/ Matthew Pitt / 20 February 2012 / Leave a Comment 
Nick Abou Risk (Photo: Mickey May)
Abou Risk is a regular on the UKIPT and has had some stellar results in the three seasons it has been running, including two outright wins
The UK & Ireland Poker Tour Galway Main Event has reached the nine-handed final table and the eyes of the media are fixated on one man, despite the fact he is the second shortest stack when play resumes. That man is Nick Abou Risk.
Abou Risk is a regular on the UKIPT and has had some stellar results in the three seasons it has been running, including two outright wins. Back in 2010 Risk outlasted 401 runners in the UKIPT Edinburgh Main Event to get his hands on €50,000 in prize money then he followed that up with another win in December 2010's UKIPT Galway Main Event for a further €67,100. Now he has the chance for an unprecedented third UKIPT title when play resumes this afternoon.
Standing between Risk and that third UKIPT title are eight talented player who will be lead into battle by Ronan Gilligan whose 2,489,000 stack contains an extra 1,000,000 chips than any other player at the final table. Gilligan is a name that has graced these very pages before, not for his runner-up finish in the UKIPT Dublin Main Event back in 2010 but for his third place finish in the recent World Poker Tour Dublin Main Event that was won by Dave "Dubai" Shallow in January.
The final table of UKIPTs are usually played eight-handed but the penultimate day's play took more than 14 hours to complete so when Alan Gilmore was sent to the rail in tenth place during the early hours of the morning the decision was taken to pause the tournament and play down to a winner today instead, much to the delights of the players, the tournament staff and the various media outlets.
When play resumes at 1200 noon in Galway the players will sit down safe in the knowledge they have each locked up €7,800 in prize money but by the time play comes to an end and one player has in his possession each and every one of the 10,470,000 chips in play that player will be crowned champion and will have won a massive €114,900. Who will that be? Check in tomorrow to find that out!
UKIPT Galway Final Table Seat Draw
Seat 1: Emmett Mullin: 1,003,000
Seat 2: Nick Abou Risk: 647,000
Seat 3: Richard Haile: 652,000
Seat 4: Craig Burke: 1,283,000
Seat 5: Joe Roberts: 1,103,000
Seat 6: John Willoughby: 1,382,000
Seat 7: Aleksandras Rusinovas: 1,003,000
Seat 8: Joris Ruijs: 440,000
Seat 9: Ronan Gilligan: 2,489,000
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