Day 3-5 - Bournemouth Main Event

 

Day 3-5. £500+£50 Main Event (15^th - 17^th June 2007)

Starting chips: 10,000

Clock: 45 mins (level 1-5), 60 mins (thereafter)

Prize pool: £70,000 + £5,000 added

 

Day 1a/ 1b

The Main Event of the GBPT Bournemouth started with the first two-day 1 event of the Tour. 140 runners started the £550 sit-down event over day 1a (Friday 15^th) and day 1b (Saturday 16^th).

There was a healthy mixture of local regulars at the Gala Bournemouth Casino, satellite winners (including, as ever, a strong contingent from Teesside), online qualifiers and of course a selection of well known pros and celebs.

Gerry O’Farrell (2^nd in Edinburgh) and  Steve Holden (Nottingham winner) sat down with England ruby stars Mike Tindall and Matt Dawson, ex-footballer and broadcaster Tony Cascarino, comedian Norman Pace, newsreader Fiona Foster, snooker legend Willie Thorn, as well as pros Paul ‘Action’ Jackson, Joe Beevers, Jen Mason, Paul Dempsey and tour regular Joe Beevers.

9 levels were played on each day, with 13 players remaining and 54,000 in average chips on day 1a, and 16 and 44,000 on Day 1b.  Mike Tindall (106,400 chips) was in a very strong position as chip leader as play entered the third and final day.

 

Day 2

Starting chips, top 10:

1.     Mike Tindall       106,400

2.     Owen Lock        88,100

3.     Jen Mason        77,000

4.     R Robinson       72,300

5.     Paul Jackson    68,300

6.     Grub Smith       67,000

7.     B Pottiwal         65,500

8.     Luke Wilson      65,000

9.     Angie Evis        60,300

10.  Dave Beasley    54,300

 

29 players returned at 2pm with blinds 1500/3000 and a 300 ante.. 12 places were paid, and 8 would make it to the all-important TV table. The action started early with 3 going out in the first 30 minutes of play.

Mike Tindall took an early hit from Jen Mason, falling back to around 40,000 chips, however  he was soon back in a commanding position winning a number of decent pots. Ultimately however his TT was beaten when Grub Smith called his all-in, after much deliberation, with AA. Mike walked away with £1,050 in 12^th place and the first cash position. From then on Grub stayed well ahead, playing his large stack extremely well as we approached 9 players.

 

As we entered the final table, positions were;

1.     Grub Smith       590,200

2.     Luke Wilson      165,500

3.     Pete Singleton  148,500

4.     Robert Butt       117,100

5.     Baly Pottiwal     106,400

6.     Paul Jackson    96,900

7.     Dave Beasley    91,400

8.     Muzzy Dehghani 88,200

 

By level 15, just 4 remained. Luke Wilson had gained nearly 260,000 chips to take a chip lead with Grub Smith falling back to second, following the loss of Robert Butt:

1.     Luke Wilson      430,000

2.     Grub Smith       390,000

3.     Paul Jackson    370,000

4.     Pete Singleton  210,000

 

Level 17:

1.     Luke Wilson      864,000

2.     Grub Smith       369,000

3.     Pete Singleton  167,000

 

At 4am, after a mammoth final table session of over 7 hours, Pete Singleton and Grub Smith were finally heads up lasting just one hand, with Pete winning with a pair of kings

 

Final standings and prize money (deal made by top 4):

Position	Name	Prize
1	Pete Singleton	£20,000 + bonus seat in £2,500 Grand Final
2	Grub Smith	£15,000 + bonus seat to Leeds GBPT £500 Main Event
3	Luke Wilson	£13,000 + bonus seat to Leeds GBPT £500 Main Event
4	Paul Jackson	£10,000 + ticket to £100,000 Gtd ‘Big Deal’ on Galapoker.co.uk
5	Robert Butt	£4,420 + ticket to £100,000 Gtd ‘Big Deal’ on Galapoker.co.uk
6	Dave Beasley	£2,920
7	Bally Botiwal	£2,550
8	Muzzy Dehghani	£2,100
9	Owen Locke	£1,650
10	Richard Dawson	£1,200
11	George Mockford	£1,120
12	Mike Tindall	£1,050

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