GUKPT London Day 1a Blog
End of Day 1a – 02/02/2018 – 01:20
Huy Nguyen leads 1a – 02/02/2018 – 01:15
Season 12 of the GUKPT has started with a bang! 132 entries today is a great start to the new season.
The players have played ten levels of play today and the field has been smashed down to just 39 players who will be back on Saturday to play Day 2.
Huy Nguyen holds the chip lead with a stack of 158,500. Full counts are:
| Forename | Surname | Chips |
| Huy | Nguyen | 158500 |
| Jack | Sandford | 137100 |
| Braz | Junior | 135000 |
| Artan | Dedusha | 124000 |
| Carlos | Sanchezdiaz | 119200 |
| Alejandro | Pereztorres | 105800 |
| Jack | Hoffman | 101300 |
| Abdulkadir | Ahmed | 96900 |
| Andrew | Hulme | 94900 |
| Mitchell | Johnson | 91500 |
| Steven | Watts | 91200 |
| Gerald | Ringe | 86700 |
| David | Cliftonburraway | 74300 |
| Victor | Ilyukhin | 73400 |
| Neil | Mcculloch | 72500 |
| Christopher | Walker | 71800 |
| David | Gee | 66100 |
| Nicolas | Markou | 63400 |
| Andreas | Olympios | 62500 |
| Kevin | Conroy | 62000 |
| Benjamin | Morrison | 58600 |
| Clive | Jones | 53500 |
| Raul | Martinez | 53500 |
| William | Fasano | 52000 |
| Mark | Cagigao | 50800 |
| Raymond | Nicholas | 50800 |
| Damien | Legoff | 50000 |
| Keith | Hawkins | 49700 |
| Jose | Aguilera | 46300 |
| Victor | Ilyukhin | 44800 |
| Gang | Wang | 43200 |
| Madlena | Trifonova | 42500 |
| Lorenc | Boci | 41500 |
| Steven | Warburton | 40000 |
| Paul | Hoang | 31000 |
| Plamen | Pashov | 30200 |
| Carlos | Delvigogonzalez | 23900 |
| Wenbin | Chen | 19000 |
| Danilo | Oppo | 11900 |
We will be back tomorrow for Day 1b where we are expecting a field of close to 300!
Join us from 12:30pm, for a 1pm start.
Play Has Finished – 02/02/2018 – 00:55
Play has now finished on all tables.
We will have full chip counts with you as soon as possible.
Last Five Hands – 02/02/2018 – 00:35
The clock has been paused, they will now play five more hands before bagging and tagging their chips.
Veselov Exits – 02/02/2018 – 00:20
Players are dropping thick and fast from the tables.
The most recent one being Andrey Veselov, all in for his last 10,000 holding pocket King-Queen against pocket sixes.
No help for Andrey on the board and he heads out of the tournament here during the last level of play.
Eliminations – 02/02/2018 – 00:10
The most recent eliminations from the tables:
Hugh Smyth
Dimitrios Ballas
Trevor Pearson
Jerome Dulong
Side Event Result – 01/02/2018 – 00:01
GUKPT London
£150 NLHE
Entries: 103
1st – £4,290 – Anil Sood
2nd – £3,620 – Michael Ellis
3rd – £2,040 – Jonathan Schuman
4th – £1,440 – Guy Taylor
5th – £1,060 – Mehran Khan
6th – £780 – Magali Massa
7th – £570 – Jerome Oshea
8th – £480 – Faraz Iqbal
9th – £430 – Gregory Geismar
10th – £380 – Sasiharan Pathmanathan
11th – £360 – Masoud Etemadiherisi
The Last Level – 01/02/2018 – 23:50
The blinds increase as we begin level number ten of the day.
They are now 500/1000 with a 100 ante.
50 players remaining.
Norris Knocked Out – 01/02/2018 – 23:35
We get to the table as Harvey Norris is all in for his last 15,000 holding 
against the 
of Christopher Walker.
No king or queen on the board and we lose Harvey Norris from the tournament.
Chris now has around 38,000.
Cash Games – 01/02/2018 – 23:20
NLH
1-1(4)
1-2(4)
1-3(1)
2-5(1)
5-10(1)
PLO
1-2(1)
2-5(2)
5-10(1)
Mixed
100-200 (1)
Big Stacks – 01/02/2018 – 23:08
| Albert Sapiano | 160,000 |
| Braz Junior | 115,000 |
| Steve Watts | 95,000 |
| Kevin Conroy | 85,000 |
| Keith Hawkins | 75,000 |
Double For Yiannis – 01/02/2018 – 22:55
Yiannis Liperis moves all in for just over 11,000 and is called by Eric Chen.
Yiannis tables 
and is in bad shape against the 
of Eric.
The flop comes 
as Yiannis hits a three outer taking the lead.
The turn card comes 
The river card 
Two pair for Yiannis as he takes the pot and doubles up to 25,000.
