GUKPT Champion of Champions thread

[GreekStein]

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[outragous76]

Sigh gg'd 13th.

Shoved 8.5 bbs with A2 and jeff kimber woke up with JJ

One day I will run good deep

[Doobs]

Sigh gg'd 13th.

Shoved 8.5 bbs with A2 and jeff kimber woke up with JJ

One day I will run good deep

One day I will run good enough to reach deep.

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Fields of Gold

Luke Fields has emerged triumphant from a field of 153 previous GUKPT event winners to take home the Champion of Champions Trophy and the £44,250 first prize.  He outlasted a field of winners including last month’s Grand Final champion Leon Bui, and many of those in the upper echelons of this year’s GUKPT Rankings, such as Alli Mallu, Neil Channing, Jeff Kimber and runner-up Steve Holden.

The cherry on the 2010 GUKPT cake, the Champion of Champions’ Event held at the G Casino, Coventry, awarded £150,000 in total, representing huge added value distributed by a final challenge at the poker table as the year draws to a close.  Invitations to the tournament were sent only to those who had won GUKPT or Summer Series Main or side events, online 10% Series tournaments, Club Championships or who had topped the National Poker League, with the number of starting chips varying depending on which event (or events) were won.

Starting with the minimum 7,500 was no setback to many, however, James Miller’s third place finish for £19,500 proving the point nicely.  Fifteen places in all were paid, with the minimum cash being £2,250, and the late stages of the tournament saw plenty of reversals of fortune, as every one of the last handful of players took turns rising into the lead.

It was not the first time Alli Mallu had been given a nick-name similar to “All-in Alli,” and it probably won’t be the last.  Mallu, second in the GUKPT 2010 Player of the Year race to David Johnson, stayed true to his reputation for putting a brick on the poker accelerator, generating a very large stack by repeatedly getting it in and going all out to build a stack.  He eliminated (among others) Paul Parker and Cuong Tran on his long rollercoaster to the final table, and at one stage held a large and dangerous chip lead.  However his bravura performance was not enough to secure him the title this year.

The bubble boy was Greg Garrett, running A-K into the Kings of Michael Fisher to end his two-day run at the Champion of Champions’ event in harsh form, but it was perhaps Jeff Kimber for whom the cards fell the hardest.  He just missed out on a final table spot after storming towards it just one level earlier, eliminating Guy Johnson and Greg Hunt (all in the money now) to keep him in the favourable position he’d maintained all day.

The final table lost first the two shortest stacks Ramazanali Abassi and Andy Booth and then Stephen Thompson, before the dinner break on Sunday saw the final seven clearly divided – those with around 350,000, and those with below 200,000.  The top three, Luke Fields, James Miller and Alli Mallu, were as close as could be, leading to an unpredictable final stretch.  A timely pair of Aces for Mallu saw off Michael Fisher in 7th place for £5,625 – and just in time too, as Mallu had doubled up Steve Holden moments earlier.

Luke Fields had a stroke of luck eliminating Patryk Slusarek in 6th after his fingers were caught in the cookie jar with T-7 vs. Slusarek’s pocket Queens.  His double spike gave him the momentum which would eventually carry him to victory.  The following hand Debbie Masson was out-raced by Alli Mallu and suddenly short-handed play was upon the remaining Champions.

From four players to one, the action was unrelenting, the chip lead being won and lost in a matter of hands.  Alli Mallu’s run came to an end as he ran a dominated Ace into Steve Holden, who went on to eliminate James Miller in 3rd.

It took two levels for the heads up players to break the see-sawing deadlock. The final hand saw a classic race hand the trophy to Fields, as his pocket Queens held against Steve Holden’s A-K.  Holden can be proud of his 2010 on the GUKPT, however, winning £31,125 for his second place in Coventry and lying in 6th place overall on the year’s Leaderboard.

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Luke Fields

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Festival results

Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   04/12/2010   
Event   £150,000 Champions' Freeroll   
Length   2 days   
Runners   153   
Total Prize Pool   £150,000   

Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Luke Fields   £44,250
2nd   Stephen Holden   £31,125
3rd   James Miller   £19,500
4th   Alli Mallu   £12,000
5th   Deborah Masson   £9,375
6th   Patryk Slusarek   £7,125
7th   Michael Fisher   £5,625
8th   Stephen Thomson   £4,125
9th   Andrew Booth   £3,000
10th   Ramazanali Abbassi   £2,625
11th   Jeff Kimber   £2,250
12th   Adam White   £2,250
13th   Gregory Hunt   £2,250
14th   Guy Johnson   £2,250
15th   James Reid   £2,250

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Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   05/12/2010   
Event   £100 NL Hold'em Bounty Freezeout   
Length   1 day   
Runners   30   
Total Prize Pool   £2,250   

Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Nigel Hill   £850
2nd   Henk Bulcke   £610
3rd   Richard Scott   £405
4th   Emilios Arestidis   £225
5th   John Bates   £160

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Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   04/12/2010   
Event   £250 NL Hold'em Freezeout   
Length   2 days   
Runners   14   
Total Prize Pool   £3,500
   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Ciaran Farrell   £1,750
2nd   Alex Burton   £1,050
3rd   Peter Wigglesworth   £700

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Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   03/12/2010   
Event   £150 NL Hold'em Freezeout   
Length   1 day   
Runners   75   
Total Prize Pool   £11,250   

Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Gary Holden   £3,505
2nd   Kenneth Billups   £2,505
3rd   Peter De Troyer   £1,660
4th   Ian Bertram   £985
5th   Christopher Elsden   £790
6th   Peter Garrett   £590
7th   Paul Noonan   £480
8th   Christiaan Vanzieleghem   £395
9th   Ramazanali Abbassi   £340
      

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Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   02/12/2010   
Event   £300 NL Hold'em Freezeout   
Length   2 days   
Runners   31   
Total Prize Pool   £9,300
   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Michael Watson   £3,540
2nd   Cheryl Pulver   £2,510
3rd   David Miles   £1,670
4th   Laurence Stone   £930
5th   Gregory Garrett   £650

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Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   01/12/2010   
Event   £200 NL Hold'em Freezeout   
Length   2 days   
Runners   47   
Total Prize Pool   £9,400
   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Erimas Livonas   £3,195
2nd   Mindaugas Bacevicius   £2,350
3rd   Stephen Holden   £1,600
4th   Michael Watson   £940
5th   Graham Pound   £750
6th   Nathan Foley   £565

[outragous76]

Wp Luke! Deserving winner. Certainly not afraid to get his chips in!

[Longines]

Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   04/12/2010   
Event   £250 NL Hold'em Freezeout   
Length   2 days   
Runners   14   

Must have been one hell of a long clock....

[avillan]

Must say a big thanks to all the Blonde members that text me on Sunday or wished me good luck in the casino.
It was a bit of a see-saw battle as you rightly say and to be honest any one in the final could have gone on to win.
Heads up lasted around two hours and in the end a classic race with parity in the chips give or take 60k.
Massive well done to Luke and to James who finished 3rd

[Longines]

Congrats on the results Steve, well played.



Grant