GUKPT London Day 1B Blog

All the action from the GUKPT London Main Event.

The tournament is a £500+£60 buy in with a prizepool which is going to be close to £200k!

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

 

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Chamaa Leads 1B – 00:15

An absolutely HUGE day here in London for Day 1b of the GUKPT Main Event. Over ten levels of late registration the tournament attracted a massive 290 entries!!

It’s been action packed and we have finished with 80 players who have all bagged up chips and will be back here tomorrow.

They are led by Adnan Chamaa who is the only player to break the 200k mark today. Full chip counts of the players who have made it through the day are:

 

Adnan Chamaa	231,800
F A H B	184,600
Johan Urbanyik	175,200
Joseph Field	155,100
Mazalahedwa Bako	152,000
Jabran Zahid	147,400
Edward Overall	139,500
Zhen Shao	135,200
Hamid Rowshanaei	133,300
Richard Ansell	130,200
Conor James Coules	128,300
Nathan John Claytonhigson	115,600
Christopher Kadji	111,600
Stephen Bean	110,500
Reza Fazeli	95,300
Caius Cristescu	93,800
Diyary Khdir	93,500
C L	93,500
Jason Wong	92,100
Aleksandrs Golubevs	91,000
Paul Hardwidge	90,600
Haresh Thaker	88,000
V G	83,700
Thomas Cazaletz	83,600
Thang Nguyen	82,300
Martin Bader	79,400
C W	79,200
Kelly Saxby	78,800
Tony Ringe	78,500
Ali Zihni	77,500
Paul Scipioni	77,200
Stewart Kirby	77,000
V M	75,000
John Bousfield	72,800
Neophytos Neophytou	70,000
Tina Loraine Bandyle	69,800
Edward Johnson	69,200
Alan Billy Carr	69,000
Andrew Hills	68,900
Renee Xie	66,000
Matin Jouzdani	65,800
Faraz Iqbal	65,500
J C	64,600
Andrew Macleod	64,300
Bernardo Battistotti	64,200
Raul Fernandes	61,100
Yiqian Song	57,700
James Alan Nixon	56,800
I D	52,500
Paul Spillane	50,900
G S	49,800
Paul Siddle	48,501
Mark J Haines	47,900
Xuan Nguyen	46,600
Christopher Louch	46,600
Kevin Allen	46,000
Darren Annis	45,900
T K	41,900
A N	41,200
Jan Naderzadeh	40,000
Vinod Fernandez	38,000
David Johnson	38,000
Gabriel Wafotasse	37,900
Danny Ball	36,600
Roni Tal	36,100
Kuljinder Sidhu	35,000
Andrey Veselov	34,400
Ming Ju	33,900
Colin Bord	32,000
E G	30,400
Mark Rubbathan	29,900
R N	29,500
Samuel Harwood	28,700
Edward Swales	26,500
Tristan Chaplin	26,400
Sebastien Jung	24,500
J W	21,300
Richard Akka	20,300
Joel Russell	16,600
A S	16,300

We will be back tomorrow for Day 2 where there are currently 125 players coming back.

Registration is still open though and we should see another 20 players buying in tomorrow.

Join us from 11:30am, for a 12pm start.

 

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Bagging & Tagging – 23:44

The players are now bagging and tagging.

Full chip counts will be up with you asap.

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Last Four Hands – 23:35

The clock has been paused with 13 minutes remaining.

The players will now play four more hands before bagging and tagging.

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Last Level Exits – 23:25

Kieran Collins
Oliver White
Chris Kyprianou
Mahwish Malik

 

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All is Quiet – 23:05

No real action to speak of during the last level of play.

We have 30 minutes left of play before we bag and tag for the night.

 

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The Last Level – 22:50

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

They are now 500/1000 with a 1000 bb ante.

97 players remaining.

 

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Exits – 22:45

Jeff Kimber
Edvin Dajko
Michael Oconnell
Ming Ju
Mor Kamber
Joel Russell
Richard Akka
Patrick Gifford

 

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Big Stacks – 22:30

Diyary Khdir	170000
Joseph Field	160000
Mazalahedwa Bako	150000
Raul Fernandes	140000
Johan Urbanyik	135000
Conor James Coules	130000
Jabran Zahid	100000

 

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Patrick Gifford – 22:10

Patrick Gifford is playing his first event as a Team Grosvenor member after winning the Student Playoff at the UKSPC.

