Brandon Sheils Begins 2026 Having a good GUKPT High Roller Winnings
Several occurrences provides crowned their champions, like the ?2,five-hundred Zero-Limit Hold’em Higher Roller. Seventy-one or two people joined this new merge, and you can Brandon Sheils came up successful, delivering household ?44,560.
Sheils, a high-frequency and you will well-known grinder, joined 2026 full of trust, with liked his ideal seasons with regards to prize currency. Depending on the Hendon Mob Database, the man out of Birmingham built-up $696,389 last year, an extraordinary contribution, helped because of the his 5th-set become about $5,000 Zero-Restriction Hold’em six-Handed feel from the 2025 World A number of Poker (WSOP).
?2,five-hundred GUKPT London Higher Roller Final Table Results
Precisely the last nine users acquired a portion of one’s ?157,310 award pool. Veteran Keith Johnson are the original user to bucks immediately after his adept-jack missing on just after-ruled adept-ten regarding James Mitchell , courtesy of an excellent 10 on the flop.
Spaniard Adria Dalmau bowed in 8th set immediately following a battle of your curtains didn’t wade since the organized. Conor O’Driscoll unlock-shoved from bumble bingo the brief blind into the lowly ten-four, and you will Dalmau titled away from his seven huge blind pile that have adept-jack. Dalmau matched up his adept, however, O’Driscoll improved to help you trip 10s with the lake.
Alongside slip is actually Scotland’s Bryan Taylor , the winner of GUKPT Edinburgh Fundamental Enjoy for the . Taylro is actually right down to half dozen larger drapes when he forced most of the-from inside the with ace-seven. Sheils entitled which have king-ten and went on so you’re able to surge an effective ten towards lake in order to get-off the newest Scotsman void away from chips.
Ireland’s O’Driscoll went into the exits inside the sixth lay and is the final pro not to found good five-profile pay check. O’Driscoll expected this new luck of one’s Irish whenever his 7 larger blind shove with ten-nine out of diamonds are titled by Mitchell carrying wallet tens. Zero such as chance turned up, and you can O’Driscoll is went.
A new player wishing to are under the shroud out of anonymity crashed out in 5th until the risky Mitchell dropped bad regarding Sheils. Mitchell got their history fourteen larger curtains into the center out-of the fresh new experienced while carrying adept-queen, only for Sheils to make up with the fresh new dominating expert-king. Sheils increased in order to travel, and you may Mitchell on course towards the cashier’s desk to collect ?fifteen,260 to choose the ?47,700 he scooped prior to in the times to possess triumphing in the inaugural G500 event.
The ?2,five hundred GUKPT London Higher Roller progressed to help you minds-up pursuing the dying from Morocco’s Mehdi Chaou we. The newest Moroccan proceeded his impressive vein from function, the one that saw him winnings over $one.9 billion in 2025 by yourself. Chaoui arrived unstuck when he the full time his past 6.5 big drapes having queen-10, and this would not arrive up against Ryan Fronda is the reason ace-7.
Heads-upwards pitted Sheils against the veteran Fronda, the latter that have cashed in the 1st-actually GUKPT seasons and from now on racking up a profit the brand new twentieth 12 months. Unfortuitously for Fronda, he couldn’t mark new affair with a winnings, along with so you’re able to unit themselves which have good ?33,030 athlete-up award, the second-largest out-of their field, shortly after his queen-eight didn’t overcome Sheils’ ace-7 whether or not it mattered.
Sheils immediately entered Go out 1a of one’s ?1,250 pick-into the, ?250,000 secured GUKPT London area Fundamental Enjoy. The fresh new 83-solid crowd was whittled to only twenty six by close out-of play, and Sheils receive himself towards the top of the fresh chip matters. The guy bagged and you will marked 135,400, behind just Joseph Committed (187,000), Maximilian Sanders (162,500), and you will Longmao Lover (136,300).
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