UKIPT Coverage

UKIPT 3 London - March 5 - 16, 2013 - Event Coverage

On this page you will find Player Lists, Gallery Photos, Payout, Side Events and Final Table information from the event.

For more information, please see the UKIPT 3 London event page.

Full reports from UKIPT 3 London are on the PokerStars blog.

Player Lists

Gallery

Gallery

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Payout

Payout

There were 1,099 players joining the fray over three starting days in London each parting with £700+£70.

They generated a total prize pool of £746,221. The last remaining 144 players will be paid.

Prizewinners' names will also appear here when they are known.

Place Name Status Prize (£)
1 Sergio Aido   144,555
2 Thomas Ward PokerStars Qualifier 116,845
3 Patrick Simcoe PokerStars Qualifier 63,560
4 Philippe Souki   44,870
5 Wim Neys PokerStars Qualifier 33,680
6 Guy Goossens   22,490
7 Cesar Garcia PokerStars Qualifier 15,050
8 Chris Dowling PokerStars Player 12,691
9 Juan Manuel Pastor Team PokerStars Pro 10,450
10 Mark Gardner PokerStars Qualifier 10,450
11 Simon Trowse PokerStars Qualifier 8,200
12 Dinarte Araujo De Sousa   8,200
13 Diego Arbuello   5,970
14 Danny Samson   5,970
15 Gary Fisher   4,480
16 Tristan Taylor PokerStars Player 4,480
17 Luke Bird PokerStars Qualifier 3,730
18 Dara O'Kearney PokerStars Qualifier 3,730
19 Anthony Jacobs   3,730
20 Richard Trigg PokerStars Qualifier 3,730
21 Olivier Busquet   3,730
22 Joseph Mcerlean PokerStars Player 3,730
23 Ismael Bojang PokerStars Player 3,730
24 Paul Kerr   3,730
25 Ilkin Amirov PokerStars Qualifier 2,985
26 Bart Besselink PokerStars Qualifier 2,985
27 Alan Mansbridge   2,985
28 Florian Bussmann PokerStars Player 2,985
29 Georgios Zisimopoulos   2,985
30 Daniel Rudd   2,985
31 Jamie Burland   2,985
32 Jonathon Prested PokerStars Player 2,985
33 Thomas Hall PokerStars Qualifier 2,610
34 Tomasz Kolodziejski PokerStars Qualifier 2,610
35 Onur Dag PokerStars Player 2,610
36 Vilius Urbaitis PokerStars Player 2,610
37 Jeremy Wray PokerStars Qualifier 2,610
38 Marco Conti   2,610
39 William Beauchump PokerStars Player 2,610
40 Jason Duval PokerStars Player 2,610
41 Ryan Spittles   2,240
42 Jeffrey Hakim PokerStars Player 2,240
43 Roar Aspas   2,240
44 Jack Young PokerStars Qualifier 2,240
45 Damian Mularczyk PokerStars Qualifier 2,240
46 Tomas Pleticha PokerStars Player 2,240
47 Daniel Laming   2,240
48 Maciej Stachniuk PokerStars Player 2,240
49 Vincent Gabel PokerStars Qualifier 1,870
50 Domenico Vendittelli   1,870
51 Shahin Baharan PokerStars Qualifier 1,870
52 Jason Lavallee PokerStars Qualifier 1,870
53 Ian Morrison PokerStars Player 1,870
54 Richard Milne Snr PokerStars Player 1,870
55 Ali Sarkeshik   1,870
56 Gabriel Carter PokerStars Qualifier 1,870
57 Issam Kamand   1,870
58 Robertas Vaitkevicius PokerStars Qualifier 1,870
59 Yiannis Liperis PokerStars Qualifier 1,870
60 Neil Ryder   1,870
61 Robert Godmon PokerStars Qualifier 1,870
62 Paul Friel   1,870
63 Ben Jackson   1,870
64 Bas de Laat PokerStars Player 1,870
65 Daniel Moosah PokerStars Player 1,640
66 Brandon Hall   1,640
67 Ben Vinson   1,640
68 Stephen Rawle PokerStars Player 1,640
69 Timothy Slater PokerStars Qualifier 1,640
70 Waldemar Essig   1,640
71 Weideng Wang   1,640
72 Natalia Lisiak   1,640
