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Grosvenor Casinos placed a £1 million guarantee on the 2025 edition of the Grosvenor UK Open Main Event, a £1,500 buy-in tournament held in Coventry. By the time late registration closed on the final Main Event flight, 951 players had bought in, including 240 re-entries, resulting in a £1,219,660 prize pool and a £219,720 top prize.

Andrew “Stato_1” Hulme wrote his name into Grosvenor’s history books by becoming the last player standing. The popular British grinder has millions of dollars’ worth of cashes from the online poker world, plus an additional $3.7 million from his live poker exploits. Regular PokerNews readers may remember Hulme finished second in the 2024 European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event for €1,165,614.

Although this payout was less than his Spanish haul, winning a major title on home soil, and his second six-figure prize in a Grosvenor-run British event – Hulme triumphed in the 2018 GUKPT London Main Event for £112,400 – will possibly make this latest victory taste all the more sweeter.

2025 Grosvenor UK Open Main Event Final Table Results

The top 121 finishers shared the guarantee-busting £1,219,660 prize pool. Some of the poker world’s most recognizable names enjoyed a return on their investments. They included Paul Vas Nunes, Mitchell Johnson, John Bousfield, Richard Ashby, former WSOP Main Event finalists Dean Hutchison and Antoine Saout, Keith Johnson, Vanessa Kade, Yucel “Mad Turk” Eminoglu, and Matthew Davenport.

Each of the nine finalists locked in £16,350, but nobody wanted to get their hands on that sum because almost £220,000 awaited the champion. Iason Filippidis was guaranteed his largest-ever score regardless of where he finished. As it happens, he busted in ninth when he four-bet shoved his final 15 big blinds with ace-queen and lost to Martin Donoghue’s pocket queens.

Wantao Tang also secured a career-high score by collecting the £22,440 eighth-place prize. Tang, who had two five-figure hauls in January, crashed out in circumstances not dissimilar to Filippidis. Tang committed his last 15 big blinds with ace-queen and will count himself unlucky to run into the pocket aces of Raymond Power.

Seven is considered lucky in many parts o the world, but try telling that to Tuan Van Le. First, he lost a huge portion of his stack running his pocket sevens into the pocket eights before getting the last of his chips into the middle with pocket sevens and losing to James “Raggy” Clarke’s ace-ten.

Sixth place and £43,910 went to Clarke, who clashed with Hulme. Clarke’s last action in the Grosvenor UK Open Main Event was to commit 14 big blinds to the pot with ace-five. Unfortunately for the man affectionately known as “Raggy,” Hulme woke up with a pair of jacks in the hole. Those jacks held, and Clarke found himself on the rail.

The £61,230 fifth-place prize money Donoghue helped himself to more than doubled his lifetime earnings. Donghue had three five-figure scores on his Hendon Mob profile before this event, including a £15,455 prize for a seventh-place finish in the UK Poker Championships Main Event in January 2025. Donoghue came unstuck when his ace-trey couldn’t find a three-outer to crack Power’s pocket kings.

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Having won a brace of events at the GUKPT Manchester stop in early February, Frenchman Antoine Labat was full of confidence, and navigated his way to the UK Open Main Event. Hulme ended any hopes Labat held of winning three Grosvenor events in the space of a month when he open-shoved from the small blind with ten-four. Labat called off ten big blinds with king-seven, and lost courtesy of a ten on the top. Labat headed to the cashier’s desk to collect £84,890.

Dale Wilson busted in third for £116,840, and although disappointed, he will look back on this event fondly once his adrenaline wears off. Wilson sat down at the final table with a meagre three big blinds stack, and he looked destined to bag the £16,350 ninth-place prize. However, he made it all the way to third place and a prize worth more than seven times that sum. Wilson has pocket kings in his exit hand, but Power improved to two pair, and the epic comeback was over.

Going into the heads-up, Hulme held a 17 million to 11 million chip lead over Power. Hulme also held a significant advantage regarding experience and winnings, with Hulme’s $3.7 million in live earnings eclipsing Power’s $87,000.

The final hand saw all the chips pass over the betting line, Hulme holding ace-ten and Power’s king-ten needing some help. That help did not arrive, busting Power in second place for £160,390 and leaving a delighted Hulme to bank £219,720and the title of 2025 Grosvenor UK Open Main Event champion.

2025 Grosvenor UK Open Results

Although Hulme was the largest winner of the 2025 Grosvenor UK Open, several other players raked in sizeable top prizes.

Rhys Keen turned £2,000 into £72,000 with a victory in the High Roller event, while Phil Tate reeled in £45,000 after winning the £340 Mini Main event. As Hulme was marching toward victory, Andrew Hawksby took down the £550 GUKPT Cup for £27,690, too.

A Six-Week Break for the GUKPT Grinders

Fans of the major Grosvenor-run events have a six-week respite before being called into action again. GUKPT Luton is scheduled from April 24 until May 2025. The popular leg of the GUKPT features a £1,250 buy-in Main Event with £250,000 guaranteed among its busy schedule.

The GUKPT stopped in Luton three times in 2024, running a £1,250 buy-in event each time. Christopher Johnson won the first Main Event, outlasting 211 opponents on his way to banking £48,570 and his second GUKPT Main Event title.

Seb Crane won the GUKPT Luton Main Event later in the year, coming out on top of a 284-strong crowd for a £66,000 score. Some 367 players bought in for the third and final GUKPT Luton Main Event, which was part of the 2024 GUKPT Grand Final schedule, in December. Niall Campbell triumphed and walked away with £89,000 for his efforts.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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