The 2024 PokerStars United Kingdom & Eire Poker Tour (UKIPT) London pageant kicks off on August 2, with the £1,100 Major Occasion’s first flight shuffling up and dealing on August 4. Eight gamers have change into UKIPT London Major Occasion champions because the event’s inaugural working in 2010, and a few of these champions have change into family names following their victories.
PokerNews’ dwell reporting crew is on the bottom all through the 2024 UKIPT London Major Occasion, and we hope certainly one of our readers follows within the footsteps of those eight heroes and returns residence as a poker champion.
Previous PokerStars UKIPT London Champions
Scotland’s David Vamplew received the inaugural UKIPT London Major Occasion in 2020, which served because the Grand Remaining of the fledgling tour, doubling up because the European Poker Tour (EPT) London Major Occasion. The £5,250 buy-in event drew in 848 entrants, who created a £4,112,800 prize pool. Vamplew defeated John Juanda heads-up to say the £900,000 high prize.
Vamplew grew to become an everyday on the dwell circuit following his win, having fun with a lot success. Nevertheless, his final recorded dwell money got here in February 2018, as he is stepped away from the sport. Vamplew is now married, and graduated with a Masters (with distinction) in Monetary Modelling and Optimisation.
The 2011 version of the UKIPT London Major Occasion mirrored the one in 2020 in that it acted because the UKIPT Grand Remaining and EPT London Major Occasion. German famous person Benny Spindler outlasted 690 opponents on his strategy to banking £750,000.
Spindler racked up over $4.5 million in dwell scores earlier than vanishing from the scene; PokerNews final caught Spindler in a dwell occasion on the 2018 EPT Barcelona Major Occasion.
Spanish famous person Sergio Aido received the 2013 UKIPT London Major Occasion, which had modified to a £770 buy-in by this occasions. Aido had burst onto the dwell poker circuit with a victory within the €1,650 WPT Nationwide Barcelona Major Occasion in October 2012, completed seventeenth within the EPT Prague Major Occasion in December 2012, then received the 2013 UKIPT London Major Occasion for £144,555.
Aido has since bagged 30 scores weighing in at six figures, and 5 seven-figure scores, together with a $2,026,506 haul he loved after profitable the $50,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Excessive Curler on the current 2024 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP).
In 2014, Brett Angell powered by 1,088 opponents to seize the UKIPT London title and its £115,083 high prize. Three years earlier, Angell completed because the runner-up within the 2011 UKIPT Nottingham Major Occasion for £80,000.
Angell’s dwell poker quantity has waned in recent times as he focuses extra on household life. Nevertheless, he nonetheless often seems in UK-based occasions and received the 2019 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Leeds Major Occasion in 2019, and not too long ago cashed in a Grosvenor 25/50 occasion in Newcastle in January 2024.
Rapinder Cheema received the 2015 UKIPT London Major Occasion for £78,825 after a heads-up take care of Spain’s Fernando Marin. The aforementioned Angell was at Cheema’s closing desk, ending seventh a yr after taking down the occasion.
Cheema cashed in 5 dwell tournaments within the 12 months after his UKIPT victory, however his final Hendon Mob entry was in November 2015, so he is both enjoying anonymously or has known as time on his dwell poker profession.
Walsall’s Usman Siddique first appeared within the British dwell circuit in 2015, racking up greater than a dozen cashes in his first yr. Having cashed within the £1,100 Sky Poker UK Poker Championships in February 2016, Siddique headed to the £770 UKIPT London Major Occasion in April. Siddique left a path of proficient professionals in his wake in London, together with Jack Hardcastle, David Docherty, and Jack Salter, earlier than claiming the £84,100 first-place prize for himself.
Over the following six years, Siddique cashed in occasions world wide, however his final in-the-money end was in December 2022.
UKIPT London went on a hiatus for some time earlier than returning in April 2022 with a brand new £1,100 buy-in. Some 645 gamers purchased into the 2022 Major Occasion, and James Rann outlasted all of them, raking in £86,569.
Rann was an achieved dwell and on-line poker event grinder earlier than his London win, boasting a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars} in dwell earnings, and over $1.9 million from the web enviornment. Rann will possible be in London for the 2024 version of this common event.
Final however not least is Dylan Bradley, the reigning UKIPT London champion. The 22-year-old’s first recorded dwell end result was victory within the 2023 UKIPT London Major Occasion value £71,650, some strategy to get off the mark.
Full 2024 UKIPT London Schedule
Increase the desk under to see the complete 2024 UKIPT London schedule. Keep in mind that PokerNews is reporting on the £1,100 Major Occasion from Day 1a by to the ninth champion lifting the trophy aloft.
Energy Passes and Extra to be Received within the Ambassador Meet-Up
The Major Occasion apart, the one event you could attempt to make it to is the £220 No-Restrict Maintain’em Bounty Ambassador Meet-Up at 8:00 p.m. on August 6. You may win £100 money for every opponent you ship to the rail, however particular prizes await anybody who eliminates a PokerStars Ambassador.
The likes of Lex Veldhuis, Sam Grafton, Barny Boatman, Joe “Stapes” Stapleton, James Hartigan, Adam McKola, Rory Jennings, Georgina “GJ Reggie” James, Nick Walsh, and Kerryjane Craigie are anticipated to function, and accomplish that with an extra bounty on their head.
Two Pokerstars ambassadors may have a $2,500 Silver Go on their head with the others having a $109 Energy Path Bronze Path as their bounty. Oh, and the eventual winner of this occasion receives a UKIPT Nottingham Major Occasion seat on high of any money or different bounties they gather alongside the best way!
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