William Hill Poker Grand Prix

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The William Hill Poker Grand Prix was a poker tournament sponsored by William Hill plc shown on Sky Sports from 17 January - 14 March 2006. It features a number of professional and amateur poker players competing against each other.

The tournament entry fee was £6,000 (≈$10,500.) An additional £114,000 (≈$200,000.) was added to the prize pool by William Hill. A limited number of entrants qualified through online satellite tournaments.

Jesse May commentates the broadcasts on Sky Sports, with alternating support from Andrew Black and Lucy Rokach.

[edit] Format

Seven preliminary matches are played, with the winner of each going through to the Grand Final. The second-place finisher goes through to a semi-final round, the winner of which also advances to the Grand Final, which will feature the 7 heat winners and the semi-final winner.

[edit] Results

Date	Episode	Winner	Runner-Up	Other Players
17-Jan-2006	Heat 1	Phil Laak	John Falconer	Steve Jelinek Juha Helppi Joe Grech Dave Colclough George Harle Nick Gibson
24-Jan-2006	Heat 2	Pascal Perrault	Roy Brindley	Roland De Wolfe Tony G Donnacha O'Dea Andrew Tracey Voitto Rintala Scotty Nguyen
31-Jan-2006	Heat 3	Liam Flood	Peter Costa	Charalambos "Bambos" Xanthos Ian Bradley Antonio Esfandiari Xuyen Pham John Shipley Rob Yong
7-Feb-2006	Heat 4	Ram Vaswani	Iwan Jones	Julian Thew Andrew Black Simon Wolf Luke Smith Joe Beevers John Kabbaj
14-Feb-2006	Heat 5	Ken Lennaárd	Ben Roberts	Jeff Duvall Surinder Sunar Allan McLean Tony Bloom Neil Channing Achilleas Kallakis
21-Feb-2006	Heat 6	Greg Hill	Barny Boatman	Christer Johansson Robert Cooper Marc Goodwin Brian Wilson Jani Sointula Patrik Antonius
28-Feb-2006	Heat 7	Sean Murphy	Willie Tann	Steve Vladar Carmy Banin Stuart Nash Donato Di Bellonia Roy Silvester Peter Gunnarson
7-Mar-2006	Semi-final	Roy Brindley	Barny Boatman	Peter Costa Iwan Jones John Falconer Ben Roberts Willie Tann
14-Mar-2006	Grand final	Phil Laak (£150,000)	Ram Vaswani (£95,000)	Roy Brindley (£65,000) Pascal Perrault (£45,000) Ken Lennaárd (£35,000) Sean Murphy (£25,000) Liam Flood (£20,000) Greg Hill (£15,000)