Tuesday, 15 March 2011
The latest leg of the PokerStars UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) drew to a close yesterday with Plymouth's Matthew McDerra taking the title.
The 27-year-old worked his way through a final table that included double WSOP bracelet winner JP Kelly and the gloriously named Robert Angood (who lived up to his name with a third place finish for £27,000) to set up what proved to be an epic heads up encounter with Poland's Mateusz Warowiec.It took six hours of two-handed play for the winner to be decided with almost all the chips going in the middle with McDerra holding a set of fives and Warowiec top pair with a king kicker. The Devonian faded the outs to leave Warowiec crippled and sealed the deal a hand later after hitting a straight.The final table positions and payouts were as follows:1st. Matthew McDerra, United Kingdom £74,0002nd. Mateusz Warowiec, Poland £43,5003rd. Robert Angood, United Kingdom £27,6004th. Mick Fletcher, United Kingdom £20,3005th. JP Kelly, United Kingdom £16,0006th. Paul Nash, United Kingdom £12,6007th. Owen Shiels, Ireland, £9,5008th. Michael Birt, United Kingdom £7,200 Cork is the venue for the next leg of the UKIPT from 19th to 22nd May 2011. Qualifiers are up and running at PokerStars.Image courtesy of Neil Stoddart of PokerStars.Keep up to date with all the news from the poker world by following us on Twitter and Facebook.
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