Katie Swift: Goliath Absolutely Kickstarted My Poker Career

Katie Swift at the 2015 GoliathTable Of Contents

Team Grosvenor's Katie Swift loves the GUKPT Goliath Main Event. Swift was one of a crowd of 4,210 players who bought into the 2015 edition of the tournament, helping smash the £250,000 guarantee by £171,000. Plenty of grinding later, Swift found herself heads-up against Miikka Toikka. Swift fell at the final hurdle, but the £46,300 score and going ultra-deep in such a prestigious event opened many doors for her.

Swift is well-known on the British poker circuit, but if you do not know who she is, who better to describe Swift than herself?

"I’m a happy, hard-working, middle-aged, married, Mum, businesswoman and poker pro from Palm Bay in Kent,…