Player Lists

• UKIPT Newcastle - Day 3 players.
• UKIPT Newcastle - Day 2 players.
• UKIPT Newcastle - Day 1b survivors.
• UKIPT Newcastle - Day 1b players.
• UKIPT Newcastle - Day 1a survivors.
• UKIPT Newcastle - Day 1a players.
• UKIPT Newcastle - Nationalities .

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Payout

1st: Richard Sinclair, United Kingdom, £67,000
2nd: Raj Verma, United Kingdom, PokerStars player, £40,400
3rd Rakesh Paul Gupta, United Kingdom, £24,700
4th: Barry Foley, Ireland, £18,100
5th: Tim Slater, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qualifier, £14,050
6th: Jonathan Gawith, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qulaifier, £11,210
7th: Tadhg Ryan, Ireland, £8,580
8th: James Morris, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player, £6,510

9th: Juha Lindblad, Finland, PokerStars Qualifier, £4,500

10th: Christopher Poulton, United Kingdom, £3,300
11th: Jason Barton, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qualifier, £3,300

12th Keith Ridley, United Kingdom, £2,800
13th Ciaran Boyle, Ireland, PokerStars Qualifier, £2,800

14th: Ben Crellin, United Kingdom, PoekrStars Qualifier, £2,340
15th: Daniel Grayson, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qualifier, £2,340

16th: Iain Maberly, United Kingdom, £1,920
17th: Andrew Dwyer, Ireland, PokerStars Qualifier, £1,920
18th: Craig Hindson, United Kingdom, £1,920
19th: Mark Ritchie, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qualifier, £1,920
20th: Nick Holbrook, United Kingdom, £1,920
21st: Gemal Husnu, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player, £1,920

22nd: Rachael Costa, United Kingdom, £1,530
23rd: Joshua Hart, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player, £1,530
24th: Damian Porebski, Poland, PokerStars Player, £1,530
25th: Steven Brennan, United Kingdom, £1,530
26th: Viktor Celikovsky, Czech Republic, PokerStars Qualifier, £1,530
27th: Paul Herbertson, United Kingdom, £1,530

28th: Richie Lawlor, Ireland, PokerStars Qualifier, £1,250
29th: Eleazar Atenza, Spain, £1,250
30th: Daniel Carney, United Kingdom, £1,250
31st: Warren Bennett, United Kingdom, £1,250
32nd: James Saunders, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player, £1,250
33rd: Graham Howson, United Kingdom, £1,250
34th: Lars Torngren, United Kingdom, £1,250
35th: Michael Kettiros, United Kingdom, £1,250
36th: Ian Dawson, United Kingdom, £1,250

37th: Nick Abou Risk, Canada, £1,110
38th: Gerard Connolly, Ireland, £1,110
39th: Sunil Mistri, United Kingdom, £1,110
40th: Patrick Clarke, United Kingdom, £1,110
41st: John Shipley, United Kingdom, £1,110
42nd: Paul Jackson, United Kingdom, PokerStars qualifier, £1,110
43rd: Paul Wilson, United Kingdom, £1,110
44th: Thomas Seamen, United Kingdom, £1,110
45th: Sam Maddison, United Kingdom, £1,110

46th: Mark Coyne, Ireland, £970
47th: Iftikhar Ali, United Kingdom, £970
48th: Colin Turnbull, United Kingdom, £970
49th: Mark Holland, United Kingdom, £970
50th: Keith Foster, United Kingdom, £970
51st: John Devlin, United Kingdom, £970
52nd: Gareth Walker, United Kingdom, £970
53rd: James Browning, United Kingdom, £970
54th: Kenneth Corkery, Ireland, £970

55th: Jason Cockburn, United Kingdom, £850
56th: Oluwashola Akindele, USA, £850
57th: Nik Kamal, Ireland, PokerStars Qualifier, £850
58th: Michael Mackenzie, United Kingdom, £850
59th: Ralph Watson, United Kingdom, £850
60th: Paul Gardner, United Kingdom, £850
61st: Rob Dunbar, United Kingdom, £850
62nd: George Trett, United Kingdom, £850
63rd: Mark Robinson, United Kingdom, £850

