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
- £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.
Online qualification will be available at the online poker room Blue Square Poker and on Grosvenor Poker.
The Main Tour Schedule
The Main Tour in 2010 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.
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.
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