Belfast Man Wins Grosvenor UK Poker Tour WalsallTough GUKPT Field and Final Table Slaughtered By Colin McTaggart |
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The Grosvenor Casino in Walsall played host to the £1,000 buy-in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) main event which attracted 207 players and turned out to be one of the toughest fields in the four-year history of the Tour. Down to 23 players, more than half of them had made it to a GUKPT final table before and seven of them were former champions. But it was Belfast-born Colin McTaggart who topped the field and took home the £57,700 first prize, the trophy, and a seat in the £150,000 Champion of Champions tournament.
Priyan de Mel who recently won his second GUKPT title narrowly missed out on a third consecutive final table, and left as the final table bubble, in 11th place. Two former winners made it to the final table though – 2007 Grand Final title holder Mike Ellis and 2009 Champion of Champions Haitao Wu. Ellis finished in fourth and Wu in seventh place this time however.
McTaggart, a 30-year-old landlord living in Ormskirk in the UK held the chip lead when he faced down Birmingham’s Anthony Crotty heads up, and it was all over within 15 minutes. In the ultimate hand, McTaggart agonised over whether to call Crotty’s reraise all in on a paired and flushing board reading J-10-8-Q-10. A few minutes of tough decision-making resulted in a call from McTaggart who had A-K for the straight. Crotty showed K-Q.
The final table payouts were:
First Colin McTaggart £57,700
Second Anthony Crotty £39,150
Third Alli Mallu £25,250
Fourth Mike Ellis £14,950
Fifth Thomas MacDonald £11,350
Sixth Darren Hickman £9,250
Seventh Haitao Wu £7,200
Eighth Mike Hill £5,650 25
Ninth James Mitchell £4,100
Tenth Karl Limbert £3,600
The next leg of the tour takes place at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London from Mar. 18-25 with the slightly more expensive £1,500 buy-in main event kicking off on Mar. 25. Last year, Irishman Martin Silke beat 397 opponents to take down the £172,850 top prize.
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