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Countdown to start of Unibet UK Poker Tour 2020

There are just two weeks to go before the start of the 2020 Unibet UK Poker Tour. The first event takes place at Aspers Stratford, London from March 5-8 with a £50,000 guarantee Main Event, plus £50 buy-in Deep Stack Turbo.

This will be the tour’s fifth season – with four stops overall taking place in London and Newcastle. The first three stops will each feature £50,000 guarantee Main Events – with £220 buy-in – while the Unibet UK Poker Tour Grand Finale at Aspers Stratford will be held next December, featuring a £440 buy-in, £100,000 guarantee Main Event.

In addition to the cash prizes at each stop, a €2,000 Unibet Open package will also be awarded in an exclusive Last Longer competition for Unibet Poker online qualifiers.

Unibet Ambassador Dara O’Kearney said: “The UKPT has a special place in my heart as it was my first outing officially for Unibet as an ambassador, and David and I relaunched the Chip Race at our first stop. I’m very much looking forward to the first London stop and whatever other ones I can make it to this year.”

Fellow Ambassador David Lappin added: “London is one of the world’s greatest cities so where better to kick off the UKPT 2020. The satellites have been more popular than ever before and I predict 400 players are going to show up, making it not just a record-breaking field but a record-smashing field.”

The first three events of 2020 will each feature four starting flights – Day 1a, Day 1b, Day 1c and a Turbo Day 1d. The Grand Finale in London will feature five starting flights – Day 1a, Day 1b, Day 1c, Day 1d and a Turbo Day 1e. Players are allowed two re-entries per starting day – with the option to take their largest stack through to the Final Day. All players receive a 30,000 starting stack. 10% will be retained from each buy-in to cover registration fees.

The dates for the 2020 Unibet UK Poker Tour are as follows:

• March 5-8: Aspers Stratford, London – £220 Main Event, £50k guarantee
• May 28-31: Aspers Newcastle – £220 Main Event, £50k guarantee
• September 24-27: Aspers Stratford, London – £220 Main Event, £50k guarantee
• December 9-13: Unibet UK Poker Tour Grand Finale, Aspers Stratford, London – £440 Main Event, £100k guarantee

Aspers Stratford is one of the UK’s leading casinos with a giant poker room which has hosted many premier tournaments such as the Unibet Open.

Side events

Each 2020 stop will also include a side event starting late afternoon on the final day of the event. At the first three stops, this will be a Deep Stack Turbo. The Unibet UK Poker Tour Grand Finale side event will be a Big Bounty 50/50. https://www.unibet.co.uk/promotions/poker-promotions/uk-poker-tour

How to qualify online
Satellites are already underway for the UK tour on Unibet Poker with packages worth €500 up for grabs including the £220 Main Event buy-in + cash towards hotel and travel expenses. Around 40 players have already won seats for the first event.

Feeder satellite buy-ins start from as little as €0.05 for the regular Centroll Flip tournaments. Weekly qualifiers guaranteeing three €500 packages are taking place every Saturday at 7pm, costing £50 to enter. There is also a one seat guaranteed qualifier taking place at 7pm every Monday. Live satellites will take place at Aspers Stratford on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before the first event of the season starts there on March 5. The satellites will be re-entry tournaments costing £20 to enter.

Players who have won packages or seats online for the Unibet UK Poker Tour from previous years will be able to use them throughout the 2020 season but must use them before the end of 2020. Players are advised to check out the tour’s new Terms and Conditions as these have been revised for the 2020 season.

Lawrence Cullen Wins the Record Breaking Unibet UK Poker Tour London Main Event (£25,500)

United Kingdom's Lawrence Cullen outlasted a huge field of 714 entrants to win the 2020 Unibet UK Poker Tour London £220 Main Event at Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City for £25,500.

This was the first big cash for Cullen who never had the lead in the event until heads-up play.

'I won a smaller tournament a few weeks ago but this is my first big win and means a lot to me,' Cullen shared with PokerNews. 'The smaller win gave me some confidence after struggling a lot during the year I have been playing tournaments.'

Cullen would have been satisfied with simply a final table result and he was on top of the world after winning the event.

'I enjoyed every second of the event and was just happy to make the final table,' said Cullen. 'To win it is a dream!'

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	Lawrence Cullen	United Kingdom	£25,500
2	Callum Pooles	United Kingdom	£18,319
3	Damien Pilkington-Lewis	United Kingdom	£12,200
4	Micahel Isguzo	United Kingdom	£8,800
5	Bartas Samoska	Lithuania	£6,500
6	Valentin Ghioca	Romania	£5,250
7	Martin Tse	Hong Kong	£4,350
8	Mark Wong	Singapore	£3,480
9	Vlad Munteanu	Romania	£2,610

To say the Unibet UK Poker Tour London was a success would be a huge understatement. Not only was the £50,000 guarantee smashed by almost triple with a huge £141,372 prize pool but also it by far set a new record for the tour.

