Grosvenor's run-in to the end of 2026, revised: two G200 rounds, a £250,000 Behemoth and a UKPL finale that moved to December

This item was first published on 1 October 2026 and has been rewritten after re-reading Grosvenor's four series pages on 2 November. Three of the four had changed.

The G200: two rounds left

Round 12 at Newcastle and Portsmouth has been played. Round 13 runs at Bolton and Edinburgh from 10 to 15 November and Round 14 at Sheffield and Glasgow Merchant City from 1 to 6 December, both at £175 plus a £25 fee for £50,000 guaranteed — the lower buy-in Grosvenor introduced for 2026, with the guarantee left where it was. Grosvenor removes played rounds from the flight table rather than marking them complete, so the live page shows only what is still to come.

The Monster Stack Tour got longer

In October the tour's table ran to nineteen legs and finished with Luton in early November. It now shows three legs still to play: Luton from 3 to 8 November, Reading South from 10 to 15 November and Edinburgh from 15 to 20 December. Terms are unchanged at £80 plus £20 for a £50,000 guarantee, which remains the cheapest five-figure guarantee on the UK calendar — half the price of a G200 for the same money.

The UKPL finale moved six weeks

The UKPL page now opens with a notice that the Coventry dates have changed and that the festival runs 15 to 20 December. It had been published as 10 to 15 November, taken from a dated season table that has since come off the page. Seven tournaments carry £300,000 in guarantees, headed by the £500+£60 888poker Main Event at £150,000 — raised from £100,000 for 2026 at an unchanged buy-in. The 888poker UKPL terms further down the same page still describe the season as finishing on 15 November and have not been updated, though they reserve Grosvenor's right to move the finish date.

The Behemoth page caught up, and the format changed

When we checked on 1 October, Grosvenor's Behemoth schedule page was still showing the previous season's festival and the dates had to be taken from the live poker index instead. The page now carries a fully dated schedule for 6 to 13 December 2026 at Grosvenor Casino Coventry: £260 plus £40 for £250,000 guaranteed over nine Day 1 flights, the first two played online on the Sunday and Monday evenings.

The format change is the more interesting development. Grosvenor now pays 15 per cent of each Day 1 flight on the day it is played and plays down to 10 per cent, who carry a stack into Day 2. A min-cash no longer depends on surviving a second day, which changes the risk of the trip for anyone travelling a long way for a £300 tournament more than the headline guarantee does. Four other events sit around it: a £900+£100 High Roller for £50,000, the £360+£40 Behemoth Cup for £30,000, a £150+£15 four-card PLO for £10,000 and the £180+£20 Closer for £10,000, with satellites from £60+£10 including a Tuesday-evening Super Cashout carrying thirty guaranteed seats.

What the calendar now looks like

Mid-November is the busiest week: G200 Round 13 at two venues and the Monster Stack at Reading South, all 10 to 15 November, alongside the CAPT Million running in Austria. December is heavier than it was. Round 14 of the G200 plays 1 to 6 December, the Behemoth opens on the 6th and runs to the 13th, and the week of 15 to 20 December now carries both the rescheduled UKPL Coventry festival and the Monster Stack Tour's closing leg at Edinburgh — a £560 Main Event in the Midlands and a £100 tournament in Scotland on the same six days.

The practical warning stands from the UKPL change: Grosvenor's published dates for the Coventry festival have moved twice in six weeks. Anyone holding travel should confirm with the room rather than with a schedule page.