Matt Perrins

Career

Perrins is a resident of the Manchester suburb Rochdale, along with Jake Cody. He learned to play poker by playing with Cody, whom he has known his whole life. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Perrins was an engineer

In 2010, he was featured on Late Night Poker along with Philosophy Ivey, Carlos Mortensen, James Akenhead, John Duthie, Scott Fischman, Michael Binger, and Ben Roberts.

Among those he defeated at the final table was Matt Berkey, who was at his third final table of the 2013 series. The victory came on the last day before the 2013 Main Event began on July 6.

Achievements

• In 2009, Perrins won the PokerStars.com Italian Poker Tour Venice, collecting €851,660 in the process against a field of 438 contestants that included Johnny Lodden, Dario Minieri, and Vanessa Rousso. Perrins was the first non-Italian to win an event on the PokerStars Italian Poker Tour. When Perrins won the 275-entrant $1,500 2–7 Draw Lowball (Number Limit) 2011 Event 9 against a final table that included Jason Mercier, Bernard Lee and eventual runner-up Chris Björin, it was the first time he had ever played no-limit deuce-to-seven draw lowball. He won the 784-entrant $5,000 Number Limit Hold"em 2013 Event 57, earning nearly $800,000. Online at Full Tilt Poker, where Perrins plays under the nickname "pez102", he won the October 18, 2009 2,606-entrant $200 buy-in Sunday Brawl for a prize of $105,803.60.