19th – 22nd July

The final table of Newcastle's GUKPT event started at 4pm, an hour earlier than usual. However, this was no guarantee that it would finish any earlier than usual and when they were still playing at 2.00am it was already the longest final table we have had on the tour so far. By 3.45am it was even longer still. However, eventually at just after 4am it finally came to a long overdue conclusion when Mazhar Nawab got it in with Q-J versus Darren Fuller's J-3. The board brought a jack but no further help for either player so with a better kicker; Mazhar Nawab became the sixth man to taste victory on the GUKPT. He showed modesty in victory by paying a big compliment to his opponent in the post match interview. Both players looked shattered after what turned out to be an eleven-hour final table; a record length that we are all hoping won't be beaten in the near future.

The chip leader going into the final was Tony Horn from York, with the Sheffield pair of Richard Trigg and Mazhar Nawab not far behind. These three were relatively clear of the rest of the pack, with 60% of the chips in play. The full chip counts going into the final were:

Adam Wilkinson, an Irish publican from Bolton was the third man out, after which it was a good two to three hours before we lost another player. The sixth place finisher was Tony Horn, who had his stack decimated in a big pot against Richard Trigg. Tony made a move with T-3 and found himself up against pocket tens. The tens were good and Tony was down to the felt. However, he managed to recover before eventually losing out in another pot against the popular Sheffield man.

The last remaining online qualifier Jonathon Butters took the fifth place spot while Christine Ward, the first woman to make a GUKPT final finished in a very creditable fourth place. She had been one of the relatively short stacks going into the final but managed to win a couple of crucial pots to put herself back in contention. But it was not to be for the Middlesborough shopkeeper and she finally succumbed to Maz Nawab's A-7 against her K-Q. She netted almost £20,000 in prize money, which is some consolation.

Richard Trigg was taken out in third after playing a brave and spirited game and had looked like the player most likely to dominate the final. However, his K-Q was not good enough to beat Maz's pocket kings, but he did take away almost £25,000 in prize money. Not bad for someone who only just managed to buy into the tournament at the very last minute. Going into the heads up encounter Maz held a significant chip lead and almost everyone expected it to be over relatively quickly, but that did not happen. Play continued for several more levels, during which the chip lead changed hands once or twice before the killer blow was finally dealt. Maz finished second in a big event in the Bellagio in Las Vegas earlier this month and has now proven again that he has the stamina and ability to go the distance in these slow structured large field events. Having also finaled in the Brighton leg he now moves into second place behind Dave Smith in the GUKPT rankings.

The result in full:

Jonathan 'AlrightJack' Raab

	Report Archive

Event & Location	Date	Top Prize	Winner	Report
GUKPT Leg 5 Brighton	17th – 20th May	£105,100	Dave Smith	Click Here
GUKPT Leg 4 Manchester	19th – 22nd April	£115,100	Dave Colclough	Click Here
GUKPT Leg 3 Cardiff	22nd – 25th March	£107,680	Michael Greco	Click Here
GUKPT Leg 2 Walsall	15th – 18th February	£121,600	Jerome Bradpiece	Click Here
GUKPT Leg 1 Bolton	12th - 14th January 2007	£65,000	Praz Bansi	Click Here
Luton Christmas Cracker	4 - 10 December 2006	£19,900	Ryan Fronda	Click Here
The Midlands Masters	20 - 26 November 2006	£51,000	Robert Garfield	Click Here
Northern Lights	17 - 19 November 2006	£48,900	Sunny Chatta	Click Here
Welsh Poker Festival	11 - 12 November 2006	£14,900	Ouday Hickary	Click Here
Southern Masters	29 - 30 October 2006	£13,600	Hoss Parhizkar	Click Here
Grosvenor Grand Prix	14 - 15 October 2006	£100,000	Zahir Aslam	Click Here
Welsh Masters	7 - 10 September 2006	£8,000	John Marles	Click Here
The Bolton Poker Extravaganza	31 August - 3 September 2006	£28,300	Mick Fletcher	Click Here
The Brighton Summer Shaker	22 August 2006	£10,800	Jeff Rogers	Click Here
Newcastle Knockout	20 - 23 July 2006	£12,320	Steve Jelenek	Click Here
Cardiff idic	14 - 16 July 2006	£12,450	Richard Cowley	Click Here
Poker 6, Grovsenor Bolton	1 - 2 July 2006	£29,000	Steve Read	Click Here
Ladies Day, Walsall	17 June 2006	£1,000+	Dawn Wood	Click Here
World Masters, Victoria	17 - 25 June 2006	£90,000	Osman Mustangolu	Click Here
Midlands Meltdown, Walsall	5 - 11 June 2006	£11,600	Sid Harris	Click Here
South of England Championship, Southampton	28 - 30 May 2006	£11,600	Sid Harris	Click Here
Blackpool Bonanza, Blackpool	3 - 4 May 2006	£26,500	John Exley	Click Here
Luton Springfest	18 - 26 March 2006	£45,000	J P Kelly	Click Here
European Poker idics	18 - 26 March 2006	£117,000	John Kabbaj	Click Here
Midlands Medley, Walsall	20 - 26 February 2006	£69,000	Tim Flanders	Click Here
Brighton Festival of Poker	15 - 19 February 2005	£9,600	Michael Clark	Click Here
Luton Christmas Cracker	10 - 11 December 2005	£27,100	Mickey Wernick	Click Here
Midlands Masters, Walsall	26 - 27 November 2005	£66,000	Darren Grosvenor	Click Here
Grosvenor Grand Prix, Walsall	15 - 16 October 2005	£100,000	Pino Valentino	Click Here