GUKPT Grand Final Thread

[TightEnd]

The Final Countdown: London’s GUKPT Grand Final Festival

The final series in the year-long tour which has seen the GUKPT visit every G and Grosvenor Casino in a non-stop sequence of Main Events, Summer Series and Club Championships brings the last games of 2010 back to London’s Victoria Casino this week.  Along with the World Heads Up Championship (19th-22nd), the full festival runs until Sunday 28th November and provides a last chance to take down a packed-field poker tournament and secure a place in December’s Champion of Champions £150,000 freeroll (for more information please see http://www.grosvenorukpokertour.com/champion.shtml).  In 2009 the Grand Final was won by Tony Cascarino, beating a field of 183 for a prize of £168,800, and with a bigger buy-in next week’s Main Event will see a new champion crowned.

For the players at the top of the GUKPT Leaderboard, headed by Blackpool’s champion David Johnson, these tournaments represent the final challenge which will determine who will be crowned this year’s Player of the Year and take down the £20,000 top prize.  Judging by the turnout at last year’s Grand Final events, there will be enough ranking points floating around to give players like Alli Mallu and Neil Channing a genuine eleventh-hour shot at the title, and this should make for an especially exciting week of poker, hosted in the excellent atmosphere of the Vic’s 24 hour poker room.

The full schedule:

Thursday 18th November: £300 + £30 NL Hold'em Freezeout 7.30pm (2 days)
Friday 19th November: £500 + £50 PL Omaha Double Chance Freezeout 7.30pm (2 days)
Saturday 20th November: £500 + £50 NL Hold'em Freezeout 5pm (2 days)
Sunday 21st November: £200 + £20 NL Hold'em Freezeout 5pm (1 day)
Monday 22nd November: £300 + £30 1 Rebuy or Add On 7.30pm (2 days)
Tuesday 23rd November: £200 + £20 NL Hold'em Rebuy 7.30pm (2 days)
Wednesday 24th November: £350 + £35 NLHE F/O Super Satellite to Main Event 7.30pm (1 day)
Thursday 25th November:  £2,500 + £125 NL Hold'em Main Event Day 1a 2pm (3 days)
Friday 26th November:  £2,500 + £125 NL Hold'em Main Event Day 1b 2pm (3 days)
Sunday 28th November: £150 + £15 NL Hold'em Bounty Tournament 5pm (1 day)

The £2,500 Grand Final Main Event has a starting stack of 25,000 with an hour clock, making it one of the best-structured events in the UK; there are several satellites this week at the Victoria Casino – £100 NL rebuy events on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 2pm – to give everyone a chance to qualify for a fraction of the buy-in.  There’s also still time to qualify online: a £250 freezeout is running on http://GCasino.com/poker on 21st November at 8pm with two seats guaranteed.

[TightEnd]

ress Release

The final heads-up matches of the 2010 WHUPC have come to a conclusion this evening, after four intense days of one-on-one tournament action at London's Grosvenor Victoria Casino.  Players including John Tabatabai, Vicky Coren, JP Kelly, Richard Gryko, Marius Torbergsen and previous champions Jeff Kimber and Bambos Xanthos entered the £2,000 freezeout series, as well as 21 other tough competitors from a variety of poker backgrounds both live and online.  The semifinals pitted Nik Persaud against his friend Toby Lewis, and eventual runner up Leon Louis against Jeff Kimber, while the event was streamed live with commentary throughout the day.

Final results:

1st Nik Persaud - £30,000
2nd Leon Louis - £15,000
3rd Toby Lewis - £5,500
3rd Jeff Kimber - £5,500

[blonde17]

A worthy champion.


And now for the final of the Grand final of the GUKPT.
All four days "LIVE" from 2pm Thursday with chip counts , interviews etc.

[TightEnd]

Reminder that GUKPT Grand final begins tomorrow and there is a live feed in the OP of the stickied thread above


Broadcast times for GUKPT.

Thursday 25 Nov. Day 1a Starting at 2pm

Friday 26 Nov. Day 1a Starting at 2pm

Saturday 27 Nov. Day 2 Starting at 2pm

Sunday 28 Nov. Day 3 Starting at 2pm

[action man]

is that mike carlson in the pick with nik

[TightEnd]

is that mike carlson in the pick with nik

Yes. Has done the commentary on the WHUPC etc for a couple of years now. Great bloke and imho a fantastic NFL colour guy too

[TightEnd]

40 of 84 made it through Day1a

Again, as with recent GUKPTs there are no overnight chip counts which is a shame


The leaders at the last break were


Lennart Valhjaltaafeldt 114500

Nicolas Irving 104100

Barny Boatman 82300

Bruce Atkinson 72700

Jeff Kimber 71100

Darren Pearce 66600

Michael Piper 64900

Charles Chattha 64000

Emmanuel Sebag 62000

Anthony Hardy 60300

[titaniumbean]

Prob best not to let anyone rail or see how their friends are doing/just the rest of the field.

It's not like all the chips are bagged up and counted or anything........ wp Grosvenor

[paulhouk03]

When is trumper playing?

[GreekStein]

Sigh, bring back the raab

[outragous76]

You would think with the ukipt that G would be pulling out the stops. Reporting is an important part of a successful tour IMO!

[TightEnd]

Karl Mahrenholz 53,000

Jeff Kimber 71,000

Stu Rutter out


More chip counts when I uncover them!

[TightEnd]

Day1a chip counts

Nicholas Irving.....155,500

Michael Piper......114,700

Willie Tann.....99,800

Barny Boatman.....87,000

Charles Chattha.....75,900

Sawan Karia.....75,000

Jeff Kimber......71,300

Lennart Valhjaltaafeldt.....70,600

Jamie Burland.....66,300

Richard Ellis......63,500

Paul Valhjaltaafeldt.....62,700

Ben Carpenter......59,800

Ben Roberts.....59,600

Mickey Wernick......58,800

Jonas Ovestad......56,200

Danny Toffel......56,000

Mike Ellis......55,600

Emmanuel Sebag......55,100

Karl Mahrenholz......53,000

Bruce Atkinson......50,700

Rob Garfield......48,800

Sadan Turker......46,700

Arkady Kielman......46,000

Praz Bansi......43,600

Robert Topp......41,800

Guy Steel......41,100

Christopher Kadji......38,300

Gavin Cochrane......36,100

Nathan Lee......35,200

Peter Babot......32,200

Huseyin Houssein......31,000

Mark Greening.....30,600

Anthony Hardy......30,500

Mark Karoullas......30,500

Daniel Moosah......29,700

Alex Rousso.....27,600

Keith Johnson......23,900

Royston Smithers.......19,900

Jack Salter......17,000

Andrew Georgiou.....13,200

[GreekStein]

gl to both the Valhjaltaafeldt lads

[AlrightJack]

gl to both the Valhjaltaafeldt lads

Looks like they have the scrabble points locked up