£1,100 Main Event Day 1bc | 2022 UKIPT London

£1,100 Main Event

Day 1bc Completed

04-09-2022 01:16 UTC

Zeligman Tops Day 1b and Saout Leads the Pack After Day 1c in 2022 UKIPT London £1,100 Main Event

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

The return of the United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour after a hiatus since November 2016, commonly known as the UKIPT, has been a success story for live and online poker giant PokerStars. Taking place at the iconic Hippodrome Casino in the heart of London, the festival already produced strong numbers leading up to the marquee 2022 UKIPT London £1,100 Main Event and the final two starting days pushed the total attendance to 645 entries.

Only 128 players remain in contention for the £619,200 prize pool and the top 95 spots will get paid at least £1,684. The UK's Alexander Zeligman topped a field of 297 entries on Day 1b as the former theatre near Leicester Square was pushed to the limits of the capacity. After the completion of 13 levels of 50 minutes each, Zeligman led 57 survivors with a stack of 397,000.

Antoine Labat's late surge propelled the Frenchman to a stack of 347,000 while Tim Slater follows right behind with 343,000. Above-average stacks were also amassed by James Rann (310,000), Andy Wilson (258,000), Tom Hall (228,500), and Henrik Hecklen (199,500).

Three PokerStars ambassadors jumped into the action but just one of them made it through in Benjamin Spragg (104,500), while Steve Enriquez and Ramon Colillas were both eliminated. The PokerStars Senior Twitch & Ambassadors Associate Brandon Nguyen (91,000) and brand staff member Ido Alon (87,500) were more fortunate and navigated their way until the bagging and tagging process at the end of the night while Nick Walsh was among the early casualties.

Some of those that fell on the wayside were Terry Jordon, Gary Blackwood, Oliver Price, Andrew Christoforou, Belarmino De Souza, Stephen Woodhead, Kevin Williams, Mark Gardner, Ian Bradley, former professional football player Steve Watts, Jamie Burland and David Lopez Llacer.

Jordon, well-known for his ability to run up a big stack in very quick succession in competitions all over the UK, made the headlines for bowing out quickly on the first bullet and then soaring to a big stack on the second bullet. This included a remarkable triple knockout in which he called the all-ins of three shorter stacks with five-four suited and flopped a straight. However, Jordon was eliminated prior to the next break as his wild roller coaster ride came to a frantic end.

PokerStars Live at the Hippodrome Pro found no fortune on Day 1b either. He failed to get there with ace-king in a three-way all-in and the re-entry thereafter was not crowned by success either.

Another high profile casualty on Day 1b was two-time WSOP Main Event finalist Antoine Saout. His overbet shove with a straight draw only to get called by the flopped straight of Tim Slater. However, as fate would have it, Saout ran the hottest by some margin in the final turbo flight and bagged up 343,500 chips on Day 1c to pull ahead of Slater by a single chip.

Out of a field of 156 entries, only 40 players advanced and Lorenc Boci finished a distant second to Saout with 227,000, followed by Robert Boon (217,500), Joshua Boulton (212,500), and Paul Hizer (210,000).

Other notables to advance were Santiago Plante, Paresh Doshi, Arthur Conan, £2,200 High Roller champion Jack O'Neill, Ryan Mandara, Alex Goulder, Sylvain Loosli and David Docherty. Steve Enriquez used the final hallelujah and claimed 113,500 to his name for Day 2.

2022 UKIPT London £1,100 Main Event Starting Days

Starting Day	Entries	Survivors
Day 1a	191	31
Day 1b	297	57
Day 1c	156	40
Total	645*	128

*includes one no-show of an online qualifier

With all three starting days wrapped up, only 128 players still have chips at their disposal and they will return at noon local time on Saturday, April 9, 2022. As of the penultimate day, all levels last 60 minutes each and Day 2 will aim to play down to the final table with at least ten levels scheduled.

The returning blinds will be 1,500-3,000 with a big blind ante of 3,000 and the money bubble won't be far away when the cards go back in the air. As usual, the PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to provide all the action from the Hippodrome Casino in London.

04-09-2022 01:07 UTC

2022 UKIPT London £1,100 Main Event Day 2 Seat Draw

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Table	Seat	Name	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Dan Wilson	106,500	36
1	2	Lukas Dimsa	114,000	38
1	3	Hon Ban Lee	86,000	29
1	4	Florian Duta	185,500	62
1	5	Eugenio Peralta	138,500	46
1	6	Antoine Saout	343,500	115
1	7	Gabriel Ene	187,500	63
1	8	Antonis Poulengeris	91,500	31

2	1	Adam Miller	96,500	32
2	2	Georgios Sarafalntin	122,500	41
2	3	Benjamin Spragg	104,500	35
2	4	Stephen Lockett	60,500	20
2	5	Sylvain Loosli	38,500	13
2	6	Paul Hizer	210,000	70
2	7	Alex Whitenstall	301,000	100
2	8	Denas Pranaitis	166,500	56

