Sometimes in poker, the best thing you can do is screw up your copy of the script, unread. Robert Baguley, a 60-year-old retired landlord from Leicestershire, has just beaten a field of 1,625 of the continent's best players to win the Nottingham stop of the PokerStars United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT). It was an upset worth £210,400, and has proved once again that tournament poker is anyone's - and everyone's - game. Few commentators would have picked Baguley for the title when he came up against the dominant...more
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UKIPT Nottingham: Robert Baguley upsets odds to claim title and £210,400
Day 4
UKIPT Nottingham: Day 4, level 32 updates (100,000-200,000)
7.20pm: Robert Baguley wins UKIPT Nottingham for £210,400 Iqbal Ahmed out in second, winning £125,000 It's over. Robert Baguley is the champion of UKIPT Nottingham, defeating Iqbal Ahmed heads up. Baguley opened to 450,000 and Ahmed shoved all in. Baguley called. Baguley: A♥T♦ Ahmed: J♥7♠ The board helped only Baguley....more
UKIPT Nottingham: Day 4, level 29 - 31 updates (60,000-120,000 10,000 ante)
5.25pm: Level over So ends a level of almost complete inaction. Robert Baguley is the de facto table captain, not only with the most chips but also in the kind of position where he can call small raises pre-flop then take it away on the flop if and when opponents...more
UKIPT Nottingham: Final table player profiles
Here are the eight final table players at UKIPT Nottingham, season three. There were 1,625 players, creating a prize pool of £1,137,500. The winner will take £210,400. Full details of all prizewinners are on the prizewinners page. Final table play begins at 2pm GMT. Follow the blow-by-blow action on PokerStars...more
Day 3
UKIPT Nottingham: Ahmed again as final table assembles in Nottingham
The tempo of major poker tournaments fluctuates as the days go by. The early stages of day one is slow, before things speed up towards the end. Day two is a bloodbath from start to finish, and day threes are sometimes harder to predict. Eliminations come in fits and starts:...more
UKIPT Nottingham: Day 3, level 23-28 updates (30,000-60,000 5,000 ante)
12.20am: Devron Hasslenook eliminated in 9th place (£17,050) Devron Hasslenook had been the player most at risk of elimination for a while and had moved all-in numerous times, eventually someone looked him up. That someone was Grant Pirie. Some would call it a brave call, some would call it stupid,...more
UKIPT Nottingham: Day 3, level 19-22 updates (10,000-20,000 2,000 ante)
4.35pm: Break time That's the end of level 22, players are now on a 20 minute break. You'll find level 23 updates in a new post. --NW 4.30pm: Exits There's no easy way to say this, but if you have an each way bet on any of David Hudson, Jason...more
Day 2
UKIPT Nottingham: Easy game for Iqbal Ahmed, leader into day three
Poker is an easy game. You need only listen to defeated players as they wander from the table, having seen all their stack slid in an opponent's direction. "Easy game," they will say through pursed lips. That kind of utterance is, of course, laced with bitter irony. But when you...more
UKIPT Nottingham: Day 2, level 16-18 updates (3,000-6,000 500 ante)
8.20pm: Done for the day Play is done for the day, roughly 76 players remain and the chip leader, as has been the case for most of the day is, Iqbal Ahmed who has 1,580,000. You can click right here, to see the counts of the chip leaders, full comprehensive...more
UKIPT Nottingham: Day 2, level 12 - 15 updates (1,500-3,000 300 ante)
4.50pm: New post We're now over in a new post, for all the action from level five onwards. -- HS 4.45pm: Pearce still at the sharp end Here's a quick update for one of our Twitter followers: this is for you @GossipHub. Your man Richard Pearce is now up to...more
Day 1C
UKIPT Nottingham: Poker's longest day draws to a close with Chris Brammer out front
When Cornelius Ryan put pen to paper on the book that would become the John Wayne vehicle The Longest Day, one can feel safe to say he had never attended UKIPT Nottingham season three. If he had, one suspects his novel and then movie portraying the D-Day landings could at...more
UKIPT Nottingham: Day 1C: Level 8-11 updates (600-1,200 100 ante)
1.50am: Done Play is over for the day and it appears Chris Brammer is the overnight chip leader from this third and final Day one flight. A full wrap of the day's play is on the way. Join all the remaining runners and riders from 12 noon tomorrow when play...more
UKIPT Nottingham: Day 1C: Level 5-7 updates (200-400 50 ante)
8.45pm: Break time Players are taking a 20-minute break. We will be back in a shiny new post. -- HS 8.40pm: Big stack + good omens. You do the math(s) Tournament trivia time. During the evening sessions of both days 1A and 1B, table 76 was the place to be...more
Day 1B
UKIPT Nottingham: Ken Isaksen takes honours at end of day 1B
No two hands of poker play out exactly the same. And it follows that no two tournament days are identical. However days 1A and 1B of UKIPT Nottingham, the latter of which has just finished at Dusk Till Dawn, certainly felt very similar indeed. There was the crush at the...more
UKIPT Nottingham: Day 1B, Level 8 - 11 updates (600-1,200 100 ante)
1.45am: That's a wrap Play has now ended, chips have been bagged and the players go their separate ways into the night. A wrap of the day's play will be with you shortly, but we believe that Ken Isaksen is the overnight chip leader with 227,600. Full chip counts of...more
UKIPT Nottingham: Day 1B: Level 5-7 updates (200-400 50 ante)
8.40pm: Break time The players are now on a 20 minute break, you'll find level eight updates in a new post here. -- NW 8.35pm: Burland battles on Level seven has just ended and during the break UKIPT Brighton winner Jamie Burland wandered over to media corner. He's is on...more
Day 1A
UKIPT Nottingham: Marcin Milde leads after first leg of whopper
It has been a whopping day on the UKIPT, so here's a double-quick wrap of the earliest stages. Just the facts folks. Just the facts. It was Day 1A at UKIPT Nottingham, which is always the most popular stop on the entire tour. This year, a £1m guaranteed prize pool...more
UKIPT Nottingham: Day 1A, Levels 8-11 updates (600-1,200 100 ante)
1.35am: Done for the day Players have bagged their chips and are now milling towards the exit, the bar or the cash tables. We're still beavering away and will bring you a wrap of the day's play shortly. Chip counts of the 102 or so players who made it through...more
UKIPT Nottingham: Day 1A, Levels 5-7 updates (200-400 ante 50)
8.43pm: Break time Players are on a 20 minute break, whilst there's lull in play why not check out the chip count page, Tom Kugelstadt and Tim Chung lead the way with 105,000 each. You'll find level 8-11 updates here. -- NW 8.40pm: Obadun almost done, Sahnan saved There was...more


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