A London poker prodigy was celebrating winning €220,280 at the first ever World Poker Tour event to be held on the shores of Ireland this weekend.David Shallow, 29, defeated over 330 competitors to take home the WPT Dublin title in the Texas Hold’em event that was held at the Citywest Hotel in the Irish capital.The cockney poker professional had to endure over 12 hours of poker action a day since Thursday and took home the first place prize from a prize pool that exceeded the €800,000 mark.Shallow secured his title at a final table that saw the action thick and fast with a total playing time of only 3 hours for all of the final table action to be wrapped up and concluded. Shallow now qualifies for a $25,500 seat at the WPT World Championship in Las Vegas.Shallow spoke of his victory by saying “It’s the first WPT I’ve won. It feels good. It didn’t seem that quick to me, but obviously I was playing.”The tournament also included some big names from the world of poker and sport. Irish snooker sensation Ken Doherty was one of these big names and entered the tournament to claim a 14th place finish.”It’s better than I expected. I was just delighted to get down to the top 36. But to get down to the top 14 in my first ever World Poker Tour, it’s not bad for an amateur,” said Doherty.
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