PokerStars UKIPT High Roller – Dubach’s Biggest Score
With the UKIPT Main Event finished and now the European Poker Tour London underway, we could be forgiven for completely missing the UKIPT High Roller event that has been playing out for the past couple of days, yet we like to promote all things British.
This event was a two day affair, with it originally attracting 246 players who had been happy to part ways with a £2,150 buy-in in an attempt to turn it into more money for their poker bankrolls. That number brought a decent prize pool of £477,280 and meant that just 28 of those players would be getting paid out.
This is especially the case when it involves some big names in the European poker scene, such as the European Poker Player of the Year Marvin Rettenmaier and of course the PokerStars Team Pro Vicky Coren.
However, neither of those two managed to get their hands on the first place payout of £101,950 as this time it was the turn of the Belgian Marc Daubach. He played an exceptional tournament from start to finish across the two days ending up as the only player remaining and the biggest score in his career to date of £101,950.
With regards to PokerStars Team Pro Vicky Coren, she had an excellent Day 1 and was more than holding her own on Day 2 until she got to the final table. She was the first player from that table to be eliminated, with her taking home £7,650 for her efforts.
Nope, no recovering from that skirmish. All in with Kh 5h v A4, huge flop but missed all my outs. Ninth place!
— Victoria Coren (@VictoriaCoren) March 10, 2013
She certainly did better than arguably the best player in the world right now though, with Marvin Rettenmaier, who is not only the European Player Of The Year for last year but currently ranked number one in the Global Poker Index top 300 tournament players in the world, only managing a 27th place finish for £3,400.
Busted #ukipthighroller in 27th… nap time, then #EPTLondon main and hopefully another deep run…
— Marvin Rettenmaier (@MadMarvin) March 10, 2013
Eventually though, Daubach was too strong for everybody else on the final table, despite it being full of big names like Coren, Zinman Ziyard, Tom Hall and the ever consistent German Martin Hanowski. He thoroughly deserved the win and will hopefully build on his biggest live poker score to date.
How It Finished!
Marc Daubach – £101,950
Byron Kaverman – £67,980
Martin Hanowski – £41,410
Zimnan Ziyard – £32,930
Gautam Sabharwal – £25,490
Tom Hall – £18,050
Gordon Huntly – £14,230
Joao Barbosa – £10,620
Vicky Coren – £7,650
With this event now over and done with, you should be turning your attention to the EPT London, with it currently playing through Day 1b. Pop back tomorrow and we will have a report on what happened waiting for you.