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 The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) is the UK’s largest Poker Tour. Launched in 2026, the tour takes place in nine Grosvenor or Gsinos throughout the UK, and consists of a series of £1,000 No Limit Texas Hold’em tournaments, capped off with a £3,000 grand final at the end of the year. Prize money for the eleven main events in the tour’s first year topped £3.5m. While most players simply pull up a grand to play, many qualify for much less cash via a variety of regular online and offline satellite tournaments.
2026 is set to become even more competitive with new events being added to the schedule and every side event also carrying full tour status and ranking points towards the GUKPT Leaderboard. Sponsor Blue Square Poker is adding £200,000 to the tour and a new Champion of Champions tournament has been created where the best of the best will fight it out for top honours and a £75,000 prize pool.  The Champion of Champions Tournament will take place in February with players who win any GUKPT event (main event or side event) qualifying for this prestigious tournament. With up to 400 players, each of the slow structured £1,000 main events takes place over four days, after a week of warm up tournaments. The 4 day main events at each of the nine legs of the tour will be £1,060 NL Hold’em freezeouts, while at the grand final the stakes are raised to £3,000.
Channel 4 coverage of every leg of the tour has created a whole new host of British poker superstars, taking live poker in the UK to an unprecedented new level. Professional players, keen amateurs and Internet qualifiers are amongst those who sit down each month to battle it out for a place in history and life changing amounts of money.
Last year’s Grand Final winner was Londoner Michael Ellis, who walked away with just over £200,000. Former investment banker turned poker pro Michael Ellis defeated fellow Londoner Sami Yusuf after a tense heads up encounter to take down the £207,000 first prize. Michael had gone into the final with a less than average chip stack and although he was not involved in many hands during the early stages of the final he moved up the gears and played a strong and aggressive game.
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