Event #15: $1,500 Mixed: Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Day 2 | 2025 World Series of Poker

06-03-2025 15:42 UTC-8

Hunt up, Greene Out

Dan O'Hair

Level 19

Limit: 4,000/8,000 Blinds, 8,000-16,000 Limits
Pot-Limit: 4,000 Ante, 2,000/4,000 Blinds, 8,000-14,000 Pot Limit Raise

Omaha Hi-Lo

Three ways on a flop of 6♠J♥6♣ with Jonathan Greene already all in preflop, David Hunt was in the big blind and check-called a bet from Scott Clements, who was in early position.

Both players then checked down on the Q♦ turn and 9♥ river and Hunt showed 5♦5♣4♣3♥ for a pair of fives.

Clements couldn't beat it with his A♣K♥4♥3♣, nor could Greene with A♦K♠3♠2♦ and Greene was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Hunt	435,000 133,000	133,000
Scott Clements	120,000 22,000	22,000

Jonathan Greene	Busted

Tags: Jonathan Greene David Hunt Scott Clements

06-03-2025 14:58 UTC-8

Balas Busts Hui

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Dan O'Hair

Level 18

Limit: 3,000/6,000 Blinds, 6,000-12,000 Limits
Pot-Limit: 3,000 Ante, 1,500/3,000 Blinds, 6,000-10,500 Pot Limit Raise

Big O

Dekel Balas opened to 12,000 from the hijack and just behind him, Phillip Hui shoved for his last 18,000 in the cutoff. Philip Muscarello then announced, "Pot," from the small blind, which got a fold from Balas to set up a showdown between Muscarello and Hui.

Phillip Hui: A♦5♦4♠4♣3♥ All in
Philip Muscarello: A♥K♠6♠6♣2♥

The Q♠J♥9♣J♦J♠ runout left Muscarello best with jacks-full of sixes and Hui was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dekel Balas	155,000 50,000	50,000
Philip Muscarello	130,000 147,000	147,000
Phillip Hui	Busted

Tags: Dekel Balas Philip Muscarello Phillip Hui

06-03-2025 14:57 UTC-8

Some Min Cashers

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Liam Gannon

Level 18

Limit: 3,000/6,000 Blinds, 6,000-12,000 Limits
Pot-Limit: 3,000 Ante, 1,500/3,000 Blinds, 6,000-10,500 Pot Limit Raise

Player	Chips	Progress
Senh Cong	Busted
Kevin Gerhart	Busted

Bryan Micon	Busted
Andreas Hole	Busted
Joseph Ritzie	Busted
Sergio Benso	Busted
Robert Gussoni	Busted

Jason Gola	Busted

Markus Cara	Busted
Jonathan Wirjo	Busted
Peter Ferderber	Busted
Phillip Hui	Busted

Ralph Blanco	Busted
Gabe Ramos	Busted
Thomas Evans Zanot	Busted
Joshua Pender	Busted
Volodymyr Kondratenko	Busted
Jon Shoreman	Busted

Nicholas Blumenthal	Busted
Jeff Madsen	Busted

Thida Lin	Busted
Nick Kost	Busted

David Barraclough	Busted
Maassimilian Rampont	Busted
Ryan Haas	Busted

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06-03-2025 14:31 UTC-8

Updated Chip Counts

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Dan O'Hair

Level 18

Limit: 3,000/6,000 Blinds, 6,000-12,000 Limits
Pot-Limit: 3,000 Ante, 1,500/3,000 Blinds, 6,000-10,500 Pot Limit Raise

Player	Chips	Progress
Itzhak Weltfreid	990,000 733,000	733,000
Ruomeng Dong	722,000 478,500	478,500
Benjamin Miner	610,000 142,500	142,500
Chris Vitch	570,000 384,500	384,500

Ryan Laplante	461,000 72,500	72,500

Patrick Leonard	425,000 125,000	125,000

James Obst	389,000 92,500	92,500

Rep Porter	374,000 102,500	102,500

Bart Hanson	352,000 204,000	204,000
Sammy Farha	335,000 25,000	25,000

David Shmuel	320,000 166,500	166,500

Shawn Rouse	315,000 10,000	10,000
David Prociak	281,000 10,000	10,000

Max Pescatori	266,000 96,000	96,000

Tyler Brown	255,000 42,000	42,000

Christopher Conrad	252,000 252,000	252,000
Richard Ashby	251,000 251,000	251,000

Bruno Furth	226,000 61,000	61,000

Aaron Kupin	218,000 108,000	108,000
Evgeni Tourevski	208,000 68,000	68,000
Benny Glaser	175,000 41,500	41,500

Dustin Dirksen	170,000 58,000	58,000
Huck Seed	150,000 79,000	79,000

Nicholas Blumenthal	146,000 46,500	46,500
Scott Clements	142,000 90,000	90,000

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06-03-2025 13:49 UTC-8

More Eliminations as the Money Bubble Approaches

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Dan O'Hair

Level 17

Limit: 2,500/5,000 Blinds, 5,000-10,000 Limits
Pot-Limit: 2,500 Ante, 1,500/2,500 Blinds, 5,000-9,000 Pot Limit Raise

Player	Chips	Progress
Joseph Silverman	Busted
Kevin Mcbride	Busted
Brett Shaffer	Busted

Kenneth Po	Busted
Todd Barlow	Busted
Kathy Liebert	Busted

Tom Koral	Busted

Peter Levine	Busted
Tobias Hausen	Busted
Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu	Busted
John Zaleski	Busted
Ethan Bennett	Busted
Julian Velador	Busted
Jonathan Ingalls	Busted
Scott Horvath	Busted
Karl Tretter	Busted
Blake Schwartzbach	Busted
Calvin Anderson	Busted

Hayato Kitajima	Busted
Xixiang Luo	Busted

Jason Scott	Busted
Dylan Wilkerson	Busted

06-03-2025 13:44 UTC-8

Rouse Eliminates Horvath

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Dan O'Hair

Level 17

Limit: 2,500/5,000 Blinds, 5,000-10,000 Limits
Pot-Limit: 2,500 Ante, 1,500/2,500 Blinds, 5,000-9,000 Pot Limit Raise

Omaha Hi-Lo

Three ways with Scott Horvath already all-in preflop, Ismael Bojang bet on a flop of 9♥3♣K♣ from middle position and Shawn Rouse called on the button.

