Matthew Davenport Poker Profile: Net Worth, Earnings & Stats (2026)

Matthew Davenport is one of the UK’s most decorated domestic circuit professionals — a Macclesfield-born Grosvenor ambassador who won the GUKPT National Poker League in both 2022 and 2024, topped the 888poker UK Poker League leaderboard in 2024, won over £250,000 at live Grosvenor events in a single calendar year, and accumulated over $2.77 million in 301 live cashes across a career that has made him one of England’s top 65 all-time earners. Before poker, he was an apprentice mechanical engineer at AstraZeneca and then a house renovator. He met his wife Sinéad at the poker table — specifically, by busting her out of a tournament in Luton.

Career Earnings & Biggest Results

Total live earnings stand at over $2,777,000 across 301 cashes, per The Hendon Mob. Latest cash: April 2026.

His estimated poker net worth is over $2 million.

Biography & Poker Background

Davenport is from Macclesfield, Cheshire — the same town that produced Daniel Charlton — and came to poker by an indirect route. He trained as an apprentice mechanical engineer at AstraZeneca before leaving to renovate houses, and then, as he puts it, “fell into poker.” His early career built steadily across the GUKPT, with results accumulating through the 2010s before a period away from the game following the Covid shutdown.

When the GUKPT returned post-Covid, Davenport came back with it — and immediately demonstrated that the time away had clarified rather than damaged his approach. In 2022 he had what he described as the year of his career: winning over £250,000 at live Grosvenor events alone, topping the GUKPT National Poker League with 530 points (winning a three-year Grosvenor sponsorship worth £40,000), finishing runner-up at GUKPT Luton for £76,785, winning the inaugural GUKPT Cup in Blackpool from a 320-entry field for £40,000, and recovering from 1.5 big blinds with 12 players left in a later Luton event to make the final table and finish third for £41,010. That last detail tells you everything about his late-stage resilience.

In 2024 he surpassed the $2 million mark in career earnings — adding $448,639 in a single year — and won the GUKPT NPL for the second time (earning a £75,000 Grosvenor package) while simultaneously topping the 888poker UKPL leaderboard for a $10,000 package. He was also the 2022 Grosvenor Player of the Year after his dominant NPL season.

The personal story is equally compelling. He met his wife Sinéad when he busted her out of a tournament in Luton. “She became part of my life from there,” he has said. They married in August 2024. Sinéad, a former nurse, became her own story in UK poker — the first woman to finish in the GUKPT NPL’s top ten in 2024, and the player who saved a choking passenger on a flight to Las Vegas mid-journey. The Davenports have been profiled by PokerNews as one of the UK’s great poker partnerships.

Play Style & Strategy

Davenport is a high-volume, technically disciplined tournament player whose dominance on the GUKPT circuit is the clearest expression of his strengths: consistent deep runs across many stops across a full season, managing variance across dozens of events while maintaining the discipline to chip-accumulate when it matters. His comeback from 1.5 big blinds in Luton suggests a short-stack specialist of the highest order — someone who never views a marginal stack as a lost cause.

“The GUKPT has been my favourite tour over the years — and also my most successful,” he has said. That mutual relationship is visible in 301 career cashes and counting, the vast majority on British soil.

Social Media & Online Presence

Follow Matthew Davenport:

• Twitter/X: @MattDavenport87
• Instagram: @mattdavenportpoker
• The Hendon Mob Profile