The £1,000 buy-in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Leeds Fundamental Occasion was a lot smaller than standard, a direct results of the 2024 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) being in full swing, but it surely nonetheless noticed 192 entrants create a £160,890 prize pool and a £36,150 prime prize. James Jones was the final participant standing within the GUKPT Leeds Fundamental Occasion, and he turned his £1,000 funding into £36,150, a brand new career-high for the champion.
The highest 25 finishers from the 192-strong crowd acquired a slice of the $160,890 prize pool. The likes of Tuan Le, Renee Xie, and Matt Davenport had been among the many first gamers to bust inside the cash. Davenport’s newest GUKPT Fundamental Occasion money, his twenty sixth, is six greater than anybody else within the tour’s historical past. The serial crushers additionally completed fourth within the £1,650 Excessive Curler for £5,800 earlier within the week. Davenport is quickly heading to the WSOP, so look out for his identify in PokerNews’ updates.
Alex Montgomery, Carl Spicer, Simon Higgins, Michael Rosaman, and Tim Slater additionally cashed, the latter busting in twelfth place. Mark Johnston‘s elimination in tenth set the ultimate desk.
2024 GUKPT Leeds Fundamental Occasion Closing Desk Outcomes
It was to not be Callum Gordon‘s day, who crashed out within the first 20 minutes of the ultimate desk’s motion. He can rely himself unfortunate as a result of, in these 20 minutes, he discovered pocket queens and ace-king, and bumped into pocket aces on each events, one for all of his stack.
A participant wishing to stay nameless bowed out in eighth earlier than Mark Earl bought the final of his chips in with pocket fours and misplaced to the ace-trey of John Bousfield courtesy of an ace on the flip.
GUKPT common Robert Douras was the following in line on the cashier’s desk after he “did a Callum Gordon.” Douras dedicated his final eight huge blinds from the button with king-queen, just for the large blind to get up with pocket rockets! These aces held, and Douras was gone; the £6,675 he received pushed his lifetime earnings by means of the $350,000 mark.
PokerStars Launches £2.20 Satellites for the 2024 Grosvenor Poker Goliath
Christopher Johnson received the GUKPT Leeds Fundamental Occasion in 2022 and seemed set to rake in its prime prize once more. Nevertheless, after discovering himself down to 5 huge blinds, Johnson moved all-in with queen-nine, and Bousfield referred to as with ace-five. No assist arrived for both participant, however Bousfield did not want any, so it was good sport for Johnson.
Fourth place and £12,630, the primary £10K+ prize of the event, went to Abdulkadir Ahmed, who first misplaced a coinflip towards Garry Spinks to be left short-stacked. Ahmed’s final seven huge binds went into the center with jack-four, however the Robbie Lew hand could not beat Bousfield’s ace-king. Ahmed has 22 cashes in 2024 alone and continues knocking on the door of a giant win.
Heads-up was set when Spinks, sporting a Triton Poker patch all through the ultimate day, shoved when holding second pair, solely 4 Bousfield to snap-call with prime pair. Spinks did not enhance, and he fell in third for £18,985.
Bousfield’s one-man wrecking spree was halted by Jones. All of the chips went into the center of a five-six-seven flop, Bousfield holding eight-five for backside pair and an open-ended straight draw, however Jones referred to as with pocket nines, and was holding two of Bousfield’s outs. Each the flip and river bricked, Bousfield bowed out, and Jones lifted the winner’s trophy aloft.
What’s Subsequent for the GUKPT?
The GUKPT heads on a six-week hiatus whereas the WSOP swallows up each out there reside poker participant, but it surely returns with a bang in late July with the eagerly anticipated 2024 version of the Goliath.
Satellites for the Goliath are operating on Grosvenor Poker and, for the primary time, at PokerStars, which ought to assist push the prize pool in the direction of £1.5 million!
