Welcome To Leeds
Welcome to Leeds for Day 1b of the GUKPT Main Event. Leg 6 of the GUKPT Tour is in Yorkshire for the £100,000 Guaranteed Main Event.
Follow all the action as we bring you blog updates throughout the day.
Lyons Leads 1B – 00:45
Wow! Well what a day we have just had in Leeds! A Monsterous 282 entries for Day 1b, which is the biggest ever Day one outside of London.
The has made the prizepool a whopping £182,500 with late registration still open, players can still buy into Day 2 tomorrow before it starts.
Paul Lyons has finished on top after the ten levels of play. He bagged up a stack of 186,800! Full chip counts of the 92 players who have made it through are:
| Paul Lyons | 186,800 |
| Tan Le | 137,700 |
| Hebiao Guo | 136,000 |
| Craig Heaton | 133,600 |
| Endrit Geci | 124,500 |
| John Bousfield | 118,000 |
| Daniel Samson | 117,000 |
| John Mercer | 115,700 |
| Lee J French | 112,900 |
| Tony Ringe | 102,200 |
| Matthew Eardley | 93,000 |
| Mudasser Hussain | 92,000 |
| Gaetan Martinez | 90,200 |
| Haresh Thaker | 88,800 |
| Aqeel Butt | 88,300 |
| Dean Connolly | 84,800 |
| Colin Gillon | 83,500 |
| Changle Zhen | 81,300 |
| Craig Alistair Smith | 81,200 |
| Robert Boon | 80,000 |
| Thomas Middelthon | 78,000 |
| Christian Townsend | 76,600 |
| David Ledden | 76,300 |
| Andrew Hawksby | 75,700 |
| N.H. | 74,000 |
| Paul Noble | 73,900 |
| Brett Richard Angell | 71,600 |
| Ian Barlow | 69,900 |
| Jeffrey Kimber | 68,800 |
| Alexander Kamat | 67,500 |
| Michael Brown | 66,700 |
| Christopher Cooper | 66,200 |
| Michael Richardson | 65,900 |
| Mark Dyson | 65,500 |
| Gary Whitehead | 64,900 |
| Matthew William George Gray | 63,800 |
| Michael Howard | 63,400 |
| N.B. | 62,900 |
| Thomas Pearn | 62,800 |
| Mark Andrew Evans | 62,000 |
| James Batt | 60,300 |
| Joshua Musson | 59,400 |
| Roni Tal | 58,300 |
| Michael Allen | 58,000 |
| David Crane | 56,300 |
| Ming Ju | 55,600 |
| Michael Clarke | 54,600 |
| Jason Gilbert | 54,600 |
| Leslie Kearney | 54,400 |
| John Pattent | 54,400 |
| Frederick Maher | 54,000 |
| Marc Foggin | 52,700 |
| Allan Fraser | 52,700 |
| Stephen Woodhead | 52,500 |
| Alli Mallu | 52,200 |
| Charles Ihle | 51,300 |
| Stephen Harrison | 51,000 |
| Kevin Houghton | 50,700 |
| Liam Hooks | 49,700 |
| Sarbjit Kular | 49,600 |
| Daniel Carl Morgan | 49,300 |
| Daniel Madl | 49,000 |
| Craig Rimmer | 47,700 |
| Daniel Jackson | 47,200 |
| Richard Horton | 47,100 |
| Deryck Barnes | 46,900 |
| Renee Xie | 45,000 |
| John Gilchrist | 45,000 |
| Grant Wheelhouse | 43,900 |
| Kelly Barlow | 43,500 |
| Hasmukh Khodiyara | 43,500 |
| Daniel Foskett | 42,500 |
| David Johnson | 38,900 |
| Paul Rogers | 37,200 |
| Robert Matthew Campbell | 35,200 |
| John Duggan | 32,500 |
| Chi Yau | 31,400 |
| Neil Rowicki | 31,200 |
| Gary Callan | 30,500 |
| Anthony Sutcliffe | 30,300 |
| Paul Maguire | 28,500 |
| Lukas Dimsa | 26,600 |
| Garry Wilson | 23,100 |
| Tom Craig Noble | 20,400 |
| Kasim Mahmood | 20,400 |
| Michael Oakes | 17,900 |
| Alexander Carlton | 14,300 |
| Daniel Charlton | 13,800 |
| Usman Ulhaq | 11,500 |
| Yiannis Liperis | 8,900 |
| Paul Rigg | 6,800 |
| Barrie Cooper | 2,900 |
We will be back tomorrow from 12pm where there are 114 players coming back to play another ten levels. It’s going to be an exciting day. Join us on the live stream at 12:30pm.
Play Has Finished – 00:20
Play has now finished on all tables.
We will have the full chip counts up with you as soon as possible.
Last 5 Hands – 00:15
The clock has been paused with 8 minutes remaining, the players will now play 5 more hands before bagging up for the night.
Last Level Exits – 23:45
The players below have all busted the main event:
Colin Gillon
Richard Kellett
Brett Davies
Garry Wilson
Daniel Stancer
But they can still buy in, so they can jump back in for £500+£60 for 20 bigs.
More Counts – 23:30
Riggy – 20,000
Chris Cooper – 18,000
Richard Kellett – 45,000
Josh Musson – 70,000
Andy Hills – 80,000
Tom Middleton – 50,000
Jeff Kimber – 45,000
The Last Level – 23:14
The blinds increase for the last time today as the players begin the last level of play.
The blinds are now 500/1000 with a 1,000 big blind ante.
110 players remaining.
