{"id":2499,"date":"2014-06-30T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2014-08-26T14:04:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T14:04:30","slug":"corrigan-takes-top-spot-in-walsall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=2499","title":{"rendered":"Corrigan takes top spot in Walsall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were 52 players who returned to the G Casino in Walsall for day two of the 25\/25 Series from 27-29 June, with only Michael Corrigan surviving until the end of it&#8230;  \u00a37,250 richer and the proud recipient of the 25\/25 Walsall trophy.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 179 entries contributed to a healthy \u00a335,980 prize pool, with Corrigan beating Andrew Probyn heads-up for the title after a four-handed deal had seen all the remaining players lock up \u00a35,000, with \u00a34,250 and the title still to be claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Jatinder Purewal was the man to go out in fourth when Probyn hit a jack on the flop after both players got their chips in pre-flop with Purewal on A-K and Probyn on A-J.<\/p>\n<p>Ioannis Liperas finished in third place after going all-in with A-K against Corrigan&#8217;s jacks, which held to leave Probyn and Corrigan heads-up and agreeing to split the remaining prize money with \u00a3250 and the trophy to the winner. The final hand saw both players get their chips all-in pre-flop with Probyn holding A-K and Corrigan KH-QH and rivering a flush on a 9C-5H-6H-10D-3H board to be crowned Walsall 25\/25 champion.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Brown went out in fifth place for \u00a31,900 after moving all-in on a K-6-7 board with K-Q but running into Probyn with 6-7 for two pair.<\/p>\n<p>Clint Jones was the man to exit in sixth for \u00a31,400, with Neil Wyatt picking up \u00a31,140 for seventh place and Vaidas Sirionas collecting \u00a3970 for eighth.<\/p>\n<p>The first casualty of the final table was Pete Djiallis, who moved all-in pre-flop for 97,000 with an ace but was called by Sirionas, who hit a queen on the flop.<\/p>\n<p>25\/25 Series Walsall<br \/>\n1 Michael Corrigan \u00a37,250<br \/>\n2 Andrew Probyn  \u00a37,000<br \/>\n3 Ioannis Liperis \u00a35,000<br \/>\n4 Jatinder Purewal \u00a35,000<br \/>\n5 Michael Brown \u00a31,930<br \/>\n6 Clint Jones \u00a31,400<br \/>\n7 Neil Wyatt \u00a31,140<br \/>\n8 Vaidas Sirionas \u00a3970<br \/>\n9 Peter Djiallis \u00a3820<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were 52 players who returned to the G Casino in Walsall for day two of the 25\/25 Series from 27-29 June, with only Michael Corrigan surviving until the end of it&#8230; \u00a37,250 richer and the proud recipient of the 25\/25 Walsall trophy. A total of 179 entries contributed to a healthy \u00a335,980 prize pool,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2525-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}