Morning.
We start with a quick stroll down Memory Lane...
This day last year
"Day 2 of Xmas UKOPS went off without a hitch, though it was a touch disappointing to see the Main & both register guarantee misses.
Rather surprisingly @Froozle blanked everything on Day 1 but last night went much better, he took the opening Deep Stack for £858 & then ran 4th in the Main for another £1,230. Over £2k in a night makes up for the occasional bad night I'd say. @RCord was 3rd with @2Geronimo opening his Xmas UKOPS account in 5th. A good effort in 7th too by @NOSTRI staking his claim to be one of the moist improved players on the site in 2022.
In the Main it was @lolufold who took the honours. He's genuine old-school, which in the eyes of many is code for out of touch, but don't worry about Redmond, he knows exactly how many beans make 5. Very tough Final Table, with the likes of @Kahuna96 @Froozle @cabbaz & Monday's Main winner @podraic. In 7th, celebrating Burnley FC's fine win 24 hours earlier was @bromley04 with @fishhhhh who generally does well in UKOPS in 8th. 10th was Mr Pointy Elbows @HAYSIE himself.
The Mini went to @Natnug, which is a bit annoying as I've said pretty much all there is to say about this table beast. Actually, one thing I can say is that he's been knocked off top spot in the Sharky 2022 MTT Profit Leaderboard, with Crushy @loololollo heading him by just $500. Photo finish looming. Runner-up was @Ramoerrr who won the Day 1 High Roller of course.
UKOPS 11 went to @THE_MORGAN who only returned from a 4 month MTT hiatus on Boxing Day. Sky Poker won't be getting rich from him any time soon, as he's played less than 100 MTT's in his 14 years here.
The Xmas Day MidEx winner @luckme002 took UKOPS 12 with @StayOrGo 2nd & Crushy @loololollo 3rd. Unfortunately for all 3, Sharkscope seems to have missed this result completely.
The closer, UKOPS13, went to @Dougal3 who only joined Sky Poker earlier this year, & was playing his first MTT here for 6 weeks. In 4th was @NChanning who will have been exceptionally busy on Christmas Day with NFL games & on Boxing Day with so many horse race meetings. Poor fella never gets a moment's rest."
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And now let's take a look at what happened last night.
Deep Stacks are a rarity these days, which I think is sad, but they are increasingly out of fashion these days online, though still popular in Live poker. Anyway, Day 2 started with UKOPS 08, a Deep Stack which comfortably covered it's modest guarantee.
The winner was @Starboard who is reasonably new to Sky Poker, been here just 3 months & played less than 100 MTT's. Prior to last night had made two FT's, both in November, a Marksman Main & a £6,000 BH, but last night's £913 for 1st was far & away their biggest success on Sky Poker so far. Runner-up was the very gifted @Tinderella who, if we take Sharky numbers at face value, has an ABI of £73 & an average profit of £76. A glance at his stats suggests he does indeed have those ridiculous returns of a ROI in excess of 100%, as despite only 179 MTT's to his name, wins include 2 Sunday Majors (one during Boomlet was worth over £6,000 for 1st), an Avenger Main & a BWBH. Tremendous results from such a small sample size of games played.
Next up was the night's Main, which unfortunately missed guarantee by £1,100, though that's an improvement on the £2,800 miss in the same event last year. Our winner was @Hoff92 and that's his 2nd UKOPS win in 2 months as he won a Mini during the recent Autumn UKOPS. His greatest claim to fame though is surely winning Avenger Main & Avenger Mini on the same night back in 2019, so he collected the full £5,000 Final Table Jackpot. Friday's Main & Mini are arguably the hardest of the week, so that was some performance, & I doubt we'll ever see it again. He FT bubbled the UKOPS 08 Deep Stack last night too. The all-conquering @Natnug was runner-up & might consider himself a shade unlucky not to win it, as Heads Up v @Hoff92 @Natnug had K-K & turned top set, but it was not enough to beat the mighty 7-6 of @Hoff92 which rivered a straight. 3rd was @Granite89, followed by @IamAll_En & @THETANK. 6th was @duonross who is a bit of a Mini specialist, having won it twice inside a week earlier this year. Amongst the cashees were @91kid15 & @Shelley7 both of whom notched up wins on Day 1.
