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.

10-Seat-Guaranteed Super Satellites - New for 2010, every host venue on the Main Tour and the Summer Series will stage a 10-seat guaranteed super satellite, which will take place the week before their festival starts.

Live Streaming - Live streaming of main events on the Main Tour will continue in 2010 with Phil 'the Tower' Heald hosting the show on www.thenutz.tv.

Increased Starting Stacks - Starting stacks in the main events this year will be increased to 15,000. Side events will also have bigger starting stacks with £100-£200 events now awarding 7,500 chips while £250 - £500 events kick off with 10,000 chips per player. The Grand Final will have a 25,000 starting stack.

300,000 Pound Added Prize Money

This year Grosvenor/G Casinos and their online partner gcasino.com are adding £300,000 to the GUKPT. £150,000 of this will form the prize pool for the end-of-year Champion of Champions tournament, which will be taking place at the G Casino, Coventry. The only way to get an invite into this exclusive tournament is to win a GUKPT tournament or associated event. The GUKPT rankings will once again have £50,000 in prizes up for grabs, with £20,000 awarded to the overall winner and a further £30,000 distributed to the top 20 players on the leader board. The GUKPT National Leagues will also be returning with a total of £100,000 in prizes, including seats into the Grand Final and Champion of Champions Tournament.

Qualify for the GUKPT for a fraction of the buy-in

Live super satellites take place throughout the festival week in each host venue. They are preceded by a 10-seat-guaranteed tournament the day before each festival begins. There are also four online super satellites each week on Blue Square Poker and these will also be available in the poker room of gcasino.com, which will be launched in early 2010.

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 21st - 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 22nd - 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
Blackpool, Leeds, Swansea & Thanet	February 13th	£200 NL Hold'em Freezeout
Bolton, Dundee, Southampton & Stoke	April 10th	£200 NL Hold'em Freezeout
Cardiff, London Victoria, Newcastle, Coventry, Salford & Sheffield	July 10th	£200 NL Hold'em Freezeout
Aberdeen, Gt Yarmouth, Luton, Manchester & Portsmouth	October 16th	£200 NL Hold'em Freezeout
Brighton, Huddersfield, Plymouth & Walsall	October 23rd	£200 NL Hold'em Freezeout

 

Club Championships tournaments start at 2pm. Players start with 10,000 chips.