The newly revamped PartyPoker Tour has already visited London in April, Manchester in June, and Glasgow in August. Now it’s time for the UK’s second-largest city to have a go at it, and the PartyPoker Tour Birmingham leg will be played from October 11-19 at the Resorts World Genting Casino. In this article, we’ll be previewign what you can expect there, as well as speaking with PartyPoker Team Member Barry Carter.
The new circuit, held in the United Kingdom, heavily promotes the “Player First” concept and is based on value, transparency, and accessibility:
- 100% Prize Pools: No hidden rake, with every penny going to the players.
- Poker For Everyone: lower buy-ins, transparent rake, added value.
- 1,000 Online Qualifiers across U.K.: free or for pennies, creating real zero-to-hero stories.
The PartyPoker Tour Birmingham Festival
The festival will feature 21 events with affordable buy-ins ranging from £60 all the way up to £1,000 for the High Roller. Highlights include a £150 Mini Main Event with a £50,000 guarantee, a £500 Main Event with a £100,000 guarantee, and a £250 PLO Masters with a £20,000 guarantee. Additionally, satellites to the top tournaments will be offered every day, costing just £30 for the Mini Main Event and £60 for the Main Event.
There will also be a number fun non-poker events taking place during the PartyPoker Tour Birmingham stop, including:
- October 12: Roulette Tournament. Spin your way in a casino challenge. Win a ticket to the Mini Main Event with free entrance for all. 🎲
- October 13: Pub Quiz. Test your knowledge on poker, casino and sports betting and win your ticket to the Mini Main Event free. 🍺
- October 14: Sports Betting Tournament. Test your prediction skills betting on Latvia vs England (World Cup qualifiers). It’s free to enter and you can win an entry to the Mini Main Event. ⚽️
- October 16: PartyPoker Ambassadors & Influencers Sit & Go. Join the content guru team at the table and cheer for your favourite bluffer. ♠️
- October 18: Closing Party. End the week in style with free drinks for all Mini and Main Event players, and a DJ to dance the night away. 🎶
These will be all the tournaments held at he festival:
| Day | Time | Event | Buy-In | Guaranteed | Stack | Levels |
| October 11 | 2 PM | #1 Mini Main Event 1A | £150 | £50,000 | 40K | 30’ |
| October 11 | 6 PM | #2 NLH Bounty | £200 | – | 25K | 20’ |
| October 11 | 9 PM | Freeroll Mini Main Event | – | 15 seats | 15K | 10’ |
| October 12 | 2 PM | #1 Mini Main Event 1B | £150 | £50,000 | 40K | 30’ |
| October 12 | 7 PM | #3 NLH Mystery Prize | £60 | – | 20K | 15’ |
| October 12 | 9 PM | Satellite Mini Main Event | £30 | 3 seats | 15K | 10’ |
| October 13 | 2 PM | #1 Mini Main Event 1C | £150 | £50,000 | 40K | 30’ |
| October 13 | 6 PM | #4 Win The Button | £100 | – | 25K | 20’ |
| October 13 | 7 PM | #5 poker.pro PL Sviten Special | £60 | – | 20K | 20’ |
| October 13 | 9 PM | Satellite Mini Main Event | £30 | 3 seats | 15K | 10’ |
| October 14 | 2 PM | #1 Mini Main Event 1D | £150 | £50,000 | 40K | 30’ |
| October 14 | 5 PM | Satellite Mini Main Event | £30 | 3 seats | 15K | 10’ |
| October 14 | 6 PM | #6 No Limit Hold’em | £200 | – | 25K | 20’ |
| October 14 | 7 PM | #7 poker.pro PL H.O.R.S.E. | £60 | – | 20K | 20’ |
| October 14 | 8 PM | #1 Mini Main Event 1E | £150 | £50,000 | 40K | 20’ |
| October 14 | 10 PM | Satellite Main Event | £60 | 3 seats | 15K | 10’ |
| October 15 | 1 PM | #1 Mini Main Event 1F | £150 | £50,000 | 40K | 15’ |
| October 15 | 4 PM | Satellite Main Event | £60 | 3 seats | 15K | 10’ |
| October 15 | 6 PM | #1 Mini Main Event Day 2 | – | £50,000 | – | 30’ |
| October 15 | 7 PM | #8 poker.pro R.O.S.E.T. | £100 | – | 20K | 20’ |
