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

06-01-2025 16:48 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Schulman	170,000 170,000	170,000

Shannon Shorr	160,000 160,000	160,000

Martin Zamani	110,000 110,000	110,000

Alex Foxen	101,000 9,000	9,000

Chris Brewer	90,000 90,000	90,000

Shaun Deeb	70,000 25,000	25,000

Chris Hunichen	60,000 60,000	60,000
Matt Glantz	60,000 60,000	60,000

Loni Hui	52,000 52,000	52,000

Jon Kyte	45,000 45,000	45,000
Ren Lin	32,000 32,000	32,000

Cherish Andrews	25,000 25,000	25,000

Yang’s Six-Bet Pays Off

Jacob Wilson

Level 8 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Following a four-bet preflop from Joao Simao on the button, and a five-bet shove from Kyosuke Nagami, Chongxian Yang then took back his three-bet and replaced it with a six-bet reshove. Simao, covered, didn’t want to play for his tournament life and returned his cards, along with his chips, to the dealer, and the all in players went to showdown.

Kyosuke Nagami A♦K♠ All in
Chongxian Yang 9♣9♠

Yang came out on top at the end of the flip, and engulfed Nagami’s stack when the board ran out 10♥10♦2♥J♠3♥

Player	Chips	Progress
Chongxian Yang	165,000 165,000	165,000
Joao Simao	90,000 15,000	15,000

Kyosuke Nagami	Busted

Tags: Chongxian Yang Joao Simao Kyosuke Nagami

Level: 9

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 1,600

06-01-2025 17:07 UTC-8

A Clock, a Warning & the Ace of Spades

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Connor Richards

Level 9 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Romain Lewis and Maksim Pisarenko played a lengthy hand that saw the two getting to the river on a board of 8♣J♠10♠5♠K♣.

Lewis bet 22,500 on the river and Maksim Pisarenko jammed a stack of around 63,000 to send the Winamax pro deep into the tank.

"This tournament is too hard! I flopped a set. You look like a nice guy," Lewis said as Pisarenko put his head down on the table.

The two engaged in back-and-forth banter for over a minute and the clock was eventually called. Pisarenko then said something in French to Lewis, prompting the floor to warn the table about the English-only rule.

The clock ticked on and Lewis let his hand die before showing 10♣10♥. Pisarenko showed one card and it was the A♠, leaving the table to guess whether or not he had it.

"Nice bluff!" said Jon Kyte.

Player	Chips	Progress
Maksim Pisarenko	95,000 10,000	10,000

Romain Lewis	45,000 22,000	22,000

Tags: Jon Kyte Maksim Pisarenko Romain Lewis

06-01-2025 17:13 UTC-8

Rheem Jams Turn

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Nick Vazquez

Level 9 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Chino Rheem raised to 4,000 on the button. David Wesson was his only customer from the big blind.

The flop came Q♦10♥4♥. Wesson checked and Rheem bet 5,000. Wesson called.

The turn was the 6♣ and Wesson checked again. Rheem then moved all in for his last 32,100. Wesson then started to joke around with him.

"You've probably got ace king." Wesson said. "I've got a pair".

"Then put it in", Rheem said back.

Wesson ultimately decided against it, and folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Wesson	110,000 36,800	36,800
Chino Rheem	59,800 59,800	59,800

Tags: Chino Rheem David Wesson

06-01-2025 17:27 UTC-8

Do-Over on Flop

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Nick Vazquez

Level 9 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Mikhail Zavoloka raised to 3200 in middle position. Qiang Xu raised to 8,500 from the button. Zavoloka decided to peel and the two went off to a flop.

The dealer dealt out the flop, which originally contained four cards. The floor came over, and instructed the dealer to shuffle just those four cards and deal the flop again. The new flop was the K♥K♦Q♣. Zavoloka had already checked on the flop that had four cards, and checked again. Xu bet 5500, and Zavoloka called.

The turn was the 10♣. Zavoloka checked, and Xu asked for 20,500 this time. Zavoloka folded and Xu won the pot after somewhat strange circumstances on the flop.

Player	Chips	Progress
Qiang Xu	212,000 107,000	107,000

Mikhail Zavoloka	129,000 9,000	9,000

Tags: Mikhail Zavoloka Qiang Xu

06-01-2025 17:28 UTC-8

Out of the Blue and Into the Black

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Connor Richards

Level 9 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Taylor Black opened in early position before Mitchell Halverson three-bet to 11,000 from the next seat.

Jacob Kauffman cold-called in the cutoff and Black four-bet jammed for around 110,000. Halverson five-bet re-shoved and Kauffman got out of the way.

Taylor Black: A♥K♠ All in
Mitchell Halverson: A♠K♥

Both players had ace-king and Kauffman was kicking himself for folding a pair as the board landed 6♠6♥3♠. However, his attitude changed as the board finished out 2♠7♠ to give Halverson the nut flush to eliminate Black.

"Good fold!" someone at the table said.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jacob Kauffman	225,000
Mitchell Halverson	80,000
Taylor Black	Busted

Tags: Mitchell Halverson Taylor Black Jacob Kauffman

06-01-2025 17:28 UTC-8

Labat Doesn't Get to Showdown

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Jacob Wilson

Level 9 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

The board read 3♦8♥2♠2♦ when Antoine Labat bet 20,000 into a heads-up pot of 25,000. He was swiftly called by Gabriel Gutierrez.

The dealer put out the 7♣ on the river, and Gutierrez stared Labat down. Labat quickly announced a one-eleventh pot bet of 6,000, to which Gutierrez raised his arm in frustration and surprise, seemingly at the small size of the river bet. As if to stick it to the small bet, he promptly chucked two light green 25,000 denomination chips into the middle, alongside four red 5,000 chips, enough to put Labat all in.

Labat pulled out all the moves as he touched his chips, counted them out, and then started touching his cards. Eventually, he let them go, and announced “well played” in French to Gutierrez, who responded by flipping over the 8♦ as a few players from the table announced “eight is good”, and debated on whether he hit a better two pair on the river, with eight-seven. Gutierrez didn’t settle said debate.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gabriel Gutierrez	182,000 182,000	182,000
Antoine Labat	55,300 55,300	55,300

Tags: Antoine Labat Gabriel Gutierrez

06-01-2025 17:30 UTC-8

Dinner Break

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Connor Richards

Level 9 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Players have been sent on a 60-minute dinner break with the clocks showing 477 entrants so far.

Action will resume at 7:30 p.m. local time.

06-01-2025 18:30 UTC-8

Top 10 Chip Counts After Dinner Break

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Jacob Wilson

Level 9 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jun Obara	670,000 670,000	670,000
Matthew Sabia	372,500 372,500	372,500
Alejandro Peinado	338,500 338,500	338,500
Richard Green	336,000 152,000	152,000

Zhen Chen	320,000 205,000	205,000
Mitchell Halverson	281,000 201,000	201,000
Edward Pak	269,000 269,000	269,000
Alex Kim	250,000 250,000	250,000
Eran Aydin	246,500 203,500	203,500
Joshua Thomas	245,300 76,300	76,300