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12.52am: Joeri Zandvliet is the UKIPT Champion (£63,200) It only took one hand of level twenty to find our champion and that man is Dutchman Joeri Zandvliet. All the chips went in pre-flop with Ellwood holding A♦Q♠ to Zandvliet's 9♥9♣. The flop saw the Brit take the lead when it...more

12.30am: BREAK TIME The two final protagonists have gone to break. 12.28am: Heads up for rolls Zandvliet goes into the heads up with a 5.6m lead over Ellwood's 2.3m stack. It's quite a comeback from the Dutchman and he's showing no sign of slowing down now. After a couple of...more

11.25pm: Hill dominating at the end of the level Mike Hill is using his big stack to terrible effect and has battered the table on the last four hands: 1) Lyall (on his first hand back) raises to 100,000 and passes to Hill's all-in. 2) Mike shoves all-in from the...more

There were 122 players that came back today at 2pm, removed their chips and stacked them nicely in front of them. All through this process a two-stage plan will have been on a lot of the player's minds. The first stage was all about number 72. Why? That's the magic...more

1:20am: Day 2 is Ooooover From the depths appeared a man (who wasn't American despite a colleague's erstwhile protests) who took his stack from a middling 300,000 to well over a million in the last couple of levels... but more about him in the wrap. Chip counts to come shortly......more

12.10am: Two table time At the very end of the level we lost Aaron Barry to take us to 18 players and two tables. He was eliminated in unfortunate circumstances to Jack Ellwood who now tips the chip scale at just over a million chips. Barry opened with a raise...more

The total field for the inaugural UKIPT Manchester reached a massive 518 players surpassing everyone's expectations. The £100k guaranteed prizepool advertised to entice players came and went and the total prize pool now stands at a staggering ₤259,000 (full breakdown on this will be available tomorrow). 289 players took their...more

3am: And the day is done Day 1b has been another long hard session for players and spectators alike with 62 players making it through to join the 60 from Day 1a. We'll be back with the cash chase from 2pm tomorrow. A full wrap of today's play will be...more

1.50pm: Final approach into Day 2 The penultimate level of the day has just been brought to an end as the last 82 players go on one last 15 minute break. Sadan Turker hasn't been afraid to get his chips in but picked the wrong player to mess with when...more

The UKIPT is a tour that has aimed to hit that middle ground so often missed; players that want more than a £50 freezeout but don't necessarily want to stump up the €5,000 buy-in for an EPT event, and by the looks of today it's hit the target slap bang...more

3.45am: Play concludes The last five hands were played out and then all the players bagged up their chips and left for a good sleep I presume. Full chip counts will appear here overnight and a full wrap will be with you shortly. 3.40am: Bedi boom The biggest pot at...more

2.15am: End of level In the dying minutes of level 10 Reyaaz Mulla hit a dream J♠9♠6♦ flop with pocket jacks and decided to fast play it by smashing his 19,300 stack into pre-flop aggressor James Creighton who tank called with pocket Queens. Mulla's monster hand held up and he...more