Jacqueline Sherwood Takes Down Ladies Event as UK Open Explodes Into Action

The primary two occasions of the 2025 Grosvenor UK Open have topped their worthy champions because the two-week-long pageant exploded into motion. The £115 No-Restrict Maintain’em Girls Championship and the £440 No-Restrict Maintain’em Thriller Bounty occasions are carried out and dusted, with Jacqueline Sherwood and Dale Wilson serving to themselves to the respective titles.

Ninety-five girls purchased into the £115 Girls Championship, making a £9,020 prize pool that the highest 12 finishers shared. The nine-handed remaining desk was set after Christine Smith, Lisa McMahon, and bubble woman Caroline Cove bowed out on Day 2.

£115 Girls Championship Remaining Desk Outcomes

Rose Cope’s time within the highlight was restricted as a result of she crashed out in ninth place for a £350 rating. Olivia Wainright adopted Cope to the cashier’s desk to gather the £400 eighth-place prize earlier than Peggy Crawford noticed her newest deep run finish in a seventh-place end price £450. Crawford received a WSOP Circuit ring in March 2024 when she took down the £250 Girls occasion on the WSOPC UK in Nottingham.

Sixth place and £500 went to Sophie Stubbs. Final February, Stubbs completed third within the £550 GUKPT Cup in Manchester for a career-best £11,270. Extra lately, Stubbs got here near reaching the Ladies’s Winter Pageant Primary Occasion in London in November 2024.

Carole Clarke’s newest outcome was a fifth-place end within the Girls’ Championship. Clarke banked £580. Clarke completed fourth within the Ladies’s Championship occasion on the 2022 Goliath, third in a Seniors occasion on the 2023 GUKPT Coventry cease, and cashed within the Seniors occasion on the 2023 Goliath. It appears she has a penchant for these occasions.

Grosvenor UK Poker Open Returns for 2025 With a £1M Assured Primary Occasion

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The ultimate three-figure rating went to Susan Adams after her match resulted in third place. The £850 Adams collected pushes her recorded dwell poker match winnings north of $40,000.

Emma Wilkinson got here unstuck in third and picked up £1,200, her second-largest haul behind the $2,345 Wilkinson obtained for a deep run within the 2018 WSOP Millionaire Maker. Like Stubbs, Wilkinson went deep within the Ladies’s Winter Primary Occasion in November 2024.

Heads-up pitted Natalia Stoddard towards Jacqueline Sherwood. No deal was struck, leading to Stoddard banking £1,670 after ending because the match’s runner-up. Stoddard’s demise meant Sherwood had outlasted 94 opponents and grow to be the Girls Championship champion, an accolade that got here with a career-best £2,180.

Dale Wilson’s Scorching Run Continues With UK Open Thriller Bounty Win

The £440 Thriller Bounty occasion on the Grosvenor UK Open attracted 501 entrants who constructed a £190,380 pot. Half that sum was break up into thriller bounties, with the remaining 50% making up the common prize pool. Of the latter, Dale Wilson scooped £16,820 courtesy of being the final man standing.

Wilson is on fairly the run of outcomes. Since late December 2024, Wilson has received a £250 DTD Christmas Cup for £8,645, completed fourth in The Opener on the GUKPT Coventry cease in January for £4,120, and completed fourth within the UK Poker Championships Primary Occasion for £35,000. Now he has a UK Open title to his identify.

Wilson defeated Michael Chappell heads-up for the title, resigning Chappell to the £12,990 runner-up prize. That prize represents a career-best for Chappell, edging out the £12,000 he secured for a third-place end in a Grosvenor 25/50 occasion in Liverpool in January 2023.

Two of the 9 finalists did fairly effectively for themselves from the thriller bounty prize pool. Jordan Daniels fell in seventh for £2,840 however not earlier than pulling £11,500 from thriller bounty envelopes, together with one price £10,000.

Man Li got here in sixth for £3,850. Nevertheless, the £8,000 bounty he claimed considerably elevated his earnings from this match.

Shout out to Almat Madaliyev, who opened an envelope containing the £15,000 jackpot bounty.

£440 UK Open Thriller Bounty Remaining Desk Outcomes

Remaining 2025 UK Open Schedule

Broaden the desk beneath to take a look at the remaining schedule of the 2025 UK Open. A number of the £340 Mini UK Open entrants can be enjoying free of charge due to profitable tickets through a promotion run along with the Novice Poker Affiliation & Tour (APAT).

APAT joined forces with Grosvenor Poker for its newest season, and celebrated the partnership with a sequence of £5 and £30 buy-in tournaments. Gamers earned leaderboard factors based mostly on their ending positions, with the highest factors earners profitable numerous tickets.

“mclennox” banked a £340 UK Open Mini seat from the £5 leaderboard, with “reenot” and “Sharkeylad” doing the identical within the £30 class. The participant often known as “BjornHeidenstrom” topped the £30 leaderboard and can now play within the £1,500 buy-in, £1 million assured UK Open Primary Occasion free of charge.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker trade since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he turned the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from dwell reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his position of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.