GCBPT Season 2 wrapped up with a spectacular 4-day Grand Final Main Event. This was a consecutive TV table heads-up for Rob ‘Vaga Lion’ Akery taking on Alan Vinson.
Chip counts coming into heads-up totalled Rob Akery 1,720,000 & Alan Vinson 925,000, and blinds at 20000/40000 and running antes of 4000. Vinson managed to muscle into a chip lead hitting a full house just before the defining final hand played out…
Alan Vinson J 
6 and Rob Akery Q 
9 . The flop: J T 
2 ; The turn: 6 ; It was all on the river and Akery needed King or 8… The river: 3 seeing Vinson sealing this season’s crown!
Congratulations to Alan Vinson – 2008 GCBPT Champion and £83,000 better off plus a WSOP 2009 package as an added bonus.
| Position | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alan Vinson | £83,000 (Plus WSOP 2009 package) |
| 2 | Rob Akery | £52,000 (Plus Aussie Millions 2009 package) |
| 3 | Richard Haile | £34,000 (Plus EPT package) |
| 4 | Sze Ching Nui | £20,000 |
| 5 | Dave Colclough | £14,000 |
| 6 | Dave Maudlin | £9,300 |
| 7 | Michael Punn | £7,700 |
| 8 | Michael Fletcher | £6,400 |
| 9 | Hieu Tran | £5,300 |
| 10 | John Blackburn | £4,400 |
| 11 | Owen Lock | £4,000 |
| 12 | Y Eminoglu | £3,750 |
| 13 | Joacim Mattson | £3,600 |
| 14 | Kevin Parks | £3,450 |
| 15 | Matthew Wilson | £3,300 |
| 16 | Rana Gurnam | £3,200 |
| 17 | Laurence Houghton | £3,100 |
| 18 | Rakesh Gupta | £3,000 |
| 19 | Charalambos Xanthos | £2,000 |
In addition to cash payouts, top placed finishers in the £1500+£100 Championship Event also receive the following bonus prizes:
1st - WSOP Package
2nd - Aussie Millions Package
3rd - EPT Package
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