A brief review of Day One of UKOPSXII

Tikay10

Just a few facts, figures & namechecks from the Community, apologies to those I missed or did not mention.

All the basic info is taken from GaryQQQ's Results Thread, where you can see all the results, HERE

Half a dozen Posts follow, & all numbers are approx only.  

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UKOPS XII kicked off yesterday with no less than 9 Events, with buy-ins ranging from £3.30 to £530.

Guarantees totalled £64,000, & the total Prize Pools amounted to £81,166, which is 27% above the aggregate Guarantees, with all 9 Events covering their Guarantee. 

£1,000 Guaranteed Warm Up Rebuy (119 rebuys, 72 add-ons), £1,655 +65.5% on Guarantee 

£2,000 Guaranteed Warm Up Bounty Hunter, £2,470, +23.5% on Guarantee 

£3,000 Guaranteed Warm Up Deepstack, £3,040, +1.3% on Guarantee 

£1,000 Guaranteed Micro Bounty Hunter, £1,551, +55% on Guarantee 

£25,000 Guaranteed High Roller, £29,500, 18% on Guarantee 

£20,000 Guaranteed Main Event, £25,000, +12.5% on Guarantee 

£3,000 Guaranteed Mini Bounty Hunter, £4,300, 43% on Guarantee 

£4,000 Guaranteed Challenger Rebuy, (176 rebuys 131 Add-Ons)£5,750, +44% on Guarantee  

£5,000 Guaranteed Sidey Bounty Hunter, £7,900, + 58% on Guarantee

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£1,000 Warm Up Rebuy 

Battered it’s Guarantee by a whopping 65%.  

Plenty of familiar faces & names here, with TommyD 3^rd, MrBurns4 4^th, (suggest alias change to MrBurns1 may help?), POKERTREV 5^th, craigcu12 6^th, &  poppy765, YOUNG_GUN, PhilAny2Q, GREGHOGG (Hoggers!), Ludovician & BBMike all cashing, & a very unlucky Alan1506 bubbling.

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£2,000 Bounty Hunter Warm Up 

Don’t recognize too many names here, but Beaneh Final Table bubbled, & other cashes included MySharky & Sam1986

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£3,000 Deepstack Warm Up. 

This one only just covered it’s Guarantee, sneaking over the line by just 2 entries.  

Cashees included The Hippo (CTBN), David666, FatUncle, MKGunner, Fish2Chips, Pokey, & Leaderboard organiser Slippy.

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£1,000 Micro Bounty Hunter, with a whopping 517 entrants, headed by 5toneface, a long term pal of lJAMESl.  

SUPERNOVA, who graduated to BlackBelt on BBP with Neil C back in the day was 6^th, it’s great to see Sharon back here. TheDart, JDAllStar, Stokey (yay!), ChrisBhoy (Team Plop), Laura_C (for 861), 18AND5Time, TennisBloke & Stuarty117 all cashing.

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£25,000 High Roller, with a stunning 59 runners, very impressive for a Saturday, & Heaven only knows it would have got if it had been possible to run it today (Sunday), which is the traditional “High Roller Grinding Night”.  

Our very own Kimpet got the lot, a very popular victory I suspect.  

1muffu, who had been chippy most of the way, came 2^nd, well known High Roller in disguise “BAS” was 5^th, & Gandy, who was perhaps a little hard done by in that 861 jobbie on Tuesday night, picked up just over £2,000 in 6^th, which may be some consolation to him.

Alex1229 was the unforch bubbler.
 

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£20,000 Main Event was next up, with a healthy 250 runners. 

Cracking final this, with a tremendously popular punterer winner in Neil Strike, aka Joesman1, clearing just shy of £5,000.  

POKERTREV got his 2^nd cash of UKOPSXII in 2nd , with Gamblor25 (is that “AtItBradley” I wonder?) in 3^rd.  

Timeforbed, SUV, HAYSIE, 18Palace, Touchsmart, LB44, Curt360, Philany2Q (again), & the impressive Alvez11 all cashing.

