The seventh of eight legs, nine if you include the Grand Final, of the 2025 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) sees the long-running tour head to Edinburgh, Scotland, from October 9 through October 19. A £1,000 buy-in, £150,000 guaranteed GUKPT Edinburgh Main Event is the showpiece tournament on the schedule, but there’s much more to this stop than that one event.
GUKPT Edinburgh has been a staple of the tour since debuting in 2014. The COVID-19-enforced lockdown aside, GUKPT has stopped off in the Scottish capital every year. The Grosvenor Maybury Casino, located at 1-5 South Maybury, will again host the GUKPT Edinburgh stop, ensuring players from far and wide are treated to a high-class live poker experience.
October 9 sees the first two of six flights in the £200 No-Limit Hold’em Opener shuffle up and deal. By the time late registration slams shut on Day 2 on October 12, Grosvenor Casinos guarantees that at least £50,000 will be in the prize pool.
Following the Opener is the £250 buy-in, £100,000 guaranteed Mini Main, the £1,650 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller, and the £1,000 buy-in, £150,000 guaranteed GUKPT Edinburgh Main Event.
Other side events include a £250 Pot-Limit Omaha event, a £200 No-Limit Hold’em tournament, the ever-popular £340 GUKPT Cup, a £150 Seniors, and a £330 PLO Bounty.
Of course, several GUKPT Edinburgh Main Event satellites run throughout the festival. Most guarantee five seats, but those on October 16 and October 17 have ten seats guaranteed. Those preferring to secure a GUKPT Edinburgh Main Event seat before traveling should check out the online satellites at Grosvenor Poker.
2025 GUKPT Edinburgh Schedule
Date
Time
Event
Guarantee
Thu 9 Oct
1:00 p.m.
£200 NLHE Opener Day 1a
£50,000
7:00 p.m.
£200 NLHE Opener Day 1b
£50,000
8:00 p.m.
£110 Main Event Turbo Satellite
5x seats
Fri 10 Oct
1:00 p.m.
£200 NLHE Opener Day 1c
£50,000
7:00 p.m.
£200 Opener Day 1d
£50,000
8:00 p.m.
£110 Main Eent Satellite
5x seats
Sat 11 Oct
1:00 p.m.
£200 NLHE Opener Day 1e
£50,000
7:00 p.m.
£200 NLHE Opener Day 1f
£50,000
8:00 p.m.
£110 NLHE Main Event Satellite
5x seats
Sun 12 Oct
12:00 p.m.
£200 NLHE Opener Day 2
£50,000
2:00 p.m.
£250 NLHE Mini Main Day 1a
£100,000
8:00 p.m.
£110 Main Event Satellite
5x seats
Mon 13 Oct
3:00 p.m.
£250 NLHE Mini Main Day 1b
£100,000
8:00 p.m.
£110 Main Event Satellite
5x seats
Tue 14 Oct
12:00 p.m.
£250 NLHE Mini Main Day 1c Turbo
£100,000
4:00 p.m.
£250 NLHE Mini Main Day 2
£100,000
5:00 p.m.
£250 Pot-Limit Omaha
9:00 p.m.
£180 High Roller Turbo Satellite
Wed 15 Oct
12:00 p.m.
£180 High Roller Turbo Satellite
3:00 p.m.
£1,650 NLHE High Roller Day 1
5:00 p.m.
£200 NLHE
5:00 p.m.
Mini Main Day 3
£100,000
8:00 p.m.
£110 Main Event Satellite
5x seats
Thu 16 Oct
12:00 p.m.
£1,650 NLHE High Roller Day 2
1:00 p.m.
£1,000 NLHE Main Event Day 1a
£150,000
7:00 p.m.
£110 Main Event Satellite
10x seats
Fri 17 Oct
12:00 p.m.
£1,000 NLHE Main Event Day 1b
£150,000
12:00 p.m.
£110 Main Event Turbo Satellite
10x seats
9:00 p.m.
£1,000 NLHE Main Event Day 1c Turbo
£150,000
Sat 18 Oct
12:00 p.m.
£1,000 Main Event Day 2
£150,000
1:00 p.m.
£340 NLHE GUKPT Cup Day 1
£30,000
Sun 19 Oct
12:00 p.m.
Main Event Day 3
£150,000
12:30 p.m.
£340 NLHE GUKPT Cup Day 2
£30,000
1:00 p.m.
£150 NLHE Seniors
3:00 p.m.
£330 PLO Bounty
Mon 20 Oct
7:00 p.m.
£110 Online Closer Day 1
£20,000
Tue 21 Oct
7:00 p.m.
Online Closer Day 2
£20,000
2024 GUKPT Edinburgh Results
Paul McAulay is the reigning GUKPT Edinburgh champion
Last year’s GUKPT Edinburgh festival awarded almost £450,000 across ten events. Paul McAulay was the biggest winner after he came out on top of a 184-strong crowd in the £1,250 Main Event to collect £34,810 of the £153,980 prize pool. McAulay defeated Matthew Davenport heads-up.
Ankit Ahuja also won big, scooping £25,200 for his £1,650 High Roller victory. Craig Smith (£14,620), and Sinead Davenport (£10,280) also took home five-figure prizes after finding themselves posing for winner’s photographs.
Event
Entrants
Prize Pool
Champion
Prize
£1,250 NLHE Main Event
184
£153,980
Paul McAulay
£34,810
£1,650 NLHE High Roller
50
£72,000
Ankit Ahuja
£25,200
£250 NLHE Mini Main
344
£67,650
Craig Smith
£14,620
£550 NLHE GUKPT Cup
86
£41,280
Sinead Davenport
£10,280
£200 NLHE Opener
308
£51,740
Michael Gielty
£9,735
£200 NLHE Closer
85
£14,690
Kye Hamilton
£3,660
£250 PLO
80
£17,270
Matt Cartwright
£3,330
£200 NLHE Turbo
65
£11,240
Paulo Santos
£2,930
£150 NLHE Seniors
87
£11,080
Anthony Gray
£2,760
£330 PLO 4/5/6 Card Bounty
50
£7,200
Chris Welsh
£2,410
Past GUKPT Edinburgh Main Event Champions
Ludovic Geilich
Andrew Teng won the inaugural GUKPT Edinburgh Main Event in April 2014. The Main Event commanded a £550 buy-in back then, and Teng turned that sum into £26,000. Former Irish Open champion James Mitchell came out on top the following year, walking away with £33,930.
The buy-in was increased to £750 in September 2021, resulting in a £61,220 top prize for Majid Iqbal. A further increase to £1,000 in May 2023 saw Ludovic Geilich outlast 365 opponents and claim a £79,590 score, the largest GUKPT Edinburgh Main Event prize.
Last year’s GUKPT Edinburgh Main Event cost £1,250 to enter. A field of 184 entrants, including re-entries, was the joint-lowest in the tournament’s history, which could be why Grosvenor Casinos has reduced the buy-in of this year’s Main Event to a more affordable £1,000.
Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.
