Martyn Frey is an English poker player ranked 247th on the UK All-Time Money List with over $849,000 in live earnings across 127 recorded cashes. A two-time domestic title winner who claimed the GUKPT Coventry Main Event for £36,000 before following it with a Dusk Till Dawn New Year Deepstack victory for £44,303, Frey wrote his name into the 2012 GUKPT history books alongside Ben Jones, Jamie O’Connor, Simon Deadman and Sam Grafton — a group of players who used that season as a launchpad for their careers. A prolific domestic circuit grinder who remains active into 2024, Frey is a well-known and highly respected name across the UK live poker scene.

Career Earnings & Biggest Results

Total live earnings stand at over $849,000 across 127 cashes, per The Hendon Mob. Latest cash: March 2023.

Career Highlights at a Glance
💰 Live Earnings: $849,000+ | 🏆 GUKPT Coventry ME winner | 🏆 DTD New Year Deepstack winner | 🎯 127 Cashes | 📅 2012 GUKPT history maker

Notable Results (click to expand)

Date	Event	Result	Prize
Jan 2013	DTD New Year Deepstack £300 NLH	1st / 727	£44,303
Aug 2012	GUKPT Coventry Main Event	1st	£36,000

Biography & Poker Background

Frey is an English professional whose peak came during a remarkable two-season run that produced back-to-back live titles. In August 2012 he won the GUKPT Coventry Main Event — at the time one of the tour’s most hotly contested regional stops — for £36,000, joining the short list of players to have won a GUKPT Main Event outright. PokerNews’ retrospective of that GUKPT season cited him alongside Ben Jones, Jamie O’Connor, Simon Deadman and Sam Grafton as players who used 2012 to write their names into the tour’s history books and launch their careers forward.

Five months later, in January 2013, Frey was at Dusk Till Dawn for the New Year Deepstack — a £300 buy-in event with 727 entries that created a prize pool of £218,000, comparable in size to a WPT National event. He beat Vikrum Mehta heads-up when Mehta shoved with ten-six on a king-ten-nine board only to run into Frey’s ace-king, which held. £44,303 — his career-best — and his second title in six months.

That level of domestic dominance across consecutive seasons is rare. Frey has continued to compete steadily since, accumulating 127 cashes across UK domestic events including Grosvenor and DTD stops. His most recent recorded result came in March 2023.

Play Style & Strategy

Frey is a technically sound, composed tournament player who performs especially well in UK domestic fields — his two titles came from different formats (a GUKPT Main Event and a large-field DTD deepstack) in quick succession, demonstrating adaptability across both structure types. His high cash volume across 127 events reflects a sustained, high-frequency approach to the circuit built on fundamentals rather than variance.

Online Presence

The Hendon Mob Profile

Full Martyn Frey Poker History: Earnings, Cashes & Rankings