Blue Square GUKPT Leagues

[Myrie16]

Dear Helsinki_Don, Blue Square Poker is proud to present a new and innovative poker league which allows poker players from both live and online arenas to play against each other in one central competition. In the first of its type, the GUKPT National league will offer a total of £100,000 in GUKPT seats and cash prizes. League winners will also win a coveted seat at the £100,000 Champion of Champions event!

The GUKPT National league will run for eight weeks and take place four times a year and the first league starts Monday 19th January! Click Here for full details of the GUKPT National League

http://www.bluesq.com/bluesquare/bsp...l_league.shtml

[AvonGirl]

Dates are in the diary.


The GUKPT National League provides a competitive stage for online players to pit their wits against each other and against players in every Grosvenor or G Casino throughout the country in one central competition.
Four separate National Leagues will be run in 2009 with a total of £100,000 in GUKPT Seats and cash prizes to be won! On top of this players will also be able to claim GUKPT Ranking Points and vye for a coveted Champion of Champions seat in each League.
Each League competition will be run over 8 consecutive weeks (except the final League of only 6 weeks) with an Online Playoff scheduled a few weeks later for the Top 100 players.
See below for the full schedule:

League	Start Date	End Date	No of weeks	Online Playoff Date	Time of Playoff
NL1	Jan 19th	March 15th	8	Sunday April 5th	8pm
NL2	April 6th	May 31st	8	Sunday July 5th	8pm
NL3	July 6th	August 30th	8	Sunday September 27th	8pm
NL4	October 5th	November 15th	6	Sunday November 29th	8pm

During National League competition periods, every Grosvenor Casino of G Casino live tournament with a minimum of 9 runners will contribute League Points (excluding Satellites and GUKPT Festival events).

There will be 4 specified competitions taking place each week online at Blue Square Poker that will earn League Points.


The online events for the GUKPT National league are as follows:

Day	Time	Event
Monday	8.15pm	$15 NLHE Freezeout
Tuesday	8.15pm	$5 NLHE Rebuy
Thursday	8.15pm	$5 Omaha Rebuy
Sunday	8.15pm	$25 NLHE Freezeout

Please see the following table for National League Points allocation:

Finishing Position	Points
1st	10
2nd	8
3rd	7
4th	6
5th	5
6th	4
7th	3
8th	2
9th	1

In addition, each player will receive 1 Point for entering each competition. So the more competitions you can enter, the better your chances of winning the league. As a result, live poker players from Grosvenor and G casinos have the incentive to compete in GUKPT National league online events, taking on the Blue Square Poker players in their arena and vice versa, Blue Square Poker players have the incentive to go compete in the Grosvenor and G casinos back yard!