Negus Leads £150 Mini Main Event Starting Final Day; Henderson Wins First-ever R.O.S.E.T. Event

October 16, 2025

Good afternoon, fellow poker enthusiasts, and welcome to the sixth day of the 2025 PartyPoker Tour Birmingham. Get ready for yet another exciting day at Resorts World and Genting Casino, which will see a winner being crowned in the £150 Mini Main Event.

The 14 remaining players in the aforementioned tournament are set to take the stage in about an hour. Let’s get in the mood by recapping yesterday’s Day 2 flight.

Action in the Sauna

Day 2 more or less started as soon as Day 1f (the final hyper-turbo starting-day flight) had finished. Out of a total of 660 entries, 130 players had secured a Day 2 bag, and the £50,000 guarantee had been shattered as the prize pool read an impressive £82,500. Up top? A £13,370 first-place payout, a coveted PartyPoker trophy, and eternal poker glory.

Three digits worth of people were more than enough to make the tournament area hotter than the Arizona desert. “It’s like a sauna in here,” this reporter joked with some players, referencing a classic scene from Seinfeld. It didn’t take long before 100 players remained, and hand-by-hand play commenced. After perhaps 30 minutes, the players went on a 45-minute dinner break, and they resumed hand-by-hand when they returned. Ten more minutes went by before the bubble burst at the expense of Attique Khokhar and Edin Hrnjic, who went out in the same hand (albeit at two different tables).

All remaining players were now guaranteed a £300 min-cash, and the “Post-Bubble Bustout Bonanza” commenced in ordinary fashion. Players kept busting left and right, and amongst the first victims were the two PartyPoker Team Pros, Jaime and Matt Staples. Eventually, PartyPoker Tour Ambassadors Natalie Bromley, Joe Beevers, and Alexander Georgiev also came up short.

The only ambassador left standing was “the Poker Tourist”, Asif Warris, and he was doing a stellar job. With 43 players remaining at the next break, Warris had a top ten chip stack, just shy of a million. Eventually, though, he suffered a bad beat as his aces were cracked by his opponent’s pocket nines, and he didn’t manage to recover. He went out in thirty-fifth place for £450.

Fast forward ’til 18 players remained. Soft hand-by-hand commenced, and it was determined that play would conclude after two more 30-minute levels, or if the nine-handed final table was reached before that. Four more casualties were recorded during the last hour, and the remaining 14 players went to get some sleep before today’s final clash. Leading the field is Matthew Negus; he’s the only one with more than 3,000,000 in chips, but the smaller stacks all have around 1,200,000, so anything can happen.

Today’s coverage will begin at 15:00. When the final table is reached, it will be streamed live on the PartyPoker YouTube channel. The poker.pro live coverage will then follow the 30-minute delay of the stream.

£150 Mini Main Event – Day 3 Seat Draw & Chip Counts

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
2	1	Gokul Narayanan	India	1,570,000	16
2	2	James Ablott	United Kingdom	2,285,000	23
2	3	Daniel Bronson	United Kingdom	1,265,000	13
2	5	Tak Wong	United Kingdom	1,285,000	13
2	6	Thomas Busst	United Kingdom	2,465,000	25
2	7	Christopher Nicholas	United Kingdom	1,300,000	13
2	8	Richard Cox	United Kingdom	1,730,000	17
2	9	Paul Howley	England	1,445,000	14

12	2	Robert Douras	United Kingdom	2,450,000	25
12	3	Matthew Negus	United Kingdom	3,150,000	32
12	5	Peter Carey	United Kingdom	1,490,000	15
12	7	Calum Mclean Williams	United Kingdom	2,285,000	23
12	8	Rajbinder Badwal	England	1,480,000	15
12	9	Tai Hoang	Thailand	2,160,000	22

In other news, the third and final poker.pro-branded Mixed Games event of the 2025 PartyPoker Tour Birmingham was played yesterday. Lewis Henderson overcame a field consisting of 22 entries in the £100 poker.pro R.O.S.E.T. to become the first-ever winner of this discipline. This poker.pro journalist will get in touch with Henderson today to discuss his triumph in detail.