73 Thomas Pettersson PokerStars Player 1,640
74 Tom Drew PokerStars Qualifier 1,640
75 Nick Mazur PokerStars Qualifier 1,640
76 David Vamplew PokerStars Player 1,640
77 Andrew Hulme   1,640
78 Duncan Wilkie PokerStars Player 1,640
79 Richard Sinclair PokerStars Player 1,640
80 David Docherty PokerStars Qualifier 1,640
81 Graham Lengthorn PokerStars Player 1,640
82 Marco Maroli   1,640
83 Alan Dickens PokerStars Qualifier 1,640
84 Yucel Eminoglu   1,640
85 Mark Southwood PokerStars Qualifier 1,640
86 David Makous   1,640
87 Timothy Clarke PokerStars Qualifier 1,640
88 John Higgins PokerStars Player 1,640
89 Jon Warmerdam PokerStars Qualifier 1,420
90 Arkady Kielman   1,420
91 Simon Mattsson PokerStars Qualifier 1,420
92 Richard Hoadley PokerStars Qualifier 1,420
93 Benjamin Jenkins PokerStars Qualifier 1,420
94 Craig Grant PokerStars Player 1,420
95 Sean Robertson PokerStars Qualifier 1,420
96 Dray Simpson   1,420
97 Andrew Teng PokerStars Qualifier 1,420
98 Tom O`Hanlon PokerStars Player 1,420
99 Patryk Slusarek   1,420
100 Lukas Nemec PokerStars Player 1,420
101 Gavin Keane PokerStars Player 1,420
102 Arvydas Merfeldas PokerStars Player 1,420
103 Seun Oluwole   1,420
104 Jay O'Toole PokerStars Qualifier 1,420
105 Mark Goulding PokerStars Qualifier 1,420
106 Adrian Veghinas PokerStars Qualifier 1,420
107 Marko Kolega PokerStars Qualifier 1,420
108 Marty Smyth   1,420
109 Martin Bader   1,420
110 Martin Dench PokerStars Qualifier 1,420
111 Adam Toulson PokerStars Qualifier 1,420
112 Willie Tann   1,420
113 Mathew Perry   1,200
114 Paul Zimbler   1,200
115 Ashley Thompson   1,200
116 Korab Alaj   1,200
117 Oliver Morgan   1,200
118 Kevin MacPhee PokerStars Qualifier 1,200
119 Daniel Marks PokerStars Qualifier 1,200
120 Nathan Lee   1,200
121 Andrew Keep PokerStars Player 1,200
122 Kevin Finnie PokerStars Player 1,200
123 Jonathan O`Brien PokerStars Player 1,200
124 Adrian Diaz   1,200
125 Robert Malvasi PokerStars Player 1,200
126 Borja Guerra Denche   1,200
127 Markus Hedin PokerStars Player 1,200
128 Dean Clay PokerStars Qualifier 1,200
129 Samuel Welbourne PokerStars Player 1,200
130 Mark Baxter PokerStars Qualifier 1,200
131 Marco Vasconcelos   1,200
132 Nicholas Vazquez   1,200
133 Spencer Lawrence PokerStars Player 1,200
134 Salman Behbehani   1,200
135 Richard Blacklock PokerStars Player 1,200
136 Jordan Dungey   1,200
137 Jose Duarte Martins Vieira   1,200
138 Wojtek Barzantny PokerStars Player 1,200
139 Bart Lybaert PokerStars Player 1,200
140 George Clyde-Smith PokerStars Qualifier 1,200
141 Dávid Urban PokerStars Qualifier 1,200
142 Mathew Frankland PokerStars Qualifier 1,200
143 Scott Shelley PokerStars Player 1,200
144 Jack Salter PokerStars Player 1,200

 

Side Events

Final Table

Final Table

Seat 1: Guy Goossens, Belgium - 1,250,000
Belgian player Guy Goossens, 50, has a formidable live tournament record - of the last eight live events he's played, he's made the final table in six. He alternates live tournaments – mainly in Belgium - with high stakes online PLO cash games under the moniker 'jumbosmotos'. He owns Moto's Goossens which is a large motorbike shop near Antwerp but a passion for the game of poker has propelled him comfortably to the final table of the biggest live poker event in the UK capital.

