Brandon Sheils Kicks off 2026 With a great GUKPT High Roller Profit
Numerous situations features crowned the winners, like the ?2,five hundred Zero-Limitation Texas hold’em High Roller. Seventy-one or two players entered the fresh blend, and you can Brandon Sheils emerged successful, taking domestic ?forty-two,560.
Sheils, a high-volume and well-known grinder, entered 2026 laden up with rely on, having liked his better season with respect to award money. With respect to the Hendon Mob Database, the man out of Birmingham built-up $696,389 a year ago, a remarkable contribution, assisted from the his 5th-lay end up throughout the $5,000 Zero-Limitation Texas hold’em six-Passed experiences at the 2025 Business Series of Poker (WSOP).
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Only the last nine members acquired a portion of your own ?157,310 award pond. Veteran Keith Johnson try the original member so you’re able to cash just after their expert-jack destroyed toward shortly after-dominated ace-10 from James Mitchell , thanks to a beneficial 10 with the flop.
Spaniard Adria Dalmau bowed out in eighth put immediately following a fight of your curtains did not wade while the arranged Bonus ohne Einzahlung fat pirate . Conor O’Driscoll discover-pushed regarding quick blind to the lowly 10-five, and you will Dalmau called out-of their seven big blind bunch having adept-jack. Dalmau matched their expert, however, O’Driscoll increased in order to travel 10s to the river.
Next to fall are Scotland’s Bryan Taylor , new winner of one’s GUKPT Edinburgh Main Knowledge in the . Taylro are right down to half a dozen larger curtains when he pressed most of the-in with expert-7. Sheils titled which have queen-10 and you will proceeded so you’re able to surge a good ten with the lake so you’re able to leave the brand new Scotsman emptiness of potato chips.
Ireland’s O’Driscoll went to the exits into the sixth lay and you may was the very last pro to not ever located a beneficial four-profile pay check. O’Driscoll called for the new fortune of your own Irish whenever their eight large blind shove having ten-nine off diamonds try titled by the Mitchell carrying wallet tens. No particularly fortune showed up, and you will O’Driscoll was moved.
A player hoping to will always be under the shroud off anonymity damaged out in fifth before the risky Mitchell decrease bad off Sheils. Mitchell got his history fourteen larger curtains towards the center regarding the noticed whenever you are carrying adept-queen, simply for Sheils to turn up with brand new dominating expert-queen. Sheils increased so you’re able to vacation, and you may Mitchell on course on cashier’s dining table to gather ?15,260 to choose brand new ?47,700 the guy scooped earlier from the day to possess triumphing regarding the inaugural G500 experiences.
The fresh ?2,500 GUKPT London High Roller changed so you’re able to brains-right up adopting the death away from Morocco’s Mehdi Chaou we. New Moroccan continued his unbelievable vein regarding means, one that noticed your win over $1.nine million when you look at the 2025 by yourself. Chaoui came unstuck as he the time their history 6.5 big curtains having queen-10, and therefore would not get there against Ryan Fronda ‘s adept-7.
Heads-right up pitted Sheils contrary to the veteran Fronda, the latter with cashed in the 1st-ever before GUKPT year and now racking up a cash in the brand new 20th seasons. Unfortuitously for Fronda, he did not mark this new celebration which have a winnings, and had to help you console himself with an effective ?33,030 athlete-up prize, the next-biggest of their occupation, just after his queen-7 don’t beat Sheils’ ace-eight whether or not it mattered.
Sheils instantly inserted Time 1a of one’s ?one,250 get-in, ?250,000 guaranteed GUKPT London area Main Event. The brand new 83-good crowd try whittled to simply twenty six from the intimate off play, and you can Sheils receive himself on top of new processor chip matters. He bagged and tagged 135,400, trailing simply Joseph Challenging (187,000), Maximilian Sanders (162,500), and you may Longmao Partner (136,300).
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