2025 WSOP Circuit Nottingham Day 3: Desai and Sandercock Claim First Two Rings

November 17, 2025

The final table of the £300 Main Event during the 2025 WSOP Circuit Nottingham. Photo: Jemma Grice

The first weekend of the 2025 WSOP Circuit Nottingham has wrapped up in fitting fashion with two newly-crowned WSOP Circuit Ring Event winners. The streets are saying it’s been a busy couple of days at Dusk till Dawn, and these rumors are backed up by the numbers; the guaranteed prize pools for both ring events were absolutely smashed, and all signs point to the remainder of the festival getting even busier.

First Two Rings Find New Owners

The £300 Mini Main Event was the tournament that kicked off the 2025 WSOP Circuit Nottingham. Competitors could choose between four starting-day flights, and the top 15% of each flight would secure their Day 2 seats and be in the money. The tournament didn’t struggle to hit the £150,000 guarantee; in fact, the prize pool read £327,780 thanks to the 1,214 entries. Up top was a juicy £46,568 first-place payout (and a $5,000 package to the 2025 WSOP Paradise), which would be quite the ROI from a £300 buy-in.

In yesterday’s recap, prior to the penultimate Day 2 of the Mini Main, poker.pro highlighted Michail Damoulis, Mark Smith, Peter Thorpe, and Tan Le as the four players who’d begin the finale with more than 1,000,000 in chips. The only one out of this quartet who made it to the final table was Mark Smith. Other names amongst the final nine included Jay Villegas (who was the chip leader from Day 1b) and prominent players such as Scott Waine, Paul Tait, and Mathew Seer.

Anthony Desai, winner of the £300 Main Event during the 2025 WSOP Circuit Nottingham

In the end, though, there could only be one winner. Anthony Desai beat Prithipal Singh heads-up to claim the biggest live poker title of his career. Just like the aforementioned Villegas, Desai had also originated from the Day 1b flight, and he started Day 2 with 472,000 (thirty-fourth in the overall chip counts). Presumably, Desai displayed great tenacity throughout the 13-hour Day 2, and he’s a worthy winner of the £46,568 paycheck and the $5,000 package.

2025 WSOP Circuit Nottingham £300 Mini Main Event Final Table Results

Place	Player	Prize
1	Anthony Desai	£46,568
2	Prithipal Singh	£31,000
3	Mark Smith	£21,000
4	Davide Fasoli	£15,500
5	Jay Villegas	£11,500
6	Scott Waine	£8,500
7	Ka Wan	£6,500
8	Paul Tait	£5,000
9	Mathew Seer	£4,000

The Mini Main wasn’t the only WSOP Circuit Ring Event during the Sacred Sunday, though, as the £300 NLH 6-Max one-day event was scheduled to commence at 15:00. The tournament scored 207 entries; the £20,000 guarantee was surpassed by some margin as the final prize pool read £55,890. The top 24 players were all guaranteed a £600 min-cash, and it was Adam Sandercock who claimed the £9,664 up top.

Adam Sandercock, winner of the £300 NLH 6-Max during the 2025 WSOP Circuit Nottingham

Quite the impressive feat from Sandercock, who battled against some very experienced players at the final table, such as Stephen Woodhead, who won the £1,250 Midi Main Event during the 2023 GUKPT Grand Final for £80,808.

2025 WSOP Circuit Nottingham £300 NLH 6-Max Final Table Results

Place	Player	Prize
1	Adam Sandercock	£9,654
2	Samuel Coltman	£7,500
3	Stephen Woodhead	£5,750
4	Tarique Imam	£4,500
5	Yani Yanev	£3,750
6	Luigi Sibilio	£3,000
7	Andrew Mapp	£2,500
8	Christian Cardwell	£2,000
9	“SlikVik11”	£1,650

As previously mentioned, there have been a couple of hectic days at Dusk till Dawn, one of the UK’s finest poker venues. Now, the festival is on a two-day hiatus before it will resume on Wednesday, November 19. That particular day will feature three WSOP Circuit Ring Events; it’ll be a nice warmup for all the players who have their eyes set on the £1,500 Main Event.

