Jared Bleznick raised to 25,000 from the cutoff before Justin Dykes jammed for 105,000 total. Bleznick called to head to showdown.
Justin Dykes: A♥9♠
Jared Bleznick: Q♣J♠
Dykes held on the 3♦9♦4♣7♦3♠ board.
Mike Moncek and Adrien Delmas got all of their chips in the middle after a couple of preflop raises. Delmas was the player at risk for 328,000 and the two players were flipping.
Adrien Delmas: A♣Q♥
Mike Moncek: 9♥9♦
"Martin, we've got a flip," Moncek said to Martin Kabrhel at an adjacent table.
"He's drawing dead," Kabrhel joked, pointing to Delmas.
The flop came 9♣8♠2♠ to give Moncek a set of nines, leaving Delmas drawing slim at best. However, the 10♠ on the turn and the J♣ on the river gave Delmas a straight and he surprisingly doubled up.
Jonathan Jaffe opened to 20,000 from the button, and was called by Paulius Vaitiekunas and Elijah Berg in the small and big blind.
All three players checked the J♣10♦6♣ flop.
Vaitiekunas fired 35,000 on the 9♣ turn. Berg folded, and Jaffe called.
The K♦ river saw Vaitiekunas bet 15,000, which led to a fold from Jaffe.
Eric Bonin raised to 24,000 on the button and Brandon Wittmeyer shipped all in for just over 180,000 in the small blind. Bonin quickly called and the cards were face up.
Brandon Wittmeyer: J♥J♦
Eric Bonin: A♥K♦
It was a coin flip and the flop of A♦5♦2♥ favored Bonin with a pair of aces. The 7♣ on the turn and the 5♣ on the river changed nothing, sending Wittmeyer to the rail. Many others have also joined him on the sidelines in the opening few minutes of Day 2.
Lou Garza moved all in for his last 150,000 from late position, and Neil Warren called from the button.
Lou Garza: J♣9♣
Neil Warren: 9♠9♥
The board ran out 3♦K♦K♥2♥K♣ and gave Warren a full house and sent Garza to the rail.
A raise by Matthew Belcher to 20,000 from the button was met with a reraise by Chris Moorman in the small blind to 65,000.
Alexandros Theologis ripped his entire stack of 353,000 to end the hand as both Belcher and Moorman folded.
A completed board of A♥Q♠J♠4♦Q♣ was spread across the felt with around 80,000 in the middle. Ben Tollerene checked from the big blind and Tauan Naves counted out a bet of 84,000 on the button.
Tollerene thought for a minute before sliding out a stack of T25,000 chips. Naves dipped into the tank, using three time extensions on the first hand of the day. Eventually, he called off his stack of 420,000 and Tollerene showed K♥2♥ for air. Naves tabled Q♦7♦ for trip queens and doubled up.
The cards are in the air on Day 2 with a few more late entries joining the field at the start of the day.
Level: 9
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
Some of the brightest stars in poker are returning for Day 2 of action at the Event #22: $25,000 High Roller 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em at the 2025 World Series of Poker hosted at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. A total of 272 of the game’s best built up a prize pool $6,514,400, but only 72 advance past Day 1 as they all vie for the gold bracelet.
Aram Oganyan enters the day with 1,800,000 in chips, finishing with the second-highest chip count. Oganyan will look to improve on his high mark of a pair of second-place finishes during the 2023 World Series of Poker by capturing his first gold bracelet in 2025 and adding to his over $4,500,000 in career earnings.
Oganyan slightly trails chip leader Michael Gathy, who amassed 1,836.000 during Day 1. Gathy is aiming to score bracelet number four of his career. Gathy has not won a bracelet since 2016 when he prevailed in the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed event, but will be looking to end the drought with a title this summer.
Blaz Zerjav will also be chasing his first gold bracelet against the tough field entering the day fourth in chips with 1,433,000. Zerjav’s highest finish at the WSOP came in December of last year, where he finished second in the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack event. Zerjav will enter the second day of play with 1,433,000.
Along with Oganyan, Gathy, and Zerjav, four players passed the seven-figure mark in chips, including Nick Schulman, Jared Bleznick, Seth Davies, and David Coleman.
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Gathy | Belgium | 1,836,000 | 184 |
| 2 | Aram Oganyan | United States | 1,800,000 | 180 |
| 3 | Nick Schulman | United States | 1,519,000 | 152 |
| 4 | Blaz Zerjav | Slovenia | 1,433,000 | 143 |
| 5 | Jared Bleznick | United States | 1,300,000 | 130 |
| 6 | Seth Davies | United States | 1,112,000 | 111 |
| 7 | David Coleman | United States | 1,017,000 | 102 |
| 8 | Michael Jozoff | United States | 980,000 | 98 |
| 9 | Boris Kolev | Bulgaria | 975,000 | 98 |
| 10 | Jakob Miegel | Germany | 971,000 | 97 |
Day 2 will begin at 12 p.m. local time. Players are allowed one re-entry with late registration lasting through the first level of Day 2. Play will resume at Level 9 with the blinds at 5,000/10,000/10,000. Entrants will play a total of 10 levels on Day 2 with a 15-minute break every two levels and a dinner break after Level 13.
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