Eric is down to 55,000.
Level 9 – 01/02/2018 – 22:45
The players are back seated as we begin level nine.
The blinds are now 400/800 with a 100 ante.
61 players remaining.
Break Time – 01/02/2018 – 22:28
Break time now for the players as they take 15 minutes before beginning the last two levels of play.
Day 1a Walk Round – 01/02/2018 – 22:15
All is Quiet – 01/02/2018 – 22:01
Not much happening on the tournament floor at the moment.
There are 65 players remaining in the tournament with two and a half levels left to play.
Remember we will be playing ten levels of play today, not the usual nine that we play on Day ones.
Bust Outs – 01/02/2018 – 21:40
Stephen Basri
Vishal Maini
Terry Jordon
Raphael Ajayi
Jan Naderzade
Level Up – 01/02/2018 – 21:30
The blinds increase as we begin level number 8.
They are now 300/600 with a 50 ante.
71 players remaining.
Passport Winner David Gee – 01/02/2018 – 21:15
A massive good luck to GUKPT Passport Winner David Gee, who is playing Day 1a of GUKPT London here as part of the package he won by winning the GCOOP leader board.
Day 1a Entries – 01/02/2018 – 20:59
Registration has now closed for Day 1a of the GUKPT London Main Event.
We have had 132 entries in total.
Shellum Exits – 01/02/2018 – 20:50
Jason Shellum three bet shoves his 15,000 stack from the small blind and is called by Abdulkadir in the cutoff who was the opener.
Jason tables 
against the 
of Abdulkadir.
The turn card comes 
The turn card comes 
The river card 
Jacks hold for Abdulkadir who increases his stack to 38,000.
Jason heads out of the tournament here during level number 7.
Big Stacks – 01/02/2018 – 20:40
Big stacks from the tables:
| Albert Sapiano | 118,000 |
| Alejandro Pereztorres | 115,000 |
| Kevin Conroy | 95,000 |
| Carlos Sanchezdiaz | 77,000 |
| Jack Hoffman | 75,000 |
Level 7 – 01/02/2018 – 20:30
The players are back seated as we begin level number 7.
The blinds are 200/400 with a 50 ante.
132 entries so far with late registration now closed!
Break Time – 01/02/2018 – 20:15
Break time now for the players as they take 15 minutes.
Exits – 01/02/2018 – 19:45
The most recent bust outs from the tournament,
Tamer Kamel
Jonathan Wong
Sachin Joshi
Stephen Weatherall1
James Benjamin Millman
More Counts – 01/02/2018 – 19:30
Vicky Coren-Mitchell – 32,000
Raphael Ajayi – 21,000
Mitch Johnson – 22,000
Terry Jordon – 31,000
Albert Sapiano – 35,000
Level 6 – 01/02/2018 – 19:16
The blinds increase as we begin level number 6.
The blinds are now 150/300 with a 25 ante.
124 entries so far today.
The Cardroom is Packed! – 01/02/2018 – 19:10
Chip Counts – 01/02/2018 – 18:58
Raul Martinez – 52,000
David Gee – 40,000
Phil Souki – 20,000
Keith Hawkins – 15,000
Alex Zeligman – 28,000
Andrey Veselov – 42,000
Victor Ilyukhin Snr – 45,000
Andreas Olympios – 18,000
Exits – 01/02/2018 – 18:45
Peter Torre
Tina Loraine Bandyle
Raphael Ajayi
Cash Games!! – 01/02/2018 – 18:30
As always there is plenty of cash games at The Poker Room.
Here are the games currently going on:
NLH
1-1(2)
1-2(3)
1-3(1)
2-5(1)
5-10(1)
PLO
2-5(1)
Mixed
100-200 (1)
Side Event – 01/02/2018 – 18:20
♥️♣️GUKPT Side Event Action♦️♠️
4/5/6 card Pot Limit Omaha
1 day event
£150+£15
12,500 starting stack
6×20/30 minute levels
Unlimited re-entries
Late registration until 8:15pm
Level 5 – 01/02/2018 – 18:15
The players are back seated as we begin level number 5.
The blinds are now 100/200 with a 25 ante.
115 entries so far today.
Dinner Break – 01/02/2018 – 17:15
Dinner break now for the players as they take 60 minutes.
Raj Snapchat Takeover – 01/02/2018 – 17:01
Raj has took over our snapchat.
Search ‘GUKPT’ on snapchat and add us as a friend to see what she’s upto.
Victor Ilyukhin Jr – 01/02/2018 – 16:30
Bust Outs – 01/02/2018 – 16:20
The most recent eliminations from the tables:
Ryad Benhammadi
Yiannis Liperis
Gang Wang
Halldor Sverrisson
Raul Martinez
Blinds Up – 01/02/2018 – 16:15
The blinds increase as we begin level number four.
They are now 100/200.
105 entries so far today.
