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London and Manchester - Season Finale of Summer Series

The fifth and final instalment of the GUKPT Summer Series is underway this week, with the London leg held at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino getting a head start on Manchester by three days, and the parallel series kicking off on the 26th August.  Both historically popular venues, these locations will host the last deep-stacked Summer Series Main Events of the year before the GUKPT returns for its autumnal stages leading up to the Grand Final back in London in November.  Giving a taste of tournaments to come, the London Summer Series 5 Main Event will be a one-off £750 No Limit Hold’em freezeout with a 12k starting stack and 45 minute clock – rounding off the five sets of summer tournaments in style.  The full schedules:

Summer Series 5a – Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London  23rd - 30th August

Monday 23rd August      £300 + £30 NL Hold'em Freezeout 7.30pm (2 days)
Tuesday 24th August     £200 + £20 NL Hold'em Rebuy  7.30pm (2 days)
Wednesday 25th August  £500 + £50 NL Hold'em Freezeout  7.30pm (2 days)
Thursday 26th August      £200 + £20 NL Hold'em Freezeout       7.30pm (2 days)
Friday 27th August  £300 + £30 PL Omaha Double Chance Freezeout  7.30pm (2 days)
Saturday 28th August     £150 + £15 NL Hold'em Freezeout Super Satellite into £750 Main Event   7.30pm (1 day)
Sunday 29th August  £750 + £60 NL Hold'em Freezeout Main Event  2.00pm  (2 days)
Monday 30th August  £100 + £12 NL Hold'em Bounty Freezeout      5.00pm (1 day)

Afternoon Super Satellites
At 2pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday there will be a £50 one Rebuy or Add On dealer dealt super satellite into the £500 event.
At 2pm on Thursday and Friday there will be a £75 one Rebuy or Add On dealer dealt super satellite into the £750 main event.

10-Seat Guaranteed Super Satellite
At 5.30pm on Sunday 22nd August, there will be a £50 NL Hold'em Rebuy Super Satellite into the main event, with 10 seats guaranteed (with 40 players or more).

Summer Series 5b – G Casino, Bury New Rd, Manchester  26th - 30th August

Thursday 26th August      £200 + £20 NL Hold'em Freezeout       7.30pm (2 days)
Friday 27th August       £300 + £30 BL Hold'em Freezeout    7.00pm (2 days)
Saturday 28th August    £100 + £10 NL Hold'em Freezeout Super Satellite to £500 Main Event  7.30pm (1 day)
Sunday 29th August      £500 + £50 NL Hold'em Freezeout Main Event  2.00pm (2 days)
Monday 30th August      £100 + £11 NL Hold'em Bounty Freezeout  5.00pm (1 day)

Play will recommence at 2pm on the second day of two day tournaments.  Late entries/alternates accepted during the first two levels of 2-day tournaments or the first three levels of 1-day tournaments.

Afternoon Super Satellites: At 2pm on each day of the festival before the main event, there will be rebuy super satellites into the main event. These will either be £20 or £30 rebuy tournaments.

10-Seat Guaranteed Super Satellite
At 7.30pm on Wednesday 25th August, there will be a £30 NL Hold'em Rebuy Super Satellite into the main event, with 10 seats guaranteed (with 40 players or more).

As ever, players who capture Summer Series titles or win side events gain entry to December’s Champion of Champions event – the £150,000 freeroll for players who’ve topped fields from Aberdeen to Brighton.  To view the list of players already invited to this exclusive tournament, please visit http://www.grosvenorukpokertour.com/cofcqualifiers.html.



Following the end of the Summer Series (but not, we hope, of summer) results and details of the next leg of the GUKPT (Brighton, October 4th-10th) will all be available at www.gukpt.com.

Anyone playing these, post here and let us know how you get on

Me, xpressman,  Alan gray, Stephen Cameron, chompy and handsome Paul playing the 300 tonight.

Good luck to celtic, Xpressman, Alan, Stephen, Adebayo and Handsome then.

