Live UK Poker Tour is proud of its links with the Live European Poker Tours and its players. Top end event players from all over Europe regularly make the journey to the UK and Ireland for the UKIPT, GUKPT, WSOPE and of course the EPT.
Live UK Poker Tour
European Live Poker Tour Information and Qualification Portal dedicated to the ‘top end’ European poker player.
Live UK poker tour has been developed as a one stop ‘Live UK Poker Tour’ information and qualification portal by a team of dedicated UK and Ireland poker tour players. The current European poker scene remains as popular and well supported as ever. We believe that this is due to the dedicated ‘top end’ poker community finding more cost effective ways to fund European poker tour events and festivals.
Our dedicated team regularly trawl the endless lists of online poker rooms and satellite qualifiers in the search of ‘Best Value Online Satellite Qualification’ for all up coming main European Poker Tour events and festivals. As the tour moves on, so does Live UK poker tour, we pride ourselves in being dynamic giving current, relevant information at all times as we count down to the next main event on our Home Page.
Follow both the Live UK poker tour team and the Live UK poker tour community’s progress on our live blog during both ‘Best Value Satellite Qualifiers’ and hopefully during the main event!
Live European Poker Tournaments EPT
One of the premier Live European poker tournaments is the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London Poker Festival which will take place in September 2010. The Live festival follows the two-week European Poker Championship and will be held at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino. Once again this Live European Poker Tournament will cement London’s reputation as the European poker capital this autumn. Visit out home page to get the latest from the EPT London. www.liveukpokertour.com
Live European Poker Tournaments UKIPT
The UKIPT is a fresh and exciting Live European Poker Tournament directed at amateur and professional players from all over Europe. It was launched in late 2009 with the first event being held at Galway in Ireland from December 11-14, 2009, in the Radisson Hotel. The UKIPT Galway was included as part of the popular Irish Poker Championships. The first UK-based Live UKIPT tournament was held in Manchester from 11–14 Feb 2010 at the Grosvenor G-Casino.
Team Live UK Poker Tour are convinced the UKIPT tournaments will attract top names from all European Destinations due to the backing of PokerStars.. The Live UKIPT tournaments have a range of buy-in levels; from £500+£50 to £1,000+£100 for UK-based tournaments and €1,000+€100 and €2,000 for tournaments in Ireland see schedule.
In addition to a UKIPT title and prize money, players will also win a buy-in to the PokerStars.com EPT London main event in October 2010, which will also be the European poker championship. This will give regular season UKIPT finalists the chance to experience the exciting atmosphere playing in one of the biggest live European poker tournaments alongside some of the biggest names in the world of poker.
The UKIPT will have its own Points Leader Board that is regularly updated on PokerStars Click on UKIPT link on the PokerStars homepage to see the 2010 UKIPT leader board.. Players will be able to track their progress against other local players and professionals; including their favourite Team PokerStars PROs. At the end of the season the top players from the UKIPT leader board will be rewarded with great prizes, including: a £10,000 freeroll for the top 100 players over the season; and the top three players will receive various levels of PokerStars sponsorship to tournaments during the UKIPT’s second season.
The Live PokerStars UKIPT will visit Manchester, Nottingham, Killarney, Brighton, Scotland and Dublin with the Grand Final taking place as part of the EPT London main event in October 2010.
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Live European Poker Tournaments GUKPT
Team Live UK Poker tour have over 3 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 favourite Live European Poker tournaments.The GUKPT tour was launched in 2007 and brings the excitement of the big game experience to ‘G’ casino’s across the UK. The Live tour is run jointly by Blue Square Poker and Grosvenor ‘G’ casinos. The GUKPT consists of a series of live poker tournaments that take place throughout the UK and online. Each GUKPT tournament features several live 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 live 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 live British poker superstars, taking live poker in the UK to unprecedented new levels. Professional players, keen amateurs and Internet qualifiers from various European destination 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 tournaments 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 Blue Square (BlueSq) 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.Click here for 2010 GUKPT rankings
Online qualification for the GUKPT main event will be available at the online poker room of gcasino.com (which is being launched in early 2010) and also continues on the site of the tour’s sponsor, Qualify For the 2010 GUKPT Today at Blue Square
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Live European Poker Tournaments WSOPE
The WSOPE is one of the premier Live European Poker Tournaments and arrived in Europe for the very first time in September 2007, with London chosen as it’s first location. The series was made up of three live bracelet events, including the 362 runner £10,000 Main Event. European Internet superstar, Annette Obrestad was the talk of the event, eventually walking off with the £1 million first prize.
The WSOP Europe (WSOPE) is currently the biggest live UK based poker series as we go to press, with the biggest single event prize pool on offer in the whole of Europe. It is also the only poker series outside of the US where WSOP bracelets are up for grabs and attracts the very best players in the World.
With a prestigious sponsor such as Betfair we at Live UK Poker Tour are confident the 2010 events will be bigger and better than ever.
