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You know you’ve been playing poker a long time when what you consider the “new” casino undergoes another refurbishment to make it bigger and better.
Grosvenor Casino Luton has done just that. I remember going to the old Luton on the other side of town, one of the first casinos I played poker at in the UK. A few years ago the new and much improved new casino was built in Luton town centre, and now the card room has undergone not just a facelift but a full transformation.
What was the cardroom is now part of the casino, and a whole new spacious designated cardroom has been added to the back of the casino.
When I turned up for the GUKPT Luton main event, I was loving the new cardroom. I hadn’t played a hand of poker for more than a month for one reason or another, and now I was getting to play a £1k event with £200k guaranteed in a sumptuous new room, what more could I ask for? Well, to win a hand would be a start.
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To be fair, I did win the odd hand, but I had one of those days that just makes you shrug your shoulders and resolve to run better another day. In all, I played 10 big hands on day 1b before busting half an hour before the end of the day. I won just two. The fact I still had a stack to be involved in big pots that long was testament to how well I played without showdown, but it wasn’t to be.
Here are the nine significant hands I played:
1. Call a raise to 350 with 56 suited, button squeezes, raiser calls 950, I call. Comes A55….he had pocket aces. Lose a chunk, would have been worse if he hadn’t made quads on the river.
2. Raise with KJhh, peel the small blind’s 3bet. Flop is ace high with two hearts. She checks, I bet, she calls. Turn brick, she checks I bet 3300, she check raises all in for 10,700. I calculate the price I’m getting, and the damage it would do to my 18k stack, and fold.
3. Under the gun player, who had limped a lot but had limped aces and other big hands as well as suited aces, small pairs, limps. Next to speak limps, I limp with 56 suited, button comes along as does the big blind. Flop Qxx is checked round. I bet the 9 turn, the button calls and the two preflop limpers both check call. River T, checked to me, I bet 1800, the button makes it 4k, first limper folds, second limper all in for 28k! Fold.
4. Call a raise in the cutoff with TT, button squeezes to 1800, raiser folds I call. Flop JT4 all spades, I check, willing to check raise and call it off, but he checks behind. Turn is a fourth spade, I check he bets 2800 I call. River fifth spade, I check he bets 4700. Fold.
5. Finally find aces in the big blind. The action has gone raise to 500 in mid position, sb call, so I make it 1500. Raiser folds, sb calls again. Flop QJ9, I check behind. Turn T, sb checks again, I bet 1700, not even sure with, guess I have the blockers to AK. He folds…I win a pot!
6. Second hand at a new table, I raise UTG with AQhh. Three opponents call. The flop falls jack high with two hearts, I bet 2550 out of my 13k. Next to speak makes it 7k, I know I’m losing but am drawing to the nuts so stick it in. He had KJhh, so is winning with his top pair, but I still have three aces, three queens and seven hearts, and I find a black ace on the turn to double up. Win first decent pot!
7. Find pocket kings UTG. Raise to 1400, get two callers. Flop AQT, I bet (the blockers!), get a call. Turn T, I check fold to a 3500 bet.
8. Last hand before last break I have TT UTG. I raise to 1500, next to speak calls, cutoff, who has just doubled up the other guy in the pot, makes it 5200. I call with the intention of calling if it’s squeezed all in by UTG2 and the 3bettor folds. He calls though. Flop 983r, we check to the 3bettor, he bets 9400. I have 32k left and give it up. Don’t love how I played that but don’t think I was winning either.
9. Halfway through the final level I raise with A6ss on the blinds of the weakest players at the table. Both call. Flop 988ss, checked to me, I bet 2750, sb calls, bb makes it 6500. I shove for my 25k total, sb dwell passes, bb calls with J8o and holds.
All in all I flopped one set and lost with it, flopped trips twice and lost both times, lost with kings, won one bet with aces and had no other premium hands!
Tough game. If I sat and studied the above hands for too long I think I would end up going mad, such is the frustration of poker sometimes.
Of course there’s the odd mistake (I don’t like how I played the pocket tens late on for example) but in general I just had day of not running very well.
There are two positives to take though. Firstly, I won’t run like that all the time, and it will be far more fun when I run a bit better! And secondly, when I think back to the guys I played with back in the old Grosvenor Luton, before this new one was even built never mind refurbished, not that many are still around. Some have given up poker, either moved on to better things or some sadly to a better place, while others have lost their love for the game.
