GUKPT Blackpool: Wilkinson Wins First Main Event Title for £55,035
Adam Wilkinson won his first GUKPT Main Event title after nearly two decades, taking £55,035 at Blackpool, according to a 9 November PokerNews report.
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On 9 November, PokerNews reported that Adam Wilkinson won the GUKPT Blackpool Main Event, earning a £55,035 first prize. The report said the Main Event was a £1,250 buy-in and drew 190 entrants for a £237,500 prize pool; PokerNews also said Wilkinson received an additional £5,504 for buying in through a GGPoker account.
The same day, PokerStrategy reported on the guarantee shortfall and gave a different set of figures: the £1,100+£150 Main Event drew 131 entries and 44 re-entries against a £250,000 guarantee, for an overlay of £57,500. The two reports use different bases for registration and prize-pool figures and should be understood separately. Full event details and final-table action are in the linked report.
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Adam Wilkinson Wins First GUKPT Main Event After Nearly Two Decades, £55,035 at Blackpool
Wilkinson’s 8-4 of diamonds completed a river flush in the final hand, sealing the GUKPT Blackpool Main Event title and the £55,035 first prize.
Read story ↗- PokerNews ↗ — PokerNews reported on 9 November that Adam Wilkinson won the £1,250 buy-in GUKPT Blackpool Main Event and earned a £55,035 first prize; the report said the Main Event had 190 entrants and a £237,500 prize pool, and that Wilkinson received an additional £5,504 for buying in through a GGPoker account.
- PokerStrategy ↗ — PokerStrategy reported on 9 November that the £1,100+£150 GUKPT Blackpool Main Event drew 131 entries and 44 re-entries against a £250,000 guarantee, for an overlay of £57,500; the article also said other events that weekend showed overlays or shortfalls, that registration remained open until the start of Day 2, that organizers had promoted the overlay, that lower buy-in events exceeded their guarantees, and that one Sunday side event was cancelled.
Local reading context
GUKPT stands for Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, one of the longer-running live poker tours in the UK. A guaranteed prize pool is the minimum total prize money the organizer promises; when the total generated by the prize-pool portion of entries falls below that guarantee, the shortfall is commonly called an overlay. In the reports, the Main Event buy-in is sometimes written as £1,250 and sometimes split as a £1,100 prize-pool portion plus a £150 fee; the prize pool, the paid places and players' actual payouts are distinct concepts.
Source report dates: 2026-11-09