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142 players entered the £1,000 main event of Leg 5 of the 2010 GUKPT at the G casino in Coventry, creating a prize pool of £142,000 and a first prize of £41,910.

The final ten players in the main event of Leg 5 of the GUKPT are:

Tom Mannion - 384,300 chips - 29 year-old Tom is a former casino croupier originally from Coventry, but now living in Dublin. He goes into his first GUKPT main event final table as the chip leader

Hassan Mohammed - 381,900 chips - 39 year-old Hassan is a lawyer from Birmingham and lies in second place, juts a big blind short of the chip lead. This is his first GUKPT main event final table.

Stuart Rutter - 307,000 chips - 27-year-old Stuart is a professional poker player from Birmingham. The gcasino.com sponsored pro will be competing in his 4th GUKPT main event final table.

Rupert Elder - 284,700 chips - 23-year-old Rupert comes from

Bury St Edmonds

. He is compteting in his first GUKPT main event final table.

Danny Toffel - 205,300 chips - 40-year-old Danny is a company director from Kings Winford. This is his first GUKPT main event final table.

Darren Grosvenor - 202,800 - 39-year-old Darren lives in Glasgow and is competing in hist first GUKPT main event final table.

Roberto Romanello - 170,500 chips - 33-year-old Roberto is a professional poker player from Swansea. This is his 4th GUKPT main event final table.

Leon Campbell - 76,800 chips - 30-year-old Leon is a record producer from London. He will be competing in his first GUKPT main event final table.

Jeff Kimber - 69,000 chips - 35-year-old professional poker player Jeff hails from Newcastle, but now lives in London. The gcasino.com sponsored player is the only previous winner of a GUKPT main event (Walsall 2008) and will be playing in his 4th main event final table.

Nick Wealthall - 56,300 chips - 37-year-old Nick from London is the host of the UKIPT and a poker journalist and broadcaster. This will be his first GUKPT main event final table.

The seating draw for the final will be revealed on Sunday shortly before play recommences at 2pm.

Attached are results from all the events that have so far been completed at Leg 5.

To follow live updates during the final table, please visit the official GUKPT blog at http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/

For live video coverage of the final table please visit http://www.thenutz.tv/live.php

[Sir Puntalot]

Re: GUKPT Latest News Rutter Rampant at Coventry GUKPT

Birmingham's Stuart Rutter has won the 5^th leg of the 2010 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour at the G Casino in Coventry. He defeated a field of 142 players in the three-day tournament to bank the first prize of £41,910 and claim his seat in the tour's £150,000 Champion of Champions tournament. The 27-year-old Oxford mathematics graduate, now a professional poker player sponsored by gcasino.com was competing in a record equalling 4^th GUKPT main event final table. He defeated Danny Toffel from Banstead after a cagey heads up encounter. After eliminating Darren Grosvenor from Glasgow in third place he took a commanding chip lead into the final stage of the tournament. However the 40-year-old company director did not roll over easily and despite being suffering a 6-1 chip deficit, the heads up play continued for almost two hours before reaching its eventual conclusion. In the last hand he had pocket nines versus Toffel's pocket fours to eventually claim victory.

During his post-tournament celebrations Rutter praised the staff at the Coventry venue, saying

“The tournament has been fantastically run throughout all three days and this is the perfect venue for this poker tour. Playing the final table on the stage in the show bar is an experience I'll never forget. I'd also like to thank my sponsor gcasino.com, who have given me the opportunity to play in all the GUKPT main events this year.”

He went on to say

“This win is absolutely perfect timing coming just one week before I set off for Vegas and the WSOP. It gives me a great confidence boost which I always struggle for on the GUKPT having made three previous final tables and seeing them go wrong each time.”

Also competing in the ten-man final was former champion Jeff Kimber, who was also taking part in his 4^th main event final table. He exited in 6^th place, having been short-stacked throughout the final day of the tournament. Welsh mouthpiece Roberto Romanello, who claimed 7^th was yet another player on the final to have made it to four main event final tables. Hassan Mohammed, a lawyer from Birmingham finished 4^th while former poker dealer Tom Mannion from Coventry had gone into the final as the chip leader, but departed in 5^th place. Rupert Elder from Bury St Edmunds had been chip leader for much of the second day of the tournament, but the cards deserted him on the final day and he was eliminated in 8^th. Poker journalist and host Nick Wealthall, who was competing in his very first GUKPT main event finished in 9^th place while record producer Leon Campbell from London completed the final table line in 10^th place.

The GUKPT Main Tour now takes a seasonal break, but the poker action continues next week when the tour's little sister, the Summer Series gets under way simultaneously in two separate venues. The first of these mini-festivals begins on Wednesday 26^th May at the G Casino in Blackpool with several days of warm up events before the £500 main event takes place over the bank holiday on Sunday 30^th & Monday 31^st May. Meanwhile, at the opposite end of the country at the G Casino in Thanet, Kent, the second of these festivals begins on Friday 29th, culminating in a £300 main event, also taking place on Sunday 30^th and Monday 31^st May. A further eight GUKPT Summer Series festivals take place over the next three months taking in Newcastle, Aberdeen, Dundee, Walsall, Luton, Sheffield, Manchester and London. The main tour recommences in August when the 6^th leg takes place at the G Casino, Luton from 7^th - 15^th August. The full schedule of remaining festivals on the 2010 tour can be found on the official GUKPT website at www.gukpt.com.

The Result

Place	Player	Prize	GUKPT Ranking Points
1st	Stuart Rutter	£41,910	100
2nd	Danny Toffel	£29,460	80
3rd	Darren Grosvenor	£18,460	64
4th	Hassan Mohammed	£11,360	52
5th	Tom Mannion	£8,880	44
6th	Jeff Kimber	£6,740	36
7th	Roberto Romanello	£5,320	28
8th	Rupert Elder	£3,900	20
9th	Nick Wealthall	£2,840	16
10th	Leon Campbell	£2,480	12