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137 in at £2,500

End of Day 1 chip counts

Matt Moss - 177,400

Peter Charalambous - 133,050

Jan Sjavik - 123,975

Chris Brammer - 118,500

Ken Wong - 118,075

Jon Spinks - 110,900

Igor Kurganov - 104,750

Jake Cody - 83,750

Rhys Jones - 83,65

Erik Wigg - 82,000

Bahman Djarian - 81,700

Philip Long - 77,075

Ramzi Jelassi - 74,400

Craig McCorkell - 73,650

Damian Evans - 72,525

Fabian Quoss - 69,500

Simon Deadman - 68,950

Tamer Kamel - 62,975

Matthew Perry - 62,400

Chris O'Donnell - 61,100

Rumit Somaiya - 59,075

Steve Warburton - 58,800

Federico Secola - 57,225

Lennart Valhjaltaafeldt - 57,000

Rob Boon - 55,600

Ben Jones - 52,200

Dan Rudd - 51,625

William Chattaway - 50,700

James Keys - 50,025

Padraig Parkison - 49,975

Martin Jacobson - 49,850

Victor Ilyukhin - 47,650

Sam Grafton - 46,800

John Bousfield - 45,800

John Eames - 45,275

Graham Pound - 42,700

Aviv Kornberg - 41,450

Jamie Burland - 39,900

Neil Channing - 36,650

Robin Keston - 36,400

Paul Ephremsen - 36,000

Mike Ellis - 33,150

Jamie Roberts - 32,850

Ramey Shaio - 32,700

David Barnes - 32,625

Phillippe Souki - 30,850

Herve Decker - 30,600

Sandeep Khosa - 30,350

Nick Crisp - 29,725

Danny Toffel - 27,525

Jeff Kimber - 26,150

Leon Mills - 25,200

Jan Bendik - 23,250

Matt Davenport - 23,000

Vince Meli - 21,575

Martin Frey - 21,500

Andrew Abernathy - 20,750

Sam MacDonald - 20,000

Ben Roberts - 16,875

Ajay Bhadresa - 15,825

Jeffrey Szlanyinka - 15,000

Michael Tureniec - 14,450

George Hassabis - 14,350

Dave Maudlin - 13,075

Stuart Rutter - 13,025

Howard Smith - 9,275

Chris Geater - 6,550

Karoly Kiss - 1,400

#mattmosstho

whos doin a book bet a few wouldnt mind having a punt????

anyone wana give me 5/1 on a deadman final table?

Seeing as though he's got above average stack with only about 60 remaining, 5/1 is asking a bit too much!!

You can have 5/2 if you want a bet.

U can have Deadman at 8/1 EW to make the FT actually.
I'm being generous but the bets only 1p EW max !!! Lol
He's Gona make the FT . The boy is on fire

Tooooo many heros but winning this would be a good start to my premonition. Keys to be a millionaire by Christmas

GukPT Grand Final 2012
£2500 NLHE F/O
Entries: 137

1st........£102,700

2nd.........£72,800
3rd..........£45,400
4th..........£28,250
5th..........£22,250
6th..........£17,100
7th..........£13,700
8th..........£10,300
9th............£7,700

10th..........£6,000
11th..........£6,000
12th..........£5,150
13th..........£5,150


13 left, Brammer and Deadman amongst those in the cash

from fb

D Maudlin - 290,000

Sam Grafton - 260,000

Jamie Burland - 200,000

Jon Spinks - 560,000

Sandeep Khosa - 85,000

Simon Deadman - 45,000

George Hassabis - 200,000

Table Two

Jan Sjavik - 290,000

Chris Brammer - 450,000

Matthew Moss - 250,000

Ramey Shaio - 150,000

Victor Ilyukhin - 250,000

Peter Charalambous - 260,000

Deadman busto'd. Sick last 2, so many heroes!

Pretty excited for this. Big love for Bramm and Spinkles aswell. Love em so much I'm not gonna start anti-railing there all-ins til we're at least five-handed.

Come on squiddddddy

Big Chara has an outside chance too. Gl him Chris and Sam.

 :kiss:

Anyone running a book?

