Martin Bader Leads GUKPT London 2013 By Winning Main Event

Martin Bader leads GUKPT London 2013 by winning Main Event
Martin Bader leads GUKPT London 2013 by winning Main Event

Martin Bader won Grosvenor UK Poker Tour 2013 main event battling the field with 397 runners with winning amount of £56,000. The event held in London on Sunday at Victoria Casino 397 players participated with £1,070 buy-in.

The real game started at the Vic for the two starting days, including WSOP bracelet winners Freddy Deeb, Willie Tann, Chris Bjorin and Craig McCorkell, and WPT champions Marvin Rettenmaier and Surinder Sunar.

Rettenmaier and Tann were in the list of 38 layers to cash, but couldn’t achieve much out of it, as online poker pro Jones with just fewer than 150,000 which was the biggest stack of the 158 players to make it through to the day 2 from days 1a and 1b.

But, never the less the nine finalist are not short of popularity, Vic regulars Jamie Roberts, Jeff Duval and Paul Alterman all trailing former Sunday Million champion and top online pro Marc ‘Dean23Price’ Wright, who with nearly 1.9million chips was 650,000 clear of the field.

 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour 2013 final table chip Counts:

Seat Player’s Name Chip Count
1 Antonio Millan 505,500
2 Jamie Roberts 1,233,000
3 Jeff Duval 899,000
4 Paul Alterman 651,000
5 Sin Melin 910,000
6 Chiraag Thanki 247,000
7 Marc Wright 1,879,000
8 Martin Bader 1,208,000
9 David Barraclough 545,000