The UKOPS10 Mini came in at a handsome 22% above guarantee, & there was a right tussle for the win, victory eventually going to Danny @Itsover4u who overcame 2022 SPT Vegas winner @roddy28. Playing for just the third time since August, @BiddlyBurr put up a cracking effort in 3rd. Has been here 10 years & best effort was 3rd in the old Sky Sports BH which used to be televised on the TV Channel every Thursday as I recall.
Having been touched off for the win in the Mini, @roddy28 made no mistake in the subsequent UKOPS11 BH, beating the oh-so-youthful looking @Super_Oli into 2nd. @MAXALLY will surely have been pleased to finish a fine 3rd, with @Upswing, who won both 9 @ 9 & Reload on the same night a week ago in 4th, & Mr Channing @NChanning in 5th. In 6th was @tupps1 who was last spotted running 3rd in the Mini Major on Christmas Eve.
@Itsover4u was so close to a double on the night, having already won the Mini but he was touched off by serial-winner @seikus in UKOPS 12. In 3rd was @91kid15 who won the High Roller on Day 1. In 4th was @bar4004 who won the £1k BH on Tuesday.
The closer was UKOPS 13 Hyper BH in which @BigD45 registered his first featured MTT victory, with @Gambelo 2nd. Back in August these two clashed on a Turbo FT with @Gambelo snatching the win & @BigD45 in 4th, so that would have been a very satisfying result last night for BigD.
So that's Xmas UKOPS Day 2 done & dusted, but we still have two more days remaining.
I'll be back same time, same place tomorrow, all being well.
£22 entry UKOPS 08 £3,000 Deep Stack (£3,320)
145 entries 21 rebuys
@Starboard 830000 1 £913
@Tinderella 0 2 £531.20@Remy12 0 3 £302.12
@K33TSYA1 0 4 £235.72
@Builders 0 5 £202.52
@JoshG943 0 6 £169.32
@Hoff92 0 7 £129.48
@DUTCHESS62 0 8 £83
@Froozle 0 9 £59.76
@SoLack 0 10 £46.48
@PeterPoker 0 11 £46.48
@PokaBayb9 0 12 £46.48
@lundie 0 13 £46.48
@reeler 0 14 £46.48
@Plumbob 0 15 £46.48
@MikeyW94 0 16 £43.16
@ILIKE2FISH 0 17 £43.16
@Asho28 0 18 £43.16
@Ferret17 0 19 £43.16
@cabbaz 0 20 £43.16
@andrico 0 21 £39.84
@MARK277 0 22 £39.84
@GSmith13 0 23 £39.84
@TrebleAAA 0 24 £39.84
@Rashnikov 0 25 £39.84
£110 entry UKOPS 09 £12,000 Gtd (£12,000)
88 entries 21 rebuys, £1,100 overlay
@Hoff92 1090000 1 £3420
@Natnug 0 2 £1980@Granite89 0 3 £1200
@IamAll_En 0 4 £960
@THETANK 0 5 £828
@duonross 0 6 £708
@SwannLoL 0 7 £588
@newdaddy 0 8 £408
@Shelley7 0 9 £324
@Builders 0 10 £264
@chrisdonkb 0 11 £264
@HAYSIE 0 12 £264
@tonyp142 0 13 £264
@91kid15 0 14 £264
@AlexaAJ 0 15 £264
£11 entry UKOPS 10 £3,000 Mini (£3,670)
248 entries 119 rebuys
@Itsover4u 1101000 1 £972.55
@roddy28 0 2 £568.85@BiddlyBurr 0 3 £324.80
