With a bumper field of 801 runners taking a break from their studies from 8-12 April to take part in the Grosvenor UK Student Poker Championship, it was Hull University’s Cillian Berragan who took the title.<\/p>\n
After three days of hard-fought action at the G Casino at the Ricoh Arena, Berragan managed to turn his \u00a330 buy-in into a hugely impressive score of \u00a36,190, plus a seat in a \u00a3550 GUKPT event after topping a final table that included Owen Davies, James Charnley and Will Jarman.<\/p>\n
Heads-up play against Exeter University’s Peter Brankin was a seesaw affair, with the lead changing hands several times, before Berragan took control when his AS-7D held against Brankin’s AH-4S and moments later it was all over when he flopped top pair with KH-9H to crush Brankin’s QD-8D.<\/p>\n
GUKPT Student Championship<\/b>
\n1st Cillian Berragan, University of Hull, \u00a36,190
\n2nd Peter Brankin, University of Exeter, \u00a34,280
\n3rd Will Jarman, University of East Anglia, \u00a32,520
\n4th James Charnley, University of Exeter, \u00a31,560
\n5th Owen Davies, Leeds Beckett University, \u00a3990
\n6th Gerard Anderson, University of St Andrews, \u00a3650
\n7th Josh Davis, Bournemouth University, \u00a3480
\n8th Dan Welsford, University of Northampton, \u00a3380
\n9th Jack Le Frenais, Aberystwyth University, \u00a3320<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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