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Welcome back to Coventry where from 2pm this thread will report on the final of GUKPT Coventry


Final table chip counts

Trigg, Richard 630100
Taylor, Lee 289300
Spicer, Carl 288400
Brown, Stephen Michael 188700
Grafton, Sam 181500
Thew, Julian 174900
Rutter, Stuart 125300
Fellone, Nicholas 116300
Sheppard, Brian 98200
Liuzzi, Adriano 86600

blinds currently 3000-6000


Payouts will be

1st £42740
2nd £30090
3rd £18850
4th £11600
5th £9060
6th £6890
7th £5440
8th £3990
9th £2990
10th £2540

Who are the finalists?

Rick Trigg

Trigg goes into the final as a big chip leader having dominated the competition for two days. From Sheffield, "actionman" on blonde has a long online pedigree and is a former GUKPT finalist, at Newcastle in 2007. Finalled a WSOP event this summer. Has commen ted that event first place would not "get me out of make up".  Perhaps it might get him to Next for men for a makeover, too....

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Uz-AF3Pys_Q/TpmFbctEyBI/AAAAAAAAT1c/DRC78rF3qWA/s512/IMG_9328.JPG)

Lee Taylor

Lee is a mature student from Bolton, a consistent and genial fixture on the festival circit over the last 18 months. Twice a GUKPT finalist last year at Brighton and Blackpool, and fresh off a UKIPT side event win at Dublin last month.

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-V4_Q38iG2Xc/TpgmF478JQI/AAAAAAAATwo/kBJTy4nW4c0/s512/IMG_9252.JPG)

Carl Spicer

Carl's first major final table, having appeared in a number of festival events this year. I believe he is from Thanet way

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Apologies for the photo

Stephen Brown

"Broonie" on blonde, I first met Stepehen when he played APAT events a few years ago. From the West Midlands I believe. A regular at DTD, and has already surpassed his best previous GUKPT finish, 25th at Walsall

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-t6KV8eYiDLc/TpmZ1tfyosI/AAAAAAAAT3Q/lypSo20LsDo/s512/IMG_9357.JPG)

Sam Grafton

4th in GUKPT Manchester last year, Sam is better known as an Online success under the names "sammy_grinder" and "TheSquid" being a dual Triple Crown winner, in consecutive weeks no less. Life and soul of any table, and a real rising star of the live game in the UK

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zMVtSfoCLPc/TpmFkvGr6jI/AAAAAAAAT2U/Bhj1IfcM18g/s512/IMG_9342.JPG)


Julian Thew

Sky Poker sponsored Julian Thew has the greatest pedigree of all at the final. EPT Baden winner, dual GUKPT Winner, DTD Monte Carlo winner this May which signalled a return to form after a lean time. Would, of course, be the first three time GUKPT winner were he to triumph today. Universally liked and respected, a fantastic ambassador for Sky Poker. Happy birthday to Julian today, too
 
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Stuart Rutter

Reigning GUKPT Coventry champion, GCasino sponsored, The Firm poker sponsored, the man has badges to spare...This is his fourth GUKPT Main event final, and he is fresh off a third in the EPT Mixed game championships in London

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Nicholas Fellone

From Nottingham, a DTD regular in all the deepstacks and this is his first major final

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Last but not least, the pair of One Way Poker players are the final table shortstacks

Brian Sheppard

From Swansea, a final tabler in the GUKPT Club event at Swansea last year. No t to be confused with Frank Romanello, which I managed this week

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-i4EfrFZ0oqQ/TpiuX0Ze-sI/AAAAAAAAT0c/IaYTZJyK5nA/s512/IMG_9313.JPG)


Adriano Luzzi

Second in the DTD Deepstack in march, round a shortstack all day yesterday to join his compatriot on the final

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Those are your finalists.

