One more day left of the Cheltenham Festival, and it’s safe to say we’ll all be exhausted by the weekend! Gold Cup Day is here and, as always, it’s going to be tremendously exciting. I have two runners on Friday’s card at Prestbury Park, Gin Coco and Gidleigh Park. Cheltenham, Friday Gin Coco runs in the County Hurdle (14:10), but he definitely wants better ground, so we will be monitoring conditions closely. We haven’t seen him since he disappointed at Doncaster in December, but that was three weeks after winning at Ascot and it just proved too soon for him. He’s best fresh, so we’ve delibera ..read more

The much-anticipated Cheltenham Festival is hurtling towards us now, but the rest of the racing world doesn’t stop! We have two runners this weekend to get through first before we head to Prestbury Park next week. We have a couple of decisions still to make and will likely announce which race Gidleigh Park is set to run in over the weekend, while we have also given Love Envoi the option of the Champion Hurdle, now that Constitution Hill is out of contention. Part of our decision will ride on where Lossiemouth goes…! Whether Love Envoi goes for the Mares’, as originally intended, or the Champio ..read more

There are lots of variants of poker out there, but all revolve around betting. And if you want to get into playing poker, or want to improve your play, it’s vital to understand how poker betting rules work. Here we explain the basics of how to bet on poker, including the general rules of poker betting and common poker betting terminology. We’ll cover calling, raising, buy-ins and royal flushes. How does betting work in poker? Different variants of poker will have different twists on poker betting, but most forms of poker are played as variations on the following: Players place forced bets bef ..read more

Rick Trigg is an established member of Team Grosvenor and a well-known face across the UK Poker scene. Trigg’s live results are particularly standout with a record-equaling 3 GUKPT Main Event titles to his name. His first came in Blackpool 2013, and after nearly eight years he bagged himself two titles in quick succession during Manchester’s event in 2021 and Reading 2022.   Trigg currently sits 6th on the GUKPTs all-time money list with over £500,000 in cashes and £1,415,590 in total live earnings. But It’s not just live where Trigg has had success – his online cashes are even more ..read more

Andy Hills came onto Grosvenor Poker’s radar in 2017 when he won the first ever GCOOP (Grosvenor Championship of Online Poker). Andy is a globetrotting poker player with an impressive record of cashing in poker tournaments across 32 countries, and subsequently amassing total earnings of more than £1,000,000.   Andy has been a regular on the Grosvenor Poker scene since 2010 where he marked his very first win in the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Blackpool Summer Series. Since then, Andy has had many wins in Grosvenor Poker events, a particular highlight included his 1st place in the GUKPT Ma ..read more

Jamie joined Team Grosvenor after building a successful Twitch channel where his many followers watch him take on everything the mid to high-stakes has to offer both on Grosvenorpoker.com and with other online poker providers.   In his relatively short poker career, Jamie has already surpassed £500,000 live poker lifetime earnings. His biggest live cash to date was for £93,970 when he took 1st place in the Main Event at The Grand Final of Grosvenor’s UK Poker Tour in London.   When asked about his first GUKPT win at The Grand Final, Jamie said: “It means a lot. It’s nice to ..read more

Katie Swift is the longest standing member of Team Grosvenor and a prominent voice among the women’s poker community. A proud runner up of Goliath, Katie’s poker CV is both extensive and impressive with close to £350,000 in lifetime earnings.   Aside from finishing second in Goliath 2015 – The biggest live tournament outside of Vegas – where she won £40,000 from just a £130 buy-in, Katie has amassed a selection of stand-out career highlights. Her biggest live tournament cash came in Party Poker’s MILLIONS in Nottingham for a staggering £100,000, whilst on the virtual felt she finishe ..read more

The UK Poker Open has made a spectacular debut with a £1,500 buy-in Main Event that attracted more than a thousand entries and created the biggest prize pool in Grosvenor poker history. There were a total of 1,086 entries to the £1 million guaranteed Main Event at Grosvenor Casino Coventry, generating a record prize pool of £1,466,100. The whole festival was a huge success with numerous players saying it was the best five days poker they’d ever had. Man Moc (pictured) won a life-changing first prize of £325,190 – the biggest Grosvenor prize ever – after besting the super-tough final table ..read more

Grosvenor Poker seeks to bolster it’s National Poker League with a brand-new event for 2023 – The UK Poker Open. The full 10-day festival will take place at the home of Goliath, Grosvenor Casino Coventry, from the 24th of February to 5th of March and will have a whopping £1 million guaranteed prize pool. With a buy-in of £1,500, the UK Poker Open is sure to tempt some of the most seasoned poker players on the circuit as they compete for a Goliath worthy prize pool against a much tighter field. Of course, like all Grosvenor Poker Events, expect plenty of side events and cash tables galore as no ..read more

The Grosvenor Poker ‘National Bad Beat Jackpot’, which stood at a staggering £380,000 –  was finally claimed in the early hours of Saturday morning! We’ve all heard poker players telling their bad beat stories, well, you might want to hear Mickey Wharton Senior’s, as this netted him a whopping £114,000. Mickey, from Sunderland, claimed the biggest ever National Bad Beat Jackpot prize won at Grosvenor Casinos last weekend, playing No Limit Hold‘em cash game poker in his local poker room in Sunderland. To be in with a chance to win the jackpot, players must be playing cash game poker in one ..read more