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GUKPT Grand Final Festival Begins
 
The GUKPT Grand Final Festival takes place at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London between 19th - 29th November.

The main event is the £3,000 GUKPT Grand Final, which last year had 184 players and was won by Paul Foltyn. It takes place between 26th - 29th November. There are two starting days for the main event, on Thursday 26th & Friday 27th November.

There is a super satellite to the main event at 8pm on Wednesday 25th November. It is a £350 NL Hold'em Freezeout.

The festival gets underway on Thursday 19th November with the £5,000 UK Heads Up Championship. The full schedule of events taking place at the festival is as follows:

19th November - 3pm - £5,000 UK Heads Up Championships
19th November - 8pm - £300 NL Hold'em Freezeout
20th November - 8pm - £500 PLO Hi-Lo Double Chance Freezeout
21st November - 6pm - £1,000 NL Hold'em Double Chance Freezeout
22nd November - 6pm - £500 PLO Double Chance Freezeout
23rd November - 8pm - £200 NL Hold'em Rebuy
24th November - 8pm - £300 NL Hold'em 1 Rebuy or Add On
25th November - 8pm - £350 NL Hold'em Freezeout Super Satellite
29th November - 4pm - £100 NL Hold'em Bounty Freezeout

Further details on www.gukpt.com


Let us know if you are playing..post news, views, follow progress of friends etc

if i play only 1 tourny next year let it be this one

so mr rabb make sure its still on the calendar

gogogogogo to Jeff "Jaffacake" Kimber in the 5k HU, bink plz ty

any updates of the 5k hu anywhere ?

The 5K heads up was postponed as at 3pm there were not enough players as only 6 were registered. There are now 8 players and entries have been closed. It will now start on Friday at 3pm. The 1st round draw has been made and the line up looks like this:

Karl Mahrenholz v Tom Bentham
Richard Gryko v Jeff Kimber
Bambos Xanthos v Ketul Nathwani
Martin Silke v Victoria Coren

The first two matches start at 3pm. The second two will start once these have been completed.

The draw for the semi-finals will take place once all the first round mathes have been completed.

The prize money will be distributed as follows:

Winner: £20,000
Runner Up: £12,000
Third Place Play Off Winner: £8,000

Nice one to everyone who paid a 20% premium in an 8 runner field :D

nice easy field to get through then gogogog jaffa

Hey Jon is it still going to be 120 GUKPT ranking points for winner, 100 for 2nd, 80 for 3rd etc?

Well done to Aussie Chris Skinner who took 2nd in the Omaha today for £5K.
Good son!

Any updates on the heads up comp?

Martin Silke v Richard Gryko in the final on wednesday.

Nice one ty ty

Will be good for Silkes player of the year attempt.

Yes and that Gryko is in 2nd place and not many points behind him after winning the £1k side event.

Really? Nice one, that potentially adds a nice extra 20k to the prize pot tomorrow.

GUKPT Rankings Race Goes to the Wire

 

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour awards £50,000 in prizes to the top performing players. Players receive ranking points for making the final table of all main events and side events on the tour and for the Grosvenor Casinos National Poker League. The first prize is £20,000 plus the title of GUKPT Player of the Year. Going into the Grand Final festival, the top players on the leaderboard were:

 

1st - Martin Silke - 329.5 pts

2nd - David Johnson - 302 pts

3rd - John Miller - 258.5 pts

4th - Robert Topp - 244 pts

5th - Steven Vigor - 244 pts

6th - Sunny Chattha - 242 pts

7th - Richard Gryko - 230 pts

8th - Jeff Kimber - 228 pts

 

However, with wins in the £300 NL Hold'em Freezeout and the £500 PL Omaha Freezeout at the Grand Final festival, Karl Mahrenholz has moved up from 168 to 303 pts. Richard Gryko, who won the £1,000 NL Hold'em Freezeout has also moved up the table to 305 pts. The current standings are:

 

1st - Martin Silke - 329.5 pts

2nd - Richard Gryko - 305 pts

3rd - Karl Mahrenholz - 303 pts

4th - David Johnson - 302 pts

 

Heads Up For the Title?

 

However, both Martin Silke and Richard Gryko have also been playing in the £5,000 GUKPT UK Heads Up Championship this week and both have made it to the final. Silke, who defeated Victoria Coren in an 8-hour first round match claimed his place in the final after beating Tom Bentham in the semi-finals. Gryko defeated World Heads Up Champion Bambos Xanthos in his semi-final match, which lasted just one hand. Both players had flopped two pairs on an A-7-9 board but Gryko's A-7 dominated Xanthos's 9-7. The final between Silke and Gryko takes place at 3pm on Wednesday 25th November at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino.

