new tour in the uk and ireland

[matt674]

Each event charges a registration fee of 10% and then Pokerstars claim they are going to remove 9% of the prize fund for floor staff and dealers - for a start is this not what the 10% registration fee is for and surely seeing as how the prizepool belongs to the players it is up to them how much they leave as a tip depending on how good the service is

i know this is what they do in america but this isn't the american poker tour

maybe i'm just a little narked with pokerstars at the moment after they stole £200 from my bank account yesterday

[Madone]

pretty sick that players are being charged 19%...but the event in galway is 2000 euros and they just take 9% out the whole prizepool..no reg fee!

[AndrewT]

Er, if you read the page you'll see only the Galway leg (the one with no reg fee) has a % taken out. the others there's a reg fee and no extra taken out for costs.

[matt674]

apologies - my mistake

must just be me they are robbing then

[robbiebox]

spt virgin and apat all go for a much lower level of player
never heard of pkr tour so not sure where that sits
corals and poker stars will sit just below the gukpt
which is just below the ept

so i think the pokerstars and corals tour will be competing head on
if there isnt enough players for both to suceed i can see only 1 winner that will be pokerstars

I think you are underestimating PokerStars here ~ this will become THE Tour.

Corals will go and GUKPT will continue but start to struggle and maybe go under too eventually if Stars decide to enlarge it.


You heard it here first

[George2Loose]

If I was a Gala Tour marketing man I think the most worrying thing would be that people were still calling it the Gala Tour.

Isn't it the Coral British Masters Poker Tour or something similar?

The only link to Gala is that it happens to be held there.

How much advertising has there been for it this year? I've certainly not seen much.

Coral/Gala all the same company, innit.

But if you google Gala Tour it just brings up last years tour.

It looks for all intents and purposes like they don't run it any more.

The CMBPT has it was known as this year was AWOP's tour

[Dale]

just sent them this:

Hi,

I see you have the package for the UKIPT-Galway tournament at $4590 which inlcludes:

Tournament Entry
Hotel
$500 Spending Money

I don't see how this adds up. The tourney is €2000 buyin and 4 nights at the Radisson Galway for Dec 11th-15th is €420. So that's €2420 and the current exchange rate is 1.48USD to the EUR.

€2420 = $3581.60

add on the $500 spending money and thats $4081.60.

So why is the package $508.40 or 12.5% more expensive than it's true value?

regards,
Daleroxxu

[AlexMartin]

spt virgin and apat all go for a much lower level of player
never heard of pkr tour so not sure where that sits
corals and poker stars will sit just below the gukpt
which is just below the ept

so i think the pokerstars and corals tour will be competing head on
if there isnt enough players for both to suceed i can see only 1 winner that will be pokerstars

I think you are underestimating PokerStars here ~ this will become THE Tour.

Corals will go and GUKPT will continue but start to struggle and maybe go under todeso eventually if Stars decide to enlarge it.


You heard it here first

too true, bluesq should have teamed up w stars when they had the chance, despite a great chain of casas, stars will be too powerful to compete with imo

[Ironside]

spt virgin and apat all go for a much lower level of player
never heard of pkr tour so not sure where that sits
corals and poker stars will sit just below the gukpt
which is just below the ept

so i think the pokerstars and corals tour will be competing head on
if there isnt enough players for both to suceed i can see only 1 winner that will be pokerstars

I think you are underestimating PokerStars here ~ this will become THE Tour.

Corals will go and GUKPT will continue but start to struggle and maybe go under too eventually if Stars decide to enlarge it.


You heard it here first

with the higher buy ins and casino backing them the gukpt will be regard as the event to win

[DaveShoelace]

spt virgin and apat all go for a much lower level of player
never heard of pkr tour so not sure where that sits
corals and poker stars will sit just below the gukpt
which is just below the ept

so i think the pokerstars and corals tour will be competing head on
if there isnt enough players for both to suceed i can see only 1 winner that will be pokerstars

I think you are underestimating PokerStars here ~ this will become THE Tour.

Corals will go and GUKPT will continue but start to struggle and maybe go under too eventually if Stars decide to enlarge it.


You heard it here first

I'm not so sure, if they really wanted to, Stars could probably become the dominant tour on the UK circuit. But the GUKPT really is the prestige tour and also regarded as the 'pros tour' so it will take a lot of beating, especially as there are Grosvenor casinos all over the UK. I think that if it got really competitive than the GUKPT would find a way to compete, even if that meant having to partner with someone like Full Tilt (you heard it here first lol).

[Ironside]

stars wanted the gukpt tour but grosvenor wouldnt sell is what i heard

[The Dundonian]

stars wanted the gukpt tour but grosvenor wouldnt sell is what i heard

There's got to be a bit of mutual backscratching going on, especially with there being two, possibly three, Grosvenor casinos being used for the new tour.

[Ironside]

stars wanted the gukpt tour but grosvenor wouldnt sell is what i heard

There's got to be a bit of mutual backscratching going on, especially with there being two, possibly three, Grosvenor casinos being used for the new tour.

yep and stars using the grosvenor licence to run the ept at the metropole

[DaveShoelace]

stars wanted the gukpt tour but grosvenor wouldnt sell is what i heard

There's got to be a bit of mutual backscratching going on, especially with there being two, possibly three, Grosvenor casinos being used for the new tour.

Good point actually. No doubt they have a great relationship what with the EPT and everything and not closing a deal probably ended amicably for them, they probably have organised their schedules to avoid clashing with each other.

[pokerfan]

Not sure the GUKPT can ever be described as the prestige tour. Last 2 events had only 132 and 120 entrants. Stars could blitz this if they really wanted.