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Welcome to the Unibet Open! Play the hottest live poker tournament circuit in Europe, with ever-growing numbers of players from amateurs to professionals battling for six-figure prize pools in some of the continent’s most glamorous locations. There are just two weeks to go before the start of the 2020 Unibet UK Poker Tour. The first event takes place at Aspers Stratford, London from March 5-8 with a £50,000 guarantee Main Event, plus £50 buy-in Deep Stack Turbo. This will be the tour’s fifth season – with four stops overall taking place in London. Welcome to the Final Day of the 2020 Unibet UK Poker Tour London £220 Main Event at Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City. The event has been a massive success with the 714 entrants and the huge £141,372 prize pool not only shattering the £50,000 by almost triple but also crushing the previous record of this event. Poker Night in America 4. 5 Seasons -124 Episodes. 1 Seasons -6 Episodes. Aussie Millions Poker Championship 6. 14 Seasons -208 Episodes. PokerStars Caribbean Adventure - PCA 7. 8 Seasons -132 Episodes. Watch High Stakes Poker TV Show (HSP) 8. 8 Seasons -104 Episodes. 6 Seasons -38 Episodes. Poker After Dark 10. London, UK – April 27, 2020 – Unibet today announced their decision to move all land-based poker events into their online poker room for the remainder of 2020. This decision is relevant to the Unibet Open events; the games are not cancelled, but they will be re-homed within the independent online poker.
UK's Lawrence Cullen outlasted a bumper field of 714 entrants to win the 2020 Unibet UK Poker Tour London £220 Main Event at Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City for £25,500.
This was the first big cash for Cullen who never had the lead in the event until heads-up play.
'I won a smaller tournament a few weeks ago but this is my first big win and means a lot to me,' Cullen shared with PokerNews. 'The smaller win gave me some confidence after struggling a lot during the year I have been playing tournaments.'
Cullen would have been satisfied with simply a final table result and he was on top of the world after winning the event.
'I enjoyed every second of the event and was just happy to make the final table,' said Cullen. 'To win it is a dream!'
2020 Unibet UK Poker Tour London £220 Main Event Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lawrence Cullen | United Kingdom | £25,500 |
| 2 | Callum Pooles | United Kingdom | £18,319 |
| 3 | Damien Pilkington-Lewis | United Kingdom | £12,200 |
| 4 | Micahel Isguzo | United Kingdom | £8,800 |
| 5 | Bartas Samoska | Lithuania | £6,500 |
| 6 | Valentin Ghioca | Romania | £5,250 |
| 7 | Martin Tse | Hong Kong | £4,350 |
| 8 | Mark Wong | Singapore | £3,480 |
| 9 | Vlad Munteanu | Romania | £2,610 |
First Stop of 2020 Season Smashes Records
To say the Unibet UK Poker Tour London was a success would be an understatement. Not only was the £50,000 guarantee smashed by almost triple with a £141,372 prize pool, it also set a massive new attendance record for the tour.
The previous record was established in 2018 when Paul Romain outlasted a field of 289 entrants to win the £13,000 top prize. That event generated a £57,800 prize pool.
This is not all as there were plenty of promotions surrounding the event by both Unibet Poker and Aspers Casino with plenty of goodies handed out including t-shirts, phone popsockets, and free beverage service for the entire final table.
Unibet Poker also held a special Last Longer contest for its online qualifiers won by Russia's Aleksandr Lebedev, who finished in 33rd place for £805. Although the cash was nice, the last longer prize was even nice as Unibet Poker awarded him a Unibet Open Tallinn package valued at €2,000 held on May 20-24 in the Olympic Casino in the Estonian capital.
Last longer contests for online qualifiers will be held at all future Unibet UK Poker Tour events this year including the next one at Aspers Casino Newcastle on May 28-31. Players can qualify through feeder tournaments for just €0.50.
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A total of 119 began the final day with 80 players guaranteed at least a min-cash of £400. The bubble broke before hand-for-hand play even began after Louis Zimmermann ran his jacks into the queens held by Egidijus Alsauskas.
Among the notable players to cash short of a final table finish included Unibet Poker Ambassador David Lappin (49th - £595), Antonis Poulengeris (22nd - £1,050), William Kassouf (19th - £1,180), and Unibet Poker Finnish Ambassador Jorma Vuoksenmaa (13th - £1,555).
Lappin, Vouksenmaa, and Dara O'Kearney, who unfortunately didn't cash, were all gracious ambassadors and happy to mingle with the everyday poker player at Aspers Casino.
At the final table, it was Callum Pooles, who was playing his first big live tournament in a casino, putting the pedal to the metal coming in as the chip leader and showing relentless aggression throughout the table. Pooles' eventually ended heads-up with Cullen sporting a 4:1 chip lead, but the lead didn't last long.
Cullen wrestled the lead away from Pooles after a timely double before the final hand was played. Pooles got jacks and was up against the queen-seven suited held by Cullen. Cullen flopped a flush with a king on the board and called a bet from Pooles. Another king came on the turn to pair the board. Pooles check-jammed and got snap-called by Cullen. Neither a king or jack came on the river to give him the full house and he was eliminated in second place.