| October 15 | 8 PM | #9 Mystery Bounty Turbo | £150 | – | 25K | 15’ |
| October 15 | 10 PM | Satellite Main Event | £60 | 3 seats | 15K | 10’ |
| October 16 | 2 PM | #10 Main Event 1A | £500 | £100,000 | 50K | 40’ |
| October 16 | 3 PM | #1 Mini Main Event Day 3 | – | £50,000 | – | – |
| October 16 | 6 PM | #11 PLO Masters Big O | £150 | – | 25K | 20’ |
| October 16 | 8 PM | #12 NLH Turbo | £250 | – | 25K | 15’ |
| October 16 | 10 PM | Satellite Main Event | £60 | 3 seats | 15K | 10’ |
| October 17 | 12 PM | #10 Main Event Day 1B | £500 | £100,000 | 50K | 40’ |
| October 17 | 2 PM | Satellite PLO Masters | £30 | 3 seats | 15K | 10’ |
| October 17 | 4 PM | #13 PLO Masters 1A | £250 | £20,000 | 50K | 30’ |
| October 17 | 5 PM | Satellite Main Event | £60 | 3 seats | 15K | 10’ |
| October 17 | 8 PM | #10 Main Event 1C | £500 | £100,000 | 50K | 25’ |
| October 17 | 9 PM | #14 Friday Party Madness | £60 | – | 20K | 10’ |
| October 18 | 11 AM | #10 Main Event 1D | £500 | £100,000 | 50K | 15’ |
| October 18 | 1 PM | #13 PLO Masters 1B | £250 | £20,000 | 50K | 30’ |
| October 18 | 4 PM | #15 Tennessee Hold’em | £60 | – | 20K | 15’ |
| October 18 | 4 PM | #10 Main Event Day 2 | – | £100,000 | – | 40’ |
| October 18 | 4 PM | Satellite PLO Masters | £30 | 3 seats | 15K | 10’ |
| October 18 | 5 PM | #16 NLH Faded Spade | £150 | – | 20K | 20’ |
| October 18 | 7 PM | #13 PLO Masters 1C | £250 | £20,000 | 50K | 20’ |
| October 18 | 10 PM | #17 PLO Bounty | £85 | – | 20K | 10’ |
| October 19 | 11 AM | #13 PLO Masters 1D | £250 | £20,000 | 50K | 15’ |
| October 19 | 12 PM | #18 Mystery Bounty NLH | £250 | – | 25K | 20’ |
| October 19 | 2 PM | #10 Main Event Day 3 | – | £100,000 | – | 45’ |
| October 19 | 4 PM | #13 PLO Masters Day 2 | – | £20,000 | – | 30’ |
| October 19 | 4 PM | #19 High Roller 7-Max | £1,000 | – | 40K | 25’ |
| October 19 | 5 PM | #20 PLO Masters 4/5/6 | £150 | – | 25K | 20’ |
| October 19 | 7 PM | #21 Last Chance Turbo | £100 | – | 20K | 15’ |
You can see the full schedule and structures at this link.
PartyPoker Tour Birmingham: Online Satellites
Weekly freerolls will be held online at PartyPoker to qualify for the Birmingham stop. Just deposit £10 using the code PPTBIRM and you’ll land a ticket for that week’s session. The first three weeks of action will have a guaranteed prize pot of £3,000, with the final session being the big finale and a £5,000 guaranteed prize pool. Finish in the money of any session and you’ll win a PartyPoker Tour Path Online Satellite ticket, tickets to a Live Event or a PartyPoker Tour Package worth £1,000.
The PartyPoker Tour Package £1,000 will include a £500 entry to the Main Event for one of the 2025 PartyPoker Tour stops and £500 for expenses, paid in cash, credited directly to the winner’s PartyPoker account within 48 hours.
These are the dates for the final weekly freerolls:
- Saturday September 27 at 20:00 GMT with a guaranteed prize pool of £3,000.
- Saturday October 4 at 20:00 GMT with a guaranteed prize pool of £5,000.
Join the PartyPoker Tour Birmingham with Weekly Freerolls!
🔥 First 3 weeks: £3,000 GTD prize pot
🔥 Grand Finale: £5,000 GTD prize potFinish in a paid spot and you could bag:
🎟️ A £1,000 PartyPoker Tour Package
🎟️ Birmingham live seats
🎟️ PartyPoker Tour Path Online Satellite… pic.twitter.com/eqp6AZbhHO— PartyPoker (@partypoker) September 11, 2025
Traditional satellites will also be played in step format and start at just £0.20. They’re an ideal opportunity to qualify for the tournament from home for a very low investment.
Interview with PartyPoker Team Member Barry Carter
What makes the PartyPoker Tour different from other circuits?
