1. Partypoker Mosconi Cup Moves To Ricoh Arena, Coventry The 2020 partypoker Mosconi Cup will now take place at Ricoh Arena, Coventry, a change from its original venue of Alexandra Palace, London. The event will still take place from December 1-4.
2. With the Poker Jungle Challenge in full swing and my live poker schedule drying up, it’s been a funny month of poker. I’ve fully regained my enthusiasm for online poker and recently attended the 2nd webinar of my MTT Game Changer group coaching program.
3. We’re also home to the Goliath poker tournament, the largest in the world outside of Las Vegas. Situated in the beautifully designed Ricoh Arena, our casino has the wow factor to make your evening a memorable one. Find us off the A444 where we will be happy to validate your ticket for free parking.

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Dusk Till Dawn tournament schedule, all events, cashgames, specials and the best hotel & flight offers. Detailed poker tournament schedule and information, including starting times, buy-ins, prize pool guarantees,structures and fees. Event Location‎:Ricoh Arena, Coventry, United Kingdom. Coverage TV:Sky Sports; LIVE STREAM:Watch Here; The partypoker Mosconi Cup 2020 will be held from Tuesday, December 1 to Friday, December 4th at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, United Kingdom. This is going to be the 25th year of the Mosconi cup tournament.

The week the whole poker world has been waiting for is here, Goliath returns for 2018, and it’s bigger than ever!

As record breaking temperatures soar across the country, Grosvenor Casinos’ Goliath is ready to break its own record and make poker history yet again by hosting the largest live poker tournament outside of the USA.

The Growth of Goliath

Born in 2011 this event was an instant success, attracting over 1700 players to the luxurious surroundings of the Grosvenor Casino Coventry in the Ricoh Arena. As word spread of the life changing sums on offer to players of all experience and abilities the event has grown to such an extent that this year the attendance is expected to be four times that of the original, with the casino bracing itself for over 6,500 main event players. If that wasn’t enough, 1^st prize is now guaranteed at a staggering £100,000!

Last year’s Goliath Main Event attracted 6,385 entries, creating a prize pool of £638,500. It was brick layer, Elliott Marais, who built the biggest stack and ended as the last man standing taking home £85,000.

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2018 Goliath

The 2018 Goliath officially kicks off with Day 1a of the 25/50 taking place on Grosvenorpoker.com this Wednesday. Grosvenorpoker.com is also playing host to three more satellites, tonight (Tuesday), Wednesday and Thursday, with a guaranteed 90 x £125 Goliath Main Event seats up for grabs in total.

Grosvenor Casino Coventry in the Ricoh Arena opens its doors on the 26^th July for Day 1B of the 25/50 event. From then on a vast array of poker tournaments and 24-hour cash games will be running all the way up to Sunday 5^th August.

The undoubted star of the show, the record breaking Goliath Main Event returns on Saturday 28^th July, the 1^st of 7 day 1’s. This £100+25 buy-in event with its huge guaranteed first prize is expected to create a prizepool of over £650,000!

As well as the Goliath Main Event and many of the regular side event favourites, Grosvenor Casinos is excited to add three brand new events to the festival line up;

• Grosvenor UK women’s poker championship (GUKWPC) carrying a buy-in of £50+8 and a guarantee of £5,000. Please note the GUKWPC will follow standard No Limit Texas Hold’em rules.
• Grosvenor UK senior poker championship (GUKSPC) with a buy-in of £50+8 for all players aged over 50
• All newdaily Flip ‘n’ Goes – the quickest way to win your £100+25 Goliath seat from only £13!

Additional Information

• The Goliath Tournament Team have put together a list of tips to help all players’ Goliath experience run smoothly
• As well as a full schedule of tournament poker, Grosvenor Casino Coventry will also be running 24 hour cash games with up to 30 tables running at one time
• Grosvenor Casinos’ travel partner, Maineventtravel.com, are still on hand to help with any accommodation or travel enquires
• There will be plenty of food options to keep players energised through-out the week. Cooked breakfasts will be served at 7am. Grab ‘n’ Go food such as burgers, hotdogs, jacket potatoes and pie and mash will be served from 12pm. A dinner buffet will be served from 5pm as well as Grosvenor Casino Coventry’s very own restaurant offering a steak menu from 8pm.
• Players and spectators can keep updated with live and upcoming poker events and cash games at every Grosvenor Casino Cardroom by downloading the Poker Live App today, available on iOS and Android.

Main Event smashes guarantee, awards biggest prize pool of the series

The biggest-guarantee event of the Grosvenor Goliath online series wrapped up early Monday morning in the UK, with ‘WRDortmund7’ taking down the grand prize.

‘WRDortmund7’ came out on top from a field of 2,013 total entries, coming away with the first-place cashout of £42,248. The £125 buy-in tournament yielded £231,495 in prize money, more than doubling the £100,000 guarantee.

The Main Event played as the centerpiece of the National Online Goliath 2020, a 15-tournament series that ran from August 1-9. The online series functioned as the first online-only version of The Goliath by Grosvenor Poker, which annually sets attendance records as one of the most popular live poker festivals in the world.

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted Grosvenor Casinos to move the Goliath to its online poker client for 2020, however. ‘WRDortmund7’ played through the two-day structure of the Main Event to come away with the championship.

Other top finishers included ‘FrazzleFraggle’, who took the runner-up spot and a £42,248 payday. ‘AhJh’ finished third and took home £23,149.

Goliath goes online

Since its inception in 2011, The Goliath by Grosvenor Poker annually draws some of the biggest attendance for any live poker festival in the world. The series Main Event consistently draws enough entries to make it the largest non-US live poker tournament in the world. The only events that draw more players happen at the annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Hosted in recent years at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, the Goliath series has realized attendance gains for the Main Event in nearly every year since its inception in 2011. The 2019 Goliath Main Event broke the all-time record with 9,300 entires.

With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing casinos to shut down around the world, however, Grosvenor Casinos came up with a way to still offer players the chance to play in the Goliath this summer.

The ensuing series, named the National Online Goliath 2020, offered 15 different tournaments at affordable buy-ins, ranging from £5 to £560.

The online-only version of the Main Event didn’t draw the nearly 10k entries that its live counterpart did in 2019, but the lineage of the UK’s most popular poker festival stayed intact.

2020 Main Event recap

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The two-day Main Event played with 30-minute levels, kicking off on Saturday afternoon in the UK. Eventual runner-up ‘FrazzleFraggle’ ended Day 1 in the top ten overall chip counts, foreshadowing the eventual deep run on Day 2.

The 2,013 entries yielded 144 cash finishers, with the money bubble bursting on Level 19, the fourth level of Day 2. All money finishers earned at least a min-cash of £370.

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The tournament played on with the eight-handed final table reached at Level 30. ‘WRDortmund7’ came into the final table as the shortest-stacked of the eight remaining players, with just over 11 big blinds left to play with.

Within the first hour of final table action, however, ‘WRDortmund7’ was back in business after a double-up through ‘dealersober411’. That hand pushed ‘WRDortmund7’ to around 35 big blinds, paving the way for the eventual championship finish.

‘FrazzleFraggle’ came into the final table with the chip lead, and held a nearly 2-to-1 advantage over ‘WRDortmund7’ going into heads-up play. That lead was increased to a 3-to-1 advantage at one point, but ‘WRDortmund7’ managed the comeback, and the championship.

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The final hand saw the pocket aces of ‘WRDortmund7’ hold up against the king-ten offsuit of ‘FrazzleFraggle’ in an all-in preflop situation.