Magazine Editor Philip Conneller Takes PKR Live Event Title

Nov 19, 2008 - 12:24:18 PM

The Editor of Bluff Europe, Philip Conneller, walked away with a $20,000 first place prize at last weekends 1st ever PKR Live Main Event. Conneller, who's PKR username is escalope, came out on top of a field of 150 players who decended on London’s Loose Cannon Club to play for a share of the $90,000 prize money.

The inaugural PKR Live event commenced with a $60 buy-in tournament, where 138 players competed for a prize pool of just over $8,000. The tournament was eventually won by Gareth ‘ChivalrousGent’ Rees.

The PKR $500 Main Event took place the following morning. After 20 hours of action, spread out over 2 days, Conneller's eventually took the title when his 7 - 2os hit runner-runner to make an unlikely straight.

PKR Live Final Table Results

1. Philip 'escalope' Conneller (United Kingdom) - $20,000
2. Henrik 'Pokey85' Eklund (Sweden) - $12,000
3. Daniel 'Dappadan777' Moosah (United Kingdom) - $8,500
4. Raymond 'callmebabe' O'Mahoney (Ireland) - $6,500
5. Thomas 'OleEinar' Gunia (Germany) - $5,250
6. Pieter 'EurootJE' Salet (Netherlands) - $4,250
7. Andrew 'Alfiemyster' Miles (United Kingdom) - $3,250
8. Barry 'Bazultra' Cole (United Kingdom) - $2,500
9. Kent-Ivan 'GreenFaith' Danielsen (Norway) - $1,850
10. Michael 'TheSqueeze' Panayiotou (United Kingdom) - $1,400

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