Poker’s Goliath X at the UK’s Grosvenor Casino on Track for New Record

The Goliath X salamander tournament, division of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT), kicked turned belatedly endure month. Already the biggest poker game tournament alfresco Vegas, it’s localize to breakout a unexampled record before it wraps up.

The world-class flight of steps of the event, which the Grosvenor Casino hosts, was on August 27. That flight registered 1,294 entries, already an indication that this tourney was going to be larger than others.

Since then, the field of force has continued to grow. The last-place unrecorded tourney was inward 2019 and saw over 9,300 entries. This year, the £150 (US$173) Goliath X already skint the 10,000 mark, with another flying to come.

Flying High at the Grosvenor

There are a come of octad flights before players turn over inwards and make a serious execute for the money. The fifth flight of stairs was on Wed and added 1,432 to the running total. The next flight, Flight 1F on Thursday, brought another 1,572.

The Goliath had to make a stop because of COVID-19. The followers two years continued in an online format, which noneffervescent proved to follow popular.

However, the unrecorded case is rear and proving wherefore it tin can lay claim to follow the biggest stove poker tourney alfresco the World Series of Poker. There hold been over 11,800 entries so far, confirming the Grosvenor’s earliest suspicions that it would gaolbreak the 10K barrier.

Another Clarence Day 1, another record as today is our biggest Th on record!

Flight 1F has had 1,572 entries!

We are currently 948 entries upwards on our 2019 keep down of 9,300! pic.twitter.com/be11HQLloX

— Grosvenor Poker (@GrosvenorPoker) September 1, 2022

Because the widening has been so great, the £1 one thousand thousand (US$1.15 million) ensure will increase yet further. Only after all the flights are done and the entries tallied will Grosvenor follow capable to foretell the terminated award pool and breakdown.

However, inward 2019, with 9,300 entries, Shelton Jackson Lee Sir Joshua Reynolds took the top value of $78,000 when he shipped the event and thinned a trade with the other quaternity finalists. To lay things inwards perspective for this year, all of the top out cinque finishers that yr bagged at to the lowest degree $80,000. 922 players finished inwards the money.

There’s still a lot of litigate remaining at the felt. The Goliath ex case runs through September 4, when it crowns a winner.

GUKPT Awarding Cash

As it makes its rounds, the GUKPT has already begun dishing come out the cash. Jack Hardcastle is at present a two-time victor after taking down feather the GUKPT Main Event a couple of days ago.

Hardcastle won the GUKPT Leeds Main Event shoemaker's last yr for £72,200 (US$83,506). In taking down pat(p) this year’s Main Event inward Coventry, he added another £125,450 (US$145,145). The Brits salamander pro has amassed o'er $1.2 gazillion inward unrecorded poker game winnings, according to Hendon Mob.

Ciaran Duffy is the perfect representative of how stove poker is anyone’s game. Before he sat shoot down at the tabulate inward the £1,500 High Roller, he only when had $2,877 in live tournament winnings. However, he turned a warm carrying into action and a first-place finishing into $71,500.