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Title: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 19, 2010, 09:27:14 AM The Final Countdown: London’s GUKPT Grand Final Festival
The final series in the year-long tour which has seen the GUKPT visit every G and Grosvenor Casino in a non-stop sequence of Main Events, Summer Series and Club Championships brings the last games of 2010 back to London’s Victoria Casino this week. Along with the World Heads Up Championship (19th-22nd), the full festival runs until Sunday 28th November and provides a last chance to take down a packed-field poker tournament and secure a place in December’s Champion of Champions £150,000 freeroll (for more information please see http://www.grosvenorukpokertour.com/champion.shtml). In 2009 the Grand Final was won by Tony Cascarino, beating a field of 183 for a prize of £168,800, and with a bigger buy-in next week’s Main Event will see a new champion crowned. For the players at the top of the GUKPT Leaderboard, headed by Blackpool’s champion David Johnson, these tournaments represent the final challenge which will determine who will be crowned this year’s Player of the Year and take down the £20,000 top prize. Judging by the turnout at last year’s Grand Final events, there will be enough ranking points floating around to give players like Alli Mallu and Neil Channing a genuine eleventh-hour shot at the title, and this should make for an especially exciting week of poker, hosted in the excellent atmosphere of the Vic’s 24 hour poker room. The full schedule: Thursday 18th November: £300 + £30 NL Hold'em Freezeout 7.30pm (2 days) Friday 19th November: £500 + £50 PL Omaha Double Chance Freezeout 7.30pm (2 days) Saturday 20th November: £500 + £50 NL Hold'em Freezeout 5pm (2 days) Sunday 21st November: £200 + £20 NL Hold'em Freezeout 5pm (1 day) Monday 22nd November: £300 + £30 1 Rebuy or Add On 7.30pm (2 days) Tuesday 23rd November: £200 + £20 NL Hold'em Rebuy 7.30pm (2 days) Wednesday 24th November: £350 + £35 NLHE F/O Super Satellite to Main Event 7.30pm (1 day) Thursday 25th November: £2,500 + £125 NL Hold'em Main Event Day 1a 2pm (3 days) Friday 26th November: £2,500 + £125 NL Hold'em Main Event Day 1b 2pm (3 days) Sunday 28th November: £150 + £15 NL Hold'em Bounty Tournament 5pm (1 day) The £2,500 Grand Final Main Event has a starting stack of 25,000 with an hour clock, making it one of the best-structured events in the UK; there are several satellites this week at the Victoria Casino – £100 NL rebuy events on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 2pm – to give everyone a chance to qualify for a fraction of the buy-in. There’s also still time to qualify online: a £250 freezeout is running on http://GCasino.com/poker on 21st November at 8pm with two seats guaranteed. Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 23, 2010, 10:33:22 AM ress Release
The final heads-up matches of the 2010 WHUPC have come to a conclusion this evening, after four intense days of one-on-one tournament action at London's Grosvenor Victoria Casino. Players including John Tabatabai, Vicky Coren, JP Kelly, Richard Gryko, Marius Torbergsen and previous champions Jeff Kimber and Bambos Xanthos entered the £2,000 freezeout series, as well as 21 other tough competitors from a variety of poker backgrounds both live and online. The semifinals pitted Nik Persaud against his friend Toby Lewis, and eventual runner up Leon Louis against Jeff Kimber, while the event was streamed live with commentary throughout the day. Final results: 1st Nik Persaud - £30,000 2nd Leon Louis - £15,000 3rd Toby Lewis - £5,500 3rd Jeff Kimber - £5,500 Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: blonde17 on November 23, 2010, 04:48:34 PM A worthy champion.