 

Only eight players participated in this tournament, but with 125 ranking points awarded to the winner and 100 to the runner up, the heads up final could be decisive in determining the outcome of the GUKPT rankings. If Gryko wins the final, he will be half a point clear of Silke with just a few ranking events left at this week's Grand Final festival and next week's Champion of Champions festival in Luton. If Silke wins he will extend his lead to 49.5 points, but with both players expected to enter all remaining ranking events, it will still be far from over, regardless of who triumphs on Wednesday.

 

Overstacked

 

The starting stack for the GUKPT Grand Final (starts on Thursday 26th November) has been increased to 20,000. It has also been decided recently to increase next year's GUKPT main event starting stacks to 15,000. There will be some minor adjustments to the structure - no levels will be removed but the running antes will come in two levels earlier.

brilliant decision imo, obv ME's will now take longer but EPT and WSOP have both changed stacks and clocks this year and now hopefully GUKPT numbers will increase as result, wp raaby

is theer any chance u could post the results of the events that have already been on ?

Hi Jonathan really like the idea of a 15k starting stack, excellent suggestion. The antes coming in 2 levels earlier.. does this mean 100/200 with an ante right away?

Great structure change

Vwp

nice to see the starting stacks increased for next year, will there still be a £1500 London leg next year and if so how many starting chips will this tourney carry?

No betting market for the Grand Final ?

Hello again Jonathan, do you have the results of the side events that have been played?

I know one result on who the top 3 was think it was the £300 rebuy. 1st Karl "Lerch" Mahrenholz followed by Priyan and Andy Seden in 2nd and 3rd but I have no idea on the other results.

Ladbrokes

Just seen this Neil.

WP Chris. Had a decent cash last year also iirc

Geo

The antes do indeed come in at the 100-200 level, but we will monitor how it goes and will make further adjustments if required.

The 1500 event at the Vic will probably also have a 15k stack.

The results from the side events can be found on the gukpt site on the live page.

 Richard Gryko defeated GUKPT London Champion Martin Silke in the final of the £5000 GUKPT Heads Up Championship

He is now ahead of Silke in the Player of the Year standings by half a point!

Gryko won the £1000 NL side event earlier this week and is leading in the race to win the £20,000 Player of the Year prize which concludes after the Champion of Champions week at Luton next week

GUKPT Heads Up Championship Result
1st - Richard Gryko - £20,000
2nd - Martin Silke - £12,000
3rd - Tom Bentham - £8,000

Ranking Points
1st - Richard Gryko - 430 pts
2nd - Martin Silke - 429.5 pts
3rd - Karl Mahrenholz - 303 pts
4th - David Johnson - 302 pts


Side event results

£300 NL Hold'em Freezeout
137 runners
1st - Karl Mahrenholz - £13,050
2nd - Andrew Seden - £8,430
3rd - Priyan de Mel - £5,750
4th - Dominic Harrison - £3,600
5th - Kosta Kantchev - £2,570
6th - Andrew Purser - £2,060
7th - Simen Storrud - £1,640
8th - Chris Bjorin - £1,230
9th - Guillaume Fridez - £820
10th - Melina Krumova - £620
11th - Gary Fisher - £510
12th - Daniel De Luca - £410
13th - Patrick Joseph - £410

£500 PL Omaha Hi-Lo Double Chance Freezeout
37 Runners
1st - Jerzy Slaby - £6,900
2nd - Christopher Skinner - £5,100
3rd - Woody Deck - £3,350
4th - Richard Liotta - £1,850
5th - Hugo Martin - £1,300

£1,000 NL Hold'em Double Chance Freezeout
66 Runners
1st - Richard Gryko - £23,600
2nd - Richard Liotta - £15,800
3rd - Jeff Rogers - £9,900
4th - David Stanbury - £5,900
5th - CT Law - £4,600
6th - Alan Vinson - £3,600
7th - James Morris - £2,600

£500 PL Omaha Double Chance Freezeout
39 Runners
1st - Karl Mahrenholz - £7,350
2nd - Marcel Koch - £5,350
3rd - Anutr Amranand - £3,500
4th - Michael Ellis - £1,950
5th - Javed Abrahams - £1,350

£200 NL Hold'em Rebuy
95 Runners
1st - Christopher Brider - £16,550
2nd - James Mitchell - £11,050
3rd - Sami Mahmoud - £7,550
4th - David Gutfreund - £4,500
5th - Mark Winter - £3,400
6th - John Hadjinicolaou - £2,650
7th - John Miller - £2,000
8th - Ken Wong - £1,500
9th - Jeff Kimber - £1,000

£300 1 Rebuy or Add On
81 Runners
1st - Mickey Wernick - £13,850
2nd - Boon Lee - £9,240
3rd - Martin Bader - £6,300
4th - Kerry Taylor - £3,780
5th - Mike Hill - £2,840
6th - Willie Tann - £2,200
7th - Romano Pizzo - £1,680
8th - Jean Malan - £1,260
9th - Hoss Parhizkar - £840

The Grand Final Main Event which begins today from 2pm.

