This week the online poker world was rocked by an unbelievable story that brings back memories of Chris Moneymaker’s 2003 WSOP Main Event win – the win where he turned a $38 satellite entry into a massive grand prize of $2,500,000. The latest underdog to write his own chapter in poker history was Leigh Wilshire who turned a £0.01 satellite win into a whopping £110,000 purse.
The event this week at Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn was hosing the 2014 Sky Poker UK 6-Max Poker Championships Main Event, when every online poker player’s dream was made a reality. It all began when Wiltshire won a pennyroll satellite at the Dusk Till Dawn poker room that gave him the entry ticket to the Sky Poker Main Event. He successfully knocked out opponents until he finally went head to head with prominent doctor Abhishek Khaitan, which saw them locked in a three hour back and forth punch-up. Khaitan had actually been the chip leader when the tournament was narrowed down to the final table of six, but went down in a final hand that saw his pocket
10s losing to Wiltshire’s KQ.
The fact that Wiltshire started his journey to over £100,000 with a single penny is absolutely astounding, but perhaps understandable when you consider that he is an accountant by profession and knows the value of a good investment. It’s even more remarkable that despite his cash windfall he still showed up to work on Monday.
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