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The 5th leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour is now underway at the fabulous G Casino at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. The festival runs from 17th - 23rd May. At this stop of the tour there is just one starting day for the main event, which gets underway at 2pm on Friday 21st and concludes on Sunday 23rd. It is the first time the main tour has visited this superb casino, however, last year Thomas Besnier from France was victorious here in the Summer Series main event.

 

The full schedule of tournaments taking place at the festival is as follows:

 

Monday 17th - 7.30pm - £200 NL Hold'em Freezeout

Tuesday 18th - 7.30pm - £100 NL Hold'em Rebuy

Wednesday 19th - 7.30pm - £300 NL Hold'em Freezeout

Thursdsay 20th - 6.00pm - £250 PL Omaha Double Chance Freezeout

Thursday 20th - 8.30pm - £150 NL Hold'em Freezeout Super Satellite to the Main Event

Friday 21st - 2.00pm - £1,000 NL Hold'em Main Event

Friday 21st - 7.30pm - £100 NL Hold'em Freezeout

Saturday 22nd - 7.30pm - £250 NL Hold'em Freezeout

Sunday 23rd - 5.00pm - £100 NL Hold'em Bounty Freezeout

 

There are also further super satellites into the main event at 2pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during the festival week. These will either be £30 or £50 rebuy tournaments.

 

For further details on the festival and information about how to get to the casino, please visit www.gukpt.com

let us know on here if you are playing, discuss the event and the venue and I will update news  through the week

Playing the 300 wednesday.

Currently scheduled to play the £300 on Wednesday and the Main Event on Friday

Hoping to play on Friday depending on work.

Anyone know what the cap is on the ME?

playing the main

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee! See you there

Playing Thursday 20th - 6.00pm - £250 PL Omaha Double Chance Freezeout

Friday 21st - 2.00pm - £1,000 NL Hold'em Main Event

and knowing how I run in GUKPTs, Friday 21st - 7.30pm - £100 NL Hold'em Freezeout

For those unaware you can buyin directly on the blue square site if worried about a possible cap with only one day one. 

I can't decide if the proximity of the DTD event at DTD which is only an hour or so down the road will result in a loss of runners.  I personally hope they continue with the £1000 buyins next year and don't drop it to £500.   I don't think I'd bother if it was much less, simply because hotels/petrol etc is a much bigger percentage of a £500 event.     

Hoping to play friday - any idea what the cap will be?

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii :)

^^More accepted phrasing imo

how many levels is late reg for? 2pm start time on all days?

think im gona go just for the main... i like the casino, but coventry isnt inspiring as a place!

Main Event starts at 2pm on all days. In terms of a cap, I think we can take 250, but I will confirm.

Jonathan, there is a £75 rb sat tomorrow on your site. I'm assuming that's ok for this weekend if I bink right?

Possibly will make it up for Thursday.

Only one day1 for the ME?

sure is tobias

no seriously it is

geniusssssss

seriously tho

Anyone from Blue sq to answer this?

Yes, anyone who binks tonight will be able to play on Friday. Happy binking one and all.

playd in 200 comp monday 63 runners well ran shame low turnout managd 2nd place got 2900 jamie sykes won

FYP

Are there any dress restrictions at the GCasino Cov?

No, even men are allowed to wear them if they so choose.

POTW  ;hattip;

+1

Cheers Jon

Binked it! See you all on Friday :)

Top binkage Sir!

in

jean claude, can u buy me in till marc arrives plzzzzz?

Best of Luck to ALL of the Blondite gunslingers in the showdown at 'El Ricoh'. I reckon it could be 'El Blondie' himself that fires the last bullet though. :) GLGLGLGL :)

GOGOGO Blondes smash it!!

Anyone present and online? How many they get? Any idea how many Luton boys, including Uncle Dicky 'MDD' Lynch?

105 so far

You not playing CH10 MPY?

Good Luck to Jerome Bradpeice and any other Blackbelters that are playing. Not sure who else is in it. :)

If anyone is down in Coventry at the moment say hi to Alex from DTD.

which Alex?

Not for me sir, no point if MDD is there. He too good. Saving myself for Vegas innit.

124 now. I expect with the UKIPT last week and Vegas next this will be seen as an ok turnout

Alex Ottewell from DTD. Get her to buy you a drink.

You shouldn't say hello to her.

It's more like OH HAIIII DERRRR.

Deffo this.

Rob Yong and Simon Trumper playing, gl to them

tikay live updating elsewhere if you want to see him in action. Just look up at the clouds

Not sure who is updating for the GUKPT blog.

