Gilles Augustus Wins UK and Ireland Poker Tour Coventry
This was published 13-04-2010The third leg of the Pokerstars UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) wrapped up this weekend. The UKIPT is very popular and 368 players attended this leg held in the UK Midlands, all hoping to win the £46 000 prize money on offer.
There were a couple of famous players at this event, including Vicky Coren who was a recent London finalist in the GUKPT event. Others included the super cool poker player, Mark Goodwin and Jake Cody the EPT Deauville champion.
Surprisingly, none of these famous players made it through to the final tough field, though. After three days of play in which we saw bets, bad beats, and bluffs, Daniel Carter impressed with a stack that stood very tall. He had 1.4 million chips at the final table and almost everyone assumed that this would mean a win for him, as this is a huge chip advantage.
The final was going to be more dramatic than that though. 3-bets were made, followed by 4-bets all around. All the players were hoping for a stroke of luck and to gain momentum.
Several hands later, Joe Grech finished in third place and it was to be decided between Dave Jones from the United Kingdom and Gilles Augustus from Belgium. It started with twenty hands of reasonably small ball poker play before everything was bet and a flood of chips landed in Augustus’ lap. The Belgian earned his spectacular first time live tournament poker win of £46,100 with his final board reading of Kc, 4s, 6h, 9c, 5d. He was also awarded with a seat in the £5000 EPT London poker tournament.
Augustus looked comfortable throughout the game and ended his tournament with his usual ritual of downing two well-deserved tequilas.
The Final Table payouts were as follows:
1: Gilles Augustus won a whopping £46 000
2: Dave Jones won £29 400
3: Joe Grech won £16 100
4: Dan Carter won £12 700
5: Paul Rigg won £10 200
6: Marius Lietuvnikas won £8 200
7: Chris Brice won £6 600
8: Ben Dobson won £5 000
9: Andrew Booth won £3 500
10: Ben Crellin won £2 500
