Popular Gala Casinos British Poker Tour bites the dust

Poker Hideout is sad to report that the very popular Gala Casinos British Poker Tour has finished after two successful seasons and will not be returning. Whilst this may not be the best news for UK poker, Gala Casinos have decided to invest in more online poker tournaments which is a bigger market and probably more cost effective for the company. It is only to be expected that with the current economic crisis there will be some casualties, although it has to be said that UK poker appears to be as popular as ever and so this may be a knee jerk reaction by the company in anticipation of a downturn in revenues.

GCBPT's Tour Manager, Mark O'Donnell said: "While we've have had two fantastic years running the 'Great British Poker Tours', we've now decided to look at a number of new events and promotions for 2009 that will not only excite our players but are of great value and are accessible to poker players of all levels."

Last years 4 day spectacular grand final in Bristol saw Alan Vinson win, not only the Championship with a prize fund of £83,000 but also a World Series of Poker 2009 Package. This particular poker tournaments was billed by Gala Casinos as ‘The People’s Poker Tour’, and was certainly a lot more accessible to UK poker players with a reasonably priced £500 buy-in.

Currently at Gala Casinos there are various online poker tournaments available including; FA Cup Poker Fever, this particular poker tournament also offers a free bet on the FA Cup. The ChampionChip is the very latest online poker tournament on offer at Gala Casinos offering an awe inspiring $300,000 guaranteed prize fund every week, this has got to be of interest to all the serious poker players out there. There are also micro poker tournaments available offering an excellent training ground facility for not only all the new poker players but also existing poker players who are looking to get that little bit of daily practice before the larger poker tournaments.