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The 288-runner £550 MPNPT Manchester Main Event crowned its champion on Sunday, awarding the bulk of the £150,000 total prize pool to the nine players surviving after two days of tournament poker at the Grosvenor Casino. In the fastest final table ever seen on the MPN Poker Tour, it took less than six hours for 27-year-old poker pro Tim Chung to climb from short stack to last man standing, toppling huge chip leaders Yiannis Liperis and Sebastian Gruszczynski in the process.
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“I came to the final table without the huge stack of my friend [Liperis],” said Chung. “But I got an early double up. I then lost some back – I get a bit carried away with chips; I had good players on my left.”
After some hours of grinding (and some exceptional folds), for which his experience stood him in good stead, Chung finally took down the final hand. This latest title adds to an already healthy tournament record; Chung has $300,000 in live winnings, although he considers himself to be mainly a live cash game player.
A true “chip and a chair” comeback saw Alex Kong take the runner-up spot and £21,000 after starting the final with just four big blinds. “You’ve never played with King Kong!” he admonished his opponents, as he picked up aces and kings like they made up half a standard deck. Kong has played poker – of all disciplines and levels – for years, appearing on the first series of Late Night Poker, the show that introduced many in the UK to the game in the 1990s.
While Andreas Olympios, along with Chung, Kong and Liperis, make their living playing poker, a couple of skilled amateurs were also rewarded. Cody Wagner, a synthesis chemist, and Gruszczynski, a businessman and marketer, both put in a good showing, the latter winning the Last Longer King promotion which won him a free seat in Tallinn’s MPNPT Main Event. Outlasting all qualifiers from Betsson Group sites, he can now aim to best his £8,350 for 5th place when the tour goes to Estonia in October.
Speaking about the speed with which he took down the event, Chung said, “All my final tables are really, really quick – and heads ups, less than five minutes. This one, one hand!”
Final Table Results
Place | Player | Prize |
---|---|---|
1 | Tim Chung | £29,900 |
2 | Alex Kong | £21,800 |
3 | Cieran Tighe | £16,350 |
4 | Yiannis Liperis | £12,350 |
5 | Sebastian Gruszczynski | £8,350 |
6 | Jari Hurri | £4,950 |
7 | Colin Guthrie | £5,100 |
8 | Cody Wagner | £3,650 |
9 | Andreas Olympios | £2,800 |
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When one of the most-famous UK casinos decides to offer a guaranteed £500,000 prizepool, it’s a dead cert it will attract a big field, and Tim Chung took advantage of the Dusk Till DawnDTD 1000’s popularity to scoop his biggest win to date with a first prize of £76,500 ($101,668).
Building on the success of their DTD 200 events, the casino which Rob Yong transformed out of ‘a crappy old building on an industrial estate in Nottingham’ into one the nation’s best-known poker venues decided to up the ante, a £1000 (+£100) buy-in attracting 274 players. With 228 re-entries on top of that, the prizepool just topped £½million – so a lot to play for.
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Tim Chung is a well-known face on the English poker circuit, with cashes going back to 2009 at…Dusk Till Dawn! The DTD 1000, however, dwarfed his previous best payday of £32,815 ($56,007) for winning the Newcastle leg of the Genting Poker Series back in 2014, and follows another well-paid victory just last month in Manchester where he took down the MPN Poker Tour Main Event for £29,900 ($38,958).
Chung found himself up against some very good players in Nottingham, David Vamplew, Robert Romanello and Tom Hall among them, but when Hall hot the rail in 9th spot the final table proper was set – 8 Englishmen and a solitary Spaniard Chuc Khuu, pictured below lifting a title of his own in England back in 2014.
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There was to be no repeat of this success for Khuu, falling in 6th spot, and when Sevilla and Bennet followed shortly afterwards, it was time to talk about a deal. Eventually they agreed on an ICM chop, leaving an extra £10k plus the trophy for the winner and £5k for second spot.
Law’s subsequent bust-out saw Chung facing Hyde-based Mark Kelsall for the title and it all came down to a ‘bigger-kicker’ when both players made trip aces on the river, Chung’s king outgunning an unlucky Kelsall’s lowly trey.
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DTD 1000 Final Table Results
1 | Tim Chung | £76,500* |
2 | Mark Kelsall | £71,020* |
3 | Chun Law | £57,480* |
4 | William Bennet | £34,700 |
5 | Justin Sevilla | £25,000 |
6 | Chuck Khuu | £20,000 |
7 | Colin Gillon | £15,000 |
8 | Harvey Sellick | £12,500 |
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* 3-way deal