UKIPT Edinburgh

[TightEnd]

After a brief hiatus over the festive season it's back to business on the PokerStars UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) with the £700+£70 Edinburgh Main Event starting today.

The first of two opening flights starts at noon with a second following at the same time tomorrow. The latest leg in the Scottish capital is shaping up to be massive with PokerStars confirming that over 500 players had registered in advance.

Fintan Gavin won the UKIPT's last visit to Edinburgh, pocketing £61,500 after outlasting a 519-runner field in August 2011.


If you play, please post on this thread how you get on, and I'll put up the PS blog chip counts every day

[OverTheBorder]

For anyone playing Circus are offering free taxis from venue to the casino, if you want to play cash.  Call Capital Cars on 0131 777 7777 and quote UKIPT.  You could probably park around there and its a free lift back!  Hopefully this is not spam, just thought it would be good for players as no cash on site.

[LB44]

Thanks to the Tighty poker school this morning, day 1 chip leader oii oii

[Sulphur man]

Thanks to the Tighty poker school this morning, day 1 chip leader oii oii

Boss. Enjoy day two.

[VBlue]

Thanks to the Tighty poker school this morning, day 1 chip leader oii oii

GL in Day Two tomorrow Liam.

[iangascoigne]

Good luck Liam.Run well.

[TightEnd]

114 of 254 made it through 1a

top ten

Liam Batey   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   115400
David Vamplew   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   106200
Greig Cushnie   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   94300
Eldon Orr   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   78800
Brett Angell   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   73400
Kuljinder Singh   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   71800
Mikel Villaescusa   Spain   PokerStars Qualifier   71000
Jason Barton   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   68900
John Wallace   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   66100
Johan Lendenius   Sweden   PokerStars Qualifier   65100

selected others

Niall Farrell   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   53000
Leon Louis   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   38500
Thomas Hall   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   28800
Andrew Teng   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   20100
Peter Wigglesworth   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   19300
Paul McTaggart   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   16400
Nicholas Wealthall   United Kingdom   PokerStars Player   13600
Jamie Burland   United Kingdom   PokerStars Qualifier   11000


updates are at www.pokerstarsblog.com, day1b from midday

[redsimon]

Thanks to the Tighty poker school this morning, day 1 chip leader oii oii

Good luck Saturday

[claypole]

Great news...flight cancelled, so £770 refund if stars sort as I'm sure they will plus £170 flexible booking Jury's plus £15 and £100 flight plus £200 night out when I busted means return of £1255 and a ROI over 50% - I'm good lol

[kinboshi]

Thanks to the Tighty poker school this morning, day 1 chip leader oii oii

Do a win fella

[claypole]

Stars are just absolute quality - all unregged, money back in account - email response inside 20 mins - they just do everything so well.

Gl everyone who made it especially Eso and 4thwhistle

[semtex]

Really enjoying the UKIPT Edinburgh, ran into Liam and pleased to see he is chip leader, one of my mates was chip leader in Newcastle, Tim Timotheou, and it all went wrong day 2 for him and didn't even cash, but knowing Liam a little I'm sure that he will use this strong position wisely. I went up to 32.5k and was building steadily up until level 6, then had a few car crashes dropped backed to my starting stack and had a mini recovery last few hands to finish on 19k, with blinds 400/800 this is still workable. Played 3 sides so far having landed on Weds night... £110 6 max Weds busto mid way thru KQ suited vs A5 suited to a serial raiser, but chopped the £55 turbo that night. Ran deep last night in the £110 turbo out 16th from 113 with 12 paid lost another 60/40, but another friend Greg Barbour (from Fyfe - blue blooder) won the £55 turbo on chip count for £1k, I backed a few players in the ME and will be watching Dominic Kats progress today, then playing the £110 win the button event at 8pm tonight. Good to see all the regular dealers including Dena Hassan up here and some of the DTD TDs as well as Rob and Alex!

[pokerfan]

Yong,Kimber and Dom Kay flying.

Yong played like a man without a care in the world today and had the very clear intention of having a big stack or no stack. He managed the former, just missing out on the chip lead. He terrorised his table getting opponents off big hands and also donated at times, he said. Kimber's stack rose steadily today. He busted short stacks and managed to flop a set to win a bigger pot off the table "live wire" as he described him. Williams managed to win a flip to bust the talented Ben Jenkins and cracked aces with a flush draw. Kay managed to crack kings with queen-jack and was also helped when he flopped a full house and watched an opponent donate to him with queen-high.

Stolen from ps blog.

[TightEnd]

A total of 358 players turned up to play Day 1B of the UKIPT Edinburgh in the Balmoral Hotel, making the final number a record breaking 612, beating last year's 519

First prize is £101,000

267 through to the weekend

the combined top 10 are

Liam Horgan,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,119,800
Robert Yong,United Kingdom,119,100
Liam Batey,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,115,400
Luan Beciri,Belgium,PokerStars Qualifier,106,200
David Vamplew,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,106,200
Chris Derrick,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,104,000
Stephen Woodhead,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,97,000
Greig Cushnie,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,94,300
Christopher Mann,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,80,300
Eldon Orr,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,78,800

full list at http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ukipt3-edinburgh-start-of-day-2-chips.html

updates on www.pokerstarsblog.com tomorrow

[TightEnd]

blonde poster survivors

Dominic Kay,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,77,900
Jeff Kimber,United Kingdom,72,300
Niall Farrell,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,53,000
James Rann,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,47,000
Charles Chattha,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,46,800
David Blacklaw,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,41,700
Sunny Chattha,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,41,000
Thomas Hall,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,28,800
Peter Wigglesworth,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,19,300
Paul McTaggart,United Kingdom,PokerStars Qualifier,16,400
Jake Cody,United Kingdom,Team PokerStars Pro,15,500
Richard Charles Blacklock,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,14,600
Jonathon Prested,United Kingdom,PokerStars Player,14,600