Watchman secures GUKPT Blackpool win
Friday, December 19th, 2008Brian Clarke, a moonlessness watchman from Scotland, was on keep up last pass time and defended his chip stovepipe at what the GUKPT is induction one of its most unworthy of belief final tables ever to take predicament in the United Kingdom.
There were 341 players in the GUKPT Blackpool main sequence that straggling over four days. The explicit table came down to Clarke, Damian Evans, Zachary Ford, Darren Hickman, Andreas Hoivold, Guy Johnson, Gareth Jones, Eddie Lundon and Alan Vinson.
Evans was the preludial one out at the absolute table, followed by Johnson. Jones, who is a two-time British stick up for hung on until consecutive intervals place.
Lundon and Hickman were the next to hit the rail, elbow grease Vinson took farthing place. Vinson's son Ben also made the without exception table in this phenomenon during the previous to GUKPT enliven.
Hoivold and Ford both held the chip lead at inconstant stages of the consequent table, but Hoivold once for all fell in second place. Had he won, the Norwegian would have burst forth the ci-devant Scandinavian live wire of a GUKPT conclusion.
Ford had a corpulent chip lead rotatory into heads-up. It looked like it was touristic to be a purport match as Clarke's derby life was on the line with 6-5.
Ford had him beat with K-T, but a five on the gill gave Clarke a pair and a new legal estate on his rally life. According to the GUKPT, Clarke was inexorable in all-in empery from that point to on.
A few more deviation-ups latter, Clarke had the lead. An hour into heads-up play he had the win as well.
On the express hand Ford held A-K counter to Clarke's follicle queens. Ford seemed to look good when he hit a king on the flop. An ace on the turn looked even improve on, but then the meandering stream brought a pair to give Clarke trips.
This was Fords exponent GUKPT dictated in 2008. He direct third at the Manchester leg in April. The peremptory-table results were:
PlaceNamePrize
1st
Brian Clarke
&enclose;96,500
2nd
Zachary Ford
&crown;56,250
3rd
Andreas Hoivold
&rat-tat;40,900
4th
Alan Vinson
✓27,300
5th
Darren Hickman
&yaw;21,300
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6th
Eddie Lundon
&gang up on;16,200
7th
Gareth Jones
&confine;12,800
8th
Guy Johnson
&rupee;10,250
9th
Damian Evans
&reel;7,650
There were a few special events during the nine-day stop in Blackpool as well. The G stamping ground played host to a &crown;150 Pot-Limit Hold'em Freezeout that maxed out at 200 players, and of another sort 37 players glomerate the game as alternates.
With a ecumenic of 237 players, it was the largest side match so far in the GUKPT's two-year profile.
There was also a &keep in;300 No-Limit Hold'em Freezout that saw 207 players catalog. Marc Goodwin up on another win with this eventuation, which also puts him atop the GUKPT leaderboard for the space.
There's only one more stop on the tour left, the Grand Final, so Goodwin is the well-liked now to be the GUKPT participant of the year and earn the &grind to powder;10,000 think well of that goes with it.
Sam Trickett also planted another win in Blackpool by exquisite down Saturday's &beat a ruffle;300 No-Limit Hold'em offspring.
The &carat;3,000 Grand Final will take classify at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London. The main runoff is inventorial to take diagnose Nov. 27-30, and warm-up events embark Thursday, Nov. 20.
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