PADRAIG PARKINSON WINS THE UK AND IRELAND POKER TOUR

The first edition of the UK and Ireland Poker Tour celebrated in Galway arrived yesterday to its end. The tournament winner was Padraig Parkinson, who won a fantastic prize of €125.000 and a sit for the European Poker Tour that will take place in London.
Padraig played the final heads up against Paul Marrow, who had been the chip leader for a while.

The list of players who took part in the final table and the prizes obtained by each of them is as follows:
- Padraig Parkinson €125,000
- Paul Marrow €82,000
- Ben Lefew €52,000
- Michael Graydon €36,000
- Michael McFadgen €22,000
- Paul Dooley €17,000
- Vinny Cosgrove €13,000
- Cat O'Neill €11,000
- Trevor Bulless €9,000

If you also dream of arriving to the final tables at the best live poker tournaments, the best thing you could do is start practising as many poker games as possible.

THE UK AND IRELAND POKER TOUR IN GALWAY

The new edition of the UK and Ireland Poker Tour has just started last Friday in Galway, and will be taking place till the 14th of December at the Radisson Hotel.

The main event buy in was €2.000, and it was expected that great poker players will take part, as for instance Peter Eastgate, Marty Smith and JP Kelly.

The future stops of this poker tour and the buy in prices of each event will be as follows: -UKIPT Manchester (Febrero 11-14, 2010): £500 + 50
-UKIPT Coventry (Abril 8-11, 2010): £500 + 50
-UKIPT Nottingham (Mayo 13-16, 2010): £500 + 50
-UKIPT Killarney (Junio 24-27, 2010): €1,000 + 100
-UKIPT Brighton (Julio 15-18, 2010): £1,000 + 100
-UKIPT Scotland
-UKIPT Dublin (Septiembre 9-12, 2010): €1,000 + 100
-UKIPT London (Octubre 2-8, 2010): £5,000 + 300

Therefore if you did not get the chance of taking part at this poker tournament in Galway, but you would love taking part in the one that is going to take part in Manchester, you have still two more months to play as much online poker as you can and arrive as fit as possible to the next tournament edition.