Morning.
UKOPS Day 6 is in the bag & it continues to go well. Guarantees amounted to £23,500, with Prize pools of £34,260, which is 23% up y-o-y. (£27,870 last year). Best performing event was the £10,000 Main, which hit £14,100 compared to £10,600 last year.
Before we get started, here's the Top Ten in the UKOPS Leaderboard BEFORE last night's session.
1 GSmith13 35
2 destinycod 34
3 jordz16 32
4 bigfatfish 30
5 Hoff92 28
6 cabbaz 25
6 duonross 25
6 Limp2Lose 25
6 rspca12 25
10 Tedson 24
Off we go then.
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£22 entry UKOPS 33 £1,500 PLO8 (£2,580)
97 entries, 32 rebuys
I watched most of this & it was was huge fun & played in great spirit, with all the regular PLO8 lads on the rail.
When the dust settled, @rspca12 was left with all the chips. He's not a regular PLO8 player & would not claim to be an expert but won via sheer aggression &, of course, hitting boards.
@safc71 - one of only two "regular" PLO8 lads on the FT, did remarkably well to run 2nd as at one point in the Final he was down to 5 BB. The only thing which spoilt his evening - apart from not winning - was Newcastle giving ManUre a good thrashing in their own back yard.
@NChanning is a bit of a wily old dog in this format & was chippie for a long way. He eventually ran 3rd, & I note he was 7th in the same event last year as well as 3rd in the Main. At one point he hit a straight flush - & only got half the pot. Such is PLO8. I had a look at his THM & it shows $3,500,000 in live "winnings" from around 120 events, of which only two were Omaha, & both were high only, though one of them was a £$5,000 WSOP affair.
@destinycod recovered very well from nearly last with 4 tables left to finish 4th.
@Natnug lead for a while too but lost the chip lead after tangling with @NChanning.
@Jab21, the other regular PLO8 player on the FT, who used to do very well in the nightly £200 guaranteed, was 6th.
I never watch NLH poker, it bores me, but I thoroughly enjoyed railing this.
@rspca12 516000 1 £735.30
@safc71 0 2 £425.70@NChanning 0 3 £258
@destinycod 0 4 £206.40
@Natnug 0 5 £178.02
@Jab21 0 6 £152.22
£55 entry UKOPS 34 £10,000 Rebuy (£14,100)
124 entries 80 rebuys 78 addons
Some four weeks ago @Gutshotter pulled off a sensational double by winning both Avenger Main & BWBH on the same night. Well he did it again last night, this time winning the Main as well as the 9pm UKOPS. Two wins on a UKOPS night is @Tedson territory usually.
I sense @Jscorgie has not been running too well during the Series so far, 3rd here was only his 2nd FT.
@Badboy17 single-tabled his way to 4th, having won UKOPS 25 the previous night.
Tuesday's UKOPS 30 winner @Panda8 was 5th.
@Gutshotter 1080000 1 £3948
@ra1d 0 2 £2284.20@Jscorgie 0 3 £1311.30
@Badboy17 0 4 £1029.30
@Panda8 0 5 £888.30
@Bensons22 0 6 £747.30
£11 entry UKOPS 35 £4,000 Mini Rebuy (£5,660)
233 entries 199 rebuys 134 addons
I don't know much at all about Mini winner @bobcam but I'd be surprised if that was not a PB. Been here a goodly while, 14 years at least.
Heads up specialist @benc was 2nd, so that's a feather in the cap of @bobcam.
After winning UKOPS 01 on Friday we've nit seen much of @Drewett until he popped up here in 3rd.
@cpfc_2010 was 4th. He's not played many events, he never showed up on Friday & has only played 2 or 3 events per night since. Busy at work or sulking because Spurs gave Palace a good thrashing.
@bobcam 1400000 1 £1499.90
@benc 0 2 £877.30@Drewett 0 3 £500.91
@cpfc_2010 0 4 £384.88
@Hod4k997 0 5 £328.28
@Rocket919 0 6 £271.68
£22 entry UKOPS 36 £3,000 Bounty Hunter (£3,880)
150 entries 44 rebuys
This was Leg 2 of the @Gutshotter win double. Sharky rate him at 90 so he clearly has game.
