APAT Member Wins $95,000 In Sunday Warm Up
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Rob Swindells: International Win
Popular APAT member and Manchester Poker Club team captain Rob Swindells, has just won $95,000, finishing runner up in the PokerStars Sunday Million Warm Up tournament.
By a twist of fate, an injury meant he was unable to play cricket for his local side on Sunday, so instead played poker and qualified for the Sunday Warm Up on PokerStars for a nominal entry fee.
A field of 3,690 runners started this high profile Sunday tournament, and Rob managed to battle his way through to the money and was then joined by a number of APAT railers who witnessed the rise up the prizeladder.
Rob was pretty much around average stack for most of the tournament, but with less than 100 players left, he started working through the gears. When the tournament was down to 30 players, Rob found himself in 3rd place and perfectly positioned to make the final table. And that he did, at around 2 o’clock in the morning.
The final table appeared to be an inexperienced one at this level and without Rob needing to get too involved, players were getting knocked out. An hour into the final table, Rob had reached heads up with ‘Dennis2410′ from Herning. A deal was done with both players playing out for the honour of the win. The luck went against Rob heads up and so he had to settle for 2nd place and a $95,000 payday.
This was an absolutely superb performance from APAT regular Rob, who appeared to be in complete control of his game throughout the tournament.
Rob will be in action at the Scottish Amateur Poker Championship in Edinburgh on July 18th & 19th.
