Iaron Lightbourne has walked away with the 2014 Unibet Open London main event and £70,000 for his efforts at the Aspers Westfield Stratford City.

Lightbourne was 14th of the 16 players who returned for the final day on 477,000 chips, about a third of the stack of chip leader John Yadgar at the start of play, but when the action came to a conclusion he was the sole survivor after beating Mike Hill heads-up for the title.

Michael Panteli was the first out on Day 3, followed by Frenchman Adrien Allain, Richard Pullen, Yadgar, Mohammed Suhail, Andrey Veselov and bubble-burster Niklas Borg.

That left Tim van de Riet as the pace-setter on the final table with 2.8m chips, followed by Lawrie Inman on 2m, Lightbourne on 1.9m and Lucas Oliver on 1.1m.

Janos Kutosi was in fifth place on 1m, with Hill in sixth on 900,000 and Paulo Rodrigues next with 805,000. Charalamppos Lappas was in eighth place on 680,000, with Tomasz Kozub the short stack on 625,000.

It took about 50 minutes before the first casualty arrived when two-time Unibet Open finalist Van de Riet opened from early position and was called by five players. Kozub opted to squeeze from the big blind, jamming all-in for 595,000 with the KS-JS, but Lightbourne went over the top with AD-QH and everyone else folded.

The AC-QS-4C flop saw Lightbourne make two pair and he stayed in front after the 9D on the turn, with the 2S on the river eliminating Kozub in ninth place.

An hour later Inman was Lightbourne's next victim when his raise to 105,000 was three-bet to 250,000 by Inman and called by Lightbourne, who checked the KH-5D-6D flop. Inman decided to fire off a bet of 250,000 and then snap-called when Lightbourne moved all-in.

Inman had hit a set with his KS-KD but and Lightbourne's 8D-7D gave him a chance of a straight flush. The QS on the turn was good news for Inman but the 9H on the river sent him to the rail, with Lightbourne making a straight.

Dutchman Van de Riet was the next to fall. Down to 11 big blinds he moved all-in from the hijack with AH-JS and Kurtosi three-bet all-in from the small blind holding AD-KD, with the 10D-9S-10H-6C-7S board confirming Van de Riet's exit.

Sixth place went to Rodrigues who raised to 125,000 from the cutoff and called when Lappas re-raised to 275,000 from the button.

Rodrigues checked on the KS-QH-7S flop with Lappas making a continuation bet of 255,000, which Rodrigues called. The turn was the AD and Rodrigues checked again, but instead of calling when Lappas fired again, he check-raised all-in for 1.2m and Lappas called.

Lappas' AS-QS gave him two pair and a flush draw, while Rodrigues' JD-10D put him ahead with a straight. But the 6S on the river improved Lappas to a flush and Rodrigues was out in sixth place.

Oliver was the next to bust out after moving all-in for around five big blinds from under the gun with AD-JS. The action folded around to Lightbourne in the big blind but there was no chance of him folding with pocket queens.

The board offered no help for Oliver and he departed in fifth place.

Kurtosi was the next to leave after he pushed all-in from the button with KC-3H and Lappas called with AD-6H, hitting another six on the river to knock out Kurtosi.

Three-handed play spanned across an hour before Lappas raised to 300,000 from the small blind, with Lightbourne three-betting to 725,000 and Lappas four-betting all-in. Lightbourne called with the AC-KH with Lappas holding pocket tens.

Lightbourne jumped ahead on the KD-QS-2C flop, stayed there when the 2S landed on the turn and busted Lappas with the 3C on the river.

So Lightbourne took a 17:7 chip lead into his heads-up duel with Hill, who soon raised to 285,000 with pocket nines only for Lightbourne to shove his stack into the middle with KC-JD.

Hill held a slender advantage before pre-flop, but fell way behind with the AH-KS-2S flop. The AD on the turn was followed by the 7H on the river to secure the title for Lightbourne.

Unibet Open London
1 Iaron Lightbourne £70,000
2 Mike Hill £45,000
3 Charalampos Lappas £30,000
4 Janos Kurtosi £22,000
5 Lucas Oliver £16,800
6 Paulo Rodgrigues £13,500
7 Tim van de Riet £13,500
8 Lawrie Inman £8,800
9 Tomasz Kozub £6,700