Greetings my pretties from er... Brimingham. Yep, I'm still here after updating the Broadway event, but I'm on my way down to London as soon as I have finished posting this message and will be bracing myself for a (hopefully) thrilling Leg 2 of Season 4's Pokerstars.com European Poker Tour. The venue this time is the newly refurbished Grosvenor Victoria Casino, now boasting an entire floor of poker tables meaning no more running up and down the numerous levels for your intrepid, but perhaps slightly unfit update team.
Last year, The Queen Vic of the er.. Vic, was the voluptuous, male eye-luring sight of Victoria Coren who took top spot, the hometown hero proving that she was more than just a successful journalist as she toppled a tough final table to take home half a million pounds worth of bacon - and believe you me, that's a lot of pigs!
With the entry fee rising to £5,200 for this outing of the EPT, I can't quite calculate how many British players will be present. At Barcelona, the rise in price perhaps triggered a Scandinavian invasion, but this time around we have a local event that should provide a larger homegrown contingent for you to support and back. If you are one of those people taking a stab at this event or you know someone who is, then please do let us know by posting on this thread. Similarly, if you are following a non-Brit, we'd more than happy to oblige with your requests by finding hands, chip-counts and photos of the player in question.
Throughout the week, the Vic have been holding various tournaments ranging from Omaha Hi-Lo to Seven Card Stud. Here are the results:
£500 L7CS F/O, 59 runners
1st
Thomas Bihl 'Buzzer' -- £12,090
2nd
Paul Parker -- £7,380
3rd
Willie Tann -- £4,420
4th
Michael Greco -- £2,660
5th Mehrdad Saffari -- £1,480
6th W Colman -- £880
7th
Woody Deck -- £590
£500 PLO8 F/O, 63 runners
1st
Jeff Duvall -- £12,910
2nd
Tony Mackay -- £7,880
3rd Loutfi Charmokly -- £4,720
4th Tajudeen Adelaja -- £2,840
5th
Scott Fischman -- £1,580
6th
Alan Vinson 'Ice Cream' -- £940
7th Julian Quance -- £630
£200 NLH R/B, 136 runners
1st
Joe Grech 'The Joker' -- £22,760
2nd Stewart Clutterbuck -- £13,650
3rd
Robin Keston -- £8,450
4th Soner Osman -- £5,200
5th
Dave Penly -- £2,600
6th N Nagrecha -- £1,950
7th Alex Zeligman -- £1,790
8th Mike Chivers -- £1,460
9th Jeff Swann -- £880
10th James King -- £550
11th
Garry Bush -- £550
12th Patrick Schuh -- £550
13th Kerry Taylor -- £550
14th Anthony Chapman -- £490
15th Marco Della Tommasina -- £490
16th Alazim Kassam -- £490
17th Nathan Lee -- £490
18th
Martyn Cavanagh -- £420
19th Samir Patel -- £420
20th Javed Ghazi -- £420
21st
Lalit Khajuria -- £420
22nd Wilson Chan -- £420
£300 NLH F/O, 192 runners
1st
Alan Davies -- £20,180
2nd Christopher Andler -- £12,100
3rd Jason Shellum -- £7,490
4th Matthew Franklin -- £4,610
5th Ashley Hames -- £2,300
6th Deborah Littlejohn -- £1,730
7th
Robert Binelli -- £1,580
8th Jim Dunsford -- £1,300
9th Hung Nguyen -- £780
10th Sebastian Saffari -- £490
11th
Mike Ellis -- £490
12th Andy Achillea -- £490
13th William Mitchell -- £490
14th Abhishek Khaitan -- £430
15th Sal Ghozali 'never give' -- £430
16th M Green -- £430
17th Marco Figuccia -- £430
18th Javed Ghazi -- £370
19th
David Flusfeder -- £370
20th Richard Grace -- £370
21st Gerald Ringe -- £370
22nd
Henning Granstad -- £370