Updates can be found at http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/

Just woke up, what time can i buyin till today? If is still anytime before the end of the first break after level 2?

Yes it was yesterday, there were a few stragglers and room was left on table to accommodate them.

From http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/ where you can follow today's updates from 2pm

End of Day 1a Chip Counts
November 27th, 2009 at 2:28 am

22 of today’s 57 players made it to the end of the day. There are already over 70 players bought in for Day 1b, so around 100 or so are expected to take part, including defending champ Paul Foltyn.

Player  - Chips

Richard Grace  - 102,800
Andrew Teng  - 101,500
Jeff Duvall  - 92,400
Talal Shakerchi  - 83,800
Sida Yuen  - 67,700
Ian Fraser  - 67,000
Simon Randall  - 66,600
Peter Garrett  - 66,400
Cheung Tai Law  - 65,700
Anthony Thorpe  - 50,400
Edward Roger  - 46,800
Arshad Hussain  - 41,300
Martin Davis  - 39,900
Charles Mason  - 38,500
Richard Fohrenbach Jr  - 37,400
Jeff Kimber  - 31,800
Guy Steel  - 31,000
John Eames  - 26,000
John Rigolli  - 25,900
Robert Topp  - 23,800
Moy Hoque  - 20,400
Karl Limbert  - 15,000

Fck my life i just woke up, Lucy playing games on my phone last night killed the battery, argrgfsjghjdghjd

oops

how long does it take you to get there?

FFS you coulda at least nudged Flushy as you were leavin.

meh about 1hr30 depending on traffic.

http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/

End of Day 1b Chip Counts
November 28th, 2009 at 3:50 am

Player  - Chips
Tony Cascarino  - 212,500
Romano Pizzo  - 135,100
Julian Thew  - 131,100
James Morris  - 115,500
James Akenhead  - 106,000
Stefan Hansen  - 105,800
Charalambos Xanthos  - 102,200
Alex Yuen  - 85,400
Dominik Nitsche  - 84,000
Keith Hawkins  - 76,600
Albert Iversen  - 70,800
Leon Bui  - 69,700
Antoine Arnault  - 66,300
Philip Patrick  - 60,700
Peter Charalambous  - 60,400
Abdul Hafeez  - 59,200
Matt Perrins  - 58,800
Richard Liotta  - 55,600
Paul Foltyn  - 55,600
Andrew Seden  - 54,600
Jeff Hemmerman  - 47,700
Daniel Millar  - 45,100
Willie Tann  - 44,900
Daniel Garforth  - 43,900
Thor Drexel  - 40,900
Michael Greco  - 40,800
David Clark  - 40,700
David Lloyd  - 40,600
Priyan Demel  - 34,700
Michael Hill  - 33,600
Sunny Chattha  - 33,100
Paul Vicary  - 33,000
Chris Saleh  - 30,400
William Elkin  - 30,000
Victor V Ilyukhin  - 27,700
John Harnett  - 27,400
Arkady Kielman  - 27,300
Paul Byrne  - 24,100
Timothy Blake  - 23,600
Andrew Miles  - 21,300
Susan Pellington  - 20,300
Gary Brewer  - 20,200
Stuart Rutter  - 19,500

Good luck to Thewy, The Camel and Pab today amongst a few others from yesterday

This + stu rutter glgl blondes

Gogogogo thewy,James akenhead,Pab and tim Blake

GL to Charles Mason.  He posts as 'stone' on here.

Charles won the APAT WCOAP at DTD to get his seat into this and has made day two with 38k.

One time Pablo! (Or two times even)

Good luck to all the blondes!!!

Thewy had a MARE, & is out already.

Q-Q into A-A.

Two pairs (A-9) into 8-8 on a K-9-8-A-x Board.

Then paint-paint into 6-5 for the dregs, & the 6 hit.

GG.

Unlucky Julian.

gogogogogoogo stu rutter 11/11

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

gogogogogo rutter ftw 2mo - ship mad dimes pls!

gogogogogogo stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!! (final table second year running!!)

good luck stu hope u ship the lot mate

does anybody know if tmws bounty event is capped ??

ditttoooooooo!

glglglglgl stu

gogogogo nutter!

go stu! wont be able to rail today though as im gonna be pre occupied myself lol.

