The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Hits Walsall
Here we come a Walsall-ing (Credit: Lee Jordan )
The GUKPT (Grosvenor UK Poker Tour), in association with Blue Square Poker , is the largest poker tour based in the United Kingdom . Grosvenor Casinos have been a major provider of live action poker in the UK for several years now and the GUKPT hosts events at 10 out of the 21 casinos Grosvenor has in the UK including Bolton , London , Brighton , Manchester and Walsall .
The Walsall ( Wales ) Event was held from February 15-18, 2007 . Qualifiers for the event were (as they will be for all the subsequent events in this series) were held online at BlueSquarePoker. The final two blokes standing in the event, Billy Ngo and Jerome Bradpiece made it to the tournament in this manner.
Bradpiece, a 23 year old Londoner who turned pro less than a year ago, won the heads-up match, the £121,600 first prize, a “winner's watch” and a seat at the GUKPT Finals which is slated for London in November.
The event was a veritable who's who of UK Poker. Lucy Rokach , John Gale , Nick Slade and the Hendon Mob all paid to play. The Mob's Joe Beevers was the highest big-name finisher. He took seventh place, winning £14,400.
The next stop on the GUKPT is Cardiff , also in Wales . The event is set for March 22 – 25, 2007 .
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