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The final 8 are as follows.

Bo Selstedt
Johnny Lodden
Ken Lennaard
Jeff Lisandro
Wayne Hutchins
Antonio Esfandiari
Martin Wendt
Ben Grundy


On the day I think we bet it something like this

4 Lodden
4  Esfandiari
11/2 Lennaard
11/2 Lisandro
13/2 Grundy
13/2 Wendt
7 Selstedt
9 Hutchins

Interestingly enough, most of the money was for Selstedt,Lisandro and Wendt.

I hope you have enjoyed the series and enjoy the final.

over to you Kingpoker..........

Here's the cash breakdown.

Prize Pool
The total prize fund of £500,000 was comprised of the buy-ins plus a £164,000 top-up from William Hill.

1st prize - £175,000
2nd prize - £100,000
3rd prize - £70,000
4th prize - £50,000
5th prize - £35,000
6th prize - £25,000
7th prize - £20,000
8th prize - £15,000
Runner up in semi final £10,000

Well .........................................





































....I think its going to be the best one yet!  ;D

Just a quick not, some listings have the start time as 11pm but it says 10pm on Sky.

I've backed Johnny Lodden at 40/1 so I am hoping he takes it down...

This whole event was fantastic! Some of the best TV poker I've seen. Great final to boot, well done Martin Wendt on your deserved victory.

how did it finish? i ended up dozing off with the final 4 i think around 12:30

Can someone pm me winner and runner up pls....cheers.

if anyone wants to watch it the show is repeated at 10 am and 2pm today.

Thanks

am i the only one that thought the move of the tournyment was actually bad play

yes he made a good laydown butplayed the river badly

he raised the river to pass to the reraise

where he could of checked to call the river bet same amount of chips into pot but gets to see the showdown

I think he figured DC may have flopped a set (amongst other possibilities) then sussed that the turn made the house

class lay down

class laydown but why bet to fold

why not just check call for same cost

or check fold

bet fold on the river was a bad play imho

bet to find out. might pick it up, might get a flat call. sure about the house if he's raised

wouldnt it be just as cheap to check call to find out rather than bet to find out

Value bet with what he thought was the best hand then he was good enough to realise that it wasn't. Not many players put that down there imo. Was a v v good laydown and check calling there just isn't an option as there are so many hands that would be just checked behind him that would have called the value bet. The best hand wasn't just decided by some drunk bloke at a bar- I'm sure all the pro commentators had a say in what they thought was the best, the look on DCs face should have told you what a class play it was.

it was a class laydown i am not saying it isnt

i just think there was better ways to play the hand

i actually thought the play of the tourney was Antonio's re raise with jack 10 against Lodden representing the 3 on a 7 3 3 board, that was class.

I did exactly the same thing ace!
Gonna watch repeat today anyway.

I assumer the number 1 hand was loddens flush. I think he played it perfectly and until DC raised on the river he thought he was ahead, now how man players do you know would hae laid that down to the raise dave made? Even dave said he couldnt have. Lodden is unbelievable in knowing when he is behind or ahead and we saw him make his first and only mistake of the whole tournament last night when he kept betting with his 10 8 and hutchins had KK and you saw how much he kicked himself.


Wow i knew antonio was good but i never thought he was world class before i saw him on will hill, he dominated his heat and the play bobby said was unbelievable and also the semi bluff against grundy was one of the best i have seen ever!

I really didnt think wendt tactics were going to pay off after seeing him lay down the 10 10 and other nice pairs but obviously it did. Great final now only 12 onths til the next one!!!

antonio made some great plays bobby your right that JT was one for the records

my view on loddens was yes he knew he was beat yes he made a great laydown

but on a dangerous board like that he made a "value bet" when he knew he couldnt call a reraise

as he was unsure where he was in the pot untill DC reraise surely he would of been better off check calling

that way DC would be unable to pull a bluff on him or nake same move with a smaller flush or trips

IT WAS A GREAT LAYDOWN but there were cheaper better options to win the pot

The Grundy vs Antonio Hand a3 vs J8. Do you just have to say too good there, or do you think it's possible to justify a call with Ben's hand? :) Would be sick!

I think the performance of Wayne Hutchings  deserves some praise.
He knew he wasn't anywhere near the standard of the other players but it just shows that an internet qualifier playing a tight game can get results.
It should certainly give most of us some hope!

Agreed and to be honest I thought he would have been a deserved winner based on the final. Shame in the end the way he went out in the final hand, but a very nice pay out.
Great tv tourney and can't wait for the next one.

I've known this result for far too long, could of really spoilt the fun for you all.
Good thing i'm a nice person.

 can you watch this online ?

This was by far the best of the made-for-TV tournaments.

Laddies and Matchroom take note - the 8-handed format is much more entertaining in terms of the changing dynamics through each heat/final.

I thought it was excellent TV, good commentary and vey well produced.   That said it was the names and the standard of play that made this tournament, I was very impressed with Lodden and Antonio, but also felt Hutchins played very well, he knew he was outclassed, but he was rarely outplayed.  He deserves his pay day and everyone involved in the tournament deserves a big pat on the back.

Are there any sites showing this online.  I had Sky + it , but some idiot has deleted it ....  >:(