Seat 2: Patrick Simcoe, United Kingdom (PokerStars Qualifier) – 1,234,000
Patrick Simcoe, 48, from Oxford, qualified for the UKIPT London Main Event for just £22. He started playing poker for 5p chips in a pub with friends, but has started taking the live game more seriously recently, making two final tables (and over £12,000) at Dusk Till Dawn in 2012. Simcoe, a manager for British Gas, admits he's got the bug and has been to Vegas three times during WSOP season. The UKIPT final represents the biggest cash of his poker career, but he says he still plays with his friends in the pub and would continue to do so should he win.

Seat 3: Chris Dowling, Ireland (PokerStars Player) - 2,262,000
Although Chris Dowling works in distribution and has a family to occupy his time, in his own words he plays a lot. That is backed up by the fact that this is the Irishman's third UKIPT final table. He'll be hoping to go better than the 6th and 7th places he achieved in Nottingham and Cork respectively in Season 2. When not travelling the tournament circuit his main game is pot-limit Omaha cash that he prefers to hold'em. He'll be followed by, amongst others, UKIPT3 Cork winner Thomas Finneran, whom he counts among his closest friends in poker.

Seat 4: Wim Neys, Belgium (PokerStars Qualifier) - 3,270,000
Wim Neys, better known as 'wejo13' online, bulldozed through Day 3 despite starting with one of the shorter stacks, and was the first to top a million chips after knocking out Jason Duval. Neys has keen supporters on the rail in the form of Team PokerStars Pros Christophe and Matthias De Meulder and although already successful on the virtual felt, a win here would represent his best live result – his biggest live prize (€25,650) was won last year in Valencia on the Estrellas Poker Tour where he finished 4th.

Seat 5: Cesar Garcia, Spain (PokerStars Qualifier) - 1,156,000
This is the first UKIPT Main Event for Cesar Garcia, a 23 year old professional poker player from Gran Canaria and he is very excited at having made the final table. He's had a good tournament so far, and he's feeling very confident. It may be his first UKIPT, however Garcia is a regular on the EPT circuit and with some success: he came 6th in EPT Berlin in Season 9. Garcia, following the final table, will also be playing the EPT Main Event.

Seat 6: Tom Ward, UK (PokerStars Qualifier) - 2,474,000
Tom Ward, a 26 year old professional poker player from Aberdeen, is a regular on the UKIPT circuit having qualified for all the Main Events this season except Cork. Although the long Day 1 was tough going mentally, he'd not been in much danger until just before making the final table. This will be his second UKIPT final table as he came 4th in UKIPT Edinburgh Season 2. He's had three cashes in Season 3 and when asked about his feelings on playing the final table, in which he has the second biggest stack, he said that he was feeling confident and excited.

Seat 7: Philippe Souki, UK - 2,402,000
Philippe Souki is the only one of the finalists who can really be called a local lad, his day job being playing cash right here at the Vic in the heart of London. Having recently graduated, Souki, 24, now plays almost exclusively live cash games – 'almost' because he could not resist a stab at the UKIPT taking place right on his doorstep. Although he doesn't want to pursue the tournament route even if he wins the title, he does want to win in order to top James Greenwood's performance at UKIPT3 Bristol (he came second). "I'm going to one-better him," he said, pointing to Greenwood on the rail.

Seat 8: Sergio Aido, Spain, 1,748,000
Sergio Aido started Day 3 as the chip leader and remained in amongst the biggest stacks while 41 players hit the rail. Aido, 24, is a professional poker player but has only recently started playing live. His results are, however, already impressive, including a 1st place at the WPT National Series in Barcelona last October worth €88,500. He is looking forward to the final which he notes will be interesting because all players have chips to play with.

UKIPT Leaderboards

A table will appear below showing the current leaderboard rankings, once the results are in from PokerStars Marbella Festival, June 12-16, 2013.