No matter the activity, any competition that pits the best against the best is well worth watching. Football fans have the Champions League and the World Cup, X has Y and when it comes to poker, a great battle of the champions took place on Monday evening in London. The UKIPT Champion of Champions event took place and the grand winner was the Welsh wizard Richard Evans. Evans booked his place amongst the best players due to succeeding in the UKIPT Dublin event back in May of last year. That seems like such a long time ago but Evans proved that he has consistency in his poker play by triumphing once again when the chips were down… on the table.
The win brought about a great bonus for Evans who tool voluntarily redundancy from his work in January. This will come in rather handy because he will need a lot of spare time later on in the year as his success gets him entry to Season 4 of the UKIPT events. The first stop is Marbella but it seems as though Evans will some explaining to do when he heads to the continent for the event. Not because some players will be worrying about why the UKIPT event is taking place away from the UK and Ireland but Evans will be on poker duty when his wife hits 40. Firstly, you can probably bet that Evans gets pulled up by his wife for disclosing her age and of course, he will then be in trouble for being away. He’ll need to win and make sure that he brings her back a big present!
No success two nights in a row for Sergio Aido
Evans grabbed the Season 4 passport prize but Sergio Aido who clinched the UKIPT London event on Sunday night struggled to perform two nights in a row. Perhaps Aido was celebrating his London triumph was a bit too much but if that was the case, not to worry because he was soon out of the tournament, giving him plenty of time to recover! Robert Baguley finished in second place behind Evans while Emmett Mullin finished in 3rd. The remaining places went to Nicolau Villa-Lobos who finished fourth, Wotjek Brazanty who finished fifth, Thomas Finneran finished 6th, 7th place went to Dara O’Kearney, Chris Ferguson came in 8th and of course, Sergio Aido was in 9th position.
With the start of the next season of the UKIPT taking place in June, there is time for players to relax but there are always plenty of other places for poker players to play in between times.