2025 WSOP Day 39: Selbst and Lindgren Bag Day 1c Of Main Event

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Jul 05, 2025 6 min read

As you might expect, Day 39 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas was all about the $10,000 Main Event which took up much of the playing space as well as dominating the day's headlines.

However, five other events also added to the clangor of bets being declared, chips being riffled, and pots being raked. Two of these events resulted in new bracelet winners on the day.

The bracelet for PokerNews's own Event #78: $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship went to Nick Ahmadi, who collected $302,165, his first gold WSOP bracelet, and the 24-karat gold PokerNews Deepstack Championship winner’s coin.

The second bracelet of the day went to Giuseppe Zarbo who turned an $800 buy in into $504,180 by winning Event #80: $800 Summer Celebration.

Andriy Lyubovetskiy Bags Day 1c Chip Lead In Main Event

Nothing else on the poker calendar can compare to the WSOP Main Event, which reached the end of Day 1c yesterday.

Day 1c of the event added another 1,678 entries to the event's tally, bringing the total attendance up to 5,980 entries. Eliminations were slow thanks to the deep stacks and long blind levels. As a result, 1,249 players survived to see Day 2. These players join a Day 2 field that now numbers 4,929 players. However, with one more starting flight to go, those numbers can only go up.

Two-time bracelet winner Andriy Lyubovetskiy bagged the biggest Day 1c stack, ending the day with 392,400 in chips. That's 491 big blinds when action starts on Day 2 with 400/800 blind with an 800 big blind ante.

Following Lyubovetskiy is Bin Weng with a stack of 354,800. Weng has over $9 million in career live cashes and rose to the number two spot late in the day.

Braxton Dunaway, the 2023 Monster Stack Champion also bagged a big stack with 234,800. He was another late addition to the top ten, making big headway in the last two levels of the day.

Among those who survived to see Day 2 were players like "retired" poker legend Vanessa Selbst (155,200) by the end of the night, Dan Shak (162,700), PokerNews' own Chad Holloway (128,200), Alec Torelli (101,900), Erick Lindgren (101,100), Michael Addamo (92,400), Max Pescatori (88,500), 2020 Main Event Online champion Damian Salas (61,400), and 2018 WSOP Europe Main Event champion Jack Sinclair (72,900).

Some other notable bags included Calvin Anderson (230,200), Jon Kyte (206,200), Lucas Greenwood (193,600), Michael Addamo (92,600), Philip Sternheimer (91,900), and Boris Angelov (82,500).

Day 1d starts at 12 p.m. local time on July 5. This is the last starting flight of the event, but usually not the least.

You can follow live updates of the tournament right here on PokerNews.

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Event #81: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship Day 1c Top Ten Chip Counts

Extra Day For Heads Up Play In $10k Eight-Game Mixed

June 4 was scheduled to be the final day of Event #82: $10,000 Eight Game Mixed Championship. However, a 13-hour day saw Eric Wasserson and Mike Gorodinsky still battling it out on the felt when the tournament director made the call to add an unscheduled Day 4 to the event.

Thirteen players started Day 3, from a total field of 195. They were competing for a cut of the $1,813,500 prize pool, but everyone was eyeing up the gold bracelet and $422,421 up top.

Unfortunately, not everyone can win, and among those who exited the tourney on Day 3 were Brian Hastings, Jeremy Ausmus, Todd Brunson and Ioannis Konstas.

Jon Turner and Brian Tate were the last two eliminations of the day, leaving Wasserson and Gorodinsky to duke it out.

Wasserson has most of the chips in play with 10,115,000 in his stack. That puts Gorodinsky, with 1,585,000, in a tough spot when play resumes at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 5.

Blinds will be at 30,000/60,000 for the big bet games and the limits at 120,000-240,000 for the limit games.

Event #82: $10,000 Eight Game Mixed Championship Final Table Standings

$2.5k Freezeout Down To 25 Players For Day 3

Pawel Brzeski tops the leaderboard after Day 2 of Event #83: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em. Brzeski bagged a stack of 5,555,000, putting him well ahead of his closest competition.

Breno Drumond in second has a stack of 3,955,000 and Vitor Dzivielevski has a stack of 2,820,000.

A total of 247 Day 1 survivors started Day 2 from a field of 1,299. By the close of play, that number had further reduced to 25.

Duncan Horst started the day clad in the American flag while he sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.” He busted in 86th, earning a payout of $6,000. Alex Keating ($9,490), Phillip Hui ($5,580), and Shawn Daniels ($8,490) were also among those who made it to the money.

The event has a prize pool of $2,890,275 with $449,245 up top for first.

The 25 survivors will return on July 5 at 1 p.m. local time to see who wins that top prize. Blinds will start at 30,000/60,000.

Event #83: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em Top Ten Chip Counts

Shaun Deeb Chases Bracelet Number Eight in Event #84

Event #84: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em kicked off yesterday, attracting 1,873 entries. This far exceeded last year's field of 1,424. The numbers are likely boosted by the switch from a freezeout format to single re-entry.

The high turnout put $1,648,240 in play, with $232,498 of that reserved for the top spot.

Shaun Deeb is currently sitting closest to that top prize. He bagged the biggest stack out of the Day 1 survivors with 923,000 in chips.

He is followed by Liao Yinghsiang (530,000) in second and Jeffery Pugh (510,000) in third.

Some of the other bracelet winners who made it to Day 2 include Harry Lodge (193,000), who won his second bracelet in an online event last week; Jinlong Hu (182,000); Max Kruse (161,000); and Alen Bakovic (140,000).

Guo Liang Wei was eliminated on the bubble, ending Day 1 and ensuring that everyone else would get a little taste of the pot for their trouble.

The event starts up for Day 2 at 2 p.m. local time on July 5. The blinds start at 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 big blind ante.

Pokernews will have live updates all day.

Event #84: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Top Ten Chip Counts

What to Expect on Day 40 of the 2025 WSOP

The smell of black powder and grill smoke is fading as July 4 ends, but the fireworks continue at the Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas.

July 5 will be Day 40 of the series and comes with four events that are already underway.

There are no new starters today; instead, we will see the return of several events, the most important of which is, of course, Event #81: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship.

The Main Event will be back for Day 1d, the final and most likely the largest starting flight of the event. Play begins at midday and will continue for five two-hour blind levels.

Survivors of Day 1a, b, and c will return for Day 2abc on July 6, while survivors of Day 1d will return for Day 2d on July 7.

Shaun Deeb leads the Day 2 field of Event #84: $1,000 No-Limit Holdem. He returns to hunt his eighth bracelet along with the rest of the field at 2 p.m.

Event #82: $10,000 Eight Game Mixed Championship returns for an unscheduled Day 4.

Just two players remain to fight it out for the bracelet — Eric Wasserson and Mike Gorodinsky. They are scheduled for a 1 p.m. start.

There are 25 players left in Event #83: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em. This pair of combatants is scheduled to return at 1 p.m. local, so they can decide a winner.

Check back in with PokerNews to get live updates and the biggest news stories from all these events and more at the 2025 World Series of Poker.

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