Dusk Till Dawn Tournament Director and Manager, Simon Trumpet, is very satisfied with the strong start to the festival, and he’s excited for the second part of the event to commence:

“It’s great to see such a strong start to the festival. Thank you to all the players and staff who turned out to make it such a successful opening weekend. We’re hoping to continue this trend into the Main, which starts on Thursday.”

Speaking of the Main Event, this poker journalist will be on-site at the legendary Dusk till Dawn from Thursday to Monday and cover the tournament from start to finish. It’ll be exciting to be a part of the stellar atmosphere and see poker history be written in front of my very own eyes.

2025 WSOP Circuit Nottingham £300 Mini Main Event Full Results

Place	Player	Prize
1	Anthony Desai	£46,568
2	Prithipal Singh	£31,000
3	Mark Smith	£21,000
4	Davide Fasoli	£15,500
5	Jay Villegas	£11,500
6	Scott Waine	£8,500
7	Ka Wan	£6,500
8	Paul Tait	£5,000
9	Mathew Seer	£4,000
10	Jack McDermott	£3,000
11	Yichen Wang	£3,000
12	Shay Ahluwalia	£2,500
13	Alan Taddei	£2,500
14	Kamil Zahorodny	£2,500
15	Stevphen Forrester	£2,000
16	Ben Lalley	£2,000
17	Viktor Dudnikov	£2,000
18	Richard Monk	£1,500
19	Paul Leckey	£1,500
20	“jitdh1”	£1,500
21	Stuart Kinghorn	£1,500
22	Max Lindeman	£1,250
23	Zeyu Yan	£1,250
24	Kyle Harper	£1,250
25	Ian Morris	£1,250
26	Guangdong Dai	£1,250
27	Michail Damoulis	£1,000
28	Koyes Miah	£1,000
29	Tan Le	£1,000
30	“T-M-P”	£1,000
31	Nigel Bull	£1,000
32	Isaak Soh	£1,000
33	Angelos Goulianos	£1,000
34	Fengzhen Chen	£1,000
35	Renee Xie	£1,000
36	Stefan Pooley	£900
37	Peter Thorpe	£900
38	Jonathan Smith	£900
39	Bijay Parkash	£900
40	Alexandru-Andrei Abalasei	£900
41	Georgian Georgescu	£900
42	Jiawei Wan	£900
43	Tarajmeer Kakar	£900
44	Sherif Badran	£900
45	Scott McGrory	£800
46	Martyn Frey	£800
47	Florin-Alexandru Duda	£800
48	Michael Davis	£800
49	George Holmes	£800
50	Daniel Suns	£800
51	Yixuan Wang	£800
52	Soleiman Janjua	£800
53	Darius Cibulskas	£800
54	Mason Kanabar	£800
55	Matthew Deschamps	£800
56	Michael Taylor	£800
57	Arslan Ali	£800
58	Daniel Goodman	£800
59	Ireneusz Zych	£800
60	Ofer Goldvag	£800
61	Chris Balmforth	£800
62	Paul Singhal	£800
63	Malcolm McKinlay	£700
64	Shaun Venables	£700
65	David Smith	£700
66	Syed Zaidi	£700
67	Samandar Manavi	£700
68	Clive Knowles	£700
69	Xinying Zhang	£700
70	Nicholas Gott	£700
71	John Duggan	£700
72	Mikhail Ostapenko	£700
73	Michael Bunn	£700
74	“Richieburner”	£700
75	Oliver Markham	£700
76	Du Wang	£700
77	Javed Akhtar	£700
78	James Langston	£700
79	Daviel Jackson	£700
80	Nicolas Bowyer	£700
81	Angelo Avanzato	£650
82	Anthony WHite	£650
83	Ionut Arvatu	£650
84	Haoxiang Duan	£650
85	Mitchell Johnson	£650
86	Terry Carter	£650
87	Gabriel Parsons	£650
88	Gregory Fee	£650
89	Mei Ge	£650
