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Day 4 Review of UKOPS XXI
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UKOPS 25 £2,500 Bounty Hunter 5:00pm £11 £2,500 3,000
The fourth & final day of UKOPS XXI started with an £11 Bounty Hunter needing 250 entrants, which covered with a tad to spare, as the opener has on all 4 days.@JJBinks heater went a bit cold (32nd), & @Coutihno10 (29th) managed to score.
In 15th was a first UKOPS XXI sighting of @MynaFrett , which is a slight worry, & our friend @Blackpuma pounced in 11th.
Bounty Hunter specialist & high volume MTT-er @terrytwomore (2 more what, exactly?) was first to exit the Final Table, with @JusChick 5th & @JARV1 4th.
@MaoiChinnn - not sure if that's a place or a person - was 3rd, & runner-up @LitlGenral got his 2nd decent result of the series.
Breaking his UKOPS duck was a player who won the Marksman for the fat end of £2,000 just over a year ago - @BOOM31 . Boom indeed.
UKOPS 26 £2,500 Mega Stack 6:00pm £22 £2,500 10,000
Decent numbers for the evening's Megastack, so that was good to see.@HAYSIE , was reported as MIA a few days ago, so it was good to see him playing this, though in 118th spot, I doubt the judges will have seen him. HAYSIE is quite old - he's been an OAP for 15 years or more - so when these guys go AWOL its always a bit of a worry. Good to see him back. Sort of, anyway. I went to google Images to find a photo of HAYSIE & this came up.
@Boxster just snuck into the money (25th) a spot behind @DEKKER5207 , & there was a third mention of the series for @DTaylor01 in 20th.
BOXSTER is a good guy, does a ton of selfless Community work on Sky Poker, so here's a little treat for him.
In 16th was @Froozle , with @WeeFatShug in 15th. The Urban Dictionary gives several definitions of "shug". Perhaps it's best not to ask.
There were further UKOPS XXI cashes for @bar4004 , @loololollo , TOWIE's @Essexphil , & @Woebegone. Final table bubbler was @Lovey87 , who won the UKOPS PLO8 affair the day before.
Good to see @conorshay1 make a UKOPS final, he's been working on his game, & it looks like it's paying off, well done mate.
In 5th was @ALBA8 - what a UKOPS he has had. In 4th, fresh from his maiden UKOPS win 2 days earlier was @alan25 , & Danny, aka @Itsover4u , had his best result of this series in 3rd.
Runner-up @PBKR is having a good run, 3rd in the Sunday Major a week ago today, 4th in the UKOPS High Roller a few days later, & runner-up in this.
Taking the win & his first UKOPS victory was Reservoir Dogs star @MrCream510 . Here, take your pick.
UKOPS 27 £3,000 Bounty Hunter 7:00pm £22 £3,000 3,000
This one pulverised the Guarantee, coming in 50% above Guarantee. Yay.@JJBinks - 32nd in the night's opener slipped to 33rd this time, time to fix that heater, and in 28th place was @Pussymunch, which I'm assuming refers to some sort of cat food.
@lundie was 24th, @jakescol cashed again (24th), @heddoh18 was 17th, (18th would have scanned so much better), and that man @PBKR snuck into 15th.
A first sighting of the week for Tina, aka @karlluke , in 11th. Tina took a real nasty beat at SPT Manchester when her Queens full were no match for Sky Sam's quad sixes, Lord knows how she never went skinto in that coup.
Final Table bubble honours went to @_DAC_ who ran 4th the previous day in a UKOPS Rebuy BH.
6th went to @fordie62 , next was @w_shammy y, then @bigballoo , @IDONKCALLU & @Bolt9 . I never did understand why balloo was always described as "big".
The winner - & taking his 2nd UKOPS win of the week - was Bumper Car specialist & all round luckbox @MattBates. Sharky reports Matt has a 40% ROI over 25,000 games. Needs a proper sample size before I'll be convinced.
UKOPS 28 £25,000 High Roller 7:30pm £530 £25,000 10,000
Next up was the biggest buy-in of the series, the £530 High Roller, & with 235 entries & 9 rebuys, this came in a shade shy of target. Not a problem though, just the £3,000 overlay.@Froozle ran 6th, after being huge chip leader at the midway point, whilst 5th placed @Kurtx last big result prior to this was when he won the Sunday Major a few months back.
The oddly-aliased but lovely guy @RektSai was 4th, we've not seen him in a while, with high roller @Tatopagao 3rd & @Sharki0 runner-up.
Chuffed to bits for the winner, @StayOrGo , aka Graham.
Sky Poker are lucky to have so many Community Champions on the Forum, organising Leagues, Comps & all sorts, but I doubt any can match the various efforts Graham makes, not just in organising the Horse Racing Syndicates (they had it off at Kempton earlier in the week), but especially his Charity work on Leaderboards & the like, where he cajoles others into doing something for the less fortunate. He collected around £9,000 for winning the UKOPS High Roller (plus, of course, a UKOPS Bangle) & I'll be very surprised if some of that does not find it's way to his nominated charity.
Here's Graham in his acting days. The fella has had quite a life, eh?
Well done Graham, Sky Poker are lucky to have you here, they really are.