2nd was Danny @Itsover4u making only his 2nd FT of the Series, though he's not played many, mainly been trying to satellite in to stuff & protecting his 'roll I guess.
A very fine 3rd for @or8treacle. Usually plays more modest stakes so 3rd here was a big result for him, especially as he would have hoped to run a little better in the other one he played, the O8.
One step off the podium in 4th & a 5th series FT for @T_Bundy, finishing 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 6th.
5th was @summers119 which I think was his first FT of the Series.
@Gutshotter 582000 1 £528.65 + £141.09 Head Prizes 4
@Itsover4u 0 2 £317.19 + £187.05 Head Prizes 14@or8treacle 0 3 £194 + £86.30 Head Prizes 6
@T_Bundy 0 4 £152.29 + £36.24 Head Prizes 3
@Summers119 0 5 £129.98 + £56.71 Head Prizes 4
@funkybunch 0 6 £109.42 + £60.34 Head Prizes 5
£55 entry UKOPS 37 £3,000 Turbo Bounty Hunter (£4,500)
75 entries 15 rebuys
@Vertigo is proving a very likeable addition to the Sky Poker ranks & booked his 2nd win in what i believe is his first ever UKOPS Series. Been doing OK away from UKOPS too, in the last 4 nights he has finished 1st, 1st & 2nd in the regular 8.45pm Mega. I gave up trying to count them, but he may have played more UKOPS satellites than anyone.
Two FT's in a row for runner-up @T_Bundy
@grinddd, 5th in the Hyper the night before, was 3rd.
5th was @loololollo & if I'm not mistaken that's his first FT of the Series. Wrong week to run bad.
After making two FT's on the first night we've not seen much of @Granite89 but he managed a 6th place here.
@Vertigo 450000 1 £652.50 + £433.13 Head Prizes 8
@T_Bundy 0 2 £427.50 + £299.55 Head Prizes 11@grinddd 0 3 £264.38 + £79.69 Head Prizes 4
@Fabraclass 0 4 £213.75 + £73.24 Head Prizes 3
@loololollo 0 5 £174.38 + £80.86 Head Prizes 3
@Granite89 0 6 £146.25 + £60.94 Head Prizes 3
£22 entry UKOPS 38 £2,000 Hyper Rebuy (£3,540)
78 entries 46 rebuys 53 addons
On the same night last year the softly spoken @ChipDiddy0 was beaten into 2nd by @roddy28 but he got his consolation last night by taking the top spot.
@Froozle & @StayOrGo both made their 2nd FT of the Series in 3rd & 4th respectively.
@GSmith13 can't buy a win at the moment but has had 5 FT's, finishing 2nd, 2nd, 3rd 4th & 5th, though one of those runner-up spots was in a HR & netted him ~£2,500, beaten only by @destinycod. As it happens, those two now sit 1st & 2nd in the Leaderboard.
@ChipDiddy0 460000 1 £1008.90
@Reds69 0 2 £584.10@Froozle 0 3 £354
@StayOrGo 0 4 £283.20
@GSmith13 0 5 £244.26
@peiratis88 0 6
Here's the Top 10 & ties in the UKOPS leaderboard after last night's results;
1 @destinycod 41
2 @GSmith13 39
3 @rspca12 35
4 @jordz16 33
4 @T_Bundy 33
6 @bigfatfish 31
7 @Drewett 29
7 @Hoff92 29
9 @Limp2Lose 27
9 @Vertigo 27
11 @cabbaz 26
11 @Gutshotter 26
11 @roddy28 26
That's it for today, hope some of you are enjoying these write-ups. Just 4 days left now, fingers crossed things continue as they have so far.
Just to prove I am reading and enjoying these daily write ups, event 34 was a £55 buy in.
Ahh yes, so it was, good spot, thanks, have edited now.
@rspca12
Thanks Chris.
"Have u no im a serious plo hi low player"
That bluff ain't ever getting through, sunshine.
@NChanning
Your THM CV also includes a solitary 5 card Stud event at The Vic.
https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=30773
Right pair of characters in 1st & 2nd there.
Henry used to fascinate me. Someone told me he was a Count or a Member of East European royalty or somesuch. Dou8bt it was true but he always made me laugh.
What's Paul Parker up to these days?