As well as ceasing all live poker activity in the United Kingdom, Genting has announced 1,642 employees face losing their jobs despite plans to reopen venues. The GMB union has also confirmed the group’s decision to close three of its venues. Genting says the coronavirus lockdown has forced it to make “heartbreaking decisions” about the…
The ninth edition of the Genting Poker Series gets underway in Newcastle from 6-9 February, with 15 further stops confirmed for 2020. Twelve of the 16 scheduled GPS Main Events have a £225 entry fee but will feature a £35,000 guaranteed prize pool. While the £500 buy-in £100,000 guaranteed events have also proved popular, fans…
Yucel Eminoglu, aka “Mad Turk”, became the first Genting Poker Series main event double winner after he took down the GPS Luton Mini event from 15-19 July. A total of 434 entries in Luton produced an £86,800 prize pool to smash the £30,000 guarantee, with 95 making it through to Sunday’s final day, including Willie…
Leg five of the Genting Poker Series in Liverpool, the inaugural Mini with a £220 buy-in instead of the normal £440, saw 277 players produce a prize pool of £55,400, with the largest chunk going to winner Matty Stitt. The first final table casualty was Andy Muldoon who bet every street on a J-8-9-6-8 board,…
Having already been crowned Grosvenor 25/25 Glasgow champion in January, the prolific Ludovic Geilich was the toast of the Tyne after claiming the latest leg of the Genting Poker Series in Newcastle from 6-12 April. Glaswegian Geilich topped an impressive 248-runner field at the Genting Casino in Newcastle after safely navigating his way through a…
The opening leg of the new Genting Poker Series season saw Chris Johnson become the first to join the 2015 roll of honour. Johnson, who took down the PokerStars Sunday Million in April last year for more than US$191k, topped a 404-runner field at Star City in Birmingham from 2-8 February. Johnson dominated the final…
Mark Evans walked away from the Genting Club Sheffield £54,060 richer after beating Tom Langley heads-up to become GPS Grand Final champion. Just 14 players from the 255-runner field returned for the final day’s play with Dahe Liu leading the way on 1,086,000 and Yucel “Mad Turk” Eminoglu in second place on 993,000. And that…
The final day of the Genting Poker Series in Edinburgh was easily the quickest concluding session in GPS history, with start-of-day chip leader Martin Smith seeing off his rivals for the crown and £33,730 in just under five hours. The day began with 12 players, from 290 entries, returning to the Genting Club Fountainpark with…
The third and final day of the Genting Poker Series Newcastle main event started with 12 players in contention but by the end of play only one remained… Tim Chung, £32,815 richer after claiming the first-place prize. Chung held a 4,970,000 to 2,535,000 chip lead going into heads-up play against Brett Angell and it proved…
Iwan Jones staged a fantastic comeback to scoop the 2014 Genting Poker Series Stoke title and its £32,030 first-place prize The final day’s play saw 18 players return to the Genting Club Stoke but Graham Carter, Wayne Rogers, Willie Tann, Guy Taylor, Fareed Hussain, Leon Campbell, Andy Wright, Aziz Miah and Gerald David fell by…
Robert McAdam has walked away with £33,730 after winning the 2014 Genting Poker Series Southend main event from 9-13 April 2014. McAdam was one of the shorter stacks at the final table with 409,000 chips, with all eyes on Ben Winsor (1,761,000), Leon Campbell (1,041,000) and Dean Clay (1,040,000). Defending champion Danny Tran took 380,000…
Day two at the Genting Poker Series in Southend on Saturday, 12 April 2014, started with 81 players, with Wenbin Chen the chip leader but he was one of the 72 players not to make it through to day three, going out on the bubble in 29th place. In a three-way all-in Chen held Q-10…