Could be fun this afternoon, as the final table area has been set up right at the back of the building, and wifi reception could be a challenge as we're below ground by a couple of floors

We'll see, please join me for what should be a corking final later

Live stream link

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=54715.0

the stream will have real time chip counts and real time bet amounts through hands

Should be a good one to watch too

good luck to lee taylor

what a great line up for the final - a good mix of amateur and pro's.

Good luck to the Blondes

oioioioioioiooiio!!!gl squid!
have we got a seat draw?
thx for the updates!

The seat draw

1 Steve Brown 188700
2 Adriano Liuzzi 86600
3 Rick Trigg 630100
4 Nicholas Fellone 98200
5 Stuart Rutter 125300
6 Julian Thew 174900
7 Brian Sheppard 98200
8 Carl Spicer 288400
9 Lee Taylor 289300
10 Sam Grafton 181500

glgl Trigg and Thewy!

Good luck to the Oneway lads Brian and Adriano!! Both great guys and great to see them both final!! just a bit gutted my old Cryptologic buddy Onny - Jonathan Mccann didnt make it!! legend if ever I met one!

gl to Sammy, Trigger, Rutter, Thewy but most of all to Bomber Brown!

HI & WP to all the finalists GL to you all But Special GL to Jules (wat a gr8 birthday this could be) Brownie, Lee, Stuart & the Triggster. 1 of u please win ;0) GL.

good luck to the swansea boys wales could do with luck after that game with that french Irish ref

Should be starting soon, players at their seats

Sorting out the live feed gremlins before they start....you'll be able to see live chip counts and bet amounts through each hand

Your chip leader today has come dressed as big bird from Sesame Street

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BR38iD1fOgE/TprYEiC5GPI/AAAAAAAAT4M/9Piya5mDcu8/s512/IMG_9373.JPG)

(http://cs12.cs.qc.cuny.edu/~chto5617/images/1.jpg)

Julian Thew with a tribute to allo allo

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RICH, can u say happy birthday to JULIAN THEW pls

hope this will b his birthday pressie.

happy birthday jul.. ship it.

 ;first; :birthday: ;first;

Brown 15,000

Trigg and Fellone call in position

Ts Qh Aspades

Brown 20,000

Trigg calls

 Qd

Brown checks

Trigg 32,500

Brown passes

Final table in action

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Taylor 3 bets Spicer off a hand

Thew calls aTrigg raises, bets a 2-10-Q flop when checked to and takes it down

Fellone raise, uncalled



Pretty cagey early stages

Blinds now 4000-8000 ra 500

Average is 217,000


Sam Grafton button raises, takes a pot down..shows 8-2

Thew 18,000

Trigg small blind 33,000

Thew all in

Trigg passes

Spicer 18,000

Rutter all in small blind

Spicer CALL

Rutter K-K

Spicer K-K


Split pot....got the heartrate going a bit on the table...

Sheppard all in

Brown calls

Brown A-K

Sheppard 7-7

8-J-3-2-10

Sheppard doubles....87,500 was his count so with b and a now 192,000 in his stack

Trigg 16,000

Taylor calls bb


2-10-6 rainbow


check, Trigg 17,000

Taylor c-raise to 37,000

Trigg calls


turn 7


Taylor checks

Trigg 26,000

Taylor calls


river 2


Taylor checks

Trigg announces all in....

Taylor gives it a good old think

Trigg looks nervous to me, possibly intentionally I suppose....


Taylor passes


Trigg shows A-8 offsuit....

Now that's flair....

sack the glasses and trigger looks like a young mr camel

Mon the Trigg.. Mon the Spewy!!!!!

P.S. Did everyone get dressed in the dark today??

xx

Rich...Did I hear Micky Wernick chopped a side event last night?

Good lineup for the final. Only one winner for me though, Gogo Julian!

Not sure about that jumper and scarf combo though...

