UK poker tournaments: the GUKPT, G200, Goliath and WSOP Circuit calendar

British tournament poker is unusually legible compared with most markets, because a handful of operators publish full season schedules in advance. Grosvenor's tours set the backbone of the year, Dusk Till Dawn supplies the ring series and the deep-stack championships, and the London rooms fill every week in between. Every event on this page comes from the operator's own schedule, with the buy-in as published.

The GUKPT

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour is the country's established national tour, moving between the group's rooms and building to a Grand Final in London in late November at a buy-in of two thousand pounds. Each stop is a festival rather than a single event: the Blackpool leg at the turn of the month runs a high roller, a pot-limit Omaha high roller, the main event, a mini main, a cup and a warm-up, so a player can arrive at almost any budget and find a bracket.

G200, G300 and the leagues

Beneath the tour sit the series that carry the volume. The G200, at two hundred pounds, runs stops through the year and finishes in December at Glasgow Merchant City and Sheffield, having passed through Newcastle, Portsmouth, Bolton and Edinburgh in the autumn. The G300 does the same a tier up, including the Manchester Bury New Road edition in October. The UK Poker League and the National Poker League run as season-long competitions rather than single festivals, and the Monster Stack Tour is the entry point of the set at a hundred pounds.

Goliath and Behemoth

Coventry is the home of Grosvenor's two giants. Behemoth runs in December at three hundred pounds; Goliath, the summer event the tour is best known for, is already on the calendar for July 2027.

Dusk Till Dawn: the ring series and the championships

Nottingham carries the British stop of the WSOP Circuit, played over nearly two weeks in November with a fifteen-hundred-pound main event - the one place in the country where a World Series ring is on the table. Around it Dusk Till Dawn runs the UK Poker Championships in January, the Christmas Cup between Boxing Day and the end of December, the Deepstack, and the DTD150 and DTD300 one-day events that keep the room busy the rest of the time.

London week to week

The capital does not wait for festivals. Genting Stratford runs the British Poker Series - a championship main event, a mini main, a two-hundred-and-thirty-five-pound edition and a pot-limit Omaha event - over a full weekly schedule that starts at ten pounds on Mondays. The Empire in Leicester Square fills every day with dailies, progressive bounties and Omaha, and the Hippodrome runs a four-figure monthly flagship with its own satellite. Alea Glasgow does the same job for Scotland at buy-ins between thirty-five and fifty pounds.

Visiting tours

Two outside series also stop here in the autumn: 888poker LIVE in London in October, and the Irish Poker Tour's Glasgow Poker Festival in early November at four hundred pounds.

A word on dates

Schedules move. Where an operator has published a date we publish it with the date we read it, and we re-check the records as they age rather than leaving a stale calendar standing. Confirm with the room before travelling, particularly for the weekly events, which change more often than the festivals do.