Afternoon.
Another solid night, total guarantees were
£24,500 & prize pools came to
£35,330. On the same night last year, prize pools were
£32,340, so a
9% y-o-y increase.
For those chasing UKOPS Leaderboard points, please remember that;
All 64 events are included except the UKOPS 59 Super High Roller.
Double points are awarded for the UKOPS 60 Main Event on Sunday 5th November.Here's the Top Ten & ties in the Leaderboard BEFORE last night;
1 @GSmith13 52
2 @destinycod 46
3 @roddy28 41
4 @T_Bundy 39
5 @MikeyW94 38
6 @jordz16 37
7 @rspca12 36
7 @whitters95 36
9 @Granite89 33
9 @Jscorgie 33
9 @tonyp142 33Away we go then.
Comments
£22 entry UKOPS 52 £1,500 PLO (£2,180)
81 entries 28 rebuys
The PLO fell to @Natnug, & remarkably, he won the same event last year too, and on Wednesday he was 5th in the PLO8. I always assumed his expertise was limited to NLH, but it looks like he can lay claim to being decent at the 4 card game too. Later in the evening he was 7th in event 56 & 3rd in Event 57. That means he earned 18 UKOPS Leaderboard points last night. A decent night tonight & he'll be right in the mix.
In 2nd was @PaintedOne who does very well in the nightly 19.18 PLO8.
@roddy28 was 3rd, @destinycod 5th & @bigfatfish 6th, & interestingly, those three were sitting 3rd, 2nd & 12th respectively in the UKOPS leaderboard before play for Day 9 started. That was it for the evening though, they bricked everything else except @destinycod who picked up 3 points in Event 56.
@Natnug 436000 1 £621.30
@PaintedOne 0 2 £359.70@roddy28 0 3 £218
@Jessieak 0 4 £174.40
@destinycod 0 5 £150.42
@bigfatfish 0 6 £128.62
£22 entry UKOPS 53 £10,000 Rebuy B/Hunter (£13,260)
275 entries 272 rebuys 116 addons
@MStott has not played an MTT here since May 2022, but he showed up last night & won the Main. The long absence is a surprise, but not the result, it's at least his third UKOPS win, having won a UKOPS Main and Mini in the 2020 Easter UKOPS. Well done Mark, good to see you back.
Runner-up was @Panda8 who has been a bit of a surprise package, making 3 FT's in the Series - 1st in #30, 2nd in #53 & 5th in #34.
@Granite89 has been hitting the crossbar in the 8pm UKOPS Mains, he's finished 2nd, 5th & 7th so far.
On Friday, @tonyp142 won the Main, & he was not far off last night too, eventually placing 6th. That's at least 6 FT's he has made this series.
@MStott 1558000 1 £1730.43 + £422.77 Head Prizes 7
@Panda8 0 2 £1021.02 + £347.68 Head Prizes 11@elvisg1972 0 3 £613.27 + £134.24 Head Prizes 5
@Williskl1 0 4 £485.32 + £374.07 Head Prizes 11
@Granite89 0 5 £411.06 + £179.51 Head Prizes 5
@tonyp142 0 6 £341.44 + £109.69 Head Prizes 6
£11 entry UKOPS 54 £4,000 Mini Bounty Hunter (£5,430)
375 entries 168 entries
All the r's on the podium, @Really, @Ramoerrr & @rudders602.
@Really took the top spot, a low volume single tabler playing for the first time since last Sunday, with just 345 MTT's here in 12 years. Quite a surprise Really.
The really useful @Ramoerr broke his duck for the series in 2nd & @rudders602 did the same, steering his way to 3rd
5th was @Stayorgo who is another who is hitting crossbars for fun, has scored UKOPS points in 7 events - 4th, 4th, 5th, 6th, 6th, 8th & 10th.
Sky's favourite crustacean @Shrimpy28 has not played much this Series, & was missing 3 days this week, but he was 6th here having won event #5 on Day 1.
@Really 1629000 1 £685.54 + £149.78 Head Prizes 9
@Ramoerrr 0 2 £399.11 + £142.09 Head Prizes 15@rudders602 0 3 £241.63 + £53.24 Head Prizes 7
@33rpm 0 4 £193.31 + £15.94 Head Prizes 4
@StayOrGo 0 5 £162.90 + £36.76 Head Prizes 6
@Shrimpy28 0 6 £132.76 + £50.91 Head Prizes 7
£33 entry UKOPS 55 £3,000 Bounty Hunter (£5,010)
121 entries 46 rebuys
Congrats to @IamAll_En who joins the elite club who have won two events in his series, he won event #12 on Day 2, & was back in the winner's circle last night after taking down #55. In fact it's his third UKOPS win in all, as he won a Rebuy in the 2021 Easter UKOPS. Won a Major this spring too.