And now for the final of the Grand final of the GUKPT. All four days "LIVE" from 2pm Thursday with chip counts , interviews etc. Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 25, 2010, 02:14:36 AM Reminder that GUKPT Grand final begins tomorrow and there is a live feed in the OP of the stickied thread above
Broadcast times for GUKPT. Thursday 25 Nov. Day 1a Starting at 2pm Friday 26 Nov. Day 1a Starting at 2pm Saturday 27 Nov. Day 2 Starting at 2pm Sunday 28 Nov. Day 3 Starting at 2pm Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: action man on November 25, 2010, 02:24:08 AM is that mike carlson in the pick with nik
Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 25, 2010, 02:25:05 AM is that mike carlson in the pick with nik Yes. Has done the commentary on the WHUPC etc for a couple of years now. Great bloke and imho a fantastic NFL colour guy too Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 26, 2010, 01:19:54 AM 40 of 84 made it through Day1a
Again, as with recent GUKPTs there are no overnight chip counts which is a shame The leaders at the last break were Lennart Valhjaltaafeldt 114500 Nicolas Irving 104100 Barny Boatman 82300 Bruce Atkinson 72700 Jeff Kimber 71100 Darren Pearce 66600 Michael Piper 64900 Charles Chattha 64000 Emmanuel Sebag 62000 Anthony Hardy 60300 Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: titaniumbean on November 26, 2010, 01:30:24 AM Prob best not to let anyone rail or see how their friends are doing/just the rest of the field.
It's not like all the chips are bagged up and counted or anything........ wp Grosvenor Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: paulhouk03 on November 26, 2010, 09:36:14 AM When is trumper playing?
Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: GreekStein on November 26, 2010, 09:58:05 AM Sigh, bring back the raab
Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: outragous76 on November 26, 2010, 10:02:09 AM You would think with the ukipt that G would be pulling out the stops. Reporting is an important part of a successful tour IMO!
Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 26, 2010, 11:02:16 AM Karl Mahrenholz 53,000
Jeff Kimber 71,000 Stu Rutter out More chip counts when I uncover them! Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 26, 2010, 02:05:23 PM Day1a chip counts
Nicholas Irving.....155,500 Michael Piper......114,700 Willie Tann.....99,800 Barny Boatman.....87,000 Charles Chattha.....75,900 Sawan Karia.....75,000 Jeff Kimber......71,300 Lennart Valhjaltaafeldt.....70,600 Jamie Burland.....66,300 Richard Ellis......63,500 Paul Valhjaltaafeldt.....62,700 Ben Carpenter......59,800 Ben Roberts.....59,600 Mickey Wernick......58,800 Jonas Ovestad......56,200 Danny Toffel......56,000 Mike Ellis......55,600 Emmanuel Sebag......55,100 Karl Mahrenholz......53,000 Bruce Atkinson......50,700 Rob Garfield......48,800 Sadan Turker......46,700 Arkady Kielman......46,000 Praz Bansi......43,600 Robert Topp......41,800 Guy Steel......41,100 Christopher Kadji......38,300 Gavin Cochrane......36,100 Nathan Lee......35,200 Peter Babot......32,200 Huseyin Houssein......31,000 Mark Greening.....30,600 Anthony Hardy......30,500 Mark Karoullas......30,500 Daniel Moosah......29,700 Alex Rousso.....27,600 Keith Johnson......23,900 Royston Smithers.......19,900 Jack Salter......17,000 Andrew Georgiou.....13,200 Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: GreekStein on November 26, 2010, 02:06:53 PM gl to both the Valhjaltaafeldt lads
Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: AlrightJack on November 26, 2010, 02:58:10 PM gl to both the Valhjaltaafeldt lads Looks like they have the scrabble points locked up Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: pleno1 on November 26, 2010, 04:50:45 PM Anyone hear about the AWFUL way Richard Whitmore was treated last time? Not sure if it's got onto here yet.
Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: outragous76 on November 26, 2010, 04:56:51 PM Anyone hear about the AWFUL way Richard Whitmore was treated last time? Not sure if it's got onto here yet. Is this the verbal declaration ruling? Sure there was a thread! Also sure grosvenor staff were v happy with the ruling! Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: BAM on November 26, 2010, 04:57:39 PM Anyone hear about the AWFUL way Richard Whitmore was treated last time? Not sure if it's got onto here yet. Was he swatted with a rolled up newspaper or was it insecticide? Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: pleno1 on November 26, 2010, 05:16:45 PM Anyone hear about the AWFUL way Richard Whitmore was treated last time? Not sure if it's got onto here yet. Is this the verbal declaration ruling? Sure there was a thread! Also sure grosvenor staff were v happy with the ruling! nah, more like stolen chippies. Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: pleno1 on November 26, 2010, 05:21:51 PM "Just wanted to post about what happened to me in the gukpt main event, doing ok getting to the halfway break . Come back to my table and i have 10,000 chips missing i tell the floor manager straight away and he cutting a long story short does nothing about it and tells me to get on with it and starts the next level running,2 days of graft playing well and then this happens i should have had 61,300 and had to start with 51,300 i lost the plot and lasted a stupid 12 mins later so gutted and feel let down".
