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

06-01-2025 22:46 UTC-8

Vongxaiburana Pips Odenz

Ryan Lashmar

Level 14 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 6,000 ante

Veerachai Vongxaiburana opened to 8,000 from middle position, Charles Odenz called from the hijack and Huck Seed defended from the big blind. All three players drew one.

After the draw Seed checked and Vongxaiburana bet 8,000. Odenz called while Seed folded.

Vongxaiburana showed an eighty-six with 8x6x5x4x2x. Odenz showed that he had an eighty-seven with 8x7x6x5x3x before mucking and Vongxaiburana took the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Huck Seed	180,000 55,500	55,500

J. Austin Hijar	170,000 9,000	9,000
Charles Odenz	168,000 43,000	43,000
Yilong Wang	140,000 96,000	96,000

Veerachai Vongxaiburana	125,000 69,000	69,000

Phillip Hui	53,000 57,000	57,000

Richard Mirin	44,000 1,500	1,500

Tags: Charles Odenz Huck Seed Veerachai Vongxaiburana

Level: 14

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 6,000

06-01-2025 22:41 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Dangoor	Busted
Anthony Zinno	Busted

Christopher Claassen	Busted

Taisaku Iwao	Busted
Mark Andress	Busted
Darren Elias	Busted

William Mattison	Busted
Timothy Knauf	Busted
Tal Avivi	Busted
Jeff Mills	Busted
Ray Villaman	Busted
Timothy Frazin	Busted
Ben Keeline	Busted

Yuhong Liu	Busted
Dan Shak	Busted
John Delong	Busted
Dan Matsuzuki	Busted

Burke Delange	Busted

Hellmuth Battles Born

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Frank Visser

Level 13 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 4,500 ante

It folded to Laura Born in the small blind, who raised to 8,000. Phil Hellmuth sat in the big blind and made it 20,000 to go, which Born swiftly called. Born drew one card before Hellmuth elected to stay pat.

Born checked over to Hellmuth, who gave a bit of a speech before he checked back. Born had paired up with 8x7x4x3x3x, leaving the pot to Hellmuth's 10x7x4x3x2x.

Player	Chips	Progress
Phil Hellmuth	160,000 25,000	25,000

Laura Born	125,000 25,000	25,000

Tags: Laura Born Phil Hellmuth

06-01-2025 22:27 UTC-8

Greenstein Going Strong

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Frank Visser

Level 13 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 4,500 ante

Barry Greenstein raised to 7,000 in the hijack, and Steve Zolotow defended his big blind. Zolotow drew two cards while Greenstein kept the cards he had.

Greenstein dropped in 15,000 chips after the draw, and a quick check-fold followed from Zolotow.

Greenstein won the first of his three bracelets in no-limit 2-7 lowball draw back in 2004, and, 21 years later, the Hall of Famer is currently looking to capture his first piece of WSOP jewelry since 2008.

Player	Chips	Progress
Barry Greenstein	126,000 11,000	11,000

Steve Zolotow	53,000 52,000	52,000

Tags: Barry Greenstein Steve Zolotow

06-01-2025 22:22 UTC-8

Chen Decimates Lorgeree

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Ryan Lashmar

Level 13 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 4,500 ante

James Chen opened from the button and Justin Gardenhire three-bet shoved for 15,500 from the small blind. Doug Lorgeree four-bet to 45,000 from the big blind and Chen shoved for 114,000 leaving a single T-500 chip behind. Lorgeree, who had Chen slightly covered, went into the tank for a couple minutes before moving all in. Chen called and was at risk.

Gardenhire drew one, Lorgeree stood pat, and Chen drew one.

Justin Gardenhire: 7x6x5x2x All in
James Chen: 9x7x5x4x All in
Doug Lorgeree: 10x5x4x3x2x

Lorgeree had ten-perfect while Chen was drawing to a nine and Gardenhire was drawing to a seven. Gardenhire bricked after catching another 6x but Chen caught a 3x to complete his draw, sending Gardenhire to the rail and earning a full double up while Lorgeree was left with just two big blinds.

Player	Chips	Progress
James Chen	256,000 241,000	241,000

Grant Oen	123,000 123,000	123,000
John Capitano	118,000 41,000	41,000
Mike Leah	69,000 10,500	10,500
Stephen Moreschi	42,000 27,000	27,000
Doug Lorgeree	6,000 69,000	69,000
Justin Gardenhire	Busted

Tags: Doug Lorgeree James Chen Justin Gardenhire

06-01-2025 22:15 UTC-8

Owen Downs Brown

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Frank Visser

Level 13 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 4,500 ante

Adam Owen opened to 7,5000 in the hijack and snap-called when Tyler Brown put in his stack of 32,000 from the cutoff. Owen drew one card, and so did Brown.

Tyler Brown: 9x8x6x2x All in
Adam Owen: 9x5x4x2x

Owen had the better draw, and he made the better hand as well when he drew a Qx against Brown's Kx.

Player	Chips	Progress
Adam Owen	145,000 74,000	74,000
Tyler Brown	Busted

Tags: Adam Owen Tyler Brown

06-01-2025 22:02 UTC-8

Counted Stacks

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Frank Visser

Level 13 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 4,500 ante

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

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Level: 13

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 4,500

06-01-2025 21:51 UTC-8

Horseshoe & Paris: Your Guide to the Home of the World Series of Poker (WSOP)

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Elijah Farrow

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

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