Family guy and professional poker player Julian Thew has won the eighth leg of the GUKPT in Plymouth, defeating 178 other players.

Having narrowly missed out on a final table appearance two months ago in Newcastle he has now buried that bad memory and replaced it with the perfect memento as he walked away with almost £70,000 in prize money, a seat in the Grand Final and a rather fetching Blue Square trophy to add to the many he already owns.

Julian is one of the good guys of British poker, a perfect gentleman both on and off the tables and a very worthy winner of the most talked about poker tour in the UK.