Brandon Sheils Kicks off 2026 Having an excellent GUKPT Highest Roller Earn
Multiple occurrences features crowned their winners, including the ?2,500 Zero-Restrict Hold em Large Roller. Seventy-a few professionals entered the fresh new mix, and you can Brandon Sheils emerged winning, taking domestic ?forty two,560.
Sheils, a top-volume and you may popular grinder, inserted 2026 full of confidence, which have appreciated their most useful year with regards to honor currency. With respect to the Hendon Mob Database, the person of Birmingham collected $696,389 a year ago, a superb sum, helped from the his 5th-set wind up in the $5,000 No-Limit Texas hold'em 6-Handed enjoy on 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP).
?2,500 GUKPT London Large Roller Last Dining table Performance
Just the latest nine members magic reels Deutschland Anmeldung gotten a portion of one's ?157,310 honor pond. Seasoned pro Keith Johnson is actually the initial pro to bucks just after his expert-jack forgotten into immediately after-controlled expert-ten away from James Mitchell , courtesy of a ten toward flop.
Spaniard Adria Dalmau bowed call at 8th put just after a battle of your own blinds did not wade given that structured. Conor O'Driscoll discover-shoved on short blind to the lowly ten-four, and you may Dalmau titled out-of their seven huge blind stack having adept-jack. Dalmau matched his expert, however, O'Driscoll improved so you're able to trip tens to the river.
Next to slide try Scotland's Bryan Taylor , the newest champ of your own GUKPT Edinburgh Head Event when you look at the . Taylro is as a result of six larger blinds when he forced the-into the which have ace-7. Sheils called which have king-10 and went on to increase an effective ten with the lake so you can exit the fresh new Scotsman void regarding potato chips.
Ireland's O'Driscoll oriented into exits from inside the 6th set and you may are the final pro to not ever discover a five-figure pay day. O'Driscoll expected new chance of Irish whenever his eight big blind push that have 10-9 of expensive diamonds are named by Mitchell holding wallet tens. No such as for instance luck turned up, and you can O'Driscoll are moved.
A person aspiring to are still underneath the shroud out-of anonymity damaged call at 5th till the unsafe Mitchell fell bad of Sheils. Mitchell had his history 14 large curtains into center out-of this new considered while you are carrying adept-king, simply for Sheils to turn with brand new controling adept-king. Sheils increased so you're able to trips, and you can Mitchell on course to your cashier's desk to collect ?15,260 to choose the ?47,700 the guy scooped prior to regarding the few days to possess triumphing regarding inaugural G500 enjoy.
This new ?2,five-hundred GUKPT London area Higher Roller changed to help you heads-right up adopting the passing of Morocco's Mehdi Chaou i. The brand new Moroccan went on his impressive vein regarding mode, one that noticed your victory over $one.9 billion for the 2025 by yourself. Chaoui showed up unstuck when he enough time their past 6.5 big curtains that have king-ten, which failed to get there up against Ryan Fronda 's the reason expert-seven.
Heads-upwards pitted Sheils up against the seasoned Fronda, aforementioned with cashed in the first-ever GUKPT year nowadays racking up a profit brand new 20th seasons. Unfortuitously getting Fronda, he wouldn't draw new occasion with a win, and had in order to unit themselves having a beneficial ?33,030 athlete-up honor, the next-largest out of their occupation, just after their queen-eight didn't defeat Sheils' ace-7 if it mattered.
Sheils instantaneously inserted Go out 1a of the ?one,250 get-into the, ?250,000 protected GUKPT London Head Enjoy. The new 83-solid audience try whittled to only twenty six because of the close out-of enjoy, and you can Sheils located himself near the top of the new chip matters. He bagged and tagged 135,eight hundred, about simply Joseph Ambitious (187,000), Maximilian Sanders (162,500), and you can Longmao Fan (136,300).
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