Oliver Price Wins GUKPT London

Oliver Price Wins GUKPT London

Monday, 10 February 2014

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) has crowned its first winner of 2014 after Oliver Price took the honours in London over the weekend.

A guarantee-busting field of 323 runners took to the tables at The Poker Room at the Vic and after three days of hard fought action it was Price who walked away as champion.

It's been a great start to 2014 for Price who pocketed €271,200 after finishing third at the EPT Deauville Main Event a fortnight ago.

The Londoner added another £86,400 to his roll after working his way through a classy final table that included Ben Vinson, Mat Frankland and long-time chip leader David Laronde.

Price took the title after beating Alan Mansbridge heads up. It took a great call to seal victory after Mansbridge had moved all in with his final 2.2m chips on an 8c7c4cAh board. Price made the call with J8 which was good enough against Mansbridge's J7 and held on to win.

The final table positions and payouts were as follows:

1st - £86,400 - Oliver Price
2nd - £57,300 - Alan Mansbridge
3rd - £38,000 - Andrew Christoforou
4th - £22,600 - Phil Souki
5th - £17,100 - David Laronde
6th - £13,900 - Matt Frankland
7th - £10,650 - Mike Quinn
8th - £8,100 - Ben Mammo
9th - £6,100 - Ben Vinson

The GUKPT heads to Manchester for its next stop from 2-9 March. Another £200,000 is guaranteed in the £1,000 Main Event which starts on Thursday 6 March.

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Tags: GUKPT London 2014, Oliver Price, Alan Mansbridge