Ian Hamilton has won the 2022 European Poker Tour London main event, defeating a field of 749 total entries in the £5,300 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament to earn his first major tournament title and the top prize of $744,128 USD.
This was, by far, the largest score of the 31-year-old UK resident’s career, blowing away the $170,073 he earned as the runner-up in a €2,700 buy-in mystery bounty event at the EPT Prague festival earlier this year. He now has more than $1 million in lifetime tournament cashes to his name.
In addition to the title and the money, Hamilton also earned 1,824 Card Player Player of the Year points as the champion of this event. This was his first title and third final-table finish of the year. With 2,918 total points and year-to-date POY earnings of $918,441, Hamilton is now the 44th-ranked player in the 2022 POY race standings sponsored by Global Poker.
Plenty of big names made it deep in this event, including four-time bracelet winner Adrian Mateos (35th), bracelet winner and two-time World Poker Tour champion Ole Schemion (33rd), recent £50,000 high roller winner from this series Kenrik Hecklen (32nd), online tournament superstar Conor Beresford (31st), 2014 WSOP main event champion and recent UKIPT London main event winner Martin Jacobson (28th), two-time EPT main event runner-up Martin Czuczor (16th), bracelet winner Ben Heath (15th), nine-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel (12th), 2017 WSOP main event third-place finisher Benjamin Pollak (11th), and bracelet winner Harry Lodge (8th).
This tournament played out at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane in London over the course of an entire week. The final day began with six players remaining and Roman Hrabec in the lead. It didn’t take long for the first elimination to arrive. Just minutes after cards got in the air, Germany’s Nils Pudel found himself all-in with pocket aces dominating the A-K of 2018 WSOP Europe main event winner Jack Sinclair. The board ran out with four spades, and Sinclair’s ace of spades gave him a winning flush to crack Pudel’s aces and narrow the field to five contenders. Pudel earned $150,976 […]
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