GUKPT Heads Up 1st Round Draw

[Karabiner]

I'm a little confused as to why there is no preliminary round if the original plan was for 64 runners...

[action man]

nice book mick, £86k on flushy and £17,000 on you please sir

[AlrightJack]

I'm a little confused as to why there is no preliminary round if the original plan was for 64 runners...

Planned for 64, but with the proviso that it would become a 32 runner event if we did not fill enough places. We would have accepted up to 10 byes but no more. The number of entries we received would have required 23 byes, hence it became a 32 runner event.

[phatomch]

Sounds like some good games there, you have done well jon shame on the amount of runners though good luck all.

[NoflopsHomer]

I'm a little confused as to why there is no preliminary round if the original plan was for 64 runners...

Planned for 64, but with the proviso that it would become a 32 runner event if we did not fill enough places. We would have accepted up to 10 byes but no more. The number of entries we received would have required 23 byes, hence it became a 32 runner event.

I think an extra £1,500 on top of the £3,000 ME is a fair whack of money. Reduce the buy-in next year perhaps to £1k or even £750? The appeal of being drawn against some of the more well known players for a relatively low sum would increase incentive. Also, they could get lucky and draw Flushy.

[Djinn]

I totally forgot about this (plus a bit too pricey for a side event).  Looks like fun, but if I want to watch some of these matches e.g. Flushy I might have to actually get there at 1:30 for fear of missing it.  That's too much like morning.  Are there ME satellites running this week? 

[gasman]

They have £150+£15 Rebuy Sats (75 mins Rebuys) every day from Saturday (today) till Wednesday at 1:30pm.

[ripple11]

7 should be interesting, if just for the verbals that will go on over there.

Looking forward to 1...although I suppose I should pay most attention to match 2. Yeah, I'm screwed.

  enjoy!

[Mango99]

Wow, what a field. Arguably the two best Heads Up Players in the world (Jeff Kimber and Dan Carter) in a tourney of 32 great (and not so great) players

Anywhere I can find the updates on this?

Are Dan and Jeff in different ends of the draw. If so, that's got to be a fix. j/k Mr Rabb

[byronkincaid]

Wow, what a field. Arguably the two best Heads Up Players in the world (Jeff Kimber and Dan Carter) in a tourney of 32 great (and not so great) players

Anywhere I can find the updates on this?

Are Dan and Jeff in different ends of the draw. If so, that's got to be a fix. j/k Mr Rabb

they are better than ivey, antonius, townsend etc?

[Karabiner]

Wow, what a field. Arguably the two best Heads Up Players in the world (Jeff Kimber and Dan Carter) in a tourney of 32 great (and not so great) players

Anywhere I can find the updates on this?

Are Dan and Jeff in different ends of the draw. If so, that's got to be a fix. j/k Mr Rabb

Such modesty from the man who demolished Flushy heads-up in one hand..

[Slick Kid]

No updates, but l can tell u Jeff Kimber was quickly dispatched by Marc Goodwin.

Don't know the hand or what took place.

[Mango99]

No updates, but l can tell u Jeff Kimber was quickly dispatched by Marc Goodwin.

Don't know the hand or what took place.

Who won you vs Flushy?

[Micko]

No updates, but l can tell u Jeff Kimber was quickly dispatched by Marc Goodwin.

Don't know the hand or what took place.

Any boxing in ure match Mick? lol

[AlrightJack]

Well, seeing as we do a complete redraw after every round, anyone can meet anyone in subsequent rounds, hence no fix.

Here are the results of the first round matches:

Match               Length of Match
1   Mick McCool   beat   James Dempsey   1h 34 mins
2   John Kabbaj   beat   Adam Sharples   1h 38 mins
3   Barney Boatman   lost to   Jeff Duval      2hrs 25 mins
4   Woody Deck   lost to   Will Mitchell      1h 11 mins
5   T Bentham    beat   N Ketul   30 mins
6   Jeff Kimber   lost to   Marc Goodwin      52 mins
7   Davood Mehrmand   lost to   Kevin O'Leary   2hrs 35 mins
8   Ash Hussain   lost to   Ben Roberts   1h 22 mins
9   K MacPherson   lost to   Manuel Palanca   2hrs 35 mins
10   Alan MacLean   lost to   Roberto Romanello   1h 11 mins
11   David Pomroy   lost to   Neil Channing   1h 53 mins
12   Chris Sokrati   beat   Dan Carter      3hrs 44 mins
13   H Yilmaz   beat   Stephen Holden      26 mins
14   Daniel Smith   lost to   Adam Heller   1h 3 mins
15   Surinder Sunar   beat   Mickey Wernick   1h 29 mins
16   Joshua Tyler   beat   Vincent Mather   2hrs 20 mins

...and the draw for the second round. All matches take place at 1.30pm on Monday 26th November. Match betting and updated outright market will be available from Sunday morning on Blue Sq.

Ben Roberts   v   Surinder Sunar
T Bentham   v   Jeff Duval
Adam Heller   v   Roberto Romanello
Josh Tyler   v   Neil Channing
Will Mitchell   v   Chris Sokrati
Manuel Palanca   v   Huseyin Yilmaz
Mick McCool   v   Marc Goodwin
John Kabbaj   v   Kevin O'Leary