WSOP Circuit at Dusk till Dawn: Wins for Ashley Timms and Dumitru Lupu

Two titles were decided yesterday at the WSOPC at the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club in Nottingham. The victories in Event #5, the £560 Paradise Mystery Bounty, and Event #8, the £300 Monster Stack, both went to the United Kingdom. In addition, Day 1B of the WSOPC Main Event was played, featuring a buy-in of £1,350 plus a £150 fee and a guaranteed prize pool of £1,000,000.

In the £1,500 WSOP-C Main Event, the first starting day drew 62 entries, nine of whom advanced to Day 2. Britain’s Gary Nordigian leads Day 1A with 701,000 chips. Yesterday, another 66 entries were added on Day 1B. This time, ten players bagged up their stacks for Day 2. Marian-Ionut Farcas, who had already reached the final table of the £1,100 NLH UKPC Masters earlier this year, had the largest stack with 744,000 chips.

Here are the top 10 chip counts after Day 1B of the Main Event:

Event #5, £560 Paradise Mystery Bounty

Yesterday’s highlight was Event #5, the £560 Paradise Mystery Bounty. The tournament had already begun on Monday. Day 1A (83/12), Day 1B (62/10), Day 1C (113/17), and Day 1D (167/26) resulted in 425 entries and 65 survivors advancing to Day 2. The Last-Chance Flight added another 177 entries, 26 of whom made it to the final day. This brought the prize pool to £158,025. Added to that were £142,975 in bounties. 91 places were paid. The min-cash was £566.

Several players were delighted to win Mystery Bounties. Thang Nguyen was the first player. He converted a gold chest into a cash prize of £7,500. Next, Luis Biasillo submitted four bounty tickets at once and drew two gold chests. The first was worth £5,000; the second contained the grand prize of £15,000 as well as a WSOP Paradise package. After that, Ashley Timms drew a gold chest worth £7,500. Scott Wills secured the second-highest prize of £15,000 and then another gold chest worth £7,500. Guandong Gai (£5,000) and Matthew Gray (£10,000) also secured bounty prize money. Ashley Timms ultimately took first place in Event #5, which came with a prize of £26,497.

Event #8, £300 Monster Stack

Event #8, the £300 Monster Stack, attracted 276 entries. This resulted in a prize pool of £71,760, which was distributed among the top 42 finishers. The min-cash was £592. In the heads-up match, Britain’s Dumitru Lupu faced off against Switzerland’s Acshayan Gunaratnam. Lupu prevailed and secured prize money of £14,902, a WSOPC ring, and the WSOP Paradise Package.

For more information, visit the WSOP Circuit and Dusk till Dawn websites.