Time flies when you have fun, they say. This has proven to be true; the halfway point of the 2025 PartyPoker Tour Manchester has already been reached. It’s a bittersweet feeling. The event has been absolutely stellar so far, but the fact that there are only three days left leaves all poker players wanting more. Nevertheless, there are still a couple of days to enjoy live poker at the highest possible level.
Yesterday was arguably the most action-packed day of the event so far. No fewer than three major tournaments took place at the Manchester235 Casino: the £100 PLO456 poker.proTurbo 7-Max, Day 1a of the £500 Main Event, and Day 2 of the £150 Mini Main Event. Let’s deep dive into the archive and recap Thursday’s action.
Rivered Flush Sterred Rossookh to PLO456 Title
Thursday, June 19, was the first day of the poker.pro live coverage from Manchester, and the eyes were on their own branded tournament. This was the third installment of a poker.pro PLO456 tournament, and their collaboration with PartyPoker has once again proved to be a fruitful one. In fact, the two entities (together with Manchester235 Casino) can all pat themselves on the back; the tournament quickly became the biggest poker.pro one-day tournament through all time, registering an impressive 112 entries.
It was a dealer’s choice tournament; the player seated on the Button was free to choose whether the hand would be played with four, five, or six hole cards. It became evident from the get-go that the Brits love action; the giant wooden dice placed on the table in order to keep track of how many cards would be used, would often have the six face up.
Right from the start, it was controlled chaos. Players were busting left and right, and there were even some multi-way all-ins. This can, of course, be expected when each player has six hole cards; it’s hard not to connect on the flops. The tournament director was running back and forth between the tables, busting players left and right.
There were a few familiar faces partaking in what was a rollercoaster of a poker tournament. PartyPoker Team Pro Jaime Staples late-registered for the tournament together with his partner in crime, Rebecca Hardisty. Staples was actually seated on the same table as the poker.pro CEO, Jason Glatzer. Sadly, neither of the three icons made it into the money.
After Matthew Cox became the bubble boy, the tempo amped up and the action increased rapidly. Within a few hands, four players had already been eliminated. Not too long thereafter, the final table was set, and the remaining eight competitors continued the fight for the first-place payout of £2,629.
Even though the pay jumps were increasing, it still didn’t take long between the bust-outs. In fact, it was too fast for the sole poker.pro reporter to be able to catch it all, but not everything went by the reporter’s eye. The arguably most important hand of the tournament was captured when Daryosh Rossookh eliminated Heelis Connor in fourth place. At this point, the two of them were massive chip leaders, and had not a spade fallen on the river, the result may have been different.
The 6♠ did come, though, and that gave Rossookh one of the most commanding chip leads ever seen. He had no issues eliminating Jamie O’ Brien and Stefan Stroffek, and when the dust had settled, he could be crowned the winner. Not only did he get the £2,629 and the trophy, but he (as well as O ‘Brien and Stroffek) got a top-of-the-art water bottle, branded with poker.pro and Poker Against Plastic Pollution.
£100 PLO456 PokerPRO Turbo 7-Max – Full Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daryosh Rossookh | £2,629 |
| 2 | Stefan Stroffek | £1,595 |
| 3 | Jamie O’ Brien | £1,015 |
| 4 | Heelis Connor | £840 |
| 5 | Ronnie Marland | £700 |
| 6 | Jian Rong | £590 |
| 7 | Li Ning | £500 |
| 8 | Joel Toward | £395 |
| 9 | Yuk Yue | £305 |
| 10 | Naser Nasseri | £215 |
| 11 | Osman Mustanoglu | £150 |
| 12 | David Lu | £150 |
| 13 | James Cossick | £150 |
Mini Main Event Concludes Today; 11 Bagged in First Main Event Flight
That’s the poker.pro PLO456 done and dusted. Today, another tournament will see a winner being crowned. 18 players are remaining in the £150 Mini Main Event. 418 entries were made in total, which created a £56,430 prize pool. 83 players moved on to Day 2 from the various Day 1 flights, and 63 players made the money. Today, they’ll continue battling it out over the tables for the £9,605 first-place payout. Matthew Archer is the current chip leader; the seat draw and chip counts for today can be seen here.
In terms of the £500 Main Event, 11 players bagged in yesterday’s Day 1a flight. One of them was PartyPoker Tour Team ambassador Sam Acheampong, who bagged the third most in chips. The full results from Day 1a can be seen here. At this current moment, Day 1b is in full swing.
There’s no doubt about it: The PartyPoker Tour Manchester event lives up to the standard set in London a few weeks ago, and it’ll be a thrill to see the action unfolding over the next three days. New poker history is about to be written in Manchester.
