GUKPT London Day 1A Blog

All the action from the GUKPT London Main Event.

The tournament is a £500+£60 buy in with a £100,000 Guarantee.

Ten levels are played on the Day ones, with late registration open throughout.

 

 

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Lee Leads 1A – 00:10

 

Another huge turnout on the GUKPT Tour. Day 1a of Leg 5 had 187 entries today, almost hitting the guarantee on it’s own!

Of the 187 entries, 45 have bagged up chips at the end of the days play.

The players who have made it through and led by Nicholas Lee who has finished with a HUGE stack off 266,000!! The full list of chip counts are as follows:

 

Nicholas Lee	266,200
S C	225,100
Terry Jordon	213,000
Arnaud Benaddi	198,500
Ryan Mandara	155,000
Samuel Simister	141,600
Usman Ulhaq	131,100
Charles Akadiri	126,300
P O	119,200
Faustus Korn	117,800
Lee Whiddett	115,000
Anand Vemuri	94,700
Raphael Ajayi	92,300
Victor Ilyukhin	91,300
Alexander Kamat	86,000
Geoffrey Mooney	86,000
Angelo Milioto	77,000
Thomas Wallsgrove	76,000
Lee French	73,500
Louis Smith	72,700
Freddy Bonfanti	72,500
Axat Mawji	69,900
Max Deveson	68,100
A M	68,000
Matthew Bushell	61,500
Alexios Zervos	60,900
Niels Ladefoged	58,800
Jesse Wigan	58,500
Tim Joyner	58,500
Mark Wackrill	56,000
Carlos Delvigogonzalez	55,900
Denas Benevicius	55,800
Cyrus Ghasempour	52,400
John Webb	47,000
Jiaze Li	38,300
Wayne Lee	33,100
Koichi Aki	30,300
Noel Broadbent	30,000
Patrick Michael Sekinger	28,500
Masoud Etemadiherisi	28,400
Albert Yepremyan	25,000
James Morris	23,500
Andoni Larrabesanchez	23,500
Samuel Luker	18,400
Robinder Dhinsa	11,700

We will be back tomorrow at 11:30am, for a 12pm start. Day 1b is always busier, and we’re expecting around 300 entries in total over the ten levels of play.

Join us then.

 

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Bagging & Tagging – 23:45

Players are now bagging and tagging.

Full chip counts will be up with you as soon as possible.

 

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Lasy Five Hands – 23:30

The players will now play 5 more hands before bagging up for the night.

 

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The Last Level – 23::01

The blinds increase for the last time today as we begin level number ten.

They are now 500/1000 with a 1000 ante.

50 players remaining.

 

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Recent Eliminations – 22:35

 

Craig Alistair Smith
James Phillips
Sam Manny Ho
Jabran Zahid
Gareth Smith
Jason Gilbert
Manh Nguyen

 

 

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Chip Leaders – 22:05

Terry Jordon	245000
S C	240000
Jesse Wigan	170000
Nicholas Lee	150000
Lee Whiddett	145000
Arnaud Benaddi	100000
Samuel Simister	100000

 

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Level 9 – 21:50

The players are back seated as we begin level number 9.

They are now 400/800 with an 800 ante.

70 players remaining from the 180 entries.

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Break Time – 21:30

Break time now for the players as they take 15 minutes.

 

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Omaha Side Event – 21:15

Another great turnout for the side event as the omaha has attracted 81 entries, creating a prizepool of £8,100.

 

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Jordon Chip Leader – 20:50

After a look round the tables we can see that Terry Jordon is the overall chip leader with a massive stack of 210,000 with two levels left to play!

Jordon who was chip leader going into Day 2 of the GUKPT Luton Main Event is in a great position to head through to this legs Day 2 in pole position.

 

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Level 8 – 20:30

The blinds increase as we begin the next level of play.

They are now 300/600 with a bb ante of 600.

180 players remaining.

 

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Bust Outs – 20:05

Jan Naderzadeh
Matin Jouzdani
Madlena Trifonova
Mantas Kvauka
Finn Stewart
Faraz Iqbal

 

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Big Stacks – 19:45

Lee Whiddett	140000
Ryan Mandara	90000
Arnaud Benaddi	80000
Lee J French	70000
Gerald Ringe	65000
Angelo Milioto	60000
Rosarie Roberts	60000

 

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Level 7 – 19:30

The players are back playing as we begin level 7.

The blinds are 250/500 with a 500 ante.

175 entries so far today.

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Dinner Break – 18:30

Dinner break now for the players as they take 15 minutes.

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Table Shots – 18:25

 

 

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Chip Counts – 18:01

Ash Miah – 32,000
Khoa Le – 70,000
Ryan Mandara – 75,000
Raphael Ajayi – 35,000
Victor Ilyukhin – 20,000
Terry Jordon – 20,000
Alex Zervos – 15,000

 

 

 

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Live Stream – 17:45

Don’t forget to tune into our Live stream running on a thirty minute delay with all hole cards shown.

