Dean Hutchison banked £93,900 after taking down the UKIPT Edinburgh Main Event, which attracted 427 entries. The event drew some big names, with Team PokerStars ably represented by Jake Cody, Victoria Coren, Micky Peterson and Liv Boeree.

The 427 combatants were reduced to 202 by the end of the day-one flights and by the end of the second day 36 players were left, all in the money. John Lundy headed the field with 771,000. Sam Grafton (163k), Peterson (99k) and Boeree (150k) all made it through, but with plenty of work to do in day three. Both Grafton and Peterson fell by the wayside, but Boeree hit a heater just at the right time, starting the final levels of the day as the shortest stack and ending one spot off the top. The biggest hand was a cruel one for Ciaran Heaney who saw his queens cracked by Boeree’s K-Q with a king on the river.

At the final table local lad Hutchison knocked out Tomasz Raniszewski in fifth, then Boeree took the game three-handed when her eights held up against Eldon Orr’s A-K. She then eliminated Jason Beazley with A-K against pocket 10s to take it heads-up against Hutchison. The stacks yo-yoed, with both players bluffing and showing before Boeree nearly won it. All-in pre-flop with kings and one card away from victory, Hutchison clawed his way back into the tournament with a straight when a three on the river connected with his A-4. Gradually the momentum shifted. Boeree lost a big pot with a lesser two pair, and then her tournament life when she flopped a pair and an open-ended straight, but lost to Hutchison’s flopped two pair.

UKIPT Edinburgh
1st Dean Hutchison £93,900
2nd Liv Boeree £59,180
3rd Jason Beazley £42,430
4th Eldon Orr £33,700
5th Tomasz Raniszewski £26,430
6th Jacobus Visser £20,710
7th Michael Kane £15,570
8th Ciaran Heaney £11,060