Final Nine Chip Counts

Matt Moss - 857,000

Jon Spinks - 658,200

Sam Grafton - 520,100

Victor Ilyukhin - 434,500

George Hassabis - 262,800

Chris Brammer - 242,500

Sandeep Khosa - 192,500

Peter Charalambous - 182,800

Dave Maudlin - 165,800



10th..........£6,000..Jan Sjavik

11th..........£6,000...Jamie Burland

12th..........£5,150...Ramey Shaio

13th..........£5,150...Simon Deadman

What time is the restart?

I'll run a book if there's time.

boooo. Needs to get out n play more. :)

Play starts at 2pm.

Moss 5/2
Spinks 11/4
Grafton 7/2
Ilyukin 7/1
Hassabis 10/1
Brammer 8/1
Khosa 20/1
Chara 20/1
Maudlin 25/1


Will lay any player to lose £500 total at the price adveritised.

Id like £20 on brammer if someone can vouch for me/send on stars or summat. Not gona be home to be able to send till tonight?

Ok, booked.

Send on Stars to "The Camel" when you get home.

Cool, cheers

Jon has 90k less than advertised.

So a slightly altered book:

Moss 9/4
Spinks 3/1
Grafton 10/3
Ilyukin 7/1
Hassabis 10/1
Brammer 7/1
Khosa 20/1
Chara 20/1
Maudlin 25/1

50 on Brammer please..    Can send on tilt or stars but not until tonight is that ok?

It's Jake Cody if you didn't know

Pounds just to clarify

who?

100£ on brammer?

will send to The Camel on stars?

£100 on squid.can send on stars once confirmed

edit:pounds

Booked

Not booked, was only laying each player to lose a monkey for a bit of fun, don't want to get too involved.

Booked, send to The Camel on stars.

cool ty,sent.gl!

Just to clarify, Jake's and reallygambles bets are ON at 7/1 (Brammer) and 10/3 (Grafton)

As per OP, where I said I'd lay each player to lose a maximum of £500 Toby's bet is not on.

Book closed, gl.

grafton will win now

Chris Brammer finally gets here, 20 minutes late. He takes his seat next to Sam.

He's only sat down for a few hands before he opens to 24,000. Matt Moss three bet shoves from the big blind and Chris calls the rest of his 200k stack off.

Matt tables 10-9

Chris shows A-J

The flop comes 8--7--A. Top pair for Chris, but Matt flops the open ended straight draw.

The turn card is a six, Matt turns the straight and Chris is now drawing dead.

The river card is a two.

Chris Brammer exits the tournament in 9th place taking home £7,000.

marv UL bramdog

this is how good i run

Spinks?

there a stream?

There is on their facebook page

Sent you £20 on stars from Mt.Spewmore Keith

buying money

SQUIDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY


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Well played Sam

1st........£102,700...Sam Grafton

2nd.........£72,800...Peter Charalambous

3rd..........£45,400...Victor Ilyukhin

4th..........£28,250...Matt Moss

5th..........£22,250...Jon Spinks

6th..........£17,100...George Hassabis

7th..........£13,700...Dave Maudlin

8th..........£10,300...Sandeep Khosa

9th............£7,700...Chris Brammer

10th..........£6,000..Jan Sjavik

11th..........£6,000...Jamie Burland

12th..........£5,150...Ramey Shaio

13th..........£5,150...Simon Deadman

Well played Big Charra

Tremendous result

Everyone at DTD very happy for you too

Big charra 2nd again! He'll be happy but equally gutted.

 Well done Sam. Glad you won if the boy wasnt going to.
 I think it would be fun if you did a WELL !

Squid in the well please blonde ? 

Thanks for support Blondites. Couldn't be more thrilled to follow in Pabs footsteps!

 :respect:

Pretty sick showing by Jon Spinks also by busting this FT with enough time to get home and ship a sunday major on stars, beating Luke Schwartz HU for 46k.

Oi Oi, sick result for Sam. Congrats!

Well played to Pete Chara, Jon Sprinks and Chris Brammer too.

Sunny

lets not get carried away, he one table luck boxed the supersonic

so chuffed for sammy boy, we chat nearly every night and he was telling me he was feeling really good about his live game just a few weeks ago, hes has some scores live but up until now they havent reflected just how much in tune he is when he is sat at a live table and they still probably dont. So glad he's finally got his name on a prestigious trophy and one in which he beat a field tough enough for me and many others to not even bother making the trip down. Some nights ill be thinking ive put a good grind in and ill search sam and find him in anything up from 1r and $5f/o's battling to get out on the day until the crack of dawn.

