Event #12: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Day 1 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-01-2025 22:02 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Han Liu	532,500 17,500	17,500

Tyler Phillips	208,500 150,500	150,500
Justin Marsh	194,000 80,000	80,000
Philip Sternheimer	185,000 131,800	131,800

Ray Henson	178,500 30,500	30,500

Jonathan Morrell	175,000 175,000	175,000
David Avina	170,000 170,000	170,000
Cody Bartlett	169,000 141,000	141,000
Oliver Vereschagin	165,500 140,000	140,000
J. Austin Hijar	161,000 161,000	161,000
Jeramy Govert	158,000 158,000	158,000
Michael Manis	152,500 152,500	152,500
Thomas Eychenne	150,500 88,000	88,000
Jonathan Borenstein	148,500 148,500	148,500
Ismael Bojang	141,500 18,500	18,500

Phil Hellmuth	135,000 32,000	32,000

Lok Chan	129,000 129,000	129,000

Eric Stangel	126,000 126,000	126,000
Charles Odenz	125,000 51,500	51,500
Huck Seed	124,500 85,500	85,500

Christopher Leslie	123,000 5,000	5,000
Joel Deutsch	122,500 122,500	122,500
Tomasz Gluszko	112,500 49,500	49,500
Phillip Hui	110,000 41,000	41,000

Yegor Tsurikov	108,000 108,000	108,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Brandon Cantu	Busted

Daniel Zack	Busted

James Obst	Busted

Eduards Rakuss	Busted
John Holley	Busted
Zachary Lynch	Busted
Noah Bronstein	Busted

Toby Lewis	Busted

Austin Srur	Busted
Anthony Lamps	Busted
Nicolas Milgrom	Busted

Kyle Miholich	Busted

Sebastian Schulz	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Larry Wright	Busted

Jason Daly	Busted

Shawn Hierl	Busted
Ilkka Heikkila	Busted
Kevin Gerhart	Busted

Ben Yu	Busted

Ari Engel	Busted

Jon Turner	Busted

Todd Barlow	Busted
Patricia Moore	Busted
Shaun Deeb	Busted

Denis Strebkov	Busted

Patrick Leonard	Busted

Joseph Ranciato	Busted

Marsh Takes from Cantu

Ryan Lashmar

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 3,500 ante

Brandon Cantu opened from under the gun, Justin Marsh three-bet to 15,000 from the button and Cantu called, drawing one while Marsh stood pat. Both players checked after the draw.

"You win" Cantu told Marsh, who quickly turned over a nine-low with 9x8x7x5x3x. Cantu mucked and Marsh won the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ismael Bojang	160,000 57,000	57,000

Sean Yu	128,000 128,000	128,000
Justin Marsh	114,000 94,600	94,600
Brandon Cantu	96,500 3,000	3,000

Yueqi Zhu	96,000 70,000	70,000

James Obst	90,000 43,000	43,000

Sebastian Schulz	53,000 17,000	17,000

Tags: Brandon Cantu Justin Marsh

06-01-2025 21:00 UTC-8

Defending Champ Still Going Strong

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Frank Visser

Level 11 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 3,000 ante

David Funkhouser raised his button to 4,000. Taisaku Iwao and Tomas Szwarcberg called in the blinds, after which they drew two cards and three cards, respectively.

Funkhouser remained pat, and the action checked to showdown. All players were reluctant to show, but Funkhouser's 10x9x7x6x4x won him the pot as the others had not outdrawn him.

Funkhouser ended the hand with around 56 big blinds, which is an above-average stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Funkhouser	113,000 67,000	67,000

Tomas Szwarcberg	60,000 3,000	3,000
Taisaku Iwao	35,500 35,500	35,500

Tags: David Funkhouser Tomas Szwarcberg

06-01-2025 20:45 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Valentin Vornicu	Busted
Nick Pupillo	Busted

Galen Hall	Busted

Jeremiah Keeney	Busted
Mickey Doft	Busted
Scott Bohlman	Busted

Chad Eveslage	Busted

Patrick Moulder	Busted

Bryan Micon	Busted
Roland Israelashvili	Busted

Michael Moncek	Busted

Naoya Kihara	Busted

Nicholas Marchington	Busted
Abel Lin	Busted
Ray Fishman	Busted
Ryan Riess	Busted

Seed Shoves into Avivi

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Ryan Lashmar

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 2,500 ante

Huck Seed opened to 4,000 from middle position and Tal Avivi called from the cutoff. Both players drew one.

Seed checked after the draw and Avivi bet 4,000. Seed shoved for 21,500 and Avivi mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tal Avivi	195,000 108,500	108,500
Yilong Wang	101,500

Darren Elias	95,000 9,000	9,000

Charles Odenz	73,500 62,500	62,500
Huck Seed	39,000 16,000	16,000

Ben Yu	16,000 1,500	1,500

Tags: Huck Seed Tal Avivi

06-01-2025 20:19 UTC-8

Various Eliminations Throughout Day 1

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Frank Visser

Level 10 : Blinds 1,000/1,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jacob Boyle	Busted
Liz Young	Busted
Bruce Kary	Busted
Eric Kesselman	Busted
Brandon Nicholson	Busted
Eric Tipsword	Busted
Kory Swekla	Busted
John Marlowe	Busted
Maxim Elisman	Busted
David Matthews	Busted
Gabriel Paul	Busted
Patrick Stacey	Busted
Alex Epstein	Busted

Michel Leibgorin	Busted
Bradley Jansen	Busted

Sachin Bhargava	Busted
Alexander Frye	Busted
Toby Boas	Busted
Fabian Bump	Busted
Max Pescatori	Busted

Ryutaro Suzuki	Busted

Ryan Leng	Busted

Jyri Merivirta	Busted
Christopher Vitch	Busted

Dekel Balas	Busted

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06-01-2025 19:07 UTC-8

Kornuth Takes Down Multiway Pot

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Ryan Lashmar

Level 9 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,800 ante

Chance Kornuth opened to 2,400, Leonardo Rizzo called from the cutoff, Tal Avivi called from the button, Charles Odenz called from the small blind and Katherine Brandt called from the big blind. Kornuth and Rizzo each drew two while the other three players each drew one.

Action checked around to Kornuth who bet 9,000 after the draw. Only Odenz called.

Kornuth tabled an eight-seven with 8x7x6x4x3x and Odenz mucked his hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Darren Elias	104,000 76,800	76,800

Tal Avivi	86,500 18,500	18,500
Leonardo Rizzo	83,000 10,000	10,000
Chance Kornuth	60,500 20,000	20,000

Huck Seed	55,000 9,500	9,500

Charles Odenz	11,000 8,500	8,500
Katherine Brandt	5,500 5,500	5,500

Tags: Chance Kornuth Charles Odenz Katherine Brandt Leonardo Rizzo Tal Avivi

06-01-2025 18:58 UTC-8

Last Year's Numbers Crushed

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Frank Visser

Level 9 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,800 ante

With just under an hour of late registration left, the clock is standing at 477 entries, already improving on the 453 of last year.

The record for the $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw was set in 2023, when 548 entries were made. With reentries being allowed until the end of late registration, the 2025 edition may come very close to breaking it.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Gathy	25,000

Dustin Dirksen	25,000
John Holley	25,000 25,000	25,000
Mike Leah	25,000
Ryan Hughes	25,000

Bob Slezak	25,000

Jennifer Harman	25,000

Per Hildebrand	25,000