Go Stu Rutter, so many young players with his ability who are complete dicks, so nice to see such a humble grounded guy doing well.

gl mate, know how much you want this, u deserve a big result. Glglgl!!!!!

GUKPT Grand Final - Final Table

 

Day two of the £3,000 GUKPT Grand Final has concluded with nine players remaining from a field of 183. The UK's version of the November Nine will take place from 2pm on Sunday 29th at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London. It is an international field including and Italian, a Cypriot, a Swede, a Frenchman, four Englishman and an Irishman (or five Englishmen, depending on your view of Tony Cascarino's nationality).

 

The chip counts going into the final are as follows:

 

Romano Pizzo - 879,500
Albert Iversen - 589,500
Bambos Xanthos - 434,000
Philip Patrick - 407,000
Mike Hill - 371,000
Daniel Millar - 338,500
Stuart Rutter - 263,000
Tony Cascarino - 261,000
Antoine Arnault - 124,500

 

First prize is £168,800

 

Both Tony Cascarino and Stuart Rutter made last year's Grand Final. Cascarino is the only previous winner of a GUKPT event and this is his third appearance on a main event final table on the tour. Likewise Stuart Rutter is taking part in his third GUKPT main event final table. Mike Hill has also previously graced a GUKPT main event final, while the remaining competitors, including World Heads Up Champion Bambos Xanthos are appearing on a GUKPT final table for the fist time.

 

Betting on the final table will be available first thing on Sunday morning on tour sponsor Blue Square Poker's sportsbook,  www.bluesq.com.

GLGLGLGL Stu

GL Stu - Ship the lot!

this gl

+ An Other!  gl gl gl

gogogo Stu!!!!

Anyone got a link for live feed?

http://www.thenutz.tv/live.php

rutter out 9th. raisesd AQ comes A x x bet, call. Turn 10 all in call, dude has A10

So so sooooooooooooooo sick!  Sigh.  UL Stu, but well done making the FT.

ul stu - just the scikness

The donk got him

fs i missed it - the guy on his left?

ul stu

So brutal :(

UL Stu, I know he'll be gutted

Ugh, vul Stu. Was hoping you'd get a break this time :(

Guy who got him in a previous hand over limped with 22. He then flatted for more then half his stack after the sb put in a huge raise.

Flop Q64. SB shoves with KK. He calls all in and binks a 2 on the turn

UL Stu - reckon Iversen will probably take this down now.

:(

UL Stu - briefly popped into the Vic this afternoon and gave him a hopefully supportive-looking grin from behind James Roberts (who's covering the final table on his birthday, no less!).  Nice pink hat there.

Thanks so much for the support guys, for a few mintues felt more gutted than I ever have done!

Happy now, but the last pot was pretty crushing. The Italian was just amazing; at one stage he played 11 pots in a row, he just refused to pass anything.

 I raised AQ, he peeled A10 in position. Flop was A95. I overbet the pot with 80k, to make sure that, if he called, there would be 250k in the pot, and 250k left in my stack, and so it would effectively be all in on the flop. Turn ten; I still had to play my hand for big value, and all the chips went in for a 750k pot.

Obviously, it would be ignorant of me to think it was unlucky, as I had been pretty lucky yesterday to get there.

Was going to write that Iversen will win, but just seen the updates! Cascarino big CL with 4 left, gl to all.

Press release

Former professional footballer Tony Cascarino has won the Grand Final of the 2009 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour. The ex Republic of Ireland international scored a £168,800 payday by outclassing a field of 183 players in the Blue Square Poker sponsored GUKPT’s showpiece event at the Grosvenor Victoria casino in London. The tournament included some of the best poker players from the UK and Europe, who all paid £3,000 to enter the four day tournament. This was the second time that Cascarino has tasted victory on the UK’s largest poker tour. His first victory came just over a year ago when he won the Bolton leg of the 2008 tour. It was his third GUKPT main event final table, having also finished in 6th place in last year’s Grand Final. His win takes him to the top of the all-time GUKPT money list, with almost £250,000 in winnings.