Brown all in

Thew asks for a count

59,000 at 4-8k

Thew calls

Brown 3-3

Thew K-Qo

8-K-8-4-4


Steve Brown out 10th winning £2,540


Well played Broonie

No idea at the mo, sorry

I will post all the results up when they are emailed to me tomorrow

Rutter all in 119,000

Thew calls

Rutter 9-9

Thew A-Q

K-3-7-8-2

Rutter doubles through Julian

Liuzzi all in 63,000

Trigg calls

Liuzzi J-J

Trigg A-10

10-3-5-3-3

Liuzzi's turn to double through

Grafton 16,000

Liuzzi all in

Graton passes


I can't get the live feed, as the wifi is not strong enough. If the current chip counts are on there...someone post them up, thanks

Trigg raises

Fellone all in 65,000

call, priced in

Fellone A-Ko

Trigg 10-Jo

2-6-A-2-7

Fellone doubles up to around 150,000

Grafton 16,000

Trigg 30,500

Fellone passes A-Q here...just popped across to tell me

Rutter 68,000 4 bet

Grafton all in 5 bet

Trigg all in!

Rutter.....folds


Grafton  Aspades Ks

Trigg  Ahrt Kh

4c 6d 4s (freeroll!)

8d on the turn

chop the pot

Best I could get Tighty from 15:21 x

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"Fellone passes A-Q here...just popped across to tell me"

To a Grafton opener and Trigg 3 bet?  The man is either a genius or crazy....I'll keep my own counsel.

yes to the open and 3 bet

Luddering obv

real time chip counts at 5-10k

Adriano Liuzzi 134000
Rick Trigg 633000
Nicholas Fellone 114000
Stuart Rutter 179000
Julian Thew 270000
Brian Sheppard 168000
Carl Spicer 173000
Lee Taylor 290000
Sam Grafton 168000

Spicer 28,000

Rutter 55,000

Spicer all in

Rutter folds

Grafton 7-7 all in

Trigg calls A-Jdd

2-4-4-A-J

We lose Sam Grafton in 9th winning £2,900

Thoughts on the stream? good/bad? good technology withn the chips/action?

thoughts on the final?

Thew K-K all in after a raising war with

Trigg J-J

5-A-9-9-A

Thewy doubles up to 450,000

A big turning point?

There's a budgie on my screen making it difficult to see the players

seems fine to me

just turned on when triggs aj beat graftons 77s

more of a

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?

Trigg 20,000

Thew calls

 Qs 5s 4h

Trigg 26,000

Thew calls

 3s

check check

 Kh

Trigg checks, Julian check

 Trigg Ahrt 4s

Thew  8s 8d is good

Pretty shit tbh.

Speed is fine, quality pretty poor but you can't see anything anyway.

Updates much better than the live feed imo.

do ppl watch the stream?

I just have it on in the background

If picture quality was better then yes, however have it on background like you.

Geo

Trigg 20,00

Taylor 3 bet to 50,000

Trigg passes



Just coming to a break after two hours play today

8 left, average 271,000

blinds next 6000-12000-1000

Great work tighty

stuartrutter Stuart Rutter

Got 200k at the first break. Haven't played well. Back raised a guy and then had to pass when he risked his tournament life..


That was an exclusive interview, that Rutter chose to tweet

Bastard.

They could do without playing that music on the breaks also.

Break chip counts


Thew 619500 after the KK>JJ

Trigg 377500

Spicer 266000

Taylor 242500

Fellone 220000

Rutter 203000

Sheppard 170000

Liuzzi 123500


is it a

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I always prefer the forum updates to a live stream.

However, this stream has potential if the quality was better.

I'd be surprised if anybody watches it. It's not very good at all.

I just put it on because Tighty asked for people's thoughts.

Yeah I put it on for five minutes and then turned it off.  I can't make out the graphics at all and without any idea of bet sizes etc it just becomes a game of waiting for big hands which Tighty does better anyway.

THIS, great stuff as usual Tighty.

Rich,

Is this the same group who done the APAT streams?

Picture and graphic quality is very poor.

