Rob Akery is a professional poker

Poker

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 player from Bristol, UK.

Career

Akery started playing poker in 2004, and went professional in 2005. Rob started playing poker aged 18 after receiving a $5 transfer into his account from a friend. Aged 21, Akery played his first World Series Poker event.

As of 2011, Akery was reported to have accumulated total live tournament winnings of $ 1,256,194 .

Despite his large success at poker tournaments, Rob Akery is mainly an online high stake cash game player While his total winning is unknown, he is reported to win $919,593 from PokerStars and $177,816.00 from the online Pokerstars Sunday Million on the 4-6-2008 alone.

Tournaments Overiew

Date	Event	Place	Prize
Nov 2007	GBPT Grand Final	2nd	$99,828
Jan 2008	Crown Aussie Millions Championship	9th	$184,036
Dec 2008	Grand Final - Great British Poker Tour	2nd	$103,236
Sept 2009	London Open PokerStars EPT - Season 6	4th	$26,222
Jul 2010	Bellagio Cup VI/ WPT Season 9	5th	$169,930
May 2011	PokerStars PokerStars PokerStars is the largest online poker cardroom in the world. PokerStars' satellite tournaments produced the 2003 World Series of Poker champion, Chris Moneymaker. 1983 champion Tom McEvoy, 2005 champion Joe Hachem, 2009 champion Joe Cada and 2010 champion Jonathan Duhamel and others also represent... EPT Madrid - Season 7	2nd	$129,752
Oct 2011	Pokerstars EPT London / Season 8 / UKIPT /Season 2	3rd	$359,121

External links

• Rob Akery tournament results
• WPT Final Table