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UKIPT Galway €2.2k High Roller Reaches Final Table
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2013-08-08 09:48
The Full Tilt Poker-sponsored UKIPT Galway Poker Festival’s €2.2k
NL Holdem High Roller has played down to its final table today. The event is an 8-handed one, featuring a single re-buy option.
There were 35 players who coughed up the buy-in at the beginning of the first day, and a re-buy took the number of eventual buy-ins in the prize-pool to 36. The player who finished the day with the largest stack was Chris Day from the UK. Day got off to a great start and he secured the chip lead early on. He never relinquished it. With 12 survivors remaining, Day took down a massive pot from Anaras Alekberovas, in a hand which resulted in the Lithuanian’s elimination. The chunk of chips he took from Alekberovas took his stack past the 250k mark, which meant that he had around a third of the chips in play piled up in front of him. He didn’t add a whole to his stack from that point on, but he still managed to finish with 250.2k, clinching the top spot in a rather convincing manner indeed.
Kyle Maguire of the UK finished second behind him, with 197.8k chips to his name. None of the other players managed to amass significant-size stacks. Towards the end of the day, the field had played down to 9, so they were playing at the same table, but given that only the top 6 positions were paid, they agreed to continue playing down to 6.
The eventual bubble-boy of the event was
PokerStars pro Jake Cody who was sent packing by Kyle Maguire on a classic coin-flip. Cody had pocket Ks against Maguire’s A,10o and the first card to hit the board was an A.
Dermot Blain was the only Full Tilt player who made the final table.
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