{"id":41429,"date":"2015-11-04T20:43:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T19:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=41429"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:22:56","slug":"richard-harris-wins-the-wpt500-uk-for-150000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/richard-harris-wins-the-wpt500-uk-for-150000.html","title":{"rendered":"Richard Harris Wins the WPT500 UK For \u00a3150,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Harris is \u00a3150,000 richer than he was a few days ago thanks to the Welshman outlasting 1,615 other players in the \u00a31 million guaranteed 2015 World Poker Tour WPT500 UK at Dusk Till Dawn.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Player<\/th>\n<th>Prize<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Richard Harris<\/td>\n<td>\u00a3150,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Yani Yanev<\/td>\n<td>\u00a390,0000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Chin Chai Koh<\/td>\n<td>\u00a360,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Florian Duta<\/td>\n<td>\u00a337,500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Nathan Gallighan<\/td>\n<td>\u00a326,500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Ben Winsor<\/td>\n<td>\u00a320,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Sacha Brookes<\/td>\n<td>\u00a315,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Daniele Carminetti<\/td>\n<td>\u00a311,500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Alex Goulder<\/td>\n<td>\u00a39,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Harris went into the nine-handed final table with 20% of the chips in play, quite the stark contrant to Alex Goulder who sat down with only a handful of big blinds \u2013 and a small handful at that. The last of Goulder\u2019s chips went into the middle of the felt with him holding a pair of queens. He was called by Floria Duta and his ace-jack. A jack on the flop was followed by aces on both the turn and river to leave only eight players in contention for the title.<\/p>\n<p>Goulder\u2019s set hadn\u2019t even gone cold when Daniele Carminetti followed him to the rail in eighth place. Carminetti committed his 15-big bling stack with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/as.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and was looked up by Chin Chai Ko \u2013 who is affectionately known as Chinese Frankie \u2013 and his <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/th.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/td.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. A final board reading <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/9s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/5s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/jh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> was enough to send Carminetti to the showers.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty minutes after that last hand Sacha Brookes bust. Brookes pushed all-in with pocket fours and ran into Ko\u2019s higher pair of fives. The five community cards failed to produce any drama and Brookes was gone.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth place went to Ben Winsor who can count himself unlucky not to have gone all the way and won the tournament. Florian Duta opened to 550,000 and Winsor responded with an all-in three-bet of 3.1 million. Duta called with king-jack and was in bad shape against Winsor\u2019s dominating king-queen. Winsor remained ahead until the river where a jack appeared to send him to the cashier\u2019s desk to collect sixth place money of \u00a320,000.<\/p>\n<p>The eliminations continued at an alarming pace with Nathan Gallighan the next to be eliminated. After losing most of his stack with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> to Harris\u2019 <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ad.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ac.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">, Gallighan lost the rest of his chips when his <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/9d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> couldn\u2019t get there versus Harris\u2019 <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ac.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth place and \u00a337,500 went to the aforementioned Duta who decided the best way to play a pair of deuces with a 23 big blind stack was to move all-in with them from the button. However, Harris was lying in wait in the big blind with pocket tens. The tens remained true and Duta was gone.<\/p>\n<p>A classic coinflip took care of the third place finisher, Ko, and awarded \u00a360,000. A preflop raising war between Harris and Ko broke out that resulted in Ko being all-in with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ac.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and racing against the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/qd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/qh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> of Harris. Five raggy community cards later and heads-up was set.<\/p>\n<p>Harris held a 37 million to 11 million chip advantage over Yani Yanev and it didn\u2019t take long to press home that advantage. On a flop reading <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/9c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ts.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">, Harris bet 3.2 million and then called when Yanev pushed all-in for around 9.5 million. Yanev showed <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and Harris <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/js.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/jh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. The <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/4d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> turn kept Harris\u2019 jacks in front with the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/jd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> completing the board and crowning Harris as the 2015 WPT500 UK champion.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Keep up to date with all things partypoker!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Get all the latest partypoker updates from your favourite social media outlets. 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