣ and...more

8.55pm: Break time It's a 15-minute break and a much, much needed colour up of chips. Why it wasn't done at the dinner break is beyond me. The players have been having to reach round huge stacks of redundnant yellow 1,000 demonination chips. It must be some EU statute. --RD...more

Welcome to "Things You Don't Know About the UKIPT!" In all fairness, there is probably a decent chance you didn't know the UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) even existed before this past week. That's when you might have seen the PokerStars Blog's live coverage of the very first event...more

Padraig Parkinson wins the UKIPT Galway! Ladies and gentlemen, sharks and fish, hometown hero Padraig Parkinson has won the inaugural UKIPT Galway scooping an enormous €125,000 as well as bagging a bonus £5,000 seat into the EPT London. Parkinson, who was born just down the road in Galway, beat Paul...more

Updates from day 4, level 25&26 of UKIPT Galway, brought to you by Rick Dacey. There's just five players left at the break of the UKIPT Galway. Former chip leader Paul Marrow lost a huge stack to Ben Lefew just before the break and will be having a stressful hour...more

Nick Abou Risk has won the UKIPT Edinburgh beating a field of 401 players for £50,000 and a £5,000 seat into the UKIPT Grand Final, aka EPT London. And didn't he play well. Having seized the chip lead at the end of Day 1B, albeit with Owen Robinson still ahead...more

12.33am: Nick Abou Risk wins UKIPT Edinburgh Here's how the final hand of the inaugural UKIPT Edinburgh went down. Nick Abou Risk made his standard open to 135,000 on the button and Mantas Puidokas re-raised to 410,000. Abou Risk moved all-in and Puidokas called all-in for just over 2,000,000. Abou...more

9.55pm:Marsh pads his stack Just before the break Luke Marsh won two sizable pots. Hand One: Mantas Puidokas completed from the small blind and Luke Marsh raised to 85,000 total from the big blind, call from Puidokas. The flop fell T♣8♠K♦, which checked through. The turn was the A♦ and...more

Max Silver has become the inaugural UKIPT Dublin champion beating a field of 590 players to win €72,000 and a £5,000 EPT seat. In a quicksilver* final table that lasted just four hours (breaks included) it was Silver, who was scoring back-to-back UKIPT final tables, that was involved in the...more

5.10pm: Ronan Gilligan finishes runner-up for €43,400 Max Silver takes the title and €72,000 With the chip stacks so skewed at the start of heads-up play it was never really going to be a long affair. So it was when Ronan Gilligan made it 120,000 and Max Silver calmly re-raised...more

It's final table day here at PokerStars UKIPT Dublin, where eight players have their beady eyes on the €72,000 first prize. They're already guaranteed €6,900, a not-too-shabby return on the €500 entry fee. Play begins, or at least it's supposed to, at 1pm. You can learn about the final table...more

You'd think that Belgian Gilles Augustus would be celebrating winning the UKIPT Coventry with a pint of Stella or two but given his post tournament ritual of slamming a couple of tequilas - supposedly to help him sleep - we wouldn't be surprised to see him with his trophy and...more

9pm: Stella win for Belgian Gilles Augustus After about 20 hands of small pot poker you could feel a big pot brewing and it duly arrived with a big frothy, foamy head. Dave Jones opened for 125,000 from the small blind and Gilles Augustus moved all-in from the big...more

6.45pm: Dinner time chips We're breaking for an hour. Here are the freshly counted chip counts: Seat 1: Gilles Augustus -1,244,000 Seat 4: David Jones 1,900,000 Seat 7: Daniel Carter - 650,000 Seat 8: Paul Rigg - 815,000 Seat 10: Joe Grech 855,000 Join us in an hour for the...more

If the UKIPT Brighton was to be decided on the sharpest suit of the tournament then Jamie Burland would have been a direct frontrunner for the title - probably rivalled by some little chequered number sported by Paul Parker. As it was the £1,000 main event was contested over twenty-six...more

11.05pm: Jamie Burland wins the UKIPT Brighton and £65,400 Jamie Burland raised to 105,000 from the small blind and was called by Tomas Cibak in the big blind. Cibak led the Q♠7♦4♠ flop for 135,000 and Burland raised to 280,000 put his head down and tried to still his heaving...more

10.10pm: Seber doubles through Cibak Bill Seber made it his standard 100,000 from the button, Jamie Burland considered playing the pot but folded. Tomas Cibak though moved all-in from the big blind, Seber quickly called. The American was at risk, all-in for 798,000. Seber: A♠9♣ Cibak: K♠4♥ Flop: 5♥9♥3♠ Turn:...more