Morning,
Wonderful night last night, with the ambitious aggregate guarantees of £53,000 being shattered by prize pools of £74,420, some 40% above target. I have no idea if traffic spilled across to the cash tables, but it's usually the case, if so, a terrific night all round. The clocks going back (= nights get darker earlier) may have helped, though it's hard to prove.
The T20 World Cup continued yesterday, and hot-shots India were thoroughly demolished by New Zealand, & may now end up going home early. I don't know enough about cricket to understand why India have had such a dreadful time recently, but it's a sad sight.
Talking of sad sights, the hugely likeable Nuno looks like his time may be up at Spurs, which is really rather a shame, he's a man of great honesty & dignity. On the bright side, perhaps Spurs don't deserve to have such a good man at the helm, so one way or another it will all pan out nicely. EDIT - & before the ink is even dry, it's confirmed that Spurs have sacked him. Presumably he'll get his Contract paid up though, so he can sit at home for a while & count the money he got paid for failing. Football is weird.
£3,000 UKOPS 13 £3,800
£15,000 UKOPS 14 £24,400
£20,000 UKOPS 15 £26,000
£5,000 UKOPS 16 £5,960
£3,000 UKOPS 17 £3,520
£4,000 UKOPS 18 £5,250
£3,000 UKOPS 19 £4,890
Comments
UKOPS 13 £3,000 Freezeout (£3,800)
I was very pleased to see Natnug take the opener. He's built up a terrific CV, having won both Reload & Turbo twice, MidEx, Quickdraw, £6k BH, Mini & a zillion FT's, well now he can add a UKOPS win to that impressive resume.
There are no easy UKOPS events, & as you'd expect, plenty of quality players on the FT including ozzie, gac & the Hedster.
Plenty of familiar names cashed, way too many to mention, but I'll make an exception for Sam, aka @IVIystical who has a quite exceptional game for one so inexperienced & is one of the most helpful & likeable guys on the site.
@Natnug 570000 1 £1026
@ozzieowen 0 2 £598.50
@gac123 0 3 £342
@kyp1961 0 4 £266
@benny-boff 0 5 £228
@heddoh18 0 6 £190
@darryl1976 0 7 £144.40
@SwannLoL 0 8 £91.20
@ApolloCree 0 9 £64.60
@Hashka247 0 10 £49.40
@Walterwoo 0 11 £49.40
@fishhhhh 0 12 £49.40
@Wacko90 0 13 £49.40
@IVIystical 0 14 £49.40
@ufud 0 15 £49.40
@loololollo 0 16 £39.90
@Judda70 0 17 £39.90
@Kahuna96 0 18 £39.90
@chrisdonkb 0 19 £39.90
@FLATCAPBIL 0 20 £39.90
@cabbaz 0 21 £36.10
@3265 0 22 £36.10
@Arrogant 0 23 £36.10
@Makaka 0 24 £36.10
@SoLack 0 25 £36.10
@melvin22 0 26 £34.58
@devil_tear 0 27 £34.58
@scottie73 0 28 £34.58
@Jscorgie 0 29 £34.58
@CptSFK 0 30 £34.58
UKOPS 14 £15,000 High Roller B/Hunter (£24,400)
If you were asked to predict the winner of last night's High Roller not many would have plumped for clarke996. Put the microscope on his CV though & the clues are there, having won Sheriff twice, plus a Turbo, all quite recently. Sharky suggests only played 230 games, so that's an excellent return. A £5,600 bink is pretty handy too.
Exactly the quality of player you'd expect in a UKOPS High Roller, with one time Sky Poker hotshot style2737 2nd, followed by grinddd, Jscorgie, cabbaz & Sharki0. Not easy to spot the table mark amongst that crew.
@clarke996 1220000 1 £3477 + £2162.86 Head Prizes 10
@style2737 0 2 £2147.20 + £159.38 Head Prizes 1
@grinddd 0 3 £1329.80 + £1004.31 Head Prizes 8
@Jscorgie 0 4 £1073.60 + £360.94 Head Prizes 4
@cabbaz 0 5 £896.70 + £318.75 Head Prizes 2
@Sharki0 0 6 £756.40 + £370.31 Head Prizes 3
UKOPS 15 £20,000 Bounty Hunter (£26,000)
The evening's Main Event went to addo07, who has a very peculiar Sharky profile. From 2008 to 2020, some 12 years, he never won or lost a bean over a ~2,000 game sample, but since then and over just 300 games he has gone on the tear & made around £30,000. Last night was not even his biggest win, that was over £8,000 in a Boomlet Sunday Major. He's had eight 4 figure cashes, of which 5 were over £3,000. Seems like he's the real deal.
And look who was 3rd - hughjarse9. He was in trouble with 4 tables left, but then staged a tremendous finish, even led the way at one stage before eventually finishing 3rd. So far this UKOPS he has only played 3 events, all "Mains", finishing 1st, 1st & 3rd. He won the Easter UKOPS Main too, as well as the enormous January SPT Online which was worth £20,000 alone. He let himself down in the Xmas UKOPS Main though - only 3rd..... That's all barely believable, but good luck to him, he's clearly a bit special by any standards.