So the fact I’m looking forward to heading to Edinburgh for the GPS and can’t wait for the next GUKPT, one of the absolute favourites, a week in Blackpool in November and all the fun and games that brings, means I’ve no problem loving the game….I just hope the game shows me some love back soon!
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This March, the UK and Ireland would once again become an arena of various live poker tournaments. British and Irish poker lovers would be given the opportunity to enjoy live poker events offering different rules, buy-ins and prize pools.
Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT)
Leg 2 of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour was already given a start on February 25th. The tournament is to be held at Manchester’s Grosvenor Casino Bury New Road until March 4th as part of the 12th season of the GUKPT. A number of events are to be featured as part of the tournament, with a Mini Main Event, a NLHE Turbo, BLHE Bouty, Omaha 4/5/6 and Turbo Bounty event included in the schedule.
Of course, it is the main event which is most awaited by poker fans. It is to be held as a three-day event featuring two starting flights with unlimited re-entry option. The buy-in amounts to £1,100.
Genting Poker Series Mini
This year’s edition of the Genting Poker Series Mini is to see four legs kick off in March 2018. The Genting Resorts World Birmingham Genting Casino is to become home to the £220 buy-in NLHE Main Event from March 1st to 4th. The event is to feature three starting flights and a second day, plus a guaranteed prize pool amounting to £35,000.
Then, on March 5th Leg 3 of the Genting Poker Series Main is to start at Genting Casino Luton. The guaranteed prize pool of the Main Event is estimated to £100,000, with three starting flights and two following days featured. A few other events offering different prize pools are also to be held.
The period between March 22nd and March 25th is to see Leg 4 of the Genting Poker Series Mini be held at Liverpool’s Genting Club Queen Square. The £220 buy-in Main Event, which offers a £35,000 guaranteed prize, is to be held in two game days. Over the same period, Leg 5 of the Mini Series is also to take place at the Genting Club Westcliff in Westcliff-On-Sea.
APAT Championship
The beginning of March will see the APAT Scottish Amateur Poker Championship hosted at Edinburgh’s Grosvenor Maybury Casino. On March 3rd and 4th, a number of events, including a No Limit Hold’em Main Event, two Pot Limit Omaha and two NLHE.
Then, the APAT World Championship of Amateur Poker Season 11 is to kick off at the last day of March at the Grosvenor Casino Bury New Road in Manchester.
Grosvenor 25/25 Series
The very popular and much-loved Grosvenor 25/25 Series is to see four events kick off this March. First, the Grosvenor Maybury Casino in Edinburgh and the Grosvenor Portsmouth Gunwharf casino are to become home to the series from March 8th to 11th. The two casino venues will see a £225 buy-in NLHE event featuring a guaranteed prize of £25,000 be held in two game days, with three starting flights, one of which is to be held online at Grosvenor Poker.
Then, the other two events of the series are to be held at Grosvenor Casino in Walsall and at Blackpool’s Grosvenor G Casino from March 15th to 18th. The same guaranteed prize is to be offered to everyone who decides to pay the £225 entry fee and join the competition for the NLHE first-place title.
Monthly Special and Other Events
There will be a great variety of Monthly Special events in March, with various guaranteed prize pools and affordable buy-ins.
In addition, partypoker’s Irish Poker Open 2018 is to kick off on March 7th, with the series scheduled to be held until March 25th at Dublin’s Citywest Hotel. A great number of events is set to be held as part of the PPL Season 1, with the Main Event offering a massive €1,000,000 guaranteed prize.
This March will also see the PokerStars Live London Series be held at the iconic Hippodrome Casino in London. The two-day Main Event is set to start on March 9th and is to be held until March 11th, with four starting flights and a £40,000 guaranteed prize pool.
In the period from March 11th to March 25th, London’s Empire Casino is to see the WSOP Team Empire Qualifier held, with two game days planned for the £220 buy-in NLHE event.
Then, the Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford is to become home to the 888 WPT500 Series. The latter is to take place at one of the most famous London casinos from March 11th to April 2nd, with a great variety of live poker events being included in its schedule. Another one of the most iconic casino venues in London – the Poker Room – is to host The London Deepstack from March 22nd to 25th. The tournament is features three starting flights plus a second day and feature an entry fee of £170.
Grosvenor Casino Poker
Last but not least, Brighton’s Rendezvous Casino is to see the Unibet UK Poker Tour 2018 held for three days, between March 23rd and 25th. The No Limit Hold’em event is to feature £220, as well as a guaranteed prize pool amounting to £40,000.
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