CHAS Charity Poker Tournament

by Martin Smith on 09/05/2013

Nick Smith has organised a charity poker tournament for CHAS at the Maybury on Saturday 15th June at 1:30pm. £15 entry (10k) with 1x£15 add-on (15k). With both the entry and the add-on it’s split £10 to prize fund and £5 to the charity. Two seats for the Nuts Poker National Final in November are also up for grabs but this tournament is open to anyone.
See https://www.facebook.com/events/311617542301574 for details.

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Genting FP Team Event II

by Martin Smith on 06/05/2013

Here are some videos from the recent team event at Genting Fountain Park:

The FT gets underway

 

Tigers double up early

 

Flopped Flush vs Set

Final hand

Tigers celebrate the win

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Looking to improve you online poker game? There are some great FREE coaching videos over at http://www.pokervip.com/school/poker-coaching/videos/ that are well worth checking out. On that list you can watch the ones with the Play symbol > without registered but if you do sign up you can get access to everything.

Here are some examples of the ones you can watch immediately:

$500NL Zoom Live Play
http://www.pokervip.com/school/poker-coaching/videos/view/159
Paul ‘lnternet’ Otto

Top 10 Micro-Stakes Leaks
http://www.pokervip.com/school/poker-coaching/videos/view/152
Adam Jones

200NL HU Live Play
http://www.pokervip.com/school/poker-coaching/videos/view/138
Chris Edwards

$20 MTT Freezeout Hand History Review
http://www.pokervip.com/school/poker-coaching/videos/view/130
John Gonzalez

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PokerTube.com have a $5 buy-in tourney with $1k added on Monday 8th April @ 7.30pm. It’s on Party Poker but is only open to new accounts that sign up using the link below. If you have an old dormant account that you haven’t used for a long time you should be able to sign up for a new one and qualify though.

http://www.pokertube.com/forum/view/pokertube-premium-and-pokertube-deals/31275/

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PokerVIP.com now sponsoring PokerInEdinburgh!

by Martin Smith April 2, 2013

I am delighted to announce that from today PokerVIP.com will be sponsoring PokerInEdinburgh! PokerVIP is an Edinburgh-based company that specialises in getting online poker players the best deals available. They are the Number 1 affiliate for a number of major poker sites and therefore have access to some of the best rakeback offers in the [...]

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Scottish Poker Series Live Blog: Hand Videos

by Martin Smith April 2, 2013

During the SPS Main Event I shot a few videos of interesting hands. I wasn’t able to upload them live but here are a few now. You can view them all at http://www.pokertube.com/user/pokerinedinburgh Day 2. The 18 remaining players in the Scottish Poker Series £250 Main Event discuss savers for 17th & 18th places. 7 [...]

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Scottish Poker Series Live Blog: FT Level 25 (25000/50000/5000)

by Martin Smith April 1, 2013

21:50: Thanks for following the coverage. That’s me signing off. Good night! 21:47: We have a winner! Martyn Brown takes the trophy! 21:31: Heads up in progress now between Martyn Brown (3200k) and Gordon Harris (2300k). They have already chopped up the prize pool 50/50 and are now just playing it out for the title.

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Scottish Poker Series Live Blog: FT Level 24 (20000/40000/5000)

by Martin Smith April 1, 2013

21:22: Looks like they have agreed to a chop heads up. An exact 50/50 split. £11,500 each! They will play it out for the trophy. 21:21: 2 left now. On a short break. Martyn Brown (3200k) Gordon Harris (2300k) 21:17: We are now playing heads up! Just lost Gareth McNeill in 3rd place for £5,650. [...]

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Scottish Poker Series Live Blog: FT Level 23 (15000/30000/4000)

by Martin Smith April 1, 2013

20:06: End of Level 23. Players on a break. 20:04: Gareth just literally flipped a coin on the River vs Gordon to decide whether to call or not. It came up heads so he called. He had 2nd pair which resulted in a chopped pot! 19:58: Latest tourney clock: 19:53: Monster double up for Gordon. [...]

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Scottish Poker Series Live Blog: FT Level 22 (12000/24000/3000)

by Martin Smith April 1, 2013

19:04: Blinds up to 15k/30k/4k in 2 mins! 19:02: Cameron has a very classy card protector: 18:59: Lots of small pots but nothing major in the last 45 mins. On the rail Craig Smith has spent about 2 hours studying the £70 side event structure to decide if he wants to play it or not.  [...]

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