90	Rui De Sousa	£650
91	Scott Wills	£650
92	Javier Castro	£650
93	Richard Watts	£650
94	Paul Coughlan	£650
95	Jonas Pattichis	£650
96	Peter Craw	£650
97	Seamus McGilligan	£650
98	Jacek Skiscim	£650
99	Pietro Lanza	£600
100	Longmao Fan	£600
101	Tianao Zhang	£600
102	“Deadifilose”	£600
103	Gholmareza Moghaddam	£600
104	Daniel Rowlinson	£600
105	Paolo Singh	£600
106	Michael Ray	£600
107	Harjit Talwar	£600
108	Daniel Brook	£600
109	Thanawitch Chatbipho	£600
110	Sandeep Shah	£600
111	Ihor Haliuk	£600
112	Colin Wotten	£600
113	Adam Sandercock	£600
114	Bartosz Gorski	£600
115	Edward Minet	£600
116	Paul Lyons	£600
117	Hanxu Li	£600
118	Alexander Rizvi	£600
119	Melanie Parker	£600
120	Pranav Agarwal	£600
121	Mark Stokes	£600
122	“SlikVik11”	£600
123	“Synthpop1970”	£600
124	Robert Moorhouse	£600
125	Chun Lu	£600
126	Chase Wilson	£550
127	Muhammad Makhmood	£550
128	Ionut-Aurelian Dumitrana	£550
129	Aqeel Butt	£550
130	Jennifer Breckenridge	£550
131	Gary Whitehead	£550
132	“kandyman1”	£550
133	Mantas Buivydas	£550
134	Daniel Nisbet	£550
135	Samuel Coltman	£550
136	Desmond Darragh	£550
137	Yannik Seabrook	£550
138	James Fowler	£550
139	Gurdeep Singh	£550
140	Gerald McInally	£550
141	Denis Hoban	£550
142	Cosmo Isola	£550
143	Barry O’Shea	£550
144	Nigel Chukwu	£550
145	Lewis Wilson	£550
146	Feizal Abdala	£550
147	Amarjit Kandola	£550
148	Paolo Turatti	£550
149	Andrew Storey	£550
150	Paul Newman	£550
151	David Kane	£550
152	Caglar Bayindir	£550
153	Gokul Narayanan	£550
154	Kevin Greenough	£550
155	Fitz McKenzie	£550
156	Yani Yanev	£550
157	Kristoff Andreas-Carter	£550
158	“GilbertGr8”	£550
159	Andrew Lyons	£550
160	Anthony Mallett	£550
161	Joseph Clarke	£550
162	Samuel Phillips	£550
163	Andrew Mounsey	£550
164	Rajesh Rughwani	£550
165	Warren Bennett	£550
166	Baber Javed	£550
167	Ben Shannon	£550
168	Craig Bennett	£550
169	Lewis Clarke	£550
170	Richard Hunt	£550
171	Eric Quinonero	£550
172	Steven Simpson	£550
173	Zahir Aslam	£550
174	Sven Mermans	£550
175	“time2010”	£550
176	Shay Molloy	£550
177	Ian Daykin	£550
178	Eduardo Isola	£550
179	Jan Ghadami	£550
180	Umer Yaqoob	£550
181	Thomas Howell	£550
182	Darren Delahunty	£550

2025 WSOP Circuit Nottingham £300 NLH 6-Max Full Results

Place	Player	Prize
1	Adam Sandercock	£9,654
2	Samuel Coltman	£7,500
3	Stephen Woodhead	£5,750
4	Tarique Imam	£4,500
5	Yani Yanev	£3,750
6	Luigi Sibilio	£3,000
7	Andrew Mapp	£2,500
8	Christian Cardwell	£2,000
9	“SlikVik11”	£1,650
10	Daniel Van Geete	£1,350
11	Scott Childs	£1,350
12	Waheed Ashraf	£1,100
13	Shuhao Zhang	£1,100
14	Warren Bennett	£1,100
15	Gary Whitehead	£900
16	Stephen Ayres	£900
17	Ovidijus Sveikauskas	£900
18	Chay Simmons	£750
19	“M4cGyv3r”	£750
20	Jacek Skiscim	£750
21	Christopher McDonald	£600
22	Clare Start	£600
23	Mazalahedwa Bako	£600
24	Basharat Mahmood	£600