Tom Middleton wins the Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour (GUKPT) Blackpool Main Event sending Lee Davy on a trip down memory lane.

We are down to the last three tables of the 2010 Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour (GUKPT) Main Event in Blackpool and both myself and my mate Gareth ‘The Sleeper’ Acreman are still involved.

The Sleeper is retired, well off and solid as a rock. He won his seat playing in an online satellite for something like 50p. I had tried and failed to earn a place online, doing my coconuts in the process, and so I withdrew a grand from my credit card over a period of a few days and decided to have a punt.

The Sleeper’s reasons for playing were pure love of the game. I was playing because I was a degenerate trying to find a quick fix for a £30,000 hole that had just crept up to £31,000.