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Join PokerStars now! The EPT Season 8 awards are due to be given out at the closing party on Tuesday rewarding a select elite for their grind over the last nine months. They’ll all have earned their plaudits but plenty of other unsung heroes will have to remain in the shadows. Don’t ask why but we at the PokerStars Blog didn’t actually get consulted on the Achievement of the Year or Player of the Year awards.* It’s not like we’ve been at every event.

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EPT8 Monaco: Season’s greatest players; Gruissem and other overlooked talents

Join PokerStars now! There is often an expectation that a high roller is going to be too busy to speak to you. They’ve probably got a yacht to burn, a Swiss bank manager to give a heart attack or a game of tennis to play with Boris Becker.

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EPT8 Monaco: Super High Roller Bonomo turns his attention to the main

Join PokerStars now! You made it to Day 2.

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APPT Cebu: Once more unto the breach

Join PokerStars now! It’s widely known and accepted that the casino industry is a well-refined, exact science. Everything from the layout, the furniture, the games, the lights and the music are all choreographed in a manner that ensures you have fun while the casinos make money. Every little detail is part of a bigger plan that is usually above the comprehension of the average punter

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APPT Cebu: The science of the casino

Join PokerStars now! Team PokerStars Pro Victoria Coren and Melanie Weisner are battling it out for €58,900 in the final of the €5,000 heads-up tournament, the last two players remaining from a starting field of 27. Coren had beaten Dori Yacoub in her semi, while the fast talking American, who has impressed on the tour with five main event cashes over the last two seasons, beat EPT London champ Mark Teltscher in hers. Coren drew first blood taking the first round in a best of five match after both players got it in with top pair and she caught her kicker

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EPT8 Grand Final: Coren and Weisner heads up for the title

Join PokerStars now! The question is, are you bothered about being mocked when you have two and a half stacks of blue chips and a ton of reds, adding up to a stack of about 340,000. This is the position Cengiz Ulusu is in (although he may not read this blog). Ulusu, the coin-flipper, came into the day as chip leader with somewhere in the region of 240,000, a position that allows certain confidence.

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EPT8 Berlin: Ulusu on the loose, increases lead

Join PokerStars now! If you were to follow this hand through you’d largely wonder how Anton Thorarinsson got paid off. Luca Cainelli opened under-the-gun and was called by Zoran Mitic in the next seat along

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EPT8 Berlin: The Geshkenbein effect

Join PokerStars now! 8.20pm: Done for the day Play is done for the day, roughly 76 players remain and the chip leader, as has been the case for most of the day is, Iqbal Ahmed who has 1,580,000. You can click right here , to see the counts of the chip leaders, full comprehensive chip counts will be uploaded as soon as we receive them. A full wrap of the day’s play is on the way.

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UKIPT Nottingham: Day 2, level 16-18 updates (3,000-6,000 500 ante)

Join PokerStars now! 4.45pm: Pearce still at the sharp end Here’s a quick update for one of our Twitter followers: this is for you @GossipHub .

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UKIPT Nottingham: Day 2, level 12 – 15 updates (1,500-3,000 300 ante)

Join PokerStars now! 2.55pm: We have a champion! Calm down people, it’s not over yet.

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Eureka Croatia 2: Day 2, Level 10 (500,1000/100)