The GUKPT Goliath was back in Coventry and for the third year running we attended the first weekend. We held four events over the weekend which saw over 500 registrations from our members alone. On Friday night we held a live WLPC qualifier which attracted 100 entries and saw FOUR seats awarded into November’s worldwide pub league poker festival, held in Las Vegas. Saturday was ‘THE BIG ONE’ which once again saw £25,000 awarded to the top 30 finishers on the day with £7,000 going to the winner. Sunday saw the launch of the new Redtooth Poker Tour with an increased buy-in raising the cash prize-pool to around £3,500. Finally, the weekend of poker was finished off with a ‘Redtooth Goes Wild’ event, aka Jokers Wild which was an open event and attracted over 150 players.

After the huge success of our WLPC qualifier on Friday we were back in the card room on Saturday for our biggest UK event of the year, THE BIG ONE – £25K GTD! This year we opted for unlimited re-entries and after the first break had concluded we were on around 300 entries. The tournament was always going to be a late finish with a late 3:00pm start and indeed it was as the winner was unveiled at around 4:30am! As it happened, our heads-up match was a battle between two friends as both Jay and Kyle play in the Monday night Redtooth Poker league at the Grosvenor Casino, with the latter being the season 13.2 champion!

Final 2 Tables

01 John Hudgell – J’s Sports Bar, Oxford (172,000)
02 Puneet Sharma – Oadby Owl, Leicester (257,000)
03 Leanne Varley – Black Bull, Rothwell (235,000)
04 Biktar Misah – Grosvenor Casino, Coventry (99,000)
05 John Wood – Horse & Soldier, Poole (376,000)
06 Gary Tyler – Oak Apple, Worcester (851,000)
07 Johnathan Dougall – Horns Tavern, Birmingham (527,000)
08 EMPTY
09 Steve Bostock – Newton Arms, Doncaster (92,000)
10 Alex Tuzinkiewicz – Haywain, Peterborough (203,000)

01 Martin Campbell – I-Que Cafe Bar, Kirkintilloch (574,000)
02 Richard Steggles – Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds (213,000)
03 Jay Patel – Grosvenor Casino, Coventry (361,000)
04 Adrian Davidson – Stromness Golf Club, Stromness (527,000)
05 Tim Osborn – New Club, Oxford (401,000)
06 Phil Davidson – Apple Tree, Nottingham (527,000)
07 Kyle Hastilow – Grosvenor Casino, Coventry (848,000)
08 Ed Copestake – Winton WMC, Bournemouth (390,000)
09 Alex Riddell – Red Lion, Gillingham (802,000)
10 EMPTY

Results

01 Jay Patel – Grosvenor Casino, Coventry
02 Kyle Hastillow – Grosvenor Casino, Coventry
03 John Wood – Horse & Soldier, Poole
04 Phil Davidson – Apple Tree, Nottingham
05 John Hudgell – J’s Sports Bar, Oxford
06 Puneet Sharma – Oadby Owl, Leicester
07 Gary Tyler – Oak Apple, Worcester
08 Alex Riddell – Red Lion, Gillingham
09 Richard Steggles – Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds
10 Adrian Davidson – Stromness Golf Club, Stromness