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does anybody know how the two flight day 1 will work for the main event? How many levels will be played for example for the 12 o'clock start.

TIA

Tim

expecting really low numbers for this

Festival Info as follows

eg 7 - G Casino, Brighton - 4th - 10th October

Main Event


Friday 8th October       £1,000 + £70 NL Hold'em Main Event Day 1    12.00pm/6.30pm    3 days    15,000    1 hour

Day 1 of the main event will be split into two flights, play will commence from 12pm for flight one and 6.30pm for flight two.

Registration closes 15 minutes before the start of each flight, however late entries/alternates are accepted during the first two levels of play for both flights.

Play will recommence at 2pm on the second day of two-day tournaments.

The maximum capacity for this tournament is TBC

Maximum capacities for side events TBC

Side Events

Monday 4th October    £200 + £20 NL Hold'em Freezeout    7.30pm    2 days    7,500    40-mins
Tuesday 5th October    £300 + £30 NL Hold'em Freezeout    7.30pm    2 days    10,000    40 mins
Wednesday 6th October £250 + £25 PL Omaha Double Chance Freezeout    6.00pm    1 day    2 x 5,000    30 mins
Wednesday 6th October    £150 + £15 NL Hold'em Freezeout Super Satellite to Main Event    8.30pm    1 day    7,500    25 mins
Thursday 7th October    £100 + £10 NL Hold'em Re-Entry    7.30pm    1 day    7,500    25 mins
Saturday 9th October    £60 NL Hold'em Rebuy Super Satellite to Grand Final    2.30pm    1 day    2,000    20 mins
Saturday 9th October    £250 + £25 NL Hold'em Freezeout    7.30pm    2 days    10,000    40 mins
Sunday 10th October    £100 + £10 NL Hold'em Bounty Tournament    5.00pm    1 day    7,500    25 mins

Play will recommence at 2pm on the second and third days of the tournament.

Registration closes 15 minutes before the start of each tournament, however late entries/alternates are accepted during the first two levels of play in the main event.

The maximum capacity for this tournament is TBC

10-Seat Guaranteed Super Satellite

At 7.30pm on Sunday 3rd October, there will be a £50 NL Hold'em Rebuy Super Satellite into the main event, with 10 seats guaranteed (with 40 players or more).

Afternoon Super Satellites

At 2pm on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday there are rebuy super satellites into the main event. These will either be £30 or £50 rebuy tournaments.

Tim,

I believe each flight plays Nine levels. I have an email with the venue to confirm this and will post when I know

Times for each flight are shown in the post above

who is planning to play this?

Everybody :)

Drinks at mine all day everyday

When things look shit and sound shit, they normally are shit!

Brighton in winter is SHIT!

What day you be down?

thanks Tighty - supposed to be taking the Mrs out for a birthday dinner so might play 1st lfight and be out by 8pm rather than waste a Saturday night :)

Am i invited ?

meh, probably there but only for the main

Just so everyone knows the Rendezvous has a festival at the same time, the ME has been moved to the Wednesday so you can play both, its a £500 freeze, should be goooooood

What a shit idea!

I wanted to come and play the main on friday. :(

How many runners do you expect that to make, James? 50+?

Eh? 1k is on Friday the 500 on Wednesday as opposed to the usual Saturday.

Tikay 50+ for sure

Yeah, but how many runners do you expect?

Tikay is surely 60+  ;hide;

Ahhhh I misunderstood!

sold, i like brighton

Pretty interesting idea of two flights.

Going to get up at the break of dawn, sneak into flight one, and hope the kids are in bed. It will be like rolling back the years in poker, I'll feel young again.

Travelling all the way from Newcastle to do the updates! Holla if you're going as know nobody there! Be there Sat/Sun. Any idea how close Jury's Inn hotel is from the station/Casino.

Next to the station pretty much, 10/15 min walk to the casino

First flight news

86 runners


James Dempsey

32k @ the first break in gukpt Brighton main event

Photos from AWOP

(http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp358/TeamAWOP/Fo%20Sho/DSCF7299.jpg)


Stuart Rutter

Gukpt reminds me that poker is fun without three betting, kind of a shame that its been a development

(http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp358/TeamAWOP/Fo%20Sho/DSCF7235.jpg)


Also playing Eames, Blake, Brammer, Kimber, JP

Decent line up looking at the field overall

'Evil' Edna Adams also present. Rest of yous can forget it.

