Day 7 of the 2025 PartyPoker Tour Birmingham was destined to be a juicy one. The second starting-day flight of the £500 Main Event was predicted to be the biggest one, and though there’s still tomorrow’s Hyper Turbo-flight before Day 2, it’ll take a lot to surpass the 147 entries recorded in Day 1b.
In fact, the £100,000 guarantee has already been surpassed, as the prize pool currently is £125,935 and counting. There were quite a few familiar faces on Day 1b. In terms of PartyPoker Tour Ambassadors, Asif Warris, Sam Acheampong, Alexander Georgiev, and Barry Carter all tried their luck. None of them made it through; Georgiev was actually the unfortunate bubble boy, as he lost his stack to Peggy Crawford. That was also the case for the two PartyPoker Team Pros, Jaime and Matt Staples. All of the ambassadors and pros on-site are currently in the Day 1c flight (that includes Natalie Bromley, who passed on Day 1b and visited the Resorts World spa instead).
Notable names who made it through are the aforementioned Crawford (who is a WSOP Circuit Ring winner), Deniz Orhan (2025 PartyPoker Tour Manchester £500 Main Event champion), and Brandon Sheils (successful poker influencer). The chip lead belongs to James Grogan (682,000), who won a massive pot with pocket aces at the later stages of the flight.
Day 2 is scheduled to commence at 16:00 tomorrow. Day 1c is currently going on, and Day 1d will kick off at 12:00 tomorrow before Day 2.
This poker.pro live reporter thanks everyone who’s been tuning into the live blog today. All chip counts will be uploaded to the site as soon as possible, and that is also the case with the 1c photos.
To everyone who’s made it to Day 2 so far: get a good night’s sleep. Tomorrow is a big day.