The previous record was established in 2018 when Paul Romain outlasted a field of 289 entrants to win the £13,000 top prize. That event generated a £57,800 prize pool.

This is not all as there were plenty of promotions surrounding the event by both Unibet Poker and Aspers Casino with plenty of goodies handed out including t-shirts, phone popsockets, and free beverage service for the entire final table.

This is not all as Unibet Poker held a special Last Longer contest for its online qualifiers won by Russia's Aleksandr Lebedev, who finished in 33rd place for £805. Although the cash was nice the last longer prize was even nice as Unibet Poker awarded him a Unibet Open Tallinn package on May 20-24 valued at a whopping €2,000.

Last longer contests for online qualifiers will be held at all future Unibet UK Poker Tour events this year including the next one at Aspers Casino Newcastle on May 28-31.

Players can qualify through feeder tournaments for just €0.50!

Final Day Action

A total of 119 began the final day with 80 players guaranteed at least a min-cash of £400. The bubble broke before hand-for-hand play even began after Louis Zimmermann ran his jacks into the queens held by Egidijus Alsauskas.

Among the notable players to cash short of a final table finish included Unibet Poker Ambassador David Lappin (49th - £595), Antonis Poulengeris (22nd - £1,050), William Kassouf (19th - £1,180), and Unibet Poker Finnish Ambassador Jorma Vuoksenmaa (13th - £1,555).

Lappin, Vouksenmaa, and Dara O'Kearney, who unfortunately didn't cash, were all gracious ambassadors and happy to mingle with the everyday poker player at Aspers Casino.

The final table began after Romania's Alexandru-Dan Toporeanu (10th - £1,920) ran his treys into the fives held by Hong Kong's Martin Tse.

Callum Pooles, who was playing his first big live tournament in a casino, entered heads-up play in the chip lead and showed relentless aggression throughout the table. Meanwhile, the eventual winner Cullen entered the final table in fourth place and was relatively quiet until heads-up play, letting Pooles do most of the dirty work.

Two eliminations took place shortly after the final table began. Romania's Vlad Munteanu (ninth - £2,610) jammed his short stack with king-queen before Singapore's Mark Wong (eighth - £3,480) three-bet jammed for more with tens. United Kingdom's Damien Pilkington-Lewis had both players covered and called with queens and flopped a full house.

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Lithuania's Bartas Samoska managed to double up against Collum to temporarily take the lead by Collum snagged it back after eliminating Tse in seventh place for £4,350.

Shortly after, Romania's Valentin Ghioca (sixth - £5,250) three-bet jammed his short stack with jack eight and didn't get there against Cullen's king-ten suited.

Samoska then got short on chips and hit the rail soon after in fifth place for £6,500. He got it in with jack-six suited in a three-way pot and didn't get there against the ace-king held by Pilkington-Lewis despite flopping a flush draw.

Pooles continued to put the pedal to the metal, seemingly raising every hand unopened to him. He had more than half the chips in play after he eliminated United Kingdom's Michael Isiguzo in fourth place for £8,800 when his king-ten suited held against king-nine suited.

Pilkington-Lewis then hit the rail in third place for £12,200. He three-bet jammed with ace-six and didn't get there after getting called by Pooles with sevens.

Pooles began heads-up play with a 4:1 chip advantage against Cullen. But the lead didn't last long.

Cullen doubled up after his king-four suited got there against the treys held by Pooles. Shortly after, Cullen managed to take a small chip lead.

Pooles then got jacks the next hand and was up against the queen-seven suited held by Cullen. Cullen flopped a flush with a king on the board and called a bet from Pooles. Another king came on the turn to pair the board. Pooles check-jammed and got snap-called by Cullen. Neither a king or jack came on the river to give him the full house and he was eliminated in second place for £18,319.

Pooles should be proud of his runner-up performance as he shared with PokerNews that this was his very first live event at a casino.

Meanwhile, applauds were heard around the room to help Cullen celebrate his first big win!

The Unibet UK Poker Tour is a grassroots poker at its finest. Be sure to head to Unibet Poker to try to qualify for the next event in Newcastle on May 28-31.

Remember, online qualifiers will be entered into a Last Longer contest where the winner will go home with a package valued at €2,000 to a Unibet Open that features a big buy-in of €1,100, four-nights accommodation at a luxurious hotel, invitation to two memorable parties, plenty of Unibet merchandise, and, of course, you can bring a guest to enjoy every last moment with you.

This concludes our coverage of the Unibet UK Poker Tour London Main Event. Stay tuned at PokerNews as we bring you coverage of big poker events from around the world.

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