Sixth Goliath Poker series ends in the UK

November 9, 2016

Grosvenor Casinos in the UK wound up its sixth Goliath Poker series this week with a GBP 120 buy-in main event that pulled in 5,232 entries (a thousand up on the same event last year) to create a prize pool worth GBP 523,200 London IT consultant and player Vamshi Vandanapu took home the honours and […]

UK poker tournament attracts record number of players

August 9, 2016

Grosvenor Casinos, a subsidiary of the UK-based Rank Group, had high expectations for this year’s Goliath poker tournament but no one expected the numbers witnessed over the last week, a company statement advised Tuesday. The Goliath 2016 GBP 120 buy-in Main Event attracted a record 5,232 entries, over a thousand more than in 2015, creating […]

Goliath poker tournament draws thousands

August 19, 2015

Live poker remains popular in Britain judging by the turnout for the GBP 120 buy-in annual Goliath competition organised by the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour and held this year at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. The event recorded 4,120 entries from 2,764 unique players, which easily surpassed the GBP 250,000 guaranteed prize pool at GBP […]