Colin Gillon Colin Gillion secured the second-largest live score of his career when he took down the 2021 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Luton 30/30 event . Gillon, who won the 2018 Irish Poker Masters for €175,000, took home £45,445 after outlasting 487 opponents in this £360 buy-in tournament. GUKPT Luton 30/30 Final Table Results
1 Colin Gillon £45,445 2 Robert Douras £30,990 3 Cedric Raffi £18,425 4 Ronnie Robertson £11,360 5 David Clarkson £7,405 6 Ishaq Ilaj £5,335 7 Valentin Ghioca £3,960 8 Robert Garfield £3,100 9 Sunil Mistri £2,585 The top 47 finishers shared the £175,860 prize pool, and plenty of GUKPT regulars were among those in-the-money players. Usman Siddique , David Lloyd , John Bousfield , Chris Johnson , Ben Winsor , and Danny Strange padded their bankrolls with this event.
Sunil Mistri was the first casualty of the nine-handed final table; ninth place came with a £2,585 payout. Robert Garfield , Valentin Ghioca , and Ishaq Ilaj followed Mistri to the cashier’s desk, the latter banking £5,335 for their efforts.
Fifth place and the last four-figure prize, £7,405, went to David Clarkson . The man known as “Clarkson7” in online poker circles, could not quite get the job done this time around.
Ronnie Robertson doubled his live tournament winnings with the £11,360 he collected for his fourth-place finish before France’s Cedric Raffi bowed out in third for £18,425. All of Raffi’s last three five-figures hauls have stemmed from tournaments held in Luton; watch out for him in the GUKPT Luton Main Event.
Heads-up pitted Gillon against Robert Douras in a battle for the lion’s share of the prize pool. Douras won the 30/30 Series in Walsall in July for £21,230 but had to make do with a bridesmaid finish in Luton, a finish that added £30,990 to his lifetime winnings.
Douras’ exit left Gillon as the last man standing, and the Scotsman scooped £45,445, which push his live poker tournament career earnings through the $550,000 mark. Massive Luton Main Event Expected
The next major GUKPT Luton tournament is the £1,250 buy-in Main Event, which PokerNews believes could be […]
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