3	1	Joe Hindry	94,000	31
3	2	Faisal Siddiqui	62,000	21
3	3	Usman Ulhaq	63,500	21
3	4	Kevin Allen	59,000	20
3	5	Henrik Hecklen	193,500	65
3	6	Joshua Boulton	212,500	71
3	7	Vishal Maini	96,500	32
3	8	Sandro Burkhard	171,000	57

4	1	Paul Simmons	124,000	41
4	2	Paul Trotter	222,500	74
4	3	Patrick Beuter	63,000	21
4	4	Yucel Eminoglu	104,000	35
4	5	Conor O'Driscoll	150,000	50
4	6	Raul Lozano	66,000	22
4	7	Giulio Mascolo	122,500	41
4	8	Jack O'Neill	78,500	26

5	1	Ryan Mandara	66,000	22
5	2	Rickie Vedhara	222,500	74
5	3	Ricardo Pinto	61,000	20
5	4	Jonathan Clark	112,000	37
5	5	Paresh Doshi	112,500	38
5	6	Neal Bethune	154,000	51
5	7	Danny Pyke	226,000	75
5	8	James Rann	310,000	103

6	1	Alexios Zervos	425,000	142
6	2	Eirimas Tomkevicius	75,000	25
6	3	Dongze Hao	109,500	37
6	4	Gary Solomons	80,000	27
6	5	Angelos Nastos Megas	67,000	22
6	6	Alistair Moss	116,500	39
6	7	Sebastian Gohr	90,000	30
6	8	Parker Talbot	198,000	66

7	1	Thales Filho	59,500	20
7	2	Karim Jomeen	130,000	43
7	3	Costin-Geani Manole	103,500	35
7	4	Kully Sidhu	90,500	30
7	5	Steven Game	240,000	80
7	6	Naaman Morris	117,000	39
7	7	Alberto Speranzoni	465,000	155
7	8	Steve Enriquez	113,500	38

8	1	Sebastien Jung	47,500	16
8	2	Michael Ramiro	120,500	40
8	3	Richard Essex	51,000	17
8	4	Arthur Conan	102,000	34
8	5	Ahamed Mohamed	326,500	109
8	6	Ben Slack	479,500	160
8	7	David Docherty	35,000	12
8	8	Matthew Donlan	117,500	39

9	1	Kenan Taylor	136,500	46
9	2	Boris Progner	222,500	74
9	3	Thomas Rauhut	177,500	59
9	4	Youness Barakat	272,500	91
9	5	Robert Boon	217,500	73
9	6	Dan Wagner	96,500	32
9	7	Mauricio Ferreira Pais	165,000	55
9	8	Nikolay Ponomarev	110,500	37

10	1	Santiago Plante	144,500	48
10	2	Ido Alon	87,500	29
10	3	Alexander Zeligman	397,000	132
10	4	Matthew Archer	67,000	22
10	5	Gary Miller	209,500	70
10	6	Andy Wilson	258,000	86
10	7	Joseph Lalor	212,000	71
10	8	Raymond Caabay	119,500	40

11	1	Damien Pilkington-Lewis	130,500	44
11	2	Max Bashlawi	97,500	33
11	3	Dean Clay	105,000	35
11	4	Eddie Saade	212,500	71
11	5	Carmine Belvedere	208,000	69
11	6	William Shepherd	155,000	52
11	7	Alberto Hernandez Gomez	60,000	20
11	8	Tom Hall	225,000	75

12	1	Roland Boothby	79,500	27
12	2	Liudas Didenka	305,000	102
12	3	Paul Dando	80,000	27
12	4	Alex Jennings	245,000	82
12	5	Kin Wong	108,000	36
12	6	Hongting Xu	60,500	20
12	7	Ori Hasson	318,000	106
12	8	Tim Slater	343,000	114

13	1	Benjamin Martin	94,500	32
13	2	Brandon Nguyen	91,000	30
13	3	Ravi Sharda	64,500	22
13	4	Tal Afek	107,500	36
13	5	Daniel Field	153,500	51
13	6	Masoud Etemadiherisi	64,000	21
13	7	Min Ji	260,000	87
13	8	Jen-Yue Chiang	418,500	140

14	1	Michal Stepa	127,500	43
14	2	Benjamin Lehrer	106,000	35
14	3	Victor Ilyukhin Sr	130,000	43
14	4	Sebastian Skurzynski	86,000	29
14	5	Julien Sitbon	164,500	55
14	6	Atanas Pavlov	153,000	51
14	7	Paul Grummitt	151,000	50
14	8	Alex Goulder	44,000	15

15	1	Antoine Labat	347,000	116
15	2	Jason Lee	45,000	15
15	3	Mike Panteli	60,500	20
15	4	Dritan Arapi	172,000	57
15	5	Sorin Pruteanu	114,000	38
15	6	Lei Wang	206,500	69
15	7	Frank Bastow	59,000	20
15	8	Sam Grafton	193,000	64

