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Yorkshire Poker Open Heads to Leeds With £300,000 Guaranteed

23 Apr 2026

Samantha Doyle 23 Apr 2026

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Yorkshire Poker Open debuts April 27 to May 3, 2026, in Leeds.
Features £300,000 in guarantees, including a £150,000 Main Event.
Strategically placed in the spring calendar to attract a wide range of players.

Leeds is getting a new live festival, with the inaugural Yorkshire Poker Open bringing £300,000 in guarantees and a £150,000 Main Event. Qualify with Grosvenor Poker and read up on the festival at PokerGods.

Leeds Gets a New Festival Date

A new stop is joining the UK live schedule this spring, with the first Yorkshire Poker Open set for 27 April to 3 May 2026 at Grosvenor Casino Leeds. The festival carries £300,000 in total guarantees, with a £150,000 guaranteed Main Event at the centre of it.

For a debut series, that is a proper launch. Leeds has had a steady live poker scene for years, but this gives the room something with more weight behind it than the usual run of local fixtures. A six-figure Main Event guarantee is enough to get attention well beyond the regular local crowd.

Main Event Leads the Week

The Main Event is listed at £500+£60 and starts on Thursday 30 April. There are four starting flights in total, with survivors returning for Day 2 on Sunday 3 May.

That buy-in feels about right. It is not so big that it shuts out the regional player pool, but it is large enough to give the event some real pull. For plenty of players in the UK market, it sits in the sweet spot between a local shot and a major travel commitment. This last sentence is an inference based on the published buy-in and schedule.

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Festival Schedule

There is enough around the Main Event to make it feel like a proper week rather than a one-tournament stop. The schedule includes a £50,000 guaranteed G200, a £50,000 High Roller, two PLO events, a Seniors tournament and a Live Closer, with satellites feeding the bigger events throughout the week.

Date	Time	Event	Buy-in	Guarantee
27 Apr	2pm	G200 Day 1A	£200	£50,000
27 Apr	8pm	Main Event + G200 Satellite	£90	10 seats GTD
28 Apr	2pm	G200 Day 1B	£200	£50,000
28 Apr	6pm	PLO 4 Card Bounty	£330	£10,000
28 Apr	8pm	High Roller Turbo Satellite	£115	2 seats GTD
29 Apr	12pm	High Roller Turbo Satellite	£115	2 seats GTD
29 Apr	1pm	G200 Day 1C	£200	£50,000
29 Apr	3pm	High Roller Day 1	£1,000	£50,000
29 Apr	6pm	G200 Day 1D Turbo	£200	£50,000
29 Apr	8pm	Main Event Turbo Satellite	£125	5 seats GTD
30 Apr	12pm	G200 Day 2	—	£50,000
30 Apr	1pm	High Roller Day 2	£1,000	£50,000
30 Apr	3pm	Main Event Day 1A	£560	£150,000
30 Apr	8pm	Main Event Turbo Satellite	£125	5 seats GTD
1 May	12pm	Main Event Day 1B	£560	£150,000
1 May	6pm	PLO 4 Card	£150	£10,000
1 May	8pm	Main Event Turbo Satellite	£125	5 seats GTD
2 May	12pm	Main Event Day 1C	£560	£150,000
2 May	6pm	Main Event Day 1D Turbo	£560	£150,000
3 May	12pm	Main Event Day 2	—	£150,000
3 May	1pm	Seniors	£200	£10,000
3 May	4pm	Live Closer	£150	£10,000

The structure looks sensible enough for a new festival. There is a clear headline event, enough side action to keep people in town, and enough lower-priced entry points to give the week some breadth rather than making it all about one tournament. That is an inference from the published schedule.

A Useful Addition to the Spring Calendar

It also lands in a decent spot. Late April into early May is a good window for a UK stop with this sort of profile, before the summer slate starts to crowd the diary. If the turnout is there, Leeds should have every chance of turning this into a regular date rather than a one-year test run. That final point is an inference from the festival’s scale and placement on the 2026 schedule.