Dale Wins High Rollsaatkiger and Other GUKPT Blackpool Results

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Table Of Contents

• GUKPT Blackpool High Roller Results
• Final Table Action
• GUKPT Blackpool Results
• Remaining Schedule

What’s the best feeling in poker? Flopping a set? Hitting a gutshot on the turn? Or maybe rivering a straight flush to beat your opponent’s quads?

All three are definitely up there, but Jamie Dale might have a different perspective after delivering a masterclass in the GUKPT Blackpool £1,500 High Roller, where he secured his seat at the table for a fraction of the buy-in.

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On Wednesday, Dale entered a £180 satellite to Grosvenor Poker's biggest buy-in event of the festival and was among the five players to earn a ticket to the target tournament. What followed next was the stuff as dreams as Dale went on to top the 70-entry field and turned his small investment into a £33,260 payday.

The Englishman seized the lion's share of the £100,800 prize pool after defeating Simon Zach in heads-up play. The victory marked Dale's second-biggest cash and sits behind the $60,000 he won in this summer's WSOP Main Event, where he finished in 214th place.

GUKPT Blackpool High Roller Results

Place	Player	Prize
1	Jamie Dale	£33,260
2	Simon Zach	£21,680
3	Yuzhou Yin	£14,610
4	Trevor Reardon	£10,080
5	Andrew Hulme	£7,260
6	Rhys Keen	£5,640
7	Mitch Johnson	£4,540
8	Neville Betty	£3,730

Final Table Action

With ten players remaining, Iwan Jones was the short stack on the feature table. He committed his last nine big blinds with deuces. Mitch Johnson woke up with ace-jack in the big blind and turned a pair to bring about the final table and stone money bubble.

It would take just 25 minutes for the bubble to burst. EPT Barcelona Main Event runner-up Andrew Hulme took out Scotland's Robbie Bull. Hulme woke up with ace-jack and opened the action. Bull put in his short stack with ace-eight and was quickly called for the cards to go on their backs. Bull failed to improve, and his exit guaranteed each remaining player the £3,730 min-cash.

Neville Betty ran queens into the kings held by Trevor Reardon to fall to the bottom of the chip leaderboard. Betty jammed into another monster shortly after, seeing his ace-nine vanquished by Zach's aces.

Hulme bagged his second final table elimination, ousting Johnson with a superior ace. A few orbits later, Rhys Keen doubled through Dale to move himself out of the danger zone, but the eventual champion would get his chips back, flopping a set of nines to send Keen and his Big Slick to the wrong side of the rail in seventh-place.

At this stage, Hulme was in control and the runaway chip leader. He looked to end Dale's satellite story with jacks, but Dale's pocket fives rivered a straight for an unlikely double up in a blind-on-blind collision. This put Dale in the lead with 60 big blinds, with Hulme, his nearest rival, with 41.

Hulme's stack continued to plummet, and his tournament was over after he jammed pocket fours into Zach's flopped trip fives. Reardon departed in fourth place and banked the first five-figure prize after Zach collected his stack.

Zach was on a roll, and the momentum was fully on his side. He booked his heads-up showdown with Dale after winning a flip with pocket nines to down Yuzhou Yin in third place.

Stacks were even between Dale and Zach going into heads-up play, and a lengthy duel was in store with the final two 58 big blinds deep. Zach widened the gap, taking a 3:1 chip lead, but Dale fought back and picked off a river bluff with a pair of threes after Zach missed his flush draw and two overs.

It looked like Dale had the win locked up when his ace-queen had Zach's ace-ten on the ropes, but the board double-paired on the runout to keep cards in the air. However, it didn't take long for the next all-in and call. Dale woke up with ace-king and was again the huge favorite after Zach committed the last of his chips with ace-eight. This time, the runout was clean for Dale, and he was awarded the £33,260 up top, along with the title and trophy.

GUKPT Blackpool Results

Dale is among six champions already crowned at GUKPT Blackpool.

After a three-way deal, Craig Humphreys took down the £175 NLH Opener for £6,960. Karen Tomczak was also in the winner's circle after she came out on top in the Kav Cup, a charity event on the GUKPT.

Like Dale, Abdul Ahmed saw a hefty ROI after his £220 buy-in for the Mini Main Event yielded a first-place payout of £24,530. Lin Chen and Thomas Davenport were the other festival winners after they triumphed in the £175 PLO and £180 NLH Turbo, respectively.

Event	Entries	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Deal
£175 NLH Opener	234	£39,310	Craig Humphreys	£6,960	Three-way deal
NLH Kav Cup	250	£18,520	Karen Tomczak	£3,630	Heads-up deal
£220 NLH Mini Main Event	553	£116,800	Abdul Ahmed	£24,530	-
£175 PLO	112	£18,820	Lin Chen	£3,178	Four-way deal
£1,500 High Roller	70	£100,800	Jamie Dale	£33,260	-
£180 NLH Turbo	119	£20,560	Thomas Davenport	£3,235	Five-way deal

Remaining Schedule

Friday sees the final two starting flights for the £1,100 Main Event, with Day 1B starting at midday ahead of Day 1C shuffling up and dealing at 9 p.m. this evening.

Thursday hosted Day 1A, where 85 entries took their shot at glory. Just 21 players bagged chips, with Andrew Bradshaw ending the night as the chip leader with 190,000.

Grosvenor Pro's Jamie Nixon (92,000) and Matthew Davenport (76,100) made it over the first hurdle. Davenport will be joined by his wife, Sinead Davenport (77,100), on Day 2.

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S. Davenport has been on a heater throughout 2024 and has been one of the standout players in the Grosvenor's National Poker League. She's cashed in 36 NPL events, making 19 final tables, highlighted by two wins.

No woman has ever finished in the top 10 for the NPL and S. Davenport currently sits in eighth place.

Date	Start Time	Event Name	Entry Fee
Friday 8 Nov	12:00 PM	Main Event 1B	£1,100+£150
Friday 8 Nov	2:00 PM	Main Event Cash Out Satellite Turbo 10k to 100k	£125+£15
Friday 8 Nov	9:00 PM	Main Event 1C - Turbo	£1,100+£150
Saturday 9 Nov	12:00 PM	Main Event Day 2	£1,100+£150
Saturday 9 Nov	2:30 PM	GUKPT Cup	£500+£50
Sunday 10 Nov	12:00 PM	Main Event Day 3	£1,100+£150
Sunday 10 Nov	12:30 PM	GUKPT Cup Day 2	£500+£50
Sunday 10 Nov	1:00 PM	Seniors	£130+£20
Sunday 10 Nov	3:00 PM	PLO 4/5/6 Bounty with BB Ante	£150+£150+£30
Sunday 10 Nov	6:00 PM	Closer	£180+£20
Monday 11 Nov	7:00 PM	£25,000 GTD Online Closer	£100+£10
Tuesday 12 Nov	7:00 PM	£25,000 GTD Online Closer Day 2	£100+£10