2010 GUKPT Schedule
2010 GUKPT Schedule Announced
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!
The 2010 schedule includes:
- The Main Tour – 8 legs, a grand final and the Champion of Champion’s festival.
- The Summer Series – launched in 2009, it has now been extended to include ten mini-festivals, taking place from May – August.
- The Club Championships – New for 2010, the GUKPT Club Championships is a series of one-day £200 tournaments, taking place in all 23 Grosvenor and G Casinos with a poker room.
- The 10% Online Series – New for 2010, a series of one off events taking place the day after each festival on the Main Tour and the Summer Series concludes. The buy in will be 10% of the cost of the main event at the festival that has just concluded. These tournaments will be available on Blue Square Poker, Grosvenor Poker and the poker room of gcasino.com.
£200,000 Added Prize Money
- The 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 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 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 GUKPT.com early in 2010.
- The GUKPT Rankings. As per 2009, £50,000 is 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. Details of how points are earned will be listed on gukpt.com
Online qualification 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 previous sponsor, Blue Square Poker and on Grosvenor Poker.
The Main Tour Schedule
The Main Tour this year will consist of 8 legs, the Grand Final and the Champion of Champions festival. The first leg in January sees the Bolton returning as a main tour venue, while the Coventry hosts it’s first GUKPT main tour event in May.
| Main Tour | Dates | Main Event Dates |
| Leg 1 – G Casino, Bolton – £1,000 Main Event | January 18th – 24th | January 22nd – 24th |
| Leg 2 – Grosvenor Casino, Walsall – £1,000 Main Event | February 20th – 28th | February 25th – 28th |
| Leg 3 – Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London – £1,500 Main Event | March 18th – 28th | March 25th – 28th |
| Leg 4 – G Casino Bury New Road, Manchester – £1,000 Main Event | April 17th – 25th | April 22nd – 25th |
| Leg 5 – G Casino, Coventry – £1,000 Main Event | May 17th – 23rd | May 20th – 23rd |
| Leg 6 – G Casino, Luton – £1,000 Main Event | August 7th – 15th | August 12h – 15th |
| Leg 7 – G Casino, Brighton – £1,000 Main Event | September 11th-19th | September 16th – 19th |
| Leg 8 – G Casino, Blackpool – £1,000 Main Event | November 6th – 14th | November 11th – 14th |
| Grand Final – Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London – £2,500 Main Event | November 18th – 28th | November 25th-28th |
| Champion of Champions Festival – G Casino, Coventry | December 1st – 5th | December 4th-5th |
Summer Series
The Summer Series has been extended for 2010 to include ten events, each with a main event of £300-£750. Throughout the Summer Series, two events will take place simultaneously in different parts of the country.
| The Summer Series | Dates | Main Event Dates |
| 1a – G Casino, Blackpool – £500 Main Event | May 26th – 31st | May 30th-31st |
| 1b – G Casino, Thanet – £300 Main Event | May 28th – 31st | May 30th-31st |
| 2a – G Casino, Luton – £500 Main Event | June 9th -13th | June 12th-13th |
| 2b – G Casino, Aberdeen – £300 Main Event | June 10th – 13th | June 12th-13th |
| 3a – Grosvenor Casino, Walsall – £500 Main Event | June 23rd – 27th | June 26th-27th |
| 3b – Grosvenor Casino, Newcastle – £300 Main Event | June 24th – 27th | June 26th-27th |
| 4a – G Casino, Sheffield – £500 Main Event | July 21st – 25th | July 24th-25th |
| 4b – G Casino, Dundee – £300 Main Event | July 22nd – 25th | July 24th-25th |
| 5a – Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London – £750 Main Event | August 23rd – 30th | August 29th-30th |
| 5b – G Casino, Bury New Road, Manchester – £500 Main Event | August 26th – 30th | August 29th-30th |
The Club Championships
New for 2010, the Club Championships are one-day events that will take place in all 23 poker rooms throughout the Grosvenor/G Casino estate. They will take place on five dates throughout the year in up to five locations on each day.
| Locations | Date | Event |
| Swansea, Thanet, Leeds, Blackpool, Stoke | February 13th | £200 NL Hold’em Freezeout |
| Luton, Dundee, Bolton, Coventry | April 10th | £200 NL Hold’em Freezeout |
| Cardiff, London, Newcastle, Salford, Sheffield | July 10th | £200 NL Hold’em Freezeout |
| Portsmouth, Southampton, Aberdeen, Manchester, Great Yarmouth | October 16th | £200 NL Hold’em Freezeout |
| Plymouth, Brighton, Huddersfield, Walsall | October 23rd | £200 NL Hold’em Freezeout |
Leg 1 – G Casino, Bolton
18th- 24th January, 2010
Bolton was the venue for the very first GUKPT main event in January 2007, which was won by Praz Bansi. As per the 2007 event, this leg will only have one starting day.
| Date | Event | Start Time | Length |
| Monday 18th January | £30 NL Holdem Rebuy Super Satellite to Main Event |
2pm |
1 day |
| Monday 18th January | £150 + £15 NL Hold’em Freezeout |
7pm |
2 days |
| Tuesday 19th January | £30 NL Holdem Rebuy Super Satellite to Main Event |
2pm |
1 day |
| Tuesday 19th January | £100 + £11 NL Hold’em Rebuy |
7pm |
2 days |
| Wednesday 20th January | £30 NL Holdem Rebuy Super Satellite to Main Event |
2pm |
1 day |
| Wednesday 20th January | £300 + £30 NL Hold’em Freezeout |
7pm |
2 days |
| Thursday 21st January | £50 NL Holdem Rebuy Super Satellite to Main Event |
2pm |
1 day |
| Thursday 21st January | £100 + £11 PL Omaha Rebuy |
5pm |
1 day |
| Thursday 21st January | £150 + £15 NL Hold’em Freezeout Super Satellite to Main Event |
9pm |
1 day |
| Friday 22nd January | £1,000 + £70 NL Hold’em Main Event |
2pm |
3 days |
| Friday 22nd January | £100 + £11 NL Hold’em Freezeout |
8pm |
1 day |
| Saturday 23rd January | £200 + £20 NL Hold’em Freezeout |
7pm |
2 days |
| Sunday 24th January | £100 + £11 NL Hold’em Bounty Freezeout |
5pm |
1 day |
Please note that all the above dates for GUKPT events in 2010 are subject to confirmation. Final confirmation will be made by mid December.
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Notes For Editors
About Grosvenor Casinos
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About the GUKPT
Launched in 2007, the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour is the largest series of casino based poker tournaments in the UK. During the first year of the tour all eleven main events were filmed and broadcast on Channel 4. In 2008 and 2009 the tour was developed into a fully formed series of poker festivals, offering players a chance to compete in a several warm up tournaments during each festival week, prior to the main event taking place. The warm up tournaments cost between £100-£500 to play, while the stakes are raised to £1,000-£1,500 for the main events. First prizes for most main events are between £60,000-£100,000. The largest first prize was £198,000, won by Michael Ellis at the Grand Final in 2007. Over £12m in prize money has been won on the GUKPT during the first three years that the tour has been running.
For more information regarding the GUKPT, please contact Tour Manager Jonathan Raab by email on jr@bluesq.com.
