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INTRODUCTION

Las Vegas anyone? I’d imagine 134,559 Redtooth Poker members wouldn’t say no. Well that was the big prize on offer on this fabulous sunny day at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham, and also an indication of what Redtooth Poker has become in the five excellent years of it’s existence. Nine players would leave the building at some point in the evening of Sunday 25th March having won a prize that is every poker players dream… a week in Las Vegas with flights, accommodation and breakfast all on Redtooth! Welcome to the 2011/12 Redtooth Poker National Final.

Fun Fact: Furthest player north was Craig Neate of the Argyll Hotel in Ullapool – 495 miles one way.

tom_laurenAs 9:00am passed the queue outside this prestigious venue was forming. Almost 400 players travelled from all corners of the UK to one of Europe’s largest poker venues, Dusk Till Dawn, in Nottingham with glamour model and TOWIE star, Lauren Pope and TV quiz professional Mark Labbett on hand to add some star quality to the proceedings. The players and guests were also entertained by upcoming magician Afromagic who displayed some dazzling card tricks throughout the day. Lauren Pope and Mark Labbett were also going to be present later in the evening for photos with our eventual nine Las Vegas qualifiers and to present them with their ticket and a bottle of champagne.

Fun Fact: The best represented city was London with 55 players from within the M25.

‘SHUFFLE UP ‘N’ DEAL’

abbott‘Shuffle up n deal’ was once again announced by Tournament Director Simon Trumper as the excitement and tension was felt all across the card room. Almost exactly one minute later we had lost our first player, Paul Abbott who plays at the Hilly House in Dudley hit the rail to a huge round of applause after his K-K ran head first into A-A, which unfortunately for Paul, didn’t bring our first outdraw of the day. Paul later received a bottle of wine in a wooden box emblazoned ‘1st out of the tournament’ as a nice consolation prize, better luck next time!

Fun Fact: 10% of the players at this National Final were female.

Not long after the rail became much more populated which included our oldest ever regional final champion Fred Copley, aged 83, and previous West London champion Jamiee Dickinson as they both made early exits. Last year’s winner, David Cheesman, who is the only UK Pub Poker Champion to re-qualify the following year made a good fist of his defence but ultimately fell short in 107th position. The previous nights RPCT winner, Carl Shipsey, carried on his good form with a top 100 finish in 81st place as the business end of the tournament was fast approaching.

Fun Fact: The best represented pub was the Mulberry Tree in Warrington with four players.

Once the final 20 players were reached the players’ thoughts could start turning to the prospect of a trip to Las Vegas as they were only an hour or two away after all. We still had a couple of reigning champions in the field in Richard Arnott our North Scotland champion and Nigel Hardy who is the current East Midlands champion, both held healthy chip stacks at this point. Nigel even became one of our chip leaders when his A-A found a dream scenario with another player picking up K-K, doubling Nigel up.

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Following a short break with only 13 players left we were soon on the bubble as Mervyn Allen, Paul Smith and Malcom Coleman left us in 13th, 12th and 11th place respectively. In what was expected to be a very long bubble it was soon burst as Craig Evans from the Winding Wheel in Cannock soon followed Malcom in 10th place as all players and rail birds crowded around the table to see the final hand of the evening. The remaining nine players all cheered and breathed a huge sigh of relief in the comfort of knowing they had made the Last Table, Las Vegas trip.

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LAST TABLE, LAS VEGAS PLAYERS & CHIP COUNTS

1. 393,500 Dean Dunkerley – Player’s Lounge, Sheffield
2. 317,000 Andrew Gee – Spink’s Nest, Huddersfield
3. 274,000 Neil Pitchford – Dolphin, Thetford
4. 216,500 Richard Arnott – Imperial Bar, Cupar
5. 169,000 Richard Breakwell – Cleveland Arms, Wolverhampton
6. 167,000 Richard Hoodless – Bull’s Head, Stapleford
7. 151,000 Nigel Hardy – Davy Lamp, Ilkeston
8. 147,500 Paul Broughton – Chartwell Arms, Leicester
9. 115,000 Andrew Seymour – Moby Dick, Weymouth

FINAL TABLE SEAT DRAW

Seat 1: Richard Breakwell
Seat 2: Richard Arnott
Seat 3: Andrew Seymour
Seat 4: Richard Hoodless
Seat 5: Nigel Hardy
Seat 6: Andrew Gee
Seat 7: Dean Dunkerley
Seat 8: Neil Pitchford
Seat 9: Paul Broughton

All eyes are now on Sunday 13th May as the final table takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada with the new UK Pub Poker Champion being crowned later that day. Good luck guys!

