The Poker Thread

Jen Mason wrote:Thanks for registering your team for the Goliath - Day 1a is nearly upon us, so if you'd like to make any last-minute changes to your team, please let me know either by email, or in person at the G Casino at the Ricoh Arena - I'll be by the entrance from 11am on all three start days. Just a couple of notes regarding teams:

You can only be in one team for the whole event - even if you re-enter on a different start day, you're still part of the original team throughout.

Team participation needs to be referenced by the CardRoom Magic system - this means that as a member of a Grosvenor casino, the name you'd be on the system with (e.g. usually 'Robert' rather than 'Bob' etc.) will need to be the name on your team's listing as otherwise points might be missed out! Please email me changes any time if you think this might affect your team.

Points are only awarded for in-the-money finishes, and will be posted up with the chip counts when the tournament gets past its first days.

Over 150 players have already signed up for the Goliath Team challenge, and we expect around 400 to take part, with the winners receiving a $1,000 private tournament, and GUKPT Main Event seats for the top team's top 2 scorers.

Good luck in Coventry,

Not content with running what may well become the biggest tournament ever held in Europe, the nice and very generous people at the GUKPT have chosen to add even more value to this.

If you make quad kings or better during the course of this tournament, you win a seat into the monthly £10,000 guaranteed competition jackpot tournament, the winner of which gets not only his fair share of the guarantee but also an added GUKPT Champion of Champions seat. Extraordinary. The powers that be are calling it a bad beat promotion, but you don’t actually have to have the hand beaten or anything – you just have to make quad kings or better with at least one of your hole cards playing, and that’s it – prize won. Making it more of a kind of reward for being super-lucky, which is perhaps superfluous.

Drumstick wrote:The guy in seat 7 now is some kind of pro IIRC. Julian Thew I think his name is. That or this guy looks a lot like him.

DML wrote:

Drumstick wrote:The guy in seat 7 now is some kind of pro IIRC. Julian Thew I think his name is. That or this guy looks a lot like him.

It will be Julian Thew. You cannot be playing the tournament scene and not know who this guy is.

Drumstick wrote:So he luckboxed an EPT. No fear.

Drumstick wrote:So he luckboxed an EPT. No fear.

DML wrote:

Drumstick wrote:The guy in seat 7 now is some kind of pro IIRC. Julian Thew I think his name is. That or this guy looks a lot like him.

It will be Julian Thew. You cannot be playing the tournament scene and not know who this guy is.

Surprised to see him playing a £100 donkfest.

Rex McGee wrote:

Drumstick wrote:So he luckboxed an EPT. No fear.

Drumstick wrote:Yes, I'm just playing mate.

They were hoping to get like 2500 buyins for this Goliath... at the moment I'm not sure they'll even topple last year's number (~1700).

Slayerx wrote:If anyone gets on feature table let me know, watched some of it yesterday.

Rex McGee wrote:

Slayerx wrote:If anyone gets on feature table let me know, watched some of it yesterday.

PM me your number.

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