Geo

julian_thew julian thew
stonking 1st sesh, 600k, nearing crapshoot territory, still 8 handed #gukptcoventryME

No this is D 4 events, not NutzTV

I didn't ask, to make it clear, to brew up a storm..was just interested because the set up here for the stream is very good, lots of resource and effort put into it by the Tour

I think any issues with quality is down to network/wifi connection, not equipment

So with sub 20x bb stacks for the bottom six stacks here, with 8 left..its moving and grooving time..some funky 3 bet shoving stacks around

Trigg has won the first pot after the break with a raise to 28,000. Don't expect him to let up the pressure on the shorter-stacks at all

Good to get the feedback for them though as live streaming is a big bonus when done well.

FWIW Phil always good on the mic and Nicky Romanello has been pleasant to listen to.

Geo

Doubt it Rich- APAT streamed from Cov no worries. I am not knocking D4 as they're trying to bring us a stream which is brill but they need to sort out quality issues otherwise there's very little point

Don't think so Rich.

The speed of the stream is spot on and you get to see this when the dealer is shuffling.

That particular cam is actually quite good.

It's the main cam which gives an overview of the whole table and Trigg's back that's poor.

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Rutter raises

Sheppard all in

Spicer all in

Rutter passes

Sheppard  Qd 4d

Spicer Ac Kd

 6c 5s 5h 5d  Td


Brian Sheppard out 8th winning £3,990

is it worth streaming?

there only getting 100 viewers

i bet it cost an arm and a leg to do

gogogogogo ronnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnie

cmonn trigg and thewy too

spewy jam with the Qd 4d?

Love the live stream!!!!!

Love it more when there is a popular blonde or sky player in!!!

Then again, I'm a sad twat with no life.

xx

It's freezing in here

I am updating near the fire exit, with a draught like a Arctic scirroco coming through the doors

I will catch a death of cold by midweek

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If you are near Coventry and have a fleece (size, Mens small), chuck it this way...

p.s its just a bit quiet, action wise

Thew 27,000

Taylor all in

Thew passes

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Nicholas Fellone wants me to sell his numberplate on this thread

Seriously, P110KER or summat similar

!!

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It's a shame The Camel's not around, I'm pretty sure he'd be interested...

Is the cold making you delusional?

xx

:D  Was going to post the same

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Liuzzi all in

Thew call

Liuzzi Ahrt Tc

Thew Td Ts

 5c 9h 8c 3s  5h


Adriano Liuzzi out 7th winning £5,440

Julian Thew 750,000

Over double the next stack I reckon

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Go Spewy!!!!!

xx

rofls trip 5

for saying camera guy being cute

Rutter 25,000

Thew 90,000

Rutter passes

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Since then, pre-flop raises uncalled



My observation would be that Trigg is active, goes without saying

Fellone is laddering, or attempting to

Spicer and Taylor playing ABC

Thew very comfortable

It is the Camels birthday today....we could have a whipround and (not) give him it on condition he starts posting again.....

Would love to see a Thew, Rutter, Trigg top 3 in any order!  ;goodluck;

Wouldn't say no to checking his pink bits ;)

xx

Blonde updates >>>>>>>>>>> GUKPT Blog. No suits, no cards, no betsizes. wtf.

gl Thewy, Stuey and Louie Richard James Trigg.

Trigg 25,000

Thew 56,000

Trigg passes


Not much action, but what action there is, is a

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Thew 25,000, called by the big blind Fellone

 8c 8d 9s

Fellone checks

Thew 35,000

Called

 6s

Fellone check

Thew all in, obviously covering Fellone

Fellone passes

blinds up level 20

8000-16000 ra 2000

average 62,500


Julian Thew a chip leader with 850,000, ahead of Trigg with the other four all below 300,000. A crucial level for the four shorter stacks

Thanks for the feedback, most of it I am aware of and taking steps to improve, the major one being the actual picture quality on the stream. This is down to the picture quality limits on livestream. What is being uploaded is much higher than what you see. Check out the youtube channel to see quality it is being filmed in (even this is lower than the actual master quality).

