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The £100,000 guaranteed Monster Stack at the Grosvenor Goliath festival concluded in unusual fashion, with the last 11 players agreeing to divide the remaining prize money rather than continuing to a natural finish. Multi-way deals are common in poker, but agreements involving so many players remain a rarity.

The event attracted 2,726 entries across four starting flights, generating a prize pool of £207,100, more than double its original guarantee. Social media reports suggested that the combination of a low buy-in and a massive field left the average stack at just eight big blinds for over two hours, prompting the eventual chop.

Hongtao Sun was declared the tournament’s official champion, earning £13,255, well below the roughly £30,000 that first place would have paid outright. Ryan Bignell emerged as the deal’s biggest winner in relative terms, converting a stack of just two big blinds into a £4,300 payday instead of a min-cash worth around £1,000.

Elsewhere at the festival, the £1,250 buy-in GUKPT Main Event has reached its nine-player final table after drawing 876 entries. Ravi Sheth leads the remaining field and is chasing a top prize of £194,750, a notable storyline given that he won the same event in 2025 for £192,700 from a 1,023-entry field.

That tournament paid 111 places, with recognizable names such as John Bousfield, Phil Tate, and Alex Todd among those cashing. Five players who qualified through GGPoker also received a 10% prize boost via the Grosvenor-GGPoker partnership.

Meanwhile, the separate £200 Goliath event, with an estimated £2 million prize pool, has already broken attendance records after its first two flights, with Day 1c underway as of July 27.