Just two more dates in the 2014 GUKPT calendar, with leg 10 taking place in Blackpool from 9-16 November and then the Grand Final at The Poker Room at the Victoria Casino on London’s Edgware Road from 23-30 November. But there’s just two months to wait after that for the 2015 series to shuffle up,…
Adam Reynolds picked up a cool £53,500 after winning leg nine of the GUKPT at the G Casino in Luton from 16-19 October. As heads-up play started Reynolds and Phil Corion were locked together on chips, just four big blinds separating them, so a deal was agreed that saw both bag £50,000, with £3,500 and…
Harry Law became the first ever GUKPT main event champion in Leeds, taking down the eighth leg of the 2014 tour at the Grosvenor Casino Leeds Westgate from 4-7 September. Law outlasted the 16 hopefuls who returned for Day 3 from a field of 228 to claim the £32,500 first-place prize. The day started slowly,…
After seven days of play, 26 homininae converged on the Ricoh Arena in Coventry hoping to be crowned king of the jungle. And that honour eventually went to Ryan Foster, who was the sole survivor from a record-breaking tribe of 3,394 who took part in the GUKPT Goliath main event from 10-17 August 2014. With…
Paul Vas Nunes won his third major live title after taking down the GUKPT Reading main event from 28 July-3 August. The Surrey-based pro added the GUKPT title to victories in the 2011 Unibet Open Dublin and a £330 side event at UKIPT Manchester. The final day in Reading started with 19 players, but with…
The GUKPT made a triumphant return to the Welsh capital from 30 June-6 July 2014 after a four year break. 177 players entered the £550 buy-in main event in Cardiff, including a strong team of qualifiers from the local Grosvenor G Casino. Despite the strong Welsh contingent, nearly half of the £100,000 guaranteed prizepool made…
Ben Winsor finally took home a trophy after winning the GUKPT Walsall main event from 25 May-1 June 2014. Winsor, who finished fifth in the Genting Poker Series Southend main event in April and fourth in the GUKPT Brighton main event, also collected a cheque for £24,500 after a two-way chop with Simon Deadman. Only…
Chris Cousins went into the third and final day’s play of leg four of the GUKPT in Reading from 30 April-4 May with 345,500 chips to his name, enough to see him start fourth of the 14 remaining players. Otto Richard, Babis Lappas, Callum Smith, start-of-the-day chip leader Fraser Bellamy and Sven Tiesmeyer each lost…
Day two of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Brighton main event gets underway on 3 May 2014 with last month’s Sussex Masters runner-up Ethan Davey leading the way with 150,000 chips. Fresh from his fifth place finish in the Genting Poker Series Southend main event in April, Ben Winsor returns with a stack of 124,800…
Andrew Teng became a double Grosvenor UK Poker Tour winner when he added the title of GUKPT Edinburgh champion to his GUKPT Thanet victory from 2008. Taking place from 2-6 April 2014 at the Grosvenor Maybury casino in Edinburgh, Teng went into Sunday’s final day second in chips, his 586,000 stack trailing only that of…
WSOP bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche holds the chip lead going into the final day of the GUKPT Edinburgh main event but Scotland’s Ross Loggie, who has been among the chip leaders since the opening flight on Thursday, and Grosvenor-sponsored pro Jeff Kimber are among those ready to take those chips away. The unfortunate bubble boy…
Rhys Jones has been crowned champion of the second leg of the 2014 GUKPT in Manchester from 2-9 March. Jones wins £42,000 for his exploits, which included leaving Simon Deadman as the bridesmaid once again. Deadman was runner-up in the opening leg of the 2014 Genting Poker Series in Birmingham last month, runner-up in the…
