Jehan Zaib wins the English Deepstack Poker Championship

After a 3 hour long heads up battle Jehan Zaib overturned a big chip deficit to defeat Amir Masood and claim the title and £27,850 prize money. Amongst the 225 players were previous D4 Events Deepstack Champions Amy Trodd, Thomas Luther as well as established pro's such as Paul Jackson (making his 3rd D4 Deepstack cash in a row), Karl Mahrenholz, Mickey Wernick, Steve Jelinek, Stuart Fox, Julian Thew & Mark McCluskey. 

There was no luck for Mark McCluskey in the main event but he took down the £300 side event. It was a good weekend for the 3 travelling Dutch players as Wim De Jong won the £200 side event and his friend Ron Mathijssen made the final of the Main Event.

Bankroll Supply had 17 players in the field and Jamie Shaw made the final table for them. Red Hot Poker's qualifier Andy King went a couple of places better than Jimmi Lee in Luton which meant he won a free seat into another D4 Events €550 event as part of Red Hot's "Build Your Own Poker Package" promotion.

Next up for D4 Events is The Winamax European Short-Handed Poker Championship in Dublin this week. Over 500 players are already fully paid or qualified and the total number is expected to top 650 - more than double the 313 who played last year and setting a new European record for a 6 Max event. Following that are more 6 Max events in Luton, Vienna and Coventry before The European Deepstack Poker Championship returns to Dublin in February 2012.

Lee Rawson Defeats Goliath, Beating Record-Breaking Field in Coventry

Lee Rawson has won the largest land-based poker tournament held in Europe – the GUKPT Goliath (August 24^th-28^th, 2011).  He walked away with the trophy and £32,705, defeating a total field of 1,765 after three hard-fought days of poker at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry.

Grosvenor, in association with D4 Events, guaranteed £100,000 for this huge tournament, but in the end £176,500 was awarded in prizes to 261 players.  In fact, no one who made Day 2 left empty handed: the few who missed out on the prize money were given free seats into next year’s event.  

Rawson, a 42-year old professional poker player, defeated Coventry-based amateur Mark Broomhall heads up after a seemingly unstoppable run on the final table.  Even Simon Deadman, who’d held the chip lead since Day 1, ended up with his chips in Rawson’s stack and a £10,590 4^th place finish.  To view full results for the event, as well as a gallery and final table report, please visit www.gukpt.com.  

The charity Marie Curie Cancer care received £5 from each registration fee at Goliath (£10 from each re-entry) and the masseuses together gave £520 – this added up to a total donation of over £8,000.