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The Curtain Rises on the GUKPT Grand Final…


The GUKPT is set to round off the 2011 Tour with a special extended Grand Final festival, held at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino from Monday 21st November until Sunday 4th December.  Two full weeks of live tournament action will be hosted by the capital’s premier poker venue, its spacious 24 hour card room being the traditional final GUKPT host of the year.


The £2,500 Main Event features a 25,000 starting stack and hour clock.  Last year’s Grand Final Champion, Leon Bui, won a huge £144,905 after three days of play against some of the country’s top tournament players, and this year’s field looks set to match 2010 in terms of the fierce competition at the felt both for the £2,500 finale and the larger buy-in side events unique to this leg.


Last-minute chances to qualify live at the venue abound, starting with Monday evening’s 10 Seats Guaranteed satellite, and continuing with the 2-day £600 + £75 Freezeout Super Satellite on Saturday afternoon.  £350 + £35 Freezout Super Satellites also run on Wednesday and Thursday (1st December) so if you have not locked up a seat on grosvenorcasinos.com’s virtual felt then there are plenty of opportunities to come to enter the GUKPT’s heftiest tournament of the year.


GUKPT Grand Final Schedule


Monday 21st November:  £300 + £30 NL Hold'em Freezeout Super Satellite 10 seats guaranteed 7.30pm (1 day)
Tuesday 22nd November:  £300 + £30 NL Hold'em Freezeout 7.30pm (2 days)
Wednesday 23rd November:  £250 + £25 NL Hold'em Re-Entry Freezeout 7.30pm (2 days)                                   
Thursday 24th November:  £250 + £25 NL Hold'em 6 Max Freezeout 7.30pm (2 days)     
Friday 25th November:  £300 + £30 PL Omaha Freezeout 7.30pm (1 day)                               
Saturday 26th November:  £600 + £75 NL Hold'em Freezeout Super Satellite to Main Event 4.00pm (2 days)         
Saturday 26th November:  £150 + £15 NL Hold'em Turbo Freezeout 9pm (1 day)                               
Sunday 27th November :  £100 + £10 PL Omaha Rebuy 6.00pm (1 day)                                   
Monday 28th November:  £200 + £20 NL Hold'em Freezeout 7.30pm (1 day)                       
Tuesday 29th November:  £350 + £35 NL Hold'em Freezeout 7.30pm (2 days)                     
Wednesday 30th November:  £350 + £35 NL Holdem Freezeout Super Satellite 7.30pm (1 day)
Thursday 1st December:  £350 + £35 NL Hold'em Freezeout Super Satellite 7.30pm (1 day)
Thursday 1st December:  £2,500 + £125 NL Hold'em Main Event Day 1a 12pm (3 days)
Friday 2nd December:   £2,500 + £125 NL Hold'em Main Event Day 1b 12pm (3 days)
Saturday 3rd December:  £250 + £25 Double chance PL Omaha Hi-Low 6.00pm (1 day)   
Sunday 4th December:  £300 + £30 NL Hold'em Freezeout Bounty Booster 5.00pm (1 day)   

A two day satty? Sure this isn't just a side event?

Where has the 2k HU comp gone too?  ;carlocitrone;

Jeff Liegh decided to "Postpone" it this year...Ho Hum

 Some places said an event and some sad a satellite. I asked a few people at the Vic and connected to the tour and obviously nobody knew.

 I am now assured by the only person there who knows anything, (Ms Jen Mason), that this is a £600 tournament and not a satellite.

 Jeff and I had a bet on whether he could get 64 players to the heads-up and now he seems to have postponed it.

Just received a text from the Vic confirming it's a two day comp and NOT a satty.

Is this de ja vu?

Is de ja vu means taking the piss, then its de ja vu.

lolol

I'll pick my spot to get you back for that Dr C

:( I prefer Celtic the man not Celtic the mod

 ;applause;

Oh dear, whoosh of the week.

i'd be up for a 2k hu with 64 runners

Lol yes I did get it, once it was pointed out to me lol

Yeh it's a misprint, it's a £600fo not a satty, I got told on Monday while playing the 10 seats guarenteed sat, not by Jen either, someone else must be in the know too eh Neil? 120ish runners and 13 seats on Monday, two more sats next week I think, plenty of value. There was even one of Neil's Black Belt types winning a seat, hope he's not spending Black Belt money on a Grosvenor event or Neil will have to stop telling us his company doesn't support the tour any more :)

 One of our guys? You mean Kevin in Monday's sat? I wonder how you knew that... (normally I like my morning brag a little more thinly vieled...congrats).

