Event #11: $10,000 Mystery Bounty Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-01-2025 21:00 UTC-8

Zizka Cracks Aces with a Full House

Connor Richards

Level 12 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

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♣ All in
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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Zdenek Zizka	125,000 65,000	65,000

Diego Sanchez Serrano	60,000

Tags: Diego Sanchez Diego Sanchez Serrano Yuya Kita Zdenek Zizka

06-01-2025 21:00 UTC-8

Counts After Break

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Connor Richards

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jun Obara	633,000 37,000	37,000
Taylor Paur	506,000 394,500	394,500

Jordan Siegel	465,000 272,200	272,200
Richard Green	448,000 123,000	123,000

Masafumi Fukata	408,000 180,000	180,000
Shannon Shorr	399,000 164,000	164,000

Julien Sitbon	399,000 287,500	287,500

Matthew Sabia	391,000 18,500	18,500
Nicholas Seward	361,000 301,000	301,000

Mitchell Halverson	352,000 71,000	71,000
Brian Rast	340,000 15,000	15,000

Yuan Li	340,000 200,000	200,000

Joshua Stewart	330,000 105,000	105,000
Rafael Mota	325,000 228,500	228,500
Joshua Arieh	320,000 133,000	133,000

Dylan Smith	314,000 129,000	129,000
Alex Kim	306,000 56,000	56,000
Dario Sammartino	293,500 129,000	129,000
Michael Vanier	290,000 149,600	149,600
Sanjeev Kapoor	288,000 65,000	65,000
Yuya Kita	280,000 160,000	160,000
Michal Wywrot	275,000 72,800	72,800
Michael Moncek	274,000 274,000	274,000

Rajesh Vohra	271,000 112,500	112,500

Uri Reichenstein	270,500 140,000	140,000

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Level: 12

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 3,000

06-01-2025 20:39 UTC-8

2025 WSOP 'Not Going to Be About Results' for Daniel Negreanu

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Elijah Farrow

Level 11 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

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."

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06-01-2025 20:33 UTC-8

Break Time

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Jacob Wilson

Level 11 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

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

06-01-2025 20:30 UTC-8

Some Counts Before Break

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Connor Richards

Level 11 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Rast	325,000 265,000	265,000

Ren Lin	250,000 218,000	218,000

Yuri Dzivielevski	165,000 54,500	54,500

Martin Jacobson	155,000

Dylan Destefano	95,000 35,000	35,000
Dragana Mackelprang	90,000 27,700	27,700
Ethan Yau	80,000 10,000	10,000

Erik Seidel	75,000 28,500	28,500

Sean Winter	70,000 32,500	32,500
Mike Gorodinsky	55,000

Mike Matusow	55,000 5,000	5,000

Nacho Barbero	50,000 13,000	13,000

06-01-2025 20:27 UTC-8

Rabichow Gets There in Unlikely Fashion

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Jacob Wilson

Level 11 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

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♦ All in
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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brock Wilson	200,000 139,500	139,500
Kevin Rabichow	88,000 25,000	25,000

06-01-2025 20:17 UTC-8

Seidel Finds a Double Up

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Nick Vazquez

Level 11 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

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♥ All in
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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sean Mirrasouli	225,000 165,000	165,000
Jacob Kaufmann	130,000
Erik Seidel	103,500 43,500	43,500

Tags: Jacob Kauffman Erik Seidel Sean Mirrasouli

06-01-2025 20:08 UTC-8

Seiver Climbs Back to Starting Stack

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Jacob Wilson

Level 11 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

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♠ All in
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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Scott Seiver	60,000

Jesse Lonis	59,000 12,000	12,000

Tags: Jesse Lonis Scott Seiver

06-01-2025 20:05 UTC-8

Stewart Check-Jams on Guilbert

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Connor Richards

Level 11 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joshua Stewart	225,000 136,500	136,500
Johan Guilbert	60,000 5,000	5,000

Tags: Chino Rheem Johan Guilbert Joshua Stewart