11.42pm: Paul Findlay is the UKIPT 6 Champion!It's been an epic journey for Paul Findlay but finally it has reached its close and its zenith simultaneously.
He started the heads up game with a deficit but after flopping two pair with K-7 on a K♣Q♠7♥, he checked the flop, eliciting Trattou to shove the turn with Q♦4♠.
Snap-call from FIndlay and when he faded a queen at the river, he finished the hand with a 5-1 chip advantage.
Some aggression from Trattou preflop over the following few hands saw him gain some of those chips back but finally Findlay applied the finishing touches, limping the button and leading for 375,000 when Trattou checked the K♠Q♥9♦board.
Trattou moved all-in with a queen and Findlay snap-called with a slow-played pair of pocket aces.
An A♠ at the turn sealed the deal and it was all over!
Click here to read a summary of Findlay's route to glory.
11.25pm: Zarghampour out in 3rdThe floodgates have opened and suddenly we're heads-up for the trophy, remaining cash and CoC seat.
The situation was precipitated by the exit of Khashayar Zarghampour, who was obviously in gambling mode as he opened the button with Q♠7♠ and called pretty quickly when Mario Trattou set him in with K♣5♦.
The board of 9♠8♠Q♣ was incredible though, top pair and a flush draw looked set to present the Iranian player a large double-through.
He called for the K♠ to finish his flush, however the poker gods were toying with him and delivered the K♦ at the river to send him crashing out.
"Yes!" shouted Trattou as he finds himself heads up with Paul Findlay for the trophy with a small chip advantage. Good game Khashayar Zarghampour, you played very well.
11.10pm: Garcia Damaso beaten out in 4thWith the deal agreed, the players have loosened up their starting and stacking off requirements.
Having said that, Damaso would have surely always moved all his chips into the center with 8♠6♠ on a board of T♣8♥6♦ for 2 pair.
He was called by Q♦T♠ and looked able to double through until the board ran out J-9 to present his opponent (we believe Khashayar Zarghampour) a straight.
Good game Damaso, he departs with a big cash and a smile on his face. Well played!
10.55pm:Deal agreedAfter some furious excel spreadsheet calculations, the players have agreed at the following splits in response to chip counts:
£10874 - Mario Trattou£8,896 - Paul Findlay£9,688 - Khashayar Zarghampour££9,092 Garcia Damaso
They will play on for £3,500, the trophy and the Champion of Champions seat for the winner!
10.40pm: Dag eliminated in 5th(£5,100)Yes, indeed. After looking ahead to an hour and a half for an elimination we get three in 5 minutes. Insert some cliched connection with London buses.
Anyway, Dag was the newest man to be unceremoniously dumped from proceedings, his pocket nines losing out to Garcia Damaso's ace-king over the J♥A♣5♦J♦Q♠ board.
Four-handed, it seems like the players are going right into a cosy huddle to talk about some form of deal...back soon...
10.35pm: Murphy eliminated out in 6th(£3,900)Darren Murphy was always going to struggle to regain a reputable stack following that hand but he tried!
Shoving with J♥7♣ he was looked up by Khashayar Zarghampour, who had called with the slightly ahead Q♣5♥.
The board fell 6♣5♦2♠ to offer Zarghampour a couple.
"I don't care about that," said Murphy. "I'm so live!"
The turn however was the Q♠. "I care about that one though," he admitted, his possibilities of doubling through scuppered. The hand played out and Murphy wandered off to tackle his money and transport home after an excellent day.
He departs in 6th, leaving the players five handed.
10.35pm: Findlay lays down the law - Lewzey eliminated 7th (£2,850) There were murmurings of deals being done amongst the players with time ticking on and seemingly nobody getting eliminated.
Then all hell broke loose!
Suddenly Steven Lewzey counted his chips and announced all-in for around 500,000. Darren Murphy moved all-in excessive and Paul Findlay snap-called! What was going on?
The answers were within the cards.
A♣7♣ for Lewzey;8♠8♦ for Murphy andA♠A♥ for Findlay!
A board of Q♠T♠6♦5♣Q♥ left Findlay punching the air - as much as 1,600,000 whilst Murphy was crippled to 200,000 and Lewzey departs in 7th place. Six remain battling for the title.
10.15pm: Mario slips upMario Trattou has had an attractive comfortable ride up to now at the final but he's in a place of bother now. After raising to 160,000 preflop, Khashayar Zarghampour peeled from the large blind and checked the Q♣J♠4♠ board.
