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Special Guest: Ethan Brown. Ethan Brown shares his story starting with his homeschooling days and getting into programming. He started selling commercial software through his dad’s company at age 16. At age 17 he was recruited for a programming job and moved to New Jersey. Georgia Senate battle is a high stakes poker game. Which CEO Ethan Brown said was boosted by consumers 'panic buying,' and having 'freezer loaded' at the onset of the pandemic.

End of Day 1b – 07/07/2018 – 01:25

Boon Leads 1b – 07/07/2018 – 01:15

After another ten levels of play, Day 1b of GUKPT London is now over. It’s been a huge days play with 227 entries in total over the 6 levels of late registration. Giving us 358 entries for both days combined and a prizepool of £179,000 for the players to play for over the next two days.

Surprisingly despite having nearly 100 players more today, our chip leader has finished with 100k less than the chip leader from Day 1a. That won’t matter to Rob Boon though as he has finished with over 160,000, which is a great stack for tomorrow.

Full chip counts are:

We will all be back tomorrow where there are 98 players coming back to play another ten levels of play or down to a final table.

Play Has Finished – 07/07/2018 – 00:50

Play has finished now on all tables.

The players are now bagging their chips for day two.

Last Six Hands – 07/07/2018 – 00:35

Kelly Saxby has picked out a six with 11 minutes on the clock.

So we will play 6 more hands before we bag up for the night.

Exits – 07/07/2018 – 00:20

The most recent exits from the tournament:

Chris Forde
Mohammd Ullah
Muktar Ahmed
Davide Magnan

Brown Busts – 06/07/2018 – 23:55

Ethan Brown gets his last 10k all in pre flop holding against the of Keith Ongxun.

The flop comes which changes nothing

The turn card comes

The river card !!

Keith rivers top pair to take the pot.

Ethan heads out of the tournament here during the last level of play.

The Last Level – 06/07/2018 – 23:45

The blinds increase for the last time today as we begin level number ten.

They are now 500/1000 with a 100 ante.

75 players remaining.

Chip Counts – 06/07/2018 – 23:30

Andreas Constantinou – 90,000
Chris Cooper – 50,000
Rob Boon – 70,000
Neil McCulloch – 80,000
James Martin – 90,000
Vikrum Mehta – 87,000
Marius Hutupasu – 90,000
Alstair Akenhead – 125,000

Cardroom Shot – 06/07/2018 – 23:10

Is there a better cardroom than @ThePokerRoomUK in the UK?

We think not.

Chip Counts – 06/07/2018 – 22:55

Dan Silo – 46,000
Ranith Wimalaratna – 58,00
Adrian Balica – 59,000
Patrick Szabo – 32,000
Dahe Liu – 43,000
Hamish Mojaria – 47,000
Kohei Nakai – 22,000
Alexios Zervos – 73,000

Level 9 – 06/07/2018 – 22:45

The players are back seated as we begin level number 9.

The blinds are 400/800 with a 100 ante.

96 players remaining.

Down to 100 – 06/07/2018 – 22:30

We’re now down to 100 players here in the main event as players are dropping thick and fast.

Just over two levels of play left today before the players bag and tag.

Big Pot For Brown – 06/07/2018 – 22:02

On flop of Ethan Brown & Sang Leung get involved in a raising war which results in Ethan moving all in and Sang making the call.

Ethan tables for a flush draw and will need to hit a heart against the who has flopped top two.

The turn card comes as Ethan turns more outs any of the two Jacks left in the deck would win him the pot.

The river card comes !!!

Ethan rivers the flush to take the pot, he now has 55,000.

Sang is left with just 3,000.

Recent Eliminations – 06/07/2018 – 21:50

No re-entries for the players below as we lose:

Adrian Chamaa
Vitalie Grecul
Phil Colls
Catherine Ivgi
Roy Wicks
Laurence Houghton

Level Eight – 06/07/2018 – 21:29

The blinds increase as we begin level number eight.

They are now 300/600 with a 50 ante.

119 players remaining.

Chip Counts – 06/07/2018 – 21:10

Paul Scipioni – 70,000
Neil McCulloch – 40,000
Kuljinder Sidhu – 30,000
Brynn Kinlaug – 32,000
Rahim Tadjasadaat – 50,000
Gednet Haili – 24,000
Konrad Zalewski – 27,000

Final Numbers – 06/07/2018 – 20:50

Level 7 – 06/07/2018 – 20:30

The players are back seated as we begin level number 7.

The blinds are now 200/400 with a 50 ante.

130 players remaining.

Break Time – 06/07/2018 – 20:15

Break time now for the players as they take 15 minutes.