 

His heads up opponent was Frenchman Antoine Arnault, a keen amateur from Paris who is the Head of Communications for avant-garde fashion house Louis Vuitton. Both players went into the final with the lowest chip counts of the final nine, but remarkably ended up as the last men standing. After Arnault eliminated Philip Patrick in 3rd place the two players went head-to-head for the title with Cascarino enjoying a chip lead of 2.1m to 1.4m. It was an intriguing conclusion to the tournament, which saw the Frenchman fight back and reverse the chip count. However the former Chelsea and Celtic striker drew level and then recaptured the lead with a commanding 3m to 0.6m chip lead. He was then one card away from victory when holding A-2 versus Q-T, but just when they thought it was all over, his opponent spiked a fourth spade on the river to make a flush. Arnault continued to fight back and was almost level once again when the final hand took place. Again Cascarino held A-2 (both hearts) in a pot that saw almost a third of the chips find their way into the middle preflop. Arnault moved all in on a T-J-8 (one heart) flop and Cascarino called. Arnault held T-9 of hearts for one pair and a straight draw. The turn card was the jack of hearts and the five of hearts on the river gave Cascarino the nut flush and with that he took down the title.

 

During post-match analysis Cascarino commented on his win.

 

“I’ve been moaning all year, ‘cos nothing good has really happened to me. I’ve won something (in poker) every year for the last four years, but until now 2009 has been frustrating.”

 

Making reference to the break down of his marriage he went on to say

 

“I got divorced earlier in the year and I’m delighted that she won’t be getting her hands on any of this. She’s already had enough out of me.”

 

On a more upbeat note he then philosophised on his poker playing abilities

 

“Getting respect from your peers and being acknowledged for being good at whatever you do with your life means a lot to me…I think I have proved myself now.”

 

His opponent Antoine Arnault was gracious in defeat and will be heading back to France with £107,100 for his second place finish. Small change it may seem, as his father Bernard Arnault is the 14th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $16.5 billion.

 

The final table also included World Heads Up Champion Bambos Xanthos from Cyprus, who is one of London’s most successful high stakes cash game players. He finished in 6th place while another high stakes cash game player Albert Iversen from Denmark exited in 5th. 21-year old online tournament pro Daniel Millar was 4th. Italian Romano Pizzo, went into the final table as the runaway chip leader but played wildly, getting involved in almost every pot during the first hour of play. He dusted off most of his stack, then regained much of it before being eliminated in 7th place when running A-K into Cascarino’s pocket aces. Manchester bookie Mike Hill was the eighth place finisher while Stuart Rutter, who finished 5th in last year’s Grand Final completed the final table line, departing in 9th place.

 

The Result

 

1st - Tony Cascarino - £168,800
2nd - Antoine Arnault - £107,100
3rd - Philip Patrick - £71,400

4th - Daniel Millar - £43,900
5th - Albert Iversen - £32,900

6th - Charalambos (Bambos) Xanthos - £27,400

7th - Romano Pizzo - £22,000

8th - Mike Hill - £16,500

9th - Stuart Rutter - £11,000

 

Tour Draws to a Close

 

The 2009 GUKPT is now drawing to a close with just the Champion of Champions festival still to take place. It starts straight away on Monday 30th November at the G Casino in Luton, with a week of warm up events before the £100,000 Champion of Champions tournament takes place. This prestigious event is an invite only tournament and the only way to get an invite is to win a GUKPT tournament. The five warm up events that take place in Luton this week represent the last chance to qualify for it.

 

The race to win the £20,000 first prize for topping the GUKPT rankings also looks set to go to the wire as Richard Gryko holds a slender half a point lead over Martin Silke. They are over 100 points clear of their nearest rivals in the race to be crowned the GUKPT Player of the Year. Ranking points are earned by making the final tables in all GUKPT tournaments. Both players are expected to participate in all of the warm up events this week.

 

GUKPT Continues in 2010

 

The schedule for the 2010 GUKPT has now been released and it has been confirmed that £200,000 in added prizes will be provided by Grosvenor/G Casinos and online partner gcasino.com. Full details of the 2010 tour can be found online at www.gukpt.com

 

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Sick bank roll

His son is in the boot of my car now.

Congrats to Tony Cascarino.

I played with him for a few hours on day 1. And although he wouldn't argue with me if I said he was completely run over by the deck (well, to get a stack like his, Phil Ivey would have needed to have run like God). I will say he maximised his good fortune by playing his rush really well and winning as many chips as he could.

Definitely the most accomplished celeb poker player I played against and seemed like a pretty nice fella too.

Great victory for Ireland  ;whistle;

Best winners quote EVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

“I got divorced earlier in the year and I’m delighted that she won’t be getting her hands on any of this. She’s already had enough out of me.”

hahahaha A+

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

I suppose that's payback for what Thierry Henry did.

a big well done to tony...a v nice fella!
i ain't no footballer either but the biography that paul kimmage wrote is a good read

One of my 2 fav sports biographies up there with Simon Hughes autobiographical piece