The new stop for the UKIPT is in Edinburgh, Scotland. The 2010 UKIPT Edinburgh will take place August 19 – 22, which is the same time that the Edinburgh Fringe Festival will be taking place. The schedule will include many side events, culminating in a main event with a £500+£50 buy-in.

The reduced buy-in is for the UKIPT Dublin stop in Dublin, Ireland. The UKIPT Dublin main event now only costs €500+€60 to enter. The prize pool remains unchanged at €250,000.

Satellites into these UKIPT main events are running throughout the season at PokerStars, with the current satellites being for the UKIPT Brighton, which takes place on July 15 – 19. The UKIPT Kilarney, meanwhile, just started today June 24 and runs through June 27.

What event did he win? None of them, actually.

But what Brett Richey did accomplish to deserve the free seat in the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) main event, a prize package that includes a free seat in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, and another prize package including a free seat in the European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo Grand Final Main Event was come out on top of the SCOOP Leaderboard.

Though Richey didn’t win first place in any of the SCOOP events, he did appear in 5 final tables, and accrued about $95,000 in winnings for doing so. Richey also gets a Player of the Series trophy to commemorate his accomplishment by.