GUKPT Grand Final Festival thread

[TightEnd]

GUKPT Rankings Race Goes to the Wire

 

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour awards £50,000 in prizes to the top performing players. Players receive ranking points for making the final table of all main events and side events on the tour and for the Grosvenor Casinos National Poker League. The first prize is £20,000 plus the title of GUKPT Player of the Year. Going into the Grand Final festival, the top players on the leaderboard were:

 

1st - Martin Silke - 329.5 pts

2nd - David Johnson - 302 pts

3rd - John Miller - 258.5 pts

4th - Robert Topp - 244 pts

5th - Steven Vigor - 244 pts

6th - Sunny Chattha - 242 pts

7th - Richard Gryko - 230 pts

8th - Jeff Kimber - 228 pts

 

However, with wins in the £300 NL Hold'em Freezeout and the £500 PL Omaha Freezeout at the Grand Final festival, Karl Mahrenholz has moved up from 168 to 303 pts. Richard Gryko, who won the £1,000 NL Hold'em Freezeout has also moved up the table to 305 pts. The current standings are:

 

1st - Martin Silke - 329.5 pts

2nd - Richard Gryko - 305 pts

3rd - Karl Mahrenholz - 303 pts

4th - David Johnson - 302 pts

 

Heads Up For the Title?

 

However, both Martin Silke and Richard Gryko have also been playing in the £5,000 GUKPT UK Heads Up Championship this week and both have made it to the final. Silke, who defeated Victoria Coren in an 8-hour first round match claimed his place in the final after beating Tom Bentham in the semi-finals. Gryko defeated World Heads Up Champion Bambos Xanthos in his semi-final match, which lasted just one hand. Both players had flopped two pairs on an A-7-9 board but Gryko's A-7 dominated Xanthos's 9-7. The final between Silke and Gryko takes place at 3pm on Wednesday 25th November at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino.

 

Only eight players participated in this tournament, but with 125 ranking points awarded to the winner and 100 to the runner up, the heads up final could be decisive in determining the outcome of the GUKPT rankings. If Gryko wins the final, he will be half a point clear of Silke with just a few ranking events left at this week's Grand Final festival and next week's Champion of Champions festival in Luton. If Silke wins he will extend his lead to 49.5 points, but with both players expected to enter all remaining ranking events, it will still be far from over, regardless of who triumphs on Wednesday.

 

Overstacked

 

The starting stack for the GUKPT Grand Final (starts on Thursday 26th November) has been increased to 20,000. It has also been decided recently to increase next year's GUKPT main event starting stacks to 15,000. There will be some minor adjustments to the structure - no levels will be removed but the running antes will come in two levels earlier.

[810ofclubs]

The starting stack for the GUKPT Grand Final (starts on Thursday 26th November) has been increased to 20,000. It has also been decided recently to increase next year's GUKPT main event starting stacks to 15,000. There will be some minor adjustments to the structure - no levels will be removed but the running antes will come in two levels earlier.

brilliant decision imo, obv ME's will now take longer but EPT and WSOP have both changed stacks and clocks this year and now hopefully GUKPT numbers will increase as result, wp raaby

[$muszlesz$]

is theer any chance u could post the results of the events that have already been on ?

[Cottonbud]

Hi Jonathan really like the idea of a 15k starting stack, excellent suggestion. The antes coming in 2 levels earlier.. does this mean 100/200 with an ante right away?

[outragous76]

Great structure change

Vwp

[NigDawG]

nice to see the starting stacks increased for next year, will there still be a £1500 London leg next year and if so how many starting chips will this tourney carry?

[Stone]

No betting market for the Grand Final ?

[Cottonbud]

Hello again Jonathan, do you have the results of the side events that have been played?

I know one result on who the top 3 was think it was the £300 rebuy. 1st Karl "Lerch" Mahrenholz followed by Priyan and Andy Seden in 2nd and 3rd but I have no idea on the other results.

[Dewi_cool]

No betting market for the Grand Final ?

Ladbrokes

[Geo the Sarge]

Well done to Aussie Chris Skinner who took 2nd in the Omaha today for £5K.
Good son!

Just seen this Neil.

WP Chris. Had a decent cash last year also iirc

Geo

[AlrightJack]

The antes do indeed come in at the 100-200 level, but we will monitor how it goes and will make further adjustments if required.

The 1500 event at the Vic will probably also have a 15k stack.

The results from the side events can be found on the gukpt site on the live page.

