Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst Wins UKIPT £2,000 High Roller for £67,499
The Season 10 European Poker Tour London Main Event kicked off on Sunday, but three other big stories overshadowed that tournament as Martin Finger, Vanessa Selbst and Phil Hellmuth all took down titles.
PokerNews has already covered Finger’s £821,000 win in the EPT10 London £50,000 Super High Roller, and you can read about that by clicking here. As far as Selbst was concerned, she topped a field of 176 players in the UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) £2,000 High Roller Event to win £67,499 as a part of a heads-up deal with Max Silver, who took £59,906 for his runner-up finish.
The Team PokerStars Pro, who finished second at World Poker Tour Borgata three weeks ago for $ 492,569, expressed here excitement after the win: “I feel excellent. The final table was really tough. It doesn’t usually happen in this kind of tournament but when it got down to the last four or five players, they were all really good.”
“I’ve been feeling really confident about my game lately,” she continued. “I wasn’t
feeling like that in the World Series. I felt that I underperformed there but in the last few months I really feel like I’ve been playing my A game so it feels nice to have results that reflect that.”
UKIPT £2,000 High Roller Final Table Results
| Place | Name | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Vanessa Selbst | USA | £67,499 |
| 2nd | Max Silver | UK | £59,906 |
| 3rd | Kenny Halleart | Belgium | £35,335 |
| 4th | Joni Jouhkimainen | Finland | £28,810 |
| 5th | Paul Edward Byrne | UK | £22,970 |
| 6th | Salvatore Bonavena | Italy | £17,650 |
| 7th | Joe Kuether | USA | £12,840 |
| 8th | Thomas Muhlocker | Austria | £9,305 |
*Notable finishes: Daniel Laidlaw (10th - £6,525), Marcin Wydrowski (12th - £5,665), Nacho Barbero (16th - £4,635), Frederik Jensen (18th - £4,120), Jeff Rossiter (23rd - £3,775), Niall Farrell (24th - £3,435), Sam Cohen (27th - £3,435)