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Get to know our Final Table players a bit better thanks to Media Coordinator Jen Mason.
Seat 1: Attila Farkas, Hungary/United Kingdom - 2,070,000 Spooky and peek a boo slot canyons map.
Attila Farkas
Attila Farkas, 41, hails from Hungary but now resides in London where he finds time for regular poker games in between working in a restaurant. Farkas plays live cash and tournaments in all the London poker haunts, having become interested in the game ten years ago back in Hungary with his friends. 'I think that's how everyone gets into poker!' he said. This is the fourth time he has taken part in a UKIPT/PokerStars Festival, and describes his run so far as smooth sailing - 'Just up! Until just now, when I lost a big pot..' Undaunted, Farkas has already banked the biggest cash of his poker career.
Seat 2: Thomas Winstone, United Kingdom - 4,975,000
Thomas Winstone is a 34 year old futures trader from London whose background in poker is an online one. He has turned to the more sociable live form of the game in the last 18 months, however, starting out at the first PokerStars Festival London last year. This year he went to the PCA where he scored his best result so far - $15,470 for a third place finish in a $1,500 + $500 Knock Out Tournament. He says he's been building experience and learning the live formalities, but that it's been 'a heck of a lot of fun' along the way.
Seat 3: Tsz Chung Ho, United Kingdom - 795,000
Tsz Chung Ho
Born in Hong Kong, Tsz Chung Ho has lived in the UK since he was a child. At 33, he's been playing poker for eight years and has become a regular at The Hippodrome Casino, where he won his Main Event entry as part of a last-longer promotion for the London Series (he came 4th, narrowly missing out on a PCA package). A gamer, he likes the fact that poker combines skills such as mathematical and statistical knowledge with the psychological side of things. Having also qualified for Prague, his eyes are on the Platinum Pass. 'If I win it, I will face the challenge without too much pressure. I've been studying these high roller strategies through videos and Twitch, so I'll know them better than they know me!'
Seat 4: Thomas Harbrecht-Parker, United Kingdom - 805,000
Thomas Harbrecht-Parker, 28, is a Colchester resident now but honed his poker game while travelling in Australia for four and a half years. Now splitting his time between study and working in a bar, he spends more of his poker-dedicated time on the virtual felt, playing 'any MTT' - no matter the structure or clock - online. Although not a pro player, 13 years of regularly playing poker have given him the experience to try for his first major title, even though he comes to the final as one of the short stacks.
Seat 5: David Mander, United Kingdom (PokerStars Qualifier) - 3,555,000
David Mander
The last PokerStars Qualifier standing, David Mander won his seat to the Main Event via a Spin&Go, for which the prize was an online satellite ticket. That ticket turned into a £990 seat, which has become a shot at the title and Platinum Pass. 'I've never done this before,' he said, meaning both an interview and, it turns out, a live poker tournament. The 22 year old, who works in property maintenance in Oxford, considers the journey he's taken 'a one-off, unbelievable experience.' He started playing cards with his grandfather and progressed into poker, recreationally, live and online from there.
Seat 6: Paul Dando, United Kingdom - 9,485,000
Paul Dando, 25, hails from Winchester and has been playing poker for 11 years. His uncle taught him the game when he was 14, and Dando started playing online, freerolls at 18. Nowadays he tends to play online still, but has recently developed a taste for live Pot Limit Omaha cash games. This is Dando's first ever final table in a live event, and he is especially excited at the prospect of the added Platinum Pass to the Players Championship in the Bahamas in 2019. 'That would be amazing,' he said, 'It's always nice to get something for free but this is another level.'
Seat 7: Kalidou Sow, France - 1,715,000
Kalidou Sow
Kalidou Sow's last live tournament appearance was memorable: it was at PokerStars Championship Prague in December, which he won the Main Event for €675,000. This being his next event after Prague, he's clocked up more than 70 hours playing in two Main Events in a row without busting! Sow, 37, lives in Paris where he owns a consulting business. He has never played online, mostly sticking to homegames with friends and very occasionally in places like the Aviation Club. He has enjoyed this tournament a lot because he felt there were many crazy recreational players. 'I played slowly, and the hands kept coming like boom, boom boom. I have been keeping risk down to a minimum because I think I have an edge on these players,' he said.
Seat 8: Waheed Ashraf, United Kingdom - 2,085,000
Waheed Ashraf has been playing poker for around 20 years, longer than anyone else at the final table. The 47 year old taxi driver is a regular poker player in his home town of Nottingham, although says recently he's not been travelling to play live so often. This trip to London has locked him up £13,000 already for making the final, despite 'losing every flip' and having to work at building his stack back up. He is sharing a hotel room with last year's winner Rehman Kassam (who also cashed in the Main Event), although he has to wait for a rail as Kassam's in the PLO side event.
Ask yourself this. What do you really want to do Friday night?
