Sam Soverel Wins Inaugural British Poker Open Championship

Remko Rinkema • Sep 13, 2019

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The inaugural British Poker Open Championship at Aspers Casino in London has been won by American pro Sam Soverel! Over the course of 10 events, Soverel proved to be the most consistent player by raking in no less than five cashes of which two were outright victories.

After locking up the win, Soverel said, “It was a great series for me. Man, I feel like I ran really good leading up to the final tables in pretty much every tournament including the ones I didn’t cash. I didn’t go all the way in all of them but I really really good, and it was a fun series for someone who plays high stakes.”

“I’m not really a trophy guy but because everyone else wanted it so much, and I got to keep it, it was pretty sweet winning it!” Soverel said about taking home the trophy.

With his victory, Soverel claims the British Poker Open trophy and with his results this week he collected a total of $966,462 to put him 69th on the all-time money list with $11.4 million in total earnings.

Sam Soverel at the 2019 British Poker Open
Event #	Event	Buy-in	Place	Prize in GBP	Prize in USD
2	Pot Limit Omaha	£10,000	2nd	£ 78,000	$93,991
3	No Limit Hold’em	£10,000	2nd	£ 101,200	$121,946
5	No Limit Hold’em	£25,000	1st	£ 322,000	$396,356
7	Pot Limit Omaha	£25,000	3rd	£ 60,000	$73,789
8	No Limit Hold’em	£25,000	1st	£ 227,500	$280,380

Here’s a full overview of all events at the British Poker Open.

2019 British Poker Open Winner Overview
#	Buy-in	Format	Winner	Entrants	Top Prize
1	£10,000	No Limit Hold’em	Luc Greenwood	26	£119,600
2	£10,000	Pot Limit Omaha	George Wolff	30	£120,000
3	£10,000	No Limit Hold’em	Paul Newey	46	£156,400
4	£10,000	Short Deck	Sam Greenwood	24	£110,400
5	£25,000	No Limit Hold’em	Sam Soverel	28	£322,000
6	£25,000	No Limit Hold’em	Sergi Reixach	22	£253,000
7	£25,000	Pot Limit Omaha	Stephen Chidwick	15	£202,500
8	£25,000	No Limit Hold’em	Sam Soverel*	13	£227,500
9	£50,000	No Limit Hold’em	Mikita Badziakouski	18	£486,000
10	£100,000	No Limit Hold’em	Ben Tollerene	12	£840,000

Click on the player name in the overview above to relive the final table on PokerGO. *denotes a non-streamed event. Read through all the Live Reporting of the British Poker Open here.

The final standings of the British Poker Open are as follows.

British Poker Open Final Standings
RANK	PLAYER	POINTS	CASH
1	Sam Soverel (5)	780	£788,700
2	Stephen Chidwick (4)	420	£343,500
3	Cary Katz (3)	365	£411,600
4	Ben Tollerene	350	£840,000
5	George Wolff (2)	340	£232,500
6	Mikita Badziakouski (2)	280	£532,000
7	Steve O’Dwyer (2)	280	£170,300
8	Sam Greenwood (2)	260	£147,200
9	Robert Flink (2)	240	£108,800
10	Sergi Reixach	200	£253,000
11	Elio Fox (2)	200	£157,000
12	Paul Newey	200	£156,400
13	Luc Greenwood	200	£119,600
14	Christoph Vogelsang	140	£270,000
15	Rainer Kempe	140	£196,600
16	Timothy Adams	140	£154,000
17	David Peters	100	£144,000
18	Ali Imsirovic	100	£112,000
19	Anson Tsang	100	£38,400
20	Michael Zhang	80	£55,000
21	Gavin Cochrane	80	£30,000
22	Sam Grafton	80	£26,000
23	Joni Jouhkimainen	60	£24,000

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Stephen Chidwick, Sam Soverel, Sergi Reixach, Mikita Badziakouski, Sam Greenwood, George Wolff, Luc Greenwood, Ben Tollerene, Paul Newey