Trattou shoved all-in and Khashavar snapped him with Q-J for high two!
Trattou showed down T-J for an open ended straight draw but if the 7♠ and 8♥ bricked on turn and river, he had given Zarghampour an entire double as much as with regards to million and been knocked all the way down to just 1,000,000 or so himself having ridden high for far of the final.
10:01pm: Double bubble for ZarghampourIt's the evening of the shortstacks here on the Hippodrome. Virtually every confrontation in this final table involving an all-in has favoured the shortstack and this pattern continued as Khashayor Zarghampour called his stack off against Onur Dag, who had only just doubled himself.
When the hands were revealed, this time Dag was facing off against pocket tens along with his A♠K♣ and a thrilling board ran out K♥T♣9♣K♦J♠.
An excited Zarghampour had made an entire house and leapt up and hugged his rail - having ballooned his stack to around 1,000,000. Dag meanwhile takes one leap forward and immediately another back - forced into the area of the wannabes once more, but still alive.
9.45pm: Findlay doubles DagOnur Dag just shoved his shortish 350,000 stack into the center with pocket tens and after Mario Trattou gave a snappy speech ("He who dares wins Rodney!") he folded leaving Paul Findlay to make a handy guide a rough call with A♦Q♣ from the blinds.
A board of 9♣3♥8♣2♠J♦ saw Dag collect the pot. "I USED TO BE occupied with calling with K♠6♠," said Trattou.
"If you call that, then it's "Rodney you plonker!" said Dag.
Dag moves to 800,000, Findlay all the way down to 600,000...
LEVEL UP: BLINDS 40,000/80,000/10,000
9.25pm: "We're just passing the chips around here"Quote from Paul Findlay without a one else looking like being eliminated. There were a couple of changes in chip stacks though - big hand coming up...
9.05pm: Chiang is first faller - 8th(£2,100) Jen-Yie Chiang was eliminated in a couple of unfortunate hands - Paul Findlay doing the wear - not the primary time today he has dealt dual pain to an opponent.
The first hand of note saw Findlay find pocket kings jointly Chiang found A♠K♠. A cooler like that was always going to price Chiang and and not using a help from the board, he was forced handy over a large chunk of his stack to Findlay.
Now all the way down to 400,000 and the blinds a whopping 25,000/50,000, pocket eights within the cut-off was just like the nuts to Chiang - he moved all-in, but again Findlay had him pipped with T♥T♦.
Again the board bricked meaning Chiang bows out and Findlay has moved to second in chips with over a million...
8:52pm: Triple up for LewzeyThe final table has commenced and already Steven Lewzey has had a stroke of luck to chip up.
With Mario Trattou raising to 100,000 and Onur Dag calling, Lewzey decided to head for it - shoving his 165,000 into the center with A♥[6h.]
Trattou called the extra 65,000 and Dag now moved all-in for an additional 650,000. Trattou looked upset, having apparently folded A-Q.
A board of 8♣9♠Q♥3♥7♥ bailed Lewzey out on the last, his nut flush taking it down - and he's as much as the lofty heights of over 500,000 for the primary time in a while.
The UKIPT Series 6 Final Tablists
Seat 1: Jen-Yue Chiang (USA) - 1,040,000Jen-Yue Chiang is a 38-year old investment manager. He has lived in London for the past 8 years - although originally he hails from Arizona, USA. He loves to keep it up his toes with a mixture of tournament and cash games. His wife travels with him to live events - if truth be told she played this event with him. He enjoys the UKIPT circuit and his biggest cash is $100,000 at a £1k side event on the 2009 EPT London.
Seat 2: Darren Murphy (UK) - 365,000Darren Murphy, from Crawley, describes himself as a web-based tournament grinder within the mid-stakes games, successfully enough to be a poker pro at age 23. His biggest score was for $8,000 and this final table (a unprecedented outing onto the live felt for Murphy) represents an opportunity to outdo that if he can maintain the momentum that saw him finish Day 1a with the chip lead.
Seat 3: Mario Trattou (UK) - 2,450,000Mario Trattou has come to the UKIPT Series fresh from a break from the sport - if truth be told he last played live in 2011 - but it surely doesn't appear to have done him any harm. The 36 year old self-employed landlord and property investor usually specialises in PLO cash games but intends to play more UKIPT events if this one continues to move his way. "I'll do all of them in London, the UKIPT, the EPT," the capital-based chip leader said. He doesn't play an excessive amount of online at the present time but admits, "I do love to have a punt." With over twice the chips of his closest rival, he's the only to beat.
