Martin Silke from Ireland overcame one of the biggest and certainly one of the toughest GUKPT fields ever to clinch the GUKPT London title and £172,800. 389 players bought in for £1,500 event to create a staggering £597,000 prize pool in the four day tournament. The final table included multiple GUKPT winner Dave Colclough, a very drunk Andreas Hagen from Norway, Hit Squad member Charles Chattha (Brother of Sunny, who himself came 13th) who alongside Jamie Brown was at his second GUKPT Main Event Final. By contrast, third placed Sam Oatley was playing in only his second live tournament ever, his first was last week when he played a satellite tournament at the Victoria casino to secure his seat in the main event.
Silke, a publican in his day job, defeated Londoner Luke Trotman heads up in an hour long battle and in a post game interview already set his sights on the Irish Open next month, hoping to carry this form into the biggest event of the year for Irish Poker. In addition to one of the biggest single prizes ever awarded in a GUKPT event, he wins a much coveted seat in the Champion of Champions event at the end of the year.
A lot of UK players made very good accounts of themselves last week at the Vic, Sunny Chattha was a superb defending champion, bubbling the main event final table and coming 2nd in the £300 Double Chance side event – all of which has put him in the top ten of the European Rankings. Richard 'Chufty' Ashby proved why he is one of the top PLO players in the world by making the final of both Omaha events and Nick Gibson looks like a sure thing to win a GUKPT title having made 3 final tables (two 3rds and a 2nd) last week.
The next stop on the tour will be the G casino in Manchester from the 18th-26th April, where Marc Goodwin will be defending the title that helped him bag the GUKPT player of the year award in 2008.
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