Jun
20
The Sky Poker UK tour came to an end on Sunday 14th June at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham, with their £220 grand final. Following lower stakes legs in Nottingham, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Swansea, this was the biggest event with the deepest structure yet. 280 players generated a £56,000 prize pool and a first prize of £17,322.
This popular tour event has attracted the most varied mix of players ever assembled at a poker tournament. Of the many players there were plenty of recreation players as well as online players, many of whom had not played before. Celebrities from Sky Poker as well as black belt poker graders, some Grosvenor UK poker tour champions as well as WSOP bracelet winners. But anyone amongst the pro’s who thought this poker event would give them easy pickings soon realised otherwise. Actions came thick and fast and eventually Robbie Fisher-O’Brian came out the eventual winner of the first prize of £17,322.
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