Day 1a of the 2022 Grosvenor UK Pour Tour: £1,000 Main Event Reading Has Completed
After ten levels of play from The Grosvenor Casino Reading South, Day 1a of the £1,000 GUKPT Main Event is in the books. There were 90 entrants that sat down in the first flight of the event, with just 24 returning from Day 1a for Day 2.
Among the bagging, tagging and returning for Day 2 are Jack Hardcastle (65,600), Jamie Nixon (68,200), Sebastien Jung (98,600) and Jacque Ramsden (183,800).
Top 10 Chip Stacks
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M. B. | United Kingdom | 219,800 |
| 2 | Jacque Ramsden | United Kingdom | 183,800 |
| 3 | Vadim Cojocaru | United Kingdom | 112,200 |
| 4 | Rafael Navas Robles | Spain | 110,000 |
| 5 | Peter Wigglesworth | United Kingdom | 102,400 |
| 6 | Sebastien Jung | United Kingdom | 98,600 |
| 7 | Craig Rimmer | United Kingdom | 79,300 |
| 8 | Ian Berry | United Kingdom | 73,500 |
| 9 | Paul Linton | United Kingdom | 71,700 |
| 10 | Niall James Fisher | United Kingdom | 69,200 |
Many tried and failed to run up a stack today, like George Sandford, Danny Pyke and Timothy Chung, but they and others have chances to get some traction in the other two flights running tomorrow. Day 1b will 60-minute levels from 12:00 p.m and Day 1c running g 20-minute levels, starting at 9:00 p.m. local UK time.
That concludes Day 1a of GUKPT Reading, follow PokerNews as the action from Day 1b and 1c continues on Friday July 22, before they play Day 2 on Saturday and of course the final day, on Sunday, where a champion will be crowned the latest GUKPT winner.