Chip Counts – 23:01
Andrew Hawksby – 40,000
Kelly Barlow – 45,00
Renee Xie – 70,000
Liam Hooks – 42,000
Fred Maher – 93,000
Colin Gillon – 43,000
Nathan Slater Busts – 22:45
Nathan Slater opens, John Bousfield moves all in! Nathan has around 17k, which is a similar stack to John and he calls it off.
Nathan tables pocket threes and is in bad shape against the pocket sevens of John.
The board runs out 7–5–K–5–6
Boat for John as he takes the pot and now has around 35,000.
Nathan heads out of the tournament.
Exits – 22:30
Tom Bacon
Gerald Ringe
Francisco Carey
Robert Hallworth
Mark Dolan
Alli Mallu
Level 9 – 22:10
The players are back seated as we begin level number nine.
Blinds are 400/800 with an 800 big blind ante.
139 players remaining from the 261 entries.
Break Time – 21:45
Break time now for the players as they take 20 minutes.
Pics – 21:30
Huge Turnout – 21:15
That’s 340 entries in total creating a prizepool of £170,000!!
Late registration is still open and you can buy in up until 11:50am tomorrow.
Level 8 – 20:50
The blinds increase as we begin level number eight of the day.
They are now 300/600 with a 600 big blind ante.
250 entries today, 146 players remaining.
Exits – 20:30
The most recent exits here during level number 7.
Allan Fraser
Daniel Foskett
Joe O Donnell
Daniel Carter
Players Still Coming In – 20:05
Players are still coming in here during level number seven, late registration is open all night. So with the prizepool now over £160,000 we expect players to re-enter when they bust.
Level 7 – 19:45
The players are back as we begin level 7.
The blinds are now 250/500 with a 500 big blind ante.
244 entries so far today which is HUGE!!
Break Time – 19:20
Break time now for the players as they take 25 minutes.
Increase on Last Year – 18:45
Kevin Charalambous has just entered the tournament. With his entry we’ve now beat the 302 entries from the Main Event last year.
The next target is 308, which was the number of entries in 2017.
Level 6 – 18:25
The blinds increase as we begin level number 6.
They are now 200/400 with a 400 big blind ante.
217 entries so far today.
Exits – 18:10
Alli Mallu
Robert Sherwood
Kevin Charalambous
Philip Walker
Daniel Hide
Thomas Cazaletz
Chip Counts – 18:01
Michael Clarke – 35,000
Jeff Kimber – 45,000
Rob Sherwood – 8,000
Lee French – 75,000
Mark Evans – 45,000
Anthony Gardner – 40,000
Marc Foggin – 19,000
Craig Heaton – 51,000
Guy Taylor – 42,000
Level 5 – 17:30
The players are back seated as we begin level number 5.
The blind are 150/300 with 300 big blind ante.
200 entries so far today.
Dinner Break – 16:25
Dinner break now for the player as they take 60 minutes.
Day 1a Chip Counts – 16:10
| Martin Paul | 217,000 |
| Alec Tindal | 200,000 |
| Warren Aspey | 117,700 |
| Garry Stewart | 94,100 |
| Samuel Clark | 91,100 |
| Ben Maregedze | 72,400 |
| Gary Bertram | 71,400 |
| Andrea Guardascione | 69,100 |
| J H | 68,900 |
| Arian Hassankashani | 67,000 |
| John Hughes | 66,400 |
| Tina Loraine Bandyle | 63,400 |
| Katie Swift | 63,000 |
| Mark Wackrill | 59,600 |
| Chris Maguire | 59,500 |
| Ryan Mandara | 51,300 |
| Harvey Norris | 47,600 |
| Richard Hasnip | 45,400 |
| E R | 43,000 |
| Iain Mclaughin | 42,300 |
| Chris Cunliffe | 28,600 |
| Masoud Etemadiherisi | 21,500 |
Pics – 15:50
Level 4 – 15:25
The blinds increase as we begin level number four.
They are now 100/200 with a 200 big blind ante.
168 entries so far today.
Bust Outs – 15:15
Michael Moss
Sarbjit Kular
Mor Kamber
Players in the House – 15:01
Players playing today:
Michael Richardson
Lee Reynolds
Ali Mallu
Andy Hills
Moyra Davis
Michael Clarke
Level 3 – 14:25
The players are now back seated as we begin level number 3.
Blinds are now 75/150.
149 entries so far today.
Break Time – 14:01
Break time now for the players as they take 25 minutes.
Early Exits – 13:46
Early exits from the field:
Andrew Bak
Ray Chris Hopkins
James Yeo
Daniel Knight
Alexander Kamat
More names in the Building – 13:30
We’re still waiting on a player list so here are some more names we have noticed playing today:
Tom Middleton
Jeff Kimber
Chris Cooper
Tony Ringe
Liam Hooks
Michael Howard
Level Up – 13:01
The blinds increase as we begin the next level of play.
The blinds are now 50/100.
133 entries so far.
Playing Today – 12:20
A few of the players we have noticed in the field playing today:
Mick Fletcher
Richard Kellett
David Johnson
Josh Musson
Les Kearney
John Bousfield
Tommy Noble
A full player list will be up with you as soon as possible.
Shuffle Up & Deal – 12:01
The cards are in the air as we begin Day 1a.
Blinds are 25/50.
85 players start the day.
Welcome to Day 1b – 11:45
Good morning and welcome back to Leeds for Day 1b of the GUKPT Main Event.
The tournament has a buy in of £500+£60 with a £100,000 guarantee! For their buy in, players will receive 20,000 chips on a 60 minute clock. Late registration is open all day today with unlimited re-entries available.
Yesterday 83 runners turned out, which was slightly down on the 102 entries from a year ago.
Play begins at 12pm today and we are expecting a BIG field!
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