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« Reply #150 on: December 06, 2009, 07:57:38 PM »

tbf i think id rather play asif hu in luton for my net worth than attend the jinglebellball



What is the jinglebellball?

I would most certainly appreciate an answer to my OP.  This is obviously escalating and nobody involved is happy.  I can't send PM's on here for some reason, I don't wish to say more than I already have on a public forum.


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Given the tone of posts, appears I succeeded for what I can here.   At least I don't have to feed the "epic fail" troll.  :-)

Tell you something, I've never met you but I know you're very talented and you come across well, arguing your point without histrionics and any rudeness, respect sir

Thanks.  I am a huge supporter of the GUKPT and think Jonathon Raab has done a great job with it, there are many negative directions the casinos are taking these days, he is someone who is on our side.  I know how backwards UK casino managers can be, and while he is at the top of the poker world here, to his minders, poker is just a small but steadily profitable side of their business.
 
I don't wish to extend further negativity on the subject in a public forum lest it get picked up by press anyway without our PR pressure.  I live here, I play Grosvenor, and anything negative happening to Jon is -EV for me, so in deference and respect to him I have removed any posts containing logic.  Thankfully nobody quoted me.  I am sure there will be a meeting to discuss this further and a resolution, but blonde is not the place.




 
Think you are missing the point of the forum. Its about people expressing there opinions and views. I'm sure JR ( Que Dallas music ) knows he will have to deal with peoples questions, concerns and opinions on the forum. Shame you feel the need to subtract them.
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« Reply #151 on: December 06, 2009, 08:57:15 PM »

Oh sod the bickering    ....     Luton reg Steve Spring's in the last three - get in there Stevie!
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« Reply #152 on: December 06, 2009, 10:18:18 PM »

Went out 3rd with 10's vs QJ all in pre. He hit both of em to send me home!
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« Reply #153 on: December 06, 2009, 10:23:10 PM »

Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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« Reply #154 on: December 06, 2009, 10:47:15 PM »

Went out 3rd with 10's vs QJ all in pre. He hit both of em to send me home!

Well done/played Steve        .....        it just goes to show that not all Gingas are bloody useless!
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« Reply #155 on: December 06, 2009, 10:59:08 PM »

Gotta say,what a joke that anyone would have the nerve to be complaining at how a 100k freeroll is run ffs its a fkn freeroll that's added at the end of the year that they don't need to do,i made my point that they could change the way the voting is done but wtf,anyone who's seriously having a go needs a fkn shake
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« Reply #156 on: December 06, 2009, 11:41:33 PM »

Gotta say,what a joke that anyone would have the nerve to be complaining at how a 100k freeroll is run ffs its a fkn freeroll that's added at the end of the year that they don't need to do,i made my point that they could change the way the voting is done but wtf,anyone who's seriously having a go needs a fkn shake


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« Reply #157 on: December 06, 2009, 11:59:18 PM »

Feel I should probably post in this thread given that I've probably followed the tour more than most on here this year.

Looking ahead to next year, firstly congrats to Jon for the tweaks he has made to the structures for next year (starting stacks and antes), for altering the locations away from the more provincial legs in response to the declining attendances and most importantly for securing even more added money to the tour for next year (quite unbelievable really).

My suggestions for next years tour would be

(1) Ditch any none GUKPT events from contributing towards the GUKPT rankings
(2) Bring back the seats in the grand final for leg winners (it's a tour culminating in a grand final, and you should want all the leg winners to be there). The award of the grand final seats this year to winners of "national leagues" etc rather than leg winners was a mistake imo (and I would be saying this regardless of results this year, it just makes more sense to me)
(3) Change the rule on alternates in time for next year's tour. At present, even if an open seat is available and no one is waiting, you are not able to buy anyone else in as an alternate (ie your mate rings you and asks you to buy him in after the event has started as he is running late). This is potentially costing Grosvenor added rake and given the general decline in attendances, we should be doing all we can to accommodate people
(4) Incorporate the online satellite the Sunday before the start of the festival week, into the festival schedule and in the literature. If this Sunday becomes widely known as the day to win your seat online for the next weeks festival it could, in time, become a successful addition to the week and increase the numbers of online sat winners we're currently getting
(5) A £5k headsup tournament does not fit at all with the GUKPT. Tournaments of this buyin level should be left for other tours imo

With regards to the Champion of Champions event, I'm sure a decision will be made before next year to either remove all dead stacks by say level 4, or let them blind to the money. Either is probably fine, but I will say that the dead stacks do alter the play a great deal, especially when you have 2/3 on the table like a lot of tables did this week.

