Dates and Venues for 2017 GUKPT
This was published 21-10-2016Grosvenor Casinos has revealed the main dates for the 11th season of the long-running Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) as well as for its popular 25/25 Series for 2017.
The tour is scheduled to return to the GUKPT Leeds leg which, despite being on the 2016 schedule, was cancelled due to ongoing repairs at the Grosvenor Casino that was very badly damaged by the destructive floods endured by the city at the end of the year 2015. The 2017 schedule is, otherwise, almost identical to its 2016 counterpart, with the exception of Edinburgh which is now the third leg instead of the seventh.
The Schedule for the 2017 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) is as follows –
| Dates | Event | Venue | Buy-in | Guarantee |
| Jan. 29-Feb. 9 | GUKPT London | London Poker Room at The Vic | £1,100 | £200,000 |
| Feb. 26-March 5 | GUKPT Manchester | Grosvenor Casino Bury New Road | £1,100 | £200,000 |
| March 26-April 2 | GUKPT Edinburgh | Grosvenor Casino Maybury | £550 | £100,000 |
| April 23-April 30 | GUKPT Walsall | Grosvenor Casino Walsall | £550 | £100,000 |
| May 21-May 28 | GUKPT Reading | Grosvenor Casino Reading South | £550 | £100,000 |
| June 25-July 2 | GUKPT London | London Poker Room at The Vic | £550 | £100,000 |
| Sept. 10-Sept. 17 | GUKPT Leeds | Grosvenor Casino Leeds | £550 | £100,000 |
| Oct. 8-Oct. 15 | GUKPT Luton | Grosvenor Casino Luton | £1,100 | £200,000 |
| Nov. 5-Nov. 12 | GUKPT Blackpool | Grosvenor Casino Blackpool | £1,100 | £200,000 |
| Nov. 19-Nov. 26 | GUKPT Grand Final | London Poker Room at The Vic | £2,200 | £400,000 |
The schedule includes key dates of 45 of the Grosvenor 25/25 Series events, £220 buy in tournaments with guaranteed prize pools of £25,000. These events are scheduled to take place up and down the United Kingdom and are bound to be very popular with locals of the casino that they visit during next year. Players are given an opportunity to play for big money and with an amazing blind structure for a fairly low investment with these tour stops.
The 2017 UK Student Poker Championships (UKSP) is due to be held between 19th and 23rd April 2017 with a £36 buy-in 2017 Main Event while the £250,000 guaranteed Goliath Main Event is due to return to the Grosvenor Casino in Coventry between 27th July and 6th August 2017
