Mark Whitney Day 1a of the £1,100 PokerStars United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) Nottingham Main Event is done and dusted after 13 action-packed hours of poker action at Dusk Till Dawn. The first flight of the UKIPT Nottingham Main Event drew in a 149-strong crowd but only 21 of those starters had chips in front of them when the curtain came down on proceedings.
Also taking place at the home of British Poker was the £5,300 buy-in Super High Roller . It crowned its champion after a heads-up deal between two of the United Kingdom’s elite grinders £1,100 UKIPT Nottingham Main Event Day 1A Top 10 Chip Counts
1 Mark Whitney 385,000 2 Ben Jones 376,000 3 Majid Nadeem 359,000 4 Alberto Speranzoni 359,000 5 Calogero Morreale 336,000 6 Robbie Bull 309,000 7 Cameron Williamson 309,000 8 Rehman Kassam 278,000 9 Daniel Gormley 274,000 10 Sarbjit Kular 217,000 The opening flight of the first UKIPT Nottingham Main Event since 2015 saw Mark Whitney make a superb start, turning his 30,000 starting stack into a tournament-leading 385,000 chips. Whitney has just under $25,500 in live tournament winnings but looks set to more than double that sum if he can continue his Day 1a form into the latter stages of this £500,000 guaranteed event.
Ben Jones is hot on Whitney’s heels with a 376,000 stack. Most people know Jones by his “jenbizzle” online monikor, an alias that has seen Jones win more than $5.2 million in the online poker world.
Majid Nadeem , third-place finisher in the 2022 Irish Open Coin Rivet High Roller for €51,385, bagged up 359,000 chips at the close of play, which ties him with Italian Alberto Speranzoni .
Other familiar names in the Day 1a top 10 chip counts include Robbie Bull (309,000), and former Dusk Till Dawn dealer Rehman Kassam (278,000).
Also through at the first attempt are such luminaries as Usman Siddique (157,000), MILLIONS Online champion Endrit Geci (103,000), and the 2016 WPT500 champion Andreas Olympios (38,000).
Of course, if only 21 of the 149 starters punched their Day 2 tickets, plenty of stellar names busted […]
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