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

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

Payouts Revealed

Frank Visser

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

The $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw gathered a field of 532 entries, creating a prize pool of $706,230.

Eighty players will receive a share of the funds, with the min-cash amounting to $3,045. Five-figure prizes are reserved for the top nine finishers, while the eventual champion will walk away with the massive sum of $138,080.

The full payouts are listed below.

Place	prize	Place	Prize
1	$138,080	10-11	$9,006
2	$90,569	12-14	$7,146
3	$60,738	15-20	$5,823
4	$41,654	21-27	$4,875
5	$29,228	28-34	$4,198
6	$20,994	35-41	$3,721
7	$15,446	42-48	$3,397
8-9	$11,646	49-55	$3,197
		56-80	$3,045

06-01-2025 20:32 UTC-8

Depaulo Surging Up the Leaderboard

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Frank Visser

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

Patricia Moore limped in from the small blind, prompting Ryan Depaulo to make it 15,000 in the big blind. Moore called and stood pat, with Depaulo following suit.

Moore then checked over to Depaulo, who fired 11,000. Moore quickly called, but mucked her hand when Depaulo tabled 10x8x6x5x4x.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Depaulo	150,000 115,000	115,000

Patricia Moore	60,000

Tags: Patricia Moore Ryan Depaulo

Level: 11

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 3,000

06-01-2025 20:24 UTC-8

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 20:09 UTC-8

Farah Takes from Turner

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Ryan Lashmar

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

Mustafa Farah opened to 6,000 from the button and Jon Turner called from the small blind. Both players drew one and checked after the draw.

"Deuces" Turner announced. Farah turned over a queen-low with Qx9x6x3x2x to win the hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Phil Hellmuth	103,000

Mustafa Farah	81,000 11,000	11,000
Phillip Hui	69,000 31,500	31,500

John Thibodeaux	69,000 44,000	44,000
Tomas Szwarcberg	63,000 22,500	22,500
Jon Turner	57,000 16,500	16,500

Jeremiah Keeney	16,000 16,000	16,000

Tags: Jon Turner Mustafa Farah

06-01-2025 20:02 UTC-8

Game Over for Smith

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Frank Visser

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

https://twitter.com/SamENoleWSOP/status/1929380759837491357

Player	Chips	Progress
Matthew Smith	Busted

06-01-2025 19:48 UTC-8

Updated Counts

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Frank Visser

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Christopher Leslie	128,000 128,000	128,000
Jun Weng	127,000 127,000	127,000
Barry Greenstein	116,500 59,500	59,500

John Delong	113,500 54,500	54,500
Ismael Bojang	103,000 30,000	30,000

Phil Hellmuth	103,000 7,000	7,000

Phillip Hui	100,500 75,500	75,500

Brandon Cantu	99,500 500	500

Dario Alioto	89,500 23,500	23,500

Brian Yoon	88,500 33,300	33,300

Ilkka Heikkila	88,000 88,000	88,000
Larry Wright	81,500 43,700	43,700

Ray Villaman	77,500 16,100	16,100
Christopher Claassen	75,800 37,400	37,400

Doug Lorgeree	75,000 47,000	47,000
Kevin Gerhart	70,900 32,000	32,000

Mustafa Farah	70,000 5,000	5,000
Sebastian Schulz	70,000 16,500	16,500
David McCaw	66,000 29,700	29,700
Walter Chambers	65,000 38,000	38,000

Tyler Brown	65,000 27,300	27,300

Thomas Eychenne	62,500 35,500	35,500
Jeff Mills	57,000 13,000	13,000
Ryan Hoenig	55,000 41,800	41,800

Dan Matsuzuki	54,500 13,000	13,000