BBP Player Wins ECOOP Event #1

Last Monday, the sixth ECOOP (European Championship of Online Poker) kicked off on the iPoker network with its inaugural $250,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool event. In all, 1,001 stumped up the $200+15 buy-in fee, including many Black Belt Poker players such as Neil Channing, Toby Lewis, Gavin Hall and Adam Latimer, as well as Dublin 3 members Robert Jarrett-Smith, Owen Robinson and Simon Mairs.

However, despite a strong showing from this year’s Graders, it was a member of last year’s Vegas Five-O who shone brightest, Eoin Kennedy battling his way through the gargantuan field to take the title for a whopping $52,500.

Known as ‘kennneoin’ on the Black Belt Poker skin, Irish-born Eoin is a 27-year old semi-professional poker player who participated in Black Belt Poker’s first ever Grading in which eight players travelled to Vegas to live in a luxury mansion and play $20,000 worth of WSOP events. Eoin earned Blue Belt status during the Grading, but due to work and travel commitments, was unable to sustain his Belt. However, despite being currently based in Sydney, Australia, Eoin still regularly plays on Black Belt Poker as an Orange Belt, particularly in MTTs where he clearly excels.

“Overall, the tournament went very smoothly for me,” reported Eoin in victory, “and my chip stack rise was generally gradual but constant with a few big jumps in places. I was lucky enough that, bar one or two occasions, I never lost more than 10 to 20 percent of my stack in one hand.”

“The money puts my bankroll in a much stronger position,” he continued, “and will give me the option to play slightly higher buy-in tournaments in the future. It also gives me the opportunity to continue with my poker and travels.”

If you would like to learn more about Eoin Kennedy in terms of how he got into poker, his experiences of the Grading, and how his tournament went, then please feel free to check out this exclusive interview.

The ECOOP is a series of events exclusive to iPoker in which every single event boasts a guaranteed prize pool. The next event will be tonight’s $400+35 No Limit Hold’em freezeout with a guaranteed prize pool of $500,000. Black Belt Poker run numerous satellites for ECOOP events throughout the week. If you would like to play an ECOOP event, then opening an account is easy: just download the cardroom software and follow the simple step-by-step process provided.