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From www.gukpt.com Live blog

Day 1a close

Player  - Chips
Andreas Hoivold  - 65,700
Allan Mclean  - 59,550
James Martin  - 54,175
Karl Mahrenholz  - 34,950
Jonathan Spinks  - 34,325
Richard Sinclair  - 30,750
Nathan Lee  - 25,100
Peter Wood  - 23,550
Andreas Papantoniou  - 23,375
Robert Price  - 23,050
Lloyd Rees  - 21,125
Richard Swerling  - 19,200
Jon O’Mara  - 17,475
Dan Owston  - 16,275
Mark Blandford  - 15,400
Reza Modir  - 13,875
Michael Moore  - 6,675
Jeff Kimber  - 6,500


In the region of 50 players played today

no updates on Blonde? Didn't even know this was on today!

dont think many ppl did seein as it only got 49 runners lol.....

Stuart Hopkin would like to pass best luck wishes to Dan Owston.

Its a busy month....also PSOP is on in London/The International, this weekend (£1000 buy in with £10,000 added), and some pros have gone/are going to the WPT in Cyprus this weekend.

Grease the WPT Cyprus.

We haven't had a sponsor since Minted Poker pulled out in May. We also have a commitment to the DTD £300, which is sponsored by DTD, and where Kev is going for tomorrow

Since Minted pulled out I've done Manchester, Newcastle and half of Luton on a voluntary basis but am not available this weekend for us to go double on the live updates.

We're really keen to do the GUKPTs (and other non DTD events) but sadly there's a limit to what we can do financially, or indeed with one person going solo at them, unless we get a sponsor or higher revenues. They ain't cheap when you factor in travel, hotels, updater payment etc

Ahhh, I seem to vaguely remember about Minted pulling out.

Would have been fun to get a couple of the locals to a mini update. I'm thinking dewi with the camera & sofa-king with words....

True, but only if they'd do it for free.

The point is valid though, we'll have to be creative on updates until we get funding/money.

You could charge as much as you like if dewi had the camera and sofa did the updating imo.

Does Karl ever not make it deep, lol

he's not exactly deep in this one

was it allan mcllean that finished 2nd overall at the luton event in august?

Yes

Day1b close

Jonathan Kalmar  - 72,750
Tristan Mcdonald  - 68,000
Stuart Keyte  - 55,175
Matthew Hopkins  - 47,750
Iwan Jones  - 40,800
Phillip Wise  - 39,525
William Martin  - 36,400
Adam Latimer  - 36,325
Peter Haslam  - 35,450
Dewi James  - 33,950
Neil Channing  - 26,550
Frank Romanello  - 25,925
Craig Swattom  - 24,125
Jonathon Kemsley  - 23,575
Gemal Husnu  - 20,900
Christopher Brammer  - 20,450
Jonathan Wong  - 19,825
Gareth Teatum  - 19,725
Raymond O’Mahoney  - 15,550
Adam Collins  - 13,050
Derek Gamlin  - 12,800
James Miller  - 12,400
Daniel Nutt  - 9,950

That’s it for today.  23 players left with 28k average chips.

The very last hand of the night goes to Dewi James, who finds ACES and talks Raymond O’Mahoney into calling his all-in preflop bet of 15k.  “If I had AQ, I’d call!” says Dewi.  Raymond calls holding pocket 66’s.


again from the WWW.GUKPT.com live blog

None other - & a true giant of UK Tournament Poker.

His Database of Live Tourney cashes stretches back about 15 years, & few, if any players have cashed in as many Fessie Events as Alan. I think he's accumulated nearly $800,000 in winnings.

but how much has he loosed?

Get it won Dewi. xxxx

Gl Dewi.

No idea - maybe more than he's won, I don't know. I just know his "winnings" are more than most players could ever hope to achieve.

When I first came to poker, I actually thought that Player Databases such as THM were having a laugh. They list winnings, but not losses. After a lifetime in commerce, that stat seemed to me to be meaningless. (As indeed, it is). It's like, say, Gross Profit, in business - it means nothing - Net Profit is the number that counts.

But all Live Poker Databases work the same way - cashes listed, losses not mentioned. It's a complete & utter nonsense, but those immersed in poker long enough gradually come to accept them as some sort of yardstick. And by that yardstick, Alan is as good as most in UK Live Poker.

I wonder how many other prominent Circuit players, or even Online players, have his longevity in the game?

Allan is also an interesting case I believe, as he was a LAGgy maniac well before the style of LAG came to the fore. He, Eric Barker, Ali Mallu terrorised the festival scene in the UK for about a decade and a lot of opponents didn't have a clue how to counter them

The festival scene has moved on, everyone knows what Allan is about style wise, yet he still gets results. Some achievement I feel.

Agreed, 100%. He's over 70, I think. The game has changed during his career - several times - yet he's still there.

Good luck today Dewi!!!  You can do it!!!

Keep going Dewi, good luck!

glgl dewi + spinksy

Thanksfor best wishes everyone went in 19th one bad call with 2 pair v st8 and last hand qq v Aj and Im gone, good luck all left especially Iwan (oioisaviloy)

Ul Dewi wp,all the same mate.

Karl Mahrenholz  14 left in Cardiff Gukpt, I've got 150k with average at 80k

Been Tweeted-Up., have you Rich?

Yup, becoming a fan of twitter actually

Final! (Chip Counts courtesy of GUKPT.com)

Karl Mahrenholz  - 231,900
Tristan Mcdonald  - 174,600
Craig Swatton  - 149,100
Andreas Hoivold  - 145,600
James Martin  - 140,900
Iwan Jones  - 139,000
Jonathan Kalmar  - 130,600
Andreas Papantoniou  - 54,000
Daniel Nutt  - 36,400

Good Final that. In-Poker will cover it.

scores of players on this site already have his longevity, hand-wise

The wisdom and experience gained over a long period of time is worth more than that gained over a shorter timescale, IMO.

quite  a corking final five, by the looks of it

Jon Kalmar - 457,700
Craig Swatton - 240,700
Andreas Hoivold - 217,100
Iwan Jones - 146,200
Karl Mahrenholz - 140,400

Not half.

Hope that Orford has a tie on this week!

LOL Nope - and Tikay is most disappointed!

Congratulations Karl.

 ;applause; ;applause; ;applause;

Well done Karl, beats Iwan J Heads up

September 6th, 2009 at 11:39 pm

The very next hand it ended. Iwan had 13k left and was all in with T-7. Karl had A-4. No improvement for Iwan and he finishes in 2nd place for £25,200. Karl Mahrenholz is the third Hitsquad player to win a GUKPT. He was runner up at the inaugural GUKPT in Bolton in 2007 and now he has joined Praz Bansi and Sunny Chattha by taking down a main event. He takes away £38,700, a seat in the Champion of Champion’s event and a nice blue trophy.

Info from the GUKPT blog, again.

Well done Karl. Good to see Iwan go so close too. Top man.

good stuff, well done karl

;)

Congrats on your sit and go win sir, wd.

lol what a rub

GUKPT is a GUKPT

gogogogogogogogogooo mantis

A mantis achievement would not be complete without me knocking it.

fran likes this wp boss

the hitsquad ownnnn the gpt.

wp karl.

 ;applause; ;applause;