Category: Stamford Bridge

Plus win a slice of another $250,000 guarantee in time for Christmas playing the online Grand Prix Poker Tour leg at partypoker.com, 20 December

Hot on the heels of the Grand Prix Poker Tour visiting Stamford Bridge, the first in a series of seven iconic football stadium venues, qualifiers have now started for the next leg at Manchester United’s legendary Old Trafford home, 16-17 January.

Players have the option to play four live day 1’s at Manchester235 casino on 9, 10, 14 &15 January, the weekly online day 1’s on partypoker or head straight to United’s ‘Theatre of Dreams’ to use their partypoker account to buy in and take their seat directly at the stadium itself on Saturday 16 January, 2016.

Simon Lazenby, partypoker ambassador and ardent Manchester City supporter said: “I am looking forward to playing my first Grand Prix Poker Tour event after coming straight off the Formula 1 circuit. As a City fan I know the exquisite pleasure of winning at Old Trafford so I urge all poker fans to take up this unique opportunity to share that feeling!”

Before that, partypoker players also have the option to join the action online on 20 December for just $109 and $250,000 guaranteed. The one-day tournament kicks off at 5PM (GMT) with a top prize of at least $35,000 to be won.

The Grand Prix Poker Tour will travel to the following stadiums across 2015/2016:

Date	Location
20 December, 2015	Online at partypoker
16 -17 January, 2016	Old Trafford, Manchester
20 - 21 February, 2016	St James Park, Newcastle
16 March, 2016	Online at partypoker
9 -10 April, 2016	Elland Road, Leeds
14 -15 May, 2016	Hampden Park, Glasgow
16 June, 2016	Online at partypoker
30 -31, July 2016	Amex Stadium, Brighton
3 – 4 September, 2016	Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff
16 October, 2016	Online at partypoker

*Proposed schedule is subject to change. Any changes will be communicated to players in advance

All buy-ins and payouts will be completed using player’s online partypoker accounts. Players can buy directly into the action with a $109 ticket or can use their poker skills to qualify from as little as $0.01. For more information visit the partypoker website, check out the partypoker blog, follow @partypoker or like partypokerUK.

Sunny has a smile on his face as he takes down the title, and it was a dramatic last hand! With just a few minutes left on the clock before we’d be looking at getting calculators out, Pak Chung shoved blind with and was called by Mistri, who held

The flop of put Sunny well ahead, and he survived the turn and river to hold and lift the trophy! It’s the biggest win of his poker career and he is absolutely ecstatic here at Stamford Bridge as he wins £35,000, Pak Chung taking £23,100 for the runner-up place!

Join us in Manchester’s Old Trafford stadium, home of Manchester United in January for the next leg of the record-breaking Grand Prix Poker Tour …you can qualify on partypoker from tonight!

Pak Chung (pictured above) was super-short and shoved all-in pre-flop with called by Sunil’s

The board of doubled up Pak Chung to 13.5m … but he doesn’t hang about…and we’re all-in again!

Sunil Mistri has taken control of the heads-up almost instantly here at Stamford Bridge as the Grand Prix Poker Tour builds to a heads-up climax!

No sooner had Tony Vu disappeared from the table did Mistri take charge. With 6m in the pot and a board of Pak Chung led 10m into the middle, but after Sunny shoved, made an instant fold.

Is this nearly over?

Sunil - 47.25m

Pak - 6.75m

The sequence began with Sunil Mistri getting a stack as he moved all in with from the button for around 8m and getting called by Chung Pak in the big blind with . The board ran out and Mistri hit his flush to double up to around 16m and put the hurt on Pak.

Mistri had added a few more chips to his stack over the next few hands before he opened for 2.5m from the small blind and Tony Vu moved all in. The stacks were close and Mistri asked for a count, but before it was completed Mistri called and the cards were turned over.

Vu:
Mistri:

The board ran out and when the stacks were counted down Mistri just had the tricky Vu covered. It was handshakes all round before heads up play began.

Tim Rowlands (pictured) lost a huge pot with A-J when Sunil Mistri’s AQ decimated his stack (and Tony Vu open-folded A-K) which sent him low on chips. He called his last off with as Sunny shoved blind-on-blind on him with the which hit a jack on the flop and held as the board played out .

Tim leaves us in 4th for £11,790 - a very good weekend’s work by most people’s standards! - and leaves the following chip-counts:

Sunil Mistri - 19 million

Tony Vu - 16 million

Pak Chung - 19 million

Let’s find a winner!

There have hardly been any flops in the last half hour with mostly uncalled shoves but there have been three all in confrontations.

First Sunil Mistri moved all in with and was called by the big stack Tony Vu who tabled . A run out of delivered a straight to Mistri who got his double up as Vu lost his commanding lead.

Next it was Mistri who shoved from the small blind holding and he was called by big blind short stack Tim Rowland who had . No help from the dealer this time for Mistri as the board ran out and it was Rowland’s turn to double up.

A short while later Mistri shoved from the button, Rowland called from the small blind and Vu agonised for a while before open folding Ace-King. It would be a fold he would shortly regret as Mistri showed and Rowland the . The final board read giving Mistri a double up, leaving Rowland as the short stack and a missed opportunity for Vu.

With 4 players left, the blinds are up to 300,000/600,000/75,000 with the following chip-counts:

Tony Vu - 26 million chips

Pak Chung - 14m

Sunny Mistri - 12m

Tim Rowland - 8m

The atmosphere is electric here at Stamford Bridge, after the last three quick-fire bust-outs:

Dave Mundle moved all in from under the gun and it was Tony Vu again who called.

Mundle:
Vu:

The runout was and in short order Vu had claimed his third victim in a row.

Seelantha Kangaha moved his short stack all in and it folded round to Tony Vu who made the call to put Kangaha at risk.

“You got a pair?” Kangaha asked as he tabled his . Vu nodded that he did and revealed .

The final board read and Vu scored another knock out to bust Kangaha in 6th place.