Morning.
Well that's the Autumn UKOPS done & dusted, we look forward to these things so much & then they seem to be over in a flash.
I'd say it went pretty well. Overall guarantees were exceeded by some 39%, & around £567,770 was paid out in prize pools. We all know the software can be a bit creaky at times, but as far as I am aware, it behaved impeccably throughout.
Last night - day 10 - had UKOPS prize pools of £89,000, which is a big number in the world of Sky Poker.
A word here about Sky James, who has the onerous responsibility of setting the Guarantees on the site, including UKOPS. A great example is last night's £40,000 Main, when it started at 8pm there was already £30,000 in the kitty, thanks to the inventive use of Promos, Freerolls & a great satellite schedule, all of which James sorted. And for the first time ever, all of the UKOPS events - 64 of them - beat guarantee. Take a bow James.
£10,000 UKOPS 58 £12,990
£25,000 UKOPS 59 £30,000
£40,000 UKOPS 60 £50,700
£5,000 UKOPS 61 £7,200
£3,000 UKOPS 62 £4,400
£4,000 UKOPS 63 £5,850
£2,000 UKOPS 64 £2,840
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UKOPS 58 £10,000 Bounty Hunter (£12,990)
bigg431 has been playing MTT's here since 2012. On Saturday he ran 6th in the Main for £550, but he beat that big time last night, collecting £2,230, his best ever result in his time here.
In 4th was chrisdonkb who has had a solid series & looks like he is headed for a top ten spot in the Leaderboard.
In 5th was Solack who surely has claims to be one of the players of the series, with a whole string of solid scores.
Swimmr (6th) was another success story, with Final Tables in UKOPS 15, 39, 49, 54, 58 & 61, as well as winning Sheriff on Thursday.
@bigg431 2165000 1 £1688.70 + £554.95 Head Prizes 12
@Cleis 0 2 £974.25 + £193.55 Head Prizes 10
@deuces443 0 3 £591.04 + £185.02 Head Prizes 8
@chrisdonkb 0 4 £474.13 + £111.84 Head Prizes 5
@SoLack 0 5 £402.69 + £108.92 Head Prizes 6
@Swimmr 0 6 £331.25 + £59.77 Head Prizes 5
UKOPS 59 £25,000 Super High Roller (£30,000)
Mean Machine was in the van from early doors & whenever his lead was challenged he seemed to repel them with sheer aggression. He's had a bunch of UKOPS final tables in the last 10 days but nothing remotely like this. £9,600, yikes, that's proper money. Just for fun, whilst taking down the Super High Roller he went & won the non UKOPS Quickdraw too.
Almost a month to the day since winning the Turbo for £575, Nero543 took 2nd here for a whopping £5,400.
In 3rd was stack_u collecting £3,750. You may be surprised to know that's not his biggest cash of the year, as he won a boomlet Sunday Major for £7,650 in April.
A few weeks ago craigcu12 decided to return to Sky Poker & switch his main focus from cash to MTT's. Worked out pretty well with 2 High Roller FT's, Thursday's High Roller & last night's Super High Roller, in which he ran 4th both times. Superb effort.
5th was fishhhhh who won UKOPS 32 a few days ago & made a bunch of Finals. He looks headed for a top 10 leaderboard spot.
In 8th was ender749, who booked 2 wins in the Series including an opening night Main, & 3rd in a High Roller on Day 3. Definitely a breakthrough Series for him.
@GSmith13 600000 1 £9600
@Nero543 0 2 £5400
@stack_u 0 3 £3750
@craigcu12 0 4 £3150
@fishhhhh 0 5 £2490
@buddha350 0 6 £2190
@ender749 0 7 £1860
@SabreAMW 0 8 £1560
UKOPS 60 £40,000 MAIN EVENT (£50,700)
It must have been any price you like for MeIina92 to win this - it was his first MTT here for over 2 months & just his 8th this year.
Equally surprising was AjPaj in 2nd. 1st & 2nd have just 124 MTT's between them on Sky Poker.
Much less surprising was UKOPS specialist Sharki0, who won UKOPS 19 & was 4th in UKOPS 15. 3rd here for £4,260 was easily his best effort of the Series though, & was enough to seal a well-deserved Leaderboard win.
Quick mention for Allan23 who just snuck into the money. He won UKOPS 23 & for a fella with an ABI of about a fiver & who rarely frequents the big buck stuff he had a terrific UKOPS.
