There’s something about the World Series of Poker that gets people’s juices going, gives people the urge to get out there and play. All the news, videos and social media posts create seven weeks of FOMO for those who didn’t make the journey to Las Vegas. This produces a collective response as soon as the WSOP is done and dusted, as people simply want to get out there and play some live poker.
With the annual summer WSOP now consigned to the history books, attention now focuses on the domestic live poker scene in the UK. We take a look at the key events running throughout the country in late July and August, marking your card on what there is to play and where to do it.
It’s a busy time for UK poker with the biggest event of them all, the Goliath in Coventry being the highlight of the forthcoming schedule. Geographically there’s something for everyone, with PartyPoker Tour Glasgow, GUKPT Luton and APAT’s Amateur World Championship in Nottingham being the highlights of next month. There’s also a new live poker event starting in August, called the Poker Experience Tour, with its first stop in Manchester.
🇬🇧 UK Poker Events: Late July & August 2025
| Dates | Event Name | Location | Main Event Buy-in |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 24–28 | GUKPT Coventry Main Event | Coventry (Grosvenor Casino) | £1,100 + £150 |
| July 26 – August 3 | Goliath | Coventry (Grosvenor Casino) | £160 + £40 |
| August 7–10 | Poker Experience Tour (PET) | Manchester (Manchester 235) | £200 + £40 (Progressive Mystery Bounty) |
| August 12–17 | PartyPoker Tour Glasgow | Glasgow (Alea Casino) | £455 + £45 |
| August 14–24 | GUKPT Luton | Luton (Grosvenor Casino) | £1,100 + £150 |
| August 14–17 | Women’s Summer Festival London | London (Clermont Hotel) | £346 + £54 |
| August 20–25 | World Championship of Amateur Poker (WCOAP) | Nottingham (Dusk Till Dawn) | £175 + £35 |
Now let’s take a look in a bit more detail at some of the key events taking place in the UK in August.
The Grosvenor Goliath
The Goliath Festival at Coventry’s Grosvenor Casino begins later this week, starting with a GUKPT Main Event which runs from 24th-28th July, with a £1m guarantee. This coincides with the opening flights of the £160+£40 Goliath, which start from Saturday 26th July.
The Goliath itself runs from 26th until August 3rd, with eight starting flights and an expectation that the prize pool will be above £1.5m and could surpass £2m for the first time. There’s a full side event schedule, which includes several Redtooth Poker tournaments and other key side events sponsored by Main Event Travel, Cardroom Direct and Pokernews.
The schedule includes something for everyone, with buy-ins ranging from £75-£3,000 during the 11-day festival. The Goliath is very affordable, at just £200 and many of the side events are priced at even less, such as the low buy-in Redtooth events, on both weekends of the festival.
As well as being the biggest poker event that takes place outside Las Vegas, the Goliath can also be a lot of fun, with coverage on the Grosvenor Live stream hosted by Phil ’The Tower’ Heald and Jay ‘Almost as Tall’ Harwood.
Phil recently returned from Las Vegas, where he made Day 3 of the WSOP Main Event, making it close to the money, but not quite managing to light a celebratory cigar. As well as commentating, Tower also hosts the £100 charity Joker Poker Event and one year interviewed Patrick Antonius on stage, while in full joker costume.
- Read More: Goliath 2025 Guide and Schedule
Key Tournaments
- GUKPT Coventry Main Event, 24th-27th July, £1,100+£150, 3 x starting days, £1m Guarantee
- The Goliath, 26th July – 3rd August, £160+£40, 8 x starting days
- Cardroom Direct Mystery Bounty, 27th-31st July, £200+£200+£40, 3 x starting days, £100,000 Guarantee
- Main Event Travel Open, 30th July – 3rd August, £260+£40, 4 x starting days
- Pokernews Cup, 2nd-3rd August, £500+£50
- Redtooth Big One, 27th-28th July, £100+£25, £25,000 Guaranteed
- Joker Poker, 30th July, £75+£15+£10
Online Satellites
Online satellites to the Goliath have been running on PokerStars since April, but there are still a few opportunities left to bag your seat. Costing £22 to enter, seat only satellites have been running at 8pm (BST) on Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays and there are just a few left to bag a seat into the UK’s biggest poker tournament.
