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Sadly we are unable to live update there this year, though we hope to be back in GUKPT action at the Vic at the end of November


For now, here's the thread with news and end of day chip counts as they happen

41 players began today and they are playing down to 15 or level 9


You can follow progress via www/GUKPT.com where our friends AlrightJack and Peter Leeper are in situ reporting


The 41 runners quite a high powered lot including Cardiff winner, the running hotter than everyone except Akenhead, Karl Mahrenholz


Table 1 Seat 1 Danny Tran
Table 1 Seat 2 Michael Moore
Table 1 Seat 3 Stasia Xanthos
Table 1 Seat 4 Jeffrey Michael Kimber
Table 1 Seat 5 Priyan Demel
Table 1 Seat 6 Marc Wright
Table 1 Seat 7 Anthony Thorpe
Table 1 Seat 8 William Martin
Table 2 Seat 1 Sami Yusuf
Table 2 Seat 2 Carey Hollick
Table 2 Seat 3 Thomas Rolfe
Table 2 Seat 4 Glen Altham
Table 2 Seat 5 Nathan Lee
Table 2 Seat 6 Giovanni Vaccarella
Table 2 Seat 7 Christopher Brammer
Table 2 Seat 8 Steven Watts
Table 3 Seat 1 Martin Green
Table 3 Seat 2 David La Ronde
Table 3 Seat 3 Darren Wright
Table 3 Seat 4 Kyriacos Saranta
Table 3 Seat 5 Kevin Taunton
Table 3 Seat 6 Alan Davies
Table 3 Seat 7 James Williams
Table 3 Seat 8 Danny Toffel
Table 4 Seat 1 Alan Vinson
Table 4 Seat 2 Shana Casaletto
Table 4 Seat 3 Robert Topp
Table 4 Seat 4 Stephen paul Eames
Table 4 Seat 5 Aman Atwal
Table 4 Seat 6 Massimo Pomponio
Table 4 Seat 7 Anthony Mack
Table 4 Seat 8 Roberto Romanello
Table 5 Seat 1 Anthony Adderley
Table 5 Seat 2 Aaroh Elcombe
Table 5 Seat 3 Andrew Seden
Table 5 Seat 4 Daniel Furnival
Table 5 Seat 5 Dean Swift
Table 5 Seat 6 David Clark
Table 5 Seat 7 Spencer dale Lawrence
Table 5 Seat 8 Karl Mahrenholz
Table 6 Seat 1 Charalambos Xanthos
Table 6 Seat 2 Alan Mansbridge
Table 6 Seat 3 Peter Abela
Table 6 Seat 4 Steven Chennells
Table 6 Seat 5 Benjamin Gross
Table 6 Seat 6 Adam Vinson
Table 6 Seat 7 Keir Ratcliff
Table  Seat  Martyn Cavanagh

It ended up with 50 players after the latecomers had arrived. There are 23 of them left now, including Roberto Romanello, Jeff Kimber, Bambos, Spencer Lawrence, Adam Vinson, Sami Yusuf, Albert Sapiano, Shana Casaletto, Dave Clark, Priyan Demel, Steven Watts, Tony Mackay, Tony Adderley and Jamie Williams. They are 3/4 of the way through level 6 anbd will be playing down to 15 tonight, unless they get to the end of level 9 before then (unlikely). The £100 comp has 81 players in it. Day 1b is expected to be a larger field than today and JP Kelly, Praz Bansi and James Akenhead are all expected to play.

Play stopped with 26 minutes left on the clock during level 8. Three-time GUKPT main event finalist Roberto Romanello leads the way, by a significant margin.