@wilrich 0 4 £249.56
@xceptor22 0 5 £212.86
@MaloD 0 6 £176.16
@Skypro 0 7 £132.12
@benc 0 8 £88.08
@chapperman 0 9 £62.39
@lukeylund9 0 10 £47.71
@x34 0 11 £47.71
@Kahuna96 0 12 £47.71
@shad8604 0 13 £47.71
@FAS 0 14 £47.71
@kalooki8 0 15 £47.71
@redeyedryu 0 16 £36.70
@scottie73 0 17 £36.70
@BigDane 0 18 £36.70
@davtherav 0 19 £36.70
@scousestar 0 20 £36.70
@Serin 0 21 £29.36
@Nero543 0 22 £29.36
@Natnug 0 23 £29.36
@THETANK 0 24 £29.36
@rancid 0 25 £29.36
@SHMOOBOO 0 26 £27.52
@briefcase 0 27 £27.52
@doddo 0 28 £27.52
@bluecall07 0 29 £27.52
@samboram45 0 30 £27.52
@conga38 0 31 £25.69
@Sharki0 0 32 £25.69
@Azzzzzzzza 0 33 £25.69
@BluePints 0 34 £25.69
@Summers119 0 35 £25.69
£22 entry UKOPS 11 £3,000 Bounty Hunter (£3,520)
139 entries, 37 rebuys
@roddy28 528000 1 £484 + £230.82 Head Prizes 10
@Super_Oli 0 2 £292.16 + £58.86 Head Prizes 5@MAXALLY 0 3 £179.52 + £22.97 Head Prizes 2
@Upswing 0 4 £142.56 + £105.27 Head Prizes 9
@NChanning 0 5 £121.44 + £32.93 Head Prizes 3
@tupps1 0 6 £102.08 + £26.26 Head Prizes 3
£55 entry UKOPS 12 £3,000 Turbo Bounty Hunter (£3,950)
65 entries 14 rebuys
@seikus 395000 1 £592.50 + £403.19 Head Prizes 8
@Itsover4u 0 2 £395 + £188.96 Head Prizes 6@91kid15 0 3 £237 + £131.26 Head Prizes 6
@bar4004 0 4 £197.50 + £18.75 Head Prizes 1
@Sharki0 0 5 £158 + £124.21 Head Prizes 4
@Christos88 0 6 £128.38 + £48.05 Head Prizes 2
£22 entry UKOPS 13 £2,000 Hyper Bounty Hunter (£2,100)
87 entries 18 rebuys
@BigD45 315000 1 £299.25 + £228.35 Head Prizes 12
@Gambelo 0 2 £192.15 + £95.38 Head Prizes 7@Kahuna96 0 3 £119.70 + £30.01 Head Prizes 3
@TOPSNATCH 0 4 £97.12 + £22.50 Head Prizes 2
@Bee94De 0 5 £79.28 + £26.72 Head Prizes 3
@THETANK 0 6 £66.15 + £68.91 Head Prizes 6
UKOPS Rewards Freeroll (640 entries)
Top 20
@mikepiper 1280000 1 £50 + UKOPS 21 £15,000 High Roller
@Lil_bexy08 0 2 £30 + UKOPS 21 £15,000 High Roller
@Porscheng 0 3 £30 + UKOPS £30,000 B/hunter MAIN EVENT
@Pizzaman44 0 4 £20 + UKOPS £30,000 B/hunter MAIN EVENT
@Lawsonn6 0 5 £20 + UKOPS £30,000 B/hunter MAIN EVENT
@tsmith17 0 6 £15 + UKOPS £30,000 B/hunter MAIN EVENT
@north5900 0 7 £15 + UKOPS £30,000 B/hunter MAIN EVENT
@sccmt208 0 8 £15 + UKOPS £30,000 B/hunter MAIN EVENT
@1-DAY 0 9 £15
@Woo4490 0 10 £10
@Rocket919 0 11 £10
@WADDY1964 0 12 £10
@bunYourMum 0 13 £10
@Smokie248 0 14 £10
@luke_inc 0 15 £10
@WUBBZY1401 0 16 £10
@bar4004 0 17 £10
@Jipyboy 0 18 £10
@Tan27 0 19 £10
@hugomuck 0 20 £5
UKOPS Main Event Freeroll (182 entries)
@pp2 161490 1 UKOPS £30,000 B/hunter MAIN EVENT
@bad_dad 143710 2 UKOPS £30,000 B/hunter MAIN EVENT
@kornrule12 58800 3 UKOPS £30,000 B/hunter MAIN EVENT