The 2010 schedule includes:

The Main Tour - 8 legs, a grand final and the Champion of Champion's festival.

The Summer Series - launched in 2009, it has now been extended to include ten mini-festivals, taking place from May – August.

The Club Championships - New for 2010, the GUKPT Club Championships is a series of one-day £200 tournaments, taking place in all 23 Grosvenor and G Casinos with a poker room.

The 10% Online Series - New for 2010, a series of one off events taking place the day after each festival on the Main Tour and the Summer Series concludes. The buy in will be 10% of the cost of the main event at the festival that has just concluded. These tournaments will be available on Blue Square Poker, Grosvenor Poker and the poker room of gcasino.com.

10-Seat-Guaranteed Super Satellites - New for 2010, every host venue on the Main Tour and the Summer Series will stage a 10-seat guaranteed super satellite, which will take place the week before their festival starts.

Live Streaming - Live streaming of main events on the Main Tour will continue in 2010 with Phil 'the Tower' Heald hosting the show on www.thenutz.tv.

Increased Starting Stacks - Starting stacks in the main events this year will be increased to 15,000. Side events will also have bigger starting stacks with £100-£200 events now awarding 7,500 chips while £250 - £500 events kick off with 10,000 chips per player. The Grand Final will have a 25,000 starting stack.

Online Qualification

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GUKPT National League Poker

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300,000 Pound Added Prize Money

The Champion of Champions tournament will be taking place again, for the third successive year and the prize money is being increased to a massive £150,000. The event was launched in 2008 with a £75,000 prize pool and this was increased to £100,000 in 2009. The stakes have now been significantly raised and only way to get into this prestigious tournament is to win a GUKPT event in 2010. Main events and side events on the Main Tour, the Summer Series, the Club Championships and the 10% Online Series all count as qualifying events. There are also a limited number of additional qualifying events (such as the GUKPT Student Championship and the GUKPT Press Championship) which will be detailed on GUKPT.com early in 2010.

The GUKPT Rankings. As per 2009, £50,000 is prize money will be paid out to the 20 players who top the GUKPT leader board by the end of the year. Points are awarded for all open events on the GUKPT. Details of how points are earned will be listed on gukpt.com

Online qualification will be available at the online poker room of gcasino.com (which is being launched in early 2010) and also continues on the site of the tour’s previous sponsor, Blue Square Poker and on Grosvenor Poker.

The Main Tour Schedule

The Main Tour this year will consist of 8 legs, the Grand Final and the Champion of Champions festival. The first leg in January sees the Bolton returning as a main tour venue, while the Coventry hosts it’s first GUKPT main tour event in May.

Main Tour	Dates	Main Event Dates
Leg 1 - G Casino, Bolton - £1,000 Main Event	January 18th - 24th	January 22nd - 24th
Leg 2 - Grosvenor Casino, Walsall - £1,000 Main Event	February 20th - 28th	February 25th - 28th
Leg 3 - Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London - £1,500 Main Event	March 18th - 28th	March 25th - 28th
Leg 4 - G Casino Bury New Road, Manchester - £1,000 Main Event	April 17th - 25th	April 22nd - 25th
Leg 5 - G Casino, Coventry - £1,000 Main Event	May 17th - 23rd	May 21st - 23rd
Leg 6 - G Casino, Luton - £1,000 Main Event	August 7th - 15th	August 12h - 15th
Leg 7 - G Casino, Brighton - £1,000 Main Event	October 4th - 10th	October 8th - 10th
Leg 8 - G Casino, Blackpool - £1,000 Main Event	November 6th - 14th	November 11th - 14th
Grand Final - Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London - £2,500 Main Event	November 18th - 28th	November 25th-28th
Champion of Champions Festival - G Casino, Coventry	December 1st - 5th	December 4th-5th

Summer Series

The Summer Series has been extended for 2010 to include ten events, each with a main event of £300-£750. Throughout the Summer Series, two events will take place simultaneously in different parts of the country.

The Summer Series	Dates	Main Event Dates
1a - G Casino, Blackpool - £500 Main Event	May 26th - 31st	May 30th-31st
1b - G Casino, Thanet - £300 Main Event	May 28th - 31st	May 30th-31st
2a - G Casino, Luton - £500 Main Event	June 9th -13th	June 12th-13th
2b - G Casino, Aberdeen - £300 Main Event	June 10th - 13th	June 12th-13th
3a - Grosvenor Casino, Walsall - £500 Main Event	June 23rd - 27th	June 26th-27th
3b - Grosvenor Casino, Newcastle - £300 Main Event	June 24th - 27th	June 26th-27th
4a - G Casino, Sheffield - £500 Main Event	July 21st - 25th	July 24th-25th
4b - G Casino, Dundee - £300 Main Event	July 22nd - 25th	July 24th-25th
5a - Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London - £750 Main Event	August 23rd - 30th	August 29th-30th
5b - G Casino, Bury New Road, Manchester - £500 Main Event	August 26th - 30th	August 29th-30th

The Club Championships

New for 2010, the Club Championships are one-day events that will take place in all 23 poker rooms throughout the Grosvenor/G Casino estate. They will take place on five dates throughout the year in up to five locations on each day.

Locations	Dates	Event
Swansea, Thanet, Leeds, Blackpool, Stoke	February 13th	£200 NL Hold'em Freezeout
Luton, Dundee, Bolton, Coventry	April 10th	£200 NL Hold'em Freezeout
Cardiff, London, Newcastle, Salford, Sheffield	July 10th	£200 NL Hold'em Freezeout
Portsmouth, Southampton, Aberdeen, Manchester, Great Yarmouth	October 16th	£200 NL Hold'em Freezeout
Plymouth, Brighton, Huddersfield, Walsall	October 23rd	£200 NL Hold'em Freezeout