Upcoming 2020 Unibet UK Poker Tour Events
The Unibet UK Poker Tour will be back in May in Newcastle before Aspers London will be revisited twice, including the tour's Grand Finale in December. The first events carry £220 buy-in Main Events with a £50,000 guarantee, while the Unibet UK Poker Tour Grand Finale in December has everything doubled with a £440 buy-in event that carries a £100,000 guarantee.
| Date | Location | Buy-in | Starting Flights | Guarantee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28-31 | Aspers Newcastle | £220 | 4 | £50,000 |
| September 24-27 | Aspers Stratford, London | £220 | 4 | £50,000 |
| December 9-13 | Aspers Stratford, London | £440 | 5 | £100,000 |
There is also one extra starting flight for the Grand Finale. Players are allowed two re-entries per starting day, with the option to take their largest stack through to the Final Day.
In addition to the cash prizes at each stop, a €2,000 Unibet Open package will also be awarded in an exclusive Last Longer competition for Unibet Poker online qualifiers. 10% will be retained from each buy-in to cover registration fees.
All Unibet UK Poker Tour events are live covered by our UK PokerNews team, so make sure to check out the UK site for all live reporting action. To read back all the coverage from the first leg of the 2020 season, click here.
The Unibet UK Poker Tour is a grassroots poker at its finest. Be sure to head to Unibet Poker to try to qualify for the next event in Newcastle on May 28-31.
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Unibet Open Releases 2019 ScheduleACTION-PACKED 2019 PLANNED FOR UNIBET OPEN
Tour heading to Romania, London & Malta – with fourth stop to be announced in February
LONDON, UK – January 15, 2019 – Unibet Open plans an action-packed year in 2019 with three stops already on the schedule and a fourth to be announced in February. The tour, which is about to embark on its 13th season, is heading to some stunning locations in 2019 including the beautiful ski resort of Sinaia in February, London in May and Malta in September. Last year’s Unibet Open tour attracted thousands of players from all over the world with almost €2.7 million awarded in prize money.
2019 At a glance
- Unibet Open Ski-edition – February 12-18
- Unibet Open London – May 23-26
- Unibet Open Malta – Sept 11-15
- Unibet Open Final Stop – end of November (to be announced in February)
Unibet Open Ski-edition February 12-18
Unibet Open 2019 kicks off with the tour’s first ever winter festival in Sinaia, one of the most beautiful ski resorts in Romania, from February 12-18. A specially extended schedule will give ski and snowboard enthusiasts plenty of chances to test their skills on the slopes with an unprecedented six nights in the resort and a 3pm start each day for the €1,100 Main Event. Sinaia is the closest ski resort to Bucharest and lies just 77 miles north of the capital; it’s also one of the most snow-sure resorts in the region with 20 km of high altitude slopes.
As always, Unibet players will also be treated to plenty of après-poker entertainment including a Welcome Drinks party and the exclusive Unibet Open Players Party. The event is being run in conjunction with PokerFest Romania, Unibet’s partners for the perennially popular Unibet Open Bucharest festival. At the last Unibet Open Bucharest, Russian player Anton Vinokurov won the €1,000 + €100 Main Event for a record first prize of €103,060 after beating a tough field of 592 entries.
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Unibet Open London May 23-26
In May, Unibet Open will be heading to the UK capital of London for the eighth time. The four-day festival will take place at The Poker Room, above the iconic Grosvenor Victoria Casino in Edgware Road, from May 23-26.
Unibet Poker London 2019
Norwegian student Andreas Wiborg won the 2018 event, beating a 349-strong field to take down the £990 Main Event for £56,807. With 918 entries across all events, the overall prize pool topped £564,000. Previous Unibet Open London champions have included Gerret Van Lancker, Dave Shallow, Iaron Lightbourne, Pratik Ghatge, Paul Valkenburg and Thanh Doan.
Unibet Open Malta September 11-15
In September, Unibet Open will be in Malta for the fourth time with a five-day festival from September 11-15 in partnership with Casino Malta at the InterContinental Hotel in St. Julians. The first ever Unibet Open Malta champion was Dutch pro Mateusz Moolhuizen in 2011. Since then, Czech player Martin Soukup and Denmark’s Daniel Jacobsen have also claimed Unibet Open victory in the stunning Mediterranean island.
More Unibet Poker live events in 2019
In addition to the three stops already announced, Unibet Open will also be hosting a fourth festival in Europe this year, to be held at the end of November 2019. The surprise location will be announced in February.
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Unibet will also be hosting the fourth edition of the Unibet Poker Belgian Championship at the end of August this year in the buzzing resort of Blankenberge. Previous champions have included Fabrice Lestrade in 2016, Heinrich Pauker in 2017 and top pro Christophe De Meulder in September this year. De Meulder’s €42,020 first prize was the biggest of his live poker career and brought his total live tournament winnings to nearly $450,000.
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The Unibet UK Poker Tour will also be back in action in 2019 with a host of tournaments across the country. The tour featured four stops this year: two visits to the south coast resort of Brighton as well as events in Glasgow and Manchester.
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Nataly Sopacuaperu, Unibet Open’s Head of Events said: “We are incredibly excited about the 2019 season. This year has been quite brilliant with a record turnout in Bucharest and great events in London, Malta and Dublin. We are really looking forward to our first Unibet Open Ski-edition in February and are confident that 2019 is going to be our best year ever