Bust Outs – 06/08/2018 – 19:45

Players dropping like flies here at the GUKPT Main Event in London as we lose:

Hamish Morjaria
Mingze Xu
Robinder Dhinsa
Andrew Lawson
Andrew Garland

When we’re losing players they’re jumping back in for another bullet and why wouldn’t you with the prizepool currently at £174,500.

Table Shots – 06/07/2018 – 19:28

Level 6 – 06/07/2018 – 19:16

The blinds increase as we begin level number 6.

They are now 150/300 with a 25 ante.

142 players remaining.

Over 300 – 06/07/2018 – 19:01

It’s another massive turnout here at The Poker Room in London.

We currently have 336 entries so far over the two days, which puts £168,000 in the prizepool with 90 minutes left to register the tournament.

More Chip Counts – 06/07/2018 – 18:46

Laurence Houghton – 45,000
Marius Hutupasu – 2,000
Kieran Davey – 6,000
Justin Kyriakides – 30,000
Robinder Dhinsa – 50,000
Justin Tsui – 65,000

Chip Counts – 06/07/2018 – 18:36

Terry Jordon – 38,000
Adrian Balica – 65,000
Stephen Bean – 42,000
Alexios Zervos – 20,000
Roni Tai – 86,000

Cash Game Update – 06/07/2018 – 18:25

Cash Game Update from

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NLH
1-1 (3)
1-2 (3)
1-3 (1)
2-5 (1)

Level 5 – 06/07/2018 – 18:16

The players are back seated as we begin level number 5.

The blinds are 100/200 with a 25 ante.

181 players today so far.

Dinner Break – 06/07/2018 – 17:16

Dinner break now for the players as we take a 60 minute dinner break.

Sidhu Busts Two – 06/07/2018 – 17:05

We get to the table where three players are all in!!

Mohammed is all in for his 8,000 stack holding

Jan Bechtel all in for 15,000 with

Kully Sidhu has both players covered with

The flop comes as Kully flops a flush draw.

The turn card

The river card !!

Flush for Kully on the river as he busts Mohammed & Jan.

Kully now has a stack of around 45,000.

Bust Outs – 06/07/2018 – 16:50

Dhruv Dosh
Konrad Zalewski
Michael Rolt
Muqit Teja
James Parker

Chip Counts – 06/07/2018 – 16:35

Mohammed Tidjan – 10,000
Andrew Garland – 34,000
Chris Cooper – 30,000
Alastair Akenhead – 53,000
David Gee – 5,000
Aleks Golubevs – 14,000

Level 4 – 06/07/2018 – 16:15

The blinds increase as we begin the next level of play.

They are now 100/200.

164 entries so far today.

Prizepool currently stands at £147,500.

Live Stream – 06/07/2018 – 15:59

We have our GUKPT Live Stream running with all hole cards shown on a thirty minute delay.

You can watch all the action from Day 1b HERE!!

Exits – 06/07/2018 – 15:30

The most recent exits in the tournament:

Sum Yip
Andrew Lawson
Mazalahedwa Bako

Level 3 – 06/07/2018 – 15:15

The players are back seated as we begin level number three.

The blinds are now 75/150.

118 players remaining from the 129 entries so far today.

Break Time – 06/07/2018 – 15:01

Break time now for the players as they take 15 minutes.

All is Quiet – 06/07/2018 – 14:34

All is quiet during the second level of play here in London.

The prizepool has increased to £125,000 and the sky is the limit with four levels of late registration remaining.

Last years total was £224,500, but I think we will struggle to hit anything close to that.

Guarantee Smashed! – 06/07/2018 – 14:15

The guarantee has already been smashed here at GUKPT London.

The current prizepool is £120,000 and with late registration open until 8:30pm we are hoping to hit the £200,000 mark.

Level 2 – 06/07/2018 – 14:01

The blinds increase as we begin level number 2.

The blinds are now 50/100.

103 entries so far today.

Seating Plan – 06/07/2018 – 13:45

Start of Day 1b – 06/07/2018 – 13:30

Shuffle Up & Deal – 06/07/2018 – 13:02

The cards are in the air as we begin day 1b here in London. We have started the day with 65 players.

The blinds are 25/50.

Players Called In – 06/07/2018 – 12:55

The players have been called in to take their seats.

We should be underway very soon.

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Day 1a Chip Counts – 06/07/2018 – 12:45

131 players played yesterday with 37 players making it though to Day 2.

Welcome To Day 1b – 06/07/2018 – 12:30

Good afternoon and welcome back to the Poker Room in London for the second Day one of the GUKPT Main Event.

The buy in to the tournament is £500+£60 with a £100,000 Guarantee, which is going to be smashed today!! For their buy in, the players will receive 20,000 chips on a 60 minute clock, played on the best structure around.

Late registration is open until 8:30pm today and we are looking forward to what should be a great day of poker.

