PokerPlayer and Bet365 have announced the launch of the 2009 UK Online Student Poker Championships (UKOSPC).

Starting from November, PokerPlayer magazine will be running a freeroll every month on Bet365 Poker and each participating poker society will be invited to enter five players per freeroll. The final positions of the team members in each freeroll will determine the points that will be awarded.

The four top ranking societies who have accumulated the most points after four freerolls will then be invited to the Grand Final, all expenses paid, at a venue yet to be determined. The Grand Final will consist of two semi-finals in which the five team members will play one heads-up match each and then a final, played in the same way.

Prizes

A prize pool of $1500 for each of the 4 freerolls split amongst all the players at the final table.

Travel and accommodation expenses for the 20 playing finalists at the Grand Final at a venue to be agreed (depending on Geography of finalists).

$5000 split between the final 4 teams ($2500, $1250, $750, $500)

Individual trophies for all 4 teams (Winners, Runners-Up, Semi-finalists)

One poker table for each of the four final teams and individual chipsets for all of the individual finalists.

To register your society in this competition please email studentpoker@pokerplayermagazine.co.uk

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UK poker legend Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott is to star in a new five-part reality series on ITV Wales starting this Thursday (Setember 4th, 2008) at 22:35p.m. The show, called ‘How to Become a Poker Millionaire’, takes four losing poker players and gives them an intensive month of training with Devilfish.

Each week one of novices is eliminated and at the end of the series the winner receives a seat at the 2009 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

The first episode follows Devilfish as he meets the players and begins to put them through their paces. Throughout the series viewers will be treated to interviews with Devilfish’s friends, including some of the top poker players in the world who have won 34 WSOP bracelets and over $100 million dollars between them.

Ulliott, who has millions of dollars of tournament winnings under his own belt as well as WSOP and World Poker Tour titles to his name, said, “Poker players won’t have seen anything like this before. It was a real boot camp for the participants and I took no prisoners. There’s laughter and tears, good poker and bad poker, and viewers will get to learn many of the tricks of the high-stakes poker trade which took me years and a lot of money to learn.”

‘How to Become a Poker Millionaire’ will hopefully be broadcast across other regions soon but in the meantime it will be available on the internet at sites such as pokertube.com

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PKR have announced the launch of their first ever offline festival – PKR Live, which will take place at Loose Cannons in London between 14th and 16th November, 2008.

The weekend will feature three tournaments in three days with estimated total prizes of at least $90,000!

PKR Live ‘Welcome Tournament’
14th November, 2008 @ 19:00 GMT
$60 freezeout
150 runners max
Entry included in $1,000 online satellite package

PKR Live ‘$75,000 Main Event’
Two day event with a $20,000 first prize. Play will continue until 30 players remain, then resume on Sunday.
15th and 16th November, 2008 @ 14:00 GMT
$500 freezeout
150 runners max
$75,000 prize pool, with $20,000 guaranteed minimum first prize
Entry included in $1,000 online satellite package

PKR Live ‘$10,000 Bounty Freeroll’
The curtain falls on the festival weekend with a chance for you to do battle and bust your favourite PKR staff member! Their Bounty Team will be playing for pride and bragging rights in PKR Live’s final event.
16th November, 2008 @ 19:00 GMT
150 runners max
$10,000 prize pool
Entry by invite only - for winners of $1,000 online satellite packages plus special guest invitees
PKR staff as cash bounties!

In addition there will also be plenty of side events where you can play a cash game, fight your regular online foes in Sit & Go or challenge your favourite (or least favourite!) Team PKR member to a heads up battle!

Entry to PKR Live is by online satellite qualification or invite only. An estimated 100 seats will be given away through PKR’s online satellite schedule (see |Tournament Lobby for details) with direct entry through ten weekly finals.

Route 1
Online satellites - an estimated 100 $1,000 packages will be available through PKR Live Weekly Finals.

Route 2
A number of seats will be available to special guests of PKR, VIPs, Rankings and other competitions. Details available soon!

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Nick Jenkins has defeated a field of over 200 players to win the World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP) NLHE main event at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London. As well as the coveted title, Championship Cup & Gold Medal, a first prize of £3,500 he also wins an expenses paid entry to the GUKPT Grand Final event worth $8,000, courtesy of tour sponsor Blue Square Poker.

Andrew Georgiou was the unlucky player to be eliminated first when his pair of Kings ran into Craig Dunn’s Aces.

