GUKPT Summer Series Luton and Aberdeen Results

Graham Pound of Reading has won the £500 Main Event at the GUKPT Summer Series event in Luton for £8,740.

The five day festival at the G Casino started off with Guiseppe Fontana winning the £150 No Limit Freezeout. Alex Burton then beat a field of 69 in the £250 NL Freezeout. Chen Ten won the £250 PL Omaha Double Chance Freezeout before Ian Wilmott took down the £100 NL Hold’em Bounty Freezeout.

In Aberdeen, Deborah Masson became the first female to win a GUKPT main event as she defeated the 33 strong field in the £300 No Limit event, winning £3,670. In the side events there were honours for Alisha Skene (£200 NL Hold’em Freezeout), David Gooch (£150 NL Hold’em Freezeout) and Richard Scott (£100 NL Hold’em Bounty Freezeout).

Martins Adeniya Ninth in Event #26: $2,500 No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed

Martins Adeniya of London fell short of the final table in event #26: $2,500 No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed, eliminated in ninth place for $40,547.

The former city trader started day three in third chip lead. But following a bad start to the day, his luck turned sour. In prime position to double up with just nine remaining, Adeniya found action with his Hiltons (pocket queens). Pre flop, Adeniya raised to 63,000. Javier Etayo made it 177,000 to go. Adeniya reraised all in for 551,000 and Etayo made the call.

Etayo showed pocket 10s to Adeniya’s ladies.

Ross Johnson Wins British Masters Poker Leeds

Ross Johnson of Gateshead has taken down the second leg of the Coral.co.uk British Poker masters in Leeds.

With the World Cup in South Africa and the World Series on in Las Vegas, there were plenty of distractions from the UK’s poker tables. But 69 players kept their poker heads on to play in the £500 No Limit Hold’em main event, leaving a tough field field for Johnson to beat.

Johnson dominated the final stretch of the two day event, knocking out Steve Chadwick in fourth (who took home £3,100), Ash Hussain in third (for £4,830) before sending Paul “Swampy” Gardner out in second place for £7,240.

Brits Near Final Table Event #17: $5,000 NL Hold’em, Liv Boeree Plays For TOC Seat

British poker players Paul Foltyn and Samuel Trickett are close to making the final table of event #17 $5,000 No Limit Hold’em at the World Series Of Poker in Las Vegas.

With 12 players remaining (at time of this post) Foltyn currently sits in 7th and Trickett 9th, in a great opportunity to take a third title for Great Britain.

The British pair, who are both GUKPT champions, are guaranteed a payday of $49,024 in the worst case scenario of going out in 12th. But both players will have their eyes on the first prize of $818,959 and a coveted World Series bracelet.

In play chip count:

1. Jason DeWitt: 2,000,000
2. Amit Makhija: 1,300,000
3. Jeff Williams: 1,190,000
4. Peter Gilmore: 1,120,000
5. David Benefield: 1,090,000
6. James Carroll: 1,080,000
7. Paul Foltyn: 960,000
8. Antonio Esfandiari: 850,000
9. Samuel Trickett: 660,000
10. Perry Friedman: 540,000

Boeree Plays For TOC Seat

GUKPT Summer Series Continues

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour’s Summer Series continues this week stopping off in Luton and Aberdeen.

Action in Luton begins today at the G Casino with three days of side events before the £500 No Limit Hold’em Main Event takes place from Saturday 12 June through to Sunday.

Aberdeen’s side events start tomorrow Thursday 10th June at the G Casino before the £300 Main Event over the weekend.

Players are to be reminded that all action from the 2010 FIFA World Cup will be shown live at the casinos, so don’t worry about missing a thing.

Buy-ins can be made directly from any Grosvenor or G Casino, as well as via gcasino.com where weekly satellites are taking place on Friday and Sunday nights at 8.30pm.

Dusk Till Dawn June Deepstack Chopped

In Nottingham at Dusk Till Dawn, the monthly deepstack tournament was chopped after the blinds reached crapshoot levels.

269 players turned out for the monthly £300 NL tournament meeting DTD’s guaranteed £80,000 prizepool. But as play went four handed with increasing blinds logic overruled ending the tournament in anticlimax.

Eventually the pot was split between Fan Cao, Ray Ryder, Andrew Ferguson and Mark Aldridge based on Independent Chip Model. Ryder made an awesome come back starting the final table as short stack with only four big blinds to finish in second place.

The final payout in Nottingham:

James Dempsey Wins WSOP Event #9 $1,500 PL Hold’em

James ‘Flushy’ Dempsey of Brighton has won the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold’em at the World Series Of Poker in Las Vegas, taking down $197,470 and winning Britain’s second bracelet of the 2010 WSOP.

Dempsey’s win means the $1,500 PLH has been won by a Briton two years in a row, after JP Kelly’s victory last year.

Despite arriving late on Day 1, Dempsey finished the day in chip lead. He held the lead until the end of Day 2 when his eventual heads up opponent Steve Chanthabouasy took control, going into the final table just 5000 in front of Dempsey.

As the final table formed, God Save The Queen was playing for Praz Bansi’s bracelet ceremony, an omen for what was to come.

Praz Bansi Wins WSOP Event #5: $1,500 No Limit Hold’em

British poker pro Praz Bansi has won event #5: $1,500 No Limit Hold’em at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Bansi defeated Canadian Vincent Jacques heads up to win his second WSOP bracelet, the first British bracelet this year, and $515,501 in prize money.

Bansi stayed in the lead pack throughout the tournament, consistently one step ahead of the majority of the field of 2092 players. On the final day of the tournament Bansi took the chip lead as the 23 remaining players were whittled down to a final nine. Bansi’s lead was diminished as he went into heads up against Jacques almost even on chips.

GUKPT Summer Series Blackpool & Thanet Results

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour has just completed its first Summer Series events taking place in Blackpool and Thanet.

The tour which takes place during the summer break of the main GUKPT tour is bringing lower stakes poker to players across the UK.

In Blackpool, the festival started off with a win for Waseem Shahid in the £150 No Limit Freezeout. That was followed by victories in side events for Reyaaz Mulla in the £100 NL Holdem Rebuy, Andrew Christopher in the £250 NL Hold’em freezeout, Stanley James (£100 PL Omaha rebuy) and Chaun Kim Ooi in the £100 NL Hold’em bounty freezeout.