If you have come off the back off a weekend with poker success or no poker action at all, you may be keen to find the next big poker event to look forward to. Even if you had a disappointing time with respect to poker, it can make sense to find an upcoming event and get back in the mix. When you fall off a horse, you need to get back on one as soon as possible and this is definitely the same case when it comes to playing poker. If you lose and then let your loss hang in the air for a while, it will not do you any good. It is important to push on and the upcoming GUKPT event in Portsmouth could be exactly what you are looking for.
The festival of poker actually begins this Sunday so the 26th of May is the day that you want to have in your diary. This is going to be the date that matters for some people but of course, there will be other poker players who are not getting excited until a lot later on in the week. This is one of the positive aspects about these poker tournaments. Depending on your cash, confidence and financial status, you can come into a tournament whenever you want.
Play poker for cheap
The first satellite events start this Sunday and with a buy-in fee of £30+£5; there is a very good reason to start early. Not every poker player has the bankroll to chip in a lot of money when they feel like it and playing your way to a tournament for a low entry fee is definitely something that many poker players love to do.
Of course, if your main focus is on the Main Event, you will need to wait until Thursday the 30th of May to get involved. The action starts at midday for the £500 + £50 buy-in and the Day 1 event spans Thursday and Friday. This means that on Saturday, Day 2 proper takes place and then the big final is going to be held on the 2nd of June. This is certainly a lot to look forward to and the 2pm start-time on Sunday will definitely give players a time and date to plan ahead to. Plenty of poker players will have fallen by the wayside by this point but those still in the mix will have high hopes of poker success.
There are some parts of the UK and Ireland that never get around to seeing the sun and it can be good to take a break from these places! There are plenty of brilliant places to enjoy and explore in the UK and Ireland but there is no doubt that getting further afield can bring some benefits too. However, if you are the organisers of the UK and Ireland Poker Tour, UKIPT, you may find yourself a little locked in with regards to the places you can go. This is not the case though and it is now less than a month until the UKIPT rolls into Marbella!
The Casino Marbella is the place to be from the 12th of June and the Main Event will continue all the way through until the 16th, which is definitely something to mark in your diary. The Main Event is going to feature a €1,000 + €100 buy-in. This should be enough to grab the attention of plenty of poker players but there are going to be High Roller games, Turbo events and even satellites in the build-up to the more expensive tournaments. All in all, a trip to Marbella is always great news but the fact that there is going to be a chance to play poker and win money is definitely something of merit to poker players in this trip!
The idea of having some friends round to play a few poker games is something that appeals to most people. It can be difficult to find the time to get this arranged but if it is possible, having your pals over for poker is a brilliant way to spend your spare time. You also know that at some point in the evening there will be one person that says how great it would be if we could open up this place as a poker venue!
Supporting a football team can be a bit of a gamble for many fans and it is not a decision that always has its roots in rationality. There are plenty of fans who follow blindly through the ups and downs without making the sort of rational decision making that would let them know that they were throwing away a considerable amount of money while getting very little in return. It is therefore no surprise to see that a team was keen to have a casino added to their stadium because let’s face it, football fans love chucking money away on something that will likely see them lose. You can just imagine the keen poker players lining up to get a seat at the table at one of these games!
One of the things about poker is that it is a great leveller and on the right day, an unfenced player can beat one of the best players in the world. All it takes is for the underdog to be at the top of their game, for the top player to be far from their best and then the turning of the cards can do the rest. Over the long-term, the skilled and experienced player will come out on top but in individual games, there are no limits as to what can actually happen. This is why players always need to bear in mind that playing poker can be risky and that they should only ever afford to bet what they can afford to lose.
It can be hard to keep up with the amount of big events and tournaments that 
Whether you were playing mini football games as a kid, computer games as you were growing up or on the darts oche or on the snooker table in the pub, the concept of “winner stays on” is one we should all be familiar with. This is where the reigning champion gets to stay in place and all contenders who fancy a crack at the champion need to take him or her on directly. In many ways this is a fair way to do it but if you are in a pub and there is only one snooker or pool table, you may find that the quiet game against your mate may be out of the question.
The very term “high roller” carries an air about it that sees many people gasp or look on with a greater level of awe and wonder. To be honest, it doesn’t actually mean that every poker player is better; it usually just means that they have more money to throw at the game. The poker players who have worked their up to the High Roller level through earning money via their poker skills are definitely worthy of inclusion but some folk will find their money in other places and get involved from there.
Toby Lewis was the lucky Brit who managed to take fifth position and for his trouble, he managed to earn €232,400. This is an amount of money that most of us would settle on for playing a few hands of poker! Toby may feel bad about only finishing fifth in the big poker event, especially when the fact that the tournament winner Steven Silverman picked up more than €775,000 but you can’t always judge yourself on what other people are doing. The top prize indicates the sort of money that was being played for and it is worth pointing out that there was an agreed split between the top three players. The players coming in second and third, Anthony Gregg and Fadar Kamar both earned €760,000 each!
The size and scope of 
Everyone loves a weekend in Dublin and this will be the Sky Poker Tour needed no additional encouragement to head off to Dublin the green and see what the fair city had to offer. It seems as though this was a popular move with poker players because a fair number of players attended at the Sporting Emporium for the big event. The 127 players ensured that there was a sell-out and yet again there is proof that if you price an event wisely, there is a huge demand for properly structured poker events in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
The Dublin victory gave Thew his second big win at a Sky Poker event. His last triumph for his sponsor came in the glamorous surroundings of Luton back in February 2012. That win saw Thew win £11,200 and you get the feeling he will be looking forward to next month’s big event, which takes place in Birmingham. Birmingham is another city where Thew has managed to triumph in the past, taking a Genting Poker Series Main Event title and he will likely fancy his chances of success again.