Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Richard Harris is celebrating the biggest win of his career after taking down the £1 million ($1.5 million) guaranteed WPT500 event on Tuesday.
The Welshman topped a field of 1,616 entrants at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham and pocketed £150,000 ($231,202) after getting the best of a final table that included Alex Goulder, Ben Winsor, Nathan Gallichan and Florian Duta.Organised by the World Poker Tour (WPT), Dusk Till Dawn and partypoker, the WPT500 involved a series of online and land-based qualifiers that additionally took place at Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City in London.After Chin Chai Koh hit the rail in third, it was left to Yani Yanev to try and halt Harris' march to victory. It wasn't to be for the Manchester regular though, who took a stand with a flopped middle pair and inside straight draw. Harris looked up the all-in bet with his over pair, which improved to a set on the river to give him the title and a career-best payday. Not bad for the man who stated that he had entered the tournament ‘just for a bit of fun’.“I just can’t believe how quickly it went,” said Harris.“The final was a blur. It’s great. I’ll be going home to Gower Holiday Village in Wales and spoiling the family.”A quick look at Harris' tournament stats reveals that he doesn't cash all that often but goes big when he does. His seven tournament cashes include two six-figure payouts while his previous best performance was a 54th place finish in the main event of the 2007 edition of the World Series Of Poker (WSOP) for $190,053.WPT500 Result:1 Richard Harris - £150,0002 Yani Yanev - £90,0003 Chin Chai Koh - £60,0004 Florian Duta - £37,5005 Nathan Gallichan - £26,5006 Ben Winsor - £20,0007 Anonymous - £15,0008 Daniele Carminetti - £11,5009 Alex Goulder - £9,000
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Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are each about to kick off three-stage online satellite tournament series promising to award winners with prize packages into the upcoming Velden stop of the European Poker Championship.
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Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.
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