Both players checked on the Q♠ turn and Horvath called another bet from Bojan on the 4♠ river.

"King-three," Bojan said as he tabled A♥K♠7♠3♥.

"King-four," Rouse replied, revealing A♦A♠K♦4♥.

Horvath showed he held 10♥10♣4♣3♦ before mucking and Rouse was sent the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shawn Rouse	325,000 41,500	41,500
Ismael Bojang	70,000 400	400

Scott Horvath	Busted
Jason Scott	Busted
Jason Viriyayuthakorn	Busted
Nam Le	Busted
Daniel Dangoor	Busted
Richard Talaber	Busted

Tags: Ismael Bojang Scott Horvath Shawn Rouse

06-03-2025 13:38 UTC-8

Yeh Takes Out Bennett

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Liam Gannon

Level 17

Limit: 2,500/5,000 Blinds, 5,000-10,000 Limits
Pot-Limit: 2,500 Ante, 1,500/2,500 Blinds, 5,000-9,000 Pot Limit Raise

Big O

Ethan Bennett raised to 10,000 from under the gun and Andrew Yeh three-bet to 36,000 from late position which Bennett called.

The flop rolled out K♦10♣6♣ and Bennett checked over to Yeh who bet 42,000. Bennett moved all in for 193,000 total which Yeh called.

Ethan Bennett: A♥Q♥J♥4♠2♠ All in
Andrew Yeh: A♣A♦Q♠4♣4♦

Yeh made his flush on the 3♣ turn and Bennett failed to hit his low on the 9♣ river, leaving the massive pot to go to the WSOP bracelet winner.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Yeh	535,000 381,000	381,000

Ethan Bennett	Busted

Tags: Andrew Yeh Ethan Bennett

06-03-2025 13:06 UTC-8

Early Day 2 Eliminations

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Dan O'Hair

Level 17

Limit: 2,500/5,000 Blinds, 5,000-10,000 Limits
Pot-Limit: 2,500 Ante, 1,500/2,500 Blinds, 5,000-9,000 Pot Limit Raise

Player	Chips	Progress
Nitis Udornpim	Busted
Ryan Hicks	Busted
Jorge Ufano	Busted
Lawrence Berg	Busted

Shannon Stash	Busted
Stephen Graboski	Busted
Sean Troha	Busted

TJ Scarber	Busted
Joseph Mecomber	Busted
Quoc Khoang	Busted
Jana Helmig	Busted
Scott Abrams	Busted

Daniel Lowery	Busted
Randy Sim	Busted
Wai Kin Wong	Busted
Lonnie Heimowitz	Busted
Oliver Vereschagin	Busted
John Reiss	Busted
Brian Crippe	Busted
Zachary Zaret	Busted

Michael Krescanko Jr	Busted
Stanislav Ivanov	Busted
Vasu Amarapu	Busted
Per Hildebrand	Busted
Charles Tucker	Busted

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06-03-2025 12:58 UTC-8

Howeth Sends Out Two

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Liam Gannon

Level 16

Limit: 2,000/4,000 Blinds, 4,000-8,000 Limits
Pot-Limit: 2,000 Ante, 1,000/2,000 Blinds, 4,000-7,000 Pot Limit Raise

Big O

Action was picked up on the flop in a pot between three players with Wai Kin Wong all in from the cutoff for his last 17,000 having been called by Randy Sim in the small blind and Shane Howeth in the big blind.

The flop rolled out K♣9♠9♥ and Sim moved all in for 23,000 which Howeth quickly called.

Wai Kin Wong: A♣J♦8♥3♠2♦ All in
Randy Sim: A♥K♥Q♦7♥2♠ All in
Shane Howeth: A♠9♦5♦4♥3♦

Howeth further improved on the Q♣9♣ runout to four nines and he scooped the pot while eliminating both players.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shane Howeth	355,000 143,500	143,500
Wai Kin Wong	Busted
Randy Sim	Busted

Tags: Randy Sim Shane Howeth Wai Kin Wong

06-03-2025 12:26 UTC-8

Verbakel Leaves Rudd On Fumes

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Liam Gannon

Level 16

Limit: 2,000/4,000 Blinds, 4,000-8,000 Limits
Pot-Limit: 2,000 Ante, 1,000/2,000 Blinds, 4,000-7,000 Pot Limit Raise

Big O

Action was picked up on the flop in a three-bet pot between Ralph Rudd in the big blind and Bjorn Verbakel in the hijack.

The flop rolled out J♥7♥K♠ and Rudd bet 30,000, prompting Verbakel to move all in for 120,000 and Rudd called.

Bjorn Verbakel: A♠J♠J♣5♠2♥ All in
Ralph Rudd: A♣A♥8♣7♠2♠

The board ran out 9♠4♦ and the set of jacks was good for Verbakel to double at the expense of Rudd, leaving him with just 6,000 after the hand.

He was eliminated shortly after.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bjorn Verbakel	275,000 200,000	200,000

Ralph Rudd	Busted

Tags: Bjorn Verbakel Ralph Rudd