GUKPT Luton Lands as Sixth Stop of 20th Season
PokerNews and Grosvenor’s own page differ slightly on the end date, but both point to a busy Bedfordshire stop with six-figure headline events.
- GUKPT Luton is scheduled for Aug. 30 to Sept. 8 at Grosvenor G Casino Luton, although Grosvenor’s own page lists the stop ending Sept. 6.
- The festival features a £250 Mini Main with a £100,000 guarantee and a £560 Main Event with a £150,000 guarantee.
- The schedule also includes a £1,000 High Roller, a £200 Turbo, a £150 Deepstack and a £200 Last Chance.
- The £250 Mini Main starts on Aug. 30, while the £560 Main Event begins on Sept. 3 and returns for Day 2 on Sept. 5.
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour is heading back to Bedfordshire for the sixth stop of its landmark 20th season, with GUKPT Luton set for Aug. 30 to Sept. 8 at Grosvenor G Casino Luton. The festival is built around a £250 Mini Main with a £100,000 guarantee and a £560 Main Event with a £150,000 guarantee.
The published schedules are not identical on the finish date. Grosvenor’s own GUKPT page lists Luton as running Aug. 30-Sept. 6, while PokerNews says the festival runs through Sept. 8. The card also adds a £1,000 High Roller with a £50,000 guarantee, a £200 Turbo, a £150 Deepstack and a £200 Last Chance.
As covered in May, the tour had already made one Luton stop this year, where Yucel Eminoglu won the £1,250 Main Event from 190 entries and banked £57,640 from a £236,250 prize pool. That same festival saw Ajay Kejriwal win the £1,650 High Roller for £31,060, Derek Boyle top a 498-entry Mini Main for £26,775 and Craig Sarginson complete a Pot-Limit Omaha double.
The new Luton schedule starts on Aug. 30 with the final flight of the £200 Summer Sizzler South. The £250 Mini Main uses four starting flights across three days, beginning with Day 1a at 6 p.m. on Aug. 30, before Day 2 on Sept. 1 and a champion the following day.
The £560 Main Event begins with Day 1a on Sept. 3, adds a Day 1b and a turbo Day 1c for late entries, then brings survivors back for Day 2 on Sept. 5 and the final day the afternoon after that. Must-Play Cashout satellites offer routes into the High Roller and Main Event throughout the week, and Grosvenor says its feeder satellites start from as little as £1, with LIVE EVENT CREDIT tickets usable in any GUKPT tournament and never expiring. The GUKPT Cup returns later in the week.
