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JOERI ZANDVLIET WINS POKERSTARS.COM UKIPT MANCHESTER

Manchester, United Kingdom, February 14 2010 – Joeri Zandvliet has won the
inaugural UK event on the new PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour. Zandvliet takes
home the £63,200 first prize and receives an entry into the £5,250 EPT London event
which is the season finale to the UK & Ireland poker tour. In addition to that he will also
place first on the Season 1 UKIPT leader board which awards over £60,000 worth of
added prizes to the top 100 players over all of the events from Season 1 with the top
placed finisher receiving all of their buy-in and hotels for Season 2.
Zandvliet took just seven minutes to finish the heads up battle with Jack Ellwood. All the
chips went in pre flop with Zandvliet, who had a 2:1 chip lead, holding pocket nines and
Jack Ellwood holding Ace Queen. A queen arrived on the flop to give Ellwood the lead
but a nine on the river gave the title and the £63,200 first place prize to the Dutchman.
College student Zandvliet, 21, of Utrecht, Netherlands was understandably delighted to
win his biggest live tournament to date. Zandvliet came to the table third in chips and
faced stiff competition from the rest of the final nine with over eight hours of play at the
final table.
Zandvliet was gracious in victory saying “I feel very happy and lucky. There were five
relatively strong players at the final table. Whatever I did today didn’t really work too well
but I managed to get lucky a couple of times” he also went on to praise the organisation
“The tournament had a great structure and was very well organised.”

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UKIPT host Nick Wealthall said “We were blown away by the reception we got in
Manchester. To have so many players for the first UK event, the second of the tour, was
an amazing experience for everyone. Not only that but the tournament and the final table
were played to an incredibly high standard. We have already discovered some names
for the future that will go onto great things in the world of poker. We are all looking
forward to setting more records at the future events on the tour.”
In all there were 518 players, including 279 PokerStars.com players, who entered the
inaugural £500+£50 buy-in UKIPT Manchester event creating a prize pool of £259,000
and Manchester’s largest ever tournament. There was great additional value for
PokerStars.com players at the event as they were able to attend a special poker
education seminar hosted by UKIPT host Nick Wealthall, EPT presenter Michelle Orpe
and new Team PokerStars PRO Julian Thew. The seminar focussed on what the online
qualifiers can expect at a big live tournament and the transition from online to live play.
The attendees clearly benefitted from the expert advice of Julian and Nick as several
went onto cash in the event including day 1 chip leader Mark Warnock.
Among those who competed in the tournament were former Manchester United legend
Teddy Sheringham and current Manchester United player Darren Fletcher. Also in
attendance were Team PokerStars Pros Vicky Coren – who finished 25th for £1,650 –
John Duthie and Julian Thew.
Final table/payouts:
Name Country PokerStars status £
1 Joeri Zandvliet Netherlands PokerStars Player 63,200
2 Jack Ellwood UK 37,500
3 Mike Hill UK PokerStars Qualifier 23,500
4 Tony Millan UK 15,100
5 Dean Lyall UK PokerStars Player 12,100
6 Chris Brammer UK 9,100
7 Dan Owston UK PokerStars Qualifier 6,500
8 Tim Brown UK 4,800
9 Julian Hasse Germany PokerStars Qualifier 3,650
The next stop on the PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour is the £550 buy-in
Coventry event from April 8-11 at the G Casino. As with the Manchester event
PokerStars.com is guaranteeing a £100,000 prize pool. The winner as well will receive a
£5,250 entry into EPT London, the season finale to the UK & Ireland Poker Tour. For
more information, please visit http://www.ukipt.com
You can follow all the action live from all of the UKIPT events with updates from the
following sources:
www.pokerstarsblog.com
www.pokerstars.tv

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