With the Pleasure Beach shutting up shop for the winter, the usually heaving coastal setting echoed scenes from genocidal zombie films as poker's very own living dead assembled in the recently refurbished G Casino for the penultimate leg of this year's GUKPT. With recent numbers in Thanet and Bolton lacking, an impressive 343 found their way to this seasonal coastal town with the likes of Ian Frazer, James Akenhead, Praz Bansi, Sam Trickett, Mickey Wernick and reigning champion Paul Bracken all avoiding the magnetic field of Warsaw or Amsterdam and setting their sights on more local shores.

As the penultimate stop on the Tour, valuable points and last minute seats in the debuting Champion of Champions event were all up for grabs, as was the mouth-watering £96,500 first prize and the accompanying seat in the upcoming Grand Final.