The UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) was a poker tour that ran from 2009-2016. It featured tournaments across the United Kingdom and Ireland including stops in London, Dublin, Edinburgh and Douglas, as well as stops in Marbella and Malaga, Spain.
In 2016, the brand was dissolved, but relaunched in 2021 with stops in London, Dublin and Malta.
Finished Tournaments |
Winner | Winning Hand | Prize | Runner-up | Losing Hand |
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| 2022 UKIPT Nottingham |
 Adam Maxwell
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a ♣8 ♣ | £98,150 | Jonathan Mccann | k ♥4 ♠ |
| Summer Poker Festival - ESPT/UKIPT Malta | - | - | - | - | - |
| UK & Ireland Poker Tour - UKIPT Dublin | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2022 UKIPT London |
 James Rann
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a ♠6 ♠ | £86,569 | Lukas Dimsa | 7 ♥4 ♥ |
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The very first UKIPT Main Event was won by Irish poker legend Padraig Parkinson who won UKIPT Galway. It was also the season that several up and coming British players took top honours including Max Silver and David Vamplew.
| City | Entries | Winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galway | 259 | Padraig Parkinson | € 125,000 |
| Manchester | 518 | Joeri Zandvliet | £63,200 |
| Coventry | 368 | Gilles Augustus | £46,000 |
| Nottingham | 650 | Andrew Couldridge | € 80,000 |
| Killarney | 253 | Femi Fakinle | € 63,400 |
| Brighton | 259 | Jamie Burland | £65,400 |
| Edinburgh | 401 | Nicholas Abou Risk | £50,000 |
| Dublin | 589 | Max Silver | € 72,000 |
| London | 848 | David Vamplew | £900,000 |
Nick Abou-Risk and Joeri Zandvliet both became two-time UKIPT champions as soon as the second season. It was also the first time a UKIPT Main Event attracted over 1,000 runners.
| City | Entries | Winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galway | 266 | Nicholas Abou Risk | € 67,100 |
| Nottingham | 1,058 | Gareth Walker | £109,000 |
| Manchester | 615 | Matthew McDerra | £74,000 |
| Cork | 602 | Sam Razavi | € 71,000 |
| Newcastle | 554 | Richard Sinclair | £67,000 |
| Brighton | 603 | Chris O'Donnell | £71,000 |
| Edinburgh | 519 | Fintan Gavin | £61,500 |
| Dublin | 718 | Joeri Zandvliet | € 83,500 |
| London | 691 | Benny Spindler | £750,000 |
The buy-ins on the UKIPT had previously remained around £/€550, but for Season 3 these were increased to £/€770. This boosted the prize pools further, with Robert Baguley's £210,400 first prize a record for UKIPT Main Events (excluding EPT Main Events serving as UKIPT Grand Finals).
| City | Entries | Winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galway | 698 | Emmett Mullin | € 100,000 |
| Nottingham | 1,625 | Robert Baguley | £210,400 |
| Dublin | 597 | Richard Evans | € 75,500 |
| Newcastle | 623 | Chris Ferguson | £87,640 |
| Bristol | 550 | Wojtek Barzantny | £90,400 |
| Edinburgh | 612 | Nicolau Villa-Lobos | £101,000 |
| Cork | 387 | Thomas Finneran | € 55,440 |
| London | 1,099 | Sergio Aido | £144,555 |
For Season 4, the UKIPT buy-ins increased further to 1,100. The tour also launched in Spain as Ludovic Geilich won UKIPT Marbella for the first major title of a glittering career.
Duncan McLellan would bag two UKIPT titles in a single season - Douglas and Nottingham - to become the third two-time UKIPT champion.
| City | Entries | Winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marbella | 763 | Ludovic Geilich | € 130,000 |
| Galway | 860 | Alan Gold | € 187,494 |
| London | 747 | Robbie Bull | £113,405 |
| Douglas | 379 | Duncan McLellan | £94,090 |
| Nottingham | 458 | Ben Mayhew | £72,840 |
| Edinburgh | 427 | Dean Hutchison | £93,900 |
| Dublin | 682 | Kevin Killeen | € 87,700 |
| Nottingham | 1,223 | Duncan McLellan | £202,372 |
| Málaga | 750 | Rodrigo Espinosa | € 136,000 |
| Douglas | 402 | Joshua Hart | £57,484 |
| London | 1,089 | Brett Angell | £115,083 |
By the fifth season, the tournament was generating some huge prize pools. UKIPT Nottingham came with a £1,000,000 guarantee, and although it narrowly missed it, that didn't stop Sam-Mitten Laurence scooping a cool £182,000.
| City | Entries | Winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 742 | Rapinder Cheema | £78,825 |
| Nottingham | 914 | Sam Mitten-Laurence | £182,000 |
| Marbella | 841 | Isidoro Barrena | €150,800 |
| Bristol | 446 | Pierrick Tallon | £53,000 |
| Douglas | 349 | Daniel Stacey | £24,170 |
| London | 291 | Dale Garrad | £28,300 |
| Edinburgh | 377 | David Gomez Morante | £49,660 |
| Dublin | 1,002 | Vladas Tamasauskas | €176,900 |
In what was the final season of the UKIPT, there were only four stops. Ted Jackson-Spivack would go down in history as the last player to win a UKIPT Main Event in Birmingham.
| City | Entries | Winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 649 | Usman Siddique | £84,100 |
| Marbella | 844 | Jonathan Schuman | €96,159 |
| Lille | 726 | Fabrice Casano | €121,000 |
| Birmingham | 244 | Ted Jackson-Spivack | £35,000 |
In 2016, PokerStars revamped their live tournament series, with the likes of the EPT, APPT and UKIPT being PokerStars Festival"]rebranded as PokerStars Championships and PokerStars Festivals. However, in 2021 it was announced that the brand would return with stops in London, Dublin and Malta.
| Rank | Player | Country | Cashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Vamplew | Scotland | $ 1,458,347 |
| 2 | John Juanda | Indonesia | $ 852,868 |
| 3 | Steve O'Dwyer | United States | $ 726,789 |
| 4 | Duncan Mclellan | England | $ 493,615 |
| 5 | Kyle Bowker | United States | $ 469,468 |
| 6 | Andre Klebanov | Belarus | $ 414,191 |
| 7 | Artur Wasek | Poland | $ 375,575 |
| 8 | Brett Angell | England | $ 353,349 |
| 9 | Robert Baguley | England | $ 334,037 |
| 10 | Juan Manuel Pastor | Spain | $ 328,322 |