GUKPT Grand Final Live Updates Day 1b

Live updates from Level 9 of the GUKPT Grand Final...

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

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End of day chip counts:

Van Hoang    127025
Mark Friedman    111850
Richard Wheatley    106950
Rumit Somaiya    84125
Ashley Hayles    71700
Ben Vinson    69375
Liam Flood    65300
Simon Zach    64800
Lewiss Stevens    51875
Steve Gibbons    47425
Matt Novak    46925
Owen Lock    46550
Paul Webster    46150
Ross Boatman    44350
Michael Muldoon    42550
Dave Barnes    42500
Jean-Luc Belin    40925
Michael Ellis    38575
Keith Hawkins    36600
Martin Bader    32800
Michael Greco    32275
Sami Mahmoud    31775
John Dwyer    29125
Richard Ashby    26600
Dan Owston    25925
Mark Bointon    25200
Karl Mahrenholz    24400
Ben Roberts    24275
Olegas Kovaleskis    23000
Edward Cahill    22525
Paul Moss    20050
Kevin Jenkins    19225
Norman Gold    9575

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00:02: As the night draws to a close and we begin to yawn, 37 remain (many are short stacks, we expect a massacre at the start of Level 10 tomorrow) and the only really interesting pot to report from the dying hours of Level 9 is Dave Barnes pushing over the top of Novak for 23k more (pot was also around 23k) on a board of . Novak folded after a little confrontation with a loud player at the table talking to him whilst he was trying to think. We'll see you tomorrow at 1.30pm for Day 2 of the GUKPT Grand Final. Good night!

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23:39: Blue Sq chip counts accurate as of 11pm:

Van Hoang 103125
Richard Wheatley 101850
Ben Vinson 75850
Simon Zach 67950
Keith Hawkins 62275
Matt Novak 60225
Lewiss Stevens 56025
Paul Webster 53550
Jean-Luc Belin 49500
Brian Johnson 47750
Owen Lock 45400
Martin Bader 45300
Dave Barnes 42025
Rumit Somaiya 38375
Jason Defreitas 38050
Liam Flood 36650
Mark Friedman 36375
Michael Greco 35125
Michael Muldoon 34525
Ross Boatman 34100
Gareth Ower 33550
Richard Ashby 33325
Olegas Kovaleskis 32450
Allan Rudge 30625
Michael Ellis 29850
Dan Owston 28700
Ashley Hayles 27375
Norman Gold 27325
Ali Sarkeshik 26950
Mark Bointon 26375
Steve Mitchell 26350
Ben Roberts 23875
Thomas Dunwoodie 22975
John Dwyer 20800
Paul Murrell 20125
Patrick McCloskey 18325
Norman Rad 16625
Kevin Jenkins 16400
Paul Moss 15825
Edward Cahill 15350
Steve Gibbons 15025
Karl Mahrenholz 10600
Sami Mahmoud 5175

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23:36: Here is the Grand Final prizepool as it stands:

1st Place : £198,700 plus £10,000 added by Blue Square Poker plus £3,000 seat in 2008 Grand Final plus Tutima watch

2nd Place : £107,500

3rd Place : £71,600

4th Place : £53,700

5th Place : £41,800

6th Place : £32,800

7th Place : £23,900

8th Place : £17,900

9th Place : £14,900

10th Place : £9,000

11th Place : tbc

12th-18th Place : tbc

19th-27th Place : tbc

Total of £597,000

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22:33: Flood wins a 20k pot pre-flop. His original middle position raise to 3500 was made 13500 by Vinson on the button. Flood pushed all in for 29125 more and Vinson couldn't bring himself to do it. Nice pot. Aces vs queens maybe?

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23:23: Muldoon takes down a biggun pre-flop from the cut off after a battle with the button. On the same table Edward Cahill loses a monster with vs Johnson's when Cahill's two pair was no use against Johnston's nut straight.