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The £3,000 Mini Bounty Hunter was next, attracting far & away the biggest field of Day One @ 860 runners.  

Swampy858 took the honours, with DESERTTURK, a loyal Sky Poker regular in 5^th, Tsaaaar Final Table bubbler, & dangerdai, mmmchips, shawsok, & Ladyalbion amongst others way too numerous to mention getting honourable mentions. Or not.
 

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Next up was the £4,000 Guaranteed Sidey Rebuy, which battered the Guarantee.  

HAYSIE Finalled, he’s a lad who came to Vegas with us a while back, & has been on Sky Poker since Day One. He’s 85 years , lives in Swansea, & is a bona-fide ledge.  

MattBates came up just short of the Final, touchsmart, POKERTREV (again), PhilAny2Q (again again), TennisBloke (again), maccol, Dollie (yay!), TommyD (again) & LyonsBob all cashed.

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Day One concluded with a £5,000 BH Sidey, & once again a BH abso mullered it’s Guarantee.  

Don’t recognize too many names from the Community, but splashies & the wonderfully named HUGHMANS cashed, as did “tedgizzdo”, who, I think is Ed Giddens, a real blast from the 861 past.

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Day One concluded with a £5,000 BH Sidey , & once again a BH abso mullered it’s Guarantee.    Don’t recognize too many names from the Community, but splashies & the wonderfully named HUGHMANS cashed, as did “tedgizzdo”, who, I think is Ed Giddens, a real blast from the 861 past.
Posted by Tikay10

Oban, Hitsquad member and regular community player took this one down. He was also part of the ScotSquad who won the APAT team event not so long ago.

Thanks for the summaries Tikay, any idea where that leaderboard thing is?

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In Response to Re: A brief review of Day One of UKOPSXII:

In Response to Re: A brief review of Day One of UKOPSXII : Oban, Hitsquad member and regular community player took this one down. He was also part of the ScotSquad who won the APAT team event not so long ago. Thanks for the summaries Tikay, any idea where that leaderboard thing is?
Posted by bbMike

Ahh, my bad (Oban), sorry, but I was bound to miss a few, I just thought it'd be good to see a bit of a Fun Review, especially as the Community has been a bit chuntery over Xmas.

Slippy is doing the Leaderboard thing, I guess he's either had a heavy night, is grappling with the sheer volume of numbers on his Spready, or spending his UKOPS winnings.  

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Great day for PokerTrev, and lots of cash making its way to community regs, great to see.

Vwd all, especially joesman who is getting the lot lately, and Kimpet who I met in Luton this year at a Hitsquad game. GL all later today.

MAXALLY

MattBates came up just short of the Final

Nice review Tikay, thanks. And thanks for going out so early in the Main as that enabled me to win the LL comp on last night's show thread

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MattBates came up just short of the Final Nice review Tikay, thanks. And thanks for going out so early in the Main as that enabled me to win the LL comp on last night's show thread
Posted by MAXALLY

I don't even want to THINK about that debacle on my part!

I did at least get the minor satisfaction of busting Ross in the Mini, which was my sum total of success in three UKOPS Events, marv.

I don't really play many MTT's these days, especially NLH, but I must say I really enjoyed them, I got to feel that "buzz" again.

I'll be playing the Main & Mini tonight, too. Optimism of a a good result is not exactly overflowing.....

As a fellow "champion" of the smallball players, I guess you must be pleased to see so many do well last night? 

Oban

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In Response to Re: A brief review of Day One of UKOPSXII : Ahh, my bad (Oban), sorry, but I was bound to miss a few, I just thought it'd be good to see a bit of a Fun Review, especially as the Community has been a bit chuntery over Xmas. Slippy is doing the Leaderboard thing, I guess he's either had a heavy night, is grappling with the sheer volume of numbers on his Spready, or spending his UKOPS winnings.  
Posted by Tikay10

Your forgiven Tikey , nice thread to have going. Delighted to TID and good luck this evening.