Jake Betts Captures 2025 UKPC Main Event Title and Career-Best £85270

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Before the 2025 UK Poker Championships (UKPC) at Dusk Till Dawn, you would have been forgiven for not knowing much about Jake Betts. According to The Hendon Mob Database, Betts had seven in-the-money finishes between September 2019 and December 2024 totalling $5,260. Had is the operative word in that last sentence because Betts now has eight cashes, including an impressive victory worth a cool £85,270.

Betts was one of 1,332 entrants in the £560 UKPC Main Event. That bumper crowd created a £639,360 prize pool, smashing the £500,000 guarantee. The top 197 finishers won a slice of the pie, with such luminaries as Leon Louis, Daniel Rudd, Kully Sidhu, Patrice Brandt, Lorenc Boci, Timothy Chung, Brandon Sheils, and Leo McClean cashing on Day 2.

Day 2 ended with 23, and they returned for the final day’s action having locked up £3,000 for their efforts. By the time Joshua Boulton bowed out in 10th, setting the final table, £9,500 was the least any of the remaining players would take home.

UKPC Main Event Final Table Results

Rank	Player	Prize
1	Jake Betts	£85,270*
2	David Lloyd	£83,730*
3	Cristinel Costin	£47,500
4	Dale Wilson	£35,000
5	Nikolai Mumut	£26,455
6	Ben Miller	£20,000
7	Martin Donoghue	£15,000
8	Steven Edgar	£12,000
9	Callum Gordon	£9,500

*reflects a heads-up deal

Serial grinder Callum Gordon was the first finalist to find themselves without any chips. Gordon, fresh from a trip to Morocco for the WSOP Circuit held in Marrakech, recorded his first UK-based live score of 2025.

Steven Edgar’s maiden live score weighed in at £12,000, his reward for an eighth-place finish. Martin Donoghue finished seventh for £15,000, the second-largest prize of the Tamworth native’s live poker career.

Sixth place and £20,000 went to Ben Miller before Nikolai Mumut fell in fifth for a £26,455 addition to his bankroll. Like Edgar, this was Mumut’s first live score, according to the Hendon Mob Database.

In late December 2024, Dale Wilson won a £250 No-Limit Hold’em Christmas Cup at Dusk Till Dawn for a career-high £8,645. Wilson now has a £35,000 prize against his name after navigating to a fourth-place finish in the 2025 UKPC Main Event.

Cristinel Costin found himself with a similar story to Wilson. Costin triumphed in the inaugural Grosvenor Behemoth Main Event in mid-December 2024 for £43,700, which represented his best single haul. However, Costin’s exit in third in the UKPC Main Event came with £47,500, setting a new personal best, which takes his lifetime earnings past $250,000.

Costin’s demise left Betts heads-up against Luton’s David Lloyd. With over $360,000 in live earnings, Lloyd had vastly more experience in the live poker arena than Betts, but that sometimes counts for nothing.

The heads-up duo struck a deal that lessened the pay jump. The original payouts were £101,500 for first and £67,500 for the runner-up. Courtesy of the deal, Lloyd banked £83,730 when he fell at the final hurdle and finished second, leaving Betts to collect £85,270 and the 2025 UKPC Main Event trophy.

Full 2025 UKPC Results

Simon Higgins broke through the $1.6 million mark regarding live poker tournament winnings with a victory in the £1,100 High Roller. Higgins came out on top of a 172-strong field to take home £37,420.

Christopher Vernon’s first five-figure prize since February 2022 weighed in at £19,350. Vernon won the £230 Opener. Five of Vernon’s six best scores have come in events Dusk Till Dawn hosted. Watch out for him at the next major festival.

Event	Entrants	Prize Pool	Champion	Prize
£1,100 UKPC High Roller	172	£165,120	Simon Higgins	£37,420
£230 UKPC Opener	588	£112,896	Christopher Vernon	£19,350
£120 UKPC Deepstack	245	£23,520	Anonymous	£3,840
£120 UKPC 7-Max	114	£10,944	Kevin Houghton	£2,787
£120 UKPC PLO	74	£7,14	Owen Harrop	£2,105
£230 UKPC PLO Bounty	43	£8,256	Wai Lam	£1,721*
£120 UKPC Bounty	139	£13,344	Gary Jackson	£1,630*
£120 UKPC Closer	59	£5,664	Daniel Turner	£1,359
£60 UKPC Freezeout	65	£3,120	Bruce Ewan	£980
£60 UKPC Turbo	61	£2,928	Granville Mitchell	£918

*prize before bounty payments

2025 UKPC Masters Announced

Dusk Till Dawn has revealed the dates for the UKPC Masters festival. Although the schedule is still to be finalized, you are urged to keep May 16-26 free because those dates are set in stone. PokerNews has learned the UKPC Masters will feature a £1,100 Main Event boasting a £1 million guaranteed prize pool. Expect online satellites and Day 1s at GGPoker.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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