Lexx Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Some members on here may be interested in the following article that came my way today...... ----------------------- Gareth Walker Wins UKIPT Nottingham 2011 February 16, 2011 | by David | posted in Poker News Gareth Walker has won first place in the 2011 UKIPT Nottingham event, managing to come out on top of a field of 1,058 contestants. This is a record number of participants for a live poker competition in the United Kingdom. Generating a prize pool of ₤529,000, this event stretched over four days before Gareth Walker won the title and ₤109,000 in prize money. Last year, Walker also reached the final table of this event but finished in 8th place with winnings of ₤7,600. This year, it was a different story at the UKIPT that is presented by PokerStars. The ₤500 main event of the UKIPT Nottingham drew in 478 participants on Day 1a and these contestants were joined by an additional 580 players that entered into the action on Day 1b. By Day 2, there were 215 players that were still competing for the title. Following a ten hour battle at the final table, Gareth Walker emerged victorious, with Brett Angell finishing as runner up. Earlier in the event at a time when he was a strong favourite to win the tournament, Angell lost a pot worth one million chips. He managed to bounce back but the title was not to be his. At the final table of 8 players, David Heaton from the U.K. was the first to be eliminated and finished with winnings of ₤7,950. Thomas Rolfe, also from the U.K. was the next to be forced to leave and he did so with ₤13,750. Chris Dowling from Ireland finished in 6th place with ₤19,050. Mike Hill from the U.K. was the next to leave with ₤24,350 in prize money. In fourth place was Tim Bettingen from Germany who qualified via PokerStars and finished the event with ₤31,700. Romano Pizzo from Italy came in 3rd place with ₤40,750 in prize winnings. Second place in this event went to U.K.’s Brett Angell, who also qualified via PokerStars and earned ₤68,700 for his efforts. Having just won the largest ever live poker event in the U.K. to date, Gareth Walker is expected to be participating in the remaining events of the UKIPT 2011. The next stop for this season’s UKIPT is Manchester and this event will be taking place from 10th to 14th March, 2011. PokerStars is seen as the best of all uk online poker sites because they offer players the chance to qualify for UKIPT and EPT events very cheaply, and this is also the reason they are listed best of all australian poker sites, due to offering satellites to their ANZPT events. -------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 http://www.pokernewsreport.com/gareth-w ... -2011-1271 Congratulations to Gaz Walker. He's obviously better at Poker than he was at running a business. Or paying back money that he owes to people......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbiscuit Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 does this mean he can now pay back all the people he owes money too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkie34 Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Wonder if he will pay the people he ripped off now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beavis Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 The £109,000 prize dwarves the £7,600 he earned for his eighth place finish in 2010 though. And what does Walker plan to do with his new windfall? He intends to use it to finance his poker career – after buying a new car. http://www.bluffeurope.com/poker-news/e ... _9952.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmac Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 does this mean he can now pay back all the people he owes money too? It means he "can" pay them back....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbiscuit Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Wonder if he will pay the people he ripped off now. doubt it. but those who have been might find now a good time to go through the small claims court Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bounty78 Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Sometimes life just isn't fair..bad things happen to good people and vice versa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glrnet Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Didn't know the guy but if what you guys say is correct (and I have no reason to doubt it) what a complete an utter git Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmac Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Have a look around many other forums too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glrnet Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 I just googled "gareth walker owes money", amazing I don't know how some people can live with themselves!!? He clearly is an unscrupulous piece of humanity with little regard for anyone but himself, makes me sooooo angry The trouble is he appears to have got away with it too on more than this forum. Have a look around many other forums too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maccaman Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 But a man with money and his gambling problems are soon parted (well lets hope so). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 anyone who is owned money should be chasing for it now. Good luck to those who are out of pocket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazhull8474 Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Has he got a facebook account and people can put it on there for others to see and make him pay up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cragus Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 I bet he traded my tommy k badge money in for poker chips! Royal ****! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookiemonster Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 well if your owed money you know where he will be next, could be quite embarassing and distracting for him if it was during a competition... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cragus Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 well if your owed money you know where he will be next, could be quite embarassing and distracting for him if it was during a competition... I am going to go and shout all his hands out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bounty78 Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Maybe the manchester members on here could pay him a visit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris`I Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Maybe the manchester members on here could pay him a visit Maybe we should have a club meet outside and invite all the other forums too VROOOM VROOOM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bounty78 Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 i doubt the "poker king" will be able to concentrate..it's not all about luck u know in a game of poker He won't have much left if he starts paying off all his debt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cragus Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Does this blog belong to Gaz? http://gazwalker.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris`I Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 He won't have much left if he starts paying off all his debt I'm not the only one to have thought that then. He may not have anything left already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookiemonster Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Does this blog belong to Gaz? http://gazwalker.com/ The thought of all those peole chasing him for money should be enough motivation to lose a bit of weight haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris`I Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Make sure you all post it up on FaceBook and other forums that you know of that might have been effected. Link them to here and it will be all over Google Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexx Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 Already on my Facebook Gazwalker.com blog What a cheating ******* Gaz Walker is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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