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The Genting Poker Series is gearing up for the ninth edition of the tour and it is one of the busiest yet with 16 stop confirmed for the 2020 GPS.

Twelve of the 16 scheduled GPS Main Events only cost £225 to enter yet feature a £35,000 guaranteed prize pool. These events tend to perform well and surpass their guarantees. For example, last year’s Reading leg saw Patrick Phelan top a field of 284 to bank £10,595 for his £225 investment.

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Likewise, David Leyland walked away with £14,000 after a three-handed deal, in the Liverpool Queen Square leg.

The £500 buy-in £100,000 guaranteed GPS events are also popular, although fans of the tour will be disappointed to learn there are only four such events this year.

Luton hosts the first of this quartet of tournaments, with Edinburgh, Liverpool, and Resorts World Birmingham also scheduled to host a £100,000 guaranteed event.

Top prizes in the £500 GPS Main Events tend to be around the £30,000 mark. Yiannis Liperis banked £31,830 when he won the Resorts World Birmingham leg last year.

All players in GentingBet Poker Series Main Events go into a prize draw where one lucky punter will win a dream holiday worth £10,000.

New Third-Tier Competition

GentingBet approached UK & Ireland PokerNews and informed us that there is a new third-tier competition making its debut at Stoke in February, with further events running at Blackpool, Reading, Sheffield, Westcliff, and Newcastle.

The Super £80 is an £80 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament with a cool £15,000 guaranteed. Four Day 1s run from Wednesday through Saturday with the champion crowned on Sunday. Players start with 25,000 chips and play to a 30-minute blind structure.

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Kevin Proctor, Poker Operations Manager for Genting UK, said: “The GentingBet Poker Series continues to go from strength to strength with thousands of poker players, new and old, taking part in our Main and Mini events all over the country. We committed to providing our customers with the very best in casino experience and we are excited to announce the addition of the Super 80 to our series of events.

“The year we are returning to the South West of England with our events in Plymouth and Torquay. This area of the UK has been without a major poker event for too long and it is great to be able to return.”

GPS Started Back in 2012

Genting Poker Series started life in 2012 and quickly lost its tag of the newcomer to become a popular addition to the British live poker schedule.
Ruslan Vlasov became the inaugural GPS champion when he outlasted 364-opponents at Genting Club Star City, Birmingham. Vlasov netted £18,200 after a five-way deal involving Neil Ryder, David L’Honore, Yucel “Mad Turk” Eminoglou and Don Jones.

The tour appeared to be going from strength-to-strength and Genting began adding some larger buy-in events to the schedule.

Elliott Panyi won the first of these, a £1,600 Main Event at the now-defunct Fox Poker Club in London for £66,900. Richard Milner secured £40,086 from the £880 GPS Grand Final in Sheffield in 2013, with Mark Evans winning £54,060 the following year.

2015 saw a change in tactics from Genting who added a lower buy-in “Mini” Main Event to some legs. We spoke to Genting back then and they said they wanted to inject some fun back into poker.

By the following year, these £225 Mini legs dominated the schedule, probably because Genting decided to pull its online poker offering on the iPoker Network. This meant no online satellites or online Day 1s and, therefore, reduced numbers all round.

Low Buy-in Market is Saturated

The problem with hosting so many £225 buy-in tournaments is this market is saturated in the UK at the moment. The 2020 GPS has 12 of these events while Grosvenor has almost 40 of its popular 25/25 Series events scheduled throughout 2020.

It feels like there is a market for a mid-stakes poker tour. The PokerStars UKIPT would be perfect right now or the resurrection of the DTD Deepstacks and DTD500 events.

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Over the weekend of 12-14th May Luton introduced the first of three mini-festivals over the summer months. Three one day Hold Em events with total buy-ins of £900 were staged, a £100 limited rebuy on the Friday night and £300 and £500 freezeouts beginning on the Saturday and Sunday afternoons respectively.

