The godfather of UK poker has bagged his biggest-ever rating.
Barny Boatman, probably the most recognisable faces in playing cards after forming a part of the Hendon Mob group early in his profession, has bagged over £1million for his newest victory.
Boatman, 68, proved that age isn’t any barrier on the poker desk by besting a discipline of over 1,700 entrants on the PokerStars-hosted European Poker Tour Main Event in Paris this weekend.
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After practically per week of play within the €5,300-to enter occasion (£4,500), Boatman bested the ultimate desk to attain a primary prize of €1,287,800 (£1,100,096) contained in the Les Palais des Congres within the French capital.
Despite being one in every of British poker’s all-time greats and probably the most recognisable names if you happen to had been a fan of Late Night Poker and Poker Million within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s, Boatman had by no means received over one million from a single event earlier than.
The London-based professional put that proper with a dominating efficiency in Paris. While being cheered on from the rail by his fiancee, he defeated former on-line poker world champion David Kaufmann and tremendous high-roller common Aleks Ponakov within the closing three to win the title.
“It all fell together this time,” Boatman instructed the PokerStars weblog. “What can you do, you can only play your game and hope that it’s your turn.”
“This doesn’t feel real…I’ve been in quite a few finals where I’ve never quite got the job done. All that was needed was for me to run like god, especially three-handed.”
After making a gutsy call with just a pair of jacks for his tournament life on the penultimate day, he was subsequently on the end of a verbal mouthful from his impassioned opponent, the Canadian businessman Eric Afriat. Boatman responded with the sort of quick wit which made him such a popular character back in the day, saying: “It was my event life, not my precise life.”
He adds his PokerStars EPT title to his two World Series of Poker bracelets – and he will return to Las Vegas this summer where he will look to win even more.
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Boatman may even now goal turning into solely the sixth participant in poker historical past to win the coveted ‘Triple Crown’. He simply wants a World Poker Tour title to go together with his WSOP and EPT wins.
He instructed PokerInformation: “It’d be great to get a Triple Crown, obviously. Who wouldn’t want that? I’d love to go play the one [WPT World Championship] at the Wynn, which I haven’t played.”
“I feel kind of like vindicated a bit that I can play, you know, and I want to prove it’s not a fluke and do it again.”
Elsewhere on the ultimate desk, Owen Dodd, a comparatively unknown Brit, turned his €5,300 buy-in into €442,000 (£377,000) for ending fourth.