Damarjai Davenport Leads Heading Into Final Day of $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed
Day 2 of Event #13: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed at the 2025 World Series of Poker, held at the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas, has concluded. The day’s field of 174 (out of the 2,354 who entered) was whittled down to 11 players looking to claim the $414,950 first prize from a total purse of $3,124,935.
Through ten levels of play on Day 2, Damarjai Davenport made the most impressive moves, grappling his way to the top of the leaderboard with 11,000,000 chips after starting the morning with just 325,000 in front of him.
Davenport won a sizable pot early in the day when he turned a wheel with a gutshot to eliminate an opponent, and he had perhaps the sickest bluff of the day, putting more than 4 million chips in the pot with an eight-high.
End of Day 2 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Damarjai Davenport | United States | 11,000,000 | 110 |
| 2 | Shundan Xiao | China | 9,330,000 | 93 |
| 3 | Eshaan Bhalla | United States | 7,200,000 | 72 |
| 4 | Dani Genov | Bulgaria | 5,600,000 | 56 |
| 5 | David Jackson | United States | 5,500,000 | 55 |
| 6 | Christopher Staats | United States | 4,805,000 | 48 |
| 7 | Yoann Rubele | France | 3,900,000 | 39 |
| 8 | Oscar Johansson | Sweden | 3,350,000 | 34 |
| 9 | Aaron Overton | United States | 3,165,000 | 32 |
| 10 | Yohan Rascar | France | 2,505,000 | 25 |
| 11 | James Leonard | United States | 2,330,000 | 23 |
Davenport is seeking his first WSOP bracelet. The big man – he stands 6-foot-4-inches and tips the scale at 300-plus pounds – does have a second-place finish on his ledger, having picked up more than $678,000 at the 2024 WSOP in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mystery Bounty.
Xiao in the Mix
Shundan Xiao, who is second in chips with 9,330,000, is also seeking her first bracelet. Xiao, who has been playing in tournaments for only two years but has already racked up more than $365,000 in earnings, made a nice run in last year’s WSOP Main Event, finishing in 28th place.
The only player from the Day 1 top-ten still in the tournament, Xiao dodged a host of outs to survive an all-in earlier in the day, then closed out with a huge kings-over-aces win to stay in the hunt.
Day 1 leader Forrest Blackwelder didn’t arrive at the Horseshoe until midway through the second level of play. His day lasted only until the end of that session, as his ace was out-kicked.
Three-time bracelet winner Martin Kabrhel, as loquacious as ever, went out to a few jeers and shouts of “Seat Open!” from fellow players.
Day 3 will be Wednesday, June 4, with cards in the air at 1 p.m. The final day will feature 60-minute levels and a break after every two levels, until a victor is determined.
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