"It was Zach who made the call to carry on, i had 3 Grovesner staff come to me later and appologise my head was totally fcked and i am convinced i would have folded the aj if i was still in a proper frame of mind it is really gutting 12 away from money aswell bit of a sickner saved up the £1000 aswell so double slap.I was gonna email the gukpt head guy buts what the fucking point and no they did not check cameras, they did fck all" "Well after your responses to this i will try to get a fully explained answer as to what action was taken, i will get this in writing and then see what you guys think. My exact words to the tourney director were "so basically after 2 days of graft and £1000 of my money your saying tough nothing i can do." his reply was a simple Yes sorry". It was after the dinner break, we had played for 4 hours returned after the buffet, the reason i spotted it straight away was the fact that the 10k was 2 5k yellow chips the only 2 yellow chips in my stack.Got to table and no yellow chips to be seen,the last hand before the break i got moved tables one of the dealers watched me move my chips to the next table and when asked by zach told him i deffo had 2 yellow chips but could not tell him the exact chip count,during the break 1 dealer counted all the chips on the table and it was on his word that the whole thing stood. Basically they showed me a peace of scrap paper with the counts on and had me down for 51,300 not 61,300 Anyone who knows waspy knows he's a great lad. Such a shame. Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: Aek203 on November 26, 2010, 07:19:03 PM "Just wanted to post about what happened to me in the gukpt main event, doing ok getting to the halfway break . Come back to my table and i have 10,000 chips missing i tell the floor manager straight away and he cutting a long story short does nothing about it and tells me to get on with it and starts the next level running,2 days of graft playing well and then this happens i should have had 61,300 and had to start with 51,300 i lost the plot and lasted a stupid 12 mins later so gutted and feel let down". "It was Zach who made the call to carry on, i had 3 Grovesner staff come to me later and appologise my head was totally fcked and i am convinced i would have folded the aj if i was still in a proper frame of mind it is really gutting 12 away from money aswell bit of a sickner saved up the £1000 aswell so double slap.I was gonna email the gukpt head guy buts what the fucking point and no they did not check cameras, they did fck all" "Well after your responses to this i will try to get a fully explained answer as to what action was taken, i will get this in writing and then see what you guys think. My exact words to the tourney director were "so basically after 2 days of graft and £1000 of my money your saying tough nothing i can do." his reply was a simple Yes sorry". It was after the dinner break, we had played for 4 hours returned after the buffet, the reason i spotted it straight away was the fact that the 10k was 2 5k yellow chips the only 2 yellow chips in my stack.Got to table and no yellow chips to be seen,the last hand before the break i got moved tables one of the dealers watched me move my chips to the next table and when asked by zach told him i deffo had 2 yellow chips but could not tell him the exact chip count,during the break 1 dealer counted all the chips on the table and it was on his word that the whole thing stood. Basically they showed me a peace of scrap paper with the counts on and had me down for 51,300 not 61,300 Anyone who knows waspy knows he's a great lad. Such a shame. Are you talking about GUKPT London or the Blackpool main event. If this happened at Blackpool I was at your table and you forgot to mention that everyone at your table agreed to fold and give you the blinds and antes the first hand back so you recovered ~6000 of the chips lost. If this wasn't at Blackpool ignore this. Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: KarmaDope on November 26, 2010, 10:54:54 PM "Just wanted to post about what happened to me in the gukpt main event, doing ok getting to the halfway break . Come back to my table and i have 10,000 chips missing i tell the floor manager straight away and he cutting a long story short does nothing about it and tells me to get on with it and starts the next level running,2 days of graft playing well and then this happens i should have had 61,300 and had to start with 51,300 i lost the plot and lasted a stupid 12 mins later so gutted and feel let down". "It was Zach who made the call to carry on, i had 3 Grovesner staff come to me later and appologise my head was totally fcked and i am convinced i would have folded the aj if i was still in a proper frame of mind it is really gutting 12 away from money aswell bit of a sickner saved up the £1000 aswell so double slap.I was gonna email the gukpt head guy buts what the fucking point and no they did not check cameras, they did fck all" "Well after your responses to this i will try to get a fully explained answer as to what action was taken, i will get this in writing and then see what you guys think. My exact words to the tourney director were "so basically after 2 days of graft and £1000 of my money your saying tough nothing i can do." his reply was a simple Yes sorry". It was after the dinner break, we had played for 4 hours returned after the buffet, the reason i spotted it straight away was the fact that the 10k was 2 5k yellow chips the only 2 yellow chips in my stack.Got to table and no yellow chips to be seen,the last hand before the break i got moved tables one of the dealers watched me move my chips to the next table and when asked by zach told him i deffo had 2 yellow chips but could not tell him the exact chip count,during the break 1 dealer counted all the chips on the table and it was on his word that the whole thing stood. Basically they showed me a peace of scrap paper with the counts on and had me down for 51,300 not 61,300 Anyone who knows waspy knows he's a great lad. Such a shame. Are you talking about GUKPT London or the Blackpool main event. If this happened at Blackpool I was at your table and you forgot to mention that everyone at your table agreed to fold and give you the blinds and antes the first hand back so you recovered ~6000 of the chips lost. If this wasn't at Blackpool ignore this. pleno isn't Richard Whitmore. Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 27, 2010, 08:20:12 AM 51 of 123 made it through 1b
92 return for Day 2 this afternoon thanks to the AWOP boys here are the counts of those 92 Have bolded the blondes, good luck to them Song Lee 179200 Georges Tohme 176100 John Duthie 163000 Nicolas Irving 155500 Christopher Brammer 142300 Liam Flood 139800 Tony Cascarino 128000 Jamie Ellwood 121000 Michael Piper 114700 Willie Tann 99800 Jack Powell 98600 Leon Bui 96000 David Johnson 90000 Barney Boatman 87000 James Sudworth 81400 Bahman Djarian 79200 Charles Chattha 75900 Sawan Karia 75000 Ashique Miah 71600 Jeff Kimber 71300 Paul Alterman 71200 Lennart Valhjaltaafeldt 70600 Keith Hawkins 67800 Jamie Burland 66300 Eughan O'Dea 64400 Richard Ellis 63500 Waseem Ahmed 63200 Vanwalsemvasnunes 62700 Brian Pulford 61800 William Mcmurray 60300 Ben Carpenter 59800 Benjamin Roberts 59600 Mickey Wernick 58800 Jonas Ovestad 56200 john gale 56000 Danny Toffel 56000 Michael Ellis 55600 Emmanuel Sebag 55100 oystein Kristoffersen 53900 Karl Mahrenholz 53000 Alvaro Gorriz Abeleira 52700 Lee Taylor 51600 Bruce Atkinson 50700 Anutr Amranand 49600 Robert Garfield 48800 Fabien Dunlop 48600 Barkatul Mohammed 48500 Stuart Fox 47000 Sadan Turker 46700 Arkady Kielman 46000 Praz Bansi 43600 Robert Topp 41800 Nicholas Crisp 41600 PATRYK SLUSAREK 41100 William Martin 41100 Guy Steel 41100 Neil Keighley 39500 Matt Perrins 38900 Christopher Kadji 38300 Andrew Teng 36600 Gavin Robert Cochrane 36100 Craig McCorkell 35800 Nathan Lee 35200 Nicola Smith 34700 Chris Saleh 33200 Mark James 32400 Peter Babot 32200 Fuad Serhan 32100 Arshad Hussain 31000 Huseyin Houssein 31000 Mark James Greening 30600 Anthony William Hardy 30500 Mark Karoullas 30500 Daniel Moosah 29700 Dean Swift 29500 Alex Rousso 27600 Robert Boon 24400 Eftighios Hadjioannou 24000 Martin Green 23900 David Maudlin 23200 Olabode Ayegun 23000 Khilan Mistry 22300 Royston Smithers 19900 James Sullivan 18000 jack salter 17000 Alan Vinson 15600 Andrew Georgiou 13200 Jan Lundberg 12300 John Bousfield 10000 Keith Johnson 23900 Panicos Ellinas 87500 Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: The Camel on November 27, 2010, 11:24:57 AM I sure have 67k...
Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: Karabiner on November 27, 2010, 11:33:02 AM I sure have 67k... Stop being coy, how many have you got? GL Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: The Camel on November 27, 2010, 12:05:58 PM I sure have 67k... Stop being coy, how many have you got? GL 37k :( Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: gatso on November 27, 2010, 12:26:41 PM I sure have 67k... Stop being coy, how many have you got? GL 37k :( http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=48717.msg1204259#msg1204259 Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: The Camel on November 27, 2010, 01:43:47 PM I sure have 67k... Stop being coy, how many have you got? GL 37k :( http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=48717.msg1204259#msg1204259 Haha. But I didn't make the mistake, someone else did! Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 28, 2010, 12:17:16 PM GukPT Grand Final 2010
£2,500 NLHE F/O Entries: 207 1st.............£144,905 2nd.............£98,325 3rd.............£63,395 4th.............£37,520 5th.............£28,460 6th.............£23,290 7th.............£18,110 8th.............£14,230 9th.............£10,350 10th.............£9,055 11th.............£7,760 12th.............£7,760 13th..Emmanuel Sebag...£6,470 14th..Faud Serhan......£6,470 15th..John Gale........£5,175 16th..Jack Salter......£5,175 17th..George Tohme.....£5,175 18th..Craig McCorkell..£5,175 19th..Tony Cascarino...£5,175 20th..Alex Ruosso......£5,175 21st..Buddy Love.......£5,175 22nd..Keith Johnson....£5,175 Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 28, 2010, 12:21:50 PM Chip Counts
Song Lee......796,000 Nick Irving....637,000 Martin Green..595,000 Leon Bui.......568,000 Chaz Chattha..488,500 Ashique Miah..474,000 Paul Alterman..404,000 Jamie Burland..347,000 Lennart Valhjaltaafeldt...300,500 Chris Brammer...255,500 Danny Toffel...177,000 James Sudworth...174,500 Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: treefella on November 28, 2010, 03:32:31 PM Final !
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or something lol Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: action man on November 28, 2010, 03:54:42 PM come on brammmmmm
Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: ChipRich on November 28, 2010, 03:56:47 PM gooooooooo Bram
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Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: GreekStein on November 28, 2010, 04:30:45 PM Goooooo Brammerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: Doobs on November 28, 2010, 05:39:30 PM Re: GUKPT Grand Final :- The Vic, London Final Day
by swood » Sun Nov 28, 2010 3:32 pm chris is a young version of ali malou imo, they either win it or can bust 1st hand, gota respect that Snigger Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: chezzboy on November 28, 2010, 05:41:26 PM Take it doooooooown the Brammdog
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Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: Royal Flush on November 28, 2010, 07:57:23 PM zomg Martin mfkin Green
Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: The Lad on November 28, 2010, 08:29:18 PM gogogogo Chaz
Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: jonlundy on November 28, 2010, 11:02:31 PM gogogogo Chaz +1 ul bramTitle: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 29, 2010, 09:25:02 AM Press Release
Leon Bui has won the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Grand Final Main Event and £144,905 at London’s Victoria Casino, bringing the 2010 tour to a thrilling finale. He faced tough opposition from a field of 207 who entered the £2,500 buy-in event to compete for the last and largest Main Event title of the year, but Bui was the last man standing after three long days of poker, his huge first prize propelling him to the top of the year’s GUKPT Prize Money Rankings with over £200,000 in winnings. The end of the final tournament on the main tour also brings to an end the contest for the Ranking Points Leaderboard, which has been won, with its £20,000 first prize, by David Johnson – incidentally the bubble in the Grand Final - with Alli Mallu in second place (£10,000) and Neil Channing third (£5,000). The Champion of Champions Festival, held at G Casino, Coventry, on Saturday 4th December, will be the last series of events held in 2010. This unique festival features an invite-only freeroll that will give everyone who has taken a title on the GUKPT Main Tour, Summer Series, Club Championships, Online 10% Series or National Poker League a shot at a bite of the £150,000 prize pool, with their starting chips allocated according to number and size of events won. For more information please visit http://www.grosvenorukpokertour.com/champion.shtml#. There will be a live blog and photographs from this event, which promises to be as tough a challenge as any Main Tour leg. Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 29, 2010, 09:36:53 AM Results from the GUKPT Grand Final festival
