Grosvenor UK Poker Tour

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) is is a major series of regional poker tournaments held across the United Kingdom. It is the most popular and longest-running poker festival in the UK. Each leg of the GUKPT is headlined by a Main Event, and have varied buy-ins from £550-£3,150.

Launching in 2007, the GUKPT has held events all around the UK and has often been the first stepping stone for some of the biggest names in British poker.

PokerNews has provided live coverage from the GUKPT since 2022.

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2007

The first season of the GUKPT was a huge success, attracting large attendances and generating massive prize pools. Seven of the season's Main Event winners would win six-figure prizes, with Mazhar Nawab being awarded the largest prize.

Nawab got his hands on the GUKPT Newcastle Main Event title and £205,000 first-place prize. Mike Paul Ellis was the next big winner, he had a £197,600 payday following his victory at the GUKPT Grand Final.

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2008

Sam Trickett was one of the Main Event winners in the second-ever season of the GUKPT. Just a few weeks after finishing fourth in the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em event at the 2008 WSOP for $245,927. Trickett boosted his bankroll by another six figures, winning £109,050 for his victory in the GUKPT Luton Main Event.

Former professional footballer Tony Cascarino took his skills from the pitch to the poker felt. That they translated into a £52,850 win after he triumphed in the GUKPT Bolton Main Event.

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2009

Cascarino continued to shine in the 2009 GUKPT season, picking up another victory on the circuit. He secured his largest ever cash of £168,800 at the GUKPT London Grand Final. It would be his second Main Event and also his last.

The former Aston Villa and Chelsea forward would go onto cash in a GUKPT side event in Luton before recording his last result at the GUKPT in 2010.

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2010

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2011

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2012

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2013

The United Kingdom's Kevin Allen won the 2013 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Grand Final following an epic final day comeback. Allen topped the 294-player field to take home the £1578,700 first place prize.

Polarizing figure William Kassouf also made the final table of the same event but exited early in eighth-place. Three years later, Kassouf would make headlines at the 2016 WSOP for his barrage of speech play. Kassouf would make a deep run, finishing in 17th place for $338,000.

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2014

Benjamin Winsor picked up his first GUKPT Main Event title at the Walsall leg of the 2014 GUKPT season. Winsor outlasted 155 other entries to take home the £29,000 up top.

Winsor would go on to dominate the GUKPT over the coming years and currently sits atop of the GUKPT Main Event All Time Money List with total earnings of $860,890.

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2015

Raul Martinez finished Day 1a of the 2015 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Reading Main Event as the chip leader and never looked back.

Martinez ended Day 2 second in chips among the 17 survivors, and when the dust settled on Sunday night, Martinez was the last man standing to become the newest member of the GUKPT family.

Read More: Jonny Gray Wins 2015 GUKPT Blackpool Main Event For £69,000

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2016

Marc Wright secured the largest live tournament cash of his career this weekend when he topped a field of 276 players in the 2016 GUKPT Grand Final, turning his £2,125 into £132,380.

Wright, known as “dean23price”, had already won just shy of $4 million online. He now has $444,253 in live tournament winnings thanks to his GUKPT win. His previous largest live cash came in 2012 when he finished seventh in the EPT Berlin Main Event, a result that netted him €97,000.

Read More: Driton Haxhiaj Wins His Second GUKPT Luton Title

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2017

One of the more interesting stories that developed from the 2017 GUKPT season was Gareth Howard taking down the Walsall Main Event.

Howard, a car body shop repairman by trade, overcame a field littered with big names to walk away with a £28,845 payday. He reigned supreme over a final table that included the likes of Grosvenor Poker Pro Rick Trigg and Yiannis Liperis.

He would defeat Reading Main Event winner Alli Mallu at heads-up play to secure his maiden GUKPT title.

Andrew Hills was another winner in the 2017 season, triumphing in the Manchester leg of the tour. Michael Zhang picked up the first Main Event of the season and took home the biggest prize of the season, cashing for £113,000.

Read More: George Alexander Conquers 2017 GUKPT London

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2018

Frenchman Jerome L'Hostis secured his second six-figure score of 2018 and the largest live poker tournament cash of his career when he topped a field of 325 entrants in the £400,000 ($514,225) guaranteed 2018 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Grand Final Main Event.

Read More: Jerome L'Hostis Crowned 2018 GUKPT Grand Final Champion ($180,530)

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2019

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2020

The coronavirus pandemic heavily affected live poker across the world and the GUKPT was no exception. Only two stops of the tour played out with Artan Dedusha and Ben Dobson being the only winners.

Read More: Artan Dedusha Wins the 2020 GUKPT London Main Event; Victoria Coren-Mitchell Fifth

GUKPT Main Event Winners 2021

The 2021 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) enjoyed something of a renaissance with every stop seeing incredible attendance figures. That trend continued in the GUKPT Grand Final Main Event with 607 entrants creating a £1,092,600 prize pool, the largest ever Grand Final in the tour’s long history.

Andy Moc was the man who came out on top of that star-studded field. His reward? A cool £265,350! However, it was Yucel Eminoglu, a player known affectionately as "Mad Turk," who hit the headlines after laddering from fifth to second with a super-short stack.

Read More: Rick Trigg Wins 2021 GUKPT Manchester Main Event For £134,250

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