As Friday nights go, was a very quiet one. 2 of the Big 4 missed Guarantee, thankfully not by much, & overall, the 4 Prize Pools only beat Guarantee by 7%.
Congrats go to @goldnballz, that will be a popular result as he seems well-liked by all, & he later ran 3rd in Midnight Express too.
His win won't be too popular with Limp2Lose though, as it prevented an even bigger Final Table Jackpot. Limp2Lose collected £1,500 for running 2nd in both Main & Mini, one spot higher in either was worth an extra £1,000, win both & he'd have collected £5,000. Ooh, he hit the crossbar twice.
@goldnballz 2336000 1 £608.75 + £208.33 Head Prizes 14
"Looks like The Bates is running into form after a relatively thin week by his standards,....."
Well this win made it 3 Finals & 2 wins in 3 Nights, including winning Sheriff on consecutive nights. Clearly Sky Poker set the RNG high for him as he's a favoured player. Apparently.
The cleverly named K9HANDLER was the meat in the sandwich between The Bates & his good friend TommyD. The last-named will be hoping Spurs beat Palace today. Don't bet on it Tommy, I think you are in for a tough season.
bigpoy enjoyed his best result since running 3rd in the Sunday Major in late July.
Runner-up 59pockets attended the Manchester SPT 2 years ago, but we've heard very little of him since.
In 3rd was mcg899 who will be disappointed, as when he makes a Final he more often than not wins. Prior to last night he had made 6 "Big 4" Final Tables in September & won no less than 5 of them. Amazing run that, very well done.
father55 was playing his first MTT in September, and manosalex was winning his 2nd SPT Notts seat.
The big news though was waller02 booking his passage to Nottingham, I'm sure many of the regulars will give the guy a great welcome as he's extremely popular on the Forum & always quick to praise the efforts of others.
Looking forward to it @Tikay10. As I mentioned in my diary, I've never played live before and a SPT seems like the best place to start. Will be good to meet the forum regs (I'll be the one with a beard making all the live poker rookie mistakes, before stacking off with top pair).
Congrats go to @goldnballz, that will be a popular result as he seems well-liked by all, & he later ran 3rd in Midnight Express too.
His win won't be too popular with Limp2Lose though, as it prevented an even bigger Final Table Jackpot. Limp2Lose collected £1,500 for running 2nd in both Main & Mini, one spot higher in either was worth an extra £1,000, win both & he'd have collected £5,000. Ooh, he hit the crossbar twice.
@goldnballz 2336000 1 £608.75 + £208.33 Head Prizes 14
Looking forward to it @Tikay10. As I mentioned in my diary, I've never played live before and a SPT seems like the best place to start. Will be good to meet the forum regs (I'll be the one with a beard making all the live poker rookie mistakes, before stacking off with top pair).
Really thrilled you got your first live seat Ryan. An SPT is definitely the best place for your first live experience.
See you there!
There are quite a few of us staying at Travelodge Riverside and sharing cabs to the venue, if it makes any difference to where you stay. The WPT at DTD is the same weekend, so might be advisable to book hotels early.
Looking forward to it @Tikay10. As I mentioned in my diary, I've never played live before and a SPT seems like the best place to start. Will be good to meet the forum regs (I'll be the one with a beard making all the live poker rookie mistakes, before stacking off with top pair).
Really thrilled you got your first live seat Ryan. An SPT is definitely the best place for your first live experience.
See you there!
There are quite a few of us staying at Travelodge Riverside and sharing cabs to the venue, if it makes any difference to where you stay. The WPT at DTD is the same weekend, so might be advisable to book hotels early.
Thanks Graham, yeah see there.
I've already booked the hotel, good job too as I didn't realise it was the WPT the same weekend. We are staying at the Holiday Inn. I'm not trying to win any more seats, just having the one shot on the Saturday then if I bust I can take the missus for a meal or something.
Congrats go to @goldnballz, that will be a popular result as he seems well-liked by all, & he later ran 3rd in Midnight Express too.
His win won't be too popular with Limp2Lose though, as it prevented an even bigger Final Table Jackpot. Limp2Lose collected £1,500 for running 2nd in both Main & Mini, one spot higher in either was worth an extra £1,000, win both & he'd have collected £5,000. Ooh, he hit the crossbar twice.
@goldnballz 2336000 1 £608.75 + £208.33 Head Prizes 14
I have no access to the Files which list who is Platinum (or any other band) Priority, but if he is Platinum, yes, he'd get an extra 20%. I'll mention it to Upstairs.
Congrats go to @goldnballz, that will be a popular result as he seems well-liked by all, & he later ran 3rd in Midnight Express too.
His win won't be too popular with Limp2Lose though, as it prevented an even bigger Final Table Jackpot. Limp2Lose collected £1,500 for running 2nd in both Main & Mini, one spot higher in either was worth an extra £1,000, win both & he'd have collected £5,000. Ooh, he hit the crossbar twice.
@goldnballz 2336000 1 £608.75 + £208.33 Head Prizes 14
Congrats go to @goldnballz, that will be a popular result as he seems well-liked by all, & he later ran 3rd in Midnight Express too.
His win won't be too popular with Limp2Lose though, as it prevented an even bigger Final Table Jackpot. Limp2Lose collected £1,500 for running 2nd in both Main & Mini, one spot higher in either was worth an extra £1,000, win both & he'd have collected £5,000. Ooh, he hit the crossbar twice.
@goldnballz 2336000 1 £608.75 + £208.33 Head Prizes 14
I am sure Gary will want to add a few words of his own, but in the meantime I wanted to thank you on his behalf for chasing this up and also thank SkyPoker in general for the FANTASTIC promotions that they continually offer.
Please pass our gratitude on to all the people/teams involved that make SkyPoker such a great site to play on.
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Of course I was pleased to see p0k355n8k3 woin this, but not too often please, that alias is a real pain to type.£10,000 Avenger (£10,000)
Limp2Lose was beaten into 2nd, & that was to prove much more expensive then he imagined at the time, more of which later.
bluebird8 has not featured in these Updates since the Easter UKOPS.
MRBLEWPIE was making his 2nd Main Event FT of the week, after winning Marksman on Monday.
@p0k3r5n8k3 1112000 1 £1378 + £714.29 Head Prizes 17
@Limp2Lose 0 2 £821.60 + £293.18 Head Prizes 10
@bluebird8 0 3 £494 + £184.74 Head Prizes 7
@MRBLEWPIE 0 4 £390 + £47.63 Head Prizes 2
@nishg 0 5 £330.20 + £72.77 Head Prizes 5
@ozzieowen 0 6 £275.60 + £75.37 Head Prizes 3
£4,000 Mini Avenger (£4,870)
Congrats go to @goldnballz, that will be a popular result as he seems well-liked by all, & he later ran 3rd in Midnight Express too.His win won't be too popular with Limp2Lose though, as it prevented an even bigger Final Table Jackpot. Limp2Lose collected £1,500 for running 2nd in both Main & Mini, one spot higher in either was worth an extra £1,000, win both & he'd have collected £5,000. Ooh, he hit the crossbar twice.
@goldnballz 2336000 1 £608.75 + £208.33 Head Prizes 14
@Limp2Lose 0 2 £340.90 + £71.80 Head Prizes 6
@mmmpizza 0 3 £201.13 + £52.82 Head Prizes 5
@tgphat42 0 4 £159.49 + £27.27 Head Prizes 4
@KWESI 0 5 £133.93 + £36.85 Head Prizes 7
@gandalf111 0 6 £108.36 + £52.07 Head Prizes 9
£2,000 Sheriff (£2,000)
Yesterday I opined....."Looks like The Bates is running into form after a relatively thin week by his standards,....."
Well this win made it 3 Finals & 2 wins in 3 Nights, including winning Sheriff on consecutive nights. Clearly Sky Poker set the RNG high for him as he's a favoured player. Apparently.
The cleverly named K9HANDLER was the meat in the sandwich between The Bates & his good friend TommyD. The last-named will be hoping Spurs beat Palace today. Don't bet on it Tommy, I think you are in for a tough season.
@MattBates 190000 1 £420 + £189.74 Head Prizes 3
@K9HANDLER 0 2 £262.50 + £109.86 Head Prizes 3
@TommyD 0 3 £157.50 + £120.70 Head Prizes 5
@Arrogant 0 4 £115.50 + £93.75 Head Prizes 4
@bigpoy 0 5 £94.50 + £46.88 Head Prizes 2
@Mullers007 0 6 £70.32 Head Prizes 3
£1,000 Quickdraw (£1,350)
bigpoy enjoyed his best result since running 3rd in the Sunday Major in late July.Runner-up 59pockets attended the Manchester SPT 2 years ago, but we've heard very little of him since.
In 3rd was mcg899 who will be disappointed, as when he makes a Final he more often than not wins. Prior to last night he had made 6 "Big 4" Final Tables in September & won no less than 5 of them. Amazing run that, very well done.
@bigpoy 135000 1 £337.50 + £205.07 Head Prizes 4
@59pockets 0 2 £202.50 + £38.67 Head Prizes 1
@mcg899 0 3 £135 + £126.57 Head Prizes 6
@terrymccar 0 4 £79.69 Head Prizes 4
@SoLack 0 5 £75 Head Prizes 3
@MattBates 0 6 0
SPT Notts Semi (11 entries)
father55 was playing his first MTT in September, and manosalex was winning his 2nd SPT Notts seat.
The big news though was waller02 booking his passage to Nottingham, I'm sure many of the regulars will give the guy a great welcome as he's extremely popular on the Forum & always quick to praise the efforts of others.
@waller02 11928 1 SPT Nottingham Seat
@manosalex 11732 2 SPT Nottingham Seat
@father55 9340 3 SPT Nottingham Seat
@peiratis88 0 4
@elderon 0 5
@wineli 0 6
@MISTY4ME 0 7
@gez_bear 0 8
@AK57 0 9
@ctbn 0 10
@oscark 0 11
£1,500 not to be sniffed at which will go up to £1,800 I believe as he gets a 20% bonus on it due to making platinum priority last month?
Congrats son! Thanks again for these write ups @Tikay10
See you there!
There are quite a few of us staying at Travelodge Riverside and sharing cabs to the venue, if it makes any difference to where you stay. The WPT at DTD is the same weekend, so might be advisable to book hotels early.
I've already booked the hotel, good job too as I didn't realise it was the WPT the same weekend. We are staying at the Holiday Inn. I'm not trying to win any more seats, just having the one shot on the Saturday then if I bust I can take the missus for a meal or something.
I have no access to the Files which list who is Platinum (or any other band) Priority, but if he is Platinum, yes, he'd get an extra 20%. I'll mention it to Upstairs.
@StayOrGo
Morning Graham,
I understand that the £1,800 has been authorised this morning, so it will be in his account very shortly, if not already.
I am sure Gary will want to add a few words of his own, but in the meantime I wanted to thank you on his behalf for chasing this up and also thank SkyPoker in general for the FANTASTIC promotions that they continually offer.
Please pass our gratitude on to all the people/teams involved that make SkyPoker such a great site to play on.