Venue Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London Date 28/11/2010 Event £150 NL Hold'em Bounty Freezeout Length 1 day Runners 72 Total Prize Pool £9,000 1st Jeremy Margolin £2,815 2nd Taiki Umekage £2,000 3rd Darren Fuller £1,330 4th Jin Ze Wu £790 5th Philippe Arni £630 6th James Robert Khoury £470 7th Silvano Lieghio £380 8th Alan Rutter £315 9th Danny Dborin £270 Venue Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London Date 19/11/2010 Event £2,000 World Heads Up Poker Championship Length 4 days Runners 28 Total Prize Pool £56,000 1st Nikhil Persaud £30,000 2nd Leon Louis £15,000 3rd Jeff Kimber £5,500 4th Toby Lewis £5,500 Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 29, 2010, 09:37:24 AM Venue Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London
Date 25/11/2010 – 28/11/2010 Event £2,500 NL Hold'em Main Event Length 3 days Runners 207 Total Prize Pool £517,500 1st Leon Bui £144,905 2nd Nicolas Irving £98,325 3rd Chaz Chattha £63,395 4th Ash Miah £37,520 5th Song Lee £28,460 6th Martin Green £23,290 7th Paul Alterman £18,110 8th Andreas Afeldt £14,230 9th Christopher Brammer £10,350 10th James Sudworth £9,055 11th Jamie Burland £7,760 12th Danny Toffel £7,760 13th Emmanuel Sebag £6,470 14th Fuad Serhan £6,470 15th John Gale £5,175 16th Jack Salter £5,175 17th Georges Tohme £5,175 18th Craig McCorkell £5,175 19th Tony Cascarino £5,175 20th Olabode Ayegun £5,175 21st Alex Rousso £5,175 22nd Keith Johnson £5,175 Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 29, 2010, 09:38:05 AM Venue Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London
Date 23/11/2010 Event £200 NL Hold'em Rebuy Length 2 Days Runners 40 Rebuys 46 Add Ons 22 Total Prize Pool £21,600 1st Nathan Lee £7,340 2nd Allan Mclean £5,400 3rd Andreas Zandis £3,670 4th David Stanbury £2,160 5th Peter Ruhmer £1,730 6th Ergun Macit £1,300 Venue Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London Date 22/11/2010 Event £300 NL Hold'em 1R/Add-on Length 2 days Runners 53 Rebuys 24 Add-ons 13 Total Prize Pool £27,000 1st Justin Tazelaar £7,700 2nd Lawrence Samuel £7,700 3rd Allan Mclean £4,320 4th Dean Swift £2,560 5th Jonas Ovestad £2,020 6th Peter Ruhmer £1,480 7th David Lloyd £1,220 Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 29, 2010, 09:38:31 AM Venue Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London
Date 21/11/2010 Event £200 NL Hold'em Freezeout Length 1 day Runners 116 Total Prize Pool £23,200 1st Robert Garfield £3,790 2nd Yin Yau £4,500 3rd Adib Hashem £3,500 4th George Rankin £3,500 5th Mark Hutchinson £3,500 6th Panteleimon £1,160 7th Carl Buskirk £930 8th Moritz Westhoff £700 9th Roy Arild Svenoy £580 10th Jonas Ovestad £580 11th Ian Woodley £460 Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 29, 2010, 09:38:58 AM Venue Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London
Date 20/11/2010 Event £500 NL Hold'em Freezeout Length 2 days Runners 65 Total Prize Pool £32,500 1st Radoslav Lukaev £10,390 2nd Guy Steel £7,480 3rd Kevin Williams £4,960 4th Siegfried Hodgson £2,920 5th Mickey Wernick £2,360 6th Patrik Selin £1,790 7th Bodo Wagner £1,460 8th Mark Austen £1,140 Title: Re: GUKPT Grand Final Thread Post by: TightEnd on November 29, 2010, 09:40:05 AM Report of the Grand Final
