{"id":3038,"date":"2014-12-15T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2014-12-15T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:02:17","slug":"its-hats-off-to-kirby-in-luton-2525","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=3038","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s hats off to Kirby in Luton 25\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Kirby claimed the 25\/25 Series title at the G Casino in Luton from 12-14 December and picked up a cool \u00a312,920, after 226 entries contributed to a whopping \u00a345,200 prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-strong field returning for Day 2 on Sunday was led by Garry Bush on 292,700, with Kirby in second place on 276,100 and Michael Kossov third on 257,900, with 23 places paid. <\/p>\n<p>Jie Tian was the man to finish in 23rd place, picking up \u00a3410 for his efforts, with Kossov missing out on the final table in 10th for \u00a3810. <\/p>\n<p>Both Bush and Kirby made the final table, the latter beating Gavin Manley &#8211; who had returned for Day 2 with 167,200 chips \u2013 heads-up to be crowned champion.<\/p>\n<p>William Young \u2013 who had returned on 120,900, less than half Kirby&#8217;s stack \u2013 finished third, with Dave MacConachie fourth and Bush finishing in fifth place.<\/p>\n<p>25\/25 Series Luton<br \/>\n1 Stuart Kirby \u00a312,920<br \/>\n2 Gavin Manley \u00a38,450<br \/>\n3 William Martin Young \u00a35,290<br \/>\n4 Dave MacConachie \u00a33,430<br \/>\n5 Gary Bush \u00a32,350<br \/>\n6 Marco Vasconcelos \u00a31,770<br \/>\n7 Sidney Oppong \u00a31,400<br \/>\n8 Paul Bahbout  \u00a31,130<br \/>\n9 Shaun Potton \u00a3950<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Kirby claimed the 25\/25 Series title at the G Casino in Luton from 12-14 December and picked up a cool \u00a312,920, after 226 entries contributed to a whopping \u00a345,200 prize pool. The 54-strong field returning for Day 2 on Sunday was led by Garry Bush on 292,700, with Kirby in second place on 276,100&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2525-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3040,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/3040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}