Ari Engel was the next player to be nominated.
Aftre a short bidding battle, Team Lang's $20 bid was enough to add him to their roster.
Erik Seidel was nominated for $1, and several teams joined the bidding.
A $15 bid from Team Splashy Octopi got the job done, as Seidel joins Robert Mizrachi, John Racener, and John Riordan.
Dzmitry Urbanovich was the 70th player nominated in the 2025 $25K Fantasy, and he fetched a price of $21 from Team Jeremy's.
Paul Volpe, the sixth-highest scorer in the history of the league, was nominated for $1, and at first, there didn't seem to be much interest. It looked as if he might for for single digits, but eventually he was pushed up to $14, which was the winning bid for Team Wass.
From there, it was Phil Hui going to Team Brown for $30 and Seth Davies to Team DPMD, who have been silent since winning Jeremy Ausmus for a record-high price of $141. They got Davies for a much more reasonable $29.
After an opening bid of $1, a small bidding war broke out, which was saw Team Splash Sports win Renji Mao for $9.
Artur Martirosian was nominated for an opening bid of $1.
Team BTG and Team Jeremy's got into a back and for battle, before Team Jeremy's bid of $17 got Team BTG out of the way, sending him to Team Jeremy's.
Arthur Morris was nominated by team BTG for $1, before Daniel Negreanu stood up bid and $5.
After going back and forth Team AJ's Eagles joined the bidding war, forcing out Team Negreanu.
A $38 bid from Team AJ's Eagles was enough get the job done, and as Team BTG bowed out.
Jared Bleznick, who tweeted that he wasn't going to play much, was nominated for $1 and garnered a handful of bids before selling for $6 to Team Money Mondays.
Team AJ's Eagles then nominated Adam Friedman for $1, and bids quickly drove the price up to $18, which sold to Team BTG.
Justin Liberto was the 63rd player nominated, and he had some takers as bidding quickly escalated to over $30; in fact, he sold for $35 to Team AJ's Eagles, joining Maxx Coleman as the only two players on that roster.
Daniel Negreanu then nominated Stephen Chidwick for $1, and the man who just moved into second place on poker's all-time money list got a bunch of bids.
Bryce Yockey was bidding hard before Team Jeremy's made it $50. Yockey responded with $51 for Team BTG, and that got the job done.
Marco Johnson was nominated for $1, and his price quickly reached the 30s.
After a bidding war, Survivor Sweat made a $49 bid to secure Johnson, adding him to their team of Michael Moncek and Ben Yu.
Frog Poison made an opening bid of $6 for Ryan Leng, which was uncontested as they add him to their roster.
Brian Yu was nominated next for $1, and which sparked several team's interest.
As multiple teams bid on Yoon, his price settled at $34 to Team Hoggers.
Team Australia nominated Chris "Big Huni" Hunichen for $1, and Daniel Negreanu started bidding him up.
Some other teams got in on the action and bid him up to $15, which was the winning bid for Team Handsome Horses.
Spanish phenom Adrian Mateos was then put on the block for $1, and dollar by dollar, his value rose to $25 to go to Team Splash Sports, putting him on the same team as Nick Schulman and Ren Lin.
Ben Yu was nominated for an opening bid of $1.
Team Girl Dads and Bryce Yokcey's team were going back and forth, before Team Jeremy's got into the mix.
His priced continued to rise, before Survivor Sweat's made a winning bid of $31, giving them their second player.
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