The 2025 PartyPoker Tour UK London £150 Mini Main Event was off to a hot start on Saturday with 176 runners getting into the mix to add more than £22,000 into the prize pool on Day 1a.
The action on Day 1a witnessed Grace Smith parlay her 50,000 opening stack to a massive pile of 487,500 to end the day with the chip lead over the 43 survivors with each of the six opening flights playing down to 25 percent of the field.
Ivaylo Dimitrov (468,000), Luke Hammatt (341,000), Robert Kucma (332,000), and David Gassian rounded out the top five with the final Day 1a chip counts listed below:
| Player | Chips |
|---|---|
| Grace Smith | 487,500 |
| Ivaylo Dimitrov | 468,000 |
| Luke Hammatt | 341,500 |
| Robert Kucma | 332,000 |
| David Gassian | 327,000 |
| Jordan Caplan | 311,000 |
| Jinlin Huang | 301,000 |
| Ben Skinner | 298,500 |
| Matthew Skeadas | 262,500 |
| Chee Tan | 259,000 |
| W X | 256,000 |
| M J | 251,000 |
| Edwin U | 245,000 |
| Christopher Knight | 237,000 |
| Krzysztof Michalik | 215,000 |
| Rovshan Gasimov | 205,000 |
| Stephen Okeeffe | 203,000 |
| Valentin-Catalin Ardeleanu | 200,500 |
| Peter Denly | 200,000 |
| Emanuele Bossone | 199,000 |
| Dean Robb | 197,500 |
| B K | 191,500 |
| Arnav Patel | 188,000 |
| Barry Smith | 185,000 |
| Danas Gerdziunas | 178,500 |
| Lami Ulkumen | 176,000 |
| R E B | 167,500 |
| Raheel Bhatti | 160,500 |
| A G | 150,500 |
| Michael Delaney | 149,000 |
| Adrian Ming | 143,500 |
| Iulian Rautu | 142,000 |
| Van Le | 107,000 |
| Pedro Luis Martinez Sedano | 101,000 |
| Samuli Gurko | 99,000 |
| Hexing Lin | 96,000 |
| J K | 93,000 |
| Stephen Brown | 93,000 |
| Gary Dallison | 90,000 |
| I H | 86,500 |
| Ryan Johnstone | 83,500 |
| Alcymar Borges Nunes De Oliveira | 76,500 |
| Matthew Tibbles | 76,000 |
