Level: 5
Blinds: 300/500
Ante: 500
Level: 5
Blinds: 300/500
Ante: 500
Michael Mizrachi has all the chips with four players left in the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Okay, not technically all the chips. But he'll enter the $10,000 buy-in tournament's last session on Wednesday with over 75% of all chips in play.
"The Grinder," a seven-time WSOP bracelet winner, will return to Horseshoe at 2 p.m. (3 p.m. livestream on PokerGO) with 445,500,000 chips, good for 178 big blinds. Two players — Braxton Dunaway and Kenny Hallaert — have 10 or fewer big blinds. John Wasnock, second in chips, has 94,500,000.
Former NFL head coach Marty Mornhinweg, who won Super Bowl XXXI with the Green Bay Packers as Brett Favre’s quarterback coach, raised to 1,000 preflop from the cutoff. David Lyng called on the button.
The flop came J♥Q♦10♥. Mornhinweg bet 2,000, Lyng, the bigger stack, moved all in. Mornhinweg made the call with around 8,000 chips.
Marty Mornhinweg: A♥Q♥
David Lyng: K♦9♦
Mornhinweg had top pair, top kicker, a royal flush draw, and a gutshot draw to the nut straight to boot.
But Lyng had flopped a straight, and it held through turn and river bricks, 3♠5♣, to felt Mornhinweg.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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29,100
29,100
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29,100 |
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Busted |
Action was joined with the pot at over 10,000, and the board reading 2♠5♠J♠J♦ and Amit [Removed:550] checked to Raymund Retino, who was in the cutoff, and bet out for 5,000. [Removed:550] thought for a while and moved all in for 46,500, which had Retino covered. Retino snap-called.
Raymund Retino: Q♥Q♠
Amit [Removed:550]: K♠8♠
No queen on the river for Retino, and he was sent packing by [Removed:550], who raked in the massive pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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75,600
75,600
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75,600 |
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Busted |
Callum Bashford, limp-raised all in for 11,000 from middle position. Matthew Wilkins, in the cutoff, was the lone caller.
Callum Bashford: 5♦5♥
Matthew Wilkins: A♠10♠
The board K♠K♣3♦7♣3♠ ended up pairing twice, but the bottom pair was not high enough to counterfeit Bashford, who took down the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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26,100
26,100
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26,100 |
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15,200
15,200
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15,200 |
Players are now on their first 20-minute break of the day, and play will resume at noon local time
Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
WSOP regulars have been spotted entering, hoping for one more chance at a deep run for a bracelet.
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The board read 7♠K♥8♣3♣, and the pot was at over 5,000. Rob Wazwaz led out for 4,100 from middle position and was called by Ali Shahni in the cutoff.
The river brought the K♣, and Wazwaz tossed in his last 10,100, and was snap-called by Shahni. Wazwaz tabled K♦8♦ for the nuts and was pushed the healthy pot for a full double. Shahni flashed K♠2x before he tossed it into the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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37,200
37,200
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37,200 |
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18,100
18,100
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18,100 |
Short-stacked Wendy Palencia went all in with 4,900 on the button. Even shorter-stacked Leandro Bustillo put in his final 2,300 chips.
Eduards Rakuss made the call, putting them both at risk.
Leandro Bustillo: A♦3♦
Wendy Palencia: 8♦8♣
Eduards Rakuss: J♣4♣
The runout of 8♥4♠6♣2♠5♣ allowed Bustillo to triple up, hitting a gutshot straight on the river to take the main pot. Palencia gat a handful of chips from the side pot, thanks to her set of eights.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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43,500 | |
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7,500 | |
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5,200 |