327 players gathered at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham for the latest £300 Deepstack event, smashing the £80,000 guarantee and creating a bumper prize pool of just over £98,000.


A deal was struck with the clock approaching 1.30am and four players remaining. Rupinder Bedi, holding the big stack at the time was declared the winner, taking home £17,500. Former GUKPT winner Colin Wu took £15,500 for second with Tim Blake taking £15,250 for third and Oluwashola Akindele collecting £13,000 in fourth.


The buy-in may have been somewhat smaller at The International for the London Pub Poker Open but the action was just as competitive as the 152 runner capacity field competed for almost £4,000 in prize money.


In the end it was David Sparks who took the title (after a chop with Darren Abbot) and with it a first prize approaching £1,000. The Londoner also earned himself a seat at next Saturday’s Bluff Europe Black Belt Poker Academy.