He has definitely chosen the correct event to play as it’s the biggest EVER £500 GUKPT Event, with a prizepool of over £230,000!!

He has 30,000 chips going into the final two levels of the day.

 

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Level 9 – 21:55

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

The blinds are now 400/800 with a 100 ante.

Still 110 players remaining.

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Break Time – 21:30

Break time for the players as they take 15 minutes before beginning the final session of the day.

 

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Kevin Allen &  Andy Hills – 21:15

Kevin Allen currently has around 22,000 while Andy Hills has a great stack of 75,000 and is in great shape with two levels left to play today.

 

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New Record Field – 20:55

GUKPT London 2019 Main Event is now the biggest ever £500 GUKPT Event!

The tournament has attracted 455 entries so far and late registration is still open!!

 

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Level Up – 20:30

The blinds increase as we begin level number 8.

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

 

 

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Bust Outs – 20:15

Some exits from around the tables:

Rahim Tadjsaadat
Alexandru Rauta
Chris Love
Jamie Rutherford
Craig Timmis

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Pics – 19:55

 

 

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Big Stacks – 19:42

Conor Coules	110000
Maz Bako	110000
Adnan Chamaa	100000
Mor Kamber	80000
A S	80000
Oliver White	70000

 

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Level 7 – 19:30

The players are back from their dinner break as we begin level 7.

The blinds are 250/500 with a 500 bb ante.

152 players remaining from the 243 entries.

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Dinner Break – 18:30

Dinner break for the players as they take 60 minutes.

 

 

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Chip Counts – 18:01

Dean Clay – 12,000
Chris Magiure – 45,000
Aleks Golubevs – 55,000
Andy Hills – 42,000
Jeff Kimber – 20,000
Chris Cooper – 20,000
Tristan Chaplin – 25,000
Jamie Nixon – 34,000
Kelly Saxby – 21,000

 

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Level Up – 17:40

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

They are now 200/400 with a 400 bb ante.

221 entries so far today.

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£200k Prizepool – 17:20

The tournament has just had it’s 400th entrant into the GUKPT London Main Event.

That creates a massive prizepool of £200,00! Double the guarantee!

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Chip Counts –  16:55

JJ Hazan – 18,000
Renee Xie – 37,000
Darie Ilie – 19,000
Mark Haines – 34,000
Ali Zihni – 17,000
Hamid Rowshanaei – 50,000

 

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Level 5 – 16:40

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

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

198 entries so far today.

 

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Break Time – 16:20

Break time for the players as they take 15 minutes.

 

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Bust Outs – 15:50

Mark James
Lei Wang
Melroy Atalmon Carty
James Alan Nixon
David Johnson
Faraz Iqbal

 

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Level Four – 15:20

The blinds increase to 100/200 with a 200 big blind ante.

185 entries so far today.

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Day 1a Chip Counts – 15:10

Chip counts from yesterdays Day one.

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

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All is Quiet – 14:50

Not much action t speak of here during the third level of three day.

No big pots to speak of, but the place is buzzing with 17 full tables and cash tabls.

 

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Level Three – 14:20

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

The blinds are now 75/150.

152 entries so far today.

 

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Break Time – 14:01

Break time for the players as they take 15 minutes.

 