Amongst the early chip leaders in the tournament was APAT WCOAP Razz Champion Mike Bodman, who found a number of big pocket pairs in the early levels, whilst Hoa Quan can consider himelf unfortunate after he found pocket Aces three hands in succession but with nobody offering him any value for them, they earned him a total of 300 chips!

Suzanne Hayward from Bath put herself in a comfortable position heading into Day 2 of the event after doubling up two hands in succession. Firstly when her Aces stood up against Kings and then her pocket 10’s held against A-K.

In total 28 players made it through to Day 2 but the field soon began to decrease and first player out was Martyn Sharp who pushed all-in with Ace Queen, despite dominating Robert Ingoldby’s K-4, a four hits on the flop and he is sent packing.

A number of other players were then eliminated in quick succession before Nick Jenkins played two hands that would prove vital in his quest for the title.

First up against Rob Swindall who pushes with A10 against Nick’s pair of Jacks, a Jack on the river sealing Swindalls fate. He was quickly followed by Richard Rudling-Smith who exited in 13th after pushing from the small blind with Q5; Jenkins had KQ, opted to call and won the hand.

Suzanne Hayward was unlucky to go out on the bubble of the final table after Ad Qd lost on a board of Qh Kd 2c 2s 9c, to Robert Ingoldby’s KcJs.

Final Table

Seat 1 - Briony Stone - 72,000
Seat 2 - James Edwards - 140,000
Seat 3 - Steve Stringer - 261,000
Seat 4 - Stuart Osborne - 116,000
Seat 5 - Nigel Johnson - 267,000
Seat 6 - Nick Jenkins - 262,000
Seat 7 - Robert Ingoldby - 597,000
Seat 8 - Tony Ross - 95,000
Seat 9 - Josh Hall - 251,000

Tony Ross, who had an outstanding final table after doubling up with twice to take half the chips in play midway through, along with Josh Hall and of course Jenkins were the three player to make it into the medal winning positions.

Josh has to make do with the Bronze Medal when he goes all-in on the button with A-3, Nick in the Small Blind keeps Ross out of the pot by pushing all-in himself and flips over pocket Ace which win the hand.

So down to heads up and it’s Tony ‘Reenot’ Ross with a 2 to 1 chip lead against Nick ‘Ripple’ Jenkins.

Things start with a bang as Tony with pocket 9’s raises only to see Nick re-raise with Jacks; Tony then pushes all-in and Nick calls and doubles through when the board fails to improve either player’s hands.

The final hand see Nick flop two pair with his A-8 against Tony’s Q-J to give him the win.

Dave Howard took the overall WCOAP Player of the Series award by placing second in the Stud event, on top of his Omaha Championship victory. The final positions on the Player of the Series Leaderboard can be seen below…

1st Dave Howard – 37 points (1 win)
2nd Owen Rankin – 32 points (1 win)
3rd Tony Ross – 30 points
4th Warren Jackman – 28 points
5th Mike Bodman – 21 points (1 win)
6th Linda Iwaniak – 21 points
7th Nick Jenkins – 20 points (1 win)
8th David Rice – 18 points
9th Peter Benson – 17 points
=9th Francis Lincoln – 17 points

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Owen Rankin has defeated an extremely tough field to be crowned WCOAP Stud Champion.

First out was Chris Edwards, who yesterday went deep in the Razz event, all-in to Rob Swindells.

After two consecutive final tables Warren Jackman was looking to maintain his impressive run in these championships with another in the Stud event, unfortunately this wasn’t to be the case; however the 11th place finish he attained further adds to the 22 points he’s already scored for the Player of the Series Leaderboard putting him firmly in the lead.

Final Table

Seat 1 - Owen Rankin - 8,500
Seat 2 - Francis Lincoln - 7,200
Seat 3 - Don Roberts - 14,000
Seat 4 - David Rice - 12,500
Seat 5 - Robert Resurreccion - 7,600
Seat 6 - Charles Sanderson - 22,100
Seat 7 - Dave Howard - 17,500
Seat 8 - Richard Rudling-Smith - 4,700

Jackson’s reign at the top of Leaderboard wouldn’t last long however as Dave Howard winner of the WCOAP Omaha Championship two days and Owen Rankin both made it into the medals alongside Charles Sanderson, pushing him down to third overall.