 Obviously it is their sponsorship money and they can do what they like with it. They do rely on my input a little though and I told them I would rather put my money into the Stars tour which is not perfect, but which seems to try a bit harder for the customer.

 I know that if I had a customer at Black Belt who played £200,000 (the whole BBP team) worth of poker tournaments with me one year and £1090 (I played Luton) thenext I might wonder what I'd done wrong, I might communicate with them, I might try and win them back and I might listen to their complaints/criticisms. Obv Grosvenor don't work that way, best of luck to them in this market.

 My main complaint about the tour was dealing standards, followed by floor standards, followed by too many events at the wrong times in the wrong places.

 I don't have that problem in the Vic to the degree I would have in say, Blackpool (two years running at the crucial stage hands are mucked by dealers who are dozing off). Therefore I will play the main event next week safe in the knowledge that the Vic employs good dealers and the prizepool will be good.

 ;starwars;

Edit. I must say sorry to Jaffacake for acting like a complete cock earlier in the year. I was in a pretty dark place but that's no excuse. I will apologise in person when I next see you.

Speaking of tours, I hope you will be giving the new kid on the block a chance next year sir

all the goods guys have fallen out with Kimber jase!  ;whistle;

Gukpt, ukipt, genting tour, Dtd overlay comps are all hotting up to make domestic poker so attractive next year.  Gonna need deep pockets to play em all tho so something may have to give.

 You'll be pleased to hear I ventured down to play the £250 6-max side event last night Jeff. Didn't see you.

 Not sure about the Genting Tour Karl. I'm sure our guys will be playing them and I think they had to go for £400 or £500 (it seemed obvious Stars would go to £700 and I definitely don't see any problem with that, guaranteed it won't be the thing that effects the numbers - less telly coverage might).

 I didn't really like to spend a lot of money on time, hotels and travel to go and play the £500 UKIPT events, but I justified it because they had big fields (nice 1st prize), television exposure (love being on the gogglebox), interesting places to go (I went to Edinburgh twice, Brighton once, DTD once and Manchester once), winning carried a lot of prestige, they had a £1500 High-Roller which helped to make it worth travelling and I could pitch my wares to a bunch of players that might fit the Black Belt Poker profile. They also have good dealers and floorstaff and I like some of the people behind the tour.

 Which of those things can you offer me and would you think exposing lots of my players to a major competitor brand is a good idea? (obviously Stars is a competitor but I've long since accepted that all our players know lots about Stars and play on Stars and that if we can just make ourselves into everyone 2nd favourite poker site we'll be doing pretty well.

 We'd like to be the Fulham of poker.

Not wanting to be a spam bot for Genting - all the info is out there, I'd just say give it a try. I know they are making a big effort to put on a good show and it's something I've been helping them with.

I'm guessing the 2nd part is rhetorical and that's something that's obivously up for you to decide.

See you for the PLO at the vic tonight - give us a spin!

I mean...they are poker players right, they don't live under rocks. They will probably find out about it anyway...

your major business driver should be brand loyalty, which means it doesn't matter if they find out about it from you or otherwise, they'll stick to you.

Well done to Scotty77 who finished 2nd behind Craig McCorkell in the £250 six max for £5,400

Apology accepted, not many people are man enough to admit being wrong, nice to see that some are.

Have booked a 4* hotel near Vic for Friday and Saturday night, 2 & 3rd December, but will not be using it. Cheapest rate on their website is now £480.
Can somebody buy it off me please?

Thanks

When will next year tour be out . Hope they bring back champion of champions back was a great event last year and was missed this year

 I could ring someone up and get a vague answer, (you know, the guy with the glasses, comes in a lot, plays £1/£2), but does anyone know who won the £600 at the weekend? How many runners did it get? Did anyone nice make the final? Did they finish it in one day?

 I've been busy with iPops and haven't been in for a few days.

He's got a spreadsheet.

Was a 4 way chop for 7k, then Rob Garfield won heads up for the remainder of the ££, the seat in the CoC and the trophy.

The 6-Max was won by Craig McCorkell, from Sky Poker's Ryan Spittles, aka Scotty 77, & Sky Poker's Nick Pryce won last night's £200.

