Morning.
Well UKOPS is up & running, & the players would have been pleased to help themselves to a little bit of overlay in 02, 03 & 05. The other 4 UKOPS Events did fine, as did the 6 non-UKOPS Featured MTT's which ran. Overall, a busy night.
We have 13 MTT's to look at today, so will keep the waffle to a minimum. There are full write-ups on all the UKOPS stuff, but just sporadic comments on the non-UKOPS ones, there's just too many for me to report on them all properly.
As for sport, Australia officially regained the Ashes 1 hour & 20 minutes into Day 3 of the Third Test. It's quite a feat to be beaten so quickly & comprehensively. Aussie debutant bowler Boland had the astonishing figures of 6 wickets for 7 runs.
In football, we saw a real thriller at Newcastle, where Man U were very lucky not to get beaten. The lowlight for Man U was an absolute horror performance by Harry Maguire, who appears to have lost his way big time.
£5,000 UKOPS 01 £8,120
£20,000 UKOPS 02 £20,000
£20,000 UKOPS 03 £20,000
£5,000 UKOPS 04 £6,770
£3,000 UKOPS 05 £3,000
£4,000 UKOPS 06 £4,350
£3,000 UKOPS 07 £3,700
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£1,000 Mega £1,020
£1,500 Sheriff £1,600
£1,500 Reload £1,815
£1,000 Turbo £1,230
£1,000 Quickdraw £1,040
£1,000 MidEx £1,660
Comments
UKOPS 01 £5,000 Rebuy B/Hunter (£8,120)
Xmas UKOPS got underway with an interesting win for lecksville, securing his best result since all way back in 2012 when he took down a £6,000 Rebuy & was 2nd in PRIMO (remember that?) in the space of two days. And now, 9 long years later, he adds a UKOPS. His only other result of note after 3,000 MTT's in 9 years was 2nd in an Avenger Main in June of this year. Lovely to see.
Crushy began well with a 4th place finish, & PRhack93 was 6th.
@lecksville 978000 1 £1106.35 + £540.31 Head Prizes 12
@MrJinks 0 2 £663.81 + £309.96 Head Prizes 10
@do67 0 3 £406 + £232.29 Head Prizes 8
@loololollo 0 4 £318.71 + £125.63 Head Prizes 8
@jrdrinkler 0 5 £272.02 + £94.83 Head Prizes 4
@PRhack93 0 6 £228.98 + £133.43 Head Prizes 4
UKOPS 02 £20,000 High Roller (£20,000)
Other than winning a £6k BH this Spring, PokaBayB9 had not really pulled up many trees until last Friday, when he took down BWBH for around £1,100. Last night he easily beat that when collecting £5,800 in winning UKOPS 2 High Roller. Interesting how a player can be seemingly dormant for years & then suddenly win two biggies within a couple of days.
The runner-up ciaranmac is quite a story too, not often you see a player with an ABI of less than £4 do so well in a £220 High Roller. Even better, he won his seat last week in a Rewards Freeroll, so he was in for zero cost. Fabulous, & that's why these freebie UKOPS seats in Rewards Freeroll are such a good thing.
4th & 5th were ValueJL & fishhhhh, who have respective Sharky ratings of 96 & 94, which is seriously big time.
In horse racing, we so often see C & D (Course & Distance) specialists, who do well in particular races at specific tracks. Well in poker that's craigcu12, and if we could bet on him making the Final of a vanilla High Roller on Sky Poker we'd make fortunes. Once again he did well, slowly increasing his stack as the game wore on, & sitting 2nd at one stage before things went a little awry near the end. Splendid result, all the same, & that's at least the 4th High Roller Final he's made here.
Just missing the money in 11th & 12th were blast from the past style2737, & hughjarse9 who has had such an astonishing year on Sky Poker.
@PokaBayb9 950000 1 £5800
@ciaranmac 0 2 £3400
@redeyedryu 0 3 £2400
@ValueJL 0 4 £2000
@fishhhhh 0 5 £1600
@craigcu12 0 6 £1380
@jordz16 0 7 £1180
@Chrismags 0 8 £980
@Tessellate 0 9 £700
@Jobe169 0 10 £560
@style2737 0 11
@:hughjarse9 0 12
UKOPS 03 £20,000 Bounty Hunter (£20,000)
UKOPS 03 was last night's Main, & it went to M0RG4NT0R. Won a seat into the HR via a satellite & did quite well, eventually finishing 19th, but in the BH Main he did much better & got the lot.
Cammykaze was chippie at one point, & I was rather hoping he might win it, as he's not had the easiest of years one way & another, even so, 3rd was a decent score. Busy boy yesterday too, playing over 100 DYM's & MTT's until the early hours of this morning, then back on site again before 9am.
4th was MikeyW94, who may have had a bit of luck elsewhere recently, with dear old HAYSIE battling away to finish 6th, which will delight his army of fan.
@M0RG4N4T0R 1810000 1 £2983.88 + £693.12 Head Prizes 6
@Fulcher 0 2 £1790.33 + £738.85 Head Prizes 8
@Cammykaze 0 3 £1095 + £630.81 Head Prizes 9
@MikeyW94 0 4 £859.58 + £498.92 Head Prizes 6
@freebod 0 5 £733.65 + £206.26 Head Prizes 4
@HAYSIE 0 6 £617.58 + £75 Head Prizes 2
UKOPS 04 £5,000 Mini Bounty Hunter (£6,770)
More "course & distance" stuff here, as hugs1 takes the UKOPS Mini. Has exactly one previous Results Thread namecheck, & that was also a UKOPS Mini, in Easter of last year. One big difference though is that last year's Easter UKOPS was smack in the middle of the Boomlet & made a whopping £11,130, compared to £6,770 last night.
Team Big Boy were represented by chrisdboy & roddy28 in 4th & 5th.
Swog, who did so well to run 4th in Sunday's Major, just missed the Final in 7th.
@hugs1 2031000 1 £846.25 + £108.80 Head Prizes 6
@POOKA0 0 2 £473.90 + £81.53 Head Prizes 10
@Style 0 3 £279.60 + £69.03 Head Prizes 8
@chrisdboy 0 4 £221.72 + £116.42 Head Prizes 11
@roddy28 0 5 £186.18 + £69.95 Head Prizes 8
@LeSheik 0 6 £150.63 + £78.88 Head Prizes 12
@Swog 0 7 £116.78 + £33.05 Head Prizes 6
UKOPS 05 £3,000 Mega Stack B/Hunter (£3,000)
A little annoyingly, Sharky seems to have missed this one. Anyway, it went to jared8 of whom I know little - well nothing really - with fishhhhh, who was 5th in the HR, the runner-up.
Mr Arrogant was 3rd, with MattBates making his only FT of the session in 6th.
5th was IVIystical who has endured a mini downswing lately, so he'll be a tad miffed that Sharky has not included this result.
@jared8 1290000 1 £477.94 + £162.62 Head Prizes 6
@fishhhhh 0 2 £291.56 + £75.73 Head Prizes 6
@Arrogant 0 3 £179.55 + £85.97 Head Prizes 7
@jack100 0 4 £144.49 + £54.42 Head Prizes 5
@IVIystical 0 5 £123.12 + £73.84 Head Prizes 6
@MattBates 0 6 £106.02 + £24.61 Head Prizes 2
UKOPS 06 £4,000 Turbo Bounty Hunter (£4,350)
Since winning Sheriff 2 weeks ago we've not seen much of MikeyW94, just 5 or 6 MTT's until last night, but he soon kicked back into gear, winning UKOPS 06 after running 4th in UKOPS 03.
Runner-up was doooobs, who was well up with the leaders in the HR for most of the evening before fading towards the end.
With scotty77 in 3rd, & Sharki0 & BlairReid both on the FT too, this was a pretty tough one.
@MikeyW94 435000 1 £630.75 + £486.87 Head Prizes 9
@Doooobs 0 2 £413.25 + £331.06 Head Prizes 13
@scotty77 0 3 £255.56 + £60.94 Head Prizes 3
@Sharki0 0 4 £206.62 + £50.39 Head Prizes 2
@BlairReid 0 5 £168.56 + £18.75 Head Prizes 1
@macca41 0 6 £141.38 + £18.75 Head Prizes 1
UKOPS 07 £3,000 Hyper Rebuy B/Hunter (£3,700)
We saw a sensational performance here, as the winner took a spectacular 21 heads from the 94 runner field. As a result, his Head Prizes amounted to a whopping £696, which was more than 1st place prize money of £527. Nothing in the back-history of Eddy95 suggested he was capable of spread-eagling a UKOPS field in such a comprehensive fashion. Was a tough top three too, with seikus & nishg, both more than handy, the other podium-ates.
4th was XTUCKERX, who won a 7 @ 7 a few days ago.
@eddy95 460000 1 £527.25 + £696.10 Head Prizes 21
@seikus 0 2 £325.60 + £39.84 Head Prizes 3
@nishg 0 3 £201.65 + £103.73 Head Prizes 5
@XTUCKERX 0 4 £162.80 + £78.41 Head Prizes 6
@Spiderpig0 0 5 £135.97 + £95.62 Head Prizes 4
@bigpoy 0 6 £114.70 0
£1,000 Mega Stack B/Hunter (£1,020)
@blueboyEFC 510000 1 £188.70 + £149.94 Head Prizes 9
@pager 0 2 £112.20 + £51.56 Head Prizes 5
@humberfish 0 3 £76.50 + £32.63 Head Prizes 3
@BigBadJay 0 4 £56.10 0
@seikus 0 5 £40.80 + £58.13 Head Prizes 7
@MattBates 0 6 £35.70 + £30 Head Prizes 4
£1,500 Sheriff Bounty Hunter (£1,600)
This was the Lool & Lol show, as Crushy beat Redmoind Heads Up.
@loololollo 160000 1 £296 + £179.49 Head Prizes 3
@lolufold 0 2 £200 + £154.09 Head Prizes 6
@ubeenpwned 0 3 £120 + £37.50 Head Prizes 2
@rankers 0 4 £96 + £100.78 Head Prizes 4
@destinycod 0 5 £88 + £46.88 Head Prizes 2
@StayOrGo 0 6 0
£1,500 Reload Rebuy B/Hunter (£1,815)
@jack100 1684000 1 £240.49 + £78.13 Head Prizes 6 £16.02
@Jeni82 0 2 £143.38 + £55.56 Head Prizes 13 £22.99
@tracyswise 0 3 £86.21 + £34.05 Head Prizes 5
@scousenay 0 4 £68.06 + £18.05 Head Prizes 5
@rabbit11 0 5 £57.63 + £29.66 Head Prizes 8
@Mike7779 0 6 £48.10 + £21.81 Head Prizes 7
£1,000 Turbo Bounty Hunter (£1,230)
Turbo went to last Thursday's Hitman Main winner, janechrist, a player for whom poker does not seem much fun judging by their table chat.
Actually it was one of the night's toughest FT's with heavy hitters galore.
@janechrist 205000 1 £246 + £187.49 Head Prizes 6
@Vodka1 0 2 £153.75 + £64.69 Head Prizes 4
@seikus 0 3 £92.25 + £73.13 Head Prizes 6
@tonyp142 0 4 £67.65 + £25.31 Head Prizes 2
@Jscorgie 0 5 £55.35 + £22.50 Head Prizes 2
@GSmith13 0 6 £11.25 Head Prizes 1
£1,000 Quickdraw (£1,040)
Another super tough FT, with Mean Machine prevailing. clov4r, looking for their 3rd win in 4 nights was runner-up, with Natnug 3rd, and Jscorgie, cabbaz & Jessieak filling the minor spots.
@GSmith13 130000 1 £192.40 + £247.64 Head Prizes 6
@clov4r 0 2 £130 + £58.13 Head Prizes 3
@Natnug 0 3 £78 + £67.50 Head Prizes 7
@Jscorgie 0 4 £62.40 + £77.35 Head Prizes 4
@cabbaz 0 5 £57.20 + £7.50 Head Prizes 1
@Jessieak 0 6 £15 Head Prizes 1
£1,000 Midnight Express B/Hunter (£1,660)
@Rstinson97 249000 1 £236.55 + £155.19 Head Prizes 7
@Andy-M 0 2 £151.89 + £26.02 Head Prizes 3
@Doooobs 0 3 £94.62 + £43.13 Head Prizes 5
@RobRenzi 0 4 £76.78 + £86.70 Head Prizes 7
@ZahZaf 0 5 £62.66 0
@p0j0 0 6 £52.29 + £47.36 Head Prizes 4
@stokefc
Well him, for starters.
Those were the days, Tony and Kara doing the live TV, Me an @KOBAYASHI on the tele for the first one and my biggest score on Sky.
Great write ups as alway @Tikay10
Happy new year to everyone.