Vamplew Crowed Pokerstars.com UKIPT Champion of Champions

David Vamplew, the PokerStars.com EPT London Main event winner, has completed a quick fire double after taking down the PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour Champion of Champions event at the London Hilton Metropole.

David, who was the winner of the PokerStars.com EPT London Main Event for £900,000 as well as a seat to the EPT Season 7 Grand Final, beat the eight PokerStars.com UKIPT winners from Season 1 to win a seat to all ot the Season 2 destinations, including the Grand Final at EPT London in 2011.

UPIPT Champion of Champions Contenders

• David Vamplew (Edinburgh)
• Padraig Parkinson (Galway)
• Joeri Zandvliet (Manchester)
• Gilles Augustus (Coventry)
• Andy Couldridge (Nottingham)
• Femi Fakinle (Killarney)
• Jamie Burland (Brighton)
• Nick Abou Risk (Edinburgh)
• Max Silver (Dublin)

Commenting on his two tournaments in as many days, Vamplew replied, “It’s pretty good; after yesterday, it’s the icing on the cake.” Heads up opponent Jamie Burland congratulated his opponent, saying, “I hoped David would get tired after yesterday [the EPT London final table]…but he played really good.”

The Season 2 of the PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour UKIPT starts in Galway on 2nd December, 2010. It returns to the UK at Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn poker room in February 2011.

To qualify for the PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour go to PokerStars.com.

A grueling five days at the Pokerstars.com EPT London Main Event when all was said and done it was young maths graduate David Vamplew was the surprising winner after coming through a roller coaster Heads-up session beating four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and Team PokerStars Pro John Juanda.

Vamplew, 23, whose previous best live event cash was just $6,000 in one of this summers WSOP side events. This £900,000 first place win elavates Vamplew to the top earning Scottish player. This EPT event was the UK's biggest-ever live poker tournament with a total of 848 players competed, for a total prize pool of £4,112,800.

He said: “It’s going to take a while to sink in. I had to get lucky to win. I won a few all-ins but I’m pretty proud of the way I played. I’m pleased with myself for sure.“

In addition to the first prize Vamplew wins a seat into the EPT Grand Final next Spring. He will also be competing in the televised Pokerstars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour Champion of Champions tournament. The event involves all eight UKIPT Season 1 champions and will be held at the Hilton Metropole. The winner of this receives a seat into all of next season’s UKIPT events as well as next year’s EPT London Main Event.

About David Vamplew

Vamplew has been playing poker since 2005 and turned pro after graduating in maths from Edinburgh University last year. He normally plays mid-stakes cash games and only started playing live tournaments this year. His previous best cash was $6,000 in a World Series of Poker side event this summer.

Another record breaking tournament from PokerStars, Following days after the WCOOP 2010 seen over $63 Million in prize money. A total of 848 players in the PokerStars European Poker Tour London Main Event has been whittled down to just eight players; leading the chip counts are a double WCOOP winner and none other than WSOPE 2008 winner John Juanda.

Kyle "kwob20" Bowker holds the chip lead over Juanda by the slimmest of margins, his 7.165m good enough to top the Full Tilt Pro 's 7.075m. Bowker was the first ever player to win double WCOOP titles online and was also the first to break 1 million chips at the 2006 WSOP Main Event.

Juanda chipped up steadily throughout the day. Also in the hunt at the final table, albeit on the shorter stack of 1.48m, is Tom “kingsofcards” Marchese – the online cash game pro plays up at the nose bleed levels of $500/$1,000 game on Full Tilt so he certainly has the poker capabilities to ride his shorter stack all the way to the £900,000 first prize.

The final table lines up as follows:

• Seat 1 - David Vamplew, UK, 3,670,000
• Seat 2 - Tom Marchese, USA, 1,480,000
• Seat 3 - Fernando Brito, Portugal, 1,100,000
• Seat 4 - Per Ummer, Cyprus, 1,245,000
• Seat 5 - Artur Wasek, Poland, 2,250,000
• Seat 6 - Kayvan Payman, Canada, 1,295,000
• Seat 7 - Kyle Bowker, USA, 7,165,000
• Seat 8 - John Juanda, USA, 7,075,000

In an annoucement yesterday it has been confirmed by Pokerstars.com that Liv Boeree is the latest member the Team PokerStars Pros. Liv, 26 a former model and actress was previously sponsored by UltimateBet.com and will be making here first live Team Pro appearance at this week PokerStars sponsored European Poker Tour (EPT) in London. It is estimated the winner will take home almost £1,000,000.

Formally a astrophysics graduate, she is already one of the world's richest female poker players with career earning in excess of £1.3 million. In an interview she has an advantage over men at the table.

"I have a young online player's style, I play loose, aggressive poker, but in a female body and it can be quite disarming"

"People definitely underestimate me at the poker table, which is an advantage. "

"They see this young attractive girl and think I'm just in tournaments because of the way I look. That's a huge benefit."

"I'm always trying to work out which players think I'm no good, which players are scared of me because of my results and which players are trying to flirt with me."

"If you can identify who thinks what, you can adapt your play."

About Team PokerStar Pros

The team includes the biggest names in Poker from Chris Moneymaker who is credited with changing the face of Online Poker following his WSOP main event success in 2003. Kid Poker Daniel Negreanu, 2004 and 2005 WSOP Winners Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem. Not to mention current reigning 2009 World Champion Joe Cada.

If you are new to online poker or what to play along side Liv, why not signup to PokerStars today - The World's Largest Poker Site.

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The young Brit beats fellow Brits Sam Trickett and Teddy Sheringham to take the €470,000 1st prize.

Young British player Toby Lewis has scored the biggest win of his career by triumphing over the record-breaking 384-strong field for a payday of €467,835; a sum that dwarfs his previous largest cash for €25,000 after a seventh place finish at IPT Venice.

He came to the final table as chip leader ahead of UK tournament rising star Sam Trickett and football legend Teddy Sheringham. The three Brits had the vast majority of the chips in play and it was almost a lock to have a British champion.

Sheringham could do no better than fifth place after he ran his K-Q into Q-J on a K-9-T-9 board. His efforts were rewarded with €93,121; almost double his previous largest cash (£40,000 in the WSOPE for 14th place) and a hearty round of applause.

Sam Trickett could not take his first international victory due to some appalling luck at the final table. Seven out of eight times that he was all-in he was either slightly or hugely ahead of his opponent. He lost each and every one, finishing in fourth place when his JJ was outdrawn by QJ.

Eventually Toby Lewis and Martin Jacobson faced off heads-up with the former at a 2-1 chip deficit. The chip lead was hotly contested but soon Lewis made a set against two pair to end the tournament and take home by far his largest poker payday.

The full final table payouts were as follows:

• 1.Toby Lewis, UK, €467,836
• 2.Martin Jacobson, Sweden, €297,985
• 3.Jason Lee, USA, €186,241
• 4.Sam Trickett, UK, €139,681
• 5.Teddy Sheringham, UK, €93,121
• 6.Frederik Jensen, Denmark, €74,496
• 7.Rob Hollink, Netherlands, €55,872
• 8.Sergio Coutinho, Portugal, €37,248

Details of the full story at Bluff Europe - Toby Lewis leads British conquest of EPT Vilamoura.