UK poker

Proof that UK poker is getting more and more high profile on the world stage this week, as top European poker room Titan Poker have announced they are running qualifiers to the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour. Now players have the chance to win their seat to four legs of the popular tour in weekly qualifiers starting next month.

Starting from July 1st to October 28th, every Tuesday a super satellite to a GUKPT event of the player's choice will run, with a number of feeders to the weekly qualifier. Because Titan Poker are the largest poker room on the iPoker network, they are expecting a lot of International interest, which makes it great value for UK players as each package is very generous with their expenses.

  This week's edition of UK Legends of poker has a distinctly World Series feel to it, as it features a man who really should have won the big one. Julian Gardner from Manchester came 2nd in the 2002 Main Event and nearly became the youngest ever main event champion ever at the age of 24, had Robert Varkonyi not stood in his way.

This week in our UK Legends of Poker series we celebrate one of the true nice guys of the game. "Gentleman" Ben Roberts is considered by many to be the best cash game player in the UK and is a specialist in the big no limit and pot limit games. Despite his nice guy image, he is feared by every table he sits down at, whether it's a cash game or tournament.

PKR Poker, an enormously popular online poker room established in 2006, has proved its innovative success by ranking number-one in a recent poll by Hitwise, an Internet competitive intelligence service, having received the most hits in the online poker category. The poll covers the first quarter of 2008, calculating web site hits coming from the UK.

PKR Poker has been one of the most rapidly expanding online poker rooms in the world, dues to its ground-breaking three-dimensional environment and pioneering features, like its unique ‘Emote Control System’. PKR beat out the UK’s most prevalent online poker rooms, including Ladbrokes, William Hill and VC Poker.