Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
The players are on their 60-minute dinner break. Check back in an hour for continuing coverage of the UKIPT Isle of Man Main Event Day 1a.
2015 UKIPT Isle of Man
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2015 UKIPT Isle of Man
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
£400
Prize Pool
£135,412
Entries
349
Level
29
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 349
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Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Level 8
: 400/800, 100 ante
On a board of 
, Christopher McNicholls checked from the big blind. Kelly Saxby, who abttled with McNicholls before today, made a bet of 8,500.
McNicholls tanked for quite a bit. Eventually he called, only to get shown 
for a flopped straight. He mucked, and the pot went to Saxby.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
80,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
Level 8
: 400/800, 100 ante
67 players are currently playing the tournament, with an average stack of 41,400. 100 players entered and a total of 11 re entries were made, for 111 entries total.
Level 8
: 400/800, 100 ante
The following 11 players have used their option to re enter within the first four levels of play. Amongst them Luke "IWEARGOGGLES" Staudenmaier, a former high stakes MTT player with over $5 million in online cashes. He now works for PokerStars though, and he played this £400 Main Event twice already.
- David Longmate
- Christoph Koehnen
- Deborah Worley-Roberts
- Hanz De Vries
- David Lappin
- Carl Harris
- Chris Straghalis
- Sunil Moti
- Antonis Poulengeris
- Paren Arzoomanian
- Luke Staudenmaier
Level 8
: 400/800, 100 ante
The Isle of Man leg of the UKIPT is special for many reasons, one of which being the fact PokerStars and Full Tilt employees are allowed to play in the Main Event. Two such employees just clashed at Table 5, namely Baard Dahl and Ankit Ahuja.
Dahl opened to 1,800 from the cutoff and Ahuja defended his big blind with a call, before check-calling a 2,200 bet on the 
flop. Ahuja checked again when the dealer put the 
onto the board and then quickly ducked out of the way when Dahl bet 4,100.
Dahl works in the PokerStars Poker Room Management team but when he's not working he's an avid poker and chess player and won the combined chess and poker tournament here at the UKIPT Isle of Man festival in 2014.
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Level 8
: 400/800, 100 ante
Ted Spivak was first to act from his seat in the hijack and he made it 1,700 to play, a bet that only David Lappin called from the big blind. Lappin went on to check-call a 1,600 bet on the 
flop then check the 
turn. Spivak checked behind on the turn but when Lappin checked the 
turn, Spivak bet 3,100 and won the pot.
According to Dara O'Kearney's Twitter feed, Lappin has since eliminated Miss Finland, Sara Chafak, and is now claiming that in doing so has himself become the new Miss Finland!
Having knocked Miss Finland out of UKIPT IOM, my sidekick @DKLAPPIN is claiming that means he is now Miss FinlandFollow @daraokearney
Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Jacob Hicklin opened for 1,600 and received calls from Ted Spivack in the hijack, the player in the cutoff, and David Lappin in the big blind.
The flop came 
and Lappin checked to Hicklin. Hicklin double checked his cards, and then bet 2,100. Ted Spivack raised it up to 4,600 and action quickly folded back to Hicklin. He moved in for 13,400 total and Spivack called.
Ted Spivack: 
Jacob Hicklin: 
"I'll take a nine" Hicklin said, but he got something better: 
.
"Three ball" Spivack said with a hopeful voice.
The river wasn't obliging him and he had to pay Hicklin his money.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
54,000
54,000
|
54,000 |
|
34,100
34,100
|
34,100 |
Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Adrian Filiczkowski is the top dog and the man to beat at the moment, with a stack of well over 200,000. He doesn't have his stack in twenties so it's kind of hard to estimate, but we'll go with a count of around 230,000.
One of our colleagues told us about a hand he played against Marc Hunter. With the pot already containing around 35,000 in chips and the board displaying 
, Filiczkowski moved in to put the pressure on Hunter. Hunter, with about 40,000 left at this point, called with 
after some tanking. Filiczkowski showed and received the monster pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
230,000
230,000
|
230,000 |
|
|
Busted |
