Jackson-Spivack had a birthday to remember
What the way to exit. Ted Jackson-Spivack got what everyone wants for his or her birthday, a UKIPT title after all! He turned 24 today and tonight has a birthday card with £35,000 inside it and a cake topped with a sparkly trophy.
It'll be the birthday boy buying the drinks tonight
We returned with 22 players today and for therefore long it looked as though Ludovic Geilich was going to become the fifth and final double Main Event winner at the UKIPT as he bossed proceedings. But once play got five-handed Jackson-Spivack took control, eliminating three players in a row after which caring for Geilich in a brief heads-up battle.
Heads-up play begins
The Folkestone based player started heads-up with a two to at least one chip lead and it was one-way traffic to the title. At the final hand Geilich limped the button with queens and called all-in for slightly below 20 big blinds when Jackson-Spivack set him in with K♥4♣. A king at the turn sealed the deal for Jackson-Spivack and a gracious Geilich shook his hand as Jackson-Spivack was mobbed by his rail.
This victory is by far the biggest live cash on Jackson-Spivack's poker résumé and completes an ideal few weeks for the mixed games specialist. Before the overall table he told us he'd entered this tournament as he had to take a break from online having grinded hard during WCOOP, where he finished third in Event #5 a $320 NL Omaha Hi/Lo, 6-Max tournament.
Another fine performance from Geilich
We were treated to a different great episode of the 'Ludovic Geilich Show' here in Birmingham with the UKIPT4 Marbella champion putting on a constant display of aggressive poker when he had chips, which was the majority of the time. He was in or across the chip lead within the run to the overall table and but for a short lived period where he found himself in 20-30 big blind territory he was greatly the table captain.
He played his usual expressive brand of poker, winning a variety of small pots to chip up, whilst you mix that up with winning the vast majority of the large pots played that makes for a potent combination for an excessively dangerous player. He had running battles with Jackson-Spivack and third placed finisher Krishna Nagaraju throughout. This led Jackson-Spivack to remark at one point. "You're too good Ludo," when he'd put him in an extremely tricky ICM spot. Geilich showed off an entire repertoire of skills today from correctly snap calling with ace high, to overbetting the pot for skinny value. It was a good performance from a person who so badly wanted that second UKIPT title and on another day he'd has been posing for the winner's photo.
Cody - cold decked
Another man who was on the lookout for the very best ending was Mr. UKIPT himself aka Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody. He'd tied Thomas Ward's record for Main Event cashes when he made the cash yesterday and today he had something is mind, winning the overall UKIPT Main Event. Sadly, it wasn't meant to be as he was coolered out of the tournament in 11th place in a hand against Ben Morrison. The chips went in at the turn of a A♥J♠8♣K♥ board. Cody had top two but Morrison had flopped a suite of eights and that was that. Cody almost won a trophy in an aspect event that he hopped in but came up just short in fifth place. When Morrison himself busted in ninth place the overall table was set. You will see that a whole list of within the money finishers here.
Eight guys all desirous to hitch a boost to UKIPT success
Along with Geilich, it was David Clarkson, Jeremy Wray and Graham Parkin who were leading the pack, while David Wilkes and Nathan Webb were within the danger zone. They did an excellent job of hanging on because it took 75 minutes for the primary elimination of the overall table. When it happened it was a cooler with Wilkes running jacks into the queens of Nagaraju.
It was at this stage the Geilich went on his downswing such a lot in order that when Webb shoved for around nine big blinds with K♥T♥, Geilich had a call for around 40% of his stack with A♥8♥. He called, held and was back in business with six left. For Webb, who was Day 1B chip leader, it was the tip of a remarkable run.
Wilkes - eighth
Webb - seventh
The start of Geilich's sticky patch came when he lost a race to Wray. A COUPLE OF orbits later it was win some, lose some for the previous Swindon Town chairman as he risked his final ten big blinds with pocket tens and lost out to Geilich's ace-king, the Scotsman flopped a king and rivered a flush only for good measure.
A howdy for Wray (left) resulted in a sixth place finish
If Geilich have been the lead actor up until this point he was relegated to the shadows as Jackson-Spivack came to the fore. In eight minutes he eliminated Parkin (jacks versus tens), Clarkson (kings versus ace-jack) and Nagaraju with 9♣8♣ against pocket sevens when he flopped two pair.
A fine fourth place finish for tour reg Clarkson
He took that momentum into heads-up play and shortly had the scalp of Geilich so as to add to people who had gone before. Congratulations to Ted Jackson-Spivack on winning UKIPT Birmingham and becoming the general UKIPT Main Event champion, he's in good company.
UKIPT6 Birmingham Main EventDates: October 6 - October 9Buy-in: £700+£70Entries: 244 (216 uniques, plus 28 re-entries)Prize pool: £165,676
| 1 | Ted Jackson-Spivack | United Kingdom | £35,000 | |
| 2 | Ludovic Geilich | United Kingdom | £23,600 | |
| 3 | Krishna Nagaraju | India | £16,646 | |
| 4 | David Clarkson | United Kingdom | PokerStars Qualifier | £13,480 |
| 5 | Graham Parkin | United Kingdom | £10,670 | |
| 6 | Jeremy Wray | United Kingdom | PokerStars Qualifier | £8,100 |
| 7 | Nathan Webb | United Kingdom | £5,920 | |
| 8 | David Wilkes | United Kingdom | £4,330 |
You can read back through all this week's coverage via this link. If you have been following the coverage, you should have seen us interspersing memories from the six seasons of the tour and that is the general one.
On behalf of the entire staff the PokerStars Blog want to say a large thanks to everyone who attended a stop at the tour. Additionally the Blog team wish to extend a thanks to everyone who read the coverage, gave up their time to speak to us, stopped by to inform us about action, filled us in on any hands we'd missed, tell us when we'd made any errors and shared a drink and fun with us. You made our jobs easier and more enjoyable and for that we will always be grateful. It has been a blast and a pleasure to hide this tour but all great things must come to an end.
Cashes to cashes, bust to bust. R.I.P UKIPT (h/t Jen Mason).
But it is not a wake, it is a celebration as PokerStars events are evolving and it is from the top of live PokerStars events within the UK and Ireland. Going forward all events can be either a 'Championship' or a 'Festival. The previous are big buy-in events, while the latter are those who fall within the UKIPT ballpark and indeed there is a festival event in London in January. We are hoping to look you there.
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