Jamie Fraiser Joins Team 72 in Blackpool

After last month’s successful package giveaway we decided to run one each month up until the November GUKPT event.  Similar to last time we had 19 runners which meant we had one £1,400 package and a second prize of £500.  Many people had won their seat either through winning a Friday Freezeout or through a £10 lottery satellite, Jamie had done so through a lottery satellite so quite a nice return for only £10.

My table was quite lively with Farmer Ted dominating early on, he was making some ‘brave’ calls and built up a very healthy chip lead.  I started slowly however started to build up a nice chip stack by the time we were down to the final table.  One memorable hand was my Quad Kings, after my Quad Tens Friday, followed by Quad Queens in the cash at the Pomme this time it was the Cowboys.  I’d raised the ‘Salmons’ big blind which he’d flat called with A3 suited and Farmed Ted was also in, when the flop came KK3 Salmon bet out which I flat called, the turn gave a flush on the board which we both checked and the river came another 3 giving him a full house.  With all my Hollywood acting Salmon knew there was something up especially when I bet the river big however, after hitting his full house he had to have a look at what I had..... Unlucky fish A3!!!!!

The other table was reasonably even when they joined for the final table apart from The Kid who seemed to have a very healthy chip stack, and must have been dominating the table.  Lord Whipp entered the final table as a short stack but once there he quickly doubled up, after which he found The Kid in self destruct mode when he bluffed a large chunk of his stack to Whippy.  After that he started to dominate the table taking a few scalps along the way including myself.  Jamie had been relatively quiet but every hand he was in he took it down without a showdown or had the best hand.  Whippy and Jamie ended heads up, where they both decided they wanted to go to the Blackpool tournament and did some form of a deal, however Jamie managed to take the eventual first place and is the second winner of the GUKPT Blackpool events.  Well done Jamie who joins Whippy, Soxy and myself in Blackpool.