[TightEnd]

 Richard Gryko defeated GUKPT London Champion Martin Silke in the final of the £5000 GUKPT Heads Up Championship

He is now ahead of Silke in the Player of the Year standings by half a point!

Gryko won the £1000 NL side event earlier this week and is leading in the race to win the £20,000 Player of the Year prize which concludes after the Champion of Champions week at Luton next week

GUKPT Heads Up Championship Result
1st - Richard Gryko - £20,000
2nd - Martin Silke - £12,000
3rd - Tom Bentham - £8,000

Ranking Points
1st - Richard Gryko - 430 pts
2nd - Martin Silke - 429.5 pts
3rd - Karl Mahrenholz - 303 pts
4th - David Johnson - 302 pts


Side event results

£300 NL Hold'em Freezeout
137 runners
1st - Karl Mahrenholz - £13,050
2nd - Andrew Seden - £8,430
3rd - Priyan de Mel - £5,750
4th - Dominic Harrison - £3,600
5th - Kosta Kantchev - £2,570
6th - Andrew Purser - £2,060
7th - Simen Storrud - £1,640
8th - Chris Bjorin - £1,230
9th - Guillaume Fridez - £820
10th - Melina Krumova - £620
11th - Gary Fisher - £510
12th - Daniel De Luca - £410
13th - Patrick Joseph - £410

£500 PL Omaha Hi-Lo Double Chance Freezeout
37 Runners
1st - Jerzy Slaby - £6,900
2nd - Christopher Skinner - £5,100
3rd - Woody Deck - £3,350
4th - Richard Liotta - £1,850
5th - Hugo Martin - £1,300

£1,000 NL Hold'em Double Chance Freezeout
66 Runners
1st - Richard Gryko - £23,600
2nd - Richard Liotta - £15,800
3rd - Jeff Rogers - £9,900
4th - David Stanbury - £5,900
5th - CT Law - £4,600
6th - Alan Vinson - £3,600
7th - James Morris - £2,600

£500 PL Omaha Double Chance Freezeout
39 Runners
1st - Karl Mahrenholz - £7,350
2nd - Marcel Koch - £5,350
3rd - Anutr Amranand - £3,500
4th - Michael Ellis - £1,950
5th - Javed Abrahams - £1,350

£200 NL Hold'em Rebuy
95 Runners
1st - Christopher Brider - £16,550
2nd - James Mitchell - £11,050
3rd - Sami Mahmoud - £7,550
4th - David Gutfreund - £4,500
5th - Mark Winter - £3,400
6th - John Hadjinicolaou - £2,650
7th - John Miller - £2,000
8th - Ken Wong - £1,500
9th - Jeff Kimber - £1,000

£300 1 Rebuy or Add On
81 Runners
1st - Mickey Wernick - £13,850
2nd - Boon Lee - £9,240
3rd - Martin Bader - £6,300
4th - Kerry Taylor - £3,780
5th - Mike Hill - £2,840
6th - Willie Tann - £2,200
7th - Romano Pizzo - £1,680
8th - Jean Malan - £1,260
9th - Hoss Parhizkar - £840

The Grand Final Main Event which begins today from 2pm.

Updates can be found at http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/

[Dubai]

Just woke up, what time can i buyin till today? If is still anytime before the end of the first break after level 2?

[Stone]

Yes it was yesterday, there were a few stragglers and room was left on table to accommodate them.

[TightEnd]

From http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/ where you can follow today's updates from 2pm

End of Day 1a Chip Counts
November 27th, 2009 at 2:28 am

22 of today’s 57 players made it to the end of the day. There are already over 70 players bought in for Day 1b, so around 100 or so are expected to take part, including defending champ Paul Foltyn.

Player  - Chips

Richard Grace  - 102,800
Andrew Teng  - 101,500
Jeff Duvall  - 92,400
Talal Shakerchi  - 83,800
Sida Yuen  - 67,700
Ian Fraser  - 67,000
Simon Randall  - 66,600
Peter Garrett  - 66,400
Cheung Tai Law  - 65,700
Anthony Thorpe  - 50,400
Edward Roger  - 46,800
Arshad Hussain  - 41,300
Martin Davis  - 39,900
Charles Mason  - 38,500
Richard Fohrenbach Jr  - 37,400
Jeff Kimber  - 31,800
Guy Steel  - 31,000
John Eames  - 26,000
John Rigolli  - 25,900
Robert Topp  - 23,800
Moy Hoque  - 20,400
Karl Limbert  - 15,000