Yuya Kita opened to 8,000 in early position and Zdenek Zizka three-bet to 40,000 in middle position before Diego Sanchez Serrano three-bet jammed on the button. Kita folded and Zizka called off for a total of 55,000.
Zdenek Zizka: 9♥9♣ 
Diego Sanchez Serrano: A♠A♣
Zizka had run into aces, but it didn't matter as the flop landed J♠9♦7♦ to give him a set before the board finished out J♣5♥ to improve him to a full house to double up.
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Daniel Negreanu will enter the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) "with a little bit of a different attitude" in his first year of Seniors Event eligibility, GGPoker's top ambassador told PokerNews.
The 50-year-old is coming off three straight losing summers. But that doesn't concern him, especially considering he ended an 11-year bracelet drought in 2024 when he took down the prestigious $50,000 Poker Players Championship. He's more focused on having fun and playing sound poker than the results.
"The World Series for me, it's not going to be about results that much, because that's luck, right," Negreanu explained. "Luck is going to play into the results. For me, I want to have a good time."
Players will now take a third 15-minute break of the day, and will return without any 500 denomination chips after a dealer color-up. This break also marks the end of late registration into the event.
Cards go back in the air at 9:45 p.m local time
Action folded round to Brock Wilson in the cutoff, who shot out a min-raise to 6,000. The button and small blind got out of the way, and as the only player left to act Kevin Rabichow shoved for 41,000, or just under 14 big blinds. With a large stack, Wilson didn’t hesitate to make the call, and revealed that he was out-pipping Rabichow by one.
Kevin Rabichow A♣7♦
Brock Wilson A♥8♠
Drawing to a seven, Rabichow also picked up diamond outs when the dealer rolled out a flop of 5♦3♦K♦ and wasted no time in picking up the check mark as the turn 6♦ sealed his double up. Only a hidden joker in the deck could have saved Wilson, but the dealer offered the 2♠ instead, before pushing the chips over to Rabichow.
Jacob Kauffman raised under the gun to 6,000. Sean Mirrasouli called next to act, and Erik Seidel came along from the big blind.
The three players saw a flop of 9♥7♥6♣. Seidel checked, and Kauffman bet 11,000. Mirrasouli folded, and action was on Seidel. He went all in for 40,500 and Kauffman quickly called.
Erik Seidel: 6♥4♥
Jacob Kauffman: K♦K♥
The turn A♥ gave Seidel a flush, but Kauffman could still hit a higher flush with another heart, which would have busted the 10-time bracelet winner. The A♣ river did not do the trick however, and Seidel remains in the tournament.
2024’s Player of the Year Scott Seiver had a stack worth just 13 Big Blinds, when he got it all in preflop against Jesse Lonis.
Scott Seiver A♣A♠
Jesse Lonis 10♥10♦
The 7♠4♥7♦Q♠6♣ board ran out clean for Seiver, and when asked to verify how much he was all in for, he claimed it was a “huge 28,000 chips”, and commented on how he can now get back into the tournament, due to his chip count resetting as if he’d just sat down.
Johan Guilbert opened to 6,000 on the button and Joshua Stewart called in the big blind.
Stewart checked on the flop of 5♥3♣9♣ and Guilbert moved his arm at a sloth's pace to drop out a bet of 7,000. Stewart called.
Stewart checked again on the 7♠ turn and Guilbert fluttered his eyes as he slowly moved out a bet of 22,000. Stewart wasted no time check-raising all in and Guilbert quickly folded, leading his opponent to table 5♠4♠.
"Just a pair?! Where are you from?" inquired Chino Rheem.
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