GUKPT Grand Final thread

Hot Quoss Run: Fabian Quoss is Crowned 2011 GUKPT Grand Final Champion

The GUKPT Grand Final with its £138,750 top prize has been won by German pro player Fabian Quoss after a six-hour final table battle against tough opposition including triple crown winner Jake Cody and Irish Open champ James Mitchell. This huge win represents the first cash by Fulham-based Quoss on the tour - however he has been playing professionally for three years and has amassed more than $1.24 million on the live tournament circuit.

After his sterling performance against a total field of 195, Quoss says that he “ran better than any time before,” enjoying two straight days of top cards. The modest London resident, 29, sums up his experience as “a pretty sick run.” He finally toppled Jake Cody heads up after the two of them had started the final table with half of the total chips in play spread equally between them. Cody narrowly fails to make the full set of trophies but took home £96,300 for his efforts.

The final leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour 2011 brought what might best be described as an ‘action field’ to the capital. The biggest buy-in event of the tour created a prize pool of £487,500 and the two-week festival running from the 21st November-4th December saw the Victoria Casino’s 24-hour card-room host 15 events alongside cash games running day and night.