Sensei Kevin Williams

Name

Kevin Williams

Online Moniker

Kevish47

Belt

Background

Kevin was a relatively late arrival to professional poker, but grabbed a taste for the lifestyle when he won the only seat in a 500-runner freeroll to play the 2007 WSOP Main Event in Vegas. Although he performed well on his debut, he just missed out on the money by a few places when he finished around the 700 mark out of an initial field of 6,358.

Credentials

Forward wind three years and Kevin was a part of Black Belt Poker's second Grading process, ultimately fast-tracking his way to Blue Belt as one of five Grading winners. His status as a Blue Belt led to Neil Channing staking Kevin in the Main Event later that year, where he joined friend and fellow Blue Belt Jamie Burland on a last-minute flight to Vegas.

These days, Kevin plays six-max $0.50/1 cash games on Black Belt Poker, but started off as a cash game pro in Brighton where he ground out a tidy profit over the space of a couple of years. Kevin also has experience in low to mid stakes six-max SNGs, as well as turbo SNGs where he boasts an ROI of 13-15 percent.

Although predominantly an online pro, Kevin has ventured onto the live circuit, and was part of the Black Belt Poker trio who finished an incredible second, third and fourth in the GUKPT Summer Series leg in Luton. More recently, he made the money in the Edinburgh UKIPT for his second live cash of the year.

His biggest score, however, arrived at the virtual felt only weeks prior to jetting off for Vegas. With the BBP faithful cheering him on from the rail, Kevin managed to take down iPoker's weekly $200,000 GTD tournament for a whopping $42,000. Not bad for a day at the office.

During the Grading, it emerged that Kevin had a talent for teaching the game, and quickly impressed with his presentation and strategy articles. So much, in fact, that Neil Channing invited him to mentor at a two-day Black Belt Poker Boot Camp where Kevin led group discussions and gave a well-received presentation on G-Bucks.