The Race for a £40K Grosvenor Poker Sponsorship Reach Final Stages

Solely a handful of points-earning tournaments are left to play for these chasing down the highest spot within the Grosvenor Poker Nationwide Poker League (NPL). Whoever comes out on high within the NPL standings as revellers belt out Auld Lang Syne on December 31 will obtain a £40,000 sponsorship package deal from Grosvenor Poker for 2026.

If the curtain got here down on proceedings right this moment, Thomas Clack can be the worthy NPL winner. Clack has amassed 402.01 factors so far and enjoys a 57.71-point lead over the chasing pack, with Keith Littlewood (344.30) being Clack’s nearest rival.

Nevertheless, the NPL’s conclusion remains to be a bit beneath two months away, and whereas alternatives to build up leaderboard factors are restricted, there are nonetheless some juicy tournaments for the would-be Grosvenor Poker-sponsored grinders so as to add to their tallies.

2025 NPL Leaderboard High 10

Those that comply with PokerNews ‘s recaps of Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) and 888poker UK Poker League (UKPL) occasions will nearly definitely have seen the names within the above desk prominently featured. The present high ten have carried out some critical grinding all year long, and when high expertise logs plenty of quantity, outcomes are likely to comply with.

Ravi Sheth, who a few months in the past regarded out of the race, has clawed his method into third-place within the present standings. Sheth is simply a few factors behind second-place Littlewood and has a sensible probability of toppling Clack from his lofty place. Sheth will want outcomes to go his method throughout the in-play GUKPT Blackpool competition, and the upcoming 888poker UKPL Coventry and GUKPT Grand Last, however stranger issues have occurred in poker.

These on the high of the tree also needs to hold wanting over their shoulders and keep watch over what Philip Tate is as much as. The low-to-mid-stakes grinder has 70 in-the-money finishes since February 2022, together with 20 in 2025 alone. Tate is on monitor for a £10,000 Diamond Package deal, which might allow him to take part in larger buy-in occasions all through 2026.

Upcoming NPL Occasions

As talked about, playing cards are within the air at GUKPT Blackpool, with that competition wrapping up on November 9. The GUKPT Grand Last, which runs on the lately renovated Grosvenor Victoria On line casino between November 19-30, is the final cease of the 2025 GUKPT.

A handful of Grosvenor 25/50 tournaments are nonetheless to play out between now and December 31. Please verify along with your native Grosvenor On line casino to seek out out when and the place these occasions happen.

There might be many NPL factors up for grabs on the ultimate UKPL cease of 2025. The 888poker UKPL Coventry runs November 10-16 on the Grosvenor G On line casino in Coventry, that includes a £560 buy-in Important Occasion with a £100,000 assure.

Good luck to everybody chasing down a spot on the 2025 Grosvenor NPL desk.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker business since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he turned the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from dwell reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his function of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.