2025 WSOP Day 14: Another Deep Run For Daniel Negreanu

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Jun 10, 2025 7 min read

Welcome back to PokerNews' recap of the action from the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, where Day 14 is in the bag. Two players got their hands on coveted gold bracelets, and there should have been a third champion, but more on that soon!

Elsewhere, five other events edged closer to awarding their top prizes and WSOP hardware, including the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship, where only 16 players remain in the hunt for the title of champion.

Day 14 saw two players become instant millionaires thanks to the massive $9,212,000 prize pool in Event #26: $25,000 High Roller. Cash game specialist, Chang Lee, had never played in a WSOP event before flicking in the $25,000 for this event. Indeed, he'd only ever played one tournament prior to this high roller! Despite being an MTT novice, Lee came out on top and banked $1,949,044 plus his first bracelet, leaving Andrew Ostapchenko to console himself with a $1,299,333 consolation prize.

Event #28: $600 No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack also crowned its champion, with Tyler Brown emerging victoriously. Brown led from start to finish, and even a one-round penalty couldn't stop him marching onto victory and claiming his second WSOP bracelet.

Another bracelet should have found a new home, but Event #27: $1,500 Big O requires an unscheduled fourth day. Igor Zektser and Paul Sincere were given the option to play on for another hour, but they opted to bag their chips and return to the action on june 10 after a good night's sleep.

Negreanu Third in Chips as Alexander Leads the $10K NL 2-7 Championship

Seven-time WSOP champion Daniel Negreanu (1,620,000) finds himself among an all-star cast going into Day 2 of Event #30: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship, where only 16 players remain.

Negreanu came agonizingly close to winning his eighth bracelet earlier in the series when he finished second in the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship, then again with his 11th-place finish in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship. Is this the event where Negreanu tastes glory again?

If he is to emerge victoriously, Negreanu will have to be at his brilliant best because the Day 3 field is stacked. George Alexander (1,835,000) leads the way, followed by Dan Smith (1,775,000), with the likes of Nick Schulman (1,195,000), Greg Mueller (1,070,000), Chad Eveslage (795,000), James Chen (760,000), and Brian Rast (540,000) returning with top ten stacks.

Any of the returning players has the ability to win this event, but Negreanu's fans will be hoping it is their hero who pips them all to the post.

The action resumes at 1:00 p.m. local time on June 10, with PokerNews' live reporting team on hand to bring you live and exclusive coverage.

Event #30: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship Top Ten Chip Counts

Only Nine Remain in the $500 Colossus

Event #19: $500 Colossus attracted 16,301 entrants over its starting flights but only nine of those remain after a third day's play. Ramaswamy Pyloore (224,700,000) holds a massive chip lead going into the fourth and final day, but his victory is far from guaranteed.

Sigrid Dencker (101,300,000) is in second place, with Kaiwen Wei (90,000,000) rounding out the podium.

All eyes will be on Matt Glantz (60,900,000), who, despite being one of the most respected live grinders, still doesn't have a bracelet. Glantz returns to the fray seventh in chips.

Ryan Leng (60,400,000) brings up the rear in ninth. The three-time bracelet winner needs a little help when play resumes, but this event could go in any direction because, the chip leader aside, nobody has more than 20 big blinds at their disposal.

Follow all the live updates from this event from 1:00 p.m. local time on June 10, or tune into the PokerGO stream from 2:00 p.m. local time (or do both!) The choice is yours.

Event #19: $500 Colossus Final Nine Chip Counts

Spain's Jon Vallinas Leads the Final 17 in the $2,500 NLHE

Spaniard Jon Vallinas has been in incredible form since the end of 2024 and is riding the crest of a wave, hopefully in his case, to WSOP glory in 2025. Vallinas was the runner-up in the $10,400 NLHE GGMillion$ Championship event at the 2024 WSOP Paradise festival, a result that banked him $622,340. He then won more than $1 million across four cashes at the Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju stop. Now he leads the final 17 in Event #29: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em.

Vallinas sits down on Day 3 with 7,000,000 chips, around eight big blinds more than David Mcgowan (6,215,000) in second, and 21 more than Travis Hartshorn (4,865,000) in third.

Dylan Linde (2,490,000) is the only surviving player who owns a WSOP bracelet, but there likes of Christopher Puetz (4,190,000), Aram Oganyan (3,575,000), Sebastian Crane (2,100,000), and Ian O'Hara (1,820,000) know there way around a poker table.

This event will crown its champion on June 10, with cards being back in the air from noon local time.

