Stacked Field Down to 15 Heading into Day 3
After a long Day 2 of poker, 15 players are left standing in Event #22: $25,000 High Roller Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em at the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas. Many of the world’s best poker players competed in a grueling day of play at the 2025 World Series of Poker, which culminated in a prize pool of $7,896,000. Each contender will be chasing the top prize of $1,734,717.
Chris Moorman maintained a healthy seven-figure stack through most of Day 2, but saw his stack catapult to 4,430,000 after scoring a double knockout to put a nightcap on the second day of action and enter Day 3 fifth in chips. Should he prevail, this would not only be Moorman’s second bracelet, but it would be the second bracelet in the six-handed format. He won his first bracelet in 2017 in the $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed event.
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Counts | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 666 | 1 | Landon Tice | United States | 3,705,000 | 37 |
| 666 | 3 | David Peters | United States | 745,000 | 7 |
| 666 | 4 | Blaz Zerjav | Slovakia | 2,275,000 | 22 |
| 666 | 5 | Chris Moorman | Great Britain | 4,575,000 | 45 |
| 666 | 6 | Mustapha Kanit | Italy | 3,560,000 | 35 |
| 667 | 1 | Barak Wisbrod | Israel | 5,190,000 | 51 |
| 667 | 2 | Michael Macchia | United States | 2,550,000 | 25 |
| 667 | 4 | Kristen Foxen | Canada | 1,150,000 | 11 |
| 667 | 5 | Galen Hall | United States | 2,200,000 | 22 |
| 667 | 6 | Aram Oganyan | United States | 570,000 | 5 |
| 668 | 2 | Fabian Gumz | Austria | 5,145,000 | 51 |
| 668 | 3 | Paulius Vaitiekunas | Lithuania | 7,050,000 | 70 |
| 668 | 4 | Jared Bleznick | United States | 6,660,000 | 66 |
| 668 | 5 | Daniel Sepiol | United States | 2,750,000 | 27 |
| 668 | 6 | Matthew Sabia | United States | 2,395,000 | 23 |
Coming out ahead of the pack is Lithuanian Paulius Vaitekunas, who gained serious momentum after getting involved in a huge pot with Brian Rast where Vaitekunas' aces held court over Rast’s eights. Vaitekunas ended Day 2 as the chip leader, bagging 7,050,000 in chips. Vaitekunas will look to carry that momentum as he chases his first WSOP bracelet against a star-studded field that will, no doubt, look to reverse his fortune on Day 3.
Barak Wisbrod bagged the third-highest chip count of the remaining players and will look to surpass his $1,473,162 in career WSOP earnings with a big score in this event against some of the world's best. Wisbrod is chasing the second bracelet of his career. This would be his first bracelet earned since 2019 when he won the $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em event. Wisbrod will try to earn another, except this will be all on his own.
Remaining Payouts
| Rank | Prize | Rank | Prize | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $1,734,717 | 5 | $358,973 | ||
| 2 | $1,129,608 | 6 | $257,201 | ||
| 3 | $752,737 | 7 | $189,021 | ||
| 4 | $513,577 | 8–9 | $142,581 | ||
| 10–11 | $110,467 | 12–15 | $87,971 |
Each returning player is guaranteed at least $87,971, with the top 11 finishers guaranteed six figures or more for their efforts over the last few days of play.
Action is scheduled to resume at 12 p.m. local time. The blinds will pick up at Level 19 with blinds of 50,000/100,000/100,000 with 60-minute levels. PokerGO will pick up the action and stream, on delay, starting at 5 p.m. PDT. There will be a pause in updates here, and they will resume in sync with the stream in order to avoid spoilers.
Stay tuned with PokerNews to see which player will become a champion and etch their name into poker lore.