Pls pls let ade and chompy be on the same table. If on on there I will do live updates.

please do

Will be playin the £300 PLO on friday night and the £750 on sunday.

Any other blondes playing these?

sigh weekend off, out of my bankroll! typical!

anyone know how many the vic events are capped at?

think its 120

cheers

I'm playing the £550 Manchester. Does anyone think the numbers will exceed 50, judging by the low turnout of previous Summer Series?

just home from reshoving TT into AA in the £200. astonished at how the gukpt's changed since I last played an event 3 years ago. that was one of the worst crapshooty tournies ever, tonight however was superb

the final of the £500 was chopped 4 ways, not sure who was cl at the time but he got the others to agree to give him 1st place money, coc seat and the trophy and the other 3 split what was left. great deal

highlight of the day was lalit managing to fall asleep between acting on the turn and the river being dealt, that's pretty impressive stuff imo

19 left in the Vic Main Event tomorrow

Neil Channing 12/19 with £30,00 up top, according to Neil's Twitter

Don't forget our League Elder, Lord Chomps, too.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=45531.msg1228332#new

Atherton and Michael Capture Top Honours at Summer Series 5

The final set of GUKPT summer tournaments took place both sides of this weekend as Summer Series 5a (London) and 5b (Manchester) saw large fields settle in to contest a series of events culminating in the Main Events on the 29th-30th August.  Manchester’s £500 Main Event was won by Lee Atherton for £9,080 with Pravin Khilosia as runner-up and Ash Hussain third, while the bumper buy-in in London (£750) may have contributed to its 134 runner field – one of the best at any Summer Series.  Coming out on top at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino was Michalis Andreas Michael who took the top prize of £27,500 out of the £100,500 total prize pool, while Robert Angood received £20,250 for 2nd and David Lloyd £15,360 for third.  Fourth spot Jamil Ogunmakinwa, too, received an even five figures (£10,000), the final table on Bank Holiday Monday bringing the Summer Series as a whole to a thrilling conclusion.

Side events in Manchester began with a £200 NL Hold’em freezeout on the 26th August, Pravin Khilosia beating a pretty respectable 75 other players to win nearly £5,000, a warm-up for his Main Event run to heads up.  The buy-in grew and the field shrank for the following event, the £300 freezeout, but the top prize of £4,280 gave winner Alli Mallu a decent return on investment and yet another injection of GUKPT ranking points, settling him even more comfortably in the top position.  Manchester’s players came back in force for the £100 NL Bounty freezeout at the end of the week, and Christopher Nicol took 1st place and £1,780, just pipping the seemingly unstoppable Mallu to yet another top spot.

Rewind a few days to Monday 23rd August, when London hosted its first Summer Series event: 123 players took a shot at the £300 NL Hold’em freezeout generating a prizepool just shy of £40k.  £9,000 of it went to Pratik Ghatge who was the first winner at the Vic.  He was followed by Patryk Slusarek who won the £200 NL Hold’em rebuy, and Peter Huggard who won the £200 NL Hold’em freezeout version.  London also featured a £500 NL Hold’em side event, which ordinarily would be the price tag on the main, and which brought 100 players to the felt.  Chun Law topped the results list on this one, chopping up the top spots with Matthew Moss (the monetary winner), Arkady Kielman and Martin Davis.

The final warm-up event in London was a £300 Pot Limit Omaha Double-chance freezeout, which brought in 50 players and gave winner Jonas Ovestad a prize of £4,960, with Ian Grier coming in second and Alan Vinson third.  After the dust settled on the Main Event’s second day, again a £100 Bounty freezeout concluded the Series, and 119 players went after each other’s scalps until only Ergun Macit remained (the final bounty being that of Nicolas Ekkesies).

You can find results from this and all other GUKPT events at www.gukpt.com, as well as check out the standings for the Leaderboard and view the qualifiers for the Champion of Champions Event (all Summer Series event winners join this exalted selection).

  It was me that was chip leader and won this, trophy and all, but the deal was done 3 handed, not 4. The Top 2 got £7k and 3rd got £6k. Cheers