Its all over

Its all over

Grosvenor regular Ganesh Rao battled his way through a top class field of 189 runners in leg 5 of the GUPKT tour at Grosvenor Newcastle to take down 1st place and a prize of £57175.00.

Ganesh also wins seat in the £3,000 Grand Final plus a seat in December’s Champion of Champion’s event. Ganesh can regularly be seen in the local freeze out tournaments in the Grosvenor and more often on the cash tables.

Ganesh from Sheffield is a doctor who now lives in Newcastle and has became an adopted Geordie and a gentleman with it may I say. As we were covering the event with live updates for the Newcastle Poker forum I know he fully appreciated our support there with him and also his small group of friends who railed him the whole time giving their vocal support.

The 2 hour heads up battle with Manchesters Ian Farrel was ended in the early hours when Ians 52 all in attempted steal was met by Ganeshs JJ to keep the Blue Square Trophy on home turf.

Other local players to give special mention to were Johnny "The Greek" Stamatelopolous and Lynne Beaumont who finished in the cash and highlighted in the full result given below.

The result in full

Place Player Prize GUKPT
1st Ganesh Rao £57,175
2nd Ian Farrell £33,075
3rd James Akenhead £23,625
4th Mark Dalimore £16,075
5th David Allan £12,275
6th Fraser McIntyre £9,450
7th Mike Hill £7,550
8th Alan Vinnicombe £5,675
9th Cheryl Routledge £4,725
10th Joey Lovelady £2,825
11th Dara O'Kearny £2,350
12th Adam Clarke £2,350
13th Rob Sherwood £2,350
14th Mike Williams £1,900
15th Robert Price £1,900
16th Peter Linton £1,900
17th Lynne Beaumont £1,900
18th John Stamatelopolous £1,900

Moving on now and Wednesday will see the namimg of the new Teamdobbs for the forth coming Team event at Grosvneor on the 14th June. 3 new members being invited in so watch this space for their names!!
Existing members taking their seats again are:

Teamdobb
Gyposdog
Karen33000 aka Teamdobbs on Betfair
Beastie
Dave Snooker Harris
Matto
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