Alan Gold Wins UKIPT Galway Main Event For $250k

Alan Gold has just won the 2013 UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) Galway, after defeating a field of 860 players over four days on his way to capturing the title, and collecting the €187,494 ($248,923) first place prize.
Incredibly, the Scottish online cash game pro actually qualified for the UKIPT Galway Main Event via a sattelite on Full Tilt Poker, but would then go on to dominate the competition, consistently staying near the top of the leader board throughout the whole tournament.
The €1,000 buy-in UKIPT Galway Main Event was the culmination of the  celebrated 60 event festival held in Ireland, and attracted a huge field to create a prize pool worth €970,000, meaning the €1m guaranteed tournament had a €140,000 overlay. Amongst the notables cashing in at the event were such pros as Roy Brindley in 57th (€2,910), Padraig Parkinson in 38th (€4,360), and Max Silver in 9th (€13,100).
By the time the final table of eight had been reached, Alan Gold (Scotland), was the chip leader on a 4.050m stack, followed by Ireland’s Daragh Davey (3.435m), and then the table’s second Scot in the guise of Paul Febers (2.91m). Also competing for the title was Dimitri Pembroke (Ireland), Christy Morkan (Ireland), Benjamin Spragg (England), Jonathan Slater (England), and Damian Porebski (Poland).
Alan Gold then proceeded to steam roll his way through his final table competitors, starting with Damian Porebski in 5th, Dimitri Pembroke in 4th, and Daragh Davey in 3rd. Gold would subsequently enter the heads-up phase of the competition holding a 12m to 4.755m chip advantage over Paul Febers, with the short affair quickly over after Gold was dealt Q-J to his opponent’s 9-9. As the board rolled out Q-6-5-Q-K, Gold successfully managed to extract value from Febers on all streets, who eventually committed his remaining chips on the river.
The final table payouts were as follows:
1st Alan Gold         €187,494
2nd Paul Febers         €149,906
3rd Daragh Davey     €80,400
4th Dimitri Pembroke €62,000
5th Damian Porebski  €45,300
6th Benjamin Spragg  €30,210
7th Christy Morkan   €22,310
8th Jonathan Slater  €16,500