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James Akenhead Wins Poker Million

By Lisa Rogers • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Lead-Story, Poker News

The 2010 Full Tilt Poker Million has been won by young British poker player James Akenhead for a prize of half a million dollars.
The final table was no easy lineup. Luke “__FullFlush__” Schwartz started as chipleader with 397,000 chips. Akenhead was close in chips 338,000. High stakes cash-pro and owner of poker training [...]



Irish Poker Open 2008 Report

By Paul Jones • Apr 12th, 2008 • Category: Lead-Story, Poker, live-poker-reports

The Irish Poker Open, held every Easter, is one of the largest buy-in poker events of the year; last year it attracted 708 players, at that time a record field for European poker, however this year numbers dropped slightly to around 650 players, which meant that Paddy Power had to put his hand in his pocket to make up the 3 Million Euro guarantee.