Michael Richardson picked up £38,000 after winning the final leg of the second Genting Poker Series which took place at Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club from 9-12 January. Richardson beat a field of 935 runners to take down the biggest GPS tournament to date, but it was Simon Deadman who was the big winner, claiming £70,000 after the final three protagonists cut a deal. Tim Slater took home £42,500 for third place. From the massive entry, 40 players returned for Sunday’s final day with Scotland’s Stuart Giulian leading the field courtesy of a 2,276,000 stack and he still held pole position when the final table sat down. At heads-up, Deadman held a 10-1 advantage with more than 21 million chips, but Richardson was happy to grind it out and claim the title. “It hasn’t really sunk in yet,” said Richardson. “But I am sure it will in the morning. I’m pretty inexperienced in major tournaments, in fact the only other one I have played was the Genting Poker Series in Newcastle last year and I qualified for this event in a qualifier at that casino this time around. I was always confident about my game though, and I never felt intimidated when Simon and I got to heads-up, even though I was a massive underdog at that stage. I knew I had to pick my shots, and thankfully they all came off.”

Result: GPS II Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham
1st £39,000 Michael Richardson
2nd £70,000 Simon Deadman
3rd £42,500 Tim Slater
4th £16,500 Stuart Giulian
5th £12,500 Niels Ladefoged
6t £10,500 Asif Raja
7th £8,500 Grant mercado
8th £7,000 Chris Vernon
9th £5,500 JP Kelly