Jacqueline Sherwood Takes Down Ladies Event as UK Open Explodes Into Action
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The first two events of the 2025 Grosvenor UK Open have crowned their worthy champions as the two-week-long festival exploded into action. The ￡115 No-Limit Hold'em Ladies Championship and the ￡440 No-Limit Hold'em Mystery Bounty events are done and dusted, with Jacqueline Sherwood and Dale Wilson helping themselves to the respective titles.
Ninety-five women bought into the ￡115 Ladies Championship, creating a ￡9,020 prize pool that the top 12 finishers shared. The nine-handed final table was set after Christine Smith, Lisa McMahon, and bubble girl Caroline Cove bowed out on Day 2.
￡115 Ladies Championship Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacqueline Sherwood | ￡2,180 |
| 2 | Natalia Stoddard | ￡1,670 |
| 3 | Emma Wilkinson | ￡1,200 |
| 4 | Susan Adams | ￡850 |
| 5 | Carole Clarke | ￡580 |
| 6 | Sophie Stubbs | ￡500 |
| 7 | Peggy Crawford | ￡450 |
| 8 | Olivia Wainwright | ￡400 |
| 9 | Rose Cope | ￡350 |
Rose Cope's time in the spotlight was limited because she crashed out in ninth place for a ￡350 score. Olivia Wainright followed Cope to the cashier's desk to collect the ￡400 eighth-place prize before Peggy Crawford saw her latest deep run end in a seventh-place finish worth ￡450. Crawford won a WSOP Circuit ring in March 2024 when she took down the ￡250 Ladies event at the WSOPC UK in Nottingham.
Sixth place and ￡500 went to Sophie Stubbs. Last February, Stubbs finished third in the ￡550 GUKPT Cup in Manchester for a career-best ￡11,270. More recently, Stubbs came close to reaching the Women's Winter Festival Main Event in London in November 2024.
Carole Clarke's latest result was a fifth-place finish in the Ladies' Championship. Clarke banked ￡580. Clarke finished fourth in the Women's Championship event at the 2022 Goliath, third in a Seniors event at the 2023 GUKPT Coventry stop, and cashed in the Seniors event at the 2023 Goliath. It seems she has a penchant for these events.
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The final three-figure score went to Susan Adams after her tournament ended in third place. The ￡850 Adams collected pushes her recorded live poker tournament winnings north of $40,000.
Emma Wilkinson came unstuck in third and collected ￡1,200, her second-largest haul behind the $2,345 Wilkinson received for a deep run in the 2018 WSOP Millionaire Maker. Like Stubbs, Wilkinson went deep in the Women's Winter Main Event in November 2024.
Heads-up pitted Natalia Stoddard against Jacqueline Sherwood. No deal was struck, resulting in Stoddard banking ￡1,670 after finishing as the tournament's runner-up. Stoddard's demise meant Sherwood had outlasted 94 opponents and become the Ladies Championship champion, an accolade that came with a career-best ￡2,180.
Dale Wilson's Hot Run Continues With UK Open Mystery Bounty Win
The ￡440 Mystery Bounty event at the Grosvenor UK Open attracted 501 entrants who built a ￡190,380 pot. Half that sum was split into mystery bounties, with the remaining 50% making up the regular prize pool. Of the latter, Dale Wilson scooped ￡16,820 courtesy of being the last man standing.
Wilson is on quite the run of results. Since late December 2024, Wilson has won a ￡250 DTD Christmas Cup for ￡8,645, finished fourth in The Opener at the GUKPT Coventry stop in January for ￡4,120, and finished fourth in the UK Poker Championships Main Event for ￡35,000. Now he has a UK Open title to his name.
Wilson defeated Michael Chappell heads-up for the title, resigning Chappell to the ￡12,990 runner-up prize. That prize represents a career-best for Chappell, edging out the ￡12,000 he secured for a third-place finish in a Grosvenor 25/50 event in Liverpool in January 2023.
Two of the nine finalists did quite well for themselves from the mystery bounty prize pool. Jordan Daniels fell in seventh for ￡2,840 but not before pulling ￡11,500 from mystery bounty envelopes, including one worth ￡10,000.
Man Li came in sixth for ￡3,850. However, the ￡8,000 bounty he claimed significantly increased his earnings from this tournament.
Shout out to Almat Madaliyev, who opened an envelope containing the ￡15,000 jackpot bounty.
￡440 UK Open Mystery Bounty Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dale Wilson | ￡16,820 |
| 2 | Michael Chappell | ￡12,990 |
| 3 | Ding Fan | ￡10,500 |
| 4 | Gary Nordigian | ￡7,080 |
| 5 | Darrell Hopkins-Young | ￡5,210 |
| 6 | Man Li | ￡3,850 |
| 7 | Jordan Daniels | ￡2,840 |
| 8 | Chen Cheng | ￡2,140 |
| 9 | Robert Boon | ￡1,630 |
Remaining 2025 UK Open Schedule
Expand the table below to check out the remaining schedule of the 2025 UK Open. Some of the ￡340 Mini UK Open entrants will be playing for free thanks to winning tickets via a promotion run in conjunction with the Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT).
APAT joined forces with Grosvenor Poker for its latest season, and celebrated the partnership with a series of ￡5 and ￡30 buy-in tournaments. Players earned leaderboard points based on their finishing positions, with the top points earners winning various tickets.
"mclennox" banked a ￡340 UK Open Mini seat from the ￡5 leaderboard, with "reenot" and "Sharkeylad" doing the same in the ￡30 category. PokerNews' Daniel Williams, playing as "BjornHeidenstrom" topped the ￡30 leaderboard and will now play in the ￡1,500 buy-in, ￡1 million guaranteed UK Open Main Event for free.