The final Goliath satellite on PokerStars runs on Sunday July 27th, with 50 seats guaranteed. On the penultimate week of qualifying, this satellite produced 80 seats into the Goliath and there’s an expectation that the last one could be even bigger.
Grosvenor Poker also runs Live Credit satellites, which are valid for almost all poker events that take place within the Grosvenor/G-Casino estate, including the Goliath. They run 3-times per day with varying buy-ins, awarding a total of £20,000 per week in live credit.
PartyPoker Tour Glasgow
The third event of the new Party Poker Tour rolls into Glasgow in August, taking place at the Alea Casino from 12-17th August, featuring a £500 buy-in main event with a £100,000 guaranteed prize pool. The festival also includes a £150 Mini Main Event, a £250 Mystery Bounty and the £250 Omaha Masters Main Event.
There are several other Omaha Masters events taking place at the festival, including a Big O and a 4/5/6 Card to close the festival.
poker.pro will also be at PartyPoker Tour Glasgow, providing live reporting on the Main Event. In addition, poker.pro is hosting one of the tournaments on the schedule. It’s a H.O.R.S.E event, with a cheap and hopefully cheerful £50+£10 buy-in and takes place on Wednesday 13th August.
Key Tournaments
- Mini Main Event, £130+£20, 12th-15th August, 3 starting days
- Main Event, £455+£45, 14th-17th August, 4 starting days
- High Roller 7-Max, £910+£90, 17th August, 1 day event
- Mystery Bounty, £120+£100+£30, 17th August, 1 day event
- PLO Masters Main Event, £220+£30, 15th-17th August, 3 starting days, £25,000 Guaranteed
- poker.pro H.O.R.S.E, £50+£10, 13th August, 1 day event
Online Satellites
Online, the Party Poker Tour path runs daily, with weekly finals on Sundays, with multiple seats guaranteed each week. There are five rounds, the last of which is at 8pm on Sundays, but it’s not possible to buy-in directly, you have to win your way in through a round 4 satellite, which costs £25 to enter and takes place daily, with 15% progressing to the Sunday Final.
For those who prefer to get in cheaper, round 1 satellites cost just $0.01 to enter, round 2 costs £1 to play and it’s £5 to start at round three.
- Read more: Turn 1 Cent Into Live Poker Glory at the PartyPoker Tour
- Read more: Why Satellites Are the Secret Sauce of the PartyPoker Tour
GUKPT Luton
The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour is now in its 19th season and in August the tour visits the G Casino in Luton, from 14th-24th August. Seb Crane is the defending champion for the Luton Main event, at which he outlasted a 284-player field, defeating Katie Swift heads-up, to claim the £66,000 first prize.
The festival includes four marquee events, starting with the £260+£40 buy-in Opener. This is followed by the £220+£30 Mini Main and the £1,100+£150 Main Event, with the £500 GUKPT Cup on the final weekend. There’s also a £1,500+£150 High Roller, a couple of PLO tournaments and a Seniors Event.
Key Tournaments
- The Opener, £260+£40, 14th-17th August, 5 starting days, £100,000 Guaranteed
- Mini Main Event, £220+£30, 17th-20th, 5 starting days, £100,000 Guaranteed
- Main Event, £1,100+£150, 21st-24th, 3 starting days, £250,000 Guaranteed
- High Roller, £1,500+£150, 20th-21st August, £100,000 Guaranteed
- GUKPT Cup, £500+£50, 23rd-24th August, £50,000 Guaranteed
Online Satellites
Grosvenor Poker runs Live Credit satellites, valid for all GUKPT events. They run 3 times per day with various different buy-ins, awarding a total of £20,000 per week in live credit. Feeders to Live Credit satellites start at £1. Live Credit can be used for other events at Grosvenor Casinos, including the Goliath and 25/50 tournaments and there is no expiration date on Live Credit, so if you don’t feel like using it until next year, that’s cool.
World Championship of Amateur Poker at Dusk Till Dawn
The Amateur Poker Tour and Association (APAT) is the longest running poker tour in the UK, it began just before the GUKPT did, in 2006/7. Coming up in August is the highlight of the Tour’s annual calendar, the World Championship of Amateur Poker (WCOAP), which takes place at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham, from 20th-25th August. Nick Bowyer is the defending champion, having topped a 518-player field to win the 20245 championship title and the £15,000 first prize.
