With more and more people taking part in the PokerStars Super Tuesday $1,050 buy-in event, it is no real surprise to see that some of the players involved hail from these shores. There is a record breaking number of people who are taking part in the event, which saw 614 players involved. With more poker players in a tournament, there is more money involved and this led to a poker prize pool of $614,000 being put up for grabs. This led to a first place prize of $116,046 being on offer which is definitely the sort of poker player that will get players interested.
Given that 72nd place is where the money starts to appear, the worst place you want to finish is 73rd but sadly this happened to a UK or Irish poker player at the event. The player, Paul Febers, known by “xxCelticFC” will have to rely on the fact his team are romping to the SPL and have delivered some brilliant showings in the Champions League to cheer himself up. Yes, Paul was the unlucky number 73 who went out on the bubble, allowing the rest of the players to relax a little, knowing that they would be playing for real money!
Plenty of poker money coming to the UK and Ireland
UK money players included Andrew “stato_1” Hulme who was 71st, Laurence “rivermanl” Houghton who was 47th, Rory “Maefws” Matthews who just pipped him into 46th, Ross “RLOG” Loggie who hit 19th and Matt “pezler06” Perrins, who came in 15th. With Perrins being a WSOP bracelet winner, this is an indicator of the high quality of poker players in the tournament.
However, the top ranked UK player was David “daviddiv1213” Vamplew, a previous EPT London champion finished in fifth place and scooped a prize of $33,156.