NATIONAL FINAL FINISHING POSITIONS

10 Craig Evans
11 Malcom Coleman
12 Paul Smith
13 Mervyn Shaun Allen
14 Paul Bailey
15 Orlando Antoine
16 Daniel Lummis
17 Bojan Nastic
18 Gary Wilson
19 Richard Meek
20 Phill Benton
21 Steve Haynes
22 Philip Connerton
23 Wayne Maunder
24 Diana Van Dyk
25 Stuart Lees
26 David Marley
27 David Pearson
28 Sebastian Walicki
29 Ray Coates
30 Joseph Rolls
31 Gary Hulks
32 Andrew Macmillan
33 Jason Hall
34 Michael Nowak
35 Kevin Haycock
36 Alan Tate
37 Steven Smith
38 Samuel Round
39 Chris Roberts
40 David Crease
41 Calvin Cobby
42 Michael Whittington
43 Mark Cartlidge
44 Gary Myerscough
45 Gavin Pennington
46 Scott Oxford
47 Mark Forster
48 Mark Crowley
49 Karin Willis
50 Neil Ratcliffe
51 Sam Johnson
52 Dave Fry
53 Darren Sanderson
54 Leon Cloherty
55 Deborah Griffiths
56 Andrew Swann
57 Russell Pollington
58 Ian Vayro
59 Samuel Byrne
60 Ian Mckay
61 Tom Lines
62 Bernard Wright
63 Abdul Majed Majed
64 Stacey Price
65 Justin Hughes
66 Mark Mcnamara
67 Chris Wildgust
68 Donna Stanton
69 Jason Wakeling
70 Kamran Tirmizey
71 John Smith
72 Stuart Bellis
73 Lee Baker
74 Gordon Sanders
75 Mark Wilton
76 Michael Milne
77 Matthew Prisk
78 Lee Pearce
79 Malcolm Downes
80 Matt Knight
81 Carl Shipsey
82 Paul Goodwin
83 Dan Pollard
84 Steven Forbes
85 Jamie Johnson
86 Peter Brocklehurst
87 James Mellor
88 Kevin Trent
89 Keith Brown
90 Mitch Rowlands
91 Peter Kemp
92 Larry Biggs
93 John Graham Wallace
94 Daniel Karythis
95 Richard Makin
96 Shaun Wallace
97 David Cree
98 Nick Cookson
99 Jim Mcsweeney
100 Daniel Beswick
101 Andrew Lawson
102 Shaun Hayes
103 Kerrison Collier
104 Sam Peck
105 Genine Taylor
106 Nicolas Lumb
107 Anthony Faulkes
108 David Cheesman
109 Paul Desousa
110 Jamie Grayson
111 Anne Pell
112 Raj Jiven
113 Adam Parrinder
114 Edward Green
115 Dean Hendry
116 Steven Carlton
117 Daniel Souster
118 Tom Maleham
119 Benjamin Scott
120 Richard Lewis
121 Andrew Johnson
122 Ashley Knowles
123 Kevin Beaufils
124 Ciaran Whelan
125 George Greer
126 Thomas Hill
127 John Mann
128 Andy Adey
129 Jamie Robertson
130 Michael Taynton
131 Neil Lancaster
132 Peter Sharp
133 Stephen Flynn
134 Patrick Allen
135 Malcolm Snashall
136 Dusan Porubsky
137 Paul Priestley
138 Dean Walmsley
139 Ismail Niyazi
140 Sean Williams
141 Jason Thompson
142 Paul Murphy
143 Daniel Walker Walker
144 Christopher Brown
145 Michael Heindel
146 Ronald Fleming
147 Huw Roberts
148 Martyn Jenkins
149 James French
150 Kevin Whibley
151 Darren Mapley
152 Sean Lyons
153 Stuart Allen
154 Marjory Ritson
155 Helen Jones
156 Jason Hinsley
157 Paul Swash
158 Nicholas Bancroft
159 Simon Stubbings
160 Jon Nicholls
161 Rob Purser
162 Kate Rhian Taylor
163 Lyndon Horton
164 Evelyn Williams
165 Jonathan Clarke
166 Laurence Morris
167 Judith Hoy
168 Stephanie Winckley
169 Antonio Prado
170 Craig Mcdonald
171 Carl Daniels
172 Carol Jenkins
173 Tan-tai Ellul-nguyen
174 Carl Sullivan
175 Mark Harrison
176 Ian Holman
177 Kieran Walker
178 William Powell
179 John Allam
180 Dean Garratt
181 Stefano Paganuzzi
182 Chris Owen
183 Geoffrey Walker
184 John Jackson
185 Carol Boulton
186 Graham Smith
187 Thomas Leslie Smith
188 Alan Holland
189 John Barker
190 Stephen Harris
191 Paul Elkins
192 Sean Boylan
193 Josh Watterson
194 Mahesh Kanji
195 Philip Simmons
196 Thomas Lees
197 Gary Musgrove
198 Matthew Graham
