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Chris Cousins admitted to getting lucky with fortunate river cards following his victory in the GukPT Brighton Main Event for £19,800 after a three-way chop.

Chris Cousins admitted to getting lucky with fortunate river cards following his victory in the GukPT Brighton Main Event for £19,800 after a three-way chop.

The Brighton leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour attracted a good field of 180 players for the £100,000 Main Event and, after two opening flights and a long Day 2 on Saturday, fourteen players returned to the G Casino in Brighton to play down to a winner.

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The nine-handed final table was set after just two hours play when Sven Tiesmeyer moved all-in with A♠ J♣ and Hui Jin made the call with 8♦ 8♠. An Eight on the all club flop (K♣ 10♣ 8♣) gave Jin a set, but the 9♣ on the Turn completed Tiesmeyer´s flush. Incredibly the 10♠ on the River made Jin a Full House, and Tiesmeyer was out of the GukPT Brighton Main Event in the most unfortunate of circumstances.

Lucky Chris Starts the Final Table KOs

With blinds of 6,000/12,000 (ante 1,500) when the final table got underway, five of the players had less than 25 big blinds, and consequently the action was lively right from the start. Last lady standing Ellis Blessek (A♥ K♣) was the first player to leave the final table when Chris Cousins (10♥ 9♥) completed a straight on the River, but Martin Bader survived a 5♣ 5♠ -v- 7♣ 7♠ hand against Ben Windsor to chip up out of trouble.

Chris Cousins again eliminated a player with a river card after Lee Taylor had moved all-in with A♥ 4♥ on the flop of A♣ 4♣ 8♣. Cousins made the call with K♣ J♠ and spiked the 7♣ on the River to eliminate Taylor in eighth place. Francois Goulet’s departure in seventh place was far more conventional – moving all-in with K♣ Q♦ and failing to improve past Ben Windor´s A♣ K♠ on an Eight-high board.

Three More Flushed Out from GukPT Brighton

Joe Greenfield must have angered the poker gods prior to his departure in fifth place. Greenfield had already doubled-up Hui Jin A♠ Q♦ > K♦ 10♦ when he called Martin Bader´s shove with A♠ 9♣ on the flop of 3♦ 4♦ 9♣. Bader´s top pair top kicker turned into two pairs when the A♦ landed on the Turn but was second to Greenfield´s (K♦ Q♦) nut flush. Fortunately for Bader, the 9♠ spiked on the River, giving him a Full House and a valuable double up.

Greenfield´s final hand came against Chris Barnes – moving all-in with A♣ K♥ against Barnes´ pocket Jacks and failing to find either an Ace or a King on the Queen-high board. Greenfield was quickly followed to the rail by Martin Bader (A♥ K♥) when Hui Jin (A♦ 10♦) turned an Ace-high flush, and it was also a flush which was responsible for the demise of Ben Windsor in fourth place – Windsor (7♦ 4♦) flopping two pairs on the all-heart flop, but failing to improve against Chris Cousins´ (K♥ 2♥) flopped flush.

Deal Done – Final Table Loosens Up

As the final table of the GukPT Brighton Main Event went three-handed Chris Barnes (1.6 million chips), Hui Jin (1.2 million chips) and Chris Cousins (900,000 chips) agreed on a deal which would see each receive £19,800, with a £500 tip for the staff at the casino. The winner would also receive the GukPT trophy and a seat at GukPT Grand Final in London in November.

Despite being the chip leader when three-handed play began, Chris Barnes was the next player to bust out, doubling up both Chris Cousins and Hui Jin before looking good for his own double up against Cousins A♣ 10♠ -v- K♣ 10♣. Unfortunately for Barnes, Cousins flopped a pair of Kings, and he was out in third place – giving Chris Cousins a 2.9 million -v- 700,000 chip advantage over Hui Jin going into the heads-up.

A Board Full of Hearts Give Cousins Victory

The heads-up climax to the GukPT Brighton Main Event lasted a little less than twenty minutes, and was concluded when Hui Jin moved all-in with Q♥ 9♥ and Chris Cousins called with a higher Heart combination – A♥ K♥. The flop of 7♥ 5♥ 4♥ gave Cousins the nut flush, but Jin had the chance of a chop after the 3♥ was dealt on the Turn. Unfortunately for the young student – who has only been playing poker for six months – the 8♥ on the River was not the Heart he was looking for, and Chris Cousins was the GukPT Brighton champion.