Somewhat underwhelmed by the Gukpt blog today. Any other means of updates available?


Best of luck to Jonathan Campbell

AWOP/NutsTV

The GUKPT Blog needs to recover form the loss the unparallelled Mr Raab, and has very inexperienced people on it. Give it time, it'll soon be back to force.

Flushy reports he is up to 56,000

Thanks for this.

gay capital of south england...i knew u were pretty for a reason boy....

Hi mate, unfortunately the guy who does the bloggage normally for GUKPT is either ill or unavailable so was unfortunately nobody was there today. I was asked to go for today but unfortunately I had a few meetings today that I couldn't sack off with a days notice so I'm heading down tomorrow morning (6am sigh :( ) from Newcastle and should be there from 1ish. I havn't done updates for Grosvenor before and like Tighty said "inexperienced" but will try my best and if there's anybody you'd like updates on then I would be more than happy to oblige and may even stretch to a photograph or two for you. See you this weekend hopefully.

Good luck with them Pee Leno

Hell of a trip!

61 back today for 2pm Day 2


Full chip counts are tricky to find, as they are not on the GUKPT blog as normally would be

so a selection

LeKnave 24,00

jonnyplum 44,000

EvilEdna 6,000

Pab 53,000

Royal Flush 76,000

810ofclubs 53,000


from flight A


Paul Romain - 70,700
George Whyte - 9,050
Robert Boon - 9,875
Tom Sambrook - 18,475
Alan Dean - 30,150
Stephen Eames - 31,125
Stu Rutter - 17,625
Tim Blake - 30,925
James Dempsey - 76,000
Martyn Frey - 16,700
Vik Kanwar - 25,475
Graham Pound - 10,850
Alwyn Davies - 47,700
Nicholas Baghi - 15,475
Richard Glading - 28,025
Peter Lody - 98,850
Anthony Mackay - 34,200
Rob Sherwood - 31,625
Mark James - 50,275
George White - 11,750
Andrew Georgiou - 41,800
Jeff Kimber - 12,525
Martin Robinson - 53,150
Nik Persaud - 50,975
Tejinderpal Dedyal - 54,075
Simon Mairs - 83,950
Rob Bright - 30,700
John Earle - 40,950
Robinder Dhinsu - 40,300
Priyan De Mel - 28,225
John Eames - 85,475
Robert Topp - 17,175
Adrian Passfield - 30,075

After talking to David about the best way to do the "blog", we decided that wordpress is perhaps not the best way. For this weekend we have decided to do a trial of using Facebook.

On wordpress its 1) Hard to work, 2) Uneasy on the eye, 3) Hard to interact with the viewers as there is nowhere to leave comments etc.

The main problem with Facebook is that everybody doesn't have it. I'm sure the majority do and hopefully it will be a success, if anything it shows that the GUKPT are proactive in improving their service and want to do the best for their viewers after seeing some negative feedback.

For today you can follow us on; http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165912780086540

Thanks

Patrick

p.s thoughts?

I've added a link to it in my fb status and if a good few do that, word will spread fast.

Thanks very much Laxie, appreciate it.

Disagree, Wordpress is the nuts. Look at the Unibet blog at http://www.unibetopen.com/category/10-valencia/ that Jen and Rod are doing from Valencia (Could also spam the GSOP Live blog me and Dino1980 are doing from Riga @ www.gsoplive.com/blog but it's only half-built at the moment imo so I won't spam that ;) ). You can have a techy build a chatbox or message box next to the blog for requests. Add the Picasa plug-in for photos and a playing card plug in and get going.

@LeKnave Ouuuuch, reship AA for 18x into KQo. TQxJQ.

JamesDempseyFTP 110,000..battling with Pab two to his right

  JamesDempseyFTP  James Dempsey
Major setback, called a raise in the BB with 67, flop 67T raiser has 77. Wrong side of the 100k cooler

wow the unibet open page looks sick mate! In terms on GUKPT I've came in the middle of the 3 days and there was technical issues with wordpress that meant there wasn't many updates today. Even when attempting to log on this morning it wasn't let us log on for whatever reason. It was decided that it was imperative that we got as much updates out as possible, so thought on our feet and quickly made the Facebook event. Personally I am just doing this on a one off basis (for now) and I think quantity.quality of updates is most important at the moment as yesterday there was very little, but agree next time a page like the unibet one would be a better choice if made and prepared in advance. Have fun in Riga.

