Historical Poker Archive | Event concluded: 14 March 2011

Matthew McDerra won the 2011 UK and Ireland Poker Tour Manchester Main Event, earning £74,000 after a demanding final table. Contemporary coverage published on 15 March described McDerra, from Plymouth, as the champion of the latest UKIPT stop.

The Final Table

The last eight included two-time WSOP bracelet winner JP Kelly and Robert Angood. McDerra reached heads-up play against Poland’s Mateusz Warowiec. The contest lasted approximately six hours before McDerra gained the decisive advantage and closed out the tournament.

Warowiec finished second for £43,500; Angood placed third for £27,600. Mick Fletcher took fourth for £20,300, followed by JP Kelly (£16,000), Paul Nash (£12,600), Owen Shiels (£9,500) and Michael Birt (£7,200).

A UKIPT Milestone

The Manchester event was held 10–14 March 2011 as part of the tour’s second season. The reported first-place award was £74,000. The next UKIPT stop was scheduled for Cork in May.

Archive note: This is an independently written historical summary, not the original 2011 Poker Channel Europe or IFP article.

Sources: Bluff Europe, 15 March 2011; The Hendon Mob tournament results.

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Manchester 2011: tournament record and contemporary reporting

The March 2011 Manchester Main Event formed part of the second season of the UK and Ireland Poker Tour. Tournament records list 615 entries, a £307,500 prize pool and 81 paid places. The event took place at G Casino in Manchester, with the final day on 14 March 2011. McDerra received £74,000 for first place.

A contemporary report published by Bluff Europe on 15 March 2011 described a lengthy heads-up contest against Mateusz Warowiec. That report records a decisive confrontation involving McDerra’s set of fives, followed by the final hand shortly afterward. These details are attributed to that report rather than presented as a recovered original IFP article.

A note on the historical record

The archived summary names Owen Shiels in seventh place, as does the contemporary Bluff Europe report. Some later tournament tables instead list Ed Payne for that position. The discrepancy is left visible rather than silently resolved; the linked contemporary report and tournament database allow readers to compare the records.

Sources for this editorial supplement

Independent archival commentary added in 2026; not a reproduction of the original 2011 report.