The 2025 PartyPoker Tour Birmingham competition simply wrapped up, having happening from October 11-19 on the Resorts World Genting On line casino and delivered precisely what it promised: low buy-ins, multi-player tournaments, dwell streaming, the presence of PartyPoker ambassadors, and loads of enjoyable each on and off the poker tables.
A complete of 19 occasions had been held, with reasonably priced buy-ins starting from £60 to £1,000. Altogether, 1,673 entries had been compiled throughout all tournaments, and £336,020 in prizes had been awarded, far exceeding the £170,000 assured by the organizers. Along with the poker occasions, there have been a number of actions, together with a slot event 🎰, a pub quiz 🍺, and a sports activities betting ⚽️ event with prizes awarded to the winners. And to shut out the competition, there was a enjoyable celebration 🎶 with a DJ.
THE PARTYPOKER TOUR STOP #4 – BIRMINGHAM IS OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY! 🔥
The 2025 PartyPoker Tour has landed at Resorts World Birmingham, marking the venue’s first main poker competition in 5 years – and the room is completely buzzing!
We’ve already noticed fan favourites Matt… pic.twitter.com/dvoSHJgZec
— PartyPoker (@partypoker) October 14, 2025
The Mini Primary Occasion
The competition kicked off with a bang with the Mini Primary Occasion, which attracted 660 entrants and was the second-largest version of this event on the brand new PartyPoker Tour after the London leg. Among the many members was Alan Foster, who’s 99 years outdated, proving that there are not any age limits for taking part in poker. The event awarded £82K ($109K) in prizes to the highest 98 gamers, together with PartyPoker ambassador brothers Matt Staples (ninety fifth) and James Staples (93rd), PartyPoker Tour staff member Natalie Bromley (84th), PartyPoker Tour ambassador Aleksandar Georgiev (seventy fifth), Hendon Mob co-founder Joe Beevers (sixty fourth) and PartyPoker Tour ambassador Asif Warris (thirty fifth).
Robert along with his trophy / Photograph: Nunzia Esposito
Victory went to skilled Robert Douras, who earned his eighth profession title and a prize of £14K ($19K). Tai Hoang completed second, incomes £9K ($12K). Extremely, the 2 would face one another once more to determine the competition’s most essential event a couple of days later.
You possibly can watch the ultimate desk of the Mini Primary Occasion right here:
The Invitational Sit & Go
In parallel to the tournaments, a pleasant and enjoyable Sit & Go was performed between a number of members of the PartyPoker staff: Sam “Hoooooooooold” Acheampong, Barry Carter, Asif “The Poker Vacationer” Warris, Alexander “wishiper96” Georgiev, Natalie “Hearts of Queens” Bromley, Joe Beevers, Glenn Brown, Jaime Staples and Matt Staples. The winner was veteran Joe Beevers, who has been enjoying dwell tournaments since 1996 and was one of many founders of The Hendon Mob web site. This added one other milestone to his profession, which has already earned $2,6M dwell. He stated: “I haven’t run this good in 20 years.”
For a glance again on the motion (and a barrel of guffaws), you possibly can watch the Sit & Go right here:
The 2025 PartyPoker Tour Birmingham Primary Occasion
The competition’s greatest event had 343 entries for £500 and awarded £152K in prizes, surpassing the £100K assure. The highest 55 gamers earned cashes, together with Peggy Crawford of the International Grinders, who positioned fortieth, and PartyPoker ambassador Matt Staples, who completed twelfth for £1,8K ($2,5K).
Among the many 9 finalists had been the 2 gamers who had performed heads-up within the Mini Primary Occasion: Robert Douras and Tai Hoang. Robert completed fourth and took dwelling a prize of £10K ($14K). Tai obtained his revenge and this time he was topped champion, successful the gold trophy and a prize of £27K ($36K). Hoang was born in Vietnam, moved to the UK, and has been enjoying tournaments in Birmingham since 2011. He has earned $342K in his dwell profession with 9 titles 🏆.