Bui Done Good: Leon Bui Wins GUKPT Grand Final 2010 Leon Bui has been crowned the 2010 GUKPT Grand Final champion, securing one of the toughest titles on the poker calendar and £144,905 at London’s Grosvenor Victoria Casino. He beat a field of 207 players in total, including a whole swathe of previous Main Event champions from the last few years, finally defeating Nicolas Irving in the early hours of the morning to capture the trophy after three intense days of tournament poker in the capital. His win puts him at the top of the year’s Prize Money Rankings, with £200,905, but could only propel him to 4th in the GUKPT Ranking Points Leaderboard, as the final festival of the year’s tour came to a thrilling conclusion. In an interesting bubble twist, David Johnson, the man sitting atop the Rankings, came tantalisingly close to a 17th cash after a deep run in the biggest tournament of the tour, only to fall on the bubble to eventual 9th place finisher Chris Brammer. Johnson might have just missed out on the cash, but may find the £80,000 he’s won over the year and the £20,000 first place prize for topping the 2010 Rankings somewhat of a consolation. Among those who did make the money were last year’s Grand Final champion Tony Cascarino, who won £168,800 after besting a slightly slimmer field of 183 players here at the Vic in 2009. He was joined in the payout queue on Day Two by seven other players, including Alex Rousso, Craig McCorkell, Buddy Love and Keith Johnson, while Emmanuel Sebag – earlier boasting a stack nearing the million mark – was eliminated in 13th place right at the close of play. The final day saw a dozen determined players return to the felt, the first to be eliminated standing to gain £7,760, but everyone, from chip leader Lee Song to short stacks Danny Toffel and James Sudworth, looking towards the final table itself and the six-figure first prize accompanying the Grand Final title. The two players taking their leave without a spell at the final table were Danny Toffel, who lost a race with pocket fours to Martin Green’s A-Q after over an hour of twelve-handed play, and Jamie Burland. Burland was aiming for his second final table of the year, having come 4th in June’s Luton Summer Series Main Event, but fell to Ash Miah’s flush draw, calling with top pair on a King-high flop and failing to hold on the river. The ten-handed final started with a bang, as the shortest stack James Sudworth fell to the largest, Song Lee. Sudworth found an Ace, Lee the K-J, and a couple of Jacks on the board later, Sudworth was the first to leave the live-streamed final with £9,055 in his pocket. Chris Brammer, seemingly equipped with plenty of lives (not to mention a jammed raise button), had doubled through Martin Green earlier on, all in preflop with J-8, hitting an eight to beat Green’s A-J. This had given the young player the stack he needed not only to join the final ten, but also to join vigorous battle with all those remaining, leading to his stack rising and falling like the tide until a dominated-Ace confrontation with Ash Miah left him firmly back at square one. This time his all-in K-T failed to improve against the A-T of Song Lee, and he exited in 9th place. Closely following him to the rail was suave Swede Andreas Afeldt, whose quiet early strategy had left him in shove-preflop mode but with two players already down; when his T-J was picked off by Leon Bui with A-K preflop he left in 8th place with £14,230. Paul Alterman, arguably the loudest-supported player during his entrance, couldn’t secure the home victory as the in-form Song Lee picked up A-Q at the same moment Alterman made his move with A-3, taking yet another scalp and adding to his now nearly two million chip stack. The first application of the brakes to Lee’s ascent came from Leon Bui (fresh from a mid-final double up courtesy of A-J and Nicolas Irving) who found the Aces and doubled through Lee to over 1.6 million, suddenly snatching the chip lead six-handed. A very short period of lull followed, but soon a huge hand turned the tide once again, dropping Bui back to a more modest stack and knocking out Martin Green whose timing couldn’t have been much worse – he moved all-in preflop with pocket sixes, and found not one, but two big pairs behind him. Leon Bui had Kings and Ash Miah had Queens; all three hands ended up on their backs and the board was dealt out in truly dramatic fashion. On the all-heart flop, Miah spiked a Queen, prompting uproar among the spectators and some leaping from seats at the final. The turn was a fourth heart, and suddenly the Kings were back in the lead, but only briefly, as the river paired the board sending a crucial pot to Miah and eliminating Green in 6th place for £23,290. Leon Bui quickly bounced back, busting the start-of-day chip leader Song Lee in the process. This time a Queen-high flop brought in both players, Bui calling Lee’s all-in move with A-Q dominating his Q-9. With the final suddenly four-handed (Bui holding half the chips in play) the clock changed to 45 minutes, the blinds reached 20k/40k, and crowds of supporters for the finalists pooled in different areas behind the web-streamed table. Until