Summary of Virgin Poker Festival
This weekend saw the 3rd Virgin Festival, which comprises of Poker, Wii Bowling, and lots of alcohol.
259 runners qualified online for the Main Event Live tournament, held at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham, 10,000pts 30 min clock 2 day event. Other events included a scalps tournament, an STT’d qualification MTT, DTD’s regular £50 FO which Virgin added 50,000 air miles for the winner. Virgin also put bounties on a couple of heads, to include a Hot Air Balloon trip, Rally Driving Days etc.
The Main Event was won by PuntersLounge member Stephen “MadDuke” Docherty aka Scaramoosh on Virgin.
The 50,000 Air miles and the £50 FO winner was blondepoker member Douglas “Jizzemm”Lindsay.
The STT Challenge was won by Garry Wilson, and the Terminator comp was won by Dafydd Jones.
The forum team event was won by EatMyStack, however yet again UKPL wasn’t invited to play the team event, even with our record at team events, maybe it is designed to give others a chance.
UKPL did have a little success however with 2 members Jon Titley (JonT) and Julie Holloway (Jools) getting deep in the main event, despite entering day 2 both short stacked.
Jools (who gained entry via the Golden Ticket route) came a respectable 10th place for £465
And JonT played out of his skin and was unlucky to finish 7th for £1,160
UKpokerinfo salutes you both!!!
Virgin also announced the date and Venue for their 4th Festival, somewhat controversially it will be held at Loose Cannons, in London on 28th 29th September. (at exactly the same time as the WSOPE), numbers won’t be as high as at DTD (due to size of venue) looking at a cap of 210 players.
Qualification for this event has already begun on some forums.
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well played to all. why arent UKPL allowed in these comps?
We are the bad bays of poker
we just don’t get invited lol