Keith Tilston

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Keith Tilston
  Personal information  
Year of birth 1982 or 1983
place of residence United StatesUnited States Austin
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 2,792,406
Total prize money $ 6,417,409
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 1
Cashes 10
Best main event 676th ( 2015 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 3
Last updated: May 11, 2020

Keith Tilston (* 1982 or 1983 ) is a professional American poker player .

Poker career

Tilston has been participating in prestigious live tournaments since 2005 .

In August 2005, occupied Tilston at Legends of Poker in Los Angeles into second place and got his first live cash prize of just under 75,000 US dollars . In July 2006 he was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and came in the money in two tournaments of the No Limit Hold'em variant . In mid-December 2015, Tilston finished seventh in the Alpha8 on the World Poker Tour at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, earning more than $ 175,000. In December 2017 he won the high roller of the Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the same place and secured a prize of 424,000 US dollars. In February 2018, Tilston played at the US Poker Open at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. There he made the money four times, receiving his highest cash prize of $ 660,000 for winning the Main Event . With prize money totaling more than one million US dollars, Tilston collected the second most of all players after Stephen Chidwick during the tournament series and therefore took second place in the race for the " US Poker Open Championship trophy ". In April 2018, Tilston finished fourth in the Super High Roller of the partypoker Millions in Barcelona and received almost 300,000 euros . At the end of February 2019, he finished third in the US Poker Open Main Event for $ 528,000. At the 2019 WSOP , Tilston reached the final table in the $ 50,000 Final Fifty and finished sixth, for which he received around $ 275,000. A few days later, he won the series' high roller event, which cost $ 100,000, and secured a bracelet and his highest prize money by far of nearly $ 2.8 million.

In total, Tilston has earned just under 6.5 million US dollars from poker in live tournaments.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Keith Tilston in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 13, 2019.
  2. 2005 Legends of Poker ($ 1,500 + 80 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 13, 2019.
  3. 37th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2006 ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 13, 2019.
  4. 37th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2006 ($ 5,000 Short Handed No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 13, 2019.
  5. WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 100,000 WPT Alpha8 - No Limit Hold'em High Roller (Event # 18)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 13, 2019.
  6. WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - Bellagio High Roller # 16 (Event # 22)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 13, 2019.
  7. 2018 US Poker Open ($ 50,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event (Event # 8)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 13, 2019.
  8. Stephen Chidwick Wins Inaugural US Poker Open on cardplayer.com on February 12, 2018, accessed on July 13, 2019.
  9. partypoker Millions Grand Final Barcelona (€ 50,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - € 50k Super High Roller # 5) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 13, 2019.
  10. 2019 US Poker Open ($ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - USPO # 10 100K NLH Main Event (Event # 10)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 13, 2019.
  11. 50th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2019 ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 90)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 13, 2019.
  12. 50th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2019 ($ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 83)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 13, 2019.