Quote from the live updates;  "142 runners in the end .. not bad at all! "

blondes in the field. full updates on www.gukpt.com and go to the Live tab

1  - 2  - Rupert Elder  - 15,000
1  - 9  - David Colclough  - 15,000
1  - 10  - Steve Jelinek  - 15,000
2  - 3  - John-Paul Kelly  - 15,000
3  - 1  - Trevor Reardon  - 15,000
3  - 3  - Simon Trumper  - 15,000
3  - 5  - Rob Yong  - 15,000
3  - 10  - Matt Perrins  - 15,000
4  - 10  - Rupinder Bedi  - 15,000
6  - 6  - Jeff Kimber  - 15,000
6  - 7  - Richard Trigg  - 15,000
6  - 8  - Antoni Romanello  - 15,000
7  - 8  - Timothy Blake  - 15,000
8  - 5  - Yucel Eminoglu  - 15,000
8  - 10  - Stuart Rutter  - 15,000
9  - 8  - Toby Lewis  - 15,000
10  - 4  - Christopher Brammer  - 15,000
10  - 10  - Peter Charalambous  - 15,000
11  - 5  - Robert Sherwood  - 15,000
11  - 7  - John Eames  - 15,000
11  - 8  - Jim Reid  - 15,000
12  - 2  - Michael Lacey  - 15,000
12  - 5  - Neil Blatchley  - 15,000
14  - 5  - Marc Wright  - 15,000
14  - 8  - Jake Cody  - 15,000
15  - 8  - Mickey Wernick  - 15,000
15  - 9  - James Atkin  - 15,000
15  - 10  - Marc Goodwin  - 15,000

standard looks so much better on paper now than it used to. list of runners had lots of impressive players in it

Does look ok although thats only a quarter or so of the field and u can assume people that post and frequent poker forums/sites are gonna be better than the people who dont, on average of course.

Basically 20% of the field.

Il take 3-1 any of this group listed winning for a friendly bet

I was talking about the full list on the gukpt blog.

Wanna take 1 pick each for 10 picks and the one who gets the winner (if no winner then highest placing) wins $100?

dunno bit long winded! and far too much thought required mate

how bout I just give you a $100 reward bonus for being my hero.

Do an 'in the well' on blonde imo, be epic.

boom chip leader

Was that you rupert on my right. AA vs AK?

yeah

From GUKPT blog...

Player  - Chipcount
Rupert Elder  - 173,500
Hieu Van La  - 126,800
Robert Sherwood  - 107,700
Roberto Romanello  - 98,900
Neil Blatchly  - 83,500
Matt Perrins  - 79,200
David Allan  - 78,000
James Reid  - 69,800
Anthony Hughes  - 63,500
Alistair Carins  - 61,700
James Atkin  - 56,800
Danny Toffel  - 56,800
Robert Boon  - 55,600
Barkatul Mohammed  - 51,900
Steve Jelinek  - 51,500
Victor V Ilyukhin  - 50,200
Toby Lewis  - 45,600
Paul Gardner  - 42,600
Yucel Eminoglu  - 42,300
Marc Thorpe  - 39,600
Leon Campbell  - 35,800
Thomas Mannion  - 34,100
Edward Lundon  - 34,100
Zahir Aslam  - 33,200
David Mobbs  - 33,000
Irina Liepina  - 30,600
Gino Gabriel  - 30,400
Benjamin Strain  - 30,400
Darren Grosvenor  - 28,700
Gareth Williams  - 27,600
Stuart Rutter  - 27,600
Jeff Kimber  - 27,500
Andrew Psaras  - 26,100
Anthony Douglas  - 25,400
Nick Wealthall  - 25,000
Gregory Hunt  - 24,900
William Brewin  - 23,900
David Mitchell  - 23,200
Richard Lynch  - 21,900
George Geary  - 20,600
Stephen Eames  - 19,800
Mark James  - 17,800
Paul Marvin  - 17,000
Nicholas Markou  - 16,200
Antony Romanello  - 15,100
Richard Horton  - 13,500
Paul Dack  - 12,400
Michael McCool  - 11,800
Dennis Troake  - 11,600

GLGL James and all other blondes left in

Plenty to cheer on here

GL today in no particular order to Blatch, Rupert, Rob S, Perrins, Jim R, MC, Toby, Rutter, Kimber and MDD

FYP

does anyone have an rough idea of how many runners will be there for tonights 250 f/o?

will take the under on 58

At a standstill on the M6 southbound. Doesn't look good to make the 2 o'clock start.
GG my 26K.

Gogo Rupert!

gl blakey

How many played Thursday's PLO ?

