Sam Mitten-Laurence has played more than 20,000 tournaments online, but until the Season 5 edition of the UKIPT Nottingham Main Event, he had only played one live tournament. Now, after completing his second live event, Mitten-Laurence has notched a victory, taking down the aforementioned UKIPT Nottingham tournament and claiming its £182,000 first-place prize.
Day 3 began with 37 players, among them some of poker's better-known faces. Some of those players, namely Andrew "stato_1" Hulme (37th - £3,760), Morten Mortensen (30th - £4,330), Ireland's Dara Davey (21st - £6,070), Serigio Aido (16th - £8,070), and Ben Vinson (12th - £10,070) fell before the final table was reached.