Sam Trickett Leads WPT Venice, Latest News from GPS Sheffield

Trickett Thrives in Venice

Last night saw the final 18 players come to rest in the World Poker Tour‘s latest tournament in Venice and amongst the players still vying for the title were Sam Trickett and Steve Watts.

After battling through the masses for much of the week, both Trickett and Watts made it into the top ten chip counts at the close of play.

Also enjoying profitable days at the felt and making it one step closer to the $145,859 top prize was Max Pescatori, Jan SjavikJan Sjavik and the overall chip leader Alesso Isaia.

Today’s penultimate session began earlier and in the early levels we’ve seen three players hit the felt. The first to fall was Victor Nikolaevich whose pocket nines lost to the pocket queens of Lasse Frost in a pot worth 150,000 chips.

With Nikolaevich watching from the rail Max Pescatori became the next victim of negative variance before Ferdinando Lo Cascio became the latest casualty of the day when his pocket jacks couldn’t get past Eros Mossalis’ pocket kings.

At the time of writing a lull in the action with 15 players left has allowed Sam Trickett to take the chip lead as the players move even closer to a final table of six.

For live updates from the felt, click here.

Crowds Gather as GPS Sheffield Grows

The second opening flight of this year’s Genting Poker Series Sheffield took place yesterday and when the chips had finished falling it was Terry Owens left leading the way.

After grinding his way through a tough field that included the likes of Simon Trumper, Sin Melin and Simon Deadman, Owens was able to close the day out with 250,000 chips to lead Steve Devine who ended the session with a stack of 200,000.

In total 119 players took to the felt on Thursday taking the overall total to 183. So far today yesterday’s total has already been breached as the likes of Jack Ellwood, Jeff Kimber, Alex Spencer and Barry Neville have all taken to the felt.

Indeed, at the time of writing 145 players had bought in but one player who won’t be scooping the top prize will be Simon Brooks. The British grinder last little more than two levels before his entry card was handed to tournament officials to signal his speedy demise from the £440 Main Event.

To check out live updates from the latest GPS event, click here.