Everyone who has met Sam knows he's the most pleasant of company and nobody ever has a bad thought, never mind a bad word to say. Great result for poker. wd mate x

cannot agree more

A terrific achievement by Sam, one of the few players in poker respected by almost all.

Delighted for him. 

The well-written official GUKPT Press Release......




Hard Grafton the GUKPT: Sam Grafton Takes first UK Title and Six Figure Prize at the Grand Final in London

Sam Grafton has become the 2012 GUKPT Grand Final Main Event champion, securing the £102,700 top prize and his biggest live win to date at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London.

The £2,500 GUKPT Grand Final Main Event is known for its tough opposition, some of the biggest prizes on the UK circuit having accompanied this particular trophy in the past, and an international field of 137 once again vied for the most prestigious title on the Tour.  These included bracelet-holders, online whiz-kids, previous GUKPT champions and European legends of the game – sprinkled with a contingent of qualifiers, who’d earned their £2,500 seat for a fraction of the price either online or at live satellites at the Vic itself.

Had everyone boasting poker jewellery or prize glass or silverware brought their trophies to the Vic’s card-room, there might not have been room left to play poker.  Michael Tureniec, Toby Lewis, Sam Razavi, James Akenhead, Stuart Rutter, Neil Channing and Simon Deadman were just a few of the players with whom eventual winner Sam Grafton had to contend.

Defending champion Fabian Quoss, who chopped the top two spots’ prizes – worth over £230,000 - with Jake Cody in 2011, was another rare sighting at the tournament felt; he made Day 2 but fell to this year’s GUKPT London champion Robin Keston before the money. Cody, meanwhile finished close to (but not inside) the money after building another good stack early on Day 1.
  
Out in front as Day two brought back 68 players eager to make the money (thus securing at least £5,150 for their efforts) was Matt Moss.  He’d busted WSOPE bracelet-winner Scott Shelley near the close of play on Day 1 to finish on a huge 177,400 chips – more than seven times his starting stack.  Also boasting six-figure stacks were Peter Charalambous, Jan Sjavik, Chris Brammer, Ken Wong, Jon Spinks and Igor Kurganov.  Half of the players in the top ten as Day 2 began at 2pm on the Saturday would go on to make the final table.  

The full GUKPT Grand Final final table line-up:

Matt Moss - 857,000
Jon Spinks - 568,200
Sam Grafton - 520,100
Victor Ilyukhin - 434,500
George Hassabis - 262,800
Chris Brammer - 242,500
Sandeep Khosa - 192,500
Peter Charalambous - 182,800
Dave Maudlin - 165,800

Before the final nine could tackle Day 3, the prize positions had to be reached and the field shrunk from six tables to just one.  It was “unlucky 14” at the Vic as just a baker’s dozen were paid from the total £342,500 prize pool.  

The bubble burst when Jamie Roberts ran a dominated king into Chris Brammer’s big slick soon after the same player busted Keston; this late surge was not to continue, however.  The online phenomenon’s stack going into the final lagged behind that of Moss, John Spinks and Sam Grafton and he busted in 9th (£7,000).

The early form lay with Grafton and Charalambous, the former winning an A-A vs. K-K cooler against Jon Spinks and the latter doubling through and promptly busting Sandeep Khosa in 8th (£10,300).  Khosa called Charalambous’s shove (with K-Q) holding J-J but could not hold over all five board cards and left the table seven-handed after just half a level’s play.  

The swift pace of elimination continued as David Maudlin fell to a recently resurgent Spinks.  Both of these players were equipped with short stacks during the early stages of the final, and Spinks made a habit of moving all-in from the small blind on Maudlin’s big blind.  The first time Maudlin called, his A-Q was miles ahead of Spinks’s Q-2 but a deuce on the flop turned the tables and left Maudlin with just 70,000.  One orbit later and he was forced to call again, this time with just 9-7, dominated by Spinks with Q-7.  There was to be no three-outer to save him and he exited in 7th, winning £13,700.

George Hassabis was the next to exit, taking on Charalambous on an A-9-3 two-heart flop with a flush draw against his larger-stacked opponent’s A-T.  The top pair held giving the Vic regular a narrow lead over the final five.  