16	1	Nikolaos Kazakos	181,500	61
16	2	Philip Decosimo	67,500	23
16	3	Lorenc Boci	227,000	76
16	4	Efstathios Bantounos	69,000	23
16	5	Jiaze Li	128,000	43
16	6	A. A-S	105,000	35
16	7	Stephen Kehoe	69,000	23
16	8	Gaurav Kumar	152,000	51

04-09-2022 01:05 UTC

Day 1c Final Chip Counts

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Antoine Saout	343,500	343,500
Lorenc Boci	227,000	227,000
Robert Boon	217,500	217,500
Joshua Boulton	212,500	212,500
Paul Hizer	210,000	210,000
Carmine Belvedere	208,000	208,000
Lei Wang	206,500	206,500
Dritan Arapi	172,000	172,000
Atanas Pavlov	153,000	153,000
Paul Grummitt	151,000	151,000
Santiago Plante	144,500	144,500
Raymond Caabay	119,000	119,000
Matthew Donlan	117,500	117,500
Alistair Moss	116,500	116,500
Sorin Pruteanu	114,000	114,000
Steve Enriquez	113,500	113,500
Paresh Doshi	112,500	112,500
Jonathan Clark	112,000	112,000
Arthur Conan	108,000	108,000
Dooly	105,000
Costin-Geani Manole	103,500	103,500
Kin Wong	102,000	102,000
Max Bashlawi	97,500	97,500
Benjamin Martin	94,500	94,500
Antonis Poulengeris	91,500	91,500

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04-09-2022 00:55 UTC

Day 1b Final Chip Counts (full)

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexander Zeligman	397,000	62,000
Antoine Labat	347,000	157,000
Tim Slater	343,000	-47,000
Ahamed Mohamed	326,500	6,500
James Rann	310,000	100,000
Liudas Didenka	305,000	-15,000
Alex Whitenstall	301,000	301,000
Min Ji	260,000	170,000
Andy Wilson	258,000	-2,000
Steven Game	240,000	-25,000
Tom Hall	225,000	-10,000
Boris Progner	222,500	222,500
Paul Trotter	222,500	-47,500
Rickie Vedhara	222,500	222,500
Eddie Saade	212,500	-62,500
Henrik Hecklen	193,500	113,500
Gabriel Ene	187,500	2,500
Florian Duta	185,500	-44,500
Nikolaos Kazakos	181,500	56,500
Julien Sitbon	164,500	4,500
William Shepherd	155,000	155,000
Neal Bethune	154,000	154,000
Daniel Field	153,500	33,500
Gaurav Kumar	152,000	-28,000
Eugenio Peralta	138,500	54,500

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04-09-2022 00:45 UTC

Payout Information for the £1,100 Main Event

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

A total of 645 entries created a prize pool of £619,200 and the top 95 finishers will earn at least £1,684 for their efforts. The nine-handed final table will come with a payday of at least £11,028 and the winner receives the top prize of £119,270.

Position	Prize (in British Pounds)	Position	Prize (in British Pounds)
1	£119,270	12-13	£7,102
2	£74,539	14-15	£5,920
3	£53,245	16-17	£5,146
4	£40,960	18-20	£4,477
5	£31,511	21-23	£3,895
6	£24,242	24-27	£3,387
7	£18,644	28-31	£2,947
8	£14,341	32-39	£2,563
9	£11,028	40-55	£2,229
10-11	£8,520	56-71	£1,938
		72-95	£1,684

04-09-2022 00:07 UTC

Day 1b and 1c Completed

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Around 61 players advanced from Day 1b and the final five hands of Day 1c have also wrapped up as well with the players currently racing off the T-100 chips before bagging their chips.

04-09-2022 00:01 UTC

Bu Busto At the Very End

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Out of the small blind, Mingdo Bu shipped it in for the last 35,000 with the and he was looked up by Tom Hall with the .

Both players bumped fists and the board delivered the dreadful ace on the river to knock out Bu.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tom Hall	235,000	15,000
Mingdo Bu	Busted

Tags: Mingdo Bu Tom Hall

04-08-2022 23:57 UTC

More for Mohamed; None for Moore

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

From an early position, Mike Moore shipped it in for 85,000 and Julien Sitbon tank-folded in the cutoff. Ahamed Mohamed, however, called out of the big blind with the covering stack.

Mike Moore:
Ahamed Mohamed:

The flop and turn gave Moore heaps of outs but he whiffed them all on the river.

As the final three hands were announced, Oliver Price headed out of the tournament room. Apparently he paid the price for Andy Wilson's beer and then sent his last 40,000 over with ace-deuce against the ace-king suited of Wilson.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ahamed Mohamed	320,000	120,000
Andy Wilson	260,000	207,000
Mike Moore	Busted
Oliver Price	Busted

Tags: Ahamed Mohamed Andy Wilson Julien Sitbon Mike Moore Oliver Price

04-08-2022 23:50 UTC

Ducks No Good for Armstrong

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Ian Armstrong ended up all-in for the last 41,500 and Karim Jomeen asked for a count before moving all-in over the top. That got rid of all other players at the table and Armstrong was in dire shape.

Ian Armstrong:
Karim Jomeen: