Nothing really interesting to report apart from being dealt KK but nobody took the bait 🙁

302 (385) runners left in the comp
Brett’s Stack 14.8k
Average 12.7k

More updates to follow…………………….

Scott

Brett looks down at As 2c and flat calls. “I’m trying to see as many flops as i can early doors and get lucky”. Four players in the pot and the flop comes Ah 2s 8c. Brett was first to act and bet! Only 1 player called. Turn card was 4d and Brett bet again, player in seat 5 goes over the top and Brett quickly calls. Other player shows Ac Kh but unfortunately Brett takes down his first big pot of the day to put him on 15.4k.

Come on Brett!

More updates to follow…………………….

UK Pub Poker Champion Brett Shufflebottom not only collected £2,500 cash, magnum of champagne and a prestigious trophy for winning the national final but also Redtooth Poker has agreed to enter Brett into a number of high profile tournaments starting with Dusk Till Dawn’s Monthly Deepstack with a guaranteed prize pool of £100,000.

Brett met myself and the Redtooth Poker girls (Carli and Lauren) around 1pm in the bar/restaurant. I have personally played in this tournament a couple of times and briefed Brett on blind levels etc.

Brett was drawn in seat 3 on table 37. Stephen Pearce was the high profile name on the table (winner of the Barcelona Open and World Heads Up).

Other high profile names include Julian Thew, Roy Carrol, Micky Wernick, Sam Trickett, James Mitchell.

More updates to follow………….

Scott Marsh
National Poker Manager

Due to reasons out of our control we have had to move the date of the North West & North Wales regional final from Sunday 6th September to Sunday 13th September. The venue will still remain the same. Please accept our apologies and we look forward to seeing you there.

Big Time Poker League, the UK’s fastest growing pub poker league have recently become Redtooth’s fourth acquisition of the year.

Since the beginning of 2009 Big Time Poker have gone about their business signing up over 150 pubs surpassing more established pub poker companies and making it a major player in the pub poker business.

In the week leading up to their first quarterly final Redtooth brokered a deal to add Big Time Poker to its ever growing portfolio of pubs.

All the Big Time Poker League qualifiers and their guests arrived at the Grosvenor in Wallsall on Saturday 25th July to be welcomed by Redtooth representatives. The £10,000 prize money had been secured along with attractive trophies for each of the players on the final table.

Big Time Poker League Joins Redtooth! continued »

I wrote a few weeks ago that as an unknown on the world poker stage, were I to collect a sizeable win during my visit to the WSOP, I’d let everyone know. Well I didn’t, but what a time I had, much of it profitable, as readers familiar with my Redtooth blog from Vegas will no doubt appreciate.

The trip was one of the most eventful I’ve ever made. It started when I sat next to darts superstar Eric Bristow on the flight to Vegas; goodness me, he can chat, so we got on like a house on fire. Arriving in Nevada, who do I bump into only snooker ace Steve ‘Interesting’ Davies? Steve is actually a very good poker player and excellent company.

As I left the Las Vegas arrivals lounge after chatting with two British sporting icons, I had sensed that the trip would be successful.

And so it proved. Soon, I was interviewing world poker champion Peter Eastgate for Redtooth. But this was no mumbling in a small darkened studio – Peter wanted to sit by the hotel pool (and when you’ve won as much as he has, then why not?), so off we went to lounge adjacent to a magnificent pool surrounded by scantily-clad beauties. It made focusing on questions about his style of play enormously difficult, but I managed…look out for the audio interview of Peter which will be on here soon!

During my stay in Vegas, I played in almost 20 poker tournaments, the first of which was while we were waiting to check into the sumptuous Ballys hotel. They kept my dad and I waiting for what they considered too long, so they upgraded us; I was very impressed.

I then proceeded to win back-to-back tournaments at Ballys in-house casino; the first had 50-odd runners, so I collected around $800 and I finished the second, which had more than 70 players, over $1,300 to the good. I felt on top of the world and when, the following night, I turned up to play, I could see people recognised me in the poker room, avoiding the tables at which I was playing. They must have thought I was a poker superstar.

I had further success at the famous Binions casino a few days later when I entered a $125 tournament and found myself pitched against players of the calibre of Jerry Yang and several guys who claimed to be friends of poker legend Doyle Brunson. Believe it or not, I won this too, trousering $1,800, but what made matters even better, my dad had been playing in another tournament at the same time and he won $650 too! What a night for the Marsh family. We celebrated until the wee small hours…

If there was a disappointment, it was that when I came to register for the $1,500 buy-in event at the WSOP for which I had specifically travelled, I was told the tournament had sold out. They capped the number of entrants at 3,000 and had a stand-by list of 300. Drudging back to my hotel afterwards was painful because I was clearly in decent enough form to have gone deep in that event.

The silver lining is that afterwards, I was speaking with one of the other senior Redtooth guys and we’ve decided we’re going to try and stage a ‘Champion of Champions’ tournament next year for Redtooth poker players, the prize for which will be a trip to Las Vegas. We’ll let you have more details when we’ve finalised them.

Overall, the trip was hugely enjoyable and I found the calibre of play was very high; you can be sitting at a fairly nondescript table when you recognise a face and then the penny drops – he’s such-and-such, a pro sponsored by one of poker’s big names websites. Several of the players, most especially EPT winner Julian Thew, approach the game like chess masters; these guys are capable of seeing several moves ahead and can go all-in without looking at their cards. Impressive stuff. Can’t wait for next year…

Me & Peter Eastgate (WSOP Main Event Winner 2008) 

If you want to read more about our Redtooth Review go to //content.betfred.com/redtooth/review.html

Scott Marsh

National Poker Manager

Redtooth Poker

Bigger than any other cash prize in UK Pub Poker – Redtooth are pleased to announce that our new annual cash prize fund now stands at £80,000!

As our league grows so do our regional finals and we will be increasing these to 17 in total every three months – most players have less than an hour to drive to one of our great regional events.

Even better – due to the recent update from the Gambling Commission the national final now has a cash prize fund of £12,000!

Remember that these are cash prizes – and all in line with the legislation and guidance from the Gambling Commision.

Redtooth Poker – The Biggest and Best!

The conclusion of poker’s richest and most prestigious poker tournament, the 40th annual World Series of Poker featuring the November Nine!!!

After…………..
*6,494 players started the Main Event
*156 hours worth of playing poker
*129,880,000 chips in play
*$61,043,600 prize pool

We finally get to meet our 2009 November Nine…..

Player Name Age Town Chip Count
DARVIN MOON 45 OAKLAND, MARYLAND 58,930,000
ERIC BUCHMAN 29 HEWLETT, NEW YORK 34,800,000
STEVEN BEGLEITER 47 CHAPPAQUA, NEW YORK 29,885,000
JEFF SHULMAN 34 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 19,580,000
JOSEPH CADA 21 SHELBY TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN 13,215,000
KEVIN SCHAFFEL 51 CORAL SPRINGS, FLORIDA 12,390,000
PHIL IVEY 33 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 9,765,000
ANTOINE SAOUT 25 SAINT MARTIN DES CHAMPS, FRANCE 9,500,000
JAMES AKENHEAD 26 LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM 6,800,000 (on the left in the pic)

Congratulations to all the players who managed to battle their way through the enormous field and earn their respective seat at the final table.

I would just like to take this opportunity to wish James all the best in November and is sure Im saying this on behalf of all the Redtooth Poker players……Good Luck!!!!!!!!!

Scott Marsh
National Poker Manager
Redtooth Poker

We are pleased to announce our regional finals for Season 2 2009/10. As you may notice the number of regions has now increased from 11 to 14.

  Season 2 2009/10 Regional Finals Confirmed continued »

Day 7 proved to be harsh to most but 27 players brushed off the bad beats. Here are the 27 players that still remain,

The remaining 27 players hail from severn different countries. James Ankenhead is the only remaining player from the United Kingdom, Marco Mattes is Germany’s last chance for the title and Waren Zackey is hoping to bring it home for South Africa. Ludovic Lacay is one of three Frenchmen left in the field and George Caragiorgas of Quebec is looking to become the first Canadian to win the Main Event. With the elimination of Peter Eastgate (Main Event winner 2008) late in Day 6, Dennis Phillips was the only player left of the original November Nine who was unfortunately knocked out in 45th place.

Look out for the two big named professionals who would be my bet to make the final table.

Good Luck once again to James Akenhead!!!

Scott Marsh
National Poker Manager
Redtooth Poker