After another great season of poker throughout the Bateman’s estate it was time again for the finals night. On Tuesday 29th November the qualifying players came together to compete for the title and the prize money. 30 players would sit down and start the tournament, which was organised by Redtooth for the third year running!

One of the players, Alan Powell, was someone to watch out for as he’d won the tournament for the previous two years! He and seven other players made the final table in what was a cracking finale to the Bateman’s poker final.

The final table consisted of Dominic Holliday, Alan Powell, Dan Lee, Glen Drummond, Eddie Cummings, Dave Cridland, Tim Pexton and Julian Thompson.

The first player to leave us in 8th place after 20 minutes of play was Dominic Holliday. Dominic was followed in 7th place by our two time champion Alan Powell before Dan Lee finished in 6th, Glen Drummond 5th, Eddie Cummings 4th and Dave Cridland 3rd for £50. This brought us to our heads-up encounter between Tim Pexton and Julian Thompson for the chance to be Bateman’s newest poker champion and £200 better off. The heads-up match lasted 25 minutes until Julian Thompson wrapped things up when his 10-4 flopped top pair on a 2-7-10 flop. A turn and river of 8-J didn’t improve Tim’s K-Q as Julian Thompson won the 2011 Bateman’s Poker Final.

Final Standings

1st Julian Thompson
2nd Tim Pexton
3rd Dave Cridland
4th Eddie Cummings
5th Glen Drummond
6th Dan Lee
7th Alan Powell
8th Dominic Holliday
9th Pete Wrigglesworth
10th Tony Hoyles
11th Kieran Fielding
12th Dave Henry
13th Deborah Ward
14th Tony Fisher
15th Glen Hislop
16th Jim Davey
17th Chris Kerbel
18th Dan Thompson
19th Paul Wright
20th Matt Waddell
21st Marie Platt
22nd Jonathan Gaunt
23rd Terry Bates
24th Tracy Warner
25th David Bristow
26th Liam Holland
27th Peter Warner
28th Berto Farato
29th Kevin Walker
30th Ken Foley