Marc Wright Wins Season-Ending GUKPT Grand Final

Marc Wright secured the largest live tournament cash of his career this weekend when he topped a field of 276 players in the 2016 GUKPT Grand Final, turning his £2,125 into £132,380.

Wright, known as “dean23price” in online poker circles, where he has won just shy of $4 million, now has $444,253 in live tournament winnings. His previous largest live cash came in 2012 when he finished seventh in the EPT Berlin Main Event, a result that netted him €97,000.

2016 GUKPT Grand Final Final Table Results

*reflects a heads-up deal

The 2016 GUKPT Grand Final paid 26 places with a min-cash worth £4,420. Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody finished in 23rd place for £4,420 with such luminaries as Shola Akindele, Kevin Allen, Ben Jones, Matt Strom-Perrins and Babis Lappas finishing inside the money places, the latter bursting the final table bubble and ensuring the remaining nine players would leave London with a five-figure cash haul.

Spain’s Lucas Blanco was the first player to bust at the final table, pushing his 18 big blind stack into the middle with a suited ace-king and running into Wright’s red kings. The five community cards were void of an ace and the final table lost its first player.

Wright then sent another short stack, Nikola Minkov, to the rail in eighth place. Minkov committed his stack with ace-queen, Wright called with pocket jacks and went on to improve to an unnecessary full house by the river.

Shortly after Minkov bust, Kiat Le followed …

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