{"id":43064,"date":"2016-11-01T11:21:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T10:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=43064"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:19:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:19:39","slug":"ben-winsor-crowned-2016-wpt500-uk-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/ben-winsor-crowned-2016-wpt500-uk-champion.html","title":{"rendered":"Ben Winsor Crowned 2016 WPT500 UK Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 partypoker WPT500 UK has crowned its champion and it is Ben Winsor holding the winner\u2019s trophy aloft, that and a cheque for \u00a3150,000, which is the pro\u2019s second six-figure score of his career.<\/p>\n<h3>2016 partypoker WPT500 UK Final Table Results<\/h3>\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>Ben Winsor<\/td>\n<td>\u00a3150,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Keith Cummins<\/td>\n<td>\u00a390,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>William Davies<\/td>\n<td>\u00a360,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Jav Javed<\/td>\n<td>\u00a340,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>John Bonadies<\/td>\n<td>\u00a327,250<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Marian Flesar<\/td>\n<td>\u00a320,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Andrew Hulme<\/td>\n<td>\u00a315,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Jack Hoffmann<\/td>\n<td>\u00a312,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Charalampos Lappas<\/td>\n<td>\u00a39,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Day 3 saw such luminaries as Alex Goulder, Jack Allen, Shola Akindele, Edmund Yeung, partypoker ambassador Tony Dunst, and Rob Tinnion crash out before the nine-handed final table was set \u2013 Tinnion burst the final table bubble \u2013 depleting the tournament of some star quality, but the final table was still a stellar affair and any of the nine players would have made a worthy champion.<\/p>\n<h3>2016 partypoker WPT500 UK Final Table<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Seat<\/th>\n<th>Player<\/th>\n<th>Chips<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>John Bonadies<\/td>\n<td>3,825,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Keith Cummins<\/td>\n<td>9,350,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Jav Javed<\/td>\n<td>2,700,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Andrew Hulme<\/td>\n<td>6,900,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Jack Hoffmann<\/td>\n<td>8,025,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Charalampos Lappas<\/td>\n<td>1,500,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Will Davies<\/td>\n<td>3,850,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Ben Winsor<\/td>\n<td>7,975,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Marian Flesar<\/td>\n<td>10,725,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Six hands into the final table action, a very short stacked Charalampos Lappas open-shoved from the small blind with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/5d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/2s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and Will Davies called in the big blind with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6s.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\/9c.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\"><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\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/jd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> sent Lappas to the cashier\u2019s desk to collect \u00a39,000.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-six hands later, Jack Hoffmann looked down at <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\/qd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and moved all-in from the button for 10 big blinds. Davies isolated Hoffmann with a re-shove with pocket nines, which held to send Hoffmann to the rail.<\/p>\n<p>Almost immediately after Hoffmann\u2019s demise, Andrew Hulme bust. The man known as \u201cstato\u201d shipped in 17.5 big blinds with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and ran straight into John Bonadies\u2019 <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\/ks.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. The ace-high board provided little in the way of drama, and Hulme was gone.<\/p>\n<p>Marian Flesar went into the final table as chip leader, but couldn\u2019t keep that momentum going, falling in sixth place for \u00a320,000. Flesar opened to 1,100,000 at the 200,000\/400,000\/50,000a level and Davies called. A <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\/7d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/4s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> flop saw Flesar move all-in with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ah.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and Davies call with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/qs.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/jc.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. The <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/qd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> on the turn was followed by the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/th.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> river, busting Flesar and leaving five players in the hunt for the title.<\/p>\n<p>Five became four with the exit of Bonadies who pushed all-in with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ah.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/5d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and was called by Keith Cummins and his dominating <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\/ks.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. Bonadies looked to have gotten lucky as the flop fell <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\/5h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> to gift him two pair, but another six on the river counterfeited Bonadies\u2019 hand, sending him for an early bath.<\/p>\n<p>Three hands later, Jav Javed committed the rest of his stack with <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\/9d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and was in bad shape against the <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\/qh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> of Davies. Neither player improved on the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kc.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\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/5c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> board, Davies\u2019 ace-high being enough to reduce the player count by one.<\/p>\n<p>Davies then had his queens cracked by king-three and never managed to fully recover. The last of Davies\u2019 chips went into the middle with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/qh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> after Cummings had limped in with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ks.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kc.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. A queen on the flop gave Davies hope, but a king on the turn locked up the hand for Cummins and sent the tournament to the heads-up stage.<\/p>\n<p>After only three hands of one-on-one action, Winsor raised to 2,000,000 with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and called when Cummins moved 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\/th.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. A few seconds later the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/jh.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\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/4d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/5d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> board was in view, Cummins had bust, and Winsor had won the 2016 partypoker WPT500 UK.<\/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. You can <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/partypoker\">Follow us on Twitter<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/partypoker\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 partypoker WPT500 UK has crowned its champion and it is Ben Winsor holding the winner\u2019s trophy aloft, that and a cheque for \u00a3150,000, which is the pro\u2019s second six-figure score of his career. 2016 partypoker WPT500 UK Final Table Results Place Player Prize 1 Ben Winsor \u00a3150,000 2 Keith Cummins \u00a390,000 3 William<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/ben-winsor-crowned-2016-wpt500-uk-champion.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":43065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1303,2182],"tags":[1093,386,385,187,360,330,323,710],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43066,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43064\/revisions\/43066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43064"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=43064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}