Running the Luton cardroom presents some challenges, as its catchment area for players is essentially the same as that for the London cardrooms. In particular the bigger Luton competitions on a Friday night have been under pressure for some time since the introduction of sizeable competitions at the highly regarded Sportsman casino at Marble Arch. Introducing these mini-festivals is a laudable attempt to

address this competition and attract some London clientele back half an hour North up the M1.

Early signs are encouraging. The Friday night competition attracted 73 runners and a prize pool exceeding £15000. £30 Satellites offering buy-ins to the whole weekend had been run for two months and the field included a cosmopolitan mix of locals and a healthy number of higher profile circuit regulars. These included Carlo Citrone,

Jim Reid, Stuart Nash, Willie Tann, Steve Vladar, and the in form JP Kelly. Structures were excellent, the Friday night competition providing 5000 chips and two 45 minute rebuy levels, one rebuy and one add on being the format followed by a half an hour clock. Both weekend competitions were 5000 chips and 45 minute levels throughout.

The first competition lasted until 5am when three way business was done as a chip count approached. The long standing chipleader was Phil Quayle from Yorkshire who barely put a foot wrong all competition including pushing JP Kelly off a pot with two tables by betting the river with 86 offsuit on a board with five overcards on a

stone cold bluff. Phil was formerly William Hill's Poker manager and was the brains behind the extremely successful William Hill Grand Prix which aired on Sky last autumn. Now a full time sports bettor and poker player he has an understated manner at the table but great judgement. One to be followed should he decide to up his circuit schedule in the coming months. Sharing the main spoils were 'Greek Jack' Dionysiou from Nottingham, who recovered from a precarious bubble chip position and Luton Poker League leader and Luton veteran Brian Sadler. Other finalists included Malcolm Muskett and 'riverdave' Penly who would each reach two of the three finals

during the weekend.

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The business end of Saturday's competition which attracted 53 runners (due to an unfortunate clash with the 100 runner plus Walsall £300 two day freezeout and the Cup Final) provided a stark contrast between youth and vast experience. The star of the competition was 18 year old Ben Turnstill from Leighton Buzzard who stood toe to toe with fellow finalists Stuart Nash, Tony 'tikay' Kendall and Carlo Citrone and by the time a 4 way deal was concluded took the joint highest share of the prize money. Tony Kendall commented several times to me afterwards that he had often tried to move on the young player only to find him playing back each and every time with

heart and great instinct. Already a prolific online MTT winner, Ben is another one to watch.

The main event on the Sunday saw the successful re-introduction onto the UK tournament scene after an enforced absence of Londoner Garry Bush, who started out at Luton all those years ago. Alongside him in the post deal winners circle were the indomitable Willie Tann and Richard Gardener Brown. It was no surprise to see Willie gain success here. Having shared a table with him during Saturday's competition I

saw at first hand the form he was in; raising virtually every unopened pot he accumulated chips early on with abandon and made several world class calls against decent players only to suffer by running big hands into bigger hands nearer the business end of the competition.

The official results of the weekend's competitions are shown below, the sums shown are pre any 'business'

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Friday £100 With 1 rebuy and 1 add on

1 Phil Quayle - £6120

2 'Greek Jack' Dionysiou - £3060

3 Brian Sadler - £1910

4 K Chung - £1300

5 Richard Prew - £920

6 Dave Penly - £610

7 Malcolm Muskett - £540

8 Tracy Tearle - £460

9 M Asif - £380

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Saturday £300 Freezeout

1 Ben Turnstill - £6350

2 M Asif - £3180

3 Stuart Nash - £1990

4 Tony Kendall - £1350

5 Lightbreeze - £950

6 Michael Chambers - £640

7 Malcolm Muskett - £560

8 Patrick Taylor - £480

9 Carlo Citrone - £400

Sunday £500 Freezeout

1 Willie Tann - £8600

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2 Garry Bush - £4300

3 Richard Gardener-Brown - £2680

4 L Trinh - £1830

5 Dave Penly - £1290

6 David Tearle - £860

7 Chris Sandercombe - £750

8 David J Lloyd - £640

9 Chandra Khajuria -£540

The two remaining Triple Bill Mini Festivals take place on the weekends of 2nd to 4th June and 30th June to 2nd July.

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