2025 WSOP Circuit Nottingham Day 5: Holmes Wins Deepstack Ring, Hall Leads Main Event Flight 1A

If the first couple of days of the week at Dusk Till Dawn offered a brief breather, those days are now long gone. From here on out, it’s non-stop poker straight through Monday as the final day of the 2025 WSOP Circuit Nottingham. Day 5 delivered another exciting installment of the festival, headlined by the opening flight of the £1,500 Main Event with its enormous £1,000,000 guarantee. Thomas Hall bagged the biggest stack of the day, with 17 others joining him in advancing to Sunday’s Day 2.

But before we get to the Main Event action, let’s first focus on the tournament that crowned a new WSOP Circuit champion on Thursday.

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George Holmes Breaks Through to Win the £300 Deepstack

One WSOP Circuit ring was awarded on Thursday, but it was a big one: the £300 Deepstack, a one-day event and the fifth of twelve rings scheduled for this year’s DTD festival.

Players packed the room and generated 218 entries, nearly quadrupling the original £15,000 guarantee to an impressive £58,860. In fact, the eventual first-place payout of £13,170 (plus a $5,000 WSOP Paradise package) ended up being bigger than the entire guarantee itself.

The well-deserved winner was George Holmes, who defeated Gary Whitehead heads-up to capture his first-ever WSOP Circuit ring. Whitehead didn’t leave empty-handed either, scoring a hefty £8,665 consolation prize.

According to The Hendon Mob, Holmes is no stranger to Dusk Till Dawn, as pretty much all of his 34 recorded cashes over the past two years have come from this very poker room. He had finished runner-up three times before, but this time, at long last and at just the right time, he got over the line, earning the coveted ring and pushing his career live winnings past the $100,000 milestone.

2025 WSOP Circuit Nottingham Deepstack Full Results

Place	Player	Country	Prize
1	George Holmes	UK	£13,170.60
2	Gary Whitehead	UK	£8,665
3	Scott Meredith	UK	£5,860
4	Anthony Arlott	UK	£4,075
5	Va2g20	India	£2,920
6	Mark Stokes	UK	£2,150
7	Adriano Luzzi	UK	£1,630
8	Thanawitch Chatbipho	Thailand	£1,280
9	Alli Mallu	UK	£1,035
10	Eliot Catterson	UK	£870
11	David Johnson	UK	£870
12	Francesco Romanello	Italy	£750
13	Sajat Khedreh	UAE	£750
14	John Cann	UK	£675
15	Declan Keily	UK	£675
16	Bradley Fowles	UK	£675
17	Philip Hepburn	UK	£675
18	Fernando Bento	UK	£630
19	Rishi Karia	UK	£630
20	Robert Moorhouse	UK	£630
21	Thomas Ascott	UK	£630
22	Henrique Mendes	Portugal	£630
23	Michael Le	UK	£630
24	Chay Simmons	UK	£600
25	Andrew Mapp	UK	£600
26	arev666	China	£600
27	Jason Green	UK	£600
28	Scott Waine	UK	£600
29	Ryan Moran	UK	£600
30	SlikVik11	UK	£600
31	Gregory Hawes	UK	£600
32	Abdullah Gonulcan	UK	£600
33	Andrew Smith	UK	£600

Main Event Begins; Thomas Hall Tops Flight 1A

Thursday also marked the long-awaited kickoff of the £1,500 WSOP Circuit Nottingham Main Event. The first of the five Day 1 flights drew 116 entries, contributing the first building blocks toward the massive £1,000,000 guarantee. With 15% of the field making it through, 18 players bagged and tagged and will return on Sunday for Day 2.

At the top of the leaderboard is Thomas Hall, who finished with 609,000 chips. As our live reporter Christoffer Karlén (who expertly handles the live blog on the DTD website) learned, this Thomas Hall should not be confused with the other Thomas Hall, who won the £2,200 High Roller ring right in this venue last year. If this Thomas Hall takes the win here in the Main Event, Nottingham might need its own Thomas Hall of Fame.

Right behind him is Jack O’Neill with 576,000. And once again, not to be confused with Jack O’Neill from the Stargate. O’Neill is the only ring winner among the 18 survivors of Day 1A, having taken down The Closer at the WSOP Circuit UK in 2023.

Sitting just 1,000 chips behind him are Kamil Zahorodny and Jonathan Hanley, tied at 575,000. Hanley actually led the flight minutes before the day ended, but lost a chunky pot to Zahorodny during the final level. He did manage to reclaim some of those chips by eliminating Egor Gerasimchuk on the bubble, which left both men comfortably tied in third place heading into Day 2.

Today’s lineup begins at noon local time with Day 1B of the Main Event, while the four-card specialists get their moment with the £300 Pot Limit Omaha one-day ring event.

2025 WSOP Circuit Nottingham Main Event Day 1A Chip Counts