Look at the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) history books, scroll your finger down the page until you reach the entry entitled “2014 GUKPT Brighton Main Event Champion” and there you will find the name of a Mr Chris Cousins.

Cousins went into the third and final day’s play with 345,500 chips in his arsenal, enough to see him start fourth from 14 remaining players and he ended it with the coveted GUKPT trophy and £20,300 in prize money.

The nine-handed final table was set after almost three hours of play. During that time Otto Richard, Babis Lappas, Callum Smith, start-of-the-day chip leader Fraser Bellamy and Sven Tiesmeyer each lost their stacks and were shepherded to the cashier’s desk to collect their winnings.

Here’s how the nine finalists lined up.

2014 GUKPT Brighton Final Table

The players at the final table were still weighing each other up when Ellie Biessek crashed out in ninth place, leaving the tournament an all-male affair. Chris Barnes open shipped his short stack into the middle from the cutoff seat with and Biessek called off her stack from the small blind with the .

A flop reading kept Biessek’s ace-high in front, with the on the turn failing to alter the course of the hand. The same couldn’t be said about the on the river because it completed a straight for Barnes and left Biessek without any chips.

Play continued eight-handed for 70 minutes before the talented Lee Taylor followed his friend Biessek out of the tournament area. Taylor min-raised with and Cousins called the bet. A flurry of bets and raises on a flop resulted in Taylor being all-in and at risk of elimination, his two pair needing to fade a club because Cousins held . The turn bricked off but the river was the , completing Cousins’ flush and busting Taylor.

Taylor wouldn’t have even had time to collect his winnings before the next player, Francois Goulet, was eliminated from the final table.

Goulet moved all-in for 100,000 chips with and Ben Winsor re-shoved to isolate Goulet with the dominating . Neither player improved on the , but Winsor didn’t need to. Goulet did need to and he became the seventh place finisher.

Sixth place was decided just before 6:00pm on Sunday afternoon when Joe Greenfield committed his stack with and got looked up by Chris Barnes’ , creating one of tournament poker’s many coinflips. It was a coinflip that Barnes would ultimately win after the board ran and with that Greenfield was gone.

Five became four with the exit of former GUKPT London champion Martin Bader. Hui Jin set the price to play at 40,000 chips, Bader three-bet to 115,000 and Jin called. The dealer spread the flop, Jin checked, Bader bet 300,000 and was all in and Jin called.

Bader flipped the onto their backs and Jun showed . The on the turn improved Jin to an unbeatable flush, rendering the on the river completely useless.

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Less than 10 minutes after Baden busted, Ben Winsor followed suit. Barnes opened the betting and was called by both players in the blinds. All three of the active players checked the flop, but Barnes bet 40,000 on the turn. Winsor moved all-in and Barnes called, showing for the flopped nuts! Winsor showed and needed a four or seven on the river to improve to a full house, but neither card arrived and his tournament ended with a fourth place finish.

With Winsor gone, the final three remaining players took a short break from the table, during which time they agree to split the prize pool so that each was guaranteed £19,800 for their efforts, leaving £500, the trophy and Grand Final seat to play for.

Barnes was the first player the deal benefited as he crashed out in third place when his 25 big blind shove with was called by Cousins and his . Cousins took the lead on the flop and stayed ahead on the turn and river.

That hand meant Cousins went into the heads-up battle with Hui Jin armed with a 2.9 million to 700,000 chip advantage and 20 minutes later he had all of the chips in play in front of him.

Jin moved all-in with what turned out to be and Cousins wasted no time at all in calling with . Both players flopped a flush on a flop, but Cousins was way in front with the ace-high flush. The on the turn meant the pot would be split if the landed on the river, but it was the that completed the board and with that Cousins was announced as the 2014 GUKPT Brighton champion.

2014 GUKPT Brighton Final Table Results

*reflects a three-way chop

Next up for the GUKPT is a trip to Walsall between May 28 and June 1. As always, the best place to qualify for GUKPT Main Events is at Grosvenor Poker, where you can claim a 100% match up to £500 first deposit bonus for signing up for an account via PokerNews.

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