@MeIina92 5070000 1 £12421.50
@AjPaj 0 2 £6971.25
@Sharki0 0 3 £4258.80
@kawamattyz 0 4 £3244.80
@henners10 0 5 £2737.80
@AndyBlack9 0 6 £2230.80
@djsppiros 0 7 £1673.10
@Mickey83 0 8 £1115.40
@miniman88 0 9 £735.15
@sman987 0 10 £557.70
@gadgerno1 0 11 £557.70
@ufud 0 12 £557.70
@chico1740 0 13 £557.70
@rspca12 0 14 £557.70
@HurriKane 0 15 £557.70
@F_Ivanovic 0 16 £405.60
@railtard11 0 17 £405.60
@jwrighty 0 18 £405.60
@kilga12 0 19 £405.60
@Gutshotter 0 20 £405.60
@kodiak1985 0 21 £253.50
@RoyalRhyno 0 22 £253.50
@sexysal25 0 23 £253.50
@donkhunta 0 24 £253.50
@Drudkh 0 25 £253.50
@spearsy136 0 26 £202.80
@leez 0 27 £202.80
@TJLP 0 28 £202.80
@addo07 0 29 £202.80
@f3nix35 0 30 £202.80
@MRBEBB937 0 31 £187.59
@rich123 0 32 £187.59
@LARSON7 0 33 £187.59
@fishhhhh 0 34 £187.59
@MANONTOP 0 35 £187.59
@TheSwan 0 36 £177.45
@buddha350 0 37 £177.45
@beefmyster 0 38 £177.45
@malone02 0 39 £177.45
@Testycol 0 40 £177.45
@wineli 0 41 £172.38
@bigfatfish 0 42 £172.38
@TimmyRaRa 0 43 £172.38
@gaming123 0 44 £172.38
@nishg 0 45 £172.38
@DEGE2012 0 46 £172.38
@Cali9 0 47 £172.38
@trytrickme 0 48 £172.38
@Thoich 0 49 £172.38
@TONY509 0 50 £172.38
@shirley02 0 51 £167.31
@denty765 0 52 £167.31
@minAmin 0 53 £167.31
@madeyeII 0 54 £167.31
@GetThere 0 55 £167.31
@DannyJP 0 56 £167.31
@M10Dembele 0 57 £167.31
@Kev1892 0 58 £167.31
@bobbyboy33 0 59 £167.31
@eon1961 0 60 £167.31
@famouscfc 0 61 £162.24
@dub1 0 62 £162.24
@JACKDAW 0 63 £162.24
@cabbaz 0 64 £162.24
@roytheboy7 0 65 £162.24
@Han94x 0 66 £162.24
@BobaFett11 0 67 £162.24
@ChIpSiSbK 0 68 £162.24
@safc71 0 69 £162.24
@Super_Oli 0 70 £162.24
@johnnyy 0 71 £162.24
@FeNdeR36 0 72 £162.24
@ValueJL 0 73 £162.24
@loololollo 0 74 £162.24
@Allan23 0 75 £162.24
UKOPS 61 £5,000 Mini Bounty Hunter (£7,200)
31,000 games into his Sky Poker MTT history, smith1408 takes his best ever result as far as I can see.
In 2nd was Burger306 who has enjoyed a splendid few weeks, & finished 9th in the UKOPS leaderboard.
Danny was 3rd, with RogueCell a fine 4th, she was also 9th in the 7pm opener.
5th was Summers119, and for the 2nd time in the session, Swimmr was 6th which enabled him to secure a prize in the UKOPS Leaderboard.
@smith1408 2160000 1 £900 + £202.74 Head Prizes 12
@Burger306 0 2 £504 + £69.73 Head Prizes 8
@Itsover4u 0 3 £297.36 + £33.93 Head Prizes 6
@RogueCell 0 4 £235.80 + £90.26 Head Prizes 14
@Summers119 0 5 £198 + £62.40 Head Prizes 6
@Swimmr 0 6 £160.20 + £69.46 Head Prizes 9
UKOPS 62 £3,000 Bounty Hunter (£4,400)
Tessellate took this ahead of Jaystac & Sir Streamer himself, Duesenberg.
4th was UKOPS PLO8 winner MRBLEWPIE, with yet another cash for Solly in 5th. If Solly had laddered 1 more spot he'd have been joint 1st in the Leaderboard, 2 more spots for the win. Ooohhh.
@Tessellate 666000 1 £604.95 + £199.42 Head Prizes 8
@Jaystac 0 2 £362.97 + £46.88 Head Prizes 5
@Duesenberg 0 3 £222 + £123.54 Head Prizes 8
@MRBLEWPIE 0 4 £174.27 + £53.54 Head Prizes 3
@SoLack 0 5 £148.74 + £22.97 Head Prizes 2
@ValueJL 0 6 £125.21 + £87.54 Head Prizes 7
UKOPS 63 £4,000 Bounty Hunter (£5,850)
cabbaz, 4th in the UKOPS Main on Day 2, had his best result in winning this. During UKOPS he also won both Quickdraw & Sheriff.
K_Irving, who won UKOPS 05 on Day 1, was 3rd, then went on to win Midnight Express a few hours later.
@cabbaz 585000 1 £817.54 + £568.16 Head Prizes 11
@seikus 0 2 £498.71 + £93.76 Head Prizes 4
@K_1rving 0 3 £307.12 + £111.62 Head Prizes 4
@TommyD 0 4 £247.16 + £123.05 Head Prizes 5
@Cleis 0 5 £210.60 + £119.97 Head Prizes 3
@carlfidd91 0 6 £181.35 + £42.19 Head Prizes 2
UKOPS 64 £2,000 Hyper Bounty Hunter (£2,840)
LUCKYSAMMI, last spotted winning Mid Ex back in June, took the closer, ahead of johnny_e, who now has 2 x 2nd place finishes in the series. In 3rd was Arrogant, who had a relatively quiet UKOPS.
@LUCKYSAMMI 426000 1 £396.89 + £166.83 Head Prizes 7
@johnny_e 0 2 £242.11 + £134.99 Head Prizes 10
@Arrogant 0 3 £149.10 + £76.11 Head Prizes 5
@HurriKane 0 4 £119.99 + £27.41 Head Prizes 2
@Monty15 0 5 £102.24 + £49.70 Head Prizes 5
@Stevo8y 0 6 £88.04 + £52.03 Head Prizes 6
And that, my small but intrepid band of readers, is a wrap.
(streams are where a player plays online and shows their tables, and engages with chat on a three minute delay. Been around for a while but coming into their own more recently...)
Ha, my Boss - or one of them - said the same thing to me this morning. Not sure what he was trying to say, tbh...