After about an hour of heads up play, Ash Hussain has emerged victorious over David Rudling. It was a good spirited final stint of the tournament and although David took a chip lead going into it, Hussain fought back and eventually overcame his opponent to become the inaugural GUKPT Champion of Champions.

In the final hand Ash limped, David bet 45,000, which Ash called. As the flop was being dealt, David moved all-in in the dark and on a flop of 2-J-T (rainbow) and Ash called with J-8, while David had pocket nines. A further jack on the turn and a harmless 5 on the river ended the tournament in favour of the former European number one from Accrington.

35 year old Hussain had taken time out from poker for most of the year, but signalled his return to the game by taking down the Grosvenor Grand Prix last month. He then went on to make a final table in a side event in leg 9 of the tour in Blackpool and has now confirmed that he is still a class act and one to watch on next year’s tour.

GUKPT Champion of Champion Ash Hussain

Ash Hussain and Runner Up David Rudling

Marc Goodwin calls an all in 4 bet from David Rudling and is in great shape with AK against his K9 for a practically tournament winning pot.

A heart breaking 9 on the turn wins it for David though and Marc is our 3rd place finisher for £10,000 after another excellent performance on the GUKPT.

Our final Blue Square Online League champion Anthony Ross is knocked out by Ash Hussain giving him £7,500 for his 4th placed finish.

Congrats to all the online players who performed excellently and contributed 2 final tablists as well as one other in the money.

Marc takes out John Miller.

A7 v Q4

John 5th for £6,000

Where else apart from the GUKPT can you find a tournament director as pretty as this?

And there was us thinking the popularity was due to the good structures….

Marc Goodwin has done it again.  Paul Newman runs his A7 into KK and has no help from the 8 6 7 8 9 board.

A £5,000 Prize into a Blue Square account for 6th placed Mr Newman.

Ignoring Paul’s advice David Rudling gets it all in against Marc holding AQ v TT but the board runs kindly for the overcrds this time around bumping Mr Rudling up to approximately 125k and dropping Senor Goodwin to just over 100k.

Marc Goodwin takes another scalp by felting recent GUKPT Grand Final Champion Paul Foltyn with 99 v AJ.

Exit advice from Mr Foltyn is “Don’t race Marc Goodwin”.

Essy Jahanpour came to the final short stacked and had to get it in soon.  He duly did and Marc Goodwin comes out on top to add to his chip lead.

8th Essy Jahanpour  £3,000

If you see these players please don’t call CrimeStoppers!

P.Foltyn                          P.Newman                    A.Ross

A.Hussein                       E.Jahanpour                   M.Goodwin

J.Miller                            D.Rudling