There are some poker players that focus purely on one poker discipline and this is a very sensible strategy. After all, if you have been blessed with a special talent and then you work hard to improve and maintain your talents, why shouldn’t you make the most of it. However, with so many different poker games and disciplines, some players aer keen to develop their skills across the board. This can be for fun, it can be done to get one over on your friends or if you are Ville Wahlbeck, you can improve your varied poker skills to give you a better chance of winning big money.
The Finnish player, a Team PokerStars Pro player came out on top if the EPT £10,300 Eight Game Championship, an achievement which saw him picking up £76,720. That is the sort of work that we would all like to earn in London in a few hours but unless you are a medium level English Premier League footballer or a skilled poker player, you’ll have to dream about making that sort of money in that sort of time scale.
Poker prize pool money shared out
There was a total prize of £215,600 on offer in this event but unsurprisingly, there was a deal arranged between 6 players in total that took some of the sting out of the share of cash. While money can always be a huge incentive to drive on and achieve more, it can also work against you. Some players, fearful of missing out on a huge prize or coming so close to major money, tend to dry up and their natural game goes out of the window. The spirit of competition may be slightly lacking when players come to agreements about financial splits but if every player is happy with the deal and agrees to it, it is unlikely that there will be any changes in this common practice.
The six players who settled on the agreement were Wahlbeck, Dan Shak, Richard Ashby, Justin Bonomo, Luke Schwartz and Elior Benjamin Sion. The UK was well represented in the final six with places 4 through to 6 being UK players and with Schwartz coming in six picking up £28,640, it was a good day out for the Brits. Between the three UK players, a sum just under £100,000 was picked up, representing a great day for the local lads. There were two US players in second and third place but it was the second ranked player, Dan Shak, that walked away with the least amount of money. A sum of £19,360 is not to be sniffed at but he was the only one in the final six to receive less than £20,000 for his efforts.