Welcome back to Day 2 of the GUKPT Manchester Main Event where there are 92 players coming back for another ten levels of play.
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Maregedze leads final 14 – 00:15
Day 2 of the GUKPT Manchester Main Event started today with 101 players and after ten levels of play we are down to just 14 players who have bagged up chips or tomorrows Day Three.
Today has flown by, with players dropping like flies, we lost 7 players in 12 minutes as we approached the bubble and didn’t even need to go hand for hand. Rob Boon was the unfortunate bubble boy, busting to Riggy straight flush.
Ben Maregedze holds a commanding chip lead going into the final day. He has 1.4million of the 6.6million in play. Full chip counts are: 
| Ben | Maregedze | 1466000 |
| Ryan | Plant | 832300 |
| Richard | Kellett | 733000 |
| Fraser | Macintyre | 578000 |
| Paul | Rigg | 372000 |
| Christopher | Byrne | 342000 |
| Robert | Bickley | 338000 |
| Craig | Drew | 296000 |
| Richard | Herbert | 281000 |
| Ryan | Osullivan | 220000 |
| Harry Niclolas | Ross | 204000 |
| Daniel | Foskett | 199000 |
| Michael | Fletcher | 190000 |
| Mark | Rubbathan | 167000 |
We will be back tomorrow for another 12pm start, join us to see who we crown GUKPT Manchester Main Event Champion 2019.
Play Has Finished – 23:45
Play has now finished on all tables.
Chip counts will be up as soon as possible.
Last Three Hands – 23:30
The clock has been paused with 10 minutes remaining. The players will now play three more hands before bagging up.
Raul Lozano 15th – 23:14
Raul Lozano moves all in for his 150,000 and is called by Richard Kellett.
Raul tables A-Q against the 7-7 of Kellett as they go off to the races…
The flop comes 6–5–4
The turn comes an 8 giving Kellett a straight and leaving Raul drawing dead!
The river card is a Jack.
Kellett takes the pot and now has just short of a million!
We lose Raul Lozano in 15th place for £3,320.
Level 20 – 23:01
The blinds increase as we begin level 20.
They are now 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante.
16 players remaining.
Huge Pots – 22:55
Richard Kellett has just won a huge pot from Harry Ross and D.A, betting 170,000 into 400k on a board of 5–3–8–J–10 Harry made the call after four minutes in the tank. Kellett had it, tabling pocket fives for a set which was good to take the pot. He has now span his 25k stack three and a hal hours ago into 850k!!
On the feature, Ben Maregedze won a huge pot from Riggy showing up with a flush. Ben is now up t 1.1million while Riggy is down to 350k.
Bust Outs – 22:40
17th – £3,020 – Mark Baxter
18th – £2,720 – Mark Dyson
Final Two Tables – 22:17
Final 18 Chip Counts – 22:08
| Paul Rigg | 703000 |
| Daniel Foskett | 615000 |
| Ben Maregedze | 563000 |
| Richard Kellett | 450000 |
| Robert Bickley | 403000 |
| Harry Ross | 390000 |
| Chris Byrne | 361000 |
| Mark Rubbathan | 350000 |
| Ryan O’Sullivan | 331000 |
| Fraser MacIntyre | 314000 |
| Richard Herbert | 310000 |
| Ryan Plant | 282000 |
| Raul Lozano | 270000 |
| D.A | 210000 |
| Craig Drew | 197000 |
| Mark Dyson | 137000 |
| Mick Fletcher | 126000 |
| Mark Baxter | 120000 |
Level 19 – 21:55
The players are back seated as we begin level 19.
The blinds are now 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante.
18 players remaining.
Break Time – 21:40
Break time now for the players as they take 15 minutes.
More Exits – 21:35
19th – £2,720 – Andrew Haygarth
20th – £2,720 – Cody Wagner
21st – £2,410 – Damien Wain
Prizepool Payout – 21:25
GUKPT Manchester Main Event
£1000 Hold Em
Entries: 309
1st – £83,930
2nd – £55,540
3rd – £34,110
4th – £21,730
5th – £14,790
6th – £10,870
7th – £8,450
8th – £6,940
9th – £5,740
10th – £4,830
11th – £4,220
12th – £3,930
13th – £3,620
14th – £3,320
15th – £3,320
16th – £3,020
17th – £3,020
18th – £2,720
19th – £2,720
20th – £2,720
21st – £2,410
22nd – £2,410 – Ludo Geilich
23rd – £2,410 – Rick Trigg
24th – £2,410 – Keith Johnson
25th – £2,110 – Nabil Cardoso
26th – £2,110 – Rehman Kassam
27th – £2,110 – I.N
28th – £2,110 – Paul Spillane
29th – £2,110 – Justinas Pactauskas
30th – £2,110 – Steven Fitzpatrick
Ludo Geilich 22nd – 21:15
Ludo gets his 14 bigs all in holding A-9 and gets called by Cody Wagner holding pocket sixes.
Sixes hold for Cody as he takes the pot.
We lose Ludo Geilich in 22nd place for £2,410.
Rick Trigg 23rd – 21:01
We lose short stack Rick Trigg who shoves in late position with pocket three and runs into the Kings of Richard Kellett.
Rick leaves us in 23rd place for £2,410 while Kellett has span his 25k stack up to 370,000!
Double Elimination – 20:45
A three way all in on table number 14!
Rehman Kassman all in with pocket nines.
Nabil Cardoso all in with pocket jacks
Ben Maregedze has both players covered with Queens!
Queens hold for Ben who takes the pot and now has 500k. We lose the other two players as they both min cash.
25th – £2,110 – Nabil Cardoso
26th – £2,110 – Rehman Kassam
Blinds Up – 20:35
The blinds increase as we begin the next level of play.
They are now 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante.
26 players remaining.
Three Tables – 20:30
We are now down to the final three tables in the GUKPT Manchester Main Event.
Min Cashers – 20:15
28th – £2,110 – Paul Spillane
29th – £2,110 – Justinas Pactauskas
30th – £2,110 – Steven Fitzpatrick
Madness On The Floor – 19:58
We have just lost 7 players in 12 minutes and we are now in the money!!
Those to have bust out are:
Ryan Grossman
Nguyen Le
Anwar Kanj
Kim Abramovici
Gordon Smith
Marc Foggin
Rob Boon – Bubble Boy!
Chip Counts – 19:45
| Mark Rubbathan | 430000 |
| Daniel Foskett | 425000 |
| Raul Lozano | 360000 |
| Richard Herbert | 355000 |
| D.A | 344000 |
| Cody Wagner | 331000 |
| Mark Baxter | 327000 |
| Paul Rigg | 254000 |
| Mark Dyson | 249000 |
| Chris Byrne | 225000 |
| Mick Fletcher | 187000 |
| Robert Bickley | 180000 |
| Fraser MacIntyre | 160000 |
| Rob Boon | 154000 |
| Craig Draw | 136000 |
| Ludo Geilich | 132000 |
| Justinas Pactauskas | 130000 |
| I.N | 130000 |
| Andrew Haygarth | 130000 |
| Ryan Plant | 123000 |
| Rick Trigg | 122000 |
| Damien Wain | 120000 |
| Rehman Kassam | 115000 |
| Anwar Kanj | 112000 |
| Harry Ross | 110000 |
| Paul Spillane | 93000 |
| Ben Maregedze | 90000 |
| Keith Johnson | 86000 |
| Ryan Grossman | 86000 |
| Nabil Cardoso | 85000 |
| Kim Abramovici | 77000 |
| Ryan O’Sullivan | 74000 |
| Steven Fitzpatrick | 62000 |
| Marc Foggin | 40000 |
| Nguyen Le | 34000 |
| Richard Kellett | 25000 |
| Gordon Smith | 7000 |
Level 17 – 19:30
The players are back as we begin level number 17.
The blinds are now 2500/5000 with a 5000 ante.
37 players remaining.
Break Time – 19:20
Break time for the players as they take 15 minutes.
Bust Outs – 19:05
Within a ten minute period we have just lost:
Steve Warburton
Tom Middleton
Niall Farrell
Michael Richardson
The tournament has got a little easier as there are now 36 players remaining.
Warburton Exits – 18:42
Steve Warburton who has been short stacked for some time moves all in for his 9 bigs and is called by Raul Lozano.
Steve tables pocket fours and will need to get lucky against the pocket Jacks of Raul.
