Grosvenor’s Jamie Nixon takes down the GUKPT London Main Event

Jamie Nixon won the £1,250 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour GUKPT London Main Event for the largest live poker tournament score of his career. The tournament, which was part of the 2022 GUKPT Grand Final festival, drew 347 entries and paid out an impressive £93,970 to the winner, Grosvenor Poker-sponsored Nixon.

Nixon’s victory and the prize money that comes with it pushes his live poker tournament earnings past the $500,000 mark.

2022 GUKPT London Main Event Final Table Results

Kevin Allen, Lee French, Timothy Chung, Yiannis Liperis, James Rann, and Chris Johnson all cashed in the tournament, but only Johnson broke the bubble to play at the final table of nine.

After a brutal ninth-place finish, Yucel Eminoglu, aka the “Mad Turk,” was mercilessly busted. Eminoglu’s final seven big blinds were committed with an ace-queen of hearts, but he was up against Justin Tsui’s ace-queen of diamonds. The odds of a chop were high until the river brought Tsui a flush with three diamonds and sent the enraged Mad Turk to the rail.

As the old adage goes, “you have to win your flips if you want to win your poker tournaments,” and Nixon did just that in a hand he played against Nikolai Mamut. When Mamut’s stack shrank to just ten big blinds, he opened with ace-king and Nixon called with pocket sevens. Not even a queen-high board could save Mamut from finishing in eighth place.

Seventh place and the last four-figure score went to Ryan Mandara. From under the gun, Mandara min-raised to 50,000, and Kully Sidhu called in the big blind. Mandara bet 70,000 on the deuce-nine-five flop, and Sidhu called. The turn was a ten, and Mandara shoved for 270,000. Sidhu snap-called and revealed a slow-played pair of aces in the hole, which crushed Mandara’s pocket jacks. No jack on the river meant Mandara was gone.

Tsui was next to fall after a move against Phil Clarke did not have its desired effect. Clarke opened from the hijack and Tsui called in the big blind. A jack-nine-four flop with two hearts saw Tsui check-shove for 400,000 with only nine-seven offsuit, only for Clarke to snap him of with the queen-jack of hearts. Tsui failed to connect with the turn or river, and was gone in sixth.

The final five became four when Antoine Labat lost to a suckout/re-suckout against Clarke. Labat was all-in for ten big blinds with ace-eight against the dominating ace-queen of Clarke. An eight on the flop looked to cause an upset, but Clarke spiked a flush on the river to send Labat to the showers.

Mitch Hynam was the shortest stack at the start of four-handed play, so it was unsurprising to see him bust in fourth. Hynam’s last nine big blinds went into the middle holding king-nine, and were handed over to Sidhu when his pocket nines held.

After Nixon knocked out Clarke, the game was officially on. Nixon called Clarke’s min-raise to 120,000. Nixon check-raised Clarke’s 110,000 continuation bet to 305,000 after a flop of five aces and eight deuces. Clarke called. On the king turn, Nixon had a lead of 400k, and Clarke continued to play. Nixon went all-in with 860,000 after a four showed up on the river, and Clarke called. Clarke showed an ace-trey but was beaten by Nixon’s ace-eight.

Heads-up play began with Sidhu leading Nixon 3,700,000 to 3,300,000 in chips, but he quickly found himself down to only two huge blinds. When Sidhu bet 150,000, Nixon picked up the phone. Nixon checked, Sidhu bet 175,000, and Nixon check-raised to 450,000 with the flip of 657. Sidhu entered the tank and waited still until the shot clock expired before declaring all-in. Forcing him to call, Nixon showed eights and fours for a flopped straight, winning the pot. Sidhu held eights and sevens, giving him the top pair and an open straight draw that kept the hand alive. A pair of tens on the turn and river, however, effectively finished off Sidhu.

On the very next hand, Sidhu went all-in with five deuces against Nixon’s ace king, needing a hit. After five community cards landed on the queen high, Sidhu was eliminated from the 2022 GUKPT London Main Event, leaving Nixon as the sole survivor.

A. Jung Wins the GUKPT London Championship
Jung, Sebastian
This weekend’s GUKPT Grand Finals also saw Sebastian Jung Nixon crowned winner of the £550 GUKPT London Cup. After defeating 311 competitors, Jung won £38,080. Among those he bested were Charles Akadiri, Jack Hardcastle, Jack Oliver, Brandon Sheils, and runner-up Lorenc Boci.

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