The Primary Occasion winner / Photograph: Nunzia Esposito
That is how the ultimate desk outcomes performed out:
Tai Hoang (England) – £27,420Jiten Chauhan (England) – £18,320James Fowler (England) – £12,970Robert Douras (England) – £10,435Joshua Curry (England) – £8,390Michael Thomas Casson (England) – £6,770Nicholas James Gott (England) – £5,340Timothy Alfred Slater (England) – £4,120Tony Pearce (England) – £3,110
You may as well take a look at the ultimate desk dwell stream under:
The Excessive Curler
The competition’s most costly occasion had 42 £1K entries and awarded £37K in prize cash to the highest six gamers. Amongst them was poker professional, author and coach Dara O’Kearney, who positioned fifth for £2.8K. The event winner was mixed-game fanatic Siddharth Sudunagunta, who collected the trophy and the most important money of his profession: £11K ($15K). Just a few days earlier, he had completed second in Occasion #14 Friday Social gathering Insanity for £830, and in that event, he received the Excessive Curler entry by means of a prize draw. He took full benefit of his alternative and was topped champion with out investing a cent.
Excessive Curler outcomes:
Siddharth Sudunagunta (India) – £11,530Max Lindeman (England) – £9,450Daniele Antoniazzi (England) – £8,150Nathan Henry (England) – £3,780Dara O’Kearney (Eire) – £2,840Paul Haycock (England) – £2,080
Congrats to my pal the supervet @SidrisElba – received a excessive curler ticket in considered one of our many added worth @partypoker raffles and he goes dwelling the champ.
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— Barry Carter (@Barry_Carter) October 20, 2025
Full outcomes of the 2025 PartyPoker Tour Birmingham competition
EventBuy-InEntriesPrizepoolChampionPrize#1 Mini Primary Occasion£150660£82,500Robert Douras (England)£14,370#2 NLH Bounty£20019£2,280Eva Hola-Smith (England)£1,465#3 Thriller Prize Draw£6041£2,050Rong Haoran (England)£780#4 Win The Button£10035£2,975Christopher Strang (England)£880#5 Poker.Professional Sviten Particular£6024£1,200Aleksandar Georgiev (Bulgaria)£510#7 Poker.Professional HORSE£6025£1,250Henry Owen (England)£550#8 Poker.Professional ROSET£10022£1,870Lewis Henderson (England)£705#9 Thriller Bounty£15063£4,275Calogero Morreale (Italy)£1,550#10 Primary Occasion£500343£152,635Tai Hoang (England)£27,420#11 PLO Masters Large O£15043£5,375Lewis Henderson (England)£1,980#13 PLO Masters ME£250105£22,575Benjamin Sweetman (England)£5,695#14 Friday Social gathering Insanity£6062£3,100Grzegorz Staniszewski (England)£850#15 Tennesse Maintain’em Champ.£6017£850Ryan Johnstone (England)£420#16 Pale Spade NLH£15036£4,500Henrik Horwing (England)£1,710#17 PLO Bounty£8551£1,275Rebecca Hardisty (Canada)£445#18 Thriller Bounty£25023£2,645Matt Staples (Canada)£1,325#19 Excessive Curler 7-Max£1,00042£37,800Siddharth Sudunagunta (India)£11,530#20 PLO Masters 4/5/6£15026£3,250Florin Alexandru Duda (Romania)£1,410#21 Final Likelihood Turbo£10039£3,315Lakis Xydhias (England)£1,100
PartyPoker Tour Birmingham winners / Photograph: Nunzia Esposito
Maybe greatest encompassing how swimmingly issues went on the Birmingham cease was Antonio Sapio, who shared his ideas in a Fb put up.
Cowl Photograph courtesy of Nunzia Esposito
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Santiago is a longtime veteran of the poker business, having written primarily in regards to the sport in Argentina since 2009. He has revealed tons of of articles in Sudamerican Poker and Pokerlogia, and has supplied dwell media protection on the WSOP Primary Occasion in 2015 and 2019. Along with being a former columnist in PokerFace Journal, […]
