The PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) will visit the Hippodrome Casino in the heart of the British capital from August 2 to 11 for the 2024 UKIPT London festival. Anyone heading to PokerStars at the Hippodrome is in for a treat because the bustling schedule has something for everyone.
The £1,100 buy-in UKIPT London Main Event is the tournament everyone heading to the Hippodrome wats to win. This year’s Main Event feature four flights, the first of which shuffles up and deals at 1:00 p.m. on August 4. Flight b starts at the slightly later time of 2:00 p.m. on August 5, with the third and fourth flights kicking off at 12:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on August 6.
PokerNews‘ live reporting team is covering the £1,100 Main Event from start to finish, so you could see your name adorning our famous pages!
Past Five UKIPT London Main Event Champions
Dylan Bradley is the reigning UKIPT London Main Event champion, having outlasted 373 opponents last September. Bradley defeated Stephen Cherry heads-up to claim the £71,650 top prize, which also happened to be Bradley’s first recorded live score!
Check out the winners of the past five UKIPT London Main Events in the table below.
| Date | Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool | Champion | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2023 | £1,100 | 374 | £359,040 | Dylan Bradley | £71,650 |
| Apr 2022 | £1,100 | 645 | £619,200 | James Rann | £86,569 |
| Apr 2016 | £770 | 649 | £454,300 | Usman Siddique | £84,100 |
| Jan 2015 | £770 | 742 | £503,818 | Rapinder Cheema | £78,825 |
| Oct 2014 | £770 | 1,089 | £739,431 | Brett Angell | £115,083 |
Value-Packged Mega Satellite at PokerStars This Weekend
Set your alarm for 8:20 p.m. BST on July 21 if you want to play for one of ten guaranteed £1,500 UKIPT London Main Event packages. The £109 UKIPT London Main Event MEGA Qualifier promises to award at least 10x £1,500 packages, with additional packages dished out for every £1,500 in the prize pool over the £15,000 guarantee.
Each package awards its lucky winner a £1,100 UKIPT London Main Event seat and £400 to cover their expenses.
Don’t worry if £109 is outside your bankroll’s constraints or puts you outside your comfort zone because £1.10 and £11 satellites throughout July 19-21 feed into the package-awarded MEGA qualifier.
Should you win your way into the UKIPT London Main Event via this satellite or any other that PokerStars is running, you also qualify for the Qualifier Freeroll at 11:00 a.m. on August 11 where someone will win a seat to a regional tour Main Event.
Full 2024 UKIPT London Schedule
Power Passes and More to be Won in the Ambassador Meet-Up
The Main Event aside, the one tournament you must try make it to is the £220 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty Ambassador Meet-Up at 8:00 p.m. on August 6. You can win £100 cash for each opponent you send to the rail, but special prizes await anyone who eliminates a PokerStars Ambassador.
The likes of Lex Veldhuis, Sam Grafton, Barny Boatman, Joe “Stapes” Stapleton, James Hartigan, Adam McKola, Rory Jennings, Georgina “GJ Reggie” james, Nick Walsh, and Kerryjane Craigie are expected to feature and do so with an additional bounty on their head.
Two ambassadors will have a $2,500 Silver Pass on their head with the others having a $109 Power Path Bronze Path as their bounty. Oh, and the eventual winner of this event receives a UKIPT Nottingham Main Event seat on top of any cash or other bounties they collect along the way!
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