Event #29: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Top Ten Chip Counts

Stephen Song Continues Hot Form and Flies High in the $800 NLHE Deepstack

Event #31: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack attracted 4,481 entrants, but only 258 of them made it through to Day 2. Finding themselves among the chip leaders, as is usually the case lately, is Stephen Song (2,105,000), who can seemingly do no wrong at the tables of late.

Song won over $2.7 million last year and is already up to almost $1.5 million in winnings halfway through 2025. Should Song continue in this event like he has started, he stands a legitimate chance of reeling in the $352,610 top prize and his second bracelet.

Japan's Hajime Watanabe (3,235,000) is the player to catch when play resumes, followed by Daniel Cosner (2,505,000), Robert Gittelman (2,500,000), and Song.

Lower down the counts is where you find such luminaries as Calvin Anderson (1,060,000), Nicholas Marchington (910,000), Will Jaffe (875,000), Michael Moncek (830,000), David "ODB" Baker (745,000), Patrick Leonard (560,000), and Nick Guagenti (325,000).

An 11:00 a.m. local time restart is on the cards on June 10, with the plan to play down to a champion.

Event #31: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack Top Ten Chip Counts

Alexandre Reard Leads the Chasing Pack in the $50,000 High Roller

Frenchman Alexandre Reard, a two-time bracelet winner, leads the pack after Day 1 of Event #32: $50,000 High Roller, the biggest buy-in tournament of the series so far. Some 124 players bought in, with 52 progressing to Day 2. Those numbers will increase because late registration remains open for another two level.

Reard bagged 2,335,000 chips, or 195 big blinds. Swedish superstar Viktor Blom (1,810,000) got the closest to Reard, while Joao Simao (1,636,000) is just behind him.

Obviously, such a high-stakes event has drawn in some of the world's best No-Limit Hold'em players. Brock Wilson (1,495,000), Joao Vieira (1,380,000), Oliver Weis (1,155,000), and Jason Koon (1,049,000) all bagged up top ten stacks.

Danny Tang (972,000), Justin Saliba (870,000), Aleksejs Ponakovs (835,000), David Peters (722,000), and Mikita Badziakouski (648,000) find themselves in the top half of the overnight chip counts.

The star-studded field returns to their seats at noon on June 10 with the plan to play ten more levels. Stay tuned to PokerNews to see who registers late, who falls by the wayside, and who remains in contention for what will be a massive top prize.

Event #32: $50,000 High Roller Top Ten Chip Counts

John Monnette Claims $1,500 Limit Hold'em Day 1 Chip Lead

John Monnette won one of his five bracelets in the $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship in 2021, and he now leads Event #33: $1,500 Limit Hold'em after the first day's play. Monnette finished Day 1 with 368,000 chips, edging out Germany's Christoph Bohm (342,000) and Anthony Ribeiro (327,000) at the chip counts' summit.

Ninety-nine of the 491 entrants progressed to Day 2. Among them are the likes of Ian Johns (215,000), Jeremy Becker (184,000), Ruth Hall (182,000), Daniel Idema (151,000), Scott Seiver (142,000), Chris Hunichen (120,000), and the legendary Humberto Brenes (17,000).

Another day of fixed limit action begins at 1:00 p.m. local time on June 10, with PokerNews bringing you all the updates you can handle.

Event #33: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Top Ten Chip Counts

What's Happening on Day 15 of the 2025 WSOP?

Up to 12 events will be in play on June 10, the 15th day of the 2025 World Series of Poker. Several of those events will award their bracelets. Event #19: $500 Colossus will dish out its bracelet, as will Event #27: $1,500 Big O, and Event #29: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em.

The stacked Event #30: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship is also scheduled to conclude, with Event #31: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack set to follow suit.

The only in-play events not set to conclude are Event #32: $50,000 High Roller and Event #33: $1,500 Limit Hold'em.

Three new events shuffle up and deal on Day 15 of the 2025 WSOP. Expect chip to fly from the word go in Event #34: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em. This one-day event starts at 10:00 a.m. local time and will award its bracelet on the same day. That means upwards of 2,000 players will come and go in the space of a single day!

Event #35: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em starts at noon local time, and is an event for the purists because there are no re-entries. Erlend Melsom emerged victoriously last year, leaving 1,251 opponents in his wake on his way to collecting $523,195.

At 2:00 p.m. local time, Event #36: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship gets underway. Some legitimate superstars have won this event in the past, including Eli Elezra, Josh Arieh, Nick Schulman, Phil Galfond, and reigning champion Sean Troha. Expect a top prize of at least half a million dollars!

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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