Alex Spencer Crowned the first ever Sky Poker UK Poker Champion
20 year-old Alex Spencer is the UK Poker Champion and £125,000 richer after defeating Danny Blair heads-up.
The Sky Poker UK Poker Championship came to a finale last night as nine of the original field of 621 sat down in their quest to become UK Poker Champion. Doncaster’s Alex Spencer took home the title and £125,000 winner’s cheque in the culmination of a spectacular week long poker festival at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham that saw prize pools of over £1.1m generated across six events and all guarantees smashed.
Spencer, who is a 20 year-old student, is on something of a tournament heater at the moment. He’d won the Sheffield 25-25 series and final-tabled the DTD Deepstack, as well as making a deep run in the GPS Star City in the previous month. The win at the UK Poker Championship is his biggest accolade to round off the poker purple patch.
Allan Graham, who qualified via Sky Poker for £2.80, will be delighted with his 8th place finish for £12,500, while Deborah O’Connell turned her £1 online satellite win on DTD Online into a 7th place final table spot and £16,000.
Sky Poker UK Poker Championships 2014 – Final Positions
1 Alexander Spencer £125,000
2 Danny Blair £75,000
3 Paul Delaney(Ireland) £50,000
4 James Rimmer £37,500
5 Steven Sargent £28,000
6 Charles Chattha £21,000
7 Deborah O’Connell £16,000
8 Allan Graham £12,500
9 John Haigh £10,000
In the other festival events there were wins for Jeremy Nock (High Roller) Alexandr Golubevs (Omaha) Ben Dobson (Six Max) Andrew Hills (Turbo) Alex Martin (Heads Up)
Coverage of the Sky Poker UK Poker Championships will be aired on Sky Sports in early March.
20 year old Spencer is the UK Poker Champion
Submitted by: TightEnd on Mon, 24/02/2014 - 1:01pm