Player  - Chips

Spencer Lawrence  - 40,950
Priyan Demel  - 49,600
Roberto Romanello  - 113,450
Albert Sapiano  - 59,950
Alan Mansbridge  - 13,275
Adam Vinson  - 21,950
Steven Watts  - 29,700
Anthony Adderley  - 37,225
Peter Abela  - 17,300
Jeff Kimber  - 39,275
Robert Topp  - 19,225
Anthony Thorpe  - 21,400
Glen Altham  - 18,450
Saranta Kyriacos  - 11,100
Shana Casaletto  - 7,150
 

Which is a quote from the GUKPT blog, where you can read more updates on how day 1a unfolded - http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/ (http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/)

go go romanello

gl to adam vinson and tony adderly

GL Tony Adderley, Rob Topp and Shana.

http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/ please check out the GUKPT blog

82 runners today

Table  - Seat  - Player
1  - 1  - Jeraint Hazan
1  - 2  - Sunny Chattha
1  - 3  - David Welch
1  - 4  - James Miller
1  - 5  - John Eames
1  - 6  - Hilton Stoch
1  - 7  - Anthony Forsyth Forres
1  - 8  - Robert Hudson
1  - 9  - Peter Charalambous
2  - 1  - Susan O’Connor
2  - 2  - John Kelly
2  - 3  - Joseph Grech
2  - 4  - Ian Woodley
2  - 5  - Gary Cooper
2  - 6  - David Barraclough
2  - 7  - James Morris
2  - 8  - Matt Perrins
2  - 9  - Martin Silke
3  - 1  - Nigel Berg
3  - 2  - Stephen O’Keeffe
3  - 3  - David Rudling
3  - 4  - Andrew Miles
3  - 5  - William Brewin
3  - 6  - Stuart Rutter
3  - 7  - Geoff Ansell
3  - 8  - Paul Wilson
3  - 9  - Julian Thew
4  - 1  - Darren Annis
4  - 2  - Bernard Litman
4  - 3  - Andrew Clarke
4  - 4  - Craig Swattom
4  - 5  - Jonathan Kalmar
4  - 6  - Neil Fox
4  - 7  - Akshay Reddy
4  - 8  - Nicholas Hale
4  - 9  - Lawrence Stone
5  - 1  - Martin Bader
5  - 2  - Stephen Bovis
5  - 3  - Daniel Nutt
5  - 4  - India Storrar
5  - 5  - Edward Roger
5  - 6  - James Lee
5  - 7  - Harry Delahunt
5  - 8  - Benjamin Winsor
5  - 9  - Jerome Bradpiece
6  - 1  - Anthony Hardy
6  - 2  - Ian Frazer
6  - 3  - Sam Oatley
6  - 4  - Ulf Andersson
6  - 5  - David Barnes
6  - 6  - Joseph Julian
6  - 7  - Nick Slade
6  - 8  - Katie OConnor
6  - 9  - James Akenhead
7  - 1  - Jamie Carlin
7  - 2  - Jonathon Kemsley
7  - 3  - Neil Barron
7  - 4  - Christopher Rose
7  - 5  - Karl Limbert
7  - 6  - Michael Ellis
7  - 7  - Andreas Achillea
7  - 8  - Tony Woodmansee
7  - 9  - Charles Chattha
8  - 1  - Karl Fenton
8  - 2  - David Lloyd
8  - 3  - Andrew Warnes
8  - 4  - Jason Evans
8  - 5  - Lawrie Inman
8  - 6  - Steven Ducharme
8  - 7  - Andrew Teng
8  - 8  - James Reid
8  - 9  - Samuel Trickett
9  - 1  - James Sudworth
9  - 2  - Jeff Sharpe
9  - 3  - Leon Campbell
9  - 4  - Andy Wakerell
9  - 5  - Martin Davis
9  - 6  - Michael Hynes
9  - 7  - John Miller
9  - 8  - Cheryl Pulver
9  - 9  - Martins Adeniya

End of day chip counts later, with thanks to Mr Raab and team

Late entrant Laurence Houghton was not on this list, but is playing. Recent exits have included Ian Frazer, Ian Woodley, Sam Trickett and Martin Bader.

