Team PokerStars professional Fintan Hand has gained his first dwell event title. The Irish poker participant and on-line streamer got here out on prime of a 220-entry area within the 2023 UK and Ireland Poker Tour Edinburgh £1,100 no-limit maintain’em essential occasion. Hand took residence £44,200 ($53,924 USD) for the win, the most important recorded rating but for the person many know as ‘EasyWithAces.’
“It was a lot of fun,” Hand told PokerStars reporters after coming out on top. “I felt it just kind of went my way, I picked up some big hands, had some nice hands to re-shove with, in spots where people were quite light. So, I think I just went well. It’s always nice winning any poker tournament. And that’s my biggest score ever. I’ve not played a lot of live poker, so to win a tournament and beat my best score is fantastic.”
Before this victory at this occasion at Genting Casino Fountain Park in Scotland, Hand’s prime dwell rating had been a $20,612 payday for a seventh-place displaying in a €1,275 buy-in aspect occasion on the 2017 Irish Poker Open Festival. He now has $107,253 in profession earnings throughout ten recorded dwell cashes.
In addition to the title and the cash, Hand additionally earned 384 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win. This was his first certified POY rating of 2023.
Hand wasn’t the one Team PokerStars Pro on the remaining desk. Recent UKIPT Brighton essential occasion winner Ben Spragg completed sixth for $11,102.
Spragg and Hand took to social media to razz fellow on-line event streamer Parker ‘tonkaaaa’ Talbot, who has not but scored a dwell event win regardless of accruing greater than $1.3 million in recorded earnings.
Does anybody know if @tonkaaaap has gained a dwell event? pic.twitter.com/Qq17dFz8lK
— Spraggy (@spraggy) October 29, 2023
Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the remaining desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings (USD) | POY Points |
| 1 | Fintan Hand | $53,924 | 384 |
| 2 | Daniel Gormley | $33,648 | 320 |
| 3 | Andrew Mackenzie | $24,168 | 256 |
| 4 | Nohad Teliani | $18,593 | 192 |
| 5 | Stephen Mckay | $14,250 | 160 |
| 6 | Ben Spragg | $11,102 | 128 |
| 7 | Gajanthan Kamalanathan | $9,235 | 96 |
| 8 | Marius Varanavicius | $7,686 | 64 |
| 9 | Jun Chun | $6,661 | 32 |
