Bernard Litman Lights Up GUKPT Brighton

Fifty-three year old Bernard Litman has won the £70,520 first prize at the £1,000 buy in BlueSqPoker.com Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, Brighton as well as scooping a seat to the £100,000 Champion of Champions event which will round off Season III of the tour. He topped the field of 235 players at the end of the four-day tournament.

Litman beat 22-year-old James Sudworth heads up in a brief battle which saw him start with a 2:1 chip lead and ended with an all-in preflop scenario with Litman holding jacks and Sudworth holding sevens.

Sudworth took home £43,480 for his efforts which also saw him make the final table of the £300 event earlier in the festival. Model Nick Holbrook finished third for £28,790 and Andreas Hoivold took fourth for £18,860.

The final table results were:

1. Bernard Litman — £70,520 125
2. James Sudworth — £43,480 100
3. Nick Holbrook — £28,790 80
4. Andreas Hoivold — £18,560 65
5. Keir Ratcliff  —£13,860 55
6. Ramsey Ajram — £11,520 45
7. Richard Lewidon — £9,160 35
8. Matt Perrins — £6,820 25
9. Nathan Lee — £4,700 20

Elsewhere at the festival Dave Colclough won the £100 pot-limit Omaha rebuy event while Shana Casaletto won both the £100 no-limit hold’em freezeout and the £250 event making her the first player to win back-to-back events at the GUKPT.

The next stop on the tour is the Grosvernor Casino, Walsall from Feb. 21 to Mar. 1.

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