Having a vote for the prize structure was quite an innovative idea, but I don't think in reality this works. Most people are going to have the minimum in chips, and even without this disparity, the likely makeup of the field will always mean that the most shallow payout structure always gets picked. I notice the statement "no deals permitted" is used after the vote has taken place, and whilst the logic for this is good, it is pretty much unenforceable. My suggestion would be to pick the prize structure yourself and just have it fixed. Nobody is going to complain and it means that you are able to set the payouts that are most appropriate. If you want to do a "grand prix" style pay out where everyone who turns up gets a little something for their expenses etc, so be it.  

With regards the side event schedule at this festival, whilst having them is great for those people travelling down, the Champion of Champions event really should be the absolute finale, and to have events which contribute towards the rankings after this finale has started shouldn't really happen, especially when 2 people (as were this week) could be fighting down to the wire for the rankings - do they knock themselves out of the freeroll finale to play the £150 tourney in an event to win a £20k side bet?

Jon, you have done a great job with the tour and the fact that we have someone like you to give our suggestions and feedback to is a credit to the tour. Looking forward to next year being the best season yet. (ps any news on any potential tv involvement in the future?)
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« Reply #158 on: December 07, 2009, 12:54:44 AM »


Some real good feedback here, but enough of that - many, many congrats to Richard Gryko, a thoroughly deserving GUKPT Player of the Year. Delighted for him. And Mum.
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« Reply #159 on: December 07, 2009, 12:57:33 AM »

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« Reply #160 on: December 07, 2009, 10:56:30 AM »

Press Release - Monday 7th December 2009

 

Wu’s The Daddy at GUKPT Champion of Champions Tournament

 


Haitao Wu from Dundee has won the £100,000 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Champion of Champions tournament at the G Casino in Luton. Haitao, better known as Colin outlasted a field of 125 players to claim the £25,000 first prize in the invitation only event which rounded off the third year of the GUKPT. All 125 players in the free-to-enter event had won GUKPT tournaments (or associated events) to claim their seats into the two-day competition. Unlike most other tournaments, the players began the event with varying starting stacks. The larger the buy in of the event won to qualify, the greater the starting stack awarded. The 30-year old won his way into the tournament by claiming victory in a £500 side event at leg three of the tour in London. He also made a main event final table in Newcastle in May, where he finished in seventh place.

 

Wu’s heads up opponent was Darren Annis, who scooped first prize in the leg eight main event in Thanet. The Beijing-born professional player held a 2-1 chip lead after knocking out third place finisher Stephen Spring and dominated his opponent during the course of the 30-minute heads up session. By the time the final hand took place he had increased his lead further, leaving Annis with just over 100,000 of the 900,000 chips in play. In the final hand, Annis moved all in with A-4 and Wu called with Q-T. A 10 on the flop secured the title and £25,000 first prize. The prize money for this tournament was entirely provided by Grosvenor Casinos and online partner Blue Square Poker.

 

Wu moved to the UK seven years ago to do an MBA in international business transactions at Dundee University. He completed his degree two years ago and then started playing poker professionally. In July he became a father when his girlfriend Kerry gave birth to twin daughters. Elated from his win he commented afterwards:

 

“Kerry has been very supportive, looking after our beautiful daughters when I have been playing. We will have a great Christmas now and will be visiting China early next year, when my parents will meet them (his daughters) for the first time.”

 

He went on to say:

 

“When we come back from China I will continue to play GUKPT events in 2010. The structure is perfect for us to play good poker and the prize money is great as well”

 

Preston man Reyaaz Mulla was the fist player to be eliminated from the nine-person final table. Shana Casaletto from Brighton was next to go in eighth place. Shana was one of the few women competing in the tournament. She won her seat into the event at the first leg in January in her hometown, where she won back-to-back side events. The final table also included Ganesh Rao, another former GUKPT main event winner (Newcastle 2008), who exited in seventh. Property developer Rahim Tadjsaadat who lives in London, but is originally from Iran, was the sixth place finisher while Blackpool main event finalist Gemal Husnu from London claimed fifth. Christopher Brammer from Worthing completed the final table line up, departing in fourth. The 21-year old had gone into the final as the chip leader and held a strong chip position before losing his entire stack in the space of three short hands.

 

The race to top the tour’s rankings leaderboard is also now over, with Richard Gryko outscoring Irishman Martin Silke by just half a point to take the £20,000 first prize and claim the title of GUKPT Player of the Year. The GUKPT rankings carried a total of £50,000 in prizes, supplied by Grosvenor Casino and Blue Square Poker. Prizes were paid to the top 18 players on the leaderboard.

