GUKPT 2010
Team Live UK Poker tour have many years of experience on the GUKPT. It is well run with prestigious awards gained for the directing and running of the well structured tournaments. The GUKPT is a great value added tour and one of our favourites.
The History Of The GUKPT
The GUKPT tour was launched in 2007 and brings the excitement of the big game experience to ‘G’ casino’s across the UK. Initially the GUKPT was historically sponsored by Blue Square poker but from March 2010 the tour has a new sponsor, Grosvenor ‘G’ casino poker. G casino poker has introduced massive increases in the tours added value. Read on for more detail.
The GUKPT consists of a series of poker festivals that take place throughout the UK and online. Each GUKPT festival features several warm up events with buy In’s ranging from £100 – £500 and a £1,000 four-day main event. At the end of the year the stakes are raised to £3,000 for the GUKPT Grand Final, which take place at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London.
In the first year of the GUKPT prize money topped £3.5m and the tour was televised for Channel 4. Indeed, television coverage of every leg of the GUKPT’s inaugural year helped create a whole new host of British poker superstars, taking live poker in the UK to unprecedented new levels. Professional players, keen amateurs and Internet qualifiers were amongst those who sat down each month to battle it out for a place in history and life changing amounts of money.
In 2008 the GUKPT was not televised, but if anything, it was even more competitive than in 2007 as new events were added to the schedule and the rankings system was extended to include all GUKPT side events as well as the main event. 2008 concluded with the inaugural Champion of Champions tournament, a £75,000 event open only to players who had won GUKPT events during the 2008 tour. Former European Number one and 2008 Grand Prix champion Ash Hussain emerged victorious while 2008 rankings winner Marc Goodwin cemented his GUKPT dominance with a third place finish.
2009 was the third year for the UK’s largest poker tour and Blue Square in association with Grosvenor ‘G’ casinos added £150,000 in added value. The Champion of Champion’s event prize pool was increased to £100,000 and the GUKPT rankings system swelled to a £50,000 prize pool. Two high roller Heads Up Tournaments were added to the GUKPT schedule and three new mini festivals were also included, as was the GUKPT Summer Series. The tour also visited Scotland for the first time, with Aberdeen’s newly opened ‘G’ casino playing host to one of the Summer Series events in June.
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) will be returning in 2010 for a fourth year. 2010 will see new events and new venues added to the schedule of the UK’s biggest poker tour. Once again Grosvenor ‘G’ Casinos and their online partner gcasino.com are adding significant prize money to the tour. The added prize money in 2010 will be at least £200,000!
£200,000 Added Prize Money GUKPT 2010, Not To Be Missed
The GUKPT Champion of Champions tournament will be taking place again, for the third successive year and the prize money is being increased to a massive £150,000. The event was launched in 2008 with a £75,000 prize pool and this was increased to £100,000 in 2009. The stakes have now been significantly raised and the only way to get into this prestigious tournament is to win a GUKPT event in 2010. Main events and side events on the Main Tour, the Summer Series, the Club Championships and the GUKPT 10% Online Series all count as qualifying events. There are also a limited number of additional qualifying events (such as the GUKPT Student Championship and the GUKPT Press Championship) which will be detailed on G Casino Poker early in 2010.
GUKPT Rankings for 2010
The GUKPT Rankings will be as per 2009, £50,000 in prize money will be paid out to the 20 players who top the GUKPT leader board by the end of the year. Points are awarded for all open events on the GUKPT.
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