The £1 million guarantee partypoker WPT500 at Dusk Till Dawn concluded this past weekend as Eleanor Gudger topped a major field of 2,133 entrants from seven starting flights to capture the £140,000 first-place prize.
“I’m so excited, it’s been a super three days of poker,” Gudger said after the win. “To pop out on top of 2,000-odd players is solely unbelievable.”
The recently-engaged Gudger, who hails from Leicester and turned professional 18 months ago, defeated Matthew “silentnoonan” Noonan in heads-up play. Interestingly, Gudger had previously taught her father, John Gudger, find out how to play poker, and in December of 2013 he took down the partypoker WPT National UK London for £12,750. Clearly poker runs within the family.
Final Table Results
| 1 | Eleanor Gudger | £140,000 |
| 2 | Matthew Noonan | £85,000 |
| 3 | Hamid Rowshanei | £55,000 |
| 4 | Derek Payne | £35,000 |
| 5 | James Parker | £25,000 |
| 6 | Richard Buck | £17,850 |
| 7 | Haroon Hussain | £13,250 |
| 8 | Habib Chatoo | £10,000 |
“With 2,133 entries, everybody here at Dusk Till Dawn is thrilled for making the primary WPT500 in Europe an enormous success. We extended the capacity of the club and filled each seat, and the ambience was unbelievable,” said Simon Trumper, Club Director at Dusk Till Dawn. “This event was a record-breaker for the club and WPT. Not just did Day 1F break the record for essentially the most unique entries ever overnight (673 unique entries) at Dusk Till Dawn, but we smashed the record for the most important field ever for a £500 buy-in event organized in Europe.”
The event also awarded the highest 50 players seats into the £3,000 buy-in partypoker WPT UK Main Event. Among those to secure a seat were Paul Murphy (41st - $4,761), Willie Tan (35th - $5,158), David Hierro (31st - $5,158), Tomas Fara (25th - $5,554), David Peters (21st - $5,554), and Vesa Jakobsson (14th - $7,935).
According to the WPT Blog, the general hand of the tournament came about in Level 39 (400,000/800,000/100,000) when Noonan shoved holding the 
Noonan’s rail began calling for a chop, but that didn’t happen because the 
"We do not have venue or everything sorted out yet, so this may occasionally really help,” said Gudger, who plans to make use of a few of her winnings to pay for the marriage. “We pays off one of the mortgage too, that's great!"
For more on Gudger’s win, take a look at her winner’s interview:
The action from Dusk Till Dawn continues this week with the £3,000 buy-in partypoker WPT UK, that is happening you can now. follow live updates from that event here on PokerNews.
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