The community cards come out 7–5–K–2–7
Jacks and sevens are good for Raul to add to his stack.
We lose Steve from the tournament as we are now 13 off the money!
Adrian Burns Busts – 18:30
Adrian moves all in from late position for his 65,000 stack and is called by Anwar Kanj.
Adrian tables K-Q and is in bad shape against the A-Q of Anwar.
The board runs out 7–7–5–A–5
Anwar takes the pot and is now up to 160,000.
We lose Adrian from the tournament as we are down to 45 players on 5 tables.
Blinds Up – 18:23
The blinds increase as we begin level number 16.
They are now 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante.
47 players remaining.
Double For Grossman – 18:10
Rehman Kassam makes it 6,000 to play and is met by a shove from Ryan Grossman who moves all in for 35,000. Rehman makes the call.
Ryan tables A-10 of diamonds which dominates the J-10 of hearts of Rehman.
The board runs out 7–9–3–6–6.
One pair with an Ace is good for Ryan to double up to 75,000.
Quiet Level – 17:50
This is by far the quietest level we have had so far today, losing just two players since we came back from the dinner break.
There’s still a lot of short stacks out there who are desperate for a double up.
Chip Counts – 17:30
| Raul Lozano | 385000 |
| Cody Wagner | 330000 |
| Mark Baxter | 310000 |
| Robert Boon | 235000 |
| Richard Herbert | 230000 |
| I.N | 230000 |
| Justinas Pactauskas | 210000 |
| Paul Rigg | 210000 |
| Keith Johnson | 200000 |
| Richard Kellett | 177000 |
| Mick Fletcher | 175000 |
| Steven Fitzpatrick | 164000 |
| Niall Farrell | 160000 |
| Craig Drew | 145000 |
| Mark Dyson | 135000 |
| Endrit Geci | 135000 |
| Dan Foskett | 130000 |
| Michael Richardson | 125000 |
| Ryan Plant | 120000 |
| Kim Abramovici | 115000 |
| Chris Byrne | 114000 |
| Damien Wain | 110000 |
| Marc Foggin | 100000 |
| Gordon Smith | 100000 |
| Steve Warburton | 95000 |
| Nguyen Le | 90000 |
| Rick Trigg | 90000 |
| Rehman Kassam | 90000 |
| Paul Spillane | 85000 |
| Robert Bickley | 85000 |
| Osman Mustangolu | 80000 |
| Ludo Geilich | 80000 |
| Reyaaz Mulla | 79000 |
| Tom Middleton | 72000 |
| Fraser MacIntyre | 70000 |
| Ryan O’Sullivan | 66000 |
| Ira Washer | 60000 |
| Harry Ross | 60000 |
| Nabil Cardoso | 55000 |
| Adrian Burns | 55000 |
| Alex Mah | 52000 |
| D.A | 50000 |
| Thomas High | 50000 |
| Ben Maregedze | 50000 |
| Mark Rubbathan | 50000 |
| Andy Hills | 47000 |
| Andrew Haygarth | 45000 |
| Anwar Kanj | 42000 |
| Garry Wilson | 40000 |
| Ryan Grossman | 35000 |
| Tomas MacNamara | 30000 |
Level 15 – 17:15
The players are back from the buffet as we begin level number 15.
Blinds are 1500/3000 with a 3000 ante.
51 players remaining.
Dinner Break – 16:15
Dinner break now for the players as they take 60 minutes to enjoy the buffet.
Full chip count coming up.
Level Fourteen – 15:30
The blinds increase as we begin level fourteen.
54 players remaining
Bust Outs – 15:15
Recent eliminations from around the tables:
Ryan Mandara
John Mooney
Charles Ihle
Brandon Sheils
Andrew Hulme
Fred Maher
Ian Simpson
Garland Chasing Leaderboard Points – 15:01
Andrew Garland is still in the Day 2 field and has a stack of 140,000 with 64 players remaining.
He is currently in 4th position in The Grosvenor National League so he is chasing those leaderboard points.
