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The Dusk Till Dawn (DTD) Monthly £80,000 Guaranteed Deepstack Main Event in Nottingham is easily one of the top UK poker tournaments to feature on the domestic circuit, not least because it attracts the finest players in the country but also because it offers an exceptional prize pool. The £300 buy-in for the tournament represents spare change for any player who makes it into the top 9 paying positions. The top end of the prize pool for this month’s Nottingham adventure was split as follows: 1st place, £25,110; 2nd place, £19,000; 3rd place, £9,764; 4th place, £6,852; 5th place, £5,139; 6th place, £3,854; 7th place, £2,998; 8th place, £2,141; and 9th place, £1,713.

Emerging as winner in the tournament was Jono Beck, who took the £25K first prize after defeating Ramazanali Abbassi. James Saunders finished in third position, following by Paul Wimbledon, Daniel Ward, George Geary, Mohammed Shoahebe, Michael Crook and Matt Russell. The DTD Deepstack Main Event has a relatively small turn-out despite being one of the leading UK poker tournaments. 317 players took their seats at this month’s event, which was played out over the weekend. The DTD Deepstack Main Event regularly turns out around 300 players, which pushes the event beyond its guaranteed £80,000.

As with so many international and UK online poker players, not much is known of Jono Beck’s poker career prior to the DTD Deepstack Main Event. In fact, many online poker players choose not to enter live tournaments as they fear their games may be exposed or they are simply having too much fun online to trouble themselves with an event that requires leaving the house once in a while. The DTD Deepstack Main Event paid down to the 36th position, which happened to be occupied by Brian Goddard, who won a respectable £450.