GCBPT Nottingham £500+50 Main Event, 18-20th April 2008

 

The Main Event of the Nottingham leg of the Tour was again a sell-out, carrying carried on where the £100 and £200 side-events left off. The field of 224 (including 75 live and online satellite qualifiers) took to the tables over the two opening days, with the £5,000 adding by Galapoker.co.uk swelling the prize pool to an impressive £118,000. By far the biggest field of any GCBPT event.

 

Day 1a kicked off with a field of 111 (including alternates) that included Colin Pearson, Dave Colclough, John Taramas, Rory Matthews, Stuart Rutter, John Bousefield, Lynne Beaumont and Ash Abdulah. When play concluded at the end of the 9th level, Dave Maudlin, 3rd place finisher in last year’s Nottingham Festival, was leading the way with over 100,000 chips, followed by local player Donovan Burton.

Top 10 at the end of Day 1a

Name	Chips
Dave Maudlin	107,400
Donovan Burton	95,800
P Hardy	94,600
G Clarkson	82,900
Thomas Rutter	75,800
Luong-Huu Bui	70,600
Dave Colclough	64,900
Oliver Stone	60,500
M Millar	58,500
Maria Demetriou	49,000

Day 1b saw 113 runners take to the tables. Edinburgh GCBPT Main Event winner Colin Wu was joined by reigning Nottingham champion Steve Holden, Carl Egglintine (inaugural GCBPT League winner), Paul Parker, Scott Morrison and Christine Ward. Galapoker.co.uk qualifier Spencer Lawrence led the way with just under 200,000 chips going into Day 2.

Top 10 at the end of Day 1b

Name	Chips
Spencer Lawrence *	196,800
Richard Howe	95,100
G McArthur	79,500
J Keys	77,800
D Byrom	69,600
Colin Young	57,900
Rupinder Bedi	55,300
S Wardlaw	55,200
Gary Moore *	54,200
A Chapman	49,700

* Galapoker.co.uk qualifier

Day 2 brought back 43 runners, averaging just over 53,000 chips each. Spencer Lawrence had a clear chip lead as the play began. Dave Colclough was one of the first to fall, doubling-up Rupinder Bedi, in a first hour that saw 10 players bust-out. The action predictably tightened as we arrived at the bubble, and it was Xenith Constantinou that fell just before the cash.

Half way through level 16 we were down to the final table of nine.

Final table chip counts

Name	Chips
James Keys	340,000
Richard Howe	329,000
Thomas Rutter	318,500
Daniel Byrom	315,000
Rupiner Bedi	269,500
Dave Maudlin	247,500
Luong-Huu Bui	216,500
Steve Milton	111,500
Gordon McArthur	98,500

Short-stack Gordon McCarthy was first out, closely followed by Steve Milton. Daniel Byrom doubled-up James Keys when the latter made his straight on the river, before Richard Howe took a particularly big hit from fellow Teessider Dave Maudlin and went out in 6th. Dave however was soon to follow, before the final four players, all well stacked, agreed to restructure the payout. Thomas Rutter (brother of 2007 2nd-place finisher Stuart) went next before Luong-Huu BuI was all but wiped out by a rampant Rupinder, who used his dominant stack to good effect to whittle away Keys’ chips, until the latter’s all in A7 was beaten by Rupinder’s A9 who paired on the turn to take home first place, and a seat at the Grand Final.

Final standings

Position	Name	Prize
1	Rupinder Bedi	£27,000	Plus Grand Final bonus seat
2	James Keys	£22,000	Plus Bristol GCBPPT Main Event seat
3	Luong-Huu Bui	£17,000	Plus Bristol GCBPPT Main Event seat
4	Thomas Rutter	£12,500	Plus $320 ticket to the 'Big Deal' $150,000 Guarantee tournament on Galapoker.co.uk
5	Dave Maudlin	£6,000	Plus $320 ticket to the 'Big Deal' $150,000 Guarantee tournament on Galapoker.co.uk
6	Richard Howe	£5,000
7	Daniel Byrom	£4,200
8	Steve Milton	£3,500
9	Gordon McCarthy	£3,000
10	Colin Young	£2,600
11	Dominic Kay	£2,250
12	Steven Collins	£2,000
13	Jonathan Butters	£1,800
14	Spencer Lawrence	£1,650
15	A Chapman	£1,500
16	Ryan Fronba	£1,400
17	Gary Moore	£1,300
18	Maria Demetriou	£1,200
19	S Thompson	£1,100
20	Richard Whitmore	£1,000
	Total	£118,000
	Entries	223

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