Jay Harwood and The Tower are on comms as we play ten levels of poker.

 

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Level Up – 17:30

The blinds increase as we begin the next level of play.

They are now 200/400 with a 400 ante.

137 entries so far today.

 

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Chip Counts – 16:55

Raphael Ajayi – 23,000
Finn Stewart – 7,000
Chris Maguire – 16,000
Jason Gilbert – 13,000
Wayne Lee – 37,000
Freddy Bonfanti – 17,000

 

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Cardroom Shot – 16:40

 

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Level 5 – 16:30

The players are back seated as we begin level number 5.

The blinds are 150/300 with a bb ante of 300.

120 players remaining.

 

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Break Time – 16:15

Break time now for the players as they take 15 minutes.

 

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Bust Outs – 16:10

Nathan Lee
Axat Mawji
Graham Pound
Glen Williams

 

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Connection Issues – 16:01

We’ve just had some connection issues with the blog, but we are now back online.

The players are currently playing level number four, which is 100/200 with a 200 bb ante.

115 players so far today.

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Level Three – 14:15

The players are back seated as we begin level number three.

The blinds are now 75/150.

88 entries so far today.

 

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Break Time – 14:01

Break time now for the players as they take 15 minutes.

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Early Exits – 13:30

Not much action to speak of here during the first session of play, but we have lost three players from the field:

Chandrakant Khajuria
Michael Dunleavy
Albert Wong

 

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Day 1a Seating Plan – 13:15

1	1	V H
1	2	T M
1	3
1	4	Krzysztof Marcin Kiseelewski
1	5	Thomas Wallsgrove
1	6	Alexander Kamat
1	7	Andrey Veselov
1	8	John Gale
1	9	Matthew Skeadas
2	1	Albert Wong
2	2	M M
2	3	Axat Mawji
2	4	Michael Dunleavy
2	5	Lee J French
2	6	Tim Joyner
2	7	K A
2	8	Farzad Dorostkarmoghaddam
2	9	Max Deveson
3	1	Niels Ladefoged
3	2	F I
3	3	P R
3	4	Nicholas Lee
3	5	Paul Siddle
3	6	James Phillips
3	7
3	8	Tina Loraine Bandyle
3	9	D S
4	1	K N
4	2	M S
4	3	Ryan Jonathan Mandara
4	4	A M
4	5	J U
4	6	Terry Jordon
4	7	Jakub Bielecki
4	8	Ben Maregedze
4	9
5	1	Nathan Lee
5	2	Sam Manny Ho
5	3	David Wellings
5	4	Matthew Bushell
5	5	Andreas Orthodoxou
5	6	Jiaze Li
5	7	Jan Naderzadeh
5	8	Peter Wigglesworth
5	9	Louis Smith
6	1	Bogdan Bolboceanu
6	2	Graham Pound
6	3	Nguyen Le
6	4	Angelo Milioto
6	5	Mohammad Soltani
6	6	P O
6	7	R S
6	8	Kris Lee
6	9	Glen Williams
7	1	Eser Ebcin
7	2	Albert Yepremyan
7	3	Tony Ringe
7	4	Christopher Maguire
7	5
7	6	Wayne Lee
7	7	Mark Wackrill
7	8	Noel Broadbent
7	9	Freddy Bonfanti
8	1	Harvey Norris
8	2	Lorenc Boci
8	3	S C
8	4	Finn Stewart
8	5	James Morris
8	6	Chandrakant Khajuria
8	7	Matin Jouzdani
8	8	Arnaud Benaddi
8	9	R N

 

 

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Level 2 – 13:01

The blinds increase as we begin level number two.

The blinds are now 50/100.

63 entries so far today.

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Playing Today – 12:50

Players playing today:

Chris Maguire
Ryan Mandara
Tony Ringe
Nathan Lee
Tina Bandyle

We’ll try and get a full player list up with you as soon as possible.

 

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Up To 50 – 12:30

Late registration is open all day and the players are coming through the door to join the action.

We’ve currently had 50 entries so far today.

 

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Shuffle Up & Deal – 12:01

The cards are in the air as we begin Day 1a.

The blinds start at 25/50.

There are 40 entries to start play.

 

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Welcome To London – 11:45

Good morning and welcome to the Poker Room in London for Leg 5 of the 2019 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour.

The tournament has a £500+£60 buy in with a guarantee of £100,000!! For their buy in the players will receive 20,000 chips on a 60 minute clock. Late registration is open for the full ten levels of play today.

 

Last year this Main Event had 358 entries and was won by Patrick Szabo who took home £49,150 for his first place finish!

Play will begin at 12pm today and we are looking forward to bringing you live blog updates, pictures, hands and streaming the event on a thirty minute delay with all hole cards shown.

 

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