1:55pm: The final Series event of Season 5
Season 5 of the UKIPT is almost done, but before we head off on our holidays there are two more events to entertain you with. In less than a fortnight we'll all be heading over the Irish Sea to Dublin, but this weekend the action is coming to you from PokerStars LIVE! at The Hippodrome Casino.
This is the fourth and final 'Series' event of the Season and after October's Super Series, which carried a £550 buy-in which Dale Garrard won - it's back to a plain old 'Series' event. The buy-in is a reasonable £250+£25 and if the qualifier numbers are anything to go on it's going to be big. There were 27 online qualifiers and 16 players earned seats in a live satellite last night.

UKIPT5 Series 3 key facts:
- 20,000 starting stack
- Blinds starting at 25/50 for 400 big blinds
- Levels are 30 minutes throughout and they'll be 12 of them on Day 1A, which is today and Day 1B, which is tomorrow.
- The field then combines and plays to a winner from noon on Sunday.
- No re-entry here, this is an old school straight freezeout.

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PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at UKIPT Series: Nick Wright. Photos by Mickey May