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Adam Wilkinson Waited Nearly 20 Years for This GUKPT Main Event Trophy
- Adam Wilkinson won the £1,250 GUKPT Blackpool Main Event for £55,035.
- Wilkinson ended a nineteen-year wait for a GUKPT Main Event title.
- He also earned an extra £5,504 via a GGPoker-Grosvenor promotion.
Adam Wilkinson first came close to a GUKPT Main Event title before the iPhone had even reached UK shops. Nineteen years later, he finally has one.
Wilkinson won the £1,250 GUKPT Blackpool Main Event on Sunday, collecting £55,035 after defeating Michael Whitehead heads-up and closing one of the longer unfinished stories on the British tour.
Wilkinson Turns a 2007 Near-Miss Into a 2026 Win
In February 2007, Wilkinson finished 11th in the GUKPT Walsall Main Event, only the second Main Event the newly created tour had ever run. A few months later he reached seventh in Newcastle.
Then came years of GUKPT side-event results, deep runs and regular appearances without the Main Event trophy, until Blackpool came along this year.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adam Wilkinson | £55,035 |
| 2 | Michael Whitehead | £42,435 |
| 3 | Chris Guertin | £26,580 |
| 4 | Christopher Wood | £17,790 |
| 5 | Jon Kalmar | £12,210 |
| 6 | Chris Cox | £8,880 |
| 7 | Benjamin Hill | £6,980 |
| 8 | Trevor Reardon | £5,920 |
| 9 | Peter Charalambous | £5,200 |
The 190-entry field generated £237,500, with 25 players paid. Familiar names outside the final table included Matthew Davenport, Jamie Dale, Fraser Bellamy and David Docherty, who went out on the final-table bubble.
Jon Kalmar, fifth in the 2007 WSOP Main Event, finished fifth here after losing ace-king against Wilkinson’s pocket eights. Christopher Wood then went in fourth, with Chris Guertin following in third after running second pair into Wilkinson’s top pair.
Wilkinson took roughly a two-to-one lead into heads-up play against Whitehead. The pair agreed a deal but left £9,747 and the trophy untouched.
Whitehead briefly fought back after cracking pocket jacks with a set of nines. Wilkinson pushed ahead again, and the deciding hand saw Whitehead move in with ace-queen after flopping top pair. Wilkinson called with eight-four of diamonds and completed his flush on the river.
The £55,035 prize was not quite the full value of the win either. Wilkinson received another £5,504 through the GGPoker-Grosvenor promotion because he bought into the Main Event using his GGPoker account.
Fraser Bellamy Takes the Other Big Blackpool Field
The Mini Main produced a much larger field than the Main Event. A total of 687 entries built a £143,580 prize pool in the £250 tournament, and Fraser Bellamy came through it for £27,945.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fraser Bellamy | £27,945 |
| 2 | Michael Rosaman | £16,670 |
| 3 | Ashley Timms | £19,395 |
| 4 | Connor Heelis | £9,330 |
| 5 | Gary Fowler | £6,480 |
Bellamy, Rosaman and Timms agreed a three-handed deal, which is why Timms ultimately collected more money despite finishing third.
Bellamy then took over the tournament. He eliminated Timms after rivering a full house against a turned straight and reached heads-up with a huge chip advantage before ace-eight beat Rosaman’s king-queen in the final hand
Díaz Wins the High Roller
Adrià Díaz Dalmau collected one of the other major titles of the week, winning the £1,500 High Roller for £33,250.
The event drew 56 entries, with Chris Balmforth finishing second for £22,800 and Peter Stewart third for £15,200. (pokerexclusive.com)
The final heads-up hand turned when Díaz, holding ace-three against Balmforth’s ace-four, paired his three on the turn and closed out the tournament.
Elsewhere, David Doherty took the £1,000 PLO High Roller for £11,870, beating Brandon Sheils heads-up, while Keith Littlewood won the £200 Turbo for £3,690
One More Stop Remains
Blackpool was the penultimate leg of the 2026 GUKPT season.
The tour now heads to The Victoria in London from November 19–29 for the Grand Final, where the schedule carries more than £1.2 million in guarantees. The £2,000 Grand Final Main Event guarantees £500,000. Alan Stearn is the defending champion after winning £125,645 from a 334-entry field in 2025.
Wilkinson will arrive there with something he did not have when the Blackpool festival began. After almost two decades on the tour, he can finally introduce himself as a GUKPT Main Event champion.
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