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Exits – 13:30

Lorenc Boci
Mark Mccluskey
Melroy Atalmon Carty
Thomas Cazaletz

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Day 1b Seating Plan – 13:25

1	1	Cristian Mirita
1	2	Michael Isiguzo
1	3	Jozsef Csapo
1	4	Neil Mcculloch
1	5	Stewart Kirby
1	6	Ranith Wimalaratna
1	7	James Alan Nixon
1	8	Samuel Harwood
1	9	Matthew Skeadas
2	1	Z A
2	2	Michael Laurence Oconnell
2	3	Craig Timmis
2	4	Melroy Atalmon Carty
2	5	Ciprian Teca
2	6	C L
2	7	Dipesh Mistry
2	8
2	9	Awat Salehi
3	1	A M
3	2	Philip Green
3	3	Tristan Chaplin
3	4	A S
3	5	Paul Spillane
3	6	A S
3	7	Emmanouil Karagiannakis
3	8
3	9	Mor Kamber
4	1	Edward Johnson
4	2	Md Mamun Mia
4	3	Andrew Hills
4	4	J H
4	5	R R
4	6	Thang Nguyen
4	7	Daniel Jones
4	8
4	9	George Alexander
5	1	G B
5	2
5	3	Hamid Rowshanaei
5	4	Ali Zihni
5	5	Mark J Haines
5	6	Osman Hasan
5	7	Ion Mican
5	8	Lei Wang
5	9	Vamshi Vandanapu
6	1	A N
6	2	Nicolas Bigham
6	3	Abdelrahman Moursy
6	4	Mohammed Ghani
6	5	Mihai Zelinca
6	6	Michael Hepburn
6	7	Gabriel Wafotasse
6	8
6	9	J H
7	1	Richard Ansell
7	2
7	3	Steven Hunter
7	4	Conor James Coules
7	5	Mark Southwood
7	6	Renee Xie
7	7	Jabran Zahid
7	8	Gary Bertram
7	9	Paul Scipioni
8	1	Colin Bord
8	2	Paul Noble
8	3	Adam Lowe
8	4	Paul Hardwidge
8	5	Henryk Nowakowski
8	6	M O
8	7	Nathan Lee
8	8	Martin Bader
8	9	Janice Phillips
9	1	Keith Talkington
9	2	Madlena Trifonova
9	3	Jie Tian
9	4	Jack Oliver
9	5	I D
9	6	Kelly Saxby
9	7	Benjamin Jackson
9	8	V M
9	9	V S
10	1	Danh Cong Tran
10	2	Tony Ringe
10	3	Gary Whitehead
10	4	Joseph Field
10	5	Christopher Blower
10	6	K N
10	7	Sukhvinderjit Dhillon
10	8	Patrick Fahy
10	9	Chris Alexandrou
11	1	Dean Clay
11	2	K J A
11	3	Jerome Oshea
11	4	Patrick Gifford
11	5	L D
11	6	Nathan John Claytonhigson
11	7	Joseph Gallagher
11	8	Oliver White
11	9	Joel Russell
12	1	Justin Kyriakides
12	2	Mazalahedwa Bako
12	3	Edward Swales
12	4	N A
12	5	M T
12	6
12	7	Tina Loraine Bandyle
12	8	Leslie Kearney
12	9	Andrey Veselov
13	1	I H
13	2	Christopher Maguire
13	3	Ian Bosley
13	4	Arun Sood
13	5	Michalis Michael
13	6	N A
13	7	Craig Alistair Smith
13	8	Caius Cristescu
13	9	Dean Miller
14	1	Diyary Khdir
14	2	Christopher Love
14	3	Johan Urbanyik
14	4	Roni Tal
14	5	A B
14	6	Kevin Allen
14	7	J C
14	8	Darie Ilie
14	9	M M
33	1	Jason Wong
33	2	R T
33	3	Darren Annis
33	4	C F
33	5	Eugen Geambasu
33	6	Dean Perry
33	7	Jai Sandhu
33	8	Alexandru Rauta
33	9	Vikrum Mehta

 

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Level 2 – 13:01

The blinds increase for the first time today.

They are now 50/100.

130 entries so far today.

 

 

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Live Stream – 12:45

We are now LIVE from Day 1b of the GUKPT London Main Event.

Watch all the action HERE!! 

 

 

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Busy Day – 12:30

Thirty minutes into play and we already have  120 entries!

Today looks like it’s going to be a very busy days play and we could potentially break 300!

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Shuffle Up & Deal – 12:01

The cards are in the air as we begin day 1b.

70 players to start the day with the blinds  starting at 25/50.

We will be playing ten levels today.

 

 

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Welcome To Day 1B – 11:30

Good Morning and welcome back to London for Day 1B of the GUKPT London Main Event,

Yesterday the turnout was huge, with 187 entries over the 10 levels of play. 45 players made it through and they will be back tomorrow for Day 2.

Todays tournament begins at 12pm and it’s £500+£60 to buy in, for your buy in you’ll receive 20,000 chips on a 60 minute clock.

We will be here with you for the full duration of play, bringing you chip counts, pictures, exits and the live stream on a thirty minute delay.

 

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