I have settled for lower image quality rather than the freezing and stuttering which I have seen on other streams.

We have some other options that we are testing that will greatly improve the picture quality and make the graphics useful for viewers. At the moment the graphics help the commentators more than they help you :)

The graphic software is new and already we have found some glitches so it's probably best that you can't see them...

We have a new custom shape TV table being delivered soon which will allow us better camera angles, much like what you see on a TV Show. At the moment we adjust them as players get knocked out. When we use our full stage the angles tend to better also.

Please keep the feedback coming. I listen to it all and we will use it to get the best all round stream possible.

Fellone raises, Rutter shoves, instant call

Fellone Qc  Qd

Rutter 3s 3h

 2c 2h 7h 7c 3d

Rutter up to 150,000 again

A one-outer according to a player who passed a three, apparently

fellone got something stuck in his tree I think :P

delighted for stu to win the hand, but so brutal on fellone

all in and a call

Trigg  Ad Td

Taylor 7h Kh

Taylor the shover

 7d 7s 3h 4c Js

Taylor double up to 420,000

Huge shove (200k at 8-16k), brilliant call, well done Lee./unlucky Trigg

under 12 bigs? not sure huge is the right word getting a bit shooty cos thewy has all the chips i think

huge being 12.5bbs?

Tony Fallone should be banned for having a porn name imo...

UL Trigger not very happy... let the grind back begin!!

xx

Fair Enough, it felt a bit out of context with Lee's play so far I suppose

It is definitely crapshoot for all bar Julian.

Thew raises, Spicer calls blind on blind

 Qd Ts 3h

Thew 33,000

Spicer passes

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Thew button raises, the blinds pass

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Fellone shoves his very short stack UTG  Qs 2h

Trigg calls  7h 5s, for not many more, calling with any two

5 on the river


Nicholas Fellone out 6th winning £6,890

Trigg shoves, Spicer calls

Trigg 4d 4h

 Spicer Ad Qs


 9d Jh 6c 8c

any Ace, Queen or ten for Spicer...

 6h

Trigg has 261,500 and doubles to 540,000 or so

Half milly Trigg gogo!!

1/2/3 the dream is still alive!!

Spicer all in

Taylor asks for a count

102,500

Taylor all in

Spicer  Aspades Kc

Taylor  Ac Th

 5s 4c 6s  Kh 3h

Spicer doubles to over 200,000

Oi oi - go on Trigg

Stuart Rutter shoves, Julian Thew reshoves

Rutter  Jh Qc

Thew Ahrt Kh

 Kc 7c 5h 4c

any club, Queen or Jack....

 3d

Stuart Rutter out 5th winning £9,060

Great effort,well played

Taylor shoves, Thew calls

 6c 6h

Thew Aspades Ks

 7c 8d Ac 3h  9d


Lee Taylor out 4th winning £11,600


Julian hitting monster hands and holding/flipping at the perfect time

Go Thewy!!!!

Trigg 32,000

Spicer shoves 200,000

Trigg calls

 Trigg Ahrt Ks

 Spicer Qc Td

 Aspades Jh 4h  7c  4c

Carl Spicer out 3rd winning £18,850

Wiiiiiiiiiiii gtd hero win.

GL both.

Come on Trigg - boss him now, just do it.....

Worst dressed final three two ever!!!

GL BOTH!!!!!!!!!

xx

Unlucky in the end Stu but wp


Good luck Julian and Trigg

Heads Up Thewy v Trigg

Short break

£42740 for first

£30090 for second


Thew 1,560,000

Trigg 753,000

blinds 8000-16000


Join me in 5, should be a good one between two fantastic players and popular guys

Ah quality last 2 good to see!!

ul Stu and Sammy G.