Seat 4: Paul Findlay (UK) PokerStars Player - 520,000Paul Findlay nearly didn't return for Day 2, as he lives in Essex (although is originally from Glasgow) and was pondering a commute with just below 10bb. In fact, his playing in any respect was all the way down to chance - he signed as much as play a satellite into the £770 UKIPT London Main Event thinking it was a satellite here, then found he'd won the ticket plus expenses which he promptly used to play this "as a warm-up." Findlay has played poker for four years but only has time for just a little" grinding" online at night when not working in a bank. Findlay enjoys the occasional Vegas cash game trip and has played within the Edinburgh UKIPT stop previously.
Seat 5: Onur Dag (UK) PokerStars Player - 835,000Onur Dag says of the time he puts in to poker that it's simply "not enough." Dag, 30, works as an organization director and is left with little time to play, but tries to slot in as much poker as possible, "dabbling" online and playing No Limit Hold'em tournaments where he's already found success. He's cashed in two UKIPT events (London last year and Edinburgh in March) but a win here would top his previous best live result, a cash for €19,689 within the Namur Poker Classics. This final table represents a considerable comeback from the 8bb he found himself pre-bubble.
Seat 6: Steven Lewzey (UK) - 240,000Steve Lewzey is a 50 year old computer analyst, residing in Chingford, London. He learnt to play the sport four or five years ago and because then has moved up the ranks, becoming a standard on the Hippodrome and Palm Beach cash games. He doesn't play online much and his biggest results has been finishing 19th within the EPT Vienna High Roller and 22nd generally Event, either one of which he satellited into.
Seat 7: Khashayar Zarghampour-Boygrammadz (Iran) - 710,000Khashayar Zarghampour-Boygrammadz is a pc engineering student residing in London. Originally from Iran, he has lived in London since 2008. He bought into this UKIPT and enjoys playing a mixture of Hold'em and Omaha. He has enjoyed particular success on the Hippodrome where his last 10 visits has been profitable. His biggest result's for around $8,000 playing a $300 tournament on PokerStars, although he recently won a $1 rebuy that he described as numerous" fun, with some crazy players!"
Seat 8: Damaso Garcia (Spain) - 875,000Damaso Garcia is a 23 year old professional poker player from Gijun in Spain who now calls London home. He's been playing poker for 5 years and commenced with friends in home games. After graduating to online tournaments, he's racked up results including cashes in SCOOP events and the Sunday Special at PokerStars.es.
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8.25pm: The overall Table chip standingsHere's how they're going to kick off the overall table once they resume - Mario Trattou leading the way:
Mario Trattou 2,450,000Jen-Yue Chiang 1,040,000Garcia Damaso 875,000Onur Dag 835,000Zhashayor Zarghampour 710,000Paul Findlay 520,000Darren Murphy 365,000Steven Lewzey 240,000
7.45pm: Final Table set - Sachdev eliminated 9th(£1,700)It was difficult for Rahul Sachdev to put down pocket nines when he saw Mario Trattou (who have been throwing his weight around together with his big stack) three-bet an open from Jen-Yue Chiang. He decided he couldn't and moved all-in - Trattou quickly calling with aces.
It looked grim for Sachdev and the board ran out J♦7♦5♣4♦7♠ to ensure his exit. And with that we were right down to 8 players!
The remaining eight was sent on their way for a constitutional dinner break and they will be back in forty minutes for the resumption. See you then!
7.20pm: Wells runs dry - eliminated 10th (£1,450.00)It must seem a very long time ago since Dominic Wells won that vast four-way hand with aces.
His chip stack since then was eaten away and when he made his move with K♠Q♦, he bumped into the dominating A♣K♣ within the hands of the marauding Mario Trattou.
Trattou yelled "DELAY ace-king for once," and his entreaties were rewarded, the poker gods sending a couple of shivers down his spine over the J♦9♦4♥3♦3♠ board but ultimately awarding him the pot.
Wells winds up with £1,450.00 to melt the blow and now we have our (unofficial) final table. It'll be official with yet another elimination. The players are on a brief hiatus whilst they aggregate on one single table.