Because you know how it might turn out.
You might watch the clock all Friday afternoon, clock out and have a couple of drinks after work. That might become a few more, followed by some mediocre takeaway food and the last train home. You might then spend Saturday getting over Friday, and before you know it Sunday has snuck up on you and made you start thinking of Monday again.
It would be better if that didn't happen, right?
Because secretly you know how you want things to turn out.
You want to finish work on Friday, maybe even clock off early. And then, just as you always pictured, you want to transform the weekend from the ordinary into something extraordinary. You want the simple pleasure of cashing in poker winnings, of tipping big, of freerolling the weekend.
A plan to make Monday morning
much easier
You want a story for Monday morning, and the bags under your eyes to prove it. You want parents to be calling asking why you didn't show up for Sunday lunch. You want to impress your girlfriend, amaze your boyfriend, and prove, without having to say so, that you know a bit about this game poker.
And you want to do this sitting alongside complete strangers who happen to be thinking the same as you do. And at a place like the Hippodrome in London's West End. Because the thing that keeps you awake at 3am should not be the thought of Monday morning. It should be the dealer asking for your blinds and antes.
The PokerStars London Series £250 + £25 Main Event starts at The Hippodrome this Friday, with a Platinum Pass worth $30,000 awaiting the winner on Sunday
And all of this is within reach this coming Friday when the PokerStars London Series begins at The Hippodrome Casino in London, complete with a Platinum Pass worth $30,000 to the winner.
POKERSTARS LONDON SERIES: Friday 9 March to 11 March
WHERE: The Hippodrome, London's West End, Friday 9 March to Sunday 11 March.
STRUCTURE: 25,000 starting chips
DAY 1A: Friday 2pm. 12 x 30 minute levels
DAY 1B: Friday 8pm. 12 x 30 minute levels
DAY 1C: Saturday 2pm. 12 x 30 minute levels
DAY 1D: Saturday 8pm. 12 x 15 minute levels
DAY 2: Sunday 2pm. 40 minute levels
HOW TO SIGN UP: Register directly at The Hippodrome
Here's how we'll help with that plan you have.
There are four opening flights, so it's a tournament that fits around you not the other way around.
The £250 + £25 buy-in makes it a tournament your bankroll can handle. You've wanted to test it for strength for a while now. Here's your chance.
The structure works for you too. 30 minute levels and 25,000 chips. That's not the Turbo structure that's often the only choice for a £250 buy-in. And that's enough chips to make a weekend of it.
Then there's a choice of opening flights.
The first starts at 2pm on Friday. No amount of Friday afternoon paperwork ever suffered for being left until Monday morning. But if you can't make the early start there's the 8pm flight instead.
There are four opening flights in the PokerStars London Series, hosted by The Hippodrome. These start times, combined with a central London location, make it an easy event to play
And if you'd rather start on Saturday the 2pm DAY 1C flight allows plenty of time for lunch at the Hippodrome steak house, or anywhere nearby given the Hippodrome's central location, right next to Leicester Square.
Or leave it to the last minute and join the Turbo Day 1D flight starting at 8pm on Saturday. The levels are 15 minutes, but none of that will matter if you return on Sunday at 2pm to play down a winner. That's when levels are extended to 40 minutes.
And don't forget, if you're not still in the tournament from a previous flight, you can re-enter the next.
Turn a buy-in of £250 into a Platinum Pass
worth $30,000
Then there's the Platinum Pass, a ticket to the PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold'em Championship (PSPC) in the Bahamas next January. That's a tournament with a prize pool in the millions.
And if you don't think things like that happen to you then click here for the proof that will change your mind. Dozens of winners so far, most of them just like you.
But if that's a little much there's the Double Chance Freezeout on Saturday.
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Starting at 3pm, the buy-in is £100 + £10, with 10,000 starting chips and 20 minute levels. You don't get prime billing, but you still get to play in The Hippodrome for the high stakes experience. That's not bad for an undercard.
And what of that Hippodrome experience?
But then a former theatre such as The Hippodrome should add some drama, especially when it comes time to recount your story at the coffee machine Monday morning.
How else would you describe six bars? Each specially designed to cater to the triumphant and the not so triumphant. And that location, directly above Leicester Square tube station, makes the arrival (and the getaway) quick and easy.
Start the weekend you want
this Friday
Poker Tournaments London This Weekend 2020
All that's left is your part. The part where you fill in the gap between Friday night and Sunday night with a story to match exactly how you wanted things to turn out.
To sign up to play the PokerStars London Series at the Hippodrome, you can register directly at the Hippodrome ahead of the start time.
Registration is open until the end of Level 6. Call it reassurance for those facing the London commute.
Poker Tournaments London Saturday
Ask yourself this. What do you really want to do Friday night?
Because you know how it might turn out.
