GUKPT Champion of Champions Tournament - List of Qualifiers
The second year of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour will draw to a close this Thursday (4th December) when the £75,000 Champion of Champions tournament takes place the G casino in Luton. The only way to qualify for the tournament was to win any event on the 2008 GUKPT (main events, side events, online festival events and online monthly leagues). A total of 93 players have bagged their seats, for a chance to become the GUKPT Champion of Champion, the lion's share of the prize money and the bragging rights that go with winning such a prestigious and exclusive tournament.
Players will start with varying chip stacks, depending on the size of the buy in of the tournament they won to qualify for it. Players who have won more than one event will receive more starting chips. Sam Trickett, who is the only player to have won three events on the 2008 starts with 20,000 chips and has been installed as the 12/1 favourite to win by tour sponsor Blue Square. To place a bet, please visit the 'Specials' section of the Blue Square Sportsbook.
Play starts at 2pm. Any player who has not taken their seat by the end of the third level of play will have their remaining chips removed from play and will be disqualified from the tournament (players who are running late and have informed the casino of their continued intention to play will not be removed from the tournament). It is a one-day tournament and will run on a 45-minute clock.
Another ground-breaking feature of the event is that players will be given the chance to choose the payout structure for the tournament. Two options will be given to them and any player who is seated for the start of the tournament will be given a chance to vote on their preferred payout structure. No further deals or savers will be permitted and all prizes will be paid into Blue Square accounts.
Here is the full list of entrants and their starting chips:
Sam Trickett** - 20,000 Jeff Kimber* - 15,000 Marc Goodwin* - 15,000 Paul Foltyn - 15,000 Dave Penly* - 12,000 Jerome Bradpiece* - 12,000 Andy Andreou* - 10,000 Andy Teng - 10,000 Ash Hussain - 10,000 Brian Clarke - 10,000 Derek Miller* - 10,000 Ganesh Rao - 10,000 Glenn Ashworth* - 10,000 Julian Thew - 10,000 Ketul Nathwani - 10,000 Tony Cascarino - 10,000 Arkady Kielman - 7,000 Ben Callinan - 7,000 Curtis Ledger - 7,000 Karl Mahrenholz - 7,000 Kjetil Naess - 7,000 Pascal Heynsen - 7,000 Paul Parker - 7,000 Richard Grace - 7,000 Richard Wheatley - 7,000 Adam Wilkinson - 5,000 Alan Mclean - 5,000 Alan Mower - 5,000 Andrew Baker - 5,000 Andrew Clarke - 5,000 Anthony Thorpe - 5,000 Antony Ross - 5,000 Aryan Virabi - 5,000 Christopher Skinner - 5,000 Ciaran Corbett - 5,000 Cornelius Cronin - 5,000 Darren McKenzie - 5,000 Darren Seed - 5,000 David Gallagher -5,000 David Price - 5,000 David Rudling - 5,000 Donal Norton - 5,000 Essy Jahanpour - 5,000 Faton Prokupla - 5,000 Frank Romanello - 5,000 Gabriel Macavoray - 5,000 Gary Hollands -5,000 Gavin Ball - 5,000 George Annan - 5,000 Ian Frazer - 5,000 Ian Woodley - 5,000 James Akenhead - 5,000 James Bagley - 5,000 James Browning - 5,000 Javed Iqbal - 5,000 Javid Aktar - 5,000 John Eames - 5,000 Ken Wong - 5,000 Kenneth Kull - 5,000 Kevin Parkes - 5,000 Kevin Rigby - 5,000 Kyle Smith - 5,000 Loraine Healy -5,000 Marcus Bebb-Jones - 5,000 Mark Tomblin - 5,000 Martin Knibb - 5,000 Martyn Reeve - 5,000 Matt Lawrence - 5,000 Michael Arnold - 5,000 Michael Hynes - 5,000 Michael Richardson - 5,000 Nick Slade - 5,000 Nowakowski - 5,000 Oliver Boyce - 5,000 Paul Gardener - 5,000 Paul King - 5,000 Paul Newman - 5,000 Peter Wood - 5,000 Ramazanali Abbasi - 5,000 Reyaaz Mulla - 5,000 Richard Dawson - 5,000 Richard Stanley - 5,000 Rob Ellis - 5,000 Robert Bostock - 5,000 Slobodan Bjelobrk - 5,000 Steve Holden - 5,000 Steve Read - 5,000 Steve Warburton - 5,000 Steven Bayliff - 5,000 Steven Reeves - 5,000 Terry Reeve - 5,000 Theo Tsouvallaris - 5,000 Tony Phillips - 5,000
*These seven players have won two events each.
** Sam Trickett has won three events.
Players can get ready for the next GUKPT season now at BlueSquare Poker!