Ben Jones ships GUKPT Bolton

The WSOP is over and it’s back to business in Blighty, where experienced online pro Ben ‘jenbizzle’ Jones took down GUKPT Bolton for a tasty £17,390 and a free seat in the GUKPT Champion of Champions £100,000 tournament.

Jones, who has over $300,000 in online winners, battled past 114 players at Bolton’s G Casino to ship the £500 Six-Max Main Event and the lion’s share of the £57,000 prizepool.

After three days of hard-fought action, Jones dominated the final table and a series of fortunate matchups, including one against Day 3 chip leader Liam Hooks, which left him with almost three-quarters of the chips in play four-handed.

And after whittling the field down to just he and runner up Dave Wearing, Jones, a six-max specialist, went into heads up play with a ten to one chip lead and sealed the deal after just 15 minutes when his A-J held against Wearing’s Q-J.

Wearing, who took home £12,260 for his performance, also won the GUKPT Shoal Survivor prize for outlasting all other live qualifiers.  He receives £500 in GUKPT vouchers to use in events of his choice.

But with Bolton done and dusted, the next event on the GUKPT calendar is a big one! The tour pulls in for Leg 9 in Coventry, and includes the record-attempting Goliath tournament running from the 22nd-27th August. 

The £1,000 GUKPT Main Event also runs alongside the Goliath, from the 25th-27th, with qualifiers for both running on grosvenorpoker.com.

For details of the side events and live satellites available at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, please visit www.gukpt.com. 

Here’s how GUKPT Bolton finished up:

1. Ben Jones £17,390
2. Dave Wearing £12,260
3. Nigel Booth £7,700
4. Chris Hughes £4,840
5. Liam Hooks £3,990
6. Mattia Ghera £2,850