You might watch the clock all Friday afternoon, clock out and have a couple of drinks after work. That might become a few more, followed by some mediocre takeaway food and the last train home. You might then spend Saturday getting over Friday, and before you know it Sunday has snuck up on you and made you start thinking of Monday again.
It would be better if that didn't happen, right?
Because secretly you know how you want things to turn out.
You want to finish work on Friday, maybe even clock off early. And then, just as you always pictured, you want to transform the weekend from the ordinary into something extraordinary. You want the simple pleasure of cashing in poker winnings, of tipping big, of freerolling the weekend.
A plan to make Monday morning
much easier
You want a story for Monday morning, and the bags under your eyes to prove it. You want parents to be calling asking why you didn't show up for Sunday lunch. You want to impress your girlfriend, amaze your boyfriend, and prove, without having to say so, that you know a bit about this game poker.
And you want to do this sitting alongside complete strangers who happen to be thinking the same as you do. And at a place like the Hippodrome in London's West End. Because the thing that keeps you awake at 3am should not be the thought of Monday morning. It should be the dealer asking for your blinds and antes.
The PokerStars London Series £250 + £25 Main Event starts at The Hippodrome this Friday, with a Platinum Pass worth $30,000 awaiting the winner on Sunday
And all of this is within reach this coming Friday when the PokerStars London Series begins at The Hippodrome Casino in London, complete with a Platinum Pass worth $30,000 to the winner.
POKERSTARS LONDON SERIES: Friday 9 March to 11 March
WHERE: The Hippodrome, London's West End, Friday 9 March to Sunday 11 March.
STRUCTURE: 25,000 starting chips
DAY 1A: Friday 2pm. 12 x 30 minute levels
DAY 1B: Friday 8pm. 12 x 30 minute levels
DAY 1C: Saturday 2pm. 12 x 30 minute levels
DAY 1D: Saturday 8pm. 12 x 15 minute levels
DAY 2: Sunday 2pm. 40 minute levels
HOW TO SIGN UP: Register directly at The Hippodrome
Here's how we'll help with that plan you have.
There are four opening flights, so it's a tournament that fits around you not the other way around.
The £250 + £25 buy-in makes it a tournament your bankroll can handle. You've wanted to test it for strength for a while now. Here's your chance.
The structure works for you too. 30 minute levels and 25,000 chips. That's not the Turbo structure that's often the only choice for a £250 buy-in. And that's enough chips to make a weekend of it.
Then there's a choice of opening flights.
The first starts at 2pm on Friday. No amount of Friday afternoon paperwork ever suffered for being left until Monday morning. But if you can't make the early start there's the 8pm flight instead.
There are four opening flights in the PokerStars London Series, hosted by The Hippodrome. These start times, combined with a central London location, make it an easy event to play
And if you'd rather start on Saturday the 2pm DAY 1C flight allows plenty of time for lunch at the Hippodrome steak house, or anywhere nearby given the Hippodrome's central location, right next to Leicester Square.
Or leave it to the last minute and join the Turbo Day 1D flight starting at 8pm on Saturday. The levels are 15 minutes, but none of that will matter if you return on Sunday at 2pm to play down a winner. That's when levels are extended to 40 minutes.
And don't forget, if you're not still in the tournament from a previous flight, you can re-enter the next.
Turn a buy-in of £250 into a Platinum Pass
worth $30,000
Then there's the Platinum Pass, a ticket to the PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold'em Championship (PSPC) in the Bahamas next January. That's a tournament with a prize pool in the millions.
And if you don't think things like that happen to you then click here for the proof that will change your mind. Dozens of winners so far, most of them just like you.
But if that's a little much there's the Double Chance Freezeout on Saturday.
Poker Tournaments London This Weekend Getaway
Starting at 3pm, the buy-in is £100 + £10, with 10,000 starting chips and 20 minute levels. You don't get prime billing, but you still get to play in The Hippodrome for the high stakes experience. That's not bad for an undercard.
And what of that Hippodrome experience?
But then a former theatre such as The Hippodrome should add some drama, especially when it comes time to recount your story at the coffee machine Monday morning.
How else would you describe six bars? Each specially designed to cater to the triumphant and the not so triumphant. And that location, directly above Leicester Square tube station, makes the arrival (and the getaway) quick and easy.
Start the weekend you want
this Friday
Poker Tournaments London This Weekend 2020
All that's left is your part. The part where you fill in the gap between Friday night and Sunday night with a story to match exactly how you wanted things to turn out.
To sign up to play the PokerStars London Series at the Hippodrome, you can register directly at the Hippodrome ahead of the start time.
Registration is open until the end of Level 6. Call it reassurance for those facing the London commute.
Poker Tournaments London Saturday
Poker Tournaments London This Weekend 2019
You can click here for details about the London Series, and the Hippodrome. It all starts this Friday.