I was tempted to go down but cba in the end due to the intoxicating coctail of laziness and lack of form.

http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/

21 left

Romanello big chippie

Toby Lewis going well

Never seen anyone hit so many cards, was redic.

Set vs top two pair
Trip Aces vs a bluffer for 60k
TT vs QQ AIPF and spikes the ten
Flopped mid pair and rivered 2 pair vs flopped 2 pair

All big pots in space of two levels

He's lost two big pots. 85 vs KQ on Q83 board. Peeled a re raise with AJ and got it in on a J high board against Kings

Perrins bubbled. Again flopped two pair and got it in on the turn against his opponent who'd made a straight!

This was with 16 left (on the bubble)..

10  - 3  - Thomas Mannion  - 272,400
9  - 6  - Rupert Elder  - 247,700 (now ~ 350k)
10  - 9  - Barkatul Mohammed  - 210,900 (now ~ 400k)
10  - 4  - Roberto Romanello  - 206,300
(10  - 8  - Matt Perrins  - 190,100) - now out
9  - 4  - Danny Toffel  - 179,000
9  - 3  - Stuart Rutter  - 173,500
10  - 7  - Darren Grosvenor  - 152,200
9  - 5  - Toby Lewis  - 114,400 - now out
10  - 2  - Andrew Psaras  - 95,900
9  - 9  - Hieu Van La  - 83,800
9  - 1  - Leon Campbell  - 62,400
9  - 7  - Nick Wealthall  - 60,500
9  - 8  - Victor V Ilyukhin  - 36,700
10  - 6  - Jeff Kimber  - 25,500
9  - 2  - Robert Boon  - 22,600  - out

Pez was out in 16th, fairly horrible 2 pair vs straight. Now down to 13.

Go Stu Rutter imo

is andrew psaras bobalike? If so good luck him

Really?

now more like this with 12 left

Stu just won a big pot. QJ dd vs 109 dd on an all diamond board. MBN

Im good like that.

Gl to rupert and stu! Been on ruperts right all day and he's playing really solid, think this one is his. Gogogo

it is, cheers Vinny

yw, glglglglglgl

GOGOGOGO Stu Rutter and obv the greek man bobAlike

Gl Rupert

gl BobAlike, Rutter, Rupert, JaffaCake.

bobAlike out in 11th on FT bubble - ran T9ss into QQ of Tom Mannion

according to the updates he raise-called SB vs BB but i'm guessing his raise must have been large enough to commit him. Ul to just miss out on the final anyway.

Gogogo Stu!

10  - 6  - Barkatul Mohammed  - 381,500
9  - 6  - Rupert Elder  - 315,700
9  - 3  - Stuart Rutter  - 290,000
10  - 3  - Thomas Mannion  - 230,000
10  - 4  - Roberto Romanello  - 192,300
9  - 4  - Danny Toffel  - 181,300
9  - 5  - Darren Grosvenor  - 171,800
10  - 2  - Andrew Psaras  - 116,900
9  - 1  - Leon Campbell  - 116,800
10  - 5  - Jeff Kimber  - 76,900
10  - 1  - Nick Wealthall  - 64,300


and BobAlike just out 11th for £2,130, well played sir

from  http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/ (please check it out)

1st - £41,910
2nd - £29,460
3rd - £18,460
4th - £11,360
5th - £8,880
6th - £6,740
7th - £5,320
8th - £3,900
9th - £2,840
10th - £2,480

nice bok me :-(

gl to kimbercake, stu rutter & rupert.

id like rupert to win.

142 players entered the £1,000 main event of Leg 5 of the 2010 GUKPT at the G casino in Coventry, creating a prize pool of £142,000 and a first prize of £41,910.
 
The final ten players in the main event of Leg 5 of the GUKPT are:
 
Tom Mannion - 384,300 chips - 29 year-old Tom is a former casino croupier originally from Coventry, but now living in Dublin. He goes into his first GUKPT main event final table as the chip leader
 
Hassan Mohammed - 381,900 chips - 39 year-old Hassan is a lawyer from Birmingham and lies in second place, juts a big blind short of the chip lead. This is his first GUKPT main event final table.
 
Stuart Rutter - 307,000 chips - 27-year-old Stuart is a professional poker player from Birmingham. The gcasino.com sponsored pro will be competing in his 4th GUKPT main event final table.
 
Rupert Elder - 284,700 chips - 23-year-old Rupert comes from Bury St Edmonds. He is compteting in his first GUKPT main event final table.
 
Danny Toffel - 205,300 chips - 40-year-old Danny is a company director from Kings Winford. This is his first GUKPT main event final table.
 
Darren Grosvenor - 202,800 - 39-year-old Darren lives in Glasgow and is competing in hist first GUKPT main event final table.
 
Roberto Romanello - 170,500 chips - 33-year-old Roberto is a professional poker player from Swansea. This is his 4th GUKPT main event final table.
 
Leon Campbell - 76,800 chips - 30-year-old Leon is a record producer from London. He will be competing in his first GUKPT main event final table.
 
Jeff Kimber - 69,000 chips - 35-year-old professional poker player Jeff hails from Newcastle, but now lives in London. The gcasino.com sponsored player is the only previous winner of a GUKPT main event (Walsall 2008) and will be playing in his 4th main event final table.
 
Nick Wealthall - 56,300 chips - 37-year-old Nick from London is the host of the UKIPT and a poker journalist and broadcaster. This will be his first GUKPT main event final table.
 
The seating draw for the final will be revealed on Sunday shortly before play recommences at 2pm.
 

Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   17/05/2010   
Event   £200 NL Hold'em Freezeout   
Length   2 days   
Runners   63   
Total Prize Pool   £12,600   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   James Sykes   £4,040
2nd   Andrew Wright   £2,900
3rd   Michael Taylor   £1,920
4th   Kabwe  Anthony   £1,130
5th   Richard William   £910
6th   Mark Parsonage   £690
7th   Lee Taylor   £570
8th   Nitinkumar Chauhan   £440

Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   18/05/2010   
Event   £100 NL Hold'em Rebuy   
Length   1 Day   
Runners   23   
Rebuys   19   
Add Ons   12   
Total Prize Pool   £5,400   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   David Colclough   £2,160
2nd   Glen Storey   £1,620
3rd   Stephen Pearce   £1,080
4th   Michael Moore   £540

Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   19/05/2010   
Event   £300 NL Hold'em Freezeout   
Length   2 days   
Runners   61   
Total Prize Pool   £18,300   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Terence Tanner   £5,850
2nd   Richard Barnett   £4,210
3rd   Steven Watts   £2,790
4th   John Eames   £1,650
5th   Bernardo Battistotti   £1,330
6th   Gavin Ball   £1,010
7th   James Miller   £820
8th   Cai Huang   £640

Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   20/05/2010   
Event   £250 PL Omaha Freezeout   
Length   1 day   
Runners   50   
Total Prize Pool   £12,500   
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st   Slyvester Geoghegan   £4,120
2nd   Tim Flanders   £3,000
3rd   Ritesh Chauhan   £2,000
4th   Sajid Mahmood   £1,190
5th   Mohammed Hussain   £940
6th   Paul Parker   £690
7th   David Stephens   £560

Venue   G Casino Coventry   
Date   21/05/2010 – 23/05/2010   
Event   £1,000 NL Hold'em Main Event   
Length   3 days   
Runners      
Total Prize Pool      
Result      
Place   Player   Prize
1st      £41,910
2nd      £29,460
3rd      £18,460
4th      £11,360
5th      £8,880
6th      £6,740
7th      £5,320
8th      £3,900
9th      £2,840
10th      £2,480
11th   Andrew Psaras   £2,130
12th   Victor V Ilyukhin   £2,130
13th   Hieu Van La   £2,130
14th   Toby Lewis   £2,130
15th   Robert Boon   £2,130

and of course, good luck to Stuart, Rupert and Jeff. Hope one of them takes it down

Cheers Tighty.

Really enjoyed myself over the last 2 days. Stayed focussed for 99% of the time and then blew it...
I knew I was behind with the 109ss but thought I'dchance it for a needed double up.

I've played 4 GUKPTs now with 2 cashes, so overall pleased.

go on nutterrutter!!!!!!

My picks for today are:

1, Hassan - Known him a few years now, very capable
2, Stu - Played on Stu's table late on day 1. I think he was down to around 5K at one point. Done extemely well to FT.
3, Roberto - On Roberto's table all day yesterday, probably the most impressive player I've ever played against. Unfortunatley made a couple of bad calls yesterday which demolished his huge chip lead.


Good look to them all!

TID Rupert!    updates if possible please as will be on iphone most of the day

All the best Rupert

+1, good luck to these guys, but especially Stu. gogogogo.

gl Rupert, Stu and Jeff.

looks like you'll be alright keys :( Orwell bridge etc

surprised danny toffell on the final. played with him before, he's v tight but also kinda bad

3 left - Stu, Darren, Hassan. Stu has about 2/3 of chips.

Weeeeeee gogogo stu!!

gogogo to the Rutter who is good at poker!