Gogogogoo Trigg and Thewy. Both two of the best guys in this game.

go trigggggg

Scrapping the dinner break, pretty much perfect decision for the updater lol

Not a bad hour that, all neutrality aside, three or four quick exits and a stellar heads up to come

Great heads-up match, normally can't be arsed to watch 99% of poker on streams n that but I hope this one goes on for a while.

boshi knows....


well played, well done, and good luck both!

go onnnn Trigg

c'mon Trigg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mega titl!!!!

I've lost the feed :(

Apparently F5 is not my friend!!!!

GL TRIGGGGAAAAA GL SPEWWWYYYYY

xx

It would be nice to get out of makeup for him so for that reason gl trigg.

One hand

Trigg A-K

Thewy 10-10

4-9-3-J-7

Thewy wins his third GUKPT!

wp Thewy.

gg Trigg.

Sick run good Tighty finishing this early.

Wp trigg and julian.

Delighted for both.

Made-up (see what I did there) for Trigg, and what can you say about Mr GUKPT and the second nicest man in poker!?

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii go Spewy!! VUL Trigg!!

Excellent updates as always Tighty!!

Thoroughly enjoyed!!

xx

well bloody hell, I loaded up a SNG and made a cuppa expecting to settle in to watch a nice game of poker and these two bloody internet kids decided to flip for it.

Well done Thewy, legend, UL Trigg, lots of near misses recently, your time will come fella.

Well done both. Awesome

well done both

The winning hand

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Trigg interviewed afterwards

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-792UKLiY5mo/Tpsccro3c9I/AAAAAAAAT4g/8Sa1virWIQE/s512/IMG_9378.JPG)

Julian and Coventry Card-room manager Karl Johnson

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Triple GUKPT Winner

Sky Poker's Julian Thew

Congratulations

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Excellent result for Julian and great updates,gramps will be pleased sky have been running well in these recently

That's me done, goodnight!

Awesome result for the undisputed nicest man in poker! Just needs to buy a string of onions for his outfit with the winnings.

Unlucky Rick and Stu but great results still!

Excellent updates as ever Tighty, god knows how you do those dual day 1s as I find it hard enough just following them here.

 ;hattip;

 ;thankyou; great updates

well done both, and well done Tighty!

Yes, wp both - and glad you got an early bath Tighty, very humorous updates as ever.

Chuffed they came 1-2 both abs sound good people of poker, wp both.

Great update also jonno, thanks.

thanks for the support, couldnt get out of MU even with a win, wd birthday boy ;)

late reg or off out to celebrate?

late reg "couldnt get out with a win"

Just a word on sammy grafton, for those who havent met him or played with him, he is the best person in the whole world, brightens up anyones day, funny, caring, all round boss and superb player, gutted for him but he will have his day in the sun soon.

And this post sums up Trigg, wp mate.

I love you both

Just want to add congratulations to the Thew/Trigg pile.  Thanks for making the final watchable in real time. 

well done lads!

Julian Thew Receives Third GUKPT Title for his Birthday

Julian Thew has bagged an unprecedented third title on the GUKPT over this October weekend at G Casino, Coventry, winning £42,740 – on his birthday, no less.  The (now) 44 year old professional player is the first ever to win a third £1,000 Main Event trophy (his previous two were won in Brighton and Plymouth) and has amassed lifetime winnings of over $2.5 million.

Thew overcame a field of 145, including almost enough prior champions to form their own table.  Among them was Stuart Rutter, winner of last season’s Coventry leg, who finished in a respectable 5th place and took home £9,060.  Fellow GUKPT sponsored pro Jeff Kimber was unfortunate to exit on the bubble, while the main story of the tournament was that of Rick Trigg, aggressively accumulating chips from the very first level to hold the chip lead through all three days.  It was only in the late stages of the final table that Trigg, a professional player from Sheffield, fell from first place, taking the runner up spot behind the ‘golden’ Thew and £30,090.

wow,
never played a final table like that before,
ran sooo good & 5 handed to over in like 30 mins...tyty poker gods
chuffed that trigg rallied to get HU after running into so many cold deck situations.
great updates as always, gg tighty & many thanks for all the kind messages,
as middle-aged birthdays go it was pretty special  ::)

Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   10/10/2011   
Event   £100 NL Hold'em Freezeout   
Length   1 day   
Runners   115   
Total Prize Pool   £11,500   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Andrew Sherwood   £3,510
2nd   Lynne Etches   £2,470
3rd   Mark Worley   £1,550
4th   Colin Paddington   £980
5th   Philip Read   £800
6th   Paul Simon Haycock   £580
7th   Timothy Jones   £460
8th   Joseph Clarke   £340
9th   Kamal Verma   £290
10th   Lawrence Peter Cairns   £290
11th   Hayley Smith   £230

Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   11/10/2011   
Event   £300 NL Hold'em Freezeout   
Length   2 days   
Runners   85   
Total Prize Pool   £25,500   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Benjamin Jackson   £7,910
2nd   Wai Kwan Yuen   £5,610
3rd   Paul Romain   £3,570
4th   Joseph Townsend   £2,170
5th   Martin Holmes   £1,780
6th   Geoffrey Button   £1,280
7th   Cai Huang   £1,020
8th   Andrew Gordon Probyn   £760
9th   Mark Kelsall   £700
10th   David Johnson   £700

Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   12/10/2011   
Event   £150 PL Omaha Double Chance FO   
Length   1 day   
Runners   47   
Total Prize Pool   £7,050   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Paul Jackson   £2,410
2nd   Jamie Oconnor   £1,760
3rd   Carl Spicer   £1,200
4th   Mickey Wernick   £700
5th   Simon Cawley   £560
6th   Clifford Jacobs   £420

Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   13/10/2011   
Event   £200 NL Short Handed Freezeout   
Length   1 day   
Runners   68   
Total Prize Pool   £13,600   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Andrew Hulme   £4,350
2nd   Benjamin Jenkins   £3,130
3rd   Adam Wilkinson   £2,070
4th   David Sherman   £1,220
5th   Alexander Jackson   £990
6th   Jon Antony Holmes   £750
7th   Nicholas Crisp   £610
8th   Stephen Owen   £480

Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   15/10/2011   
Event   £250 NLH Freezeout Re-entry   
Length   2 days   
Runners   31   
Re-entries   8   
Total Prize Pool   £9,750   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Joseph Stone   £3,600
2nd   Adam Daniel   £2,630
3rd   Gruffud John Pugh-Jones   £1,760
4th   Mickey Wernick   £980
5th   William Langton   £780

Date   16/10/2011   
Event   £100 NL Hold'em Bounty Booster   
Length   1 day   
Runners   62   
Total Prize Pool   £4,700   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Gary Haselgrove   £1,510
2nd   Stuart Pearson   £1,080
3rd   Thomas Carter   £720
4th   Michael Paul Richards   £420
5th   Christopher Bampton   £340
6th   Manjeet Sandhu   £260
7th   Nicholas Dennis Smith   £210
8th   Elizabeth Makepeace   £160

Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   14/10/2011 – 16/10/2011   
Event   £1,000 NL Hold'em Main Event   
Length   3 days   
Runners   145   
Total Prize Pool   £145,000   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Julian Thew   £42,740
2nd   Richard Trigg   £30,090
3rd   Carl Spicer   £18,850
4th   Lee Taylor   £11,600
5th   Stuart Rutter   £9,060
6th   Nicholas Fellone   £6,890
7th   Adriano Liuzzi   £5,440
8th   Brian Sheppard   £3,990
9th   Sam Grafton   £2,900
10th   Steve Brown   £2,540
11th   Jonathan George Mccann   £2,180
12th   Jonathan Kalmar   £2,180
13th   Adam Wilkinson   £2,180
14th   Adrian Eley   £2,180
15th   David Jones   £2,180

Congratulations Julian.

 ;mexicanwave;

Congratulations to Julian, Rick and all of the finalists. Well Played. :respect:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS-fxk6iamc

Well done Julian!

very good