Big Stacks – 14:40
I.N – 280,000
Cody Wagner (pictured) – 250,000
Niall Farrell – 240,000
Richard Herbet – 230,000
Mark Baxter – 190,000
Raul Lozano – 185,000
Prizepool Payout – 14:25
GUKPT Manchester Main Event
£1000 Hold Em
Entries: 309
1st – £83,930
2nd – £55,540
3rd – £34,110
4th – £21,730
5th – £14,790
6th – £10,870
7th – £8,450
8th – £6,940
9th – £5,740
10th – £4,830
11th – £4,220
12th – £3,930
13th – £3,620
14th – £3,320
15th – £3,320
16th – £3,020
17th – £3,020
18th – £2,720
19th – £2,720
20th – £2,720
21st – £2,410
22nd – £2,410
23rd – £2,410
24th – £2,410
25th – £2,110
26th – £2,110
27th – £2,110
28th – £2,110
29th – £2,110
30th – £2,110
Level 13 – 14:20
The players are back seated as we begin level number 13.
The blinds are now 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante.
77 players remaining.
Break Time – 13:59
15 minutes.
Early Eliminations – 13:20
As is the norm early on Day 2 we lose a lot of short stacks, the players below have unfortunately been eliminated from the tournament.
Ulf Delin
Alex Montgomery
Eirimas Livonas
Yiannis Liperis
Natalia Breviglieri
Ben Dobson
Ben Jones
Jags Minglani
Bogdan Bolboeanu
Masoud Etemadiherisi
Andreas Olympios
Adam Davies
Katie Swift
Lukas Soucek
Level Up – 13:05
The blinds increase as we begin level number 12.
They are now 800/1600.
90 players remaining.
Exits – 12:55
Tim Hickling
Grant Wheelhouse
Will Davies
Go Team Grosvenor – 12:45
Gogogo #Team Grosvenor.
We have three of our team that have made Day 2 of the #GUKPTManchester Main Event.
Good luck Andy Hills Katie Swift & Richard James Trigg
Huge Turnout – 12:25
Shuffle Up & Deal – 12:01
The cards are in the air as we begin Day 2.
Blinds starting at 600/1200 with a 1200 ante.
101 players begin the day as 9 have bought in for Day 2.
Welcome To Day 2 – 11:30
Good morning and welcome back to Manchester for Day 2 of the GUKPT Manchester Main Event. The prizepool currently stands at £298,000, but late registration is still open and players can buy in for 16 big blinds before Day 2 starts. Once it starts then registration closes.
This has been the biggest GUKPT Manchester Main Event since 2008 so there is going to be serious money up top.
Today we play another ten levels of play and should finish the day with two tables who will be back tomorrow for the final day. We’ll be bringing you live blog updates, pictures, chip counts and the live stream which runs on a thirty minute delay with all hole cards shown.
Play begins at 12pm today.
GUKPT Manchester Day 2 Seating Plan – 00:51
| Table | Seat | Forename | Surname | Current Chips |
| 2 | 1 | Rehman | Kassam | 104000 |
| 2 | 3 | Steven | Warburton | 50000 |
| 2 | 4 | Ryan | Plant | 76100 |
| 2 | 5 | I | N | 281200 |
| 2 | 7 | Richard | Herbert | 196800 |
| 2 | 8 | Tomas | Macnamara | 73800 |
| 2 | 9 | Cody | Wagner | 96400 |
| 3 | 1 | Neil | Banks | 31700 |
| 3 | 2 | Andrew | Garland | 86100 |
| 3 | 3 | Paul | Spillane | 64300 |
| 3 | 4 | Jason | McGuire | 104000 |
| 3 | 5 | Michael | Fletcher | 96700 |