@addo07 2600000 1 £3491.80 + £1200.29 Head Prizes 8
@SDarks 0 2 £2083.90 + £301.32 Head Prizes 6
@hughjarse9 0 3 £1242.80 + £587 Head Prizes 7
@FuzzyDare 0 4 £977.60 + £403.84 Head Prizes 6
@freebod 0 5 £832 + £285.94 Head Prizes 5
@eddy95 0 6 £696.80 + £711.23 Head Prizes 9
UKOPS 16 £5,000 Mini Bounty Hunter (£5,960)
goonerjay has had a wonderful October. After being absent from these threads for 2 years, won both Mini Predator & Reload, then topped it off by taking last night's UKOPS Mini.
reeler must be loving UKOPS. Won £1,100 of buy-ins via the Elim Fr promo, ran 2nd in Saturday's UKOPS Main for £1,500, (using one of his free entries), & was 3rd here. Really pleased for him. I believe he's more often seen on the cash tables, so all the more impressive.
Twice a recent 7 @ 7 winner, bakersdoze was 5th.
PKRPar has some minor real-life distractions to deal with right now but still managed 6th, then ran 5th in UKOPS 19 later in the evening.
@goonerjay 1788000 1 £745 + £199.27 Head Prizes 14
@Letsgoooo 0 2 £417.20 + £83.28 Head Prizes 8
@reeler 0 3 £246.15 + £73.08 Head Prizes 9
@Catsnap 0 4 £195.19 + £32.77 Head Prizes 3
@bakersdoze 0 5 £163.90 + £64.32 Head Prizes 8
@PKRPar 0 6 £132.61 + £39.20 Head Prizes 6
UKOPS 17 £3,000 Bounty Hunter (£3,520)
Since winning both Mini Hitman & Mega in January we have seen very little of hazey64, but he took UKOPS 17 in fine style last night, with ozzie in 2nd.
A terrific 4th place for NOSTRI, who let's not forget does his bit for the Community by running MML.
Far from an easy FT either, as evidenced by PRhack93 & UnEuropean in 5th & 6th.
@hazey64 528000 1 £484 + £277.25 Head Prizes 15
@ozzieowen 0 2 £292.16 + £76.34 Head Prizes 5
@roytheboy7 0 3 £179.52 + £70.78 Head Prizes 6
@NOSTRI 0 4 £142.56 + £108.85 Head Prizes 9
@PRhack93 0 5 £121.44 + £60.94 Head Prizes 5
@UnEuropean 0 6 £102.08 + £24.60 Head Prizes 2
UKOPS 18 £4,000 Bounty Hunter (£5,250)
seikus seems to be winning a biggie every month, in August it was a Sunday Major, repeated the trick in September, then took last night's UKOPS 18 for around £1,200. In fact he's won the Major FOUR times since the Spring of this year.
@seikus 525000 1 £748.12 + £453.25 Head Prizes 8
@POKEOFFU 0 2 £480.38 + £42.19 Head Prizes 2
@cabbaz 0 3 £299.25 + £238.18 Head Prizes 9
@greg1974 0 4 £242.81 + £97.26 Head Prizes 3
@Natnug 0 5 £198.19 + £76.17 Head Prizes 3
@chrisdonkb 0 6 £165.38 + £18.75 Head Prizes 1
UKOPS 19 £3,000 Hyper Rebuy B/Hunter (£4,890)
chrisdonkb made his 3rd UKOPS FT of the series, with finishing positions of 2nd, 6th & now 1st.
@chrisdonkb 628000 1 £701.54 + £295.44 Head Prizes 6
@lolufold 0 2 £427.95 + £234.69 Head Prizes 6
@grinddd 0 3 £263.55 + £47.34 Head Prizes 2
@SAXONTOM 0 4 £212.09 + £229.92 Head Prizes 8
@PKRPar 0 5 £180.72 + £95.31 Head Prizes 4
@hawera 0 6 £155.62 0
UKOPS Main Event Freeroll (230 runners)
@DeadmanSk 205433.33 1 UKOPS 60 £40,000 MAIN EVENT
@pacman821 165849.96 2 UKOPS 60 £40,000 MAIN EVENT
@tai-gar 88716.71 3 UKOPS 60 £40,000 MAIN EVENT
SPT Manchester Semi (15 runners)
A third SPT seat for roddy, a second for bigfatfish & a first for SEEurTILTS.
@roddy28 18082.50 1 SPT Manchester Seat
@bigfatfish 14440 2 SPT Manchester Seat
@SEEurTILTS 12477.50 3 SPT Manchester Seat
Tough to choose between the winner of the HR & the Main, but it just about goes to the latter.....
@addo07
Another Gorillaz favourite today. Video & a half, this.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq7Ovshz1UI
Out of interest. Why don’t Spurs deserve a good manager at the helm?
My first ever UKOPS cash!
oioi, that's summed my thoughts better than I could.