$1,500 Main Event Day 2 | 2025 Champions Club Winter Poker Open

Feb 17, 2025

Defending Champ Tommy Zhang Ends His Run

Kirk Brown

Level 25 : Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

Kyle Arora opened to 120,000 from the button and was called by Michael Bahls in the small blind and Tommy Zhang in the big blind.

On the flop of 9x3x2x, Bahls checked, Zhang moved all in for his last 380,000, and Arora quickly called to put him at risk.

Zhang tabled Jx9x for top pair, but Arora held AxAx to put him in a tough spot. Unfortunately for Zhang, the runout could not save him and the defending champ ended his run in 20th place.

Tags: Kyle Arora Michael Bahls Tommy Zhang

Feb 17, 2025

Updated Counts

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Kirk Brown

Level 25 : Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

Level: 25

Blinds: 30,000/60,000

Ante: 60,000

Feb 17, 2025

Break Time

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Kirk Brown

Level 24 : Blinds 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante

The 20 players remaining in Day 2 are now on their 3rd break of the night and will return to battle shortly.

Feb 16, 2025

Holland Picks Up Aces to KO Valden

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Kirk Brown

Level 24 : Blinds 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante

The action was picked up on a heads-up turn of 8♠2♦J♦6♠ with a little over 1,000,000 in the middle and Maxx Holland had just moved all in for 1,800,000.

The action was then on David Valden who was in the tank.

After nearly two minutes, he shrugged and made the call, putting himself at risk.

David Valden: K♥J♥ All in
Maxx Holland: A♦A♠

"Aghhh, nice hand," Valden sighed as he realized he was in rough shape. Only a jack or a king could keep him alive, but the river was the 8♥ to send him to the rail while Holland rakes in the big pot for a double.

Tags: David Valden Maxx Holland

Feb 16, 2025

Ross Shows the Bluff

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Kirk Brown

Level 24 : Blinds 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante

Maxx Holland opened under-the-gun to 100,000 and was three-bet to 300,000 by David Valden, but then John Ross put in the four-bet to 675,000 from the cutoff. The action folded back to Valden who made the call and the two players went to a flop of 4♦2♣4♠.

Valden checked to Ross who fired out for 420,000 and produced a fold from Valden.

"Phewwww!" Ross let out a deep sigh of relief as he pulled in the pot and showed K♥Q♣, which got quite a few reactions from the table.

Holland admitted to folding pocket tens, Valden said he had ace-queen suited, and even Jake Daniels said he folded ace-king on the button after faced with the four-bet.

Tags: David Valden Jake Daniels John Ross Maxx Holland

Feb 16, 2025

Coyle Doubles as Slyvinskyi Exits

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Kirk Brown

Level 24 : Blinds 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante

After a preflop betting war, Dora Coyle got it all in against Bohdan Slyvinskyi who had around the same stack.

Bohdan Slyvinskyi: J♣J♦
Dora Coyle: K♦K♥

Coyle was a big favorite with her kings, and the runout of 3♣A♠5♦A♥2♦ was good for her to score the pot. After a chip count, it was found that Coyle actually had Slyvinskyi covered by a single 5,000 chip and he was eliminated from the tournament.

Tags: Bohdan Slyvinskyi Dora Coyle

Level: 24

Blinds: 25,000/50,000

Ante: 50,000

Feb 16, 2025

Three Table Redraw (full)

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Kirk Brown

Level 23 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Chips	Big Blinds
9	1	Thomas Zhang	2,050,000	51
9	2	Ryan Freeman	2,830,000	71
9	3	Jonathan Vuong	2,455,000	61
9	4	Brant Jolly	5,800,000	145
9	5	Rakan Abusaleh	790,000	20
9	6	Moe Tokko	1,000,000	25
9	7	Thad Mitchell	970,000	24
9	8	Kyle Arora	795,000	20
9	9	Michael Bahls	1,570,000	39

11	1	Dora Coyle	1,105,000	28
11	2	Andrew Tran	1,125,000	28
11	3	Alejandro Jauregui	1,800,000	45
11	4	H Borovetz	1,300,000	33
11	5	Trevor Lewis	1,150,000	29
11	6	Eloy Rios	825,000	21
11	7	Bohdan Slyvinskyi	1,285,000	32
11	8	Trung Pham	5,900,000	148
11	9	James Sunwoo	680,000	17

13	1	Mohammed Bassam	625,000	16
13	2	Maxx Holland	2,100,000	53
13	3	Joel Vazquez	3,700,000	93
13	4	David Valden	2,975,000	74
13	5	John Ross	3,850,000	96
13	6	Jacob Daniels	1,650,000	41
13	7	Ray Henson	300,000	8
13	8	Lawrence Lazar	1,615,000	40
13	9	Neil Vora	1,800,000	45

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Feb 16, 2025

Gabriel Andrade, a Swan Song

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Kirk Brown

Level 23 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Short-stacked Gabriel Andrade got it all in preflop against David Mzaruelov, who covered.

Gabriel Andrade: K♥5♥ All in
David Mzaruelov: A♦K♠

"Five!" Andrade yelled as the flop came out 10♠K♦4♦ to give both players a pair of kings.

"Five!" He yelled again but the dealer put out the 6♠ on the turn.

"FIVE!" Andrade yelled one last time, and the cards finally seemed to hear him as the river came the 5♦ to give him the two pair he desperately needed to score the double.

Unfortunately, this victory did not last long as he moved all in a few hands later after an open from Jonathan Vuong.

"You know if you bust me, you won't be able to enjoy my singing anymore," Andrade tells him as he starts singing very much 'on-key'.

With that, Vuong snap-calls to put him at risk and the cards were tabled.

Gabriel Andrade: 2♣2♥ All in
Jonathan Vuong: K♣Q♥

Andrade was in the lead with his deuces, but the runout was not his friend as it came 10♠5♠9♣5♦9♠ to counterfeit him and he was eliminated with deuce-high to Vuong's king-high.

Tags: David Mzaruelov Gabriel Andrade