GUKPT Grand Final Live Updates Day 1a

Level 1/2 - Level 3/4 - Level 5/6 - Level 7/8 - Level 9

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22:48: David Gross is out. I am giving thekid08 some space as he is understandably gutted - I'm sure he will give us a quick chat when he's had some fresh air. At the time of David's demise I was standing close by behind James Hipwell heads up in a super satellite for Day 1b here at the GUKPT Grand Final. Chip leading, James pushed with Ad-9d and was called by a player with Kc-9s. The player hit two kings and it was downhill from there. 'Poker Verdict disaster!' exclaimed Warren, fleeing from his cash table in case the bad luck came his way too. My last sighting of Warren was with a plastic chip holder stacking his money away. Unlucky David, the Poker Verdict crew still love you!

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22:33: Ken Wong asked Poker Verdict's Lucy Kavanagh to shake his hand for good luck and then doubles up!!! With five limpers on his blind this was a classic sqeeze play from Ken who was all in with for a further 17k added to the pot. Sunar calls with but on the board spoils Sunar's good time.

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22:11: G Shaw doubles up with his taking out

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22:05: Dan Carter raises on the button and David Colclough calls on the big blind. Both players check the flop and turn with a board of Carter bets 2.5k on the river which is and Colclough calls. Carter shows to take the pot.

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22:00: Hongji Lui faces off against Richard Herbert with at his side. Herbert has . The flop comes and Lui is off home.

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21:58 Nathan Lee on the small blind takes down a 15k pot with

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21:53: Ali Zihni doubles up with against Sunar's

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21:52:

Level 8
	400/800 (75)
	46
	30,300

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21:51: Maz Nawab is dealt which is good enough to take all Craig Owen's chips. Craig misses out despite having both straight and flush draws with his and Max hits another for good measure.

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21:50: Vicky Coren triples up with a flop coming out

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21:45: Nathan Lee goes all in for a pot worth over 15k. The board reads his opponent folds. Nathan shows giving him top pair and the nut flush draw.

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21:30: Chris Sokrati loses nearly half his stack to Richard Herbert. Herbert flat calls Sokrati after he raises up on the flop of . The turn is and Sokrati raises another 4k only to be called yet again. completes the board and Sokrati bets 7k and guess what....... Herbert calls! Shows his hand whilst Sokrati mucks his.

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21:19: David Gross is down to 12k, but we know he will come back. Robbo Karoly on the other hand is out...

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21:11: The chip counts entering level 7 (check out Neil!):

James Moult 56025
Patrick Slusarek 52525
Neil Channing 49775
Nathan Lee 48550
Ketul Nathwani 47775
Patrik Selin 47500
Roberto Romanello 46875
Richard Herbert 45500
Ken Wong 44900
Michael Denton 44475
Surinder Sunar 42725
Bambos Xanthos 41025
Manuel Palanca 39175
Mazhar Nawab 38450
John Kabbaj 37200
Dan Samson 36925
Dan Carter 34850
Priyam Demel 33050
Dave Colclough 32975
Robbo Karoly 25600
Danny Dborin 25425
Stuart Fox 25250
Arshad Hussain 24925
Haran Paheerathan 24625
Jon Heath 22150
Chris Sokrati 21450
Alan Vinson 21325
Ali Zihni 20550
Gary Wilson 19600
Chris Moore 19300
Brian Gilbert 19150
Alan Dean 18700
David Gross 18650
F Lopez 18300
Horace Harvey 17400
Robin Keston 17300
Eughan Odea 17050
Mark Forrester 16950
Lalit Khajuria 16750
Hongi Liu 16575
Ian Frazer 16050
Sami Yusuf 15350
William Martin 15250
Carlos Walker 13800
John Murphy 11775
Jeff Rogers 11175
Dave Mayall 10850
G Shaw 10375
Mickey Wernick 9825
Josh Gould 9800
Anthony Hardy 9150
Victoria Coren 6800
Davood Mehrmand 5900
Ian Nelson 5750
Jim Reid 5400
Fowzi Baroukh 2550
Paul Leckey 550

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21:00: Monster pot developing at David Gross' table in which Patrick Selin and Hongji Lui trading blows to the tune of 41k. The board read Hongji shows his but it isn't good enough to beat Selin's

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20:55: Entering Level 7, the first casualty was a sad Sami Yusuf.

Level 7
	300/600
	54
	25,800

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