Who'd have thunk, Lord Channing out-spammed?

what time start and how many levels on day 1s of gukpt main pls?

Days 1a (Thursday) & 1b (Friday) both start @ Noon, 1 hour Levels, & 25,000 starting chips. At least 7% of the Field are expected to arrive before Noon.

Sadly, I fail on the "how many Levels per day".

http://www.grosvenorukpokertour.com/en/Event-Details/2011-Grand-Final-London/

I think it was 8 in the normal main events this year. 

[ ] I made level 8 a lot.

 Very glad to see Rob Garfield getting a result. Really nice fella. Also pleased for the Sky guys. I noticed Craig winning as he busted me and the next day I was there when he won.

 I haven't been in too much this week as I'm playing a bit of online. The iPops 1 on Monday had an $11,000 overlay, I think the $50 rebuy tonight with $150,000 guarantee will have one too. Don't really mean to come and spam here but iPoker really have got the guarantees wrong on these. It baffles me how they can't find somebody who knows about these things to speak to in advance. I told them the second they gave us details but apparently it was too late.

 The main event will be ridiculous.

 Since I've been involved in this business the levels of incompetence among senior people in the industry should suprise me more. They are staggering.

what was reuslt of last night 385 pls?

Think 23 go back today including Alex & claypole. 14k ftw.

and Mark McCluskey, Danny Toffel

 Average is 58k, Mark has 90k, 22 left. Around £13k up top.

@SenseiChanning

@KarlMahrenholz

Must follows on twitter during the current 1a of the main event

lol stuff

Anyone doing updates on the main today? If so link would be appreciated ty.

There's a live stream on the GUKPT site, which is 98.5% consisting of watching Neil Channing tweeting.

he is very funny tho. what blogging for the tours are we intending doing in the new year please tighty?

Not an easy question

At the moment I am not really looking beyond trying to fund the Monte Carlo in a few weeks and then the January deepstack

but

assuming

1. Funding (currently due to the genorosity of donations)

2. Permission from the venues

3 Schedules (events may clash eg DTD, Genting and we don't know the look of the 2012 GUKPT yet)


My list in order of prioirties would be

1 DTD Monte Carlos and Deepstacks. Possibly include Grand Prix too

2 UKIPT

3 GUKPT

4 Genting

5 Others


In practice, with Genting doing their own blogging and permission being an issue at UKIPTs I would think we'd be doing well to do DTDs and one other tour, but that is entirely down to being able to afford it, as ever

is it me but is the live stream that D4 events produce nowhere near the quality of what awop used to do. even tower is having to wear two hats these days.
are D4 running a tour this year?

End of Day 1a Chip Counts

Fabian Quoss - 179,900

Mark Norman - 143,800

Andrey Dimitrov - 121,300

Teddy Sheringham - 101,300

Ed Roger - 100,800

Alex Elias - 97,000

Steve Warburton - 95,600

James Morris - 85,000

Alan McLean - 74,400

Daniel Laming - 71,700

Bogdan Jaworski - 68,000

Sam Grafton - 63,200

Trevor Reardon - 61,300

Rickie Vedhara - 58,600

Daniel Rudd - 53,900

John Conroy - 50,100

Tamer Kamel - 47,800

David Barnes - 47,200

Ricky Atkinson - 39,700

Paul Byrne - 36,800

Philip Butt - 36,600

John Gale - 32,300

Wesley Lopez - 30,000

Warren Wooldridge - 29,300

Neil Channing  - 28,800

Zack Cheeses - 28,100

Louise Duffy - 27,100

Chris Gordon - 21,600

Robert Topp - 20,400

Andrey Veselov - 16,600

Thomas Treacy - 16,200

75 started

????  From the official Blog late on yesterday...

Are Kings No Good??

Lee Taylor makes it 2100 to play from the cutoff, Daniel Laming three bets from the small blind to 5100, Tamer Kamel then thinks for a while in the big blind before four-betting to 12,000. Lee quickly gets out of the way.

Action comes back to Daniel who moves all in for 40,100 more (52,100 total).

Tamer goes DEEP into the tank...... counting his stack and it would leave him with 20,000 if he was to make the call.... He checks his cards again, still in the tank for another few minutes...

He then says "I'm going to live to fight another day" and folds pocket KINGS face up!! The rest of the table are pretty gobsmacked as was I.

Daniel happily takes the pot with a grin and shows 1 Queen.

