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Victoria Gate Casino hit the jackpot with record-breaking Christmas poker bonanza

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    Victoria Gate Casino hit the jackpot with record-breaking Christmas poker bonanza

    By Ellie MacDonald | Latest news | Comments are Closed | 18 January, 2019 | 0

    • Annual poker tournament doubled prize pool from £100,000 to £200,900
    • Biggest poker event in the UK this Christmas
    • Local Leeds player Ezaldin Adams came third but won the most money walking away with a cool £28,280 the day before his birthday!

    Victoria Gate Casino, Yorkshire’s premier entertainment venue, is celebrating a hugely successful Christmas Bonanza poker tournament which attracted players from across the UK, Ireland and Europe generating a huge £200,900 prize pool, more than doubling the initial £100,000 guarantee.

    The Victoria Gate Casino Poker Bonanza was by the far the biggest event in the UK this Christmas with more than twice the prize pool of the next largest competition held in London.

    The record-breaking event attracted 2,009 entries compared to 830 in 2017 which was a 142% growth for entries and prize pool year-on-year demonstrating the growing popularity of poker tournaments.

    Each contestant paid £115 to enter and the tournament featured eight starting flights which were held between 22nd and 30th December 2018. Each starting flight saw players sit down with 20,000 chips and play 16 levels of 30-minute poker games, with an additional two partypoker online day 1’s with blind levels of 15-minutes each.

    A total of 163 prizes were paid out with the tournament culminating with 208 players qualifying for Day 2 on 30th December. After 10 hours of play 208 became nine and with a short burst of knock-outs there were just six players left who asked for an ICM (Independent Chip Model) payout, which calculate a player’s equity per chip held. Therefore, the remaining £116,000 was split between the remaining six which left £6,000, the trophy and of course, bragging rights to play for the final three players.

    A tense two-hours of further play resulted in Midlands-based player, Karolis Norinkevicius being crowned the newest Victoria Gate Casino poker champion. He turned his £115 entry into a £26,000 pay cheque. Norwegian player Erik Hanson travelled all the way from Norway to take part and walked away with second prize of £16,630.

    The star of the show had to be local Leeds’ player, Ezaldin Adams who turned his free entry (after previously winning an earlier in-house promotion) into a cool £28,280 the day before his birthday. He was chip-leader when the initial table deal was done, so as he had the highest amount of chips (13 million) he secured the majority of the prize pool.

    Ezaldin Adams, the luckiest poker player in Leeds said:

    “This is a great win the day before my birthday. I’m going out to celebrate. I can’t wait for more poker events at Victoria Gate Casino in 2019.”

    Patrick Noakes, managing director of Victoria Gate Casino commented:

    “Our Christmas Poker Bonanza was the biggest poker event in the UK over the Christmas period and one of the busiest events of the year. It topped off an excellent 2018 for us where we’ve welcomed tens of thousands of people from Yorkshire but also from further afield around the UK, Ireland and Europe.

    “Victoria Gate Casino is an all-round entertainment venue which offers a brilliant night out for everyone, whether you’re a gamer, want to watch football or boxing on the largest sports screen in Leeds or just want a delicious meal accompanied with a cocktail.”

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    Ellie MacDonald

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