Day 5 - Bristol (£2,500 Main Event Day 1b)

 

Bristol GBPT Grand Final - £2,500 Main Event (Day 1b)

Day 1b started with 57 players seated, rounding the total field off nicely to 100, with a £250,000 prize pool, meaning a handsome £87,500 for our eventual winner.

 

Notable faces among the runners today were Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari, Jennifer Tilly and Robert Williamson III, as well as Europe’s number one Ram Vaswani, WPT winner Surinder Sunar and GBPT Festival winners Steve Holden (Nottingham) and Lee Richardson (Leeds). Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell, who cashed in Leeds, also joined the fray hoping for another successful day at the felt.

 

Williamson was the unfortunate first casualty after just an hours play when his all-in with Aces-full-of-Jacks was beaten by a delighted Paul Gourlay’s quads. He was followed just 30  minutes later by Vaswani. Soon after, Holden took a large pot off Jennifer Tilly, however just a few hours of steady but profitable play later, she was back in front, doubling courtesy of Albert Sapiano who earlier had taken out Darren Cambell. However it wasn’t all good news for the ‘Unabombshell’ as her partner, Phil ‘The Unabomber’ Laak fell to Neil Channing’s QQ just 15 minutes later.

 

Soon after Lee Richardson fell in a big 4-handed pot taken down by Jim Reid with a set of 8s.

 

Having spent the day stealing pots and blinds, Esfandiari finally doubled-through to leave him with an average stack and in reasonable shape for day 2.

 

Play ended at midnight at the end of the 8^th level, with chip counts looking as follows:

Position	Name	Chip Stack
1	Jennifer Tilly	74,100
2	Jim Tierney	54,500
3	Manuel Palanca	53,900
4	Stan Essen	53,400
5	Jonathan Butters	47,575
6	Albert Sapiano	46,350
7	Neil Channing	42,625
8	Paul Gardner	40,450
9	Jeffrey Flewitt	33,200
10	Antonio Esfandiari	30,075
11	Michael Clees	27,625
12	Trevor Pearson	26,775
13	Ash Abdullah	26,575
14	David Harris	25,050
15	Charles Chattha	22,725
16	Matt Tyler	21,700
17	Tim Blake	21,675
18	Paul Gourlay	21,300
19	Tony Corrolla	20,400
20	Danny Dodds	19,875
21	Priyan Demel	17,925
22	Mark Mcgill	17,775
23	Stuart Rutter	16,650
24	Daniel Wilmer-Brown	16,375
25	Andrew Feldman	14,975
26	Jim Reid	12,600
27	David Lloyd	12,000
28	Josh Gould	12,000
29	Carl Wahlberg	10,850
30	Joshua Taylor	10,700
31	Rakesh Gupta	8,600
32	Surinder Sunar	6,250

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