No prizes for guessing where my chips went!

D 4d have got a tour. Next year it's on there web site . Near enough the same as last year

Yes saw this morning but also saw that a kid won the main event Luton besting 37 runners. My head is a shed with wtf I'm gonna play in 2012 with all these domestic tours. Only real loyalty I have are to Dtd, blackbelt and blonde so been getting a bit of advice off messers yong, channing and  god knows how the elite plan out their year with ept, wpt 6 weeks wsop and various other tournies that they have commitment to :(

50 made it through, 82 total of 172 (?) total

2011 London GUKPT Leg 7 GF Day 1B


End of Day 1b Chip Counts

Jake Cody - 227,800
Jonas Ovestad - 158,600
Praz Bansi - 144,200
Sam Holden - 130,300
Daniel Tafur - 121,300
Lalit Khajuria - 114,500
D. Sanders - 103,900
Sadan Turker - 100,700
Charlie Combes - 99,600
Sofia Lovgren -97,900
Marcin Wydrowski - 97,600
Talal Shakerchi - 85,600
Ken Billups - 80,900
Carl Spicer - 78,100
Choraria Kamal - 74,500
Andrew Seden - 73,000
Ibraham Tatier - 69,000
Marios Torbergson - 65,800
Antonio Milioti - 59,500
Priyan DeMel - 57,900
James Mitchell - 56,800
Nic Markov - 55,400
Gary Lindsay - 52,700
Kevin Abecassis - 50,900
Jonathan Beck - 50,700
James Williams - 49,600
Mark James - 49,900
Mike Ellis - 48,700
Matt Perrins - 46,000
Ram Vaswani - 44,900
Liv Boeree - 38,600
Elliot Smith - 37,900
A. Georgiou - 31,900
Mario Vojuoda - 31,600
Victor Ilyukhin - 31,600
David Johnson - 30,700
David Docherty - 30,600
David Kingsley - 28,700
Chris Cancelliere - 27,900
Ian Woodley - 27,000
David Maudlin - 25,900
Nathan Watson - 25,100
Kevh Vossoughi - 23,200
Steph Boyd - 19,900
Alan Brown 18,400
Niels Ladedoged - 17,400
Jakob Carlsson - 16,900
Kuljinder Sidhu - 13,000


Jake Cody - 227,800

Jonas Ovestad - 158,600

Praz Bansi - 144,200

Sam Holden - 130,300

Daniel Tafur - 121,300

Lalit Khajuria - 114,500

D. Sanders - 103,900

Sadan Turker - 100,700

Charlie Combes - 99,600

Sofia Lovgren -97,900

Marcin Wydrowski - 97,600

Talal Shakerchi - 85,600

Ken Billups - 80,900

Carl Spicer - 78,100

Choraria Kamal - 74,500

Andrew Seden - 73,000

Ibraham Tatier - 69,000

Marios Torbergson - 65,800

Antonio Milioti - 59,500

Priyan DeMel - 57,900

James Mitchell - 56,800

Nic Markov - 55,400

Gary Lindsay - 52,700

Kevin Abecassis - 50,900

Jonathan Beck - 50,700

James Williams - 49,600

Mark James - 49,900

Mike Ellis - 48,700

Matt Perrins - 46,000

Ram Vaswani - 44,900

Liv Boeree - 38,600

Elliot Smith - 37,900

A. Georgiou - 31,900

Mario Vojuoda - 31,600

Victor Ilyukhin - 31,600

David Johnson - 30,700

David Docherty - 30,600

David Kingsley - 28,700

Chris Cancelliere - 27,900

Ian Woodley - 27,000

David Maudlin - 25,900

Nathan Watson - 25,100

Kevh Vossoughi - 23,200

Steph Boyd - 19,900

Alan Brown 18,400

Niels Ladedoged - 17,400

Jakob Carlsson - 16,900

Kuljinder Sidhu - 13,000

Ha only Jake can get hammered turn up next day and be chip leader, incred

anyone know total runners for main? (its over 172 for sure)

75 1a

Last I saw 97 1b

hence my 172 guess above

190 somthing total.... i think
Was told they were expecting closer to 350/400

Who told u that pete, and who was the 'they' that had told that person that? Absolute nonsense

I'd say turnout was fine. Noone on earth thought they would get 350 lol

whats up top?

£138,000

Think 190+ is a good turnout at £2500 buy in

I gather Mr Cody made the Final Table as chippie.

