UKIPT Season 5: first event announced

[TightEnd]

"On December 8, PokerStars announced the first leg of Season 5 of the UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) and revealed a couple of destinations that the popular tour will head to in the coming year.

The first stop of the UKIPT Season 5 sees players head to London, with the £700+£70 buy-in Main Event running from January 20 through January 25."

http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2014/12/pokerstars-announce-first-stop-on-ukipt-season-5-calendar-15948.htm

[Doobs]

"On December 8, PokerStars announced the first leg of Season 5 of the UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) and revealed a couple of destinations that the popular tour will head to in the coming year.

The first stop of the UKIPT Season 5 sees players head to London, with the £700+£70 buy-in Main Event running from January 20 through January 25."

http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2014/12/pokerstars-announce-first-stop-on-ukipt-season-5-calendar-15948.htm

I note there is a 3 day main event at last.  Much more rec friendly than 4 days.  Might have to try and play a few this year. 

[DropTheHammer]

I see they're still creaming 3% extra off the prize pool though, boo.

[Tal]

Is it going to continue to be attended? People aren't going to start boycotting Stars events en masse are they? I can't see it happening personally, but, given this is a tour for poker's "squeezed middle", who might most sharply feel the pinch of the recent changes.

[scotty77]

Stars continues to crush their live events.  Eureka Prague 1800 runners for a 1.1k.  Compare that to the WPT that got barely over 200 for a 2k 2 days before down the road.

Biggest hurdle here will be the venue as it has room for about 30 tables and even then thats really, really tight.  But they have really good people in charge there so I'm 500+ will be pretty easy to achieve.

[bergeroo]

Cant really compare that Eureka to the WPT in Prague as the WPT was a really late announcement. But yeah agree, Stars crushes it, people love em. But the satellites might die a bit when they start raking the rebuys, so that might mean less seat winners and smaller fields? Plus dunno if they are doing extra promos like a satty winner leaderboard this year.

Personally I'd rather play GUKPT at the Vic the week after.

[The Camel]

Cant really compare that Eureka to the WPT in Prague as the WPT was a really late announcement. But yeah agree, Stars crushes it, people love em. But the satellites might die a bit when they start raking the rebuys, so that might mean less seat winners and smaller fields? Plus dunno if they are doing extra promos like a satty winner leaderboard this year.

Personally I'd rather play GUKPT at the Vic the week after.

Yep, me too.

While I'm not going to boycott Stars events, they haven't shown any loyalty to their players, so I feel zero brand loyalty to them.

GUKPT and GPS mainly for me in 2015.

[dreenie]

Cant really compare that Eureka to the WPT in Prague as the WPT was a really late announcement. But yeah agree, Stars crushes it, people love em. But the satellites might die a bit when they start raking the rebuys, so that might mean less seat winners and smaller fields? Plus dunno if they are doing extra promos like a satty winner leaderboard this year.

Personally I'd rather play GUKPT at the Vic the week after.

Yep, me too.

While I'm not going to boycott Stars events, they haven't shown any loyalty to their players, so I feel zero brand loyalty to them.

GUKPT and GPS mainly for me in 2015.

Wal

[TightEnd]

[pleno1]

is there a guarantee on this? seems destined to overlay if so

[Eso Kral]

is there a guarantee on this? seems destined to overlay if so

No gtee but 3day 1's weds, thurs and friday

[TightEnd]

130 qualifiers as of a couple of days ago according to

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/en/blog/tournaments/ukipt/2015/season-5-of-the-ukipt-to-kick-off-in-london-this-month-153394.shtml

£700+70 main

last year's October UKIPT London had 1089 entries

this year its in the spare week between the PCA and EPT Deauville


whats a good guess for numbers?

why might it fall short this year relative to last?

[arbboy]

130 qualifiers as of a couple of days ago according to

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/en/blog/tournaments/ukipt/2015/season-5-of-the-ukipt-to-kick-off-in-london-this-month-153394.shtml

£700+70 main

last year's October UKIPT London had 1089 entries

this year its in the spare week between the PCA and EPT Deauville


whats a good guess for numbers?

why might it fall short this year relative to last?

numbers will surely fall with no gtd?  people getting sick of the 3% extra rake on top of 10% rake anyway for a big buy in comp then aggresively expected to tip after cashing at the cash desk as well on top of london exs?

[NigDawG]

haven't once been "aggressively expected to tip" with any pokerstars event fwiw. had a number of terrible experiences with other tours tho

[DropTheHammer]

why might it fall short this year relative to last?

The ball-ache & restrictive process of regging...