Play begins today at 1pm.

Ethan Brown is the author of four investigative reporting-driven books about crime and criminal justice policy, Murder in the Bayou, Queens Reigns Supreme, Snitch, and Shake the Devil Off. He has written for New York magazine, The New York Observer, Wired, GQ, Mother Jones, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and The Village Voice. He also worked for nearly a decade as a mitigation specialist for attorneys representing indigent defendants facing the death penalty in the Deep South and elsewhere. Currently, Ethan is Enterprise Editor of The Appeal, which produces original journalism about the most significant drivers of mass incarceration, state and local criminal justice systems.

His first book—Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Hustler—was published by Random House in 2005 to rave reviews in the Boston Globe (“diligently researched and trenchantly observed…a fascinating look at the way one generation’s reality becomes the next’s mythology”), The Village Voice (“one of the first reliable accounts [of the crack era]…the fact that Brown was able to publish so thorough an account is itself notable”) and Publishers Weekly (“A vigorous account of an American subculture that’s colorful, influential and, given the body count, tragic”).

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Ethan’s second book—Snitch: Informers, Cooperators and the Corruption of Justice—was published by Public Affairs in 2007. The Legal Times wrote that “many police and prosecutors reading his book (or this review) will surely cry foul. Their cries will too often be proven insincere upon close examination, however, because Brown’s evidence…is overwhelming.” Brown University economics professor Glenn Loury praised Snitch as “must reading for anyone concerned about the future of ‘law and order’ in America.” In 2009, Manhattan Institute Scholar John McWhorter calledSnitch one of the “strongest, smartest” books about race in the past decade.

Ethan’s third book—Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans—was published by Henry Holt in 2009. Evan Wright, author of the New York Times bestseller Generation Kill, called it “a chilling portrait of a broken hero failed by the system.” George Pelecanos, New York Times bestselling author of The Turnaround, said that “Ethan Brown examines a notorious murder case, rescues it from the talons of tabloid journalists, and comes up with something much more than a true crime book. Shake the Devil Off is a gripping suspense story, an indictment of the military’s treatment of our soldiers in and out of war, and a celebration of the resilience and worth of a great American city.” In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called Shake the Devil Off “heartbreaking.” Nate Blakeslee, author of Tulia, hailed the book as “a ‘coming home’ story that rivals any written about veterans of the war in Iraq, and a true crime account that raises the bar for the genre. Measured, thoroughly reported, and written with true empathy.” David Simon, creator of The Wire, said that “looking more deeply at that from which the rest of us turned in horror, Ethan Brown has transformed an ugly and disturbing shard of the post-Katrina anguish. In this book, that which was lurid and sensational becomes, chapter by chapter, something genuinely sad and reflective, something that now has true meaning for New Orleans and for all of us.” In September 2009, Shake The Devil Off was chosen as a “Critics’ Pick” in the Washington Post and an “Editors’ Choice” by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. In December of 2009, theWashington Post named Shake the Devil Off one of the best books of 2009.

In January of 2014, Medium.com published “Who Killed the Jeff Davis 8?” a nearly 8,000 word investigative-reporting driven feature which was the result of Ethan’s two year investigation into the unsolved homicides of eight sex workers in Southwest Louisiana. “Who Killed the Jeff Davis 8?” was praised by journalists (“Astonishing revelations,” wrote Lost Girls author Robert Kolker), criminal justice experts and even cable TV showrunners. True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto called Ethan’s piece on the Jeff Davis 8 an “important study of police corruption and a suspected serial killer in Louisiana.”

Ethan’s fourth book, Murder in the Bayou, was published by Scribner/Simon and Schuster in September 2016. The book was praised by Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil author John Berendt (“Ethan Brown’s daring and dangerous exposé uncovers a murky inferno of violence and corruption in south Louisiana, where it’s hard to tell the good guys from the bad, and the brutal murders of eight prostitutes go unpunished, though not necessarily unsolved”), Rolling Stone contributor Janet Reitman (“A deeply reported, and disturbing, true crime story that is as puzzling as it is intriguing. Ethan Brown’s Murder in the Bayou raises as many questions as it answers, but never ceases to enrage. This is a book about power: those who wield it, and those who, tragically, fall victim to it”), and Doug J. Swanson, author of Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker (“Ethan Brown wades into the fetid political swamps of south Louisiana and emerges with a sordid yarn of sex, drugs and death. With a depraved and threatening cast of characters, Brown delivers a dogged, courageous inquiry into the murders of eight women. Even those accustomed to institutional corruption in the Pelican State will be shocked by this tale”).

Ethan can be reached at at ethanbrown72 at gmail dot com; Inquiries about Ethan’s published work should be sent to David Patterson at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, Inc: dp@skagency.com; follow Ethan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethanbrown72