December is traditionally the season of Christmas Crackers and this year was no exception with the Unibet Christmas Cracker taking place at Aspers Casino in London from 18-21 December, the North West Christmas Cracker in Bolton at the G Casino on 21 December and the Edinburgh version at the Genting Club from 27-29 December.
At Aspers in Stratford it was Modestas Skersys who took down the £200 Unibet event, beating Erol Taylon heads-up to claim the £11,720 top prize.
In Bolton Greg Hunt topped a field of 630 runners to claim the North West Christmas Cracker, repeating his win in the same event in 2013.
Hunt pocketed a post-Christmas of bonus after working his way through a final table that included Rob Judge, Atif Malik, Nick Tomsett and Lee Astley.
The final pair agreed a chop with runner-up Reyaaz Mulla turning his £100 buy-in into an impressive score of £12,960 with Hunt walking away with £14,500.
At the Genting Club in Edinburgh Paul McTaggart pulled a cracker worth £8,550, with William Leckie scooping £6,110 as runner-up.
North West Christmas Cracker
1 Greg Hunt £14,500
2 Reyaaz Mulla £12,960
3 Lee Astley £6,615
4 Nick Tomsett £4,095
5 Atif Malik £2,585
6 Gerald David £1,700
7 Rob Judge £1,260
8 Mike Banfield £1,010
9 Gary Keegan £815
Unibet Christmas Cracker
1 Modestas Skersys £11,720
2 Erol Taylan £10,200
3 Tommy Dyer £5,770
4 Steven Alper £4,270
5 Martynas Vitkauskas £3,210
6 Bradley Amico £2,560
7 Gary Redgewell £2,130
8 Christopher Yong £1,700
9 Gustav Kock £1,280
Edinburgh Christmas Cracker
1 Paul McTaggart £8,550
2 William Leckie £6,110
3 Barrie Whitehall £3,880
4 Iain Mackay £2,350
5 Majid Iqbal £1,860
6 William Runciman £1,460
7 Rab Gregory £1,130
8 Nadeem Younas £820
9 Shaun Khan £600