We've reached the last 5 in our countdown of the top 20 ranked players in World Championship of Amateur Poker history and coming in at #5 is popular Londoner, Matt Carter.
Carter, who will captain the England team at this year's World Amateur Team Championship, has cashed six times at APAT's headline series over the years.
His adventure started way back at the first WCOAP in 2008, where he fell just short of the Main Event final table, finishing 12th of 206 players.
It would be five years before Carter would cash again, finishing 5th at the 2013 Stud Championship.
He would win his first WCOAP medal in 2015, with a third place finish, again in the Stud discipline.
Carter produced his most outstanding WCOAP performance last season.
Firstly, as a member of the England team who took the Silver medals in the World Amateur Team Championship, behind a rampant Scottish quartet.
He final tabled the PLO Championship, finishing 9th.
A couple of days later Matt enjoyed a second deep run at the Main Event, this time finishing a highly credible 5th of 393 players.
While Matt Carter's focus is likely to be firmly on the Team Championship in Manchester, there's no doubt he has the steely mentality to grind out a couple of individual results either side. In fact, we're pretty sure if you offered him a guaranteed Bracelet today, he'd choose Team glory over Main Event Gold.
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