A somewhat ambitious target of 300 runners for the UKOPS XXI Main, & I'd say Sky Poker would have happily settled for the 293 runners before it started.UKOPS 29 £30,000 Main Event 8:00pm £110 £30,000 10,000
HAYSIE bubbled this, ugh, that must have stung the old fella a bit.
There were mini-monies for @omm , @devil_tear , @SUPERSNEDD , @heddoh18 , @NIHIGHGUN , the shy & retiring @CxE1 , & @GSmith13 13.
Luckbox @MattBates was 20th, a pip behind @Bromley023 , who has had a ton of UKOPS cashes this week, with @lundie & @MikeyW94 18th & 17th respectively. @SoLack was 9th. One thing Solly can never be accused of is folding to the money. He never folds.
6th went to @ereformony , 5th was high roller @DAVEMCDAID , @donk_killa 4th, with the impressively consistent @Sharki0 3rd.
The almost impossible to spell @peiratis88 was runner-up for his 2nd decent score of the Series.
The Sky Poker UKOPS Bracelet went to @albania (yup, lower case "a") - this being at least his 4th UKOPS win, & his 2nd UKOPS Main Event win, as he won the Easter UKOPS Main, too, though last night's win was worth some £900 more than the Easter one. He is the MvG of poker, for sure.
UKOPS 30 £3,000 Freezeout 8:30pm £11 £3,000 3,000
This was the "Mini", & despite being a Megastack, which are not universally loved here, it attracted 324 entrants, 8% above target.With 50 paid, I can't mention them all, but there were mini-monies for Sky Poker Road Rage man, @tomgoodun , @FINS , @SUPERSNEDD , & @neenio .
@Bromley023 23 cashed yet again. What?
Mini-money too for @Sharki0 , @heddoh18 18, @Itsover4u , @kapowblamz , @wynne1938 & @timeforbed .
7th went to @1_PeppaPig . Here's Peppa celebrating afterwards.
6th place went to @sam_123, 5th to @melicoere , @KingHurley next, and @omm in 3rd, continuing a decent night for him.
Runner-up was @JustMUFC , a result that he probably needed after the 0-0 draw with little Southampton at Old Trafford a few hours earlier.
The winner was @neil4safc fc, another football related alias, though maybe we'd best not speak too much about Sunderland FC as they plunge headlong from the Premier League straight to League 1 under their 5th Manager in just over 2 years. Bet they wished they had this man.
Anyway, neil4safc had a decent day, as Sunderland actually won, & Neil bagged over £800 in the Mini. MBN.
UKOPS 31 £5,000 Bounty Hunter 9:00pm £22 £5,000 3,000
Don't worry, I'm nearly done, event 35 of 36 coming up.This one thrashed the Guarantee by a country mile, whatever that is.
I noted the name of @TommyD down amongst the Bounty Takers, not seen much of Tommy lately.
The chap who beats up pensioners - @tomgoodun - cashed again, too. Probably bullied everyone.
@MacMonster er was 22nd - well done Ian - & @devil_tear tear finished his homework in time to grab 18th place.
@MynaFrett t (12th) is still worrying a little bit, @omm cashed again in 11th, & @MikeyW94 in 10th. I'm told that MikeyW94 is the nemesis of @MAXALLY . Do you know what "nemesis" means? (WARNING - BAD LANGUAGE ALERT)
6th was @Kuplaw , then @BHudson , @supersibb , @JIMSCHICA &, in 2nd, @scousestar .
Winner @rudders602 has won at least 8 or 10 Sky Poker bounty hunters, but as far as I can see, this was his first UKOPS victory, so well played rudders.
UKOPS 32 £4,000 Turbo Bounty Hunter 10:00pm £55 £4,000 5,000
And.....The last event of the evening, & in fact the UKOPS XXI finale, was the traditional evening closer, the Turbo BH, and a pleasing 89 hopefuls lined up for what is often described as the @MattBates es Testimonial.
There was head money for @jakescol , @MAXALLY , @Froozle , @StayOrGo & @karlluke ke.
The minor final spots went to @zeeco (6th), @Monty15 (5th), & @RAKKKI (4th). If the alias RAKKKI rings a bell, it's because in the November 2016 UKOPS he managed no less than 3 victories, which takes a bit of doing one imagines.
@heddoh18 8 collected 3rd place money, and the bittersweet runner-up spot went to @yougomuck .
Perhaps fittingly for the final event of UKOPS XXI, the winner was @ALBA8 , quite possibly the POTS, with no less than 5 UKOPS XXI Final Tables to his credit. Not the most profitable, which is rather a quirky statistic, but certainly the most consistent. Well done ALBA8.
That's it, like the burnt sausage, I'm done, & another Sky Poker UKOPS comes to an end.
I hope you enjoyed playing a few of them, & if you bothered reading the Updates, thank you.
To have one mention today was nice, having 2 was marvellous, My new found aggression seems to be paying dividends on the felt 😊, great series and well done to all that participated and to those who cashed.
Now, need to get ready for my next dabble, off out to find some fragile pensioner....
WPWP!!!!!!!! (extra exclamations justified given the work you put in)
Sorry I haven't contributed much to this thread, been somewhat busy, but a great read as always. Even better with all the pics and videos you can now use.
Happy New Year all!
Cheers.
Graham (Should I Stay or should I go now?)