Tim Chung Poker

In our recap of the 2014 Genting Poker Series (GPS) Newcastle Main Event Day 2 action on Sunday, we said that a GPS title beckoned for Tim Chung and our prediction came true because it was Chung who emerged victorious on Sunday night to claim the £32,815 first place prize.

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The third and final day started with 12 players in contention, but within 20 minutes of the restart the final table lost two players in the same hand.

Chung limped on the button, Jonathan Beck completed the small blind and Jamie Dale moved all-in from the big blind for 170,000. Chung flat-called the all-in bet only to see Beck jam for 800,000! Chung snap-called, flipped over a sneakily played pair of aces and was way ahead of the of Beck and the of Dale.

By the river the board read [AxKx4xJxx], Dale and Beck busted and Chung climbed to 2.4 million chips.

Fifteen minutes of hand-for-hand later and the official final table was set. Matt Davenport got his chips into the middle with and Rob Yong called with . Neither player improved their hand by the river, but Yong didn’t need to, so Davenport busted in 10th place.

2014 Genting Poker Series Newcastle Main Event Final Table

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Within 15 minutes of the final table starting, John Stirling crashed out at the hands of Tom Brady.

Brady moved all-in, Stirling followed suit and moved all-in. The other players ducked out of the way, Brady showed and Stirling . The flop put Brady in front and gave an ace-high flush draw. The on the turn kept Brady in front and a queen on the river was the final nail in Stirling’s coffin.

The next player to lose their stack was George Harle in eighth place. Brady opened to 55,000, Harle made it 180,000 and Brett Angell four-bet all-in for 600,000. Brady mucked, but Harle called with and was flipping against the of Angell.

Angell took the lead on the flop, stayed there on the turn and when the landed on the river it was game over for Harle.

As the time approached 3:30 p.m. Brady made an ill-timed move that cost him his tournament life. Chung opened to 40,000 and then quickly called when Brady three-bet all-in for 300,000. It was Chung’s that was in great shape because Brady held the dominated .

The paired Brady’s queen and gifted Chung a Broadway straight. The turn and river ran and and Brady was gone.

Shortly after returning from a scheduled break, Colin Turnbull became the sixth place finisher. Turnbull pushed his 300,000 stack into the middle with what turned out to be and Chung made the call with the superior . The board failed to come to Turnbull’s rescue and he was out.

Five became four with the elimination of Keith Hawkins around the four-hour mark. Hawkins moved all-in for 425,000 from the button with only Willie Tann to beat in the small blind because Rob Yong had left his seat and therefore his big blind unguarded.

Tann eventually called and showed , which was ahead of the of Hawkins. The flop flirted with the idea of improving Hawkins’ hand, but the turn and river missed him completed and he busted in fifth place.

Four-handed play lasted an hour and ended with the exit of Yong. Tann raised from the small blind with , Yong raised all-in for 600,000 with and Tann quickly called. A board kept Tann’s hand best and left Yong to collect fourth-place prize money.

Tann was the next casualty, running into a relative cooler spot against Angell. A raise from the button by Angell was raised all-in by Tann and then called. Tann flipped over and Angell the . The board meant Angell’s eight played and Tann crashed out.

Chung held a 4,970,000 to 2,535,000 chip lead over Angell and it proved to be too large of a gap for Angell to bridge. The final hand saw Angell set the price to play at 120,000 and then call when Chung raised to 300,000. Chung fired a 225,000 bet on the , Angell raised all-in and Chung called.

Angell showed and Chung the . The turn and river fell and , busting Angell and leaving Chung to be crowned the GPS Newcastle champion.

2014 Genting Poker Series Newcastle Final Table Results

Next up for the GPS is the Dusk Till Dawn leg in mid-September, a tournament that attracted 935 players the last time it ran and was won by Michael Richardson.

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Is Tim Chung Korean

When one of the most-famous UK casinos decides to offer a guaranteed £500,000 prizepool, it’s a dead cert it will attract a big field, and Tim Chung took advantage of the Dusk Till DawnDTD 1000’s popularity to scoop his biggest win to date with a first prize of £76,500 ($101,668).

Building on the success of their DTD 200 events, the casino which Rob Yong transformed out of ‘a crappy old building on an industrial estate in Nottingham’ into one the nation’s best-known poker venues decided to up the ante, a £1000 (+£100) buy-in attracting 274 players. With 228 re-entries on top of that, the prizepool just topped £½million – so a lot to play for.

Tim Chung is a well-known face on the English poker circuit, with cashes going back to 2009 at…Dusk Till Dawn! The DTD 1000, however, dwarfed his previous best payday of £32,815 ($56,007) for winning the Newcastle leg of the Genting Poker Series back in 2014, and follows another well-paid victory just last month in Manchester where he took down the MPN Poker Tour Main Event for £29,900 ($38,958).

Chung found himself up against some very good players in Nottingham, David Vamplew, Robert Romanello and Tom Hall among them, but when Hall hot the rail in 9th spot the final table proper was set – 8 Englishmen and a solitary Spaniard Chuc Khuu, pictured below lifting a title of his own in England back in 2014.

There was to be no repeat of this success for Khuu, falling in 6th spot, and when Sevilla and Bennet followed shortly afterwards, it was time to talk about a deal. Eventually they agreed on an ICM chop, leaving an extra £10k plus the trophy for the winner and £5k for second spot.

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Law’s subsequent bust-out saw Chung facing Hyde-based Mark Kelsall for the title and it all came down to a ‘bigger-kicker’ when both players made trip aces on the river, Chung’s king outgunning an unlucky Kelsall’s lowly trey.

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