this very late stage, Hit Squad member Chaz Chattha had been relatively quiet, albeit making some interesting moves at the final (including calling correctly with King-high on the river and picking the rare but effective spot for a three-bet). Now a cooler gave him most of Ash Miah’s stack as his A-A hit an Ace-high flop that much better than Miah’s A-K. In just moments Chattha had doubled through while Miah, after a mini comeback (from just one and a half big blinds) finally ran a dominated hand into Nicolas Irving and made his exit in 4th place, winning £37,520. The next player to run the short-stack all in gauntlet was Irving himself, who, in contrast to Miah, found three times to be the charm rather than the curse. From the brink of elimination, Irving squeaked a split with a dominated King then doubled up twice through Chaz Chattha. The second time (a race with fours vs. Chattha’s A-J) sent the popular Hit Squad member down to the felt, and moments later he was eliminated in 3rd place, for £63,395. Now heads up, Leon Bui held nearly a two to one lead over Nicolas Irving, but there was no instant big clash. Instead, a cagey half hour saw Irving put up a good fight (bluffing the chip leader off with 8-2 suited at one point) but ultimately succumb to Bui’s whittling, finishing his tournament, and the Grand Final Main Event, with a race, J-9 vs. 2-2. The deuces held for Bui, and while Irving takes home an impressive £98,325 for his runner-up finish, the title and the £144,905 first prize went to a grinning Leon Bui. Final Table Finishing Positions 1st: Leon Bui - £144,905 2nd: Nicolas Irving - £98,325 3rd: Chaz Chattha - £63,395 4th: Ash Miah - £37,520 5th: Song Lee - £28,460 6th: Martin Green - £23,290 7th: Paul Alterman - £18,110 8th: Andreas Afeldt - £14,230 9th: Chris Brammer - £10,350 10th: James Sudworth - £9,055 Side Event Results Seven side events accompanied London’s Grand Final, all of a sizeable buy-in reflecting the capital’s one-off £2,500 Main Event seeing out the 2010 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour. First up was a £300 No Limit Hold’em Freezeout which attracted 143 runners and eventually handed Dean Swift, Simon Baskerville and Robert Angood £9,050 each in a three-way chop after two long days. While their final table was underway, the £500 Pot Limit Omaha Double-chance Freezeout saw its first cards in the air; the final hand determined Frank Pini as the winner winning £5,000 and Janpete Jachtmann the runner up winning £4,750. The £500 No Limit Hold’em Freezeout on the 20th November attracted double the field of its four-card variant the day before, and the top prize of £10,390 was awarded to Radoslav Lukaev, with Guy Steel taking £7,480 for 2nd place, and Kevin Williams £4,690 for 3rd. There followed a further selection of No Limit Hold’em tournaments for all bankrolls – a £200 No Limit Freezeout, a £300 event with one Rebuy or Add-on, and a £200 event with unlimited rebuys. The freezeout was again a close call at the very end, with Yin Yau placing officially second but taking £4,500 from the £23,200 prize pool, while Rob Garfield (1st) won £3,790 and Adib Hashem, George Rankin and Mark Hutchinson won £3,500 apiece. The £300 event saw an expectedly modest 24 rebuys from its 53 entrants compared to the 46 made by the 40 runners in the £200 Rebuy, but built a respectable £27,000 prize pool, over half of which was shared by the top spots Justin Tazelaar and Lawrence Samuel who won £7,700 each. The Rebuy event, meanwhile, was won by Nathan Lee (£7,340). While several of these multi-table tournaments were starting and ending (sending each winner into December’s upcoming Champion of Champion’s Event), the World Heads Up Poker Championship was also underway, streamed live online, as 28 competitors played individual heads up matches until just one player was left standing – Nik Persaud, who took £30,000 and the 2010 WHUPC title, beating Leon Louis in the final match. The final event, wrapping up the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, was the £150 No Limit Hold’em Bounty Freezeout. This type of tournament now seems traditional at the end of a week of tournaments, and the final instalment for the year saw 72 players compete over a prize pool of £9,000. Jeremy Margolin emerged victorious many hours after the Main Event’s televised table had seen all the action for this year come to an end – he took home £2,815 for his first place finish as well as the final seat in the Champion of Champions. |