We'll be back in a moment for the playdown to the champion.
7.08pm: Piotr Majewski falls afoul of Mario Trattou - eliminated 11th (£1,450)Trattou passed jacks earlier in a large pot, but this time, he made the decision and it has proved to be very beneficial.
The hand saw an open from the cut-off, Majewski shoving from the small blind and Trattou making the call.
The initial raiser backed out and Majewski showed down A♦T♦ which was going to wish the proverbial ace from space if he was to survive.
No such luck, the board ran out low and once it was established Trattou had Majewski covered by a slim margin, the Pole was eliminated in 11th spot.
Trattou meanwhile has built an enormous mountain of chips - 1,500,000 or thereabouts which looks to be the chip leading stack at this point...
LEVEL UP: BLINDS 15,000-30,000-4,000
6.45pm: Ilyuki crushed by Findlay run good - eliminated 12th (£1,280) There is not doubt Paul FIndlay cuts a genial, chatty figure at his table but he has also experienced some hefty slices of fortune from time to time on this tournament too.
Victor Victorovich Ilyukhin didn't look best pleased at being at the receiving end moments ago - firstly calling Findlay's re-steal with A♦Q♥ - Findlay only in a position to table K♠4♠.
A dramatic board of A♥2♦5♣Q♦3♣ saw Findlay river a straight to dust off Ilyukin's two pair - before yet more heartache followed two hands later as Ilyukin shoved with pocket deuces and was picked off by Findlay, who held pocket threes.
No surprises at the flop and Iluykin departed - turning his nose up at Findlay's proffered handshake as he left - his annoyance visibly surfacing.
6.35pm: Tension breaks as Sanchez crashes out 13th(£1,280)You can tell the players have applied an additional level of focus to their play with the winning line in sight. There is a little less banter and some more lines of concentration wrinkling the brows of the assembled combatants.
Moments ago though, we had out first all-in confrontation for a while, Juan Ignacio Sanchez raising to 60,000 - just for Jen-Yue Chiang to transport allin for his 430,000 stack. Sanchez quickly called with A♦Q♦ - but he was dominated by Chiang's A♥K♣.
A board of 6♣5♦J♣9♣A♣ saw Chiang's hand improve to the nut flush and after a snappy count of the stacks, it was apparent he had the Spaniard covered. Chiang moves to near to the highest of the leaderboard and the Spaniard's brave tilt on the title grinds to a halt.
6.20pm: Jahanshahi eliminated in 14th(£1,150)Farhad Jahanshahi just ran his A♥J♦ into the brick wall that may be Paul Findley, whose A♠K♦ held as much as send him spiralling out of contention toward the money desk.
13 left now...we draw ever closer...
LEVEL UP: BLINDS 12,000-24,000-3,000
6.15pm: Cash MachinesTo bring us up to the moment with the entire cashers, here's the remainder of the lads to have parlayed a make the most of their buyin.
16th Ajay Bhadresa £1,020.0017th Aleksander Spadijer £1,020.0018th Mark Goodchild £890.0019th Jack Glass £890.0020th Patrick Murray £890.0021st Adam Kossew £800.0022nd Michael Lee £800.0023rd Thomas Young Jr £800.0024th Dean Perry £710.0025th Orlando Ferreira £710.0026th Leon Campbell £710.0027th Peter Mok £710.0028th Niazi Suleman £630.0029th Carid Hassan £630.00
6.01pm: Onur Dag leads the wayOnur Dag has the brink within the chip standings at the moment - his stack an excellent 810,000.
TO see the entire counts with two tables left, click here.
5.45pm: Goodchild and Spadiier bow outMark Goodchild tried and didn't double though with K♣7♣ versus Steven Lewzey's A♣9♥ - failing finally over the T♠T♦J♠K♠A♥ board and Aleksandar Spadijer's challenge floundered when his short stack shove with A♦9♦ bumped into the massive slick of Jen-Yue Chiang and he did not improve.
Their exits leave 16 players still in contention so the players are taking a couple of moments out to re-organise themselves onto two tables...
5.28pm: Homing in on gloryThe players are back of their seats, able to go toe-to-toe as they plow through to the overall. Good luck everyone!
We'll have the present chip counts delivered shortly.
To read updates from levels 18-21, click here.
PokerStars Blog reporting team at UKIPT Series 6- London: Rod Stirzaker. Photos by Neil Stoddart.
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