Chip counts for Dempsey, Pab, Eames, Rutter, Lewis please Pee Leno....

Well Flushy is 2nd in chips with 38 left

JamesDempseyFTP

Back to 105k playing good for once! 800-1600/200 now

Flushy is turning into Negreanu. Where is the head in hands smiley?

Paul Foltyn............51,200
James Demspey.......105,500
Stuart Rutter...........41,800
John Eames........ 104,000
Toby Lewis............63,300

nice seat draw over at table one!

On bubble now, taken from blog..


Patrick Leonard Epic hand from table 1.

All started with Toby Lewis shoving for 50k UTG+1
-Mike Ellis Tanks
-Toby gets his coat
- Dean "Tobyyyyy" in a stern voice
- Rail builds
- Dena demands they be quiet
- I think they like it
- Ellis folds
-Toby fistpumps
-Rohr tanks
-Toby sighs
Rohr calls
-Toby sighhhhhhhs
-Pab tanks
-Toby shows rail his hand
-Dena gets angry
-Toby declares that Pab is slowrolling
-Rail is now 20 strong
-Pab folds
-Toby shows....... A8!
-Rohr....... 77
-Fistpumps from Toby camp
- Flop 8......................... weeeeeeeeeeeee from the rail 7 (roarrrrrrs of laughter from the rail) as the board bricks out.
-"cheerio, cheerio, cheerio" can be heard from Brighton beach!
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anybody with us?

Been following on and off last few hours.
Think Fb works fine (and your updates are good also).

tyty, AWOP have a team of three so its pretty hard to keep up by myself, but I'm quite enthusiastic and I'm enjoying it immensely. Been up since 6am travelling form Newcastle, changing twice and going across London to Victoria to get here so I'm absolutely knackered, going to get an "early" night and be back refreshed for tomorrow.

Most rigged tournament ever....

nice to meet u briefly yesterday mate, will attempt to get there today (billion)

go on the poloooooooooooooooo!!!!

(http://1.2.3.13/bmi/newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44569000/jpg/_44569543_polo226.jpg)

go on paoloooooo!!!

and gl eames but he will finish 6th or something obv

Final Table Chip Counts

Damien Evans - 489,000

Michael Michalis - 434,500

John Eames - 283,500

Jose Azorin - 276,000

Paul Foltyn - 267,000

Jen Yue Chiang - 172,500

Paul Romain - 162,000

Mark James - 153,000

Lee Taylor - 90,500

Manuel Palenca - 69,500

Entries: 160


1st..............£46,400

2nd..............£32,400
3rd..............£20,400
4th..............£12,400
5th...............£9,600
6th...............£7,600
7th...............£6,000
8th...............£4,400
9th...............£3,200
10th..............£2,800

11th...Sebastian Gohr...........£2,400
12th...Jamil Ogunmakinwa..£2,400

13th...Fuad Serhan........£2,000
14th...Jim Lody...........£2,000
15th...Adrian Passfield...£2,000
16th...Simon Mairs........£2,000
17th...Mike Ellis.........£2,000

Grateful for the work done with the live updates but whenever I came back from break my chips had been counted and yet I couldn't find any chip counts. Everyone has a table card so you would think if they've been counted, enter table card number and you have a comprehensive chip count.

Ha ha, that was the most schadenfreude laden exit I have ever seen. No other country in the world where that could happen.

chip counts are up, table draw is up, prizepool is up and player profiles are up.

Can follow us on; http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165912780086540

Seven left, Pab has the most points.

  Pab09  Paul Foltyn

1/6 on the break, took a hit, got like 850k at 6k/12k

John Eames gone, 4 left.

Go on pabbers!!

Watchin the live stream, the announcer is awful, talkin about strictly and the cube.

Pab Heads up, big chip leader

wheres that?

ship it Pab. well done, congrats

Well done Pab.

n1 paulo

paolo, paoloooooooooooo, paolooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

wd mate.

GUKPT Brighton
£1,000 Main Event
Entries: 160



1st....Paul Foltyn..........£46,400

2nd....Jose Azorin..........£32,400
3rd....Paul Romain.......£20,400
4th....Mark James........£12,400
5th....John Eames.........£9,600
6th....Damian Evans.......£7,600
7th....Jenyue Chaing......£6,000
8th....Manuel Palanca.....£4,400
9th....Michalis Michael...£3,200
10th...Lee Taylor.........£2,800

Pab owned.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, congrats Pab.

toasty

WP Pab nicely done

WPWP Pab congrats

You're the John the Baptist of poker tournaments. Always helping the true prophet to the top.