64th: Roy Atherton, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qualifier, £750
65th: Adam Forsyth, United Kingdom, £750 
66th: Graham Crammond, United Kingdom, £750
67th: Kevin Taylor, United Kingdom, £750
68th: Michael Finan, United Kingdom, £750
69th: Rakesh Gupta, United Kingdom, £750
70th: Donald Elliot, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qualifier, £750
71st: Marc Humphrey, United Kingdom, £750
72nd - Martin Amer, United Kingdom, £750

Side Events

Final Table

Rakesh Paul Gupta – 958,000
Based in Glasgow, Rakesh Paul Gupta travels the country with a select band of poker enthusiast friends looking for a challenge at the felt.  He’s played poker for around five years, at one point favouring the online game but has since turned his focus onto live tournaments, which helps to keep the peace at home, he says! This is his first UKIPT appearance, but having shot straight to the final table he’s confident in his potential to capture the title; the £67,000 first prize would go some way towards justifying his weekend away playing poker in Newcastle.

James Morris – 926,000
James Morris enjoys poker notching up several cashes around the country over the last few years where he has scheduled his play to fit around a busy work schedule – his day job being in drug and alcohol treatment strategy.  He’s played UKIPT events before (both in Nottingham) but this is his first cash, and will be for at least £6,510.  An experienced live player, Morris admits, however, that some good fortune propelled him to his final table seat: “When I was moved I just won all these ridiculous races.  Tomorrow I am going to focus on playing better.”  His 6 years of experience will be of use at the final and should he win the title or not he admits: “I’d like to have more time to play!”

Barry Foley – 446,000
Barry Foley, 43, has been playing poker for over 10 years and has made the step up to larger tournaments such as the UKIPT in recent years.  Unable to make it to UKIPT Cork, Foley took time off work for this main event and headed to Newcastle from Portlaw, County Waterford for the weekend.  He prefers live play to online as he rates that live reads are an important part of his game. That said he does admit that as the final table short stack he needs to, “Step up a gear and play more aggressively.” A double up will bring him back into the pack.

Tadhg Ryan – 836,000
Tadhg Ryan has played more UKIPT events than anyone else at the final table – with “five or six” under his belt he is happily optimistic despite heading to the final table with the second shortest stack.  The 25-year old from Cork also plays games a little more physically demanding than poker and is bearing the wounds at the table having played with his hand in a cast after breaking two fingers playing hurling.  His advice to himself is to be patient, and if he takes down the title, he’s off: “I’m going to Australia!”

Jonathan Gawith – 898,000
Jonathan Gawith, 38, hails from Carlisle and has been playing poker for nine years.  Entry to this, his first UKIPT Main Event, came after a late-stage satellite win on Sunday, and will result in his first cash being a blue ribbon final table appearance.  He intends to rejoin the UKIPT at further legs should he take down a major prize, and intends to “take it as it comes and see what happens tomorrow.”

Tim Slater – 858,000
Tim Slater, 36, has been a regular face on the UKIPT this season having had solid attempts in the the Cork, Manchester and Nottingham main events. Slater has both Las Vegas as well as more UK events in his sights if the final table goes his way.  His advice is simple, “Stop trying to be too clever. Good solid poker can win tournaments.” Or, as he put it more succinctly, “tight is right.”

Raj Verma – 1,343,000
Raj Verma is no stranger to the UKIPT tournament environment having played three main events with his best result so far being an 19th place finish in Coventry for £1,450.  Verma, 31, is from Birmingham but regularly makes trips the length and breadth of country for live poker.  He knows he’s in good shape chip-wise with the second biggest stack and is confident that if he continues to to play his game in the same vein he will reap results.  Verma heads to Las Vegas in a few weeks and a win here would mean more live poker to follow, but he’s only thinking about the final table for the moment, planning most sensibly to “get some sleep tonight so I feel fresh in the morning.” Wise strategy.

Richard Sinclair – 1,938,000
The runaway success story of Day 3 is Richard Sinclair, who rose to the chip lead in the earlier levels of the day and refused to let it go – increasing it seemingly level on level throughout the day.  His steamrolling slowed down when he lost a 600,000 pot to James Morris, who bust in 14th,  but picked up speed again and left him with almost two million chips at the end of the day and little to fear (at the start of play at least) from all but Raj Verma.  The elusive Sinclair headed off for as early a night as possible, but will be back knowing that he couldn’t have ended three days of play in a much better position to attempt a run on the trophy and £67,000 first prize.

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