Recent Midex winner @oc69 was 2nd.
3rd to 4th were Big Boys in the form of @cabbaz @Jscorgie @MikeyW94 & @StayOrGo.
@IamAll_En 501000 1 £700.15 + £385.64 Head Prizes 11
@oc69 0 2 £427.10 + £73.12 Head Prizes 5@cabbaz 0 3 £263.02 + £83.51 Head Prizes 3
@Jscorgie 0 4 £211.67 + £73.83 Head Prizes 5
@MikeyW94 0 5 £180.36 + £39.42 Head Prizes 3
@StayOrGo 0 6 £155.31 + £77.69 Head Prizes 6
£55 entry UKOPS 56 £3,000 Turbo Bounty Hunter (£5,050)
83 entries 18 rebuys
A huge result for @lonch, far & away a PB as far as I can tell, though he's mainly a cash player I believe.
From just 11 events played, @LmfaoAllin has been runner-up twice, both in the £3,000 Turbo & on consecutive nights, Friday & Saturday.
What a FT this was too, with @grinddd @Froozle @Doooobs & @destinycod 3rd to 6th respectively. With the obvious exception of @LmfaoAllin maybe one of the toughest FT's of the night.
@lonch 505000 1 £719.62 + £448.63 Head Prizes 9
@LmfaoAllin 0 2 £462.07 + £135.73 Head Prizes 4@grinddd 0 3 £287.85 + £87.88 Head Prizes 3
@Froozle 0 4 £233.56 + £182.22 Head Prizes 7
@Doooobs 0 5 £190.64 + £37.50 Head Prizes 2
@destinycod 0 6 £159.07 + £118.65 Head Prizes 4
£22 entry UKOPS 57 £3,000 Hyper Rebuy B/Hunter (£4,400)
95 entries 76 rebuys 49 addons
Playing their first event of this Series @return spring quite a surprise here fending off a very tough FT indeed.
Runner-up was another member of the "2 wins" Club, @Vertigo. 1st place in #23 & #37, 2nd here, that's a solid series on what I think is his debut UKOPS series. I tried to count how many satellites he's played since this UKOPs series began, but gave up trying to count when I got to 500. Incidentally, in the non-UKOPS 20.45 Mega, in the last 7 night's he's run 1st, 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th.
4 card specialist - as he now likes to be called - @Natnug was 3rd.
In 6th was @loololollo who has not had the best of Series. We can't choose when Variance is going to get a curly lip with us, & it can be brutal at times. Let's not forget he was our best performer in Vegas this year.
@return 538000 1 £627 + £358.76 Head Prizes 7
@Vertigo 0 2 £387.20 + £101.72 Head Prizes 3@Natnug 0 3 £239.80 + £252.87 Head Prizes 10
@Tastysnack 0 4 £193.60 + £131.84 Head Prizes 6
@Badboy17 0 5 £161.70 + £38.43 Head Prizes 2
@loololollo 0 6 £136.40 + £62.63 Head Prizes 3
Here's the top 50 of the updated leaderboard. Gonna be a close run thing I fancy.
1 @destinycod 53
2 @GSmith13 52
3 @roddy28 48
4 @MikeyW94 43
5 @Natnug 41
5 @T_Bundy 41
7 @jordz16 39
8 @Granite89 38
8 @Jscorgie 38
8 @Vertigo 38
11 @cabbaz 37
11 @rspca12 37
11 @StayOrGo 37
11 @Tastysnack 37
11 @tonyp142 37
16 @whitters95 36
17 @bigfatfish 35
18 @Drewett 33
19 @grinddd 32
20 @ChipDiddy0 29
20 @chrisdonkb 29
20 @Froozle 29
20 @Hoff92 29
20 @Limp2Lose 29
20 @Panda8 29
26 @duonross 26
26 @Gutshotter 26
26 @Tedson 26
29 @lIlldtgbht 25
30 @benc 24
30 @FeelGroggy 24
30 @IamAll_En 24
33 @BIGBOB62 23
33 @BillyPckle 23
33 @Hod4k997 23
33 @Itsover4u 23
33 @luckme002 23
33 @mcg899 23
39 @PAPABURG 21
39 @Wigglefish 21
41 @aj880 20
41 @Badboy17 20
41 @Dozza 20
44 @Curt360x27 19
44 @funkybunch 19
46 @Fabraclass 18
46 @peiratis88 18
46 @Woebegone 18
49 @67912092 17
49 @2Geronimo 17
49 @daleboss 17
49 @NChanning 17
That's it for today.
One last push tonight & that's it, we're done.
(275+272+116)=663 * £20 = £13,260
As @Toffeeandy noted, (thanks Andy) it was £22 (£20 + £2) not £110 (£100 + £10).
I've edited my typo now.