Seat Draws

Follow the links below to find downloadable Seat Draws.

• Day 2 players seat draw.
• Day 1b players seat draw.
• Preliminary Day 1 List.

Chip Counts

Follow the links below to find downloadable chip counts and player lists.

• Side Event Results
• Day 2 survivors chip counts.
• UKIPT Nottingham complete player list.
• UKIPT Nottingham nationalities.

Payout

Final Table

Seat 1: David Heaton - 1,690,000
David Heaton, 30, from Rotherham, plays both live and online regularly, his favourite brick-and-mortar venues being in Sheffield or Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn.  This event represents both his largest live tournament and his best cash finish (he’s guaranteed at least £7,950 for making the final) although he has played a large number of smaller buy-in tournaments and qualifies for tournaments through satellites online.  If he wins the top prize today he’s keen to play more live events and said he, “May even consider buying in to the World Series this year…”

Seat 2: Brett Angell - 915,000
Brett Angell, 27, from Middlesbrough, qualified for this event online at PokerStars.  He has dipped a toe in occasional live events in the UK but this final table represents his biggest result to date.  He played a Nottingham leg side event last year, but this is his first Main Event.  Angell comes to the final table as the shortest stack, but not for want of trying.  Earlier today he suffered an outdraw at the hands of 9th place finisher Ian Gilchrist which left him gasping for breath (99 vs. A8 on a 3-A-9 flop; runner-runner Aces) but ground the short stack all the way to the final eight and cannot be discounted.

Seat 3: Gareth Walker - 1,235,000
Gareth Walker, from Newcastle, is a 28 year old web developer who has made most of his live tournament money in Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham, where the UKIPT is taking place.  He finished 8th in the Main Event here last year for £7,600, and is looking forward to improving on that result in 2011.  He plans to tackle the whole UKIPT circuit this year, and if he takes down the £109,000 first prize he intends to finance his poker – after buying a new car.

Seat 4: Tim Bettingen - 4,350,000
Tim Bettingen at 18 is the youngest player on the final table and the starting chip leader with nearly double the stack of 2nd place.  He has travelled to UKIPT Nottingham from Germany, and first came across the tour last year when he played UKIPT Brighton (he busted out in the fifth level).  Making this final table represents an improvement on this finishing position by a long way and he’s planning on playing more UKIPT stops this year.  He has yet to score any major live cashes, but is a keen participant in online tournament series like WCOOP and SCOOP.  With his dominating chip lead going into the final stage of the tournament, Bettingen has a good chance at his first title.

Seat 5: Chris Dowling - 1,995,000
Chris Dowling, 32, from Kildare, Ireland, has been playing around four years.  His best live result has been for €90,000 at the Irish Poker Championship in Galway in 2009 – but the top prize of £109,000 here would pip it.  So far his best UKIPT result is a 2nd place finish in the €320 side event in Galway in 2009 for €5,000.  He works in business development and with two young children does not have as much time to devote to poker as some of his fellow finalists, but his results so far speak for themselves.

Seat 6: Mike Hill - 1,250,000
Mike Hill, 48, has played more UKIPT Main Events than any other player at the final table, only missing out on one last season.  His best result has been a 3rd place finish in Manchester for £23,500 and he also made the Killarney leg’s final table (finishing 8th).  He has been a professional bookmaker for 20 years but has continually played poker profitably since entering the live arena in 2008.  He has a skiing enthusiast of a 9-year old son, and also enjoys warmer holidays to Fuerteventura every year.

Seat 7: Thomas Rolfe - 2,030,000
Thomas Rolfe is a 23 year old local from Nottingham who has been playing professionally for three years.  He has not only final table experience at this level, however, but victory experience – he won €80,000 in Killarney beating a 700-runner field in 2009.  Having played a handful, Rolfe is looking forward to entering more live events and perhaps heading to Las Vegas for the first time.  His regular games are No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha cash at the $2/$4 level, and when not at the tables he is a golf aficionado, having discovered the green of the golf course before the green of the poker felt. 

Seat 8: Romano Pizzo - 2,235,000
Romano Pizzo, 52, originally hails from Italy but now resides in London.  His biggest live result was for £22,000 at the GUKPT London in 2009, a festival in which he also made the final table of the £300 No Limit Hold’em event, but he doesn’t attend live poker tournaments very often.  When asked if he had any interests outside of poker, he paused momentarily before announcing, “Coronation Street and Eastenders.”  He currently lies second in chips, but has two other similarly sized stacks to contend with.