The highlight is the £175+£35 No Limit Hold’em World Amateur Poker Championship, which has four starting days, but there are also several other championship events taking place during the week, including the International Team Championship, 8-Game, T.O.R.S.E, 2-7 Triple Draw and many more. For full details of all championship events check the APAT website.
World Amateur Poker Championship Schedule
- Day 1a – 2pm, Sunday 17th August
- Day 1b – 2pm, Friday 22nd August
- Day 1c – 1pm, Saturday 23rd August
- Day 1d Turbo – 7pm, Saturday, 23rd August
- Day 2 – 12pm, 24th August
Online Satellites
Grosvenor Poker is the online partner for APAT and although they do host event specific satellites, they also run APAT Players’ Choice satellites on Sunday evenings, which award £140 seats that can be used towards the buy-ins at the festival.
Women’s Summer Festival London
PokerStars is sponsoring the Women’s Summer Festival in London. It’s being run by the team at the Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square, however the event itself will take place at the Clermont Hotel at Charing Cross and features a concise tournament schedule with a £100,000 guaranteed main event, with a £400 buy-in. There’s also a £1,100 High Roller and a couple of lower priced side events.
Although it’s a women’s poker festival, there is a side event on the schedule that allows men to play, with restrictions. The restriction on the £220 NLH 50/50, which takes place on Saturday 16th August, is that men can only register along with a woman, to ensure that the make up of the event is exactly 50% men and 50% women.
Key Tournaments
- High Roller, £960+£54, 13th August, 1 day tournament, £30,000 Guaranteed
- Main Event, £346+£54, 14th-17th August, 3 starting days, £100,000 Guaranteed
- No Limit Hold’em 50/50, £200+£20, 16th August, 1 day tournament
Satellites
Online Satellites to the Women’s Summer Festival Main Event take place on PokerStars every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, costing £50 to enter. There will also be live satellites during the festival week, into both the High Roller and the Main Event.
Inaugural Poker Experience Tour Event in Manchester
The Poker Experience Tour (PET) is the newest poker tour to hit the shelves in the UK in 2025. Specifically hitting the shelf at Manchester’s 235 Casino from 7th-10th August, with the inaugural full festival for the new tour, operated by Paul Moyce and Glenn Brown. There was a kick off PET tournament held at the Beer Poker Tour London in June (won by Jason Glatzer), but this is the first full event they will host.
The tour is another low buy-in event aimed at grassroots recreational players. The full schedule is due to be released imminently, but we’ve had a sneak peak and can tell you that it includes a £240 Main Event, which has seven starting days. There’s also a £120 4/5 card PLO and nightly turbos with £80 buy-ins. As it’s a recreational player focused event, there are also several £30 satellites to the Main Event throughout the schedule.
The USP of PET is in the name, experience, as that is what they aim to deliver, with fun events and lots frills.
The Frills
PET has some unique aspects, such as the format of its main event, which is Progressive Mystery Bounty. There are progressive bounties right from the start and mystery bounties once they reach the prize money. The mystery prizes include an added prize package to a mystery event somewhere in Europe (most likely Battle of Malta).
Another frill is that the owners of the tour are giving away 10% of the company, to the winners of some of the events. The winners of the Main Event, PLO and Turbo side event will all receive a small piece of the company, in the form of shares, although they don’t expect dividends to be huge in the first couple of years. The PLO is sponsored by poker.pro and is a 4/5 Card version, with a £100+£20 buy-in.
Key Tournaments
- Progressive Mystery Bounty Main Event, £200+£40, 7th-10th August, 7 starting days
- Poker.Pro 4/5 Card Pot Limit Omaha, 8th August, 1 day event
- The Closer, £100+£20, 10th August, 1 day event
Other Events
There’s so much going on in August, that we haven’t covered everything in depth. Other events taking place include the Hippodrome’s Lightning Tournament on August 5th, a £1,100 buy-in one-day turbo event.
At the end of the month, several Grosvenor 25/50 Series events take place, all running from 27th-31st August, each with a £220+£30 buy-in and four starting days. They are running at Grosvenor Casinos in Portsmouth, Birmingham (Hill St), Leeds and Dundee, all on the same dates, all with £50,000 guaranteed.
Also running on the same dates as the 25/50 Series is the Victoria Deepstack, at the newly refurbished Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London, a £300 buy-in event with a £100,000 guaranteed.
