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The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) will make its tenth visit to Leeds when the 2026 festival runs from September 23 through October 4. It marks one of the final two stops before the season concludes with the Grand Final in mid-November.
The festival opens with a £60 satellite offering at least ten seats into both the £150 Warm Up and £250 Mini Main. The £150 Warm Up itself begins on September 24 with a £75,000 guarantee, while the £250 Mini Main follows across four starting flights and guarantees £100,000.
Additional events on the schedule include a £200 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament, a £1,500 High Roller, the £340 GUKPT Cup, a £200 Turbo, a £250 Last Chance event, and a £200 Closer. Every tournament carries its own prize pool guarantee.
The centerpiece of the festival is the £1,000 GUKPT Leeds Main Event, guaranteeing £200,000. It will feature three Day 1 flights, with late registration extending into the early stages of Day 2. Players can also qualify through live satellites or online events on Grosvenor Poker and GGPoker, with buy-ins starting from just £1. Under a partnership between the two sites, GGPoker satellite winners or direct entrants receive a 10% cash boost on any winnings.
Leeds has hosted the GUKPT Main Event since 2014, when Harry Law won the inaugural £550 buy-in edition for £32,500. The event moved to a £1,000 buy-in in 2023, with Christopher Johnson taking that year’s title for £73,070. In 2024, Konstantinos Patsourakis set the record for the largest Leeds Main Event prize, earning £78,419 after outlasting 360 players.
Keith Littlewood is the reigning champion, having won last year’s Main Event among 246 entrants for £40,440. He also captured the £330 Mystery Bounty event, one of ten champions crowned across eleven tournaments during the previous Leeds festival.
