It has been a fantastic festive of poker in London in the past week or so and while it may seem that the focus now falls on the Irish and Guinness drinkers to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, there will be plenty of big poker players celebrating a brilliant time in London. There was an awful lot of money up for grabs over the course of the different events and tournaments and of course, there was an awful lot of praise and adulation being bestowed upon the big tournament winners.
The player who walks with the highest praise is Ruben Visser. Visser held his nerve and clinched the 2013 PokerStars EPT London Main Event. In doing so, he becomes the 5th Dutch nationalist to taste success in an EPT event and the student may find that paying for the rest of his tuition becomes slightly easier from here on in. This is down to fact that not only does Visser get a great trophy and a lot of praise; he manages to walk away with a prize of £595,000. It had been a tough number of days and there were 7 hard opponents to get beyond at the final table but the 24 year old poker player can look back on his time in London with a great degree of pride and satisfaction.
Big poker event goes Dutch
Two UK poker players managed to make it through to the final 8 but unfortunately for the home crowd, these were the first two players eliminated from the final showdown. Chris Moorman was a surprise early departure but his showing still managed to earn him £57,000. Next to go was Tamer Kamel, whose 7th placed finish earned him £79,950.
Other finishers include the German Christopher Frank who earned £112,000 for his sixth placed finish. In fifth place was Steve O’Dwyer and the American earned £146,000. In fourth place was the Dane Theo Jorgensen who received £183,000 and in third was Sweden’s Olof Haglund, who picked up £427,564. The unlucky runner up was Mantas Visockis from Lithuania who received £377,463 for his valiant efforts.
The EPT will take a brief rest now but it won’t be long until it is back in the swing of things and the next stop is scheduled for Berlin. The festival of poker in Berlin begins on the 17th of April but the main EPT tournament dates take place between April the 21st and April the 27th. There will be plenty of other poker games and opportunities taking place between now and then but as the EPT holds a special place in the hearts of many players, you can bet that there will be plenty of poker players counting down the days to this upcoming event.