The GUKPT Champion of Champions Event thread

[Dubai]

a £2k plo Championship would get more than a £250 plo freezeout. I would be willing to bet on this

[Dubai]

PLO comps that are between £200-£500 always get small fields because the buyin is both TOO SMALL and TOO BIG. Its too small in the fact that its not worth a lot of peoples time travelling to play, and yet its too big in that it scares of a lot of locals/holdem players who would play a £50 plo comp for fun. If you made it £2k, you would get 50 odd players and at least some prestige, particularly in a week called Champion of Champions. Its like having a Seller race run on Newmarket Champions day lol, so why clutter the week with small meaningless comps.

[Dubai]

You can even run sats online upto 3 months before if its called a Championship Event.

[riverdave]

PLO comps that are between £200-£500 always get small fields because the buyin is both TOO SMALL and TOO BIG. Its too small in the fact that its not worth a lot of peoples time travelling to play, and yet its too big in that it scares of a lot of locals/holdem players who would play a £50 plo comp for fun. If you made it £2k, you would get 50 odd players and at least some prestige, particularly in a week called Champion of Champions. Its like having a Seller race run on Newmarket Champions day lol, so why clutter the week with small meaningless comps.

Decent points i agree with mostly althought still not totally convinced about reasonable numbers for big buyin comps it's not like it's got the draw of a WSOPE.

[Royal Flush]

Mmmmm - 6k for £200!!!         ......       and is it any wonder why the 'smart money' will be heading for DTD this weekend?

lol i wouldn't play a £200f if it had more than 6k, thankfully i live in a part of the country that gets its highest turnout during festivals on the night of the 200f with 6k chips.

[TightEnd]

106 runners for the £200 last night in the end

[810ofclubs]

106 runners for the £200 last night in the end

this is pretty gd right?

[TightEnd]

106 runners for the £200 last night in the end

this is pretty gd right?

Yes

[TightEnd]

from one of the APAT players


Interesting concept with the prize pool - there was a vote with three choices - payout to top 12, 30, or 63. Top63 won the vote..... and with only 120 runners that meant half the field gets paid. Add to that the fact that around 20 didn't turn up and could not claim any prize, despite their chips being in play and blinded away...... 63 out of 100 runners get paid!


lol!

Great concept that the players get to vote though

[TightEnd]

12 voted for option 1 (top 12), 30 for option 2 (top 30), and 39 voted for option 3 (top 63).

[TightEnd]

updates at  http://blog.grosvenorukpokertour.com/

current leaders

Table  - Seat  - Player  - Chips
11  - 2  - Tony Cascarino  - 37725
10  - 8  - Karl Mahrenholz  - 29450
6  - 2  - Martin Silke  - 27850
5  - 5  - Daniel Furnival  - 25525
12  - 1  - Richard Gryko  - 23500
9  - 8  - Simon Moorman  - 21575
11  - 1  - Karl Limbert  - 20475
12  - 4  - Daniel Teymourian  - 18225
9  - 1  - Robert Topp  - 17725
4  - 4  - Haitao Wu  - 17450

[tikay]

12 voted for option 1 (top 12), 30 for option 2 (top 30), and 39 voted for option 3 (top 63).

How extraordinary!

Good grief.

[George2Loose]

Anyone know the actual payouts. They should have had option 4- chop the lot.

In all seriousness I think in this case voting is a ridic idea

[TightEnd]

deals not permitted


options were

Position    Opt 1      Position    Opt 2    Position    Opt 3
1    £30000         1    £25000         1    £25000
2    £20000         2    £15000         2    £15000
3    £15000         3    £10000         3    £10000
4    £10000         4    £8000         4    £75000
5    £7500         5    £6000         5    £5000
6    £5000         6    £5000         6    £4000
7    £4000         7    £4000         7    £3000
8    £3000         8    £3000         8    £2000
9    £2000         9    £2000         9    £1500
10    £1500         10-13  £1500         10-18 £1000
11    £1000         14-18 £1000         19-27 £750
12    £1000         19-26 £750         28-36 £500
                       27-36  £500         37-63 £250

[TightEnd]

Would have like to have seen Karl M's face when only 12 voted for a)