 

The 2009 GUKPT has now concluded, but the UK’s largest poker tour will be returning in 2010 with a full schedule of events. Blue Square Poker is now bowing out as the sponsor after three years, but will be replaced by gcasino.com, another Rank Group Plc owned company. The 2010 added prize money has been increased to £200,000, with the prize pool for next year’s Champion of Champions’ tournament being increased to £150,000 while the rankings prize money remains at £50,000.

 

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« Reply #161 on: December 07, 2009, 11:09:37 AM »

Press Release - Monday 7th December 2009

 

Wu’s The Daddy at GUKPT Champion of Champions Tournament

 


Haitao Wu from Dundee has won the £100,000 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Champion of Champions tournament at the G Casino in Luton. Haitao, better known as Colin outlasted a field of 125 players to claim the £25,000 first prize in the invitation only event which rounded off the third year of the GUKPT. All 125 players in the free-to-enter event had won GUKPT tournaments (or associated events) to claim their seats into the two-day competition. Unlike most other tournaments, the players began the event with varying starting stacks. The larger the buy in of the event won to qualify, the greater the starting stack awarded. The 30-year old won his way into the tournament by claiming victory in a £500 side event at leg three of the tour in London. He also made a main event final table in Newcastle in May, where he finished in seventh place.

 

Wu’s heads up opponent was Darren Annis, who scooped first prize in the leg eight main event in Thanet. The Beijing-born professional player held a 2-1 chip lead after knocking out third place finisher Stephen Spring and dominated his opponent during the course of the 30-minute heads up session. By the time the final hand took place he had increased his lead further, leaving Annis with just over 100,000 of the 900,000 chips in play. In the final hand, Annis moved all in with A-4 and Wu called with Q-T. A 10 on the flop secured the title and £25,000 first prize. The prize money for this tournament was entirely provided by Grosvenor Casinos and online partner Blue Square Poker.

 

Wu moved to the UK seven years ago to do an MBA in international business transactions at Dundee University. He completed his degree two years ago and then started playing poker professionally. In July he became a father when his girlfriend Kerry gave birth to twin daughters. Elated from his win he commented afterwards:

 

“Kerry has been very supportive, looking after our beautiful daughters when I have been playing. We will have a great Christmas now and will be visiting China early next year, when my parents will meet them (his daughters) for the first time.”

 

He went on to say:

 

“When we come back from China I will continue to play GUKPT events in 2010. The structure is perfect for us to play good poker and the prize money is great as well”

 

Preston man Reyaaz Mulla was the fist player to be eliminated from the nine-person final table. Shana Casaletto from Brighton was next to go in eighth place. Shana was one of the few women competing in the tournament. She won her seat into the event at the first leg in January in her hometown, where she won back-to-back side events. The final table also included Ganesh Rao, another former GUKPT main event winner (Newcastle 2008), who exited in seventh. Property developer Rahim Tadjsaadat who lives in London, but is originally from Iran, was the sixth place finisher while Blackpool main event finalist Gemal Husnu from London claimed fifth. Christopher Brammer from Worthing completed the final table line up, departing in fourth. The 21-year old had gone into the final as the chip leader and held a strong chip position before losing his entire stack in the space of three short hands.

 

The race to top the tour’s rankings leaderboard is also now over, with Richard Gryko outscoring Irishman Martin Silke by just half a point to take the £20,000 first prize and claim the title of GUKPT Player of the Year. The GUKPT rankings carried a total of £50,000 in prizes, supplied by Grosvenor Casino and Blue Square Poker. Prizes were paid to the top 18 players on the leaderboard.

 

The 2009 GUKPT has now concluded, but the UK’s largest poker tour will be returning in 2010 with a full schedule of events. Blue Square Poker is now bowing out as the sponsor after three years, but will be replaced by gcasino.com, another Rank Group Plc owned company. The 2010 added prize money has been increased to £200,000, with the prize pool for next year’s Champion of Champions’ tournament being increased to £150,000 while the rankings prize money remains at £50,000.

 



wtf i don't even know where that is, is that where those nice grandad sweets come from?
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« Reply #162 on: December 07, 2009, 12:05:05 PM »

Apologies Chris, should have been Winchester.
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« Reply #163 on: December 07, 2009, 12:10:11 PM »

Apologies Chris, should have been Winchester.

as in rifle?
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« Reply #164 on: December 07, 2009, 12:10:55 PM »

hundreds of well written words, one wrong, straight away pullled out and criticised. seems to be the way here...
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