The Dutch poker player Joeri Zandvliet, is the first to win the UK and Ireland PokerStars Poker Tour (UKIPT). Zandvliet won £ 63,200 in the poker tournament in Manchester, he also received a free place in the London event of the European Poker Tour (EPT), which is the season finale for UKIPT. Besides these 2 prizes Joeri will also get all buy-ins and expenses for the 2nd season of the UKIPT repaid by PokerStars. The 21-year-old poker online player from Utrecht came on the final table in third, it cost him 8 hours to eliminate the other nine players. The student is very pleased about his first live tournament winnings and said in an interview: “I feel very glad and happy. There were five relatively strong players at the table. What I did today, did not really work too well, but I got lucky a few times. The tournament had a very good structure and was very well organized.” There where 518 participants at the tournament among which 279 players from online poker site PokerStars. The prize pool for the event was £ 259,000.
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