Langley Crowned Mega Poker Series Winner in Nottingham
This was published 14-03-2012Tom Langley took down a 227 strong field in the Mega Poker Series at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham this week, clinching himself a £35,770 payout. The prize pool, which rose to nearly £134,000, was shared among 36 players who travelled to Nottingham, UK to enjoy the excitement. The buy in to the tournament was £650.
The competition attracted some of the UK poker industry’s best players, including Sam Trickett, John Eames and Charles Chattha, and World Poker Tour champion, Sam el Sayed also showed up in Nottingham. Players battled it out with a 77,000 starting stack and blind levels which lasted 77 minutes.
The final table looked as follows:
First place – Tom Langley who won £35,770
Second place – Andrew Hulme who won £21,070
Third place – Julian Herold who won £13,120
Fourth place – Daniel Morgan who won £9,230
Fifth place – Sarbjit Kular who won £7,500
Sixth place – Charles Chattha who won £5,190
Seventh place – Nick Dhondt who won £4,040
Eighth place – Simon Deadman who won £2,890
In June this year, the Mega Poker Series will head to Spain, where poker is becoming even more popular now that the Spanish online poker industry has become legalized and regulated, attracting more players both online and off. The third main Mega Poker Series event will be held at the Casino Gran Madrid. Online sattelites will soon be announced and players can try for their place in the next stop of this tournament.
Tom Langley was particularly pleased with his own result, bettering his previous best payout ten times over. Tom “mtspewmore” Langley is a regular at PokerStars and tweeted his followers shortly after his win: “Thank you everyone for the rail. Obv over the moon. Field was sick tough. Ontothenextone. tytytyty all.”
While acknowledging that he was not the most experienced player at the table, Langley nevertheless stuck it out and finally managed to take down Andrew Hulme after a tough heads up battle.
