There is no doubt that if you could choose to win a big poker event anywhere in the world, Las Vegas would be at the top end of destinations. There is something very special about this gaming and gambling location which means that people are always going to flock to it. It is such a famous and iconic name that the UK Pub Poker Championship decided to whisk all of the finalists across to Las Vegas for the final. This meant that there were some keen UK players who were pretty excited by the event but in the end it was Bobby Regan from Northumberland that managed to claim the title.
In the end, Bobby triumphed over thousands of poker players across the country and he was a very proud winner of the Vegas 100 Redtooth Poker title and the £5,000 prize money! Getting the chance to go to Las Vegas and play in a proper poker tournament is definitely something that will be appealing to many people but there is no doubt that the kudos that goes with winning the poker tournament is something that will always live with Bobby!
Bobby has been playing in the Tuesday night poker league at the Last Orders pub which can be found on Regent Street in Blyth. Bobby gave an interview to his local newspaper after his success.
I still can’t believe I won it, it hasn’t sunk in yet. The whole experience was class and a once-in-a-lifetime trip. Las Vegas was more than I ever expected. I was made to feel very special. Everyone was so friendly. I played a little poker growing up, but it’s only in the last few years when I started playing more regularly with friends and online. The Last Orders poker league is good fun and I’ve met a lot of great new people there.
Poker events make for a social occasion
There is no doubt going to be a lot of celebrating back in the Last Orders pub but you can probably put your money on the fact that there will be plenty of folk telling Bobby to get a round in! The big tournament itself took the shape of a huge 12 hour poker session against 100 top players in the Orleans Casino. The event itself had been building all throughout the year but in the end it was a bit of a rush for Bobby to get ready. This is down to the fact that Bobby has not been abroad since he was a child and he needed to get a new passport at short notice after winning the semi-final back in March! Bobby was one of the ten qualifiers from Sheffield for the Vegas 100 and that was just the beginning of the work as he managed to pull things together to enable the Vegas trip to go ahead.
Bobby is hoping to make inroads into playing poker professionally but he will always have the Redtooth Poker league to fall back on. This league is the largest UK live poker league and the MD of the company, Martin Green, released a statement after Bobby’s success, saying;
Since Vegas 100 was created, it has simply grown and grown. Bobby’s success is an example of how the tournament can offer a unique opportunity for everyone to enjoy.