Nice one Pablo  ;hattip;

 ;applause;

Press release

Badpab Runs Good – Paul Foltyn wins GUKPT Brighton

Three days of Main Event have finally concluded the GUKPT Leg 7 Series held at Brighton G Casino.  Strictly speaking it was the £100 Bounty Tournament, won by Jonathan Huckle for £1,690 which rounded it off late on Sunday night, but earlier a hard-fought final table had crowned Paul Foltyn the champion and given him a top prize of £46,400 to add to his already impressive list of live results, which include winning the £3,000 GUKPT Grand Final itself in London in 2008.  His second title came after defeating a field of 160, stocked with live and online professionals, tour regulars and qualifiers who traditionally make this stop such an action-packed one.

Brighton is actually the hometown of several online poker players who’ve taken to the live arena in recent years, including James Dempsey and Chris Moorman, and the eventual winner is friends with a lot of the competitors he either outlasted or directly busted to propel him to the top spot.  Among those who competed over the seaside felt this time round were Nik Persaud, Jon Kalmar, Jerome Bradpiece, Tim Blake, Priyan de Mel and Tom Middleton, while Mike Ellis, Fuad Serhan and Simon Mairs were among those who took the £2,000 min-cash (17 places in total were paid).

The final ten were very unevenly matched in chips, with Damien Evans and Michael Michalis way ahead with nearly half a million each, while Manuel Palanca returned with just under 70k and started the day moving in repeatedly, but avoided 10th place which went to Lee Taylor who was the earliest casualty of a Foltyn race.  Another early all-in confrontation, this time tournament-changing (in the winner’s own words), saw Michael Michalis make a big move with 67 of clubs which Foltyn called preflop with AQ to develop the beginnings of a giant stack, while Michalis hit the rail in 9th.  Now came the end for Palanca, a sticky one too as he found KK when Foltyn had AA and his short stack grind was over in 8th (£4,800).

Seven handed at the break, Foltyn had two-fifths of the chips in play, and Jenyue Chiang just three big blinds which went in soon and came out in Damien Evans’ stack, although he was to finish in 6th.  John Eames, who earlier lost to a two-outer to double Paul Romain, now switched up a gear and tried to get the big stack ball rolling.  He was second in chips at the dinner break but the same hand which eliminated Romain took him out too as big blind Paul Romain’s timely Aces held.  Mark James finished 4th having stayed by and large out of the big action earlier, but took home £12,400 from the final table.

Flopping a set of fours and setting the trap for third place finisher Paul Romain (who took £20,400) gave Foltyn a fairly monstrous stack, and heads up action started with his holding a commanding four to one chip lead, but Azorin wasn’t in a kamikaze mood, grinding for a while before finally getting it in with a dominated QT to QJ.  £32,400 for the runner up and £46,400 plus his second trophy and a Champion of Champions seat to Paul Foltyn.

Side events had previously seen Armon Pajouheshnia take down the £250 NL Freezeout and Pablo Beltrandeheredia the identically priced but more slightly attended Pot Limit Omaha event.  Pajouheshnia also came runner up to Simon Baskerville in the first event, the £200 NL Freezeout.  Baskerville took home £4,370 and a seat in the Champion of Champion’s event – as do all the winners of the Brighton GUKPT sides.  Joining him therefore will be Kishan Mithani, winner of the £300 NL Freezeout, and David Burn who won the 95-runner £100 NL re-entry tournament for £3,430.  Please find full results for all tournaments, and winner’s photo attached.

The next stop on the tour is Blackpool, from the 6th-14th November, with the Main Event taking place in the old two-start-day format from the 11th-14th.  This will be the final stop on the tour before the Grand Final in London

The winner

What a beautifully written piece of puff that is, it could only have been penned by the most gifted of writers.

Whoops.

In my admiration for that wonderful piece of writing, I quite forgot to congratulate Mr F on yet another fine win.

Yoda wins another decent pot. Ridic and incred in equal measures it is.

Quite incredible achievement to win two having only ever played four or five (?)

Many congrats Pab

Congrats Pab you sicko. Bringing the bacon home to Yorkshire!

Congrats Paul, awesome!