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Leg three of the 2009 GUKPT series, sponsored by BlueSquarepoker.com, is being held at London's Grosvenor Victoria Casino this week. The £1,500 buy-in main event begins on Thursday and concludes on Sunday and blonde Poker will once again be live-updating the tournament live from the tables from 2pm on Thursday afternoon.

Meanwhile the festival has a full slate of side events that began last Thursday with the £2,500 buy-in sixteen player GUKPT Heads Up Championship won last year by Kevin O'Leary and containing a high powered field including the likes of John Kabbaj, Neil Channing, Jeff Duval, Surindar Sunar and James Dempsey.

In the first round the draw threw up a heavyweight contest with Duvall versus Kabbaj, with Duvall triumphing. Meanwhile Channing fell at the hands of youthful looking Tom Bentham while Richard Kellett beat Surindar Sunar and Richard Gryko beat Mick McCool.

The second round matches threw up the prospect of Kellett versus Dempsey, won by Dempsey and Ketul Nathwani against Bentham, won by Bentham.

The semi final line up was as follows

James Dempsey versus Richard Gryko

Tom Bentham versus Vach Nankoosing

Dempsey and Nankoosing were defeated and took away £5,000 each for their troubles and this Wednesday at 3pm Gryko and Bentham battle for the title and the £20,000 first prize.

Elsewhere in the side events results in are as follows:

The £300 NLHE (prize money in £)

1^st Karen Frank (England) 16,000

2^nd Paul Twaddle (England) 10,200

3^rd Nick Gibson (England) 6,900

4^th Jeff Rogers (England) 4,300

5^th Darren Fuller (England) 3,100

6^th Stuart Clutterbuck (England) 2,600

7^th Adam Vinson (England) 2,000

8^th Andrew Liperis (England) 1,500

9^th Stephen Pearce (England) 1,000

£500 PLO8

1^st Jon Shoreman (England) 9,500

2^nd Mickey 'The Legend' Wernick (England) 6,800

3^rd Nick Gibson (England) 4,200

4^th Alex Rousso (England) 2,600

5^th Eric Dalby (England) 1,900

6^th Richard Ashby (England) 1,500

£500 NLHE

1^st Thomas MacDonald (England) 25,300

2^nd Sunny Chattha (England) 16,100

3^rd Davood Mehrmand (Germany) 10,900

4^th Nicky Evans (England) 6,800

5^th Tarek Makki (England) 4,800

6^th Julian 'Yo Yo' Thew (England) 4,000

7^th Nicholas Christodoulides (England) 3,200

8^th Chandra Khajuria (England) 2,400

9^th Arkady Kielman (England) 1,600

This week sees a further three events. The £500 Omaha concludes today and then there is a £200 NLHE re-buy tonight and a £300 NLHE One re-buy on Tuesday as we build to the start of the main event on Thursday.

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