Ian Hamilton Wins 2022 European Poker Tour London Main Event

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Ian Hamilton has actually won the 2022 European Poker Scenic tour London main event, beating an area of 749 overall entries in the ₤ 5,300 buy-in no-limit hold ’em tournament to gain his initial major competition title and the leading reward of $744,128 USD.

This was, by far, the largest score of the 31-year-old UK resident’s profession, blowing away the $170,073 he made as the runner-up in a EUR2,700 buy-in mystery bounty occasion at the EPT Prague event previously this year. He currently has more than $1 million in life time tournament pays to his name.

Along with the title and the money, Hamilton also made 1,824 Card Player Gamer of the Year points as the champ of this event. This was his first title and third final-table finish of the year. With 2,918 total factors and also year-to-date POY incomes of $918,441, Hamilton is currently the 44th-ranked player in the 2022 POY race standings sponsored by International Texas hold’em.

Lots of heavyweights made it deep in this occasion, including four-time arm band winner Adrian Mateos (35th), bracelet champion and two-time Globe Casino poker Tour champion Ole Schemion (33rd), current ₤ 50,000 money player champion from this series Kenrik Hecklen (32nd), on the internet event superstar Conor Beresford (31st), 2014 WSOP centerpiece champion and current UKIPT London centerpiece champion Martin Jacobson (28th), two-time EPT main event runner-up Martin Czuczor (16th), arm band victor Ben Heath (15th), nine-time bracelet champion Erik Seidel (12th), 2017 WSOP main event third-place finisher Benjamin Pollak (11th), and bracelet champion Harry Lodge (8th).

This competition played out at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane in London throughout an entire week. The final day started with 6 players continuing to be as well as Roman Hrabec in the lead. It didn’t take long for the first removal to show up. Just minutes after cards got in the air, Germany’s Nils Pudel located himself all-in with pocket aces controling the A-K of 2018 WSOP Europe main event winner Jack Sinclair The board went out with four spades, and Sinclair’s ace of spades gave him a winning flush to split Pudel’s aces as well as slim the field to 5 competitors. Pudel earned $150,976 USD as the sixth-place finisher.

Danut Chisu was the alongside fall. He moved all-in from under the gun for around 16 big blinds with K-J and also found himself in danger against the pocket queens of Alexandre Vuilleumier, that shoved for somewhat more from the little blind. A ten-high runout boosted neither player and also Chisu was knocked senseless in 5th place ($ 196,280 USD).

Hrabec, a previous ice hockey pro from the Czech Republic, came into the day with the lead but was up to all-time low of the chip counts during four-handed activity. He eventually obtained his last 10 or so large blinds in preflop with A-10 trailing the A-J of Sinclair. Hrabec tumbled a gutshot straight draw, yet was not able to find any more assistance on the turn or river and was eliminated in 4th area ($ 255,136 USD). This was the biggest score yet for Hrabec, that currently has greater than a million bucks in life time competition revenues to his name.

Hamilton open-shoved from the button in the next crucial face-off. Alexandre Vuilleumier called all-in for around 15 big blinds from the large blind with A-Q. He was controling the Q-J of Hamilton preflop, however Hamilton made a king-high straight on the resort to win end Vuilleumier’s run in 3rd location ($ 331,688 USD).

Keeping that, Hamilton took better than a 2:1 chip advantage into heads-up play with Sinclair. Sinclair managed to briefly overtake the lead, however Hamilton shut the space considerably when discovered a double up with his pair of sevens and also a flush draw beating a pair of deuces and also a gutshot for Hamilton with every one of the chips getting in on the turn. Hamilton returned in front not long after that when he won a huge pot with trips, pushing the river to move Sinclair off of a bluff with a damaged flush draw.

In the final hand, Sinclair three-bet pushed from the big blind with ASpade SuitQClub Suit and also Hamilton called with AHeart SuitKSpade Suit. The board went out JClub Suit10Diamond Suit3Spade Suit2Spade Suit2Club Match as well as Hamilton’s exceptional high cards held to earn him the pot and the title. Sinclair earned $464,408 USD as the runner-up, the third-largest rating of his career behind his win in the WSOPE centerpiece for nearly $1.3 million as well as his eighth-place coating in the 2017 WSOP centerpiece for $1.2 million. He now has practically $5.2 million in lifetime earnings.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

Place Player Name & Earnings POY Points
1 Ian Hamilton -$744,128 1824
2 Jack Sinclair -$464,408 1520
3 Alexandre Vuilleumier -$331,688 1216
4 Roman Hrabec -$255,136 912
5 Danut Chisu -$196,280 760
6 Nils Pudel -$150,976 608
7 David Docherty -$116,144 456
8 Harry Lodge -$89,320 304
9 Jamie Flynn -$68,712 152

 

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