Congratulations to Ash Hussian and Kevin O'Connell on winning a seat for this years Poker Million.

They both managed to beat off a 36 strong field which included, Simon Zach, The Romanello brothers (now known as the Ravenelli brothers according to TD “Mad” Marty Wilson), Anthony Hardy, Andy Greekfish, Jon “Skalie” Kalmar, Barry Hearn, Mohammed Shafiq, Dave Gregory, Tim and Pippa Flanders and many others,

With TD “Mad” Marty and his sidekick Steve “ Spiver” Bennett running £100 sit n gos in the morning the atmosphere was building, players were drinking and bad beats were being handed out left, right and centre.

The main event started and 4 hours later we were down to the last 9 players. The chip counts for the final table were:

Kevin O’Connell 89500
Anthony Hardy 53500
Simon Zach 49500
Antoni Romanello 47000
Ash Hussain 41000
Jon Kalmar 30500
Steve Gibson 20000
Dave Courtney 15500
Sandy Huckle 13500

With the blinds increasing every 30 minutes the short stacks had to move in and double up as soon as they could and just over two hours later and we had our two winners and the results were as follows

Kevin O’Connell PMVI sea wortht £14000
Ash Hussain PMVI seat worth £14000
Jon Kalmar £4000
Simon Zach £2500
Antoni Romanello £1500
Steve Gibson
Sandy Huckle
Dave Courtney
Anthony Hardy

Both will take part in the Ladbrokes Poker Million VI which takes place at Sky Studios, Isleworth Middlesex from the 25th July – 3rd August. The Final will then be broadcast LIVE on Friday 21st December on Sky Sports.