30 made it through

http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/ for more details

Player  - Chips
James Morris  - 73725
Nick Slade  - 51050
Sam Oatley  - 45300
Jonathon Kemsley  - 40875
Sunny Chattha  - 39100
Martins Adeniya  - 37850
India Storrar  - 35125
Lawrie Inman  - 34650
David Rudling  - 31400
Jerome Bradpiece  - 27900
Andreas Achillea  - 26950
Anthony Forsyth Forres  - 26850
David Lloyd  - 25875
Peter Charalambous  - 24225
Bernard Litman  - 23925
Steven Ducharme  - 23275
John Eames  - 22900
James Akenhead  - 22575
James Lee  - 21950
Michael Ellis  - 20925
Julian Thew  - 20850
Craig Swattom  - 17875
Michael Hynes  - 17300
Neil Barron  - 17150
Charles Chattha  - 17150
Stephen Bovis  - 15875
JP Kelly  - 15525
Darren Annis  - 15000
Jamie Carlin  - 13550
Nigel Berg  - 13300

Final:

Darren Annis  - 325,600
Jeff Kimber  - 239,900
Lawrie Inman  - 192,600
James Morris  - 153,800
Peter Charalambous  - 124,600
Adam Vinson  - 97,900
Nigel Berg  - 93,800
Andreas Achillea  - 65,900
Robert Topp  - 34,900

Go Pete charalambousosososoosos and Vinson!

Could be a repeat heads up from Walsall with Kimber there

glglglgl adam mfkin vinson, really wanna see him take this down, jeff and pete for 2nd/3rd

Best of Luck Adam.

http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/ for coverage

8 left, including Kimber and Vinson

Press release

Darren Annis Scoops GUKPT Thanet Main Event

38-year-old Darren Annis from Welling has won the 8th leg of the 2009 GUKPT at the G Casino in Thanet, defeating former tour winner Jeff Kimber after an eventful heads up encounter. The former IT consultant scooped £41,900 for his victory in the shortest ever GUKPT event in the tour’s history and also claims a seat in the end of year £100,000 Champion of Champions tournament. After taking out futures trader Lawrie Innman in 3rd place Kimber assumed the chip lead going into the heads up stage of the tournament and the early exchanges of the final match up saw him press his advantage further. The former world heads up champion looked strong, winning pot after pot from his less experienced opponent, taking a 3-1 chip lead. However Annis then got frustrated and pushed all-in with A-4, only to come up against Kimber’s A-J. Having flopped a straight draw and turning a flush draw, Annis then found a 4 on the river to double up and put the match level again. 10 minutes later Annis emerged victorious when holding A-J on a K-Q-Q-T-5 board for a straight. There had been betting on every street and Kimber called Annis’s all in river bet but mucked his cards when the new champion revealed his winning hand. It was the first GUKPT event that Annis had played in, however he has been playing regularly for 14 years and has previously taken part in the WSOP and other major events.

The final table also included two other players who had previously made GUKPT main event final tables. Peter Charalambous, who finished second to Jeff Kimber in last year’s Walsall main event finished in 4th place while James Morris, who finaled in Luton earlier this year took the 6th. Prison guard Andreas Achillea from London absconded in 5th place while Robert Topp, Adam Vinson and Nigel Berg completed the final table line up in 7th, 8th and 9th places respectively. 8th place finished Adam became the third member of his family to make a GUKPT main event final table, following in the footsteps of younger brother Ben and father Alan, who have two final tables each to their names.

Winner Darren Annis commented afterwards

“I played my A-game for three days and it has paid off. When I play my A-game, I’m as good as anyone in Europe.”

He also admitted getting lucky in a few big hands along the way but will not be stepping up to play too many big buy in events in the future. He qualified for the event through a satellite at the host casino and will be trying to qualify for further legs of the tour in the same manner. Shortly after the main event concluded, he jumped straight into the £100 NL Hold’em bounty tournament, which rounded off the festival week. Runner up Jeff Kimber also won a tournament at the festival, taking down the 111 runner £200 NL Hold’em freezeout earlier in the week. Double WSOP bracelet winner JP Kelly also tasted victory in the £250 NL Hold’em freezeout.

The tour continues in November, when the G Casino in Blackpool plays host to the 9th and final regular leg of 2010. The festival starts on November 7th and the main event takesd place over four days from the 12th-15th. Online super satellites take place three times a week on Blue Square Poker – www.bluesqpoker.com.

-Ends-

least hell be able to buy a new top with his winnings

[ ] Mr Annis put on his best happy face for the stock photo session

probably bricking it that you are going to jump him in the car park and nick his trophy like you did to Nick Slade :-)

wouldnt break into his house in case i caught terminal cheerfulness..

Ego, much?

even funnier when you read this