Brandon Sheils Commences 2026 That have a GUKPT Highest Roller Win
Multiple situations has crowned their champions, including the ?2,five-hundred No-Maximum Hold’em Large Roller. Seventy-a couple of members entered the newest merge, and you will Brandon Sheils came up winning, getting domestic ?49,560.
Sheils, a premier-regularity and you can well-known grinder, inserted 2026 packed with believe, which have enjoyed their most useful season with respect to award currency. With regards to the Hendon Mob Database, the person out of Birmingham gathered $696,389 a year ago, an extraordinary sum, aided by their 5th-place become throughout the $5,000 No-Restriction Hold em six-Given knowledge in the 2025 World Series of Casino poker (WSOP).
?2,five-hundred GUKPT London High Roller Finally Dining table Show
Only the last nine users obtained a share of one’s ?157,310 prize pool. Veteran Keith Johnson is the initial member so you’re able to bucks shortly after his expert-jack missing for the once-reigned over adept-ten from James Mitchell , courtesy of a great 10 towards flop.
Spaniard Adria Dalmau bowed out in eighth place immediately following a combat of the koi App herunterladen curtains don’t wade given that arranged. Conor O’Driscoll open-pushed in the short blind into the lowly 10-five, and you will Dalmau called out of his 7 large blind heap which have adept-jack. Dalmau matched their ace, but O’Driscoll increased to help you trip tens for the river.
Close to slide is actually Scotland’s Bryan Taylor , brand new champ of your own GUKPT Edinburgh Fundamental Experience into the . Taylro was as a result of half a dozen huge curtains as he forced all of the-during the that have expert-seven. Sheils titled which have queen-ten and you can continued so you’re able to surge an effective ten toward lake so you can hop out the brand new Scotsman gap of chips.
Ireland’s O’Driscoll went towards exits inside sixth put and you will was the last pro not to discovered an excellent four-profile pay-day. O’Driscoll requisite the fresh new chance of Irish whenever their seven larger blind shove having 10-nine from expensive diamonds was named by the Mitchell holding pocket 10s. Zero eg luck arrived, and O’Driscoll is gone.
A player wishing to are still within the shroud off anonymity crashed out in fifth before risky Mitchell decrease nasty from Sheils. Mitchell got his past fourteen large blinds with the center from this new thought while holding ace-queen, just for Sheils to make up with new controling adept-queen. Sheils improved to travel, and you may Mitchell oriented into the cashier’s dining table to gather ?15,260 to go with the ?47,700 he scooped before about week to have triumphing from the inaugural G500 knowledge.
The fresh ?2,500 GUKPT London area Higher Roller progressed so you can thoughts-up following the demise of Morocco’s Mehdi Chaou we. The Moroccan continued his unbelievable vein regarding form, the one that spotted your win more $one.nine billion in 2025 alone. Chaoui came unstuck when he the time their history 6.5 large blinds with king-ten, hence didn’t make it facing Ryan Fronda is the reason ace-seven.
Heads-upwards pitted Sheils from the veteran Fronda, aforementioned that have cashed in the first-ever before GUKPT season nowadays racking up a money in this new twentieth season. Regrettably getting Fronda, the guy decided not to draw the occasion which have a win, and had so you’re able to unit himself having a ?33,030 athlete-right up honor, the next-biggest out of his community, once their king-7 didn’t defeat Sheils’ adept-7 in the event it mattered.
Sheils quickly registered Go out 1a of one’s ?1,250 purchase-for the, ?250,000 protected GUKPT London Fundamental Experience. The new 83-solid crowd is whittled to simply twenty six because of the close regarding gamble, and you may Sheils receive themselves near the top of brand new processor chip matters. He bagged and marked 135,400, about only Joseph Ambitious (187,000), Maximilian Sanders (162,500), and you will Longmao Fan (136,300).
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Matthew Pitt originates from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the uk, and has did in the casino poker business as 2008, and worked for PokerNews while the 2010. From inside the elizabeth the fresh editor away from PokerNews. Matthew wandered off alive revealing duties for the 2015, now focuses on his role out of Senior Publisher on the PokerNews.
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