Neil Sillick emerged victorious in the £250,000 Dusk Till Dawn (DTD) Deepstack poker tournament, taking home a prize of £50,000 after a heads-up battle with his last standing opponent. The player demonstrated excellent qualities over the game and secured his first place in the event, winning the top prize which turned out to be the biggest cash stack ever generated in his career up to date.
The tournament, which took place at the Dusk Till Dawn casino venue in Nottingham, featured a buy-in of £550 and a guaranteed prize of £250,000. It gathered a players base of 284 participants, who made a total of 137 re-entries.
Apart from the winner, some of the most popular UK-based poker players took part in the tournament, including Ben Vinson, Leo McClean, Nick Hicks, Paul Jackson, Alex Goulder, Andrew Hulme, etc.
The first one to bust was James Mitchel, who got on 36th place and put the start of the real game. The minimum prize paid amounted to £2,000. on the other hand, each of the players who got to the final table of eight, was guaranteed a minimum bounty of £6,000. It was Martyne Frey, who is widely known as a regular participant in the Dusk Till Dawn Deepstack tournament who fell in eight place, winning the above-mentioned amount, followed by the rest of the players.
After Stuart Bell left the final table, remaining on the third position, the tournamnet was sent into its heads-up stage, with Neil Sillick and Will Kassouf facing one another. As a matter of fact, it was exactly Kassouf who went into the battle as the favourite for winning the game, but Sillick proved himself as a serious opponent and did not give Kassouf the chance to take control of the game, eventually ending up as the winner.
With Neil Sillick on top of the list, his last standing opponent Will Kassouf ended the tournament as a runner-up, winning a prize amounting to £30,000. Stuart Bell got third, followed by Thomas High, who got a total of £13,000.
The fifth position was occupied by Robert Davies, and Mark Elliott took the sixth place winning £8,500 for his ranking. Andrew Hulme and Martyne Frey got seventh and eight, respectively.
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Harry Evans
