Neil ‘Bad Beat’ Channing has won the Main Event of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) in Luton by clearing a field of 229 other poker players over four days and winning £64,050 for first place.
After winning the poker tournament, the Londoner stood at over £1.6 million profit in live tournaments and proved his position as one of the best online poker players in the UK. Neil Channing reached the final table with a big chip lead, but George White, Keith Johnson and Ricky Mackintosh also had deep stacks. The other players had a lot of work to do, but could not keep up against Channing. The first poker players to be eliminated from the final table were Victor Ilyukhin, Jeff Kimber, Joe Grech, Les Fenton, Ricky Mackin But Carlo and Citron respectively. George White at some point must have thought he was invincible after hitting pocket aces four times in a row, but he eventually lost and came in fourth place.
Odetoyinbo managed to survive Keith Johnson, who lost with pocket 7 against the ace-king of Channing. Finally Odetoyinbo was defeated, he won a prize of £43,500 for second place. Neil Channing wins the £64,050 and a chair for the Champion of Champions event, an exclusive poker tournament for winners of the GUKPT and similar tournaments.