I always come at these things from the perspective of satellite winners, and this is where I think the tour excels. The satellites themselves are good value, but the events have lots of things that make satellite winners stick around. There are added-value prizes for a lot of the tournaments. For example, when everyone registers, they get a free spin of a wheel to win further tournament tickets, and the event I won last month even gave away a £1,000 High Roller seat in a raffle.
There are also added-value promos for the satellites themselves. This month, we have several £3,000 freerolls to win Birmingham tickets, for example. A real gripe of mine is when satellite winners get stuck somewhere they don’t know and are priced out of the side of events, but that doesn’t happen with the PartyPoker Tour. The side events are varied and affordable. You simply don’t get to play mixed game formats like Big O, Tennessee Hold’em, Sviten Special and HORSE in the UK, but you can for about £60 on this tour. Finally, all the destinations are in places where you would stay around and have a drink after you bust, which is great because at the following stop, you’ll know a bunch of people.
One of the circuit’s slogans is “Player First”. How important do you think that is?
I think there has been too much emphasis on getting the biggest numbers and lots of re-entries in recent years with other tours. It’s early days, but lots of players who played the first leg in London came to Manchester and Glasgow, which to me says the people valued the experience as much as the poker results. Also, your money is safe at PartyPoker, which in 2025 is perhaps the most important thing for players. Game integrity is key.
Really, though, I always go back to the satellites. We have tons of satellites running around the clock, including for the side events. We forget just how important satellites were for getting new players to the tables, and PartyPoker have made this a priority.
There will be several games for players to enjoy, including a Pub Quiz and a Sports Betting tournament. Which one are you most excited to participate in?
The Pub Quiz; it’s a very British thing, and it is a secret passion of mine. In the U.K., we have a lot of great game shows (The Chase, House of Games, Only Connect) that I watch religiously and have tried to be on. I may not have an edge in the Main Event, but I’d take side action on me in a quiz if enough questions about The Simpsons and Marvel movies come up.
There will also be an ambassador and influencer Sit & Go. Do you think you have a chance to win it?
There is always a chance, but the real thing to bet on is if I can behave on stream. I’ve played two so far, been told not to swear on the stream both times, and swore within 10 minutes each time. They really do play like a home game, so if anyone ever wanted to see me get fired by PartyPoker in real time, tune in.
There will be a large number of online satellites. Do you have any tips for playing them besides reading your book? What do you think are the most common mistakes people make in satellite games?
The satellites we run are phase tournaments, which means you carry your stack from the last one into the next one. The biggest mistake players make in these is treating the end of one phase like the end of a regular satellite, and they play too tight, like it’s a bubble. In reality, there is no difference between the final hand of Phase 1 and the first hand of Phase 2, but nobody plays that way. The fun thing about our satellites is that you have to qualify for the final direct phase; you cannot buy in direct or late register it. That means that tough satellite grinders will be put off playing, and there is a greater chance that recreational players will win packages.
Many amateur players will qualify online and be playing in their first live tournament. What recommendations would you give them?
I always say just pay attention to the dealer; you avoid so many newbie mistakes if you just patiently wait your turn and wait for the dealer to tell you your options. Also, don’t be shy about telling people it’s your first live tournament. Most players are very welcoming in these situations and will give you advice; it really is not as cutthroat as new players imagine.
Last month you won your first tournament at the PartyPoker Tour in Glasgow. What was that experience like?
It was my favourite poker memory. I have won hundreds of online tournaments for much bigger prizes, but as rational as I am, I genuinely started to think I was cursed live. To win it on the PartyPoker Tour meant that all my friends were there to rail me and take that winner picture with me at the end, which meant more to me than the money. Also, we got pretty drunk.
You won two trophies at the recent Global Poker Awards. What did they mean to you?
Prior to my poker win in Glasgow, I thought I was going to have a trophy-less existence, and now I have three. I actually have a reason to buy a (small) trophy cabinet. It was lovely that my work with Dara O’Kearney was recognised because he and I have done so much together, and I genuinely think we have put out some of the best written content of the last five or so years. The Twitter award, however, was very special, in part because I don’t really get paid for it; in fact, I think my jokes have hurt my career with a few potential employers, so I’d better get a bloody trophy for it at least.
What’s the best and worst thing about Poker Twitter?
I obviously love the short form content aspect because that is kinda my thing. The best thing is it is a great place to mobilise. If a big story breaks in poker, that is where we all go. The worst thing? Come on, you know the worst thing; it’s so very toxic. I try my best to be a silly non-partisan guy on there, giving everyone a giggle as a palate cleanser while they otherwise try to get each other cancelled. Having said that, I have started posting my memes on Instagram if people prefer that platform, which includes added dog pictures.
