The opening Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) of 2020 is over, and Artan Dedusha is the first player to win a main event trophy. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. The 2012 season was to see the GUKPT host an event abroad for the first time. A tournament was scheduled to take place in Dublin, Ireland but was later cancelled. A new tournament was arranged in Blankenberge, Belgium though it only managed to attract 95 entrants. Subsequent seasons have not featured tournaments outside the United Kingdom. GUKPT (Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour) is one of the best know UK poker tours.Starting back in 2007, the tour has entered its eight consecutive season (in 2015). It takes place in the casinos across the United Kingdom, mostly featuring events of £500 buy-in and £1,000 Main Ev. The biggest jackpots can usually be found in online slots and especially with the progressive jackpots. Numerous players have won serious six and Gukpt Poker Tour seven figure sums of money playing and winning on the big progressive jackpot games.
The penultimate leg of this year's amazing GUKPT season is GUKPT Blackpool which gets underway at the town's Grosvenor Casino from November 3. This is Leg 8 of the GUKPT's 13th season and features a £200,000 guarantee Main Event along with a £20,000 guarantee Mini Main.
The £1,000 + £110 buy-in Main Event takes place November 7-10 with unlimited re-entries. Players get a 20,000 starting stack and 60 minute levels. Late registration is open until the start of Day 2. The packed schedule also includes an £150 Omaha 4/5/6 event, several NL tournaments and a £150 75/75 Bounty tournament – plus, of course, lots of satellites and cash games.
MainEvent Travel sponsors the GUKPT all in triangles so do look out for them on the GUKPT Blackpoollive stream hosted by Phil 'The Tower' Heald.
The GUKPT has visited Blackpool every single year of the tour and awarded close to £3 million for the Main Event. Previous winners included Tom Middleton, Jonny Gray (2015, £69,050), Richard Trigg (2013, £53,000), Simon Deadman (2012, £49,200) and Yiannis Liperis who took down last year's event for £84,250 after beating a 304-strong field.
Grosvenor Ambassador Jeff Kimber said: 'GUKPT Blackpool is most definitely the ‘business end' of the poker season and a great warm-up for the Grand Final. This is one of my favourite events of the year and I can't wait.'
Don't miss the final event of this year's GUKPT. After GUKPT Blackpool - Leg 8, it's straight into the GUKPT Grand Final from November 18 to December 1.
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The GUKPT is Grosvenor Poker's flagship tour and the longest-running poker tour in the UK. 2019 is the GUKPT's 13th consecutive season and promises to provide another record-breaking year with nine action-packed legs around the country – with a combined prize pool guarantee of £1,700,000. Buy-ins range from £500+60 to £2,500+150 with guarantees totalling between £100,000 and £500,000.
Dusk till Dawn and GUKPT 'regular' Simon Deadman will take an impressive chip stack into Day 2 of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Goliath on Saturday, having amassed 501,000 chips – almost 50,000 more than runaway Day 1A chip leader Scott Symonds.
Dusk till Dawn and GUKPT 'regular' Simon Deadman will take an impressive chip stack into Day 2 of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Goliath, having amassed 501,000 chips – almost 50,000 more than runaway Day 1A chip leader Scott Symonds.
Like Symonds, Simon Deadman left swelling his chip stack until the last level of the day, but with less than 100 players (of 588) making it through the 16 levels, there are a lot of large stacks chasing him.
The GUKPT is Grosvenor Poker's flagship tour and the longest-running poker tour in the UK. 2019 is the GUKPT's 13th consecutive season and promises to provide another record-breaking year with nine action-packed legs around the country – with a combined prize pool guarantee of £1,700,000. Buy-ins range from £500+60 to £2,500+150 with guarantees totalling between £100,000 and £500,000.
Dusk till Dawn and GUKPT 'regular' Simon Deadman will take an impressive chip stack into Day 2 of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Goliath on Saturday, having amassed 501,000 chips – almost 50,000 more than runaway Day 1A chip leader Scott Symonds.
Dusk till Dawn and GUKPT 'regular' Simon Deadman will take an impressive chip stack into Day 2 of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Goliath, having amassed 501,000 chips – almost 50,000 more than runaway Day 1A chip leader Scott Symonds.
Like Symonds, Simon Deadman left swelling his chip stack until the last level of the day, but with less than 100 players (of 588) making it through the 16 levels, there are a lot of large stacks chasing him.
Queens Rule in Coventry
Pocket Queens was the hand to be dealt yesterday, as many of them stood up in shove situations. Stephen Dixon got all his chips in on a Jack high flop and crippled Matthew Green, Fred Russell collected a massive 240,000 chip pot against Kevin Houghton´s A♠ 9♣ and Lee Rawson captured a similar sized pot against the pocket sevens of Nathan Tudman.
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One of the biggest pots of the day however occurred right at the end of the day when Peter Lawrence shoved with 4♠ 4♣ on a flop which fell K♥ 4♦ Q♥ (there had to be a Queen involved!). Andy Nguyen, holding J♥ 10♥ could not resist the temptation, and was mighty relieved to see the board conclude 6♥ 3♠ to get close up behind Simon Deadman on the leaderboard.
The Tournament for the Common Man
With many of the UK´s best known poker players off to Spain for the EPT Barcelona, there has not been a great deal of 'star-spotting' going on. Many, many regulars on the UK tour have qualified for the event or paid the modest £120.00 buy-in and today (Friday) we expect to see a number of players contesting the top positions on the GUKPT Challenge leaderboard. With a lot of valuable leaderboard points at stake in the Goliath, any of the top 6 could be the new leader come Sunday.
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One face which was stuck out in the crowd was that of Adam Golding. Known for being a top Black Belt Poker blogger (AKA Snoopy), Adam was possibly hoping to gain valuable first-hand experience for a sequel to his screenplay 'Last Chance Saloon'. Unfortunately, his stay at the tables was shorter than that of his 'hero' Bobby Jennings, and he was busted out when his short-stack shove with 10♦ 7♦ was dominated by the small blind on his table who had K♠ Q♥.
1440 is the Magic Number
Yesterday we inadvertently reported the GUKPT Goliath was hoping to smash the record for the largest European live event at San Remo earlier this year. Well, we all make mistakes (just ask Howard Lederer, Chris Fergusson and Phil Ivey!) and of course the record is held by the Boylepoker International Poker Open of 2009 which saw 1440 players compete for more than $300,000. With 979 players already entered in the event and a full house anticipated for Day 1C (max. 600), it looks like a new live poker tournament record is going to be set at the GUKPT Goliath.
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