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Paul Foltyn won the UK Poker Tour Grand Final at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London, winning a first prize of £167,000 in the process.

All the previous winners from this year's Tour were in attendance for the £3,500 buy-in event which drew 184 players to the capital with Foltyn defeating Jeff Duvall in a three hour plus heads up battle.

For 24-year-old Foltyn from Doncaster it was comfortably the biggest payday of his career although he has cashed five times at the World Series of Poker including a final table appearance at the No Limit Hold'em Short Handed event in 2006.

Foityn, who has also cashed on the European Poker Tour and in the Aussie Millions Championship and is regarded as one of the top online players in Britain, entered the final table fifth on chip count with 330,100.

Norwegian Eirik Svanes led the way with 618,300 while Guy Steel (492,400), Jeffrey Duvall (481,300) and Stuart Rutter (434,100) also had big stacks.

Stuart Nash (166,900), former Republic of Ireland striker Tony Cascarino (97,500), Surinder Sunar (75,300) and Richard Ashby (63,700) faced an uphill struggle.

Ashby and Sunar were both playing in their second UK Tour main event final table but were the first two to depart, eliminated by Foltyn's pocket rockets and Svanes's full house respectively.

Nash finishes seventh after raising All-In from the button holding King, ten with Rutter calling with a pair of Jacks and former Chelsea and Celtic star Cascarino, who won the event in Bolton earlier this year, was out in sixth after his Ace, eight ran into Steel's pocket kings.

Svanes took his stack over a million when he eliminated Rutter in fifth thanks to an Ace kicker but he then lost most of his stack to Foltyn before gifting the remainder to Duvall and the Norwegian was out in fourth.

Foltyn then knocked out Steel in third place after the club the jeweller needed on the river didn't materialise and he began the heads-up with 1.7 million chips to Duval's million.

The lead changed hands several times before Foltyn called Duval's All-In raise with a board showing 8sKh5c7h. Foltyn had 6-4 and Duval's 6-5 meant he could only split the pot at best but a queen on the river sealed his fate.

The second year of the UK Poker Tour concludes at the G casino in Luton on December 4 and 5 where the Champion of Champions tournament will take place with all the winners of the side events, whose results are listed below, booking a late place in the line-up.

GRAND FINAL 2008

1st Paul Foltyn £167,050

2nd Jeffrey Duvall £96,600

3rd Guy Steel £69,000 96

4th Eirik Svanes £46,900

5th Stuart Rutter £35,900

6th Tony Cascarino £27,600

7th Stuart Nash £22,100

8th Surinder Sunar £16,550

9th Richard Ashby £13,800

10th Mazar Nawab £8,300

11th Gregory Howard £6,900

12th Tim Flanders £6,900

13th Martin Green £6,900

14th Ash Hussain £5,500

15th Jim Moult £5,500

16th Robin Keston £5,500

17th Ariel Adda £5,500

18th Ketul Nathwani £5,500

£250 PL Seven Card Stud

1st Henry Nowakowski £5,450

2nd Paul Parker £3,050

3rd Ray Nicholas £2,250

4th William Davies £1,600

5th Andy Andreou £11,000

6th Jeraint Hazan £900

7th Laurie Taylor £700

8th Neil Channing £550

9th Edwin Biber £400

£500 PL Omaha Hi-Lo Freezeout

1st Paul Parker £8,000

2nd Marc Goodwin £4,450

3rd Lloyd Greensite £3,300

4th Mick McCool £2,350

5th Paul Alterman £1,650

6th George Rousou £1,300

7th Ian Turner £1,050

8th Eric Dalby £800

9th Gary Mills £600

£1,000 NL Hold'em Double Chance Freezeout

1st Kjetil Naess £22,750

2nd Jeff Kimber £17,500

3rd Chen Tse £17,500

4th David J Lloyd £17,500

5th William Martin £17,500

6th Kim Wittendorff £6,500

7th James Akenhead £5,250

8th Karim Vegas £4,250

9th Charalambos Xanthos £3,000

10th Christian Heeringa £1,750

11th Bradley Viner £1,500

12th Martin Bader £1,500

13th Gary Solomons £1,500

£500 PL Omaha Double Chance Freezeout

1st Pascal Heynsen £13,750

2nd Marc Goodwin £7,500

3rd Robin Keston £5,500

4th Simon Trumper £4,000

5th Knut Rysstad £2,750

6th Sam Trickett £2,250

7th Alex Rousso £1,750

8th Benedetto Passantino £1,500

9th Tim Flanders £1,000

£300 NL Hold'em Freezeout

1st Christopher Skinner £15,260

2nd George Kyriacou £8,820

3rd Marc Goodwin £6,300

4th Spyros Mouzoura £4,280

5th David J Lloyd £3,280

6th Lalit Khajuria £2,520

7th Julien Thew £2,020

8th David Garbacz £1,510

9th Norman Gold £1,260

10th David Penly £760

11th James Morris £630

12th Jerome O'Shea £630

13th James Lorenz £630

14th Phillipa Flanders £500

15th Michael Panteli £500

16th Michael Greco £500

17th Scott Reid £500

18th Sami Mahmoud £500

£500 NL Hold'em Freezeout

1st Richard Wheatley £26,250

2nd Priyan Demel £14,750

3rd Vishal Kawatra £10,500

4th Louise Duffy £7,250

5th David Gregory £5,500

6th Paul Parker £4,250

7th Andreas Hoivold £3,500

8th Erik Svanes £2,500

9th John Duthie £2,000

10th Kim Wittendorff £1,250

11th Jerome Bradpiece £1,000

12th Stuart Nash £1,000

13th Espen Hagen £1,00

14th Richard Simmonds £750

15th Nathan Lee £750

16th Kjetil Naess £750

17th Sunny Chattha £750

18th Elliott Peterman £750

£200 NL Hold'em Rebuy

1st David Rudling £11,650

2nd Paul Dack £10,000

3rd Bruno Fernandes £10,000

4th David Mitchell £4,700

5th JP Kelly £3,300

6th Espen Hagen £2,600

7th Andrew Seden 2,100

8th Tony Phillips 1,650

9th Albert Sapiano 1,200

£300 NL Hold'em Freezeout

1st Sam Trickett £7,900

2nd Osman Hasan £4,450

3rd Mick Cook £3,300

4th Guy Harris £2,350

5th Chaz Chattha £1,650

6th Stephen Phillips £1,300

7th Darren Fuller £1,050

8th Rob Garfield £800

9th Andre Sochousky £600

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