Sanderson took the Bronze Medal with Howard picking up the Silver which puts him in first place overall in the Player of the Series Leaderboard as can be seen below…

1st Dave Howard – 37 points (1 win)
2nd Owen Rankin – 32 points (1 win)
3rd Warren Jackman – 28 points
=4th Mike Bodman – 21 points (1 win)
=4th Linda Iwaniak – 21 points
6th David Rice – 18 points
=7th Peter Benson – 17 points
=7th Francis Lincoln – 17 points
=9th Chris Edwards – 15 points
=9th Jim Lynott – 15 points
=9th Charles Sanderson – 15 points
=12th James Bagley – 13 points
=12th Don Roberts – 13 points
=12th Mike Saban – 13 points
=12th Tony Ross – 13 points
16th Rich Stevenson – 12 points
=17th Richard Ruddling-Smith – 11 points
=17th Paul Seaton-Smith – 11 points
=17th Thomas Cardoso – 11 points
=20th Robert Ressureccion – 10 points
=20th Richard Bard – 10 points

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Mike Bodman has won the APAT World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP) Razz Championship, the first ever large scale event of its kind in the UK.

The popular player beat Peter Benson to win £1,000 and the Gold medal. Benson himself picked up £600 and the Silver.

Warren Jackman made the final table once again (see below), following up on his fifth place finish in yesterdays Omaha Championship.

Final Table

Seat 1 - Paul Seaton-Smith - 15,400
Seat 2 - Chris Edwards - 15,000
Seat 3 - Peter Benson - 39,900
Seat 4 - Warren Jackman - 4,200
Seat 5 - Mike Bodman - 20,000
Seat 6 - Dave Goody - 9,700
Seat 7 - Owen Rankin - 21,700
Seat 8 - Mike Saban - 18,200

Jackson would eventually go out in 7th when his 10-9 low lost to Mike Saban’s 10-8 low, however after two events he now sits at the top of the Player Of The Series Leaderboard…

1st Warren Jackman – 22 points
2nd Linda Iwaniak – 21 points
3rd Mike Bodman – 20 points (1 win)
3rd Dave Howard – 20 points (1 win)
5th Peter Benson – 17 points
6th Jim Lynott – 15 points
6th Chris Edwards – 15 points
8th Tony Ross – 13 points
8th James Bagley – 13 points
8th Mike Saban – 13 points
11th Owen Rankin – 12 points
12th Thomas Cardoso – 11 points
12th Paul Seaton-Smith – 11 points
14th Richard Bard – 10 points
15th Dave Goody – 9 points
15th James Mitchell – 9 points
17th Rich Stevenson – 8 points
18th David Rice – 7 points
18th Jason Nunn – 7 points
20th Richard St Pierre – 6 points

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The APAT’s World Championship Of Amateur Poker’s (WCOAP) Omaha Championship event at the Grosvenor Victoria in London has been won by Dave Howard who beat Linda Iwaniak to win the gold medal and £1,400 in prize money.

The tournament which was limited to a field of 70 players and Kieran O’Leary was the unfortunate player to be knocked out first when, after hitting top two pair on the flop he was beaten by the straight held by Chris Webber. He still had outs for the nut flush but unfortunately for him, the cards he needed never came and he was eliminated.

Runner up and silver medallist Linda Iwaniak took a massive chip lead midway through the tournament winning an incredible pot which saw her deal Ah Ad 10s 10c and her opponent As Ac 10d Ks. The flop saw the remaining 10h from the deck hit the board and gave Iwaniak the 75k pot.

She managed to retain this lead going through to the final table as you can from the standings below…

Final Table

Seat 1 - Linda Iwaniak - 130,500
Seat 2 - Rich Stevenons - 53,500
Seat 3 - Thomas Cardoso - 40,000
Seat 4 - Warren Jackman - 29,500
Seat 5 - Richard Bard - 42500
Seat 6 - Tony Ross - 26,500
Seat 7 - James Mitchell - 45,000
Seat 8 - Jim Lynott - 99,000
Seat 9 - Dave Howard - 55,000

Eventual winner Howard was involved in the first big pot at the final table as Tony Ross and Richard Bard both went all-in against him. They both had pocket Aces to Howard’s Kings and Tens. The board failed to improve any player’s hands leaving Ross and Bard to chop the pot and Howard reduced to short stack.

He would however turn things around just a few hands later when with just 14k in chip he pushed all-in and was called by Thomas Cardoso and Tony Ross, he hit quad 8’s to treble his stack to 42k and put himself back in with a shot at the title.

Out on the bubble was James Mitchell who went out in 8th as his mid-pair proved inferior to Jim Lynott’s top two pair.

The chips continued to move around the final table until Linda Iwaniak now heads up against Dave Howard, called an all-in bet with 2h 5h Js Jc versus 2s 5s Qh Kh on a flop of 9d Qs 6s. The turn and river of 10s and 3h respectively gave Howard the title.

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