GUKPT £100,000 Champion of Champions Freeroll SaturdayJust Over 100 Players Return With Varying Stack Sizes To Play For £100,000 Prize Pool |
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The final event of the 2012 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour season gets underway today Saturday January 12 at G Casino, Luton where just over 100 GUKPT main and side event winners return to play in the £100,000 Champion of Champions freeroll.
The amount of starting chips players receive in the two-day no-limit hold’em tournament depends on which event or events they won during the year:
Grand Final — 15,000 in chips
£1,000 main event — 10,000
£500 main event — 10,000
£500+ side event — 8,000
£250-£499 side event — 7,000
£100+ rebuy event — 6,000
£100-£249 side event — 5,000
Other — 5,000
Leading the field are:
Andrew Hills — 20,000
Lee Taylor — 18,000
Martin Holmes — 17,000
Allan Peers — 15,000
Danny Tran — 15,000
Sam Grafton — 15,000
Mark McCluskey — 12,000
Some of the notable names in contention include Martyn Frey, Robin Keston, Stuart Fox, Simon Deadman, Jeff Kimber, and Julian Thew.