Theres only one M'fckin Rutter  ;)

die

though you have a fair point

come on stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

SALT SALT SALT

shipppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

SALT SALT SALT

well done nutter

Did stu win?

ran the final table over by the sounds of it

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Get in, well done Stu, so pleased for you :)

Congrats Stu very well done

wp Stu

wpwp

congrats stu very well played!  dunno if stu reads this, but would be interested to know what you had when you 3bet btn to my UTG open! (had kqo would deffos jam online w the blockers but pussyd out cos was fish at table and no esp need for you to get involved w me but u did have 600k so v feasible for you to be light!)

weeeeeeeeeeeee n1 stu wpwpwp

Wd wd wd stu, and rupert too, ul m8 was hoping ud win and show keys how to win a gukpt!

is ok, i've only played 2 of these things and been chip leader after day 1 in both.  dont know where he gets the impression they are tough from ;)

wd mate!

Well done Stu

 Rutter Rampant at Coventry GUKPT



Birmingham's Stuart Rutter has won the 5th leg of the 2010 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour at the G Casino in Coventry. He defeated a field of 142 players in the three-day tournament to bank the first prize of £41,910 and claim his seat in the tour's £150,000 Champion of Champions tournament. The 27-year-old Oxford mathematics graduate, now a professional poker player sponsored by gcasino.com was competing in a record equalling 4th GUKPT main event final table. He defeated Danny Toffel from Banstead after a cagey heads up encounter. After eliminating Darren Grosvenor from Glasgow in third place he took a commanding chip lead into the final stage of the tournament. However the 40-year-old company director did not roll over easily and despite being suffering a 6-1 chip deficit, the heads up play continued for almost two hours before reaching its eventual conclusion. In the last hand he had pocket nines versus Toffel's pocket fours to eventually claim victory.




During his post-tournament celebrations Rutter praised the staff at the Coventry venue, saying




“The tournament has been fantastically run throughout all three days and this is the perfect venue for this poker tour. Playing the final table on the stage in the show bar is an experience I'll never forget. I'd also like to thank my sponsor gcasino.com, who have given me the opportunity to play in all the GUKPT main events this year.”




He went on to say




“This win is absolutely perfect timing coming just one week before I set off for Vegas and the WSOP. It gives me a great confidence boost which I always struggle for on the GUKPT having made three previous final tables and seeing them go wrong each time.”




Also competing in the ten-man final was former champion Jeff Kimber, who was also taking part in his 4th main event final table. He exited in 6th place, having been short-stacked throughout the final day of the tournament. Welsh mouthpiece Roberto Romanello, who claimed 7th was yet another player on the final to have made it to four main event final tables. Hassan Mohammed, a lawyer from Birmingham finished 4th while former poker dealer Tom Mannion from Coventry had gone into the final as the chip leader, but departed in 5th place. Rupert Elder from Bury St Edmunds had been chip leader for much of the second day of the tournament, but the cards deserted him on the final day and he was eliminated in 8th. Poker journalist and host Nick Wealthall, who was competing in his very first GUKPT main event finished in 9th place while record producer Leon Campbell from London completed the final table line in 10th place.




The GUKPT Main Tour now takes a seasonal break, but the poker action continues next week when the tour's little sister, the Summer Series gets under way simultaneously in two separate venues. The first of these mini-festivals begins on Wednesday 26th May at the G Casino in Blackpool with several days of warm up events before the £500 main event takes place over the bank holiday on Sunday 30th & Monday 31st May. Meanwhile, at the opposite end of the country at the G Casino in Thanet, Kent, the second of these festivals begins on Friday 29th, culminating in a £300 main event, also taking place on Sunday 30th and Monday 31st May. A further eight GUKPT Summer Series festivals take place over the next three months taking in Newcastle, Aberdeen, Dundee, Walsall, Luton, Sheffield, Manchester and London. The main tour recommences in August when the 6th leg takes place at the G Casino, Luton from 7th - 15th August. The full schedule of remaining festivals on the 2010 tour can be found on the official GUKPT website at www.gukpt.com.

 

The Result

  Place Player Prize GUKPT Ranking Points
1st Stuart Rutter £41,910 100
2nd Danny Toffel £29,460 80
3rd Darren Grosvenor £18,460 64
4th Hassan Mohammed £11,360 52
5th Tom Mannion £8,880 44
6th Jeff Kimber £6,740 36
7th Roberto Romanello £5,320 28
8th Rupert Elder £3,900 20
9th Nick Wealthall £2,840 16
10th Leon Campbell £2,480 12


 

the happy winner

Cheers guys for all the messages.

Really good playing with you Rupert. Sighh that nothing went for you on the FT.

I had a nine and a nine. I wouldn't have liked it, but I would have called. You played really well, run better plsss.

Well done, you def deserved it.