| 3 | 6 | M | M | 39100 |
| 3 | 7 | Justinas | Pactauskas | 73900 |
| 3 | 9 | Anthony | Cartwright | 58000 |
| 4 | 1 | Adam | Davies | 53300 |
| 4 | 2 | Thomas | High | 76500 |
| 4 | 3 | Andrew | Hills | 51600 |
| 4 | 4 | Benjamin | Dobson | 15600 |
| 4 | 5 | Masoud | Etemadiherisi | 25200 |
| 4 | 6 | Osman | Mustanoglu | 20800 |
| 4 | 7 | Harry Niclolas | Ross | 77100 |
| 4 | 8 | Nguyen | Le | 37000 |
| 5 | 1 | Guillermo | Sanchezotero | 74400 |
| 5 | 3 | D | A | 76500 |
| 5 | 4 | Yiannis | Liperis | 39300 |
| 5 | 5 | Robert | Boon | 84100 |
| 5 | 6 | John | Haigh | 70100 |
| 5 | 7 | Andreas | Olympios | 21700 |
| 5 | 8 | Kim | Abramovici | 34400 |
| 5 | 9 | Endrit | Geci | 158300 |
| 6 | 1 | Raul | Lozano | 71500 |
| 6 | 2 | Benjamin | Winsor | 86300 |
| 6 | 3 | Ira | Washer | 64300 |
| 6 | 4 | Richard | Kellett | 106000 |
| 6 | 5 | Tony | Ringe | 34800 |
| 6 | 6 | Richard | Trigg | 134500 |
| 6 | 7 | Alex | Montgomery | 11800 |
| 6 | 9 | Charles | Ihle | 55000 |
| 7 | 1 | Ryan Jonathan | Mandara | 43400 |
| 7 | 3 | Mustafa | Mutlak | 60200 |
| 7 | 4 | Ian | Simpson | 115900 |
| 7 | 6 | Barry | Grime | 51900 |
| 7 | 7 | Stephen | Foster | 36200 |
| 7 | 8 | Christopher Scott | Gatley | 80600 |
| 7 | 9 | Ryan | Osullivan | 50000 |
| 8 | 1 | Katie | Swift | 46600 |
| 8 | 2 | Natalia | Breviglieri | 31500 |
| 8 | 4 | Darren | Nelson | 42100 |
| 8 | 5 | Craig | Drew | 56500 |
| 8 | 6 | Mark | Dyson | 43800 |
| 8 | 7 | Damien | Wain | 10300 |
| 8 | 8 | Brandon | Sheils | 92600 |
| 8 | 9 | Turgay | Bagdagi | 49100 |
| 10 | 1 | Benjamin | Jones | 39900 |
| 10 | 2 | Joe | Hindry | 36300 |
| 10 | 3 | Peter | Smith | 74500 |
| 10 | 4 | Ben | Maregedze | 56000 |
| 10 | 5 | Mark | Rubbathan | 107900 |
| 10 | 6 | Michael | Richardson | 127300 |
| 10 | 7 | Niall | Farrell | 67000 |
| 10 | 8 | Lukas | Soucek | 37800 |
| 11 | 1 | Marc | Foggin | 71600 |
| 11 | 2 | Nabil | Cardoso | 77100 |
| 11 | 3 | Gordon | Smith | 78100 |
| 11 | 4 | Mark | Baxter | 145000 |
| 11 | 5 | Paul | Rigg | 61500 |
| 11 | 6 | Timothy | Hickling | 107000 |
| 11 | 7 | Ming | Ju | 40500 |
| 11 | 9 | Robert | Bickley | 171000 |
| 12 | 1 | Keith | Johnson | 107000 |
| 12 | 3 | Ulf | Delin | 26100 |
| 12 | 4 | Andrew | Haygarth | 79000 |
| 12 | 5 | Jayraj | Digwa | 55000 |
| 12 | 7 | Mark | Jones | 65900 |
| 12 | 8 | William | Davies | 13500 |
| 12 | 9 | Mark | Kelsall | 20000 |
| 13 | 1 | Steven | Fitzpatrick | 141000 |
| 13 | 2 | Garry | Wilson Jr. | 43500 |
| 13 | 3 | Frederick | Maher | 43700 |
| 13 | 4 | Zhen | Heng | 63100 |
| 13 | 5 | Alex | Mah | 80600 |
| 13 | 7 | Christopher | Byrne | 37600 |
| 13 | 8 | Daniel | Foskett | 28300 |
| 13 | 9 | Shehbaz | Hussain | 45300 |
| 14 | 1 | John | Mooney | 42700 |
| 14 | 3 | Bogdan | Bolboceanu | 32600 |
| 14 | 4 | Andrew | Hulme | 49400 |
| 14 | 5 | Adrian | Burns | 38000 |
| 14 | 7 | Anwar | Kanj | 119400 |
| 14 | 8 | Ryan | Grossman | 33000 |
| 14 | 9 | Thomas | Middleton | 86900 |
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