199 Lisa Greer
200 Ian Bratley
201 Ricky Schaffter
202 Daniel Timms
203 Ian Preece
204 Keith Richards
205 Daniel Wiseman
206 Bob Roberts
207 Daniel Mitchell
208 Colin Clayton
209 Paul Brugnola
210 Jason Wootton
211 Christopher Conibere
212 Andrew Waugh
213 John Fisher
214 Kevin Palmer
215 Aaron Ali
216 Lisa Houghton
217 Adrian Bambrough
218 Steve Dawson
219 Andy Smith
220 Steven Braithwaite
221 Paul Baker
222 David Golding
223 Shaun Derrick
224 Keith Lawrence
225 Mark Whall
226 Hugh Hall
227 Tracey Roberts
228 Scott Connell
229 Steven Taylor
230 Liam Kelk
231 Dean Wilson
232 Jason Cross
233 Steve Davies
234 Adrian Clark
235 Michael Paterson
236 Alan Petch
237 Dafydd Thomas
238 James Mann
239 Paul Turner
240 Matthew Wadsworth
241 Nicholas Clifford
242 Robert Dabrowski
243 Paul Bishop
244 Nicholas Horbury
245 Peter Britton
246 Mark Jones
247 Christopher Baron
248 Tracy Clark
249 Joe Williams
250 Eamonn Callan
251 Sophie Rigali
252 Janice Bailey
253 Nicholas Rawlings
254 Jake Garside
255 Gareth Deighton
256 Richard Tuzinkiewicz
257 Emma Abel
258 Danny Musgrave
259 Thomas Goddard
260 Clive Young
261 Brandon Slater
262 Alan Kirkby
263 Mark Quinn
264 Philippa Stanbridge
265 Andrew Chatwin
266 Calum Farmar
267 Paul Merrill
268 Janet Tulloch
269 Craig Batten
270 Carl Elliott
271 Roy Bean
272 James Lynch
273 Barry Fry
274 Shawn Brown
275 Malcolm Terry Sutcliffe
276 Isabella Millar
277 Howard Dawber
278 Ian Russell
279 Alec Pupkis
280 Stuart Weston
281 Karl White
282 Colin Quick
283 Sean Pipkin
284 Dean Mobley
285 Jamie Donovan
286 Calum Tait
287 Jamie Carswell
288 Alex King
289 Linzi Cottam
290 Debbie Percy
291 Patrick Buchanan
292 Noel Ithurralde
293 Andrew Jankowski
294 Steve Mulcair
295 Graeme Beaton
296 Darren Cotterell
297 Daniel Williams
298 Lyndsey Hickton
299 Stephen Manning
300 Stephen Johnson
301 Neil Cole
302 Richard Taplin
303 Lisa Snook
304 Brett Karat
305 Sam Fletcher
306 James Cox
307 Daniel Oneill
308 Sam Bonney
309 Neil Vigor
310 Clare Todd
311 Kevin Linton
312 Adam Taylor
313 Terry Barnes
314 Sean Griffin
315 Mark Gwynne
316 Rbert Page
317 Ciaran Curran
318 Emily Bell
319 Jamie Dunn
320 Michael Baxter
321 Darren Lee
322 James Barlow
323 Daisy French
324 Samuel Hardy
325 Ronald Fields
326 Glenn Brown
327 Ben Tunnicliff
328 Tarra Moore
329 Jennifer Olden
330 Gary Smith
331 William Patey
332 Gabor Berecz
333 Howard Wilson
334 Luke Bentley
335 Adam Bone
336 Derrick Lancaster
337 Harry Sohal
338 Paul Brookes
339 James Robinson
340 Joseph Toussaint
341 Peter Bullimore
342 Richard Wing
343 Richard Olaneye
344 Simon O’brien
345 Emma Erwin
346 Stephen Mukasa
347 Craig Greenway
348 Alex Little
349 Colin Booth
350 Lavinia Dawson
351 Roy Forster
352 Paul Robertson
353 Steven Thompson
354 Richard Wilson
355 Michael Bell
356 Peter Webb
357 Ashley Bristow
358 Richard Prescott
359 Kerry Tature-green
360 Andrew Stewart
361 Joe Stephenson
362 Rod Williams
363 Phil Parker
364 Thomas Chetwynd
365 Kevin Mears
366 Christopher Ware
367 Geoffrey Ward
368 Michael Latter
369 David Gray
370 Neil Prosser
371 Kenneth Melton
372 Daniel Jacques
373 Ross Eley
374 Graeme Garioch
375 Kieren Whatley
376 Jaimee Dickinson
377 Granville Mills
378 Aaron Clapperton
379 John Wheatley
380 Matt Dawson
381 Daniel Barclay
382 Martin Hodgson
383 Andrew Hiew
384 Fred Copley
385 Martin Sopp
386 Nathan Hatwell
387 Paul Abbott