The Poker Lab Rat

This is a serious question - and you’re got a serious opportunity to pass muster! Here’s your chance - the Great British Poker Tour is back!

A number of the UK players from the PokerLabRat.com team will be having a stab at The Great British Poker tour this season. You might like to check it out too as it is becoming one of the more highly esteemed tournaments around and offers surprisingly good poker tournament value. It has been renamed as the “Gala Casinos British Poker Tour” (GCBPT) this year …and it’s now in it’s second season.

We liked last years (despite none of us actually finishing in the money) mainly because it offered a less-hyped style of poker - competitive, but somehow more professional and way more polite (refined?) than most in-the-flesh poker tournament series where it’s almost more about the poker brats, sunglasses styling and stupid player “lucky mascots” than the game. 

There are 6 GCBPT Festival Events in Gala Casino card rooms throughout 2008 capped off with a Grand Final at the end of the year (which will be spectacular if last year’s is anything to go by). So you can pace yourself - play in all of them (or just win one to get directly to the Main Event ).

Each festival runs a £500+£50 No Limit Hold’Em Main Event with two ‘day ones’. Each regional winner from 2008 Main Event Festivals automatically gains entry into the Grand Final Main Event as a package.

First event: Edinburgh, February 27th – March 2nd 2008

Venue: Gala Maybury Casino, Edinburgh
Dates: Main Event: starts February 29th
Online qualification: 17/01/2008 – 15/02/2008 (sorry, it’s closed for Edinburgh, but will open soon for the Nottingham GCBT Festival soon!)

You can qualify online for the GBPT at Eurobet Poker - they’re running 4 satellites a day including 2 freerolls, to win a guaranteed 4 packages a week for each festival event throughout the year! (Each package is worth about £1,600 including GCBPT Main Event buy in and travel)

Ready to stake your claim as Britain’s greatest poker player? Visit Eurobet Poker today!

PS: Eurobet Poker is a leading - and stylish - member of the Ongame Poker Network and accepts most players from around the world except the USA. For more on Eurobet Poker read our latest poker room review on site at PokerLabRat.com.