Good luck him.

what a hero

Good luck Nathan Watson in the final, a fine young man from Scunthorpe and I washed his mums windows for years. Thought the boy may have had some of my poker ability in his genes but then realised he has got blonde hair ;)

Any chance you can double team an update with the Cougar ?

Would not work coz one of us would have to play the straight guy lol

Brilliant, no dead wood.

If this isn't a euphamism, it should be

It was staff comments actualy but obviously I misheard them or misunderstood , must have been 150/200.

I thought it was. Was more worried then when Jason said about someone playing the straight guy.

Final Table Chip Counts

Jake Cody – 1,416,500

Fabian Quoss – 1,416,000

Alex Elias – 485,500

James Mitchell – 334,500

Nathan Watson – 302,000

Lalit Khajuria – 298,000

Tamer Kamal – 257,500

John Gale – 236,000

Jonas Ovestad – 109,000

Big names there

GL GL Jake get it done, James Mitchell HU would be epic

I think he'd make an excellent stooge, actually.

Oh my, Lalit made the Final too, bless! He's known, I think, as "40 year heater" in Luton, where he plays the regular £50's & £100's. His brother, Chandra, is known as a "philanthropic poker player", & in fact was very philanthropic last week.

John Gale, too, WSOP PL Bracelet winner. Yes, old school, big time, but I like the man immensely, he was a good friend to me back in the day, & he's been unwell for some years.

Cody, of course, would be the favourite to win this, & quite right too, the boy has everything. Amazing how, suddenly aslmost, the UK has 5 or 6 "Cody's", too.

Apart from Cody and Trickett, who?

Guess an argument could be made for Moor, but he hasn't won one yet and I wouldn't put anyone within the 'Cody/Trickett' bracket yet

Let's not derail this thread, but if you started a debate elsewhere about the "best" (though I hate defining that in poker) 5 or 6 UK kids it'd make an interesting thread.

For sure there's a lot of great young UK players. I wasn't saying there weren't.

Bar Trickett, none have come close to Jake's level of success.

Thought to myself I am more generous than that miserable git but then realised it does not say Scrooge.

To save anyone else the time googling it.


A stooge is a person who is under the control of another. Being called a stooge is an insult. Stooge can also sometimes be used to mean "idiot".

You do know getting me on sky poker would put your ratings through the roof and elevate you to the god like status of Jeff stelling. ;bumwiggle; ;popcorn;

Edit: I have never had relations with Janet Watson and am sorry for any offense I may have caused to their family and friends.
[X] just need to get all the good people of Scunthorpe to sign up instead of viewing as guests and my work here is done

GLGL Jake.

In b4 smashedagain says he has spoken to jake cody in the past.

Lol

:)

lol

What's Cody ever won?!

Explain variance to me again? :)
Gl in Prague Andy

loool rubaments

What? Thought he was going with you guys. Sorry

Ya 'sick' rubs


edit tbf Jase I think i've run golden, because 1 hour before my flight I became super violently ill. And I mean like if I was on a plane the world would basically have ended with the rate and intensity that things were leaving my body.

Uh is that sick or what. I never knew dude. Any chance you will grace the Monte Carlo with a visit

I wanna get out to prague ffs, but yeh I assume i'll be up for the monte :)

Hot Quoss Run: Fabian Quoss is Crowned 2011 GUKPT Grand Final Champion

The GUKPT Grand Final with its £138,750 top prize has been won by German pro player Fabian Quoss after a six-hour final table battle against tough opposition including triple crown winner Jake Cody and Irish Open champ James Mitchell.  This huge win represents the first cash by Fulham-based Quoss on the tour - however he has been playing professionally for three years and has amassed more than $1.24 million on the live tournament circuit.

After his sterling performance against a total field of 195, Quoss says that he “ran better than any time before,” enjoying two straight days of top cards.  The modest London resident, 29, sums up his experience as “a pretty sick run.”  He finally toppled Jake Cody heads up after the two of them had started the final table with half of the total chips in play spread equally between them.  Cody narrowly fails to make the full set of trophies but took home £96,300 for his efforts.

The final leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour 2011 brought what might best be described as an ‘action field’ to the capital.  The biggest buy-in event of the tour created a prize pool of £487,500 and the two-week festival running from the 21st November-4th December saw the Victoria Casino’s 24-hour card-room host 15 events alongside cash games running day and night.