Stephen Bean Wins the Behemoth High Roller as Andrew Hulme Captures HR League Title
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The Grosvenor G Casino in Coventry is awash with poker players hoping to end 2025 on a high by taking down a Grosvenor Behemoth tournament. Stephen Bean is one of those players. Bean only returned to the live poker tables in September following a five-year hiatus. He's managed to rack up seven cashes, a trio of final table appearances, and two victories. The latest of those wins came in the £1,000 Behemoth High Roller.
Including re-entries, 97 players bought into the Behemoth High Roller, creating an £82,930 prize pool as a result. The top 12 finishers won a slice of that pot, with Fadil Isufi, Jack Moore, and Team Grosvenor grinder Calogero Morreale cashing but falling short of a seat at the nine-handed final table.
£1,000 Behemoth High Roller Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen Bean | £20,150 |
| 2 | Tom Hall | £15,350 |
| 3 | Phil Clarke | £11,070 |
| 4 | Ravi Sheth | £7,760 |
| 5 | Jamie Bott | £5,390 |
| 6 | Ben McCann | £4,480 |
| 7 | Shuhao Zhang | £4,060 |
| 8 | Keith Johnson | £3,650 |
| 9 | Andrew Hulme | £3,230 |
Andrew Hulme was the first player to fall at the final table. The man affectionately known as "Stato" got the last of his chips in with ace-queen, which lost a flip to the pocket tens in Ravi Sheth's hand. Hulme picked up £3,230 for this latest high roller cash, plus what would turn out to be some important leaderboard points. Hulme needed Tom Hall not to come out on top to clinch the NPL High Roller Leaderboard and the almost £15,000 top prize.
Keith Johnson, a close friend of Hulme, bowed out in eighth when his short-stack shove with ace-four lost to Bean's king-jack courtesy of a king on the turn.
Seventh place went to Shuhao Zhang, who pushed all-in for 14 big blinds with pocket eights, only for Sheth to wake up with pocket kings. Sheth made one of the easier calls of his impressive career and scooped the pot when the five community cards failed to rescue Zhang.
Hall added to his stack by sending Ben McCann to the rail in sixth. McCann was low on chips and got his short stack in with eight-five on a queen-eight-four flop. Hall's pocket aces remained true, and Hall had a realistic chance of spoiling Hulme's party at the death.
A three-way all-in resulted in Jamie Bott heading to the cashier's desk and Bean building towers of chips. Bott found himself all-in with ace-king against the pocket eights of Phil Clarke and the king-ten of Bean. The latter caught a ten to eliminate Bott in fifth.
Soon after Bott's demise, Sheth joined him on the sidelines. Sheth lost all but six big blinds in a coin flip with Hall, then committed his last six big blinds with jack-nine, which lost to the king-queen of Bean. Fourth place for Sheth. The leaderboard points Sheth earned for this finish locked him in fourth place on the NPL High Roller Leaderboard.
Hulme must have been sweating from the rail when he saw Clarke's six big blind stack head to Bean and the Behemoth High Roller progress to the heads-up stage because Hall was also present. Clarke's pocket fours lost to Bean's king-four, with the board counterfeiting Clarke's hand.
Bean went into the one-on-one battle against Hall holding a 47 big blind to 13 big blind advantage. The tournament could have been over midway through the heads-up clash because Hall was all-in preflop with ace-nine of hearts against Bean's king-jack of diamonds. However, the board ran queen-high, and Hall doubled up, all but levelling the players' stacks.
Bean soared into the lead when his ace-six flopped trips and was handsomely paid off by Hall, who turned a flush draw. That hand left Hall with only six big blinds, and the writing was on the wall.
One hand later, Hall moved all-in with nine-five, and Bean called with jack-eight of diamonds. Bean spiked an eight on the flop and a jack on the turn, but the turn gave Hall outs to a straight. The river was a five, busting Hall in second place, gifting Bean the tournament win, and crowning Hulme as the NPL High Roller Leaderboard champion.
NPL High Roller Leaderboard Final Top 10
Hulme captured the NPL High Roller Leaderboard title by the narrowest of margins, with only 4.42 points separating him from second-placed Hall. Thomas Clack, who is gunning for the £40,000 Grosvenor Poker sponsorship in the National Poker League, finished third, with Ravi Sheth and Harry Sandford also winning prize money for their fourth and fifth-place finishes.
| Rank | Player | Points | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrew Hulme | 94.84 | £14,580 |
| 2 | Tom Hall | 90.42 | £12,150 |
| 3 | Thomas Clack | 87.33 | £9,720 |
| 4 | Ravi Sheth | 84.20 | £7,290 |
| 5 | Harry Sandford | 78.15 | £4,860 |
| 6 | Jack Hardcastle | 72.97 | |
| 7 | Mitch Johnson | 59.19 | |
| 8 | Antoine Labat | 56.08 | |
| 9 | Kevin Allen | 48.44 | |
| 10 | Keith Littlewood | 45.67 |
