Samuel Brennan took the 25/25 Leeds title and £10,385 after agreeing a deal with Dominic Mahoney at the G Casino, Leeds Westgate.
The opening leg of the second Yorkshire series of the 25/25 this year, the Leeds 25/25 attracted 219 entries and produced a prize pool of £43,800, with 23 making the money from the 66 who returned for Day 2 from the three opening flights.
Wayne Whitfield was chip leader at the start of the day on 242,500, followed by Kenneth Midgley on 154,700, with Mark Lewis (151,300), Graham Peckover (149,600) and Safdar Pervez (148,300) competing the top five.
Bin Zhang was 100k off the pace in sixth spot on 141,300, with flight three chip leader Chris Johnson next on 140,900, followed by Tom Dunwoodie with 131,100, Dan Trett on 130,200 and Jehan Zaib in 10th place on 125,200.
Only Peckover and Pervez made the final table from that list of top-10 Day 2 runners, with Brennan starting the day on 84,800 and Mahoney on 118,800. Flight three short-stack Adam Cooper did incredibly well to finish third after returning with just 25,000.
By the time the final table was reached Cooper had already moved up to third in chips with 760,000, just 24k behind Mahoney and almost 400k behind new chip leader Craig Dawson on 1.16m.
Pervez was fourth in chips on 709,000, with Peckover next with 605,500, followed by Brennan (495,000), Stephen Nunn (372,500), Bash Ali (292,500) and John Wood the short stack on 250,500.
Nunn was the first to exit after a 45k raise from Brennan with pocket queens prompted him to move all-in with AC-KC. The board ran out JS-6D-6H-3H-KH and Nunn went to the rail in ninth place.
Pervez crashed out in eighth place after calling Peckover's 60k raise with pocket jacks to go all-in from the big blind holding 5C-6C, a QH-2D-AD-AH-10H board confirming his demise.
Ali came seventh after shoving for 130k with J-10 after Mahoney had raised to 66k with queens, the board offering Ali no help.
And Mahoney was also responsible for the departure of Dawson in sixth place after he moved all-in from the small blind with pocket jacks after Mahoney had raised to 80k under the gun.
Unfortunately Dawson ran into Mahoney with pocket rockets and
the 6-K-6-7-8 board brought him no salvation.
Wood was the next to go after he got all his chips in with A-10 but was dominated by Cooper with A-Q, the 4-7-K-8-J board helping neither player.
Peckover exited in fourth place after he moved all-in with K-Q after Mahoney had raised it to 85k with K-10. Mahoney made the call and hit the 10-7-5 flop, with the turn and river bringing no escape for Peckover.
Cooper missed out on the heads-up duel after shoving with A-6 and walking into Brennan with A-K, with the K-Q-J-4-9 board confirming his departure.
So, down to two, Brennan and Mahoney hatched a deal which saw them split the loot and Brennan take the title as he had the larger of the two chip stacks.
25/25 Series, Leeds (26-28 September)
1 Samuel Brennan £10,385
2 Dominic Mahoney £10,385
3 Adam Cooper £5,120
4 Graham Peckover £3,330
5 John Wood £2,280
6 Craig Dawson £1,710
7 Bash Ali £1,350
8 Safdar Pervez £1,100
9 Stephen Nunn £920
