Sunday, May 20th, 2012
Online pro Max Silver has taken down the PokerStars.Com UKIPT Dublin title, having made his second final table of the series.
Silver, 20, outlasted a field of 590 players to pocket at €72,000 first prize. He also gets a seat for EPT London. Silver is principally a cash game player on line, but clearly seems to have grasped the subtleties – or lack of them – in tournament play.
It was a frantic final table, with big hands often colliding. Silver, a big chip leader, won when QQ held up versus A5 against Galway’s Ronan Gilligan. Gilligan won €43,400.
Singer, Tom Kitt, a Dubliner, took third after a brutal hand where Silver, with AA, rivered an Ace after Kitt had hit gin when, with 63, he saw a 66K flop.
The action packed final table took less than four hours to complete. The inaugural UKIPT season now concludes in London, with the European Poker Tour event doubling up as the final for the series.
It’ll be interesting to see if, in the long term, the UKIPT and the GUKPT can co-exist happily, or if there is a finite amount of players looking for British live tournaments.
Tags: Max Silver, UKIPT
