Gabriel Pop Triumphs in the Latest DTD200 8-Max Event
Gabriel Pop who emerged victorious to claim the lion’s share of the £100,000 prize pool at DTD200 April 2 at Dusk Till Dawn Casino.
DTD 200 Official Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gabriel Pop | £20,550 |
| 2 | Mark Elliott | £12,250 |
| 3 | Shay Ahluwalia | £8,350 |
| 4 | Robert Boon | £6,600 |
| 5 | Neil Slater | £5,400 |
| 6 | Robert Moss | £4,550 |
| 7 | William Bennet | £3,800 |
| 8 | David Kingsley | £3,250 |
Prizes include a £550 tournament ticket
Some 137 players made it through to Day 2, the final day, but only 47 of them received prize money for their efforts. The last player to leave the casino empty-handed was Bernd Kemmerzehl who was a dead stack. He failed to return to Dusk Till Dawn despite progressing from Day 1.
With the bubble burst, Dusk Till Dawn regulars Asif Raja (33rd for £400), Emma Tolley (29th for £500), Tom Haney (25th for £500), Stuart Fox (19th for £1,350) and Anthony Kennedy (17th for £1,550) all secured a profit for their endeavors.
When Ali Haidar bust in ninth place, the final table was set.
DTD200 8-Max Final Table
| Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mark Elliott | 2,578,000 |
| 2 | William Bennet | 989,000 |
| 3 | Gabriel Pop | 840,000 |
| 4 | Robert Boon | 1,759,000 |
| 5 | Robert Moss | 1,638,000 |
| 6 | David Kingsley | 736,000 |
| 7 | Shay Ahluwalia | 3,385,000 |
| 8 | Neil Slater | 1,609,000 |
David Kingsley found himself nursing a stack of only five big blinds and moved all in with ace-jack only to find a caller in the shape of William Bennet who held king-seven. Both players improved to top pair on the flop, but Bennet caught a third king on the turn to send Kingsley to the rail.
Bennet was the next to fall after running into a pair of queens in quick succession. First, Bennet’s ace-jack failed to improve against the queens of Pop. Then Bennet pushed the rest of his stack in while holding pocket sixes only to see Mark Elliott ultimately win with a pair of queens that improved to a set.
Sixth place went to Robert Moss who four-bet all in with a pair of kings and ran into the pocket aces of Elliot before Neil Slater crashed out in fifth place.
Robert Boon was then eliminated in fourth place when his top pair failed to hold against the flush draw of Shay Ahluwalia. Despite winning Boon’s chips, Ahluwalia was the third-place finisher when Elliott’s jack-ten hit a runner-runner straight to crack Ahluwalia’s pair of eights.
Almost an hour of one-on-one action was required to settle the tournament and it ultimately went Pop’s way. In the final hand, Elliott committed his shortening stack with J♠8♠ and Pop called with the dominating K♣J♣. The five community cards ran 10♥5♣6♥3♦10♣, which meant Pop’s king-kicker played and Elliott was resigned to second place.
