Three of the nine legs of next year’s Grosvenor UK Poker Tour will be played in London, it has been confirmed, with the capital opening and closing the season once again. Grosvenor Poker has published the 2027 schedule, which doubles as the tour’s 20th anniversary season, with the action getting underway in London on the 14th of January before running through to the 24th of that month.
The second London stop follows later in the year, arriving on the eighth of April and carrying on until the 18th, whilst the GUKPT Grand Final heads back to the capital from the 18th to the 28th of November. Buy-ins, guarantees and individual event schedules haven’t been released yet, with Grosvenor saying that those details will come separately and that dates and venues remain subject to change.
Three Trips to the Capital
Grosvenor hasn’t attached a specific casino to any of the London dates just yet, but it would be a surprise if they went anywhere other than the Grosvenor Victoria on Edgware Road. The Vic hosted all three London legs in 2026 after all, the first of which started on the eighth of January, so next year’s opening event lands just six days later in the calendar.
The Grand Final is traditionally a Vic affair too, with the one recent exception to that rule being in 2024, when it moved to Luton whilst the casino went through a £15 million refurbishment. This year’s edition hasn’t even been played yet, as it runs at the Vic from the 19th to the 29th of November with £1.2 million in festival guarantees, so the 2027 dates have landed before the current season has even finished.
There could be something different on offer for London regulars as well. Grosvenor is considering mixed-game festivals at the Victoria as well as at its Bury New Road casino in Manchester. If they happen, they will be part of a wider 2027 calendar that’s expected to run to more than 90 festivals of poker and special events across its venues. Nothing is confirmed on that front, though more news has been promised for soon.
The Rest of the Tour
Outside of London, Manchester picks up the second leg in February of 2027, whilst Luton hosts twice and the likes of Leeds, Blackpool and Glasgow also get a stop apiece. Glasgow keeps its place after the Scottish leg switched there from Edinburgh earlier this year. The UK Open moves to March, which means that two GUKPT legs will be done and dusted before the first of Grosvenor’s standalone festivals, whilst Goliath and Behemoth both return to Coventry in the summer and in December respectively.
The full 2027 schedule is as follows:
- GUKPT London, the 14th to the 24th of January
- GUKPT Manchester, the fourth to the 14th of February
- UK Open, Coventry, the fourth to the 14th of March
- GUKPT London, the eighth to the 18th of April
- GUKPT Luton, the ninth to the 16th of May
- Goliath, Coventry, the 22nd of July to the first of August
- GUKPT Glasgow, the fifth to the 15th of August
- GUKPT Luton, the second to the 12th of September
- GUKPT Leeds, the 30th of September to the 10th of October
- GUKPT Blackpool, the 28th of October to the seventh of November
- GUKPT Grand Final, London, the 18th to the 28th of November
- Behemoth, Coventry, the sixth to the 12th of December