Over 100 Entries – 01/02/2018 – 15:50
Over 100 entries so far for Day 1a of GUKPT London.
Late reg is open until 8:15pm today.
Will we beat the 160 entries that turned out for Day 1a last year?
The Raffle Winner – 01/02/2018 – 15:30
Peter Torre won his seat in a raffle at the Piccadilly Grosvenor Casino. His first ever poker game was last week after a quick session where he learnt the game for the first time.
He is now playing in a £1000 entry £200,000 guaranteed event here at The Poker Room in London.
Level Three – 01/02/2018 – 15:20
The players are back seated as we begin level number three.
The blinds are now 75/150.
85 entries so far today.
Break Time – 01/02/2018 – 15:01
Break time now for the players as they take 15 minutes.
London Stats – 01/02/2018 – 14:50
Stats of the £1k or £1,5k London legs from all the years we have been coming here.
Exits – 01/02/2018 – 14:40
Exits from around the tables early on Day 1a.
Bradley Taylor Rawson
Terry Jordon
Chai Cheng
Terry Jordon
Bandelakis Michael
Peter Linton
Terry Jordon
Yes that does mean Terry Jordon is on his 4th bullet for today!
Cardroom Pics – 01/02/2018 – 14:20
Level 2 – 01/02/2018 – 14:01
The blinds increase for the first time today as we begin level 2.
They are now 50/100
79 entries so far.
Start of Season 12 – 01/02/2018 – 13:40
Playing Today – 01/02/2018 – 13:30
Table One
1 1 Jason Cooper
1 2 Harvey Norris
1 3 Daniel Toffel
1 4 Mark Cagigao
1 5 Plamen Pashov
1 6 David Cliftonburraway
1 7 Manuel Bardon
1 8 Peter Torre
1 9 Tony Ringe
Table Two
2 1 Raymond Nicholas
2 2 Bandelakis Michael
2 3 Victor Ilyukhin
2 4 Halldor Sverrisson
2 5 Madlena Trifonova
2 6 Bradley Taylor Rawson
2 7 Sachin Joshi
2 8 Andrey Veselov
2 9 Stephen Weatherall
2 10 Piergiorgio Dancona
Table Three
3 1 Ali Sakallioglu
3 2 Jerome Dulong
3 3 Mitchell Johnson
3 4 Sandro Mescola
3 5 Huy Nguyen
3 6 Gerald Ringe
3 7 Abdulkadir Ahmed
3 8 Simon Brooks
3 9 Jason Shellum
3 10 Lorenc Boci
Table Four
4 1 Carlos Delvigogonzalez
4 2 Patrik Mattias Rajgard Jernmark
4 3 Raul Martinez
4 4 Thao Nguyen
4 5 Neil Mcculloch
4 6 Kevin Conroy
4 7 Jonathan Wong
4 8 Yiannis Liperis
4 9 Christopher Kadji
4 10 Tina Loraine Bandyle
Table Five
5 1 Angelo Milioto
5 2 David Laronde
5 3 Andrew Hulme
5 4 David Gee
5 5 Damien Legoff
5 6 Terry Jordon
5 7 Joseph Johnson
5 8 Rory Liffey
5 9 Kfir Ivgi
5 10 Glen Gendrot
Table Six
6 1 Liam Bridges
6 2 Brynn Kvinlaug
6 3 Stephen Basri
6 4 Jack Hoffman
6 5 Paul Siddle
6 6 Colin Bidwell
6 7 Philippe Souki
6 8 Ryad Benhammadi
6 9 Hugh Smyth
6 10 Steven Watts
Table Seven
7 1 Albert Sapiano
7 2 Paul Hoang
7 3 Richard Nyasha Jack
7 4 Craig Sweden
7 5 Francis Foordbrown
7 6 Clive Jones
7 7 William Fasano
7 8 Braz Junior
7 9 Peter Linton
7 10 Danilo Oppo
Shufle Up & Deal – 01/02/2018 – 13:02
The cards are in the air as we begin Day 1a.
The blind starting at 25/50.
50 players to start.
Players Called In – 01/02/2018 – 12:55
The players have just been called in to take their seats.
We should be underway within 5 minutes.
Kick Off in 15 mins – 01/02/2018 – 12:45
The tournament will kick off in just 15 minutes time, last year there was 162 entries on Day 1a and hopefully we will look to surpass that with the 6 levels of late registration.
Welcome to Season 12 – 01/02/2018 – 12:15
Good afternoon and welcome to the 12th season of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour!!
The UKs longest running tour is back again beginning in London.
Last year there was a great turnout here. 435 entries in total creating a massive prizepool, the biggest in 7 years! The lions share was taken home by Michael Zhang who took home the title, trophy and £113,000!!
The tournament is a £1,000 buy in with a £200,000 guarantee!! For your buy in the players will receive 20,000 chips on a 60 minute clock. Late reg is open for 6 levels of play with unlimited re-entries.
Play begins at 1pm.
