Brandon Sheils Begins 2026 With a good GUKPT High Roller Win

Numerous occurrences have crowned their champions, including the ?2,five-hundred No-Restrict Hold em Higher Roller. Seventy-several participants joined the fresh new combine, and you can Brandon Sheils emerged successful, taking family ?forty-two,560.

Sheils, a top-volume and you may well-known grinder, registered 2026 laden up with depend on, which have liked their better season with respect to prize money. Depending on the Hendon Mob Databases, the person of Birmingham amassed $696,389 just last year, an extraordinary share, helped by his 5th-lay become on $5,000 No-Restrict Texas hold’em six-Handed enjoy within 2025 Globe Selection of Web based poker (WSOP).

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Just the finally 9 players gotten a percentage of your ?157,310 prize pond. Veteran Keith Johnson is the first athlete so you’re able to dollars once their expert-jack lost into shortly after-dominated expert-ten away from James Mitchell , courtesy of an effective 10 towards the flop.

Spaniard Adria Dalmau bowed in eighth set immediately after a combat of the drapes didn’t wade since the arranged. Conor O’Driscoll open- eucasino shoved throughout the quick blind towards lowly ten-four, and you may Dalmau called away from his 7 larger blind stack which have expert-jack. Dalmau paired his expert, however, O’Driscoll improved to help you travel tens towards the river.

Alongside fall try Scotland’s Bryan Taylor , brand new champion of the GUKPT Edinburgh Chief Skills inside the . Taylro is actually down to half dozen huge drapes as he pushed all of the-in which have adept-seven. Sheils titled with king-ten and you can proceeded to surge an effective 10 with the lake to log off this new Scotsman void of potato chips.

Ireland’s O’Driscoll on course on the exits when you look at the sixth set and you will are the final user to not found a great four-figure pay-day. O’Driscoll requisite the fresh fortune of your own Irish whenever his eight larger blind push which have ten-nine out of diamonds was titled by the Mitchell holding wallet 10s. Zero for example luck turned up, and you will O’Driscoll try moved.

A person wishing to are within the shroud out-of privacy damaged call at 5th through to the harmful Mitchell dropped nasty out of Sheils. Mitchell had his last 14 larger drapes to your middle from the brand new sensed when you are carrying ace-king, just for Sheils to make up with the newest controling adept-queen. Sheils improved in order to vacation, and Mitchell oriented toward cashier’s desk to get ?fifteen,260 to go with the fresh ?47,700 the guy scooped earlier in the times to have triumphing on inaugural G500 event.

The brand new ?2,five hundred GUKPT London area Large Roller changed so you’re able to brains-right up pursuing the death of Morocco’s Mehdi Chaou i. The fresh new Moroccan continued their epic vein out-of setting, the one that saw him winnings more $1.nine million into the 2025 alone. Chaoui came unstuck as he enough time their last 6.5 larger curtains with king-ten, and therefore did not arrive up against Ryan Fronda ‘s expert-7.

Heads-upwards pitted Sheils resistant to the experienced Fronda, the second which have cashed in the first-ever GUKPT season and then accumulating a cash in the brand new 20th year. Unfortunately for Fronda, he didn’t draw this new event that have an earn, together with in order to system himself which have a good ?33,030 athlete-upwards award, the next-largest off their industry, after his king-eight didn’t defeat Sheils’ adept-seven when it mattered.

Sheils immediately joined Go out 1a of your own ?1,250 pick-into the, ?250,000 protected GUKPT London area Main Experience. The newest 83-strong crowd is whittled to simply 26 of the intimate out of play, and Sheils receive himself near the top of the fresh chip matters. He bagged and you will marked 135,400, at the rear of just Joseph Bold (187,000), Maximilian Sanders (162,500), and Longmao Enthusiast (136,300).

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Matthew Pitt comes from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the uk, and it has worked regarding the poker world given that 2008, and worked for PokerNews given that 2010. In the age the fresh new editor regarding PokerNews. Matthew went out of real time revealing responsibilities in 2015, now centers on his part of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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