blonde poker

Join me today from 12pm for coverage of Day 1a of the Poker Stars UKIPT from DTD, motorway trip this morning permitting

Over 200 runners are expected for this first of two days for this £500 NLHE event with 15,000 starting chips and a 60 minute clock

I'll be there til Friday night, then hopefully back for the final on Monday


To date the UKIPT has been a great success. This is perhaps unsurprising given Stars' abilities and brand, and their ability to fill fields with lots of satellite winners. The event certainly bridges a gap between the £100 fare on offer in a lot of UK casinos and the £1,000 GUKPT.

So far the UKIPT winners are

Galway: Padraig Parkinson
Manchester: Joeri Zandvliet
Coventry: Gilles Augustus

but the likes of NigDawg, LeKnave and George2Loose have all gone close for the blondes. Good luck to all the many blonde Poker members playing today.

Here is the UKIPT leaderboard

1 Christopher Brammer    118.75
2 Marius Lietuvnikas    112
3 Jack Ellwood    89.75
4 Joeri Zandvliet    87.5
5 Michael Hill    83.55
6 David Jones    78.5
7 Gilles Augustus    75
8 Michael Graydon    73.7
9 Joseph Grech    73.3
10 Paul Marrow    71.75
11 Tim Brown    71.15
12 Tony Millan    68.9
13 Dean Lyall    65.8
14 Dan Owston    62.7
15 Padraig Parkinson    61.75
16 Andrew Booth    61.6
17 Jenyue Chiang    60.3
18 Julian Hasse    59.6


In addition tonight the side event is No Limit Freezeout (1 Day)   £100 + £12 8pm   5,000 30 Minutes. I expect the place will be crammed to the rafters later!