Kiat Lee Wins GUKPT Walsall for £34,850
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) was in Walsall this past weekend where a £550 Main Event with a £100,000 guaranteed prize pool took place. A total of 241 entries saw the guarantee surpassed by £20,500, and those entrants were outlasted by Kiat Lee, the latest in a long line of GUKPT champions.
Final Table Result
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kiat Lee | £34,850 |
| 2 | Adam Bonham | £22,900 |
| 3 | Chris Moore | £14,300 |
| 4 | Matt Swain | £9,400 |
| 5 | Makka Hussain | £6,500 |
| 6 | Chun Man | £4,700 |
| 7 | Mark Wood | £3,900 |
| 8 | Miikka Toikka | £3,250 |
| 9 | Josh Yeadon | £2,750 |
Nineteen players returned for the final day’s play, each of them in the money as 20 places were paid. UK circuit regulars Yiannis Liperis, Ellie Biessek, Tommy Bingham, and Richard Kellett fell at various points on Sunday afternoon, and when both Martin Hogarty and Josh Yeadon were eliminated in the same hand on the final-table bubble, only eight players remained after the first three hours play.
Eighty minutes into the eight-handed final table, Adam Bonham raised and was called by three opponents, one of them being GUKPT Goliath winner Miikka Toikka. Bonham continued on a K♦4♠6♥ flop, and only Toikka called. The turn was the 9♦, Bonham bet 150,000 and called when Toikka moved all in for 420,000. Toikka’s K♥K♣ had improved to top set, but it was cracked when the 7♦ river completed Bonham’s flush as he held the A♦6♦.
A short while later, Mark Wood moved all in for less than five big blinds with the K♣Q♦ and Matt Swain looked him up with the A♦4♦. Both players caught a piece of the A♣Q♠8♦6♥7♦, but Swain’s was the better piece, which meant Wood’s tournament was over.
Chun Man was the next player to fall after an all-in preflop confrontation with Swain didn’t go to play. At the 10,000/20,000/2,000 level, Man raised to 45,000 with the A♦Q♣, Swain made it 111,000 to go, Man moved all in for 350,000 in total, and Swain instantly called, as would you if you held the A♠A♥. A final board reading 4♥10♦K♥6♣6♦ sent Man to the sidelines.
Next to bust was Makka Hussain who pushed all-in for approximate 15 big blinds from the small blind with the 10♣7♣, but instead of winning the blinds and antes he found a caller in the shape of Kiat Lee and his A♣9♦. The Q♦J♦8♥ flop gave Hussain a lifeline, but the 5♣ turn and 6♠ river was of no help to him, which left only four players in contention for the title.
Those four became three with the elimination of Swain. Blinds were now 12,000/24,000/3,000, Swain raised to 54,000 on the button, Lee three-bet to 115,000, Swain jammed all-in for 650,000, and Lee called. It was A♥7♥ for Swain versus the dominating A♦Q♣ of Lee, and when the five community cards fell 4♣4♦5♦A♠Q♦ it was game over for Swain.
Heads-up play was set when Bonham set Chris Moore all-in from the small blind for his 12 big blinds, and Moore called for his tournament life with A♣2♠. It was a hand in front of Bonham’s K♣8♥, but that all changed on the flop of the 4♥8♠5♠9♠10♦ board.
Lee was crowned the GUKPT Walsall champion when he opened with A♠5♥ and called when Bonham three-bet all-in with Q♠8♥. Neither player improved on the 10♦4♣J♣J♠K♥ board, meaning Bonham finished as the runner-up, and Lee walked away as the champion.
Lead image courtesy of the GUKPT Blog.
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