THB 37,000 Championship Day 1cd | 2025 WPT Prime Thailand Exhibition

08-03-2025 18:52 UTC+7

Abby Merk Left Corporate Job to Become One of Poker's Top Creators

Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Life Outside Poker is a podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level.

In the 32nd episode, Connor talks with Global Poker Award-winning content creator Abby Merk about growing up in Chicago, studying philosophy at Wake Forest University, leaving her corporate job to become one of poker's top creators, playing her first World Series of Poker in 2021, making a goal to post daily content and being nominated for two Global Poker Awards.

Merk also talks about battling with high-stakes pro Stephen Chidwick in the WSOP Main Event and being at the final table for a 2023 controversy over a man winning a ladies poker tournament in Florida.

Watch the Latest Life Outside Poker!

08-03-2025 19:00 UTC+7

Recent Casualties for Day 1c

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 19 : Blinds 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante

Only some 85 players remain and the top 75 finishers will advance to Day 2 if they bag up chips for tonight. That means the money bubble is certainly looming and the average stack below 20 big blinds will have little mercy on the shorter stacks in the upcoming orbits.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nat Jarmonthavat	Busted
Shen Ding Yoong	Busted
Joakim Bratt	Busted
Artur Tarubarov	Busted
Yuequan Jia	Busted
Kunal Punjwani	Busted

Michitaka Sekine	Busted
Koji Takagi	Busted
Tongkai Hatsathon	Busted

Level: 20

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 20,000

08-03-2025 19:13 UTC+7

Simsen Doubles Through Singh

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Thomas Simsen had previously lost a big portion of his stack with flush under flush and then jammed for 129,000. Thiyam Singh rejammed in the next seat to force out everyone else.

Thomas Simsen: A♠A♥ All in
Thiyam Singh: 8♥8♠

"Woah, nice hand," Singh said and couldn't get there on the K♦10♥7♦K♥5♥ board to take a dent to his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Zhiqiang Meng	1,150,000 335,000	335,000

Thiyam Singh	640,000 185,000	185,000
Thomas Simsen	300,000 110,000	110,000

Tags: Thiyam Singh Thomas Simsen

08-03-2025 19:15 UTC+7

Luo Busts Kuang and Gupta

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Mohit Gupta pushed all-in for 152,000 from under the Shuang Luo did so from one seat over for 185,000. It folded to Gezhun Kuang in the big blind and he reluctantly called all-in for 173,000.

Mohit Gupta: A♥K♠ All in
Gezhun Kuang: 10♦10♥ All in
Shuang Luo: A♦A♣

The 7♣6♥5♣J♠3♥ board kept the aces ahead all the way to score Luo a double knockout.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shuang Luo	550,000 550,000	550,000
Gezhun Kuang	Busted
Mohit Gupta	Busted

Tags: Gezhun Kuang Mohit Gupta Shuang Luo

08-03-2025 19:22 UTC+7

The Money Bubble is Drawing Closer

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

The action has somewhat slowed down the last couple of minutes and some of the eliminations before can be found below, as the field has actually been stuck at 80 players remaining for a while. Only 75 players will go through at most, and the next level is about to start in a few minutes.

Player	Chips	Progress
Linrui Ji	Busted
Andrei Bykanov	Busted
Wensheng Lai	Busted

08-03-2025 19:27 UTC+7

Zhang Sends Chuang Packing

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Mykyta Savva raise-folded when Yu-Zu Chuang pushed all-in and was looked up by Nan Zhang, asking if he can show his cards but electing against it.

Yu-Zu Chuang: A♥Q♦ All in
Nan Zhang: A♦A♣

There was no miracle on the Q♠7♥5♣6♦2♥ runout and that spelled the end for Chuang.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nan Zhang	600,000 247,000	247,000
Mykyta Savva	525,000 5,000	5,000
Yu-Zu Chuang	Busted

Tags: Mykyta Savva Nan Zhang Yu-Zu Chuang

Level: 21

Blinds: 15,000/25,000

Ante: 25,000

08-03-2025 19:33 UTC+7

Spectacular Double for Po

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 21 : Blinds 15,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

Yung Hui Po from Brunei was all-in preflop for 170,000 with the [4y4d] and had a classic flip against the A♠K♣ of Daniel Yuen. The A♥Q♦J♠ flop and K♥ turn all but sealed his fate but the 4♣ on the river brought an unlikely double-up.