2025 WSOP Day 15: Matt Glantz & Ryan Leng Eye Up Big Points at COLOSSUS Final Table
The 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is over two weeks in, and things are in full swing.
Today, Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS will play down to a winner. Just nine players remain from the 16,301-entry field, and two of them are draftees from the 25K Fantast. Matt Glantz (Team Hoggers) sits seventh in chips while Ryan Leng (Team Frog Poison) is the short stack. Both are primed to earn big points for their respective teams, and even more if either can spin and make a run at the bracelet, which would be Glantz’s first and Leng’s fourth.
Event #27: $1,500 Big O will also crown a winner as an extra day was needed. Just two players remain, but neither has fantasy implications. That ended when Ryan Hoenig (Team Lang) busted in third place late Monday night. Hoenig, who sold for $52, is now the league’s top points earner with 182 over four cashes, which included a bracelet win.
In Event #29: $2,500 NLH, 17 players remain including Dylan Linde (Team BTG), the lone fantasy player remaining.
Day 3 of Event #30: $10,000 NL 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship will have the final 16 players from a 233-player field return to action including Dan Smith (Team Money Mondays Podcast), Daniel Negreanu (Team Negreanu), Nick Schulman (Team Splash Sports), Chad Eveslage (Team Handsome Horses), Brian Rast (Team Wass), Ali Eslami (Team Survivor Sweat), and Ben Yu (Team Survivor Sweat). Likewise, ODB Bonus players Greg “FBT” Mueller, James Chen, and Darren Elias are all still in contention.
There are still 258 players remaining from a 4,481-entry field headed into Day 2 of Event #31: $800 NLH Deepstack including Stephen Song (Team DPMD), Calvin Anderson (Team Monday Mondays Podcast), “Texas” Mike Moncek (Team Survivor Sweat), David “ODB” Baker (Team Australia), Nick Seward (Team NOVIG), Patrick Leonard (Team Girl Dads), Uri Reichenstein (Team DPMD), Arthur Morris (Team AJ’s Eagles), and Nick Guagenti (Team BTG).
Among the ODB Bonus players returning are Nick Marchington, Nick Verderamo, Mike Noori, Shawn Buchanan, Loni Harwood, Jonathan Tamayo, Maria Konnikova, and Nitesh Rawtani.
Late registration is still open in Event #32: $50,000 High Roller, so chances are some fantasy players will be jumping into action. However, among the 52 to advance from Day 1, dozens are from the fantasy leagues including Viktor Blom (Team Dinkers), Joao Simao (Team Negreanu), Brock Wilson (Team Glue Factory), Joao Vieira (Team Lady Gaga), and Jason Koon (Team Splash Sports), all of who sit in the Top 10 chip counts.
In Event #33: $1,500 Limit Hold’em, 99 players from the 491-entry field will return for Day 2 including six fantasy players in John Monnette (Team Liaison), Jeremy Becker (Team Jeremy’s), Scott Seiver (Team Frog Poison), Frank Brannan (Team Splash Sports), Chris “Big Huni” Hunichen (Team Handsome Horses), and David “ODB” Baker (Team Australia).
There will also be several new tournaments kicking off, including Event #34: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty, Event #35: $3,000 Freezeout NLH, and Event #36: $10,000 PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship.
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