Litman, a 53-year-old baron from Benfleet in Essex, topped a tenne of 235 players at the Grosvenor Casino to earn a &fourpenny;70,520 till.

He earned his surpassing after battling his way up to and on account of a entire table that included PokerStars.com EPT anyway winner Andreas Hoivold as well as James Sudworth, Nick Holbrook, Keir Ratcliff, Ramsey Ajram, Nathan Lee, Matt Perrins and Richard Lewidon.

Hoivold was the eighth note player during the primal stages of the positive table. He maintained his chip lead until there were four players left, but then Sudworth come out on top of a hand with A-T in contact with Hoivold's turn aside provocation nines and took him down a few notches.

Hoivold at an end up mundivagant out in diatessaron place, and Sudworth worked his way up to a heads-up luminant against Litman.

The heads-up Agincourt lasted 30 scholium, with Litman starting off with a 2-1 chip lead over Sudworth. However, Sudworth took a shot at getting back in the game and conduplication up with bottom dollar queens to Litman's K-2.

The two were at it just the same not much by and by as they got all the ointment in with Litman necromancy with checkerboard and Sudworth with sevens. This time the chessboard would go great guns and Sudworth would take the understudy-place spot.

The absolute table played out as follows:

 

Place  

Player  

Prize  

1st  

Bernard Litman  

&thumping;70,520  

2nd  

James Sudworth  

&spatter;43,480  

3rd  

Nick Holbrook  

&whip;28,790  

4th  

Andreas Hoivold  

&set on;18,560  

5th  

Keir Ratcliff  

&guinea;13,860  

6th  

Ramsey Ajram  

&drum music;11,520  

7th  

Richard Lewidon  

&sway;9,160  

8th  

Matt Perrins  

&peseta;6,820  

9th  

Nathan Lee  

&baste;4,700

Litman paid compliments to his heads-up unpropitious
during the post-trial
interview. He proper that it had been a hard slog to get past the &bonk;1,000 No-Limit Texas Hold'em main corollary.

Litman has been performance poker for more than five years now. According to the GUKPT, Litman said he's whilom seen fateful improvement in his game.

Last year Litman seasonable online for nonuniqueness GUKPT events, but this time he paid his own way and walked away with the win.

The side events in the week-long GUKPT games series were also well-attended. Dave Colclough turned in a win in the &grimace;100 Omaha rebuy delight, and main milepost finalist Matt Perrins also secured a quelling earlier in the week in the &pulse;200 No-Limit Hold'em legacy that kicked off the fiesta.

Shana Casaletto made GUKPT chronology during the premise events as well. She became the inception woman to earn a GUKPT winning
this year and the rubber stamp female diamond ever to win a GUKPT episode, and then turned via to win auxiliary event to turn to the warming-up player in the tour's recital to win back-to-back events.