One of British poker's proudest records was forged at the EPT. In the course of the first eight seasons of the tour, the uk was the one nation to celebrate a minimum of one champion annually or even though those useless limey bastards proud subjects of the Queen suffered an unfortunate dry period during Season 9, Tom Middleton and Victoria Coren Mitchell got them back heading in the right direction again last time around.
In all, there were 16 EPT Main Event winners from the United Kingdom, that is greater than another nation. London specifically has always been a hotbed for poker, ever because the Victoria Casino on Edgware Road, a former home for the EPT, opened its poker site - and so they cut the ribbon there long before Chris Moneymaker changed the worldwide scene.
The games listed here are tough and the table chatter is more challenging. Such is the usual of poker on this city, and the length of time it's been played, that if you happen to could make it here, there is a good chance you can also make it anywhere.
Today's field at the opening flight of EPT11 London is pretty small by established standards, but everywhere one turns one spots a player who has made something of a touch in Great Britain, and who has subsequently gone directly to succeed elsewhere too.
David Vamplew, for instance, grew up in Scotland but made his real breakthrough at the the arena circuit at EPT London in September 2010, when he won £900,000 for beating a field of 848. Today, Vamplew is at the same table as James Dempsey, the most effective online players within the world, but who cut his teeth within the small casino tournaments within the UK. Dempsey's biggest scores have all are available Las Vegas, but his results list is dominated by the St George's Cross of England.
Sergio Aido and Adrian Mateos Diaz are two of Spain's most prominent poker talents. But, like many professionals from the country, they have got relocated to the united kingdom to continue playing online. Aido's biggest live score came when he won UKIPT London a few seasons ago, and then Mateos Diaz went to the arena Series Europe in Paris and took down the primary Event.
They are flat-mates in London and together have drawn seats beside each other within the Day 1A field. "Home game?" I said to Aido earlier. He nodded and rolled his eyes, but was plainly unhappy on the development.
Similar to Vamplew, Robbie Bull is another proud Scot who has enjoyed the top points of his career south of the border. Bull was Aido's successor as UKIPT London champion, prevailing this time last year within the Grand Connaught Rooms. He's sitting at the same table this afternoon as Phillipe Souki, another Vic cash game regular who made his tournament breakthrough on the UKIPT. He was fourth behind Aido.
Tudor Purice is originally from Romania, but he led EPT London for long periods last season, the primary time he really came to prominence in this tour. He eventually went out in 14th, but is today rubbing shoulders with somebody who has gone significantly further on this city.
A young Swede named Michael Tureniec had prepare just a handful of small live cashes before he came to London in October 2008 and made all of it easy methods to a heads up duel with Michael Martin. Tureniec has subsequently won with reference to $3m at live tournaments, including an EPT title in Copenhagen three years later, plus ample more online. But he made it here first. His second place prize of £525,314 in London continues to be the most important of his career.
Mat Frankland, Simon Deadman and Ben Warrington are all on the same table. They're among a few of British poker's brightest young talents, with Warrington having made an EPT final table in Prague and Deadman securing the largest win of his career in Las Vegas this summer when he won the Hollywood Poker Open for $350,000. Frankland has online cashes of with reference to $2.5m, comprising scores of triumphs within the biggest tournaments across PokerStars and entire Tilt Poker.
You might remember Steve O'Dwyer from his victory on the Grand Final of EPT Season 9. If not, then maybe a 3rd place in a really perfect High Roller in Barcelona or a WPT title in Denmark. However, previous to all that, he made the overall table of EPT London in Season 8, pipped only by Benny Spindler. He returned to the general table a few years later, finishing fifth behind Ruben Visser. He treated it as warm-up for that success in Monaco a few months later.
Such is Tamer Kamel's standing at the UK poker scene that after he appeared on within the late stages of EPT London in March 2013, we were inundated with messages telling us how unexpected everybody was to look him on the top of the counts. Kamel had previously excited about cash games, where he had apparently become something of a silent assassin. Since that event, where he eventually finished fifth, he has dipped in to the occasional live tournament too - and has made final tables in High Roller events at both Prague and London again.
No one much fancied the possibilities of Georgios Karakousis when he amassed a large stack finally year's EPT London Main Event. He was too unfamiliar, too Greek and too grey to succeed. (Nobody said it quite so bluntly, but that was what everyone was thinking.) However, he was more lively on the final table than even Ludovic Geilich and ended up finishing second to Robin Ylitalo.
Karakousis is back today and is sharing a table with Charlie Combes, who just happens to be another young British player with a terrific reputation. How awesome? Well, he's won $4.8m in online tournaments, so pretty awesome.
All of that is before we even get to Barny Boatman, arguably the most productive known and well respected of all London-based poker players. Boatman have been a fixture on the poker tables of his home city for longer than the general public have even known the foundations of the game.
He could have won the largest prize of his career in Las Vegas last summer, and reached his only EPT final table in Sanremo, but if he bleeds, his blood comes out within the colours of the Union Jack. Boatman takes his seat within the EPT field today among what amounts to a gorgeous sensational Better of British line-up.
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Speaking of Brits, here's Laura Cornelius, of PokerStars.tv, who caught up with Ian Simpson within the UKIPT High Roller event. Simpson has gone from science teacher to poker player in a question of a few years and has some very wise words for anybody hoping to make an identical transition themselves.
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Follow our coverage of the EPT London festival via the principle EPT London page, where there are hand-by-hand updates and chip counts within the panel on the top and have pieces below. Coverage of the overall table of the UKIPT Main Event is at the UKIPT page.
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