Jon Spinks made a valiant effort to get back in the game following his earlier kings fail, but it seemed that Grafton was to be his nemesis.  He tried once again to bust Grafton, calling his half million chip threebet-shove with A-9, only to find his opponent with A-Q that held up, leaving him short once more.  He exited in 5th soon after, taking home a hard-earned £22,250.

Moss, having enjoyed the chip lead for over a day and a half, finally fell foul of the poker gods when his aces were cracked by the queens of Grafton.  He’d dropped to just 220,000 and looking primed for a double up, instead he had to settle for £28,250 and 4th place.  Following this bustout, it looked like it might be one-way traffic for Grafton on his way to the winner’s podium.  However, Charalambous, along with the deck, had other ideas.

Charalambous finally made a stand against the permanently-raising Grafton, shoving preflop for 550,000 with K-5.  Grafton made the call with K-J only to find a five on the flop give his opponent a new lease of life and a 1.1 million chip stack that was to prove bothersome.  In fact, soon thereafter Charalambous doubled yet again through Grafton leaving the bespectacled aggressor with some work to do to climb back from the short stacked position.

Meanwhile it seemed that Charalambous was fireproof – Victor Ilyukhin, having successfully negotiated the tricky waters of the final thus far, fell to the new chip leader on an A-Q-8 flop.  Ilyukhin picked a bad moment to check-raise all in with Q-9 as his opponent had flopped top and bottom pair and sent him to the rail with a chunky £45,400 payday for 3rd place.

It was an uphill jog for Grafton to retake the chip lead but he started the process by evening the stacks with a dominating-ace related double through.  Half an hour later he’d chipped up into the lead and was back to putting preflop pressure on his opponent.

The final hand saw Charalambous raising with pocket tens and making the call when Grafton shoved holding A-4 of spades.  The flop brought two of Grafton’s suit, the turn an extra three nut straight outs, and the river the tournament-ending Qs for the flush.

Peter Charalambous took home £72,800 for the runner-up spot in the GUKPT Grand Final while one of the UK’s most coveted titles is now in the possession of Sam Grafton, along with £102,700.

“I’ve got a real sense of achievement,” said Grafton post-match.  “The quality of the field made it tough competition – it’s something you can be proud of.  Starting out playing, the list of the great British pros that I looked up to when I was starting out, they’re all the old GUKPT champions – like Paul Foltyn, Sam Trickett, Karl Mahrenholz.  To add your name to that list, it’s great.”

Photos courtesy of GUKPT.


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Hope you don't mind the spam, but think that to post such a great win after writing this for the latest issue of PP is brilliant. One of the best pro columns I've read for a long time. I've stuck it online so people can read it.

http://www.pokerplayer.co.uk/poker-strategy/tournament-poker/12841/sam_grafton_wcoop_lessons.html

An exceptional piece of writing and huge congratulations on the win.

Can't say it better

I will ask Sam if he wants to do a blonde well.

Judging on his writing, it has potential to be a good one...

Thanks for the nice comments , Was really happy to coming second to Sam an he's a really down to earth lad so big congrats to him. Had my wife with me so was nice to make her proud as well as gaining a new friend in Sam so coming 2nd not all that bad this time round !

Well done Big C

And well done Sammy G.

Well done guys excellent results all around and a lovely early xmas present!

Amazing news,

Sam was one of the first guys I got chatting to when I started playing seriously.

Met him at UKIPT coventry in 2010 and could tell then that he had "game"

So chuffed he's won this!!!

Never met him, but clearly #lovesthegame

Congratulations

Thanks Alun - what an incredible piece of writing, the like of which, if I may say so, we rarely see in poker print media.*

* Except "Poker Player" of course.

 ;) Thanks. There is also a column from lildave in the latest issue that is possibly the funniest thing I've ever read in PokerPlayer

seems ive qualified for the 10k gukpt leaderboard freeroll anybody got any details of this please ??

Thanks for all the kind words everyone. So glad people like the column. Really enjoy writing it. Would defo be interested in doing a well. Prob when things quiten down a bit tho pokerwise.

yeh man busy times, quad 5 just started. reg up!

so nobody has any details ??

doesn't look like it

ask on their facebook group....

thanks tighty

Isn't it at Luton in the new year ? I'm not sure when ,chip stacks are relative to the size of buy in u won