Day 4 & 5 - Leeds

 

£500+£50 Main Event

Day 4

Our players sat down at 2.30pm for another sell-out main event and included a number of previous GBPT main event champions looking to influence positions on the leaderboard as well as a number of tour regulars looking to break into the GBPT spotlight! Spiced into the mix was Jon ‘Skalie’ Kalmar, fresh from his 5^th place in this year’s WSOP main event, bracelet winner Willie Tann and Joe Beevers from the Mob.

 

At the close of the main event’s first day, many were left commenting on an impressive display from Olympic gold medallist athlete Darren Campbell, who deservedly built a formidable stack as runaway chip leader on 141,200. The field were down to 14 to return on Sunday with the following chip counts recorded as follows:

 

1.     D Campbell       141,200

2.     M Lott              111,200

3.     J Bousfield        105,800

4.     M Anjioy           89,700

5.     W Tann            85,600

6.     M Eglintine        83,400

7.     A Aldred           82,100

8.     A Morgan         73,200

9.     L Blackburn      66,200

10.   S Grace           64,900

11.   R Gupta           53,400

12.   L Richardson    52,000

13.   R Howe            32,600

14.   R Dawson        18,900

 

Day 5

With nobody wanting to comeback without any fruits to show for their labour, all 14 did a deal to share out the money so it paid down to 14^th. Everyone then got down to playing for a coveted spot on the impressive TV table. After several hands where chipleader Darren Campbell had looked sensibly settled refusing to get drawn in, he got stung on a pot that cost him 100K of his stack to Mark Angioy. He recovered somewhat before crashing out spectacularly to quad Jacks to take 11^th spot.

 

Just after 6pm we reached our final 8 players for the TV table which included no fewer than five Teessiders! The final table seating positions and starting chip counts were as follows:

 

Seat	Name	Total Chips
1	Willie Tann	84,400
2	Mark Angioy	91,600
3	John Bousfield	120,800
4	Richard Howe	159,500
5	M Eglintine	161,300
6	L Blackburn	231,400
7	Simon Grace	116,600
8	Lee Richardson	98,600

 

The action started at 8.45pm and continued for over 3 hours of relatively cagey play until Willie Tann succumbed to a dwindling stack when Lee Richardson full house 9s over 4s saw him exit in 8^th spot.

 

The blinds continued to rise and it was a good 1hr 15 before Michael Eglinitine became Lee’s 2^nd victim. The following half hour saw a further four players beaten as Richardson used his impressive stack to good effect leaving just Sunderland’s Richard Howe and Bradford’s Lee Richardson to battle heads up for the title and the coveted £2500 Grand Final seat.

 

Chip lead interchanged from one to the other including one memorable hand where Lee with trip Aces were beaten by a 7 on the river to give Richard a full house - 7s full of Aces, plus a big chip lead.

 

Finally after 2hr 10, Lee’s all-in with Ace Jack was called by Richard whose King Jack was no good when a board of K73TQ gave Lee a straight and the title!

 

Final standings were as follows:

Position	Name	Prize
1	Lee Richardson	£11,500 + bonus seat in £2,500 Grand Final Main Event
2	Richard Howe	£10,500 + bonus seat to Grand Final £1,000 NLHE Event
3	Lee Blackburn	£8,000 + bonus seat to Grand Final £1,000 NLHE Event
4	John Bousfield	£6,480 + ticket to $100,000 Gtd ‘Big Deal' on Galapoker.co.uk
5	Mark Angioy	£6,000 + ticket to $100,000 Gtd ‘Big Deal' on Galapoker.co.uk
6	Simon Grace	£6,000
7	Michael Eglintine	£6,000
8	Willie Tann	£1,800
9	A Morgan	£1,440
10	Michael Lott	£1,080
